Carlsbad, CA: SmileyBooks, 2013. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Quarto; publisher's glossy boards in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,304pp.; illus. throughout, some in color, text printed in double columns. Light shelf wear, boards slightly misaligned, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Signed by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on front free endpaper. Illustrated history published as a companion piece to the six-part documentary series which first aired on PBS.