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Black Interest - African American Books & Ephemera

Featured are unique cookbooks, biographies and memoirs of Black Interest. Also, collectible Theatre Programs highlighting favorite African American playwrights, choreographers, composers, set designers, musicians, dancers and actors.

  • $15.00 Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power. (2006).
    Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power. (2006).
  • $14.00 Nat Fuller 1812-1866, from Slavery to Artistry.
    Nat Fuller 1812-1866, from Slavery to Artistry. [2015].
  • $25.00 This Was Harlem, a cultural portrait, 1900 - 1950.
    This Was Harlem, 1900 - 1950. By Jervis Anderson. [1982].
  • $28.00 The Cooking Gene. A Journey Through African American History in the Old South. By Michael W. Twitty. NY: Amistad, 2017.
    The Cooking Gene. By Michael W. Twitty. [2017].
  • $15.00 North African Cooking. By Hilaire Walden. [1995].
    North African Cooking. By Hilaire Walden. [1995].
  • $55.00 Soul to Soul. A new vegetarian cookbook. By Mary Keyes Burgess. [1976].
    Soul to Soul. A new vegetarian cookbook. By Mary Keyes Burgess. [1976].
  • $40.00 The Jemima Code. Two Centuries of African-American Cookbooks. By Toni Tipton-Martin. [2015].
    The Jemima Code. Two Centuries of African-American Cookbooks. By Toni Tipton-Martin. [2015].
  • $25.00 Martin Luther King Jr. Collection. Sotheby's June 30, 2006.
    Martin Luther King Jr. Collection. Sotheby's June 30, 2006.
  • $8.00 Iola Leroy. By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. [2010].
    Iola Leroy. By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. [2010].
  • $40.00 (Rep. Barbara Jordan, contributor) Marketing Booze to Blacks. By G. Hacker, R. Collins, and M. Jacobson. [1990].
    (Rep. Barbara Jordan, contributor) Marketing Booze to Blacks. By G. Hacker, R. Collins, and M. Jacobson. [1990].
  • $10.00 Fire Shut Up in My Bones. By Charles M. Blow. 2014
    Fire Shut Up in My Bones. By Charles M. Blow. 2014
  • $20.00 (Inscribed) Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbeque. [2022].
    (Inscribed) Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbeque. [2022].
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