Rare and Collectible Books
Rooted in Black History and Culture
Discover individual books researched, photographed and described by Akoma. Every listing identifies the exact physical copy, what we know, what remains uncertain and why the book matters.
Books with History.
Stories Worth Preserving.
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The complete matched Oxford three-volume set, with documented provenance through the Janice Taheera Harper Collection and Adelaide E. Simms.
Black Soldiers, Black Sailors, Black Ink
A privately printed work documenting Black military service through original research and archival evidence.
Collected Black Women’s Poetry, Volumes 1–4
The complete matched Oxford four-volume set, with documented provenance through the Janice Taheera Harper Collection and Adelaide E. Simms.
Great African Thinkers, Vol. 1
The first volume in a landmark series centering Cheikh Anta Diop and African-centered intellectual history.
Great Black Leaders: Ancient and Modern
Essays examining Black leadership across the United States, Africa and the ancient world.
Black Boy
A first-edition, first-printing copy with fragmentary dust-jacket remains preserved and documented separately.
Forward to Freedom
An original ANC exile-era pamphlet preserving the movement’s strategy and political programme following the historic Morogoro Conference.
Seize the Time
Bobby Seale’s firsthand account of the Black Panther Party, preserved in the First Vintage Books edition.
Raise Race Rays Raze
Essays from a decisive period in Baraka’s political, cultural and artistic development, with documented scholarly provenance.
The Catalogue of the Barnett-Aden Collection
A carefully preserved catalog documenting a major African American art legacy, complete in its original matching slipcase.
Tommy Traveler in the World of Black History
A children’s graphic novel that introduces African American history through vivid illustrated journeys. Signed and inscribed by Tom Feelings.
Tales of Amadou Koumba
A landmark collection of Senegalese and Wolof oral storytelling in the first English edition.
Afro-American Voices, 1770’s–1970’s
A two-century anthology connecting African oral traditions, abolitionist testimony, Black political thought, poetry, fiction and drama.
The Black Image in the White Mind
A landmark history of how white American thinkers constructed ideas about Black character, citizenship and destiny.
Black Women in Antiquity
An African-centered study placing Black women within the histories of ancient African civilizations.
Nommo
A wide-ranging anthology connecting modern Black African and Black American literature.
One physical copy. One permanent record.
Research, images, condition, provenance, pricing and approvals remain connected to the book’s unique Akoma catalog number. Sold books remain in the archive as part of the collection’s history.
Edition details, format, pagination, markings and condition begin with direct examination.
Specialist and institutional sources are documented without copying another bookseller’s catalog.
Book and dust-jacket condition are reported separately, with detail images for material defects.
When a fact cannot be verified, the catalog says so rather than inventing certainty.