RARE AFRO-AMERICANA: A Reconstruction of the Adger Library. (With Wendy Ball)

"The first 55 pages consist of an exceptionally valuable introduction by Tony Martin, in which a history of Black intellectual life in nineteenth-century Philadelphia is traced, most painstakingly documented." AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL

"Rare Afro-Americana is made doubly useful by the brilliant introductory essay, 'Race men, Bibliophiles and Historians: The World of Robert M. Adger and the American Negro Historical Society of Philadelphia," by Tony Martin...." PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

"The real strength of the book, however, is the brilliant introduction by Tony Martin.... This fifty-five page essay vividly brings to life a special kind of bibliophile and his milieu." AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTOR

"Tony Martin's introduction provides an excellent historical context for Adger and his collecting activities." THE AMERICAN ARCHIVIST

1981. xvii + 234 pp. ISBN 0-8161-8175-6

AFRICAN FUNDAMENTALISM: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance
"A veritable feast....For the poetry section alone this book should be in every school library....The introductions to each chapter by the compiler are little gems in their own right with potted biographies, snippets of social history, together with some witty incisive comments....There is a useful list of contributors...and a good index....There is so much in this book that it is hard to pinpoint any one excellent aspect. The only remedy is to buy it, read it...." SUNDAY GLEANER (Jamaica)
1991. xviii + 363pp. ISBN 0-912469-09-9.

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LITERARY GARVEYISM: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance
"Martin performs a valuable service....[Garvey's literary contribution] has been largely overlooked in studies such as Nathan Huggins's Harlem Renaissance, David Levering Lewis's When Harlem Was in Vogue, and Jervis Anderson's This Was Harlem." CHOICE

"In language that is elegant and richly anecdotal...Tony Martin has served notice that anyone who wishes to study the...Harlem Renaissance or trace the development of the Black aesthetic among the masses in America must acknowledge the important influence and contribution of the Garvey movement."  Joanne Veal Gabbin, AFRO-AMERICANS IN NEW YORK LIFE AND HISTORY

"Tony Martin has significantly enriched discourse on Afro-American history, literature and literary theory."  Robert L. Harris, Jr., JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY
"Successful in showing that the popularly rooted Garveyites displayed as much zeal for literature as did the now better-known NAACP and Urban League, Martin's book serves as a corrective work...."   John M. Reilly, AMERICAN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP, 1984

"Few manuscripts concerning Afro-American intellectual history [will] be as important as is Tony Martin's Literary Garveyism....[It] defines, precisely and elegantly, the complex aesthetic theory [emanating from the Garvey Movement]....a major lacuna in our reconstruction of the Harlem Renaissance, Garvey's literary history, is herewith restored....Every other study of both the Harlem Renaissance and Afro-American literature is now out-of-date."   Henry Louis Gates, Jr., HARVARD UNIVERSITY

1983. xii + 204pp. ISBN 0-912469-01-3

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THE POETICAL WORKS OF MARCUS GARVEY
"A great many people have been surprised and pleased at discovering that Hon. Marcus Garvey...is a poet of high order...."   T. Thomas Fortune, THE NEGRO WORLD (1927)

“The Black Woman”
Black queen of beauty, thou hast given color to the world!
Among other women thou art royal and the fairest!
Like the brightest of jewels in the regal diadem,
Shin’st thou, Goddess of Africa, Nature’s purest emblem!

Marcus Garvey, THE POETICAL WORKS OF MARCUS GARVEY
"There are several memorable lines in The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey, that assume the authority of aphorism."   Carolyn Cooper, THE BLACK SCHOLAR
1983. viii + 123pp. ISBN 0-912469-02-1 (cloth), 0-912469-03-X (paper).

RACE FIRST: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

"Martin's study is the most thoroughly researched book on Garvey's ideas ...."   CHOICE
Race First is as close to a definitive study of Marcus Garvey as we have seen...."   John Henrik Clarke, JAMAICA JOURNAL
"…a well conceived, exhaustively researched, skilfully executed book...."  Genna Rae McNeil, JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY
A Black Bookstore Bestseller (YOUR BLACK BOOKS GUIDE)

1976. x + 421 pp. ISBN 0-912469-23-4 (paper).

MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE: The Course of African Philosophy

By MARCUS GARVEY. Ed. by TONY MARTIN. Foreword by Hon. CHARLES L. JAMES, President General, Universal Negro Improvement Association.
"As a confidential attempt by a major leader to systematically indoctrinate his principal organisers, there is nothing quite like it in Black history." STAR (Jamaica)
" Any Black leader or aspiring Black leader should read this book."  NORFOLK JOURNAL AND GUIDE
A Black Bookstore Bestseller (YOUR BLACK BOOKS GUIDE).

1986. xxiv + 215pp. ISBN 0-912469-18-8 (cloth), 0-912469-19-6 (paper).

MARCUS GARVEY, HERO: A First Biography

"There is a great need for this book with its easy style, but knowledgeable coverage suitable for the non erudite reader. The author recommends the book for use in secondary schools and the first and second year University Courses, but I would go one further and recommend it to anyone who loves to read." SUNDAY GUARDIAN (Trinidad)

"The strengths of this introductory biography are its readability, its straightforward organization, and its comprehensive touching on the major events and major issues in the movement across four continents and the islands."  Patrick Manning, JOURNAL OF CARIBBEAN HISTORY
A Black Bookstore Bestseller (YOUR BLACK BOOKS GUIDE).

1983. x + 179pp. ISBN 0-912469-05-6 (paper).

THE PHILOSOPHY AND OPINIONS OF MARCUS GARVEY

Ed. by AMY JACQUES GARVEY. New preface by TONY MARTIN.
The most famous collection of Garvey's speeches and essays, in a special Centennial Edition. The Garveyites' Bible!

A Black Bookstore Bestseller (YOUR BLACK BOOKS GUIDE).

1986 (first pub. 1923 and 1925 in two volumes.). ISBN 0-912469-24-2.

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THE PAN-AFRICAN CONNECTION: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond

"...provides an excellent overview of the Caribbean and Africa...details with felicitous clarity the effective efforts of white churchmen between 1890-1930 to reduce the work of Black missionaries in Africa....The piece on 'Marcus Garvey and the West Indies' is also a gem....Benito Sylvain's recollections on the Pan-African Conference of 1900 is a valuable document, and Professor Martin should be lauded....Amy Ashwood Garvey's recollections will serve to remind feminist scholars that in the Garvey Movement, women played very important roles."  John C. Walter, NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES

1983. xii + 262pp. ISBN 0-912469-11-0 (paper).

IN NOBODY'S BACKYARD: The Grenada Revolution in its Own Words.

Volume I: The Revolution at Home.

1985. xvi + 201pp.ISBN 0-912469-12-9; 0-912469-16-1.

IN NOBODY'S BACKYARD: The Grenada Revolution in its Own Words.

Volume I: The Revolution at Home.

ISBN   0-912469-16-1

Out of print - reprint date not set

"...the collection of material presents a valuable record of the period 1979-1983, when the revolution virtually turned in on itself...."
-Sunday Guardian, Trinidad.

"Volume I...contains anintroduction along with documents on the outlook of the New Jewel MOvement and on the health, education, culture, labor, development and religious policies of the government of Maurice Bishop. Volume II ... turns to the foreign policy of the New Jewel Movement."
-Americas.

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THE JEWISH ONSLAUGHT: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront

"...a polemic of the highest order... the best example of an African answering critics since David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World."  Molefi Asante, JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES

"Professor Martin at long last deals with the Henry Gates/Cornel West attacks on Afrocentricity.... Martin provides a solid analysis of the historical use of Blacks by whites to discredit original Black thought deemed unacceptable by non-Blacks....

"I compare The Jewish Onslaught to the classic third chapter of DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk entitled 'Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others....' Martin has written a book that years from now will be considered a classic.... It is simply a must reading on a controversial subject that needs greater airing than some of the more timid political attempts of recent years."  Raymond Winbush, THE VOICE OF BLACK STUDIES

"Tony Martin has been forced to delve into the relationship between the Jews and Blacks and in the process, he has distilled a work that is informative, fascinating and one which will heighten the consciousness of Black people everywhere."  Carl Wint, SUNDAY GLEANER
#1 bestseller (YOUR BLACK BOOKS GUIDE)
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Black Literary Awards, 1994)

1993. vii + 137pp. ISBN 0-912469-30-7.

A lecture launching the 1997 commemoration of Emancipation delivered for the Emancipation Support Committee at Spectakula Forum, Port-of-Spain, on June 22, 1997. Introduction by Khafra Kambon, Chairman of the Emancipation Support Committee.

ISBN 0-912469-35-8 (pamphlet).