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2024Best.-Nr. 16350New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by both George M. Johnson and Charly Palmer to page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 133pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Gentle rubbing and bumps to corners and edges of boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A highly presentable signed first edition of this empowering essay collection honoring Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance from George M. Johnson author of the bestselling All Boys Aren't Blue with illustrations throughout by award winning illustrator Charly Palmer. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the New York Times-bestselling author of All Boys Aren't Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance. In Flamboyants George M. Johnson celebrates writers performers and activists from 1920s Black America whose sexualities have been obscured throughout history. Through 14 essays Johnson reveals how American culture has been shaped by icons who are both Black and Queer - and whose stories deserve to be celebrated in their entirety. Interspersed with personal narrative powerful poetry and illustrations by award-winning illustrator Charly Palmer Flamboyants looks to the past for understanding as to how Black and Queer culture has defined the present and will continue to impact the future. With candid prose and an unflinching lens towards truth and hope George M. Johnson brings young adult readers an inspiring collection of biographies that will encourage teens today to be unabashed in their layered identities.Publisher. Farrar Strauss Giroux hardcover books
1954Best.-Nr. 151504Neuchatel and Paris: Editions Ides et Calendes 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Text by Charly Guyot in EnglishFrench and German. Includes 80 black and white and images. A clean near fine copy in boards with a small "as is" rubberstamp to the front pastedown in a very near fine integral dust jacket. A nicely printed book. Editions Ides et Calendes unknown books
1860Best.-Nr. List3317Likely Plumas County California 1860. Single four-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ½ inches. Folded with some small tears at folds; excellent. A letter from “Charly” to his wife or fiance written in January of 1860 from “Ganser possibly sic Valley” likely in Plumas County California. Located in the Sierra Nevada Plumas County contained a number of mining towns following the California gold rush; however Charly does not specify his line of work or discuss any particulars. Instead—besides inquiring after the health of family and friends and considering when he would return home—Charly discusses the other residents of the valley. He writes: “I can tell you that I have not much news to write we are hemmed in here by the mountains and only see very few people except the inhabitants of the valley and their number is not very great we have lots of Digger company though there being lots of them in the valley and at this season of the year they are hard up for grub and they hang round most of the time sometimes we ask them to eat with us sometimes not You may be sure they are a hard nest of beings as you ever thought of them there are sorry Chinese and they are but little ahead of the Diggers though they will work which the Diggers will not if they can help it There is what might be called a mixed population here from all parts of the earth some work some do not and there are a great many of the last class”. “Digger” is a derogatory term applied to several Indigenous peoples in the region referring to their diet of root vegetables. In this part of California they would likely have been Northern Paiute or Mono people. Following the US’s acquisition of California and especially after the discovery of gold these groups were decimated by murder enslavement and disease; an 1896 article notes that the Plumas area had proportionally more survivors of American depredations.1 Of interest to historians of the late gold rush especially relations between Anglo-Americans and other races. 1 Mabel L. Miller “The So-Called California ‘Diggers’” Popular Science Monthly 50 December 1896 201–214. unknown books
