Philip Hofer Agnes Mongan (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th printing. [From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Gift inscription on paste down on front end page. Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Oblong 8vo. Tan cloth with red spine and cover lettering. Covers and verso of dust jacket with light foxing. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. Contents clean and tight. PayPal accepted.