First issue of this partially autobiographical essay about the Windy City, a sordid summary of its history and a love letter in the same breath.

First edition of this contemporary look at the lives of Black people in Chicago in the 1940s, a "monumental study of race relations and African American social structure" (Finkelman, 90).

Inscribed first edition of this collection of interviews with young Black people at the close of the turbulent '60s, demonstrating the impact of national and world events on their lives.

First printing of this frank, informative, and often humorous book on the nature of sex, written by a group of high school students in Madison, Wisconsin.

First printing of this history of New York's Black population, from the end of the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, with a reflection on how that history informed the civil rights movement.

First edition, in first state jacket, of Herman Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of conflict and mistrust aboard a destroyer, adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Humphrey Bogart.