Robert Bone papers, 1975-2009

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Series II: Books

"Books from the library of Robert Bone, mostly annotated. 59 titles listed in a "cataloged" subseries were cataloged individually in CLIO, shelved in the main Library of Congress Rare Book sequence, and should be requested individually from the Columbia University Libraries online catalog. The listing here is just for your information. The remaining books, packed in 6 record cartons, are listed here and can be ordered via the finding aid.

The following books were originally listed as part of the library but never received by the repository: Dunbar, Paul Laurence. (W.D. Howell intro to Lyrics of Lowly Life) The Complete Poems Of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dodd Mead, 1962; Hemenway, Robert. Excerpt from The Harlem Renaissance Remembered, ed. With a memoir by Arna Bontemps New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1971. Chapter 10. Signed to Bone by Hemenway; McKay, Claude Home To Harlem. margin notes, poor cond. Lacking dust jacket; Sollors, Werner. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones: Columbia Univ. Press, 1979. 1st ed. With dust jacket . Signed to Bone; Wright, Richard. The Long Dream. Perennial Library, Paperback ed. With introduction by Prof. Robert Bone. (NYT Book Review as well); Periodicals: Contemporary Literature. Vol. 2 #1; Turner, Darwin T., Black American Literature Fiction. Merrill, 1969; Studies In Black Literature. Vol. 4 #1, Vol. 5, #2.


Subseries II.1: Cataloged


Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time: Dial 1962/63. With dust jacket. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Baldwin, James.  The Amen Corner.  Dial, 1968. 1st ed. With dust jacket. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Bambara, Toni, Cade. Gorilla My Love. Random House, 1972. 1st, with dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Bradley, David. The Chaneysville Incident. Harper & Row 1981

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Butcher, Philip (Editor) The William Stanley Braithwaite Reader.  Univ. of Michigan Press, 1972 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Clarke, John Henrik. American Negro Short Stories With dust jacket. 1st. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Colter, Cyrus. Night Studies. Swallow, 1979 With dust jacket. 1st. Review Copy w/promo material. Letter from Prof. Bone (unpublished) explaining his reluctance to publish a review

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes


Cullen, Countee.  Color.  

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Cullen, Countee. One Way To Heaven.  1st.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Cullen, Countee. The Black Christ. Harper & Brothers, 1929. 1st Ed.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Dickinson, Donald, C. (Langston Hughes) A Bio-Bibliography of Langston Hughes 1902-1967. 1st ed. With dust jacket .

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Dumas, Henry. Arc Of Bones and Other Stories.  Southern Illinois University Press,  1970. 1st ed.  With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Dumas, Henry.  Jonah & The Green Stone.  1st With dust jacket .

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Forrest, Leon. (Ralph Ellison forward)  There is A Tree More Ancient Than Man. Random House, 1973. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Forrest, Leon.  The Bloodworth Orphans: Random House,  1977. With dust jacket . 1st ed. Author's note Signed on promo & slipped in.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes


Gaines, Ernest.  The  Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1st With dust jacket. ext notes

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Gaines, Ernest, J. In My Father's House 1st.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Himes, Chester B. If He Hollers Let Him Go.  Margin Notes, With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Himes, Chester. Black On Black.  Doubleday, 1973. 1st With dust jacket. Ext notes

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Himes, Chester. My Life of Absurdity, 1st With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Himes, Chester. The Quality Of Hurt.  1st With dust jacket. Doubleday

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Hughes, Langston. The Ways of White Folks.  margin notes and underlining. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Hughes, Langston.  Ask Your Mama, 1st ed. Knopf. (poetry)

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Hughes, Langston. Laughing To Keep From Crying. Henry Holt, 1952. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Johnson. Charles.  The Sorcerer's Apprentice.  Atheneum, 1986. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Jones, Leroi. Black Music. Morrow, 1967. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Jones, Leroi.  Tales.  Grove Press, 1967. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Jones, Leroi. The System Of Dante's Hell.  Grove Press, 1963/65.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Kelley, William Melvin. Dem.  Doubleday, 1967. Advanced Uncorrected Proof w/New York Times yellow review slip. Req. Prof. Bone's 600 word review . Wraps.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Kelley, William, Melvin. A Different Drummer. Doubleday, 1962. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Kelley, William, Melvin. Dunfords Travels Everywheres. Doubleday, 1970. 1st, With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Mayfield, Julian. The Hit.   margin notes & underlining With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Murray, Albert. The Hero And The Blues.  Margin notes, 1st. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Murray, Albert. The Blue Devils Of Nada. Pantheon 1996 With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Morrison, Toni. Playing In The Dark. 1st Harvard

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Morrison, Toni. Song Of Solomon. Knopf, 1977. 1st With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


McPherson, James Alan. Elbow Room. Atlantic Little Brown,1977. 1st, With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


McPherson, James, Alan  Hue and Cry.  Atlantic Little Brown 1969. 1st, With dust jacket. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Marshall, Paule. Praisong For The Widow. Putnam, 1973. 1st, w/promo photo laid in

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Mayfield, Julian. The Grand Parade. Vanguard, 1961. With dust jacket. 1st ed. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Morrison, Toni.  Jazz. Knopf, 1992. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Petry, Ann.  Miss Muriel and Other Stories.  Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Reed, Ishmael. Shrove Tide In Old New Orleans

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Toomer, Jean. Cane.  Extensive margin notes. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Toomer, Jean. Cane.   Pub. By Nouveaux Horizons, French Pbk ed.  Back Cover with full page quote by Prof. Robert Bone, from The Negro Novel In America. Signed.

Softcover fiction & poetry


Tolson, M.B. Libretto For The Republic Of Liberia. Twayne, 1953 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Tolson, Melvin, B. Rendezvous with America. Dodd Mead, 1944.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Wright, Richard. The Outsider.  Harper, 1953. 1st Ed.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Wright, Richard.  The Long Dream.  Doubleday, 1958. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Walker, Margaret. Jubilee. HMC, 1966. 2nd ptg. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Bone, Robert. Down Home Origins of the Afro-American Short Story:  Columbia, Morningside Edition, 1988.  Wraps, Signed by the author.  

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Gayles, Gloria Wade. Anointed To Fly. Harlem River Press, 1991: Inscribed Prof. Bone by Author. 1st.

Softcover fiction & poetry


Jones, Leroi. The Dead Lecturer Poems.  Grove Press, 1964. 1st ed.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Jones, Leroi.  Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note. Totem/Corinth., 1961.  1st.ed.

Softcover fiction & poetry , annotated


McKay, Claude (Edited by Wayne F. Cooper) The Passion of Claude Mckay: Schocken Books, 1973. Uncorrected Proofs.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Benston, Kimberly W: Baraka. Yale, 1976. 1st ed.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Demby, William. The Catacombs. Extensive Notes (intro Robert Bone),


Hudson, Theodore, R.  From Leroi Jones to Amiri Baraka:  Duke Univ. Press,  1973 1st ed. With dust jacket.


Subseries II.2: Boxed



Box 4 Anderson, Alston. Lover Man:  Doubleday, 1959. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 4 Baldwin, James Giovanni's Room.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 4 Baldwin, James. Go Tell It On The Mountain.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 4 Baldwin, James.  Another Country.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 4 Baldwin, James. Just Above My Head.  Dial Press,  1978/79. 1st ed. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes


Box 4 Bates, Arthenia.  The Deity Nodded:  Harlo, Detroit, 1973.  1st Ed. With dust jacket .Signed w/ letter to Prof. Bone laid in.  

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes


Box 4 Demby, William. The Catacombs. Extensive Notes (intro Robert Bone),

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, duplicate copy, annotated


Box 4 Hill, Herbert. Soon One Morning. Knopf, 1963. 1st.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 4 Marshall, Stearns, W. The Story of Jazz, Oxford, 1956. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 4 Murray, Albert. Train Whistle Guitar.  McGraw Hill, 1974. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 4 Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin.  Modern Library, 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes


Box 4 Toomer, Jean. Cane.  Harper & Row, 1969. Pbk. Quote on Back Cover by Prof. Robert Bone from The Negro Novel In America.

Softcover fiction & poetry


Box 4 Brooks, Gwendolyn. Family Pictures.  Broadside, 1970.  1st ed./3rd ptg.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 4 Chesnutt, Charles W.  The Conjure Woman. Univ. of Michigan, 1969

Softcover fiction & poetry,


Box 4 Fisher, Rudolph. The  Walls of Jericho. Arno, 1969.

Softcover fiction & poetry , annotated


Box 4 Harper, Michael.  Honorable Amendments. Univ. of Illinois, 1995 1st.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 4 Harper, Michael.  Debridement. Doubleday, 1972/73. 1st ed.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 4 Chapman, Abraham. Black Voices, A Mentor Book,1968. Pbk.

Softcover fiction & poetry , annotated


Box 4 Hughes, Langston: Selected Poems. 1st Vintage books ed, 1974 pbk

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 4 Eckman, Fern Marja.  The Furious Passage of James Baldwin.  Evans, 1966. 1st ed.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 4 Foley, Martha.  The Story of Story Magazine:  Norton,  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism


Box 4 Green, Constance McLaughlin.  The Secret City.  A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital.  Princeton,  1967. 1st ed. With dust jacket.  Inscribed  (No notes by Bone, but was on his shelves and is inscribed by Author .

Hardcover literary criticism


Box 4 Gysin, Fritz: The Grotesque In American Negro Fiction. Francke Verlag Bern, Switzerland,1975

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 4 Jackson & Rubin. Black Poetry In America.  Univ. Louisiana,1974.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 4 Durham, Frank (Compiled By)  Studies In Cane:  Merrill, 1971.  Robert Bone pg. 58-65 on Jean Toomer.

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 4 Farnsworth, Robert M. & Ray, David (Editors) . Richard Wright Impressions and Perspectives:  Univ. of Michigan Press, 1973

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 4 Gibson,  Donald B. Modern Black Poets:    Prof. Bone is mentioned in the Selected Bibliography for his paper "American Negro Poets A French View. " Tri Quarterly #4 1965: 185-195

Soft cover literary criticism


Box 4 Hemenway, Robert.  The Black Novelist:  Merrill, 1970.  No Margin Notes.  Secondary Studies references 3x papers by Prof. Bone.  

Soft cover literary criticism


Box 4 Hersey, John, (Editor)  Ralph Ellison, A Collection of Critical Essays:  A Spectrum Book S-TC-112 Twentieth Century Views, 1974.  Contributions by Robert Bone, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, James Alan McPherson, etc.

Soft cover literary criticism


Box 4 Reilly, John M. (Contributor Prof. Robert Bone) Twentieth Century Interpretations Of Invisible Man.  Spectrum Book S-872,1970. "Ralph Ellison and the Uses of Imagination"- pg. 22-32)

Soft cover literary criticism


Box 4 Turner, Darwin (editor). Black American Literature Fiction. Charles E. Merrill, 1969.

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated



Box 5 Render, Sylvia Lyons. The Short Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 5 Howe, Irving and Widick, B.J.  The UAW And Walter Reuther. Random House, 1949. 1st ed. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 5 Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus.  Schocken, 1965.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 5 Hughes, Langston. Something In common.  Hill & Wang, 1969

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 5 Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.  Univ. of Illinois, 1978

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 5 Jordan, June. Things That I Do In The Dark.  Random House, 1977 1st

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 5 "The Noble Savage" #1. (Ralph Ellison) 1st ed, 1960.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 5 Amistad 1. Vintage, 1970. Pbk.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 5 Murray, Albert. The Omni Americans.  Avon, 1971 pbk.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 5 Demby, William. The Catacombs. Perennial, Harper & Row, 1970. Introductin by Robert Bone, reprinted from the 1969 Spring issue of TriQuaterly.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 5 Baker, Jr. Houston, A.  Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature. Univ. Chicago, 1984. (with dust jacket) 1st. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Baker, Houston A. Jr.:  Long Black Song, Essays in Black American Literature and Culture.  Univ. of Virginia, 1972. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Emanuel, James & Gross, Theodore. Dark Symphony Negro Literature In America.  Free Press, 1968. 1st ed.  Lacking dust jacket

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Gloster, Hugh M.  Negro Voices In American Fiction:  Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1948.            1st ed. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Gross & Hardy.  Images of the Negro in America.  Univ. of Chicago,1966. 1st ed. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Grossman, James R.  Land of Hope.  Univ. Chicago, 1989. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Hatch, James V.  Sorrow Is The Only Faithful One:  Univ. Illinois, 1993.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Littlejohn, David.  Black On White.  Grossman, 1966. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Lundquist, James.  Chester Himes. Ungar,1979. 1st ed. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Martin, Jay.  A Singer In The Dawn.  Dodd Mead, 1975.  1st ed. Inscribed, with dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 McCall, Dan.  The Example of Richard Wright:  Harcourt Brace & World, 1969.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 O'Daniel, Therman B. Langston Hughes Black Genius.  Morrow, 1971.  1st ed. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Brignano, Russell Carl.  Richard Wright An Introduction to the Man and His Works:  Univ. Pittsburgh, 1973.  Prof. Bone referenced in Secondary Sources (NNIA).

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 5 Obsidian. 2 Issues

Periodicals, annotated



Box 6 Bontemps, Arna. The Old South. Dodd Mead & Co. 1973.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 6 Demby, William. Beetle Creek. Margin Notes. .

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 6 Hurston, Zora, Neale. The Complete Stories. Harper Collins, 1995. 1st ed.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 6 Petry, Ann. Country Place. Houghton Mifflin, 1947. 1st ed. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 6 Memoirs Of Waldo Frank. Edited by Alan Trachtenberg. Univ. of Mass. Press, 1973.  No dust jacket, as issued. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 6 Wideman, John, Edgar.  The Lynchers. HBJ, 1973. 1st, With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 6 Chesnutt, Charles, W.  The Wife of His Youth.  Univ. of Michigan, 1968.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 6 Harper, Michael.  History  Is Your Own Heartbeat.  Univ. of Illinois Press, 1972. 1st.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 6 Harper, Michael.  Song: I want a Witness. Pittsburg, 1972. 1st ed.

Softcover fiction & poetry , annotated


Box 6 Hayden, Robert. Collected Prose.  Univ. of Michigan, 1984

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 6 Stewart, John.  Curving Road. Univ. of Illinois, 1975. 1st wraps

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 6 Callahan, John F.  In The African American Grain:  Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Cruse, Harold.  The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual.  Morrow, 1967.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Hemenway, Robert E.  Zora Neale Hurston:  Univ. of Illinois Press, 1977. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Hudson, Theodore, R.  From Leroi Jones to Amiri Baraka:  Duke Univ. Press,  1973 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, duplicate copy, annotated


Box 6 Huggins, Nathan Irvin.  Harlem Renaissance:  Oxford,  1971. 1st ed. With dust jacket. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Jackson, Blyden.  The Waiting Years:  LSU, 1976.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Kent, George.  Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture.  Third World Press Chicago, 1972. 1st ed. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Milliken, Stephen F.  Chester Himes A Critical Appraisal:  Univ. of Missouri,  1976.  1st ed.  With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Simpson, Lewis P.  The Dispossessed Garden; Pastoral and History in Southern Literature.  Univ. of Georgia, 1975.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Singh, Amritjit.  The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance:  Penn State, 1976. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Smith, Sidonie.  Where I'm Bound; Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography:  Greenwood Press, 1974.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Bruck, Peter (Editor).  The Black American Short Story in the 20TH Century.  B.R. Gruner, Amsterdam, 1977.  Lists major secondary sources Robert (Bob) Bone, Down Home A History of Afro-American Short Fiction from its beginning to the end of the Harlem Renaissance.

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Paulson, Ronald.  Satire:  Prentice Hall, 1971.

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 6 Obsidian. 2 Issues

Periodicals, annotated


Box 6 The Massachusetts Review. Vol. XVIII:3

Periodicals, annotated


Box 6 The Massachusetts Review. Vol. XVIII:4

Periodicals


Box 6 The Atlantic. Dec. 1970 "Invisible Man"

Periodicals


Box 6 Black American Literature Forum 3 Issues. Vol11/4 , Vol#14/1, Vol7/2

Periodicals, annotated



Box 7 Chesnutt, H.M. Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Chapel Hill, 1952.  Margin Notes. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 7 Emanuel, James. The Short Stories of Langston Hughes. 1962. PhD Thesis, 1962.  Univ. Microfilms on demand.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 7 Hassan, Ihab (Editor) Liberations: Wesleyan,  1971. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 7 Hernton, Calvin, C.  White Papers For White Americans. Doubleday, 1966. 1st With dust jacket .

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 7 Hughes, Langston. The Best Short Stories By Negro Writers. Little Brown, 1967. 1st 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 7 Kellner, Bruce. Letters of Carl Van Vechten. Yale, 1987. 1st ed. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 7 West, Dorothy. The Living Is Easy.  Margin Notes

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 7 Barthold, Bonnie, J. Black Time.  Yale, 1981. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 7 Fabre, Michel. The Lonely Quest of Richard Wright. Translated from the French by Isabel Barzun.  William Morrow, 1973. Prof. Robert Bone's Reader's Report Enc w/ letter from  Translator.  Advance Bound Galleys.

Hardcover literary criticism


Box 7 Kinnamon, Kenneth.  The Emergence of Richard Wright:  Univ. Illinois, 1972.  1st With dust jacket .Reader's Report inserted by Robert Bone, but no underlining.  

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 7 Rampersad, Arnold.  The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois:  Harvard, 1976. 1st. ed.  With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 7 Rosenblatt, Roger.  Black Fiction.  Harvard, 1974. 1st.ed. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 7 Webb, Constance.  Richard Wright: Putnam,  1968.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 7 Williams, Sherley Anne.  Give Birth To Brightness.  Dial Press, 1972. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 7 Callaloo, Vol-11/#2

Periodicals, annotated



Box 8 Crouch, Stanley. Don't The Moon Look Lonesome.  Pantheon, NY, 2000.  Uncorrected Bound Galleys

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched Of The Earth.  1st With dust jacket. Grove

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 Johnson, Charles. Being & Race Black Writing Since 1970. Indiana University Press, 1988. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 O'Brien, John. Interviews With Black Writers.  Liveright, 1973. 1st. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 Schwerin, Jules. Got To Tell It – Mahalia Jackson. Oxford, 1992. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 Walrond, Eric. Tropic Death  ext. margin notes 1st/2nd

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 Wright, Richard.  Uncle Tom's Children. World (Tower Books ed.) 1943

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 Wright, Richard. Pagan Spain. Harper 1957 1st 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 Wideman, John, Edgar.  Hurry Home. Harcourt Brace & World, 1970 With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 Wideman, John Edgar.  The Cattle Killing. Houghton Mifflin, 1996. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 8 Baldwin, James. Nobody Knows My Name. Delta, 1962.

Softcover fiction & poetry , annotated


Box 8 Baldwin, James. Notes Of A Native Son.  Beacon, 1957

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 8 Dunbar, Paul Laurence.  The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories.  Arno, 1969

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 8 Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Folks From Dixie. New American Library, 1969.

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 8 Hughes, Langston. I Wonder As I Wander. Hill & Wang, 1964

Softcover fiction & poetry, annotated


Box 8 Barksdale, Richard  K. Langston Hughes The Poet and His Critics.  American Association, Chicago, 1977. 1st ed. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 Fleming, Robert E. Willard Motley: Twayne, 1978. 1st ed. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 Hughes, Carl Minton.  The Negro Novelist:  Citadel,  1953.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 McKay, Nellie Y. Jean Toomer.  Chapel Hill, 1984. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 Meltzer, Milton:  Langston Hughes A Biography.  Crowell, 1968.  With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 Stepto, Robert B.  From Behind the Veil:  Univ. of Illinois Press,1979.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 Butterfield, Stephen.  Black Autobiography:  Univ. of Mass. Press, 1974.

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 Condit, John H.  "Hot Foot Hannibal"  : Term Paper TL 3205 written for Professor Bone, Nov. 3rd, 1976.

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 Harlan, Lewis R.  Booker T. Washington:  Oxford, 1983. 2 vol.

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 Hutchinson, George.  The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White:  Belknap , Harvard, 1995.

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 Kinnamon, Kenneth (Editor)  James Baldwin A Collection of Critical Essays:  A Spectrum Book S-TC-113, 1974 – Twentieth Century Views.  Major Contribution by Prof. Robert Bone.  "James Baldwin" pg's 28-52.

Soft cover literary criticism


Box 8 Lincoln, Eleanor Terry.  Pastoral And Romance Modern Essays in Criticism:  Prentice Hall, 1969.

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 O'Connor, Frank.  A Study of the Short Story:  Meridian Books – M193, World Pub., 1963

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 8 PMLA, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America.  Siegel, Paul.  "The Conclusion of Richard Wright's Native Son".  Inscribed to Prof.  Bone by Author.

Periodicals


Box 8 Fleming, Robert.  Irony As A Key To Johnson's Autobiography Of An Ex-Coloured Man:  Reprinted from American Literature Vol. XL111, No 1, March, 1971.  Inscribed by Author to Prof. Bone.

Periodicals, annotated


Box 8 Studies in Black Literature v.4:1 (Spring 1973) & Vol. 5:2 (Summer 1974)

Periodicals, annotated



Box 9 Marshall, Paule. The Chosen Place The Timeless People. 1st Ed. Signed by Author. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 9 Wright, Richard. Native Son. Margin Notes. 

Hardcover fiction with extensive notes, annotated


Box 9 Baker, Jr. Houston A.  Singers of Daybreak Studies in Black American Literature:  Howard, 1974.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 9 Harris, Michael W.  The Rise of Gospel Blues; The Music of Tomas Andrew Dorsey In The Urban Church: Oxford, 1992.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 9 Hobson, Jr. Fred C. Serpent In Eden:  Chapel Hill, 1974.  1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 9 Szwed, John F.  Black America:  Basic Books, 1970.  1st ed. 

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 9 Turner, Darwin T.  In A Minor Cord:  Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1971. 1st ed. With dust jacket.

Hardcover literary criticism, annotated


Box 9 Jarab, Josef.  The Birth of the New Negro (The Harlem Renaissance Reconsidered).  Prague Studies in English XV.  Inscribed by Author.

Soft cover literary criticism


Box 9 Sherr, Paul C.  The Short Story and the Oral Tradition:  Boyd & Fraser, 1970

Soft cover literary criticism


Box 9 Troupe, Quincy (Editor) James Baldwin, The Legacy:  Touchstone –S&S, 1989. (Bone referenced in Biblio)

Soft cover literary criticism, annotated


Box 9 CLA Journal: The College Language Association.  June 1969; Mar 1971; Mar 1972; Dec 1972; Dec 1973; June 1974; Dec 1975; Sept 1977; Mar 1978; Sept 1981.

Periodicals, annotated


Box 9 CLA Journal: The College Language Association.  Sept 1971; Sept 1972; Mar 1973; June 1973; June 1976; Sept 1976; Dec 1978; June 1979; Mar 1981; June 1982; June 1983; June 1985

Periodicals


Box 9 Studies In The Novel.  Four Issues: Summer & Winter 1971 (v.3:2&4); Spring & Fall 1972 (v.4:1&3)

Periodicals


Box 9 American Quarterly. 1 Issue vol.  27

Periodicals


Box 9 Contemporary Literaure. Vol. 11 #1 an Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks. The University of Wisconsin Press Winter 1970

Periodicals


Box 9 Harpers. March 1967 "Invisible Man"

Periodicals, annotated


Box 9 New Literary History vol. VII:3 Spring 1976

Periodicals, annotated


Box 9 Gayle, Jr., Addison. The Way of the New World, The Black Novel in America. Anchor Press/Doubleday 1976.

Softcover literary criticism


Box 9 Hill, Herbert. Anger, and Beyond The Negro Writer in the United States. Perennial Library. Harper & Row Publishers, New York 1966

Softcover literary criticism