Ibn - Livingstone

600. *Ibn Alkalimat, Abdul Hakimu and *Nelson Johnson. Toward the Ideological Unity of the African Liberation Support Committee: A Response to Criticisms of the ALSC Statement of Principles Adopted at Frogmore, South Carolina, June-July, 1973. Respectfully Submitted to International Steering Committee, African Liberation Support Committee, February 1-3, 1974, Greensboro, North Carolina. n.p.: 1974. 63 leaves (photocopied on one side only). Stapled at upper left corner. 28cm. Stain on edge of last several leaves. Good. 65.00

601. Illinois. American Negro Emancipation Centennial Commission. The Centennial Anniversary Celebration of the Emancipation proclamation in Illinois: One Hundred Years After: A Report of the ... to The 73rd Session of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, 1961-1963. Chicago: [1963]. 20p. (printed on one side). Wr.(stapled at left). 28cm. Ex lib. 35.00

602. [Program] Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World. Souvenir Program, The 48th Grand Lodge Convention, August 24th to 30th 1947, Philadelphia, Pa. [Cover title]. Philadelphia: 1947. photos (portraits), unpaged [68p.]. Soiled wr. 30cm. Good. 65.00

603. [African American Fraternal Organization] Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World. Three Items: Pair of Ribbons; Certificate of Office; and Constitution for the Daughters of I. B. P. O. E. More details: (1) A pair of purple ribbons, each with a round metal (about 3cm. in diameter) Elks insignia at the bottom. Attached to a metal pin (2cm. x 5cm.); (2) Certificate of the Grand Exalted Ruler, J. Finley Wilson, appointing Brother Edgar Elliott as District Deputy No. Ind., dated Sept. 30, 1929. Red paper seal. Wilson's signature smeared. Two horizontal creases.; and (3) Constitution and By-Laws of the Grand and Subordinate Temples, Daughters of Improved, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World. n.p.: 1946. portrait, 68p. Wr. 16cm. 50.00

604. Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World. Grand Lodge. Lectures. NY: Mooney's, n.d. [ca. 1950?]. 4p. Wr. 14cm. Sort of an Elk catechism. 25.00

605. Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World. West Virginia. Kanawha Lodge 130 [and] Kanawha Valley Temple 498. Official Program, 2nd Region Oratorical Contest and Meeting of Dumas Council Past Exalted Rulers, Abbie M. Johnson Council Past Daughter Ruler, Garnet High School Auditorium, Sunday, July 14th, 1946. Charleston, West Virginia: 1946. photos (portraits), unpaged [20p.]. Worn wr. 31cm. General wear. Fair. 40.00

606. [Program] In Commemoration of Negro History Week, The Civil Rights Congress presents "The Hidden Years", An Exiting [Sic] Theater Piece of the Little Known History of the Negro People with The philadelphia Dance Group, The Spurlock Choir, The Stage Window Theater: Reynolds Hall, 1416 N. Broad St., Thurs. Eve., Feb. 5, 1953. Philadelphia: Penna. Civil Rights Congress, 1953. 4p. Leaflet (creased horizontally to become a self-mailer). 22cm. 35.00

607. Industrial Home School for Colored Girls. Annual Reports (First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh). Peak's Turnout, Virginia: 1916-1922. 6 vols. Photos. Wrs. 23cm. Pencil annotations in the 6th and 7th Reports. Six of the first seven annual reports. The school, founded in 1915 by Janie Porter Barrett, the daughter of former slaves, and the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, was a residential industrial school for young African American girls who had been incarcerated. The name of the school changed in 1921 to Virginia Industrial School For Colored Girls. 375.00

608. [Railroad Union] Inter-State Association of Negro Trainmen of America. The Only Chartered Labor Union Organization of the Race in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Denison, Texas: n.d. [WWI era]. portrait, 4p. Leaflet. 20cm. Moderately browned. Splitting along later horizontal fold. A fragile leaflet. Fair. At head of title: Special Labor Union Edition. James P. Pollard, of Denison, is listed as General President. Richard A. Buford of Oklahoma City is named as General Secretary. This attempt to organize a union was apparently unsuccessful. 400.00

609. International Conference of Negro Workers (1st: 1930: Hamburg). Report of Proceedings and Decisions of the First International Conference of Negro Workers at Hamburg Germany, July 1930. Hamburg: International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, 1930. 40p. Chipped and faded wrapper. 23cm. Page edges browned and rather brittle. Good. 200.00

610. Interstate Colored Teachers' Agency (Richmond, Virginia). Contract. Contract (not filled out) on a printed broadsheet. 28cm. Corner chipped. Folds from mailing. [also included]are two envelopes and a somewhat worn, short transmittal note dated May 16, 1924, with an elaborate (stamped?) signature of J. H. Blackwell, Manager of the Agency. 22cm. x 14cm. If the agency found or recommended a position successfully, the teacher was to pay 5% of the yearly salary (plus an additional $25 if board was included). 65.00

611. *Isaac, D. Gisele. Considering Venus. NY: Seaburn, (c. 1998). 141p. Wr. 22cm. Two small stains on one text leaf. INSCRIBED (by "Gisele"). Lesbian fiction. 40.00

612. *Jackson, Andrew Webster. A Sure Foundation. Houston: n.d. [ca. 1939]. 1st ed. photos (portraits), index, ix, 960p. Cloth. 20cm. Covers rather scuffed and somewhat worn. Names on endpaper. Leaves browned. Occasional ink annotations. Good. Most of this thick and rather loosely organized book is devoted to biographical sketches of African Americans from Texas. 350.00

613. *Jackson, John Henry, 1850-. History of Education: From the Greeks to the Present Time. Denver: Western Newspaper Union, 1903. 1st ed. frontis (portrait), photo, 223p. Burgundy cloth. 19cm. Back cover spotted. A few bumps on cover edges. Jackson is identified as ex-President of both the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute and the Lincoln Institute (Jefferson City). Pages 159-223 focus on education for African Americans and African American educators. 375.00

614. Jacobs, Curtis M. Speech of Col. Curtis M. Jacobs, on the free Colored Population of Maryland, Delivered in the House of Delegates, on the 17th of February, 1860. Annapolis: Printed by E. S. Riley, 1860. 32p. Wr.(minor soil). 23cm. Moderate vertical crease. Col. Jacobs wished to "protect" free blacks by enslaving them, thus ending the threat of "free-negroism" in Maryland. 200.00

615. Jacobs, Thornwell, 1877-1956. The New Science and the Old Religion. Oglethorpe University, Ga.: Oglethorpe U, (c. 1927). 1st ed. frontis, ills, photos, maps, charts (1 folding), index, xvi, 463p. Cloth. 24cm. Cover lettering dull. Good. Written to be used as a textbook in Jacobs's course in Cosmic History at Oglethorpe, where he was president. This was the first book printed and published at this Black university. Both the composition and the printing were done by students. 50.00

616. *Jacobson, Harriet Price. Songs In The Night. NY: Exposition Press, (c. 1947). 63p. Cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket chipped. Ends of backstrips discolored. Poetry. 75.00

617. *James, Cyril Lionel Robert, 1901-. C. L. R. James's 80th Birthday Lectures. London: Race Today Publications, (1984). 72p. Wr. 21cm. Edited by Margaret Busby and Darcus Howe. Three lectures delivered at Kingsway Princeton College, London. 35.00

618. James Van DerZee Institute, organizer. The Black Photographer. NY: c. 1973. photos, 36p. Wr. Oblong 21cm. Photographs from an exhibition of the Center for AfroAmerican Studies' Folk Art Gallery (Syracuse University), the NY State Council on the Arts, and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration. 48.00

619. _____ SAME. Wrapper has a gift inscription and is partially split at fold. Good. . 30.00

620. *Jenkins, Welborn Victor, 1879-. "We Also Serve" (Apologies to O. Henry): The Story of a Colored Boy who Stood Single-handed Against the World and Played the Part of a Hero. [Cover title] [Atlanta?]: Gate City Free Kindergarten Association, n.d. [late 1930s?]. 1st ed. ills (by P. S. Cooke), 96p. Wr.(moderately soiled & worn). 23cm. Some dog-earing. Good. From the cover: Published ... for the benefit of the Gate City Free Kindergarten Association. Eight short stories on a variety of subjects, including one about baseball and another about football. 150.00

621. *Johnson, Charles Bertram, 1880-. Songs of My People. Boston: Cornhill, (c. 1918). 1st ed. vi, 55p. Cloth-backed boards. 19cm. African American poet. 375.00

622. [Anti-Abolitionist Broadside Song Sheet] John Brown. NY: H. De Marsan, n.d. [probably 1859 or 1860]. Approx. 16.5cm. x 26cm. Two anti-abolitionist songs (words only) about John Brown surrounded by a crude block-print frame of music makers and dancers. The first song (John Brown) by P. H. Matthews, ends:

So, all you, old men, who wish to set the niggers free,

Just think of John Brown and the gallows tree;

And oh ye, abolitionists, before it is too late,

Think of John Brown and of his sad fate.

The second song (The Fate of Old John Brown) ends:

If the Niggers had been free, John,

What would they get to do?

They know when they are well off,

And now they laugh at you. 75.00

623. [Lithograph] John Brown. n.p. [Massachusetts]: F. A. Jenkins, print., c. 1859. Oval lithograph printed on thin paper and mounted on stiffer paper. 35cm. x 43cm. A few repaired edge tears. Light scattered foxing. At bottom: "F. A. Jenkins, print. from a photograph taken for J. H. Webb, Esq." Brown's facsimile signature centered at very bottom. Bust-length illustration of John Brown. This is a softer image than some although Brown still looks stern and determined. This would look quite nice in a frame appropriate to the period. 400.00

624. John Brown Memorial Association, Inc. Souvenir of the Testimonial Banquet to the National President, Dr. J. Max Barber, October 20, 1938, Marion Tea Rooms, Philadelphia, Pa. n.p.: (1938). 2 photos, 4p. Leaflet (cord through hole punched in top left corner). 22cm. Soil. Jagged one inch tear near top left corner. Good. 75.00

625. *Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956. Negro Housing: Report of the Committee on Negro Housing. Washington: President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership, (c. 1932). 1st ed. frontis, photos, index, xiv, 282p. Cloth. dj. 23cm. Edited by John M Gries and James Ford. Nannie H. Burroughs served as Chairman of the Committee. Johnson prepared the report. 125.00

626. [Autograph on a blank card] *Johnson, Eastman, 1824-1906. Autograph of Eastman Johnson, Artist. Card. 5cm. x 8cm. SIGNED ("Eastman Johnson"). Remnants of old glue at corners on back (where someone has written in pencil "Artist." 19th century African American painter, whose works are still much admired. 65.00

627. *Johnson, Edward Augustus, 1860-1944. A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890, Combined with the History of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, Also a Short Sketch of Liberia. NY: I. Goldmann, Printers, 1911. Revised ed. ills, index, 400p. Cloth. 20cm. Covers soiled and heavily worn (although still intact and firmly attached). Endpapers browned & worn (and partially pasted down). Stamp and inked annotation on end papers. Contents sound. Fair. Both titles were originally issued separately. The second title (on the Spanish-American War) was originally issued in 1899 and is much scarcer than his "School History." 90.00

628. [Broadside] *Johnson, George Leon. Famous Tenor and Director Will Conduct a Music Festival and Institute, Here, George Leon Johnson. n.p.: n.d. Thin card stock. 27cm. x 35cm. Soil. A little gnawing at corner of top edge and a short edge tear on the side. Some spotting & soiling. Good. At the bottom are three blank lines [not filled in on this copy] labeled: Beginning; Auspices; and Information. Penciled on the back: Macon, Ga., Williams Colored S'gers, ca. 1940. Grainy reproduction of a photo of Johnson in the center of the broadside. 40.00

629. *Johnson, Harvey, 1843-1923. The Nations from a New Point of View. Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, (c. 1903). frontis (portrait), 289p. Blue-green cloth. 19cm. Name on endpaper. Cover scuffed. Good. An undated later reprint of an interesting book which was first published in 1903. Johnson served for many years as pastor of the Union Baptist Church in Baltimore. 185.00

630. *Johnson, Henry Lincoln. The Negro Under Wilson. [Washington]: Republican National Committee, n.d. [1916]. 15p. Wr. 22cm. An Attack on the racist policies of Woodrow Wilson. The author, a former Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, was the husband of Georgia Douglas Johnson. 125.00

631. *Johnson, Henry Theodore, 1857-. Johnson's Gems: Consisting of Brief Essays and Dissertations on Literary, Ethical, Religious and Current Topics. n.p.: n.d. [1901]. frontis (portrait), ills, 154p. Cloth. 18cm. Text browned and rather brittle. Shabby copy stiffly glued at backstrip. Fair. Johnson served for several years as Editor of The Christian Recorder (published by the AME Church). 350.00

632. *Johnson, Jack, 1878-1946. Jack Johnson in the Ring and Out. Chicago: National Sports Publishing, 1927. 1st ed. frontis, ills, 259p. Cloth. dj. 20cm. Large chip at head of jacket backstrip and some jacket edge wear. Includes introductory articles by "Tad", Ed. W. Smith, Damon Runyon (2p.), and Mrs. Jack Johnson. 100.00

633. *Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. NY: 1930. 1st ed. frontis, photos, index, xvii, 284p. Cloth. 19cm. Name on endpaper. Spine lettering almost entirely gone. Good. Informal history of African Americans in New York's most famous borough. 50.00

634. *Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. Fifty Years & Other Poems. Boston: Cornhill, (c. 1917). 1st Trade edition. xiv, 92p. Cloth-backed boards (corners worn). 19cm. Top right corner of front board heavily creased. Name on endpaper. Small stain at edge of rear endpaper and last eight leaves. Good. His first book of poetry. A signed, limited edition of 110 copies was also published. 300.00

635. *Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. Saint Peter Relates an Incident; Selected Poems. NY: Viking, 1935. 1st ed. ix, 105p. Black cloth. dj. 24cm. Jacket darkened, with edges chipped and a narrow strip of grey paint along the backstrip on the rear panel. 85.00

636. *Johnson, Maggie Pogue. Virginia Dreams: Lyrics for the Idle Hour. Tales of the Time Told in Rhyme. n.p.: (1910). 1st ed. portrait, 64p. Cloth. 23cm. Cover rubbed with some soil. Scattered foxing. Good. Her very scarce first book of poems. Thirty-two poems, many in dialect. 350.00

637. *Johnson, William Matthews, 1905-. The House on Corbett Street; a Novel of Negro Stirrings Amid Discontent. NY: William Frederick, 1967. 1st ed. 311p. Wr. 22cm. First dozen leaves creased (as is a review slip which is laid in). Fiction. Johnson was living in Indianapolis when this uncommon novel was published. 85.00

638. *Jones, Christopher C. Democracy For All: A Plea for a Democracy That Shall Recognize No Limitations of the Equal Blessings of Liberty to Race, Color or Selfish Politics. Los Angeles: Burris Printing Co., c. 1942. portrait, 50p. Wr.(soil & some minor stains). 22cm. Browned. Good. INSCRIBED. Oklahoma-born author from Los Angeles. "The Book that dares to tell the truth about the Negro and the American Democracy in words as hard as cannon balls!!!" [Cover blurb.] 150.00

639. *Jones, Gayl. The Hermit-Woman. Detroit: Lotus Press, 1983. 1st ed. 75p. Wr. 22cm. Poetry. 100.00

640. [Slave Narrative} *Jones, Thomas H. The Experience of Thomas Jones, Who was a Slave for Forty-Three Years. Written by a Friend, as given to him by brother Jones. New Bedford: E. Anthony & Sons, Printers, 1868. ill (or frontis), 46p. Partial wr.(only the chipped front cover is present). 20cm. Fair. Popular slave narrative that went through a number of printings after it was first published in 1849. 150.00

641. Jones, Thomas Jesse. Negroes and the Census of 1910. Hampton, Va.: Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, (1912). 16p. Wr.(almost split at fold and a few chips). 25cm. Substantial but moderate staining. Fair. Reprinted from The Southern Workman (August, 1912). 40.00

642. [Program] Jones Tabernacle A. M. E. Church (Philadelphia, Pa.). Souvenir Program of The Fifth Anniversary of Jones Tabernacle A. M. E. Church, Twentieth & Dauphin Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., June 15 to July 29, 1935. Philadelphia: 1935. photos (portraits), 64p. Wr. 29cm. 75.00

643. *Jordan, Barbara Charline, 1936-, and Shelby Hearon. Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait. Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. 1st ed. photos, ix, 269p. Cloth-backed boards. Pictorial dj. 21cm. Two-page holograph letter laid in. Dated 1/8/72. To a friend in Connecticut-- Jordan discusses her upcoming race for Congress and other matters. Autobiography of the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress from the South. 350.00

644. Joseph V. Baker Associates, Inc. Fifth Annual Client Conference. Human Capital and Confrontation. n.p.: n.d. photos, 28p. Wr. 23cm. 40.00

645. *Joseph-Gaudet, Frances, 1861-. He Leadeth Me. (New Orleans: Louisiana Printing Co., c. 1913). 1st ed. 144p. ill, photos, 21cm. Former owners'[?] names and addresses on pastedowns. Minor cover wear. Minor soil. Rare autobiography of Joseph-Gaudet who was born in Mississippi of African American and Native American ancestry and spent most of her school years and adult life in New Orleans where she was active in prison reform and the founder and principal of the Gaudet Normal and Industrial School. 600.00

646. Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Jubilee Singers, of Fisk University, (Nashville, Tenn.) Under the Auspices of the American Missionary Association. NY: Biglow & Main, (c. 1872). 32p. Wr.(ragged along fore-edge, corner chipped). 25cm. Good. Words and music to twenty-four songs. 50.00

647. *Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941. Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Animals. Philadelphia: Blakiston, (c. 1939). x, 89p. Wr.(quite worn & held on with cellophane tape). Wire spiral binding. 23cm. Name on first blank page. Small stain at bottom edge of first quarter leaves. Fair. An uncommon monograph by this African American scientist who graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth in 1907. 175.00

648. *Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941. The Biology of the Cell Surface. Philadelphia: Blakiston, (c. 1939). 1st ed. ills, index, xi, 392p. Cloth. 23cm. Ends of backstrip frayed. Brief ink markings on 13 pages. Two names on endpaper (one crossed out). Pioneering work on cellular biology. 250.00

649. *Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941. Cortical Cytoplasm and Evolution. [Caption title]. n.p.: 1933. 10p. [20-29]. Leaflet. 25cm. Outer pages blank. Offprint from The American Naturalist, Vol. LXVII, No. 708 (January-February, 1933). 150.00

650. *Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941. A Cytological Study of Affects of Ultra-violet Light on the Egg of Nereis Limbata. Berlin: Springer, 1933. 3 double plates, 26p. [25-50]. Wr. 24cm. Front cover stained. Good. Offprint from Zeitschrift fur Zellforschung und mikroskopische Anatomie, 17. Band, 1. Heft (Abgeschlossen 20. Jan.1933). 125.00

651. *Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941. Hydration and Dehydration in the Living Cell: III. The Fertilization Capacity of Nereis Eggs After Exposure to Hypotonic Sea-Water. Leipzig: Gebruder Borntraeger, 1930. 9p. [24-32]. Wr. 25p. Offprint from Protoplasma, Vol. X, No. 1 (1930). 150.00

652. *Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941. Hydration and Dehydration in the Living Cell: IV. Fertilization and Development of Nereis Eggs in Dilute Sea-Water. Leipzig: Gebruder Borntraeger, 1930. 8p. [33-40]. Wr. 25cm. Front cover chipped with short tear at top of spine. Offprint from Protoplasma, Vol. X, No. 1 (1930). 150.00

653. *Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941. On the Origin of Mutations. [Caption title]. n.p.: 1932. 14p. [61-74]. Leaflet. 26cm. Offprint from The American Naturalist, Vol. LXVI, No. 702 (Jan.-Feb., 1932). 150.00

654. *Just, Ernest Everett, 1883-1941. The Present Status of the Fertilizin Theory of Fertilization. Leipzig: Gebruder Borntraeger, 1930. 13p. [300-342]. Wr. 25cm. Offprint from Ptotoplasma, Vol. X, No. 2 (1930). 200.00

655. [Yearbook] Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Scroll: Class of 1949. [Winston-Salem]: [1949]. photos (portraits), 48p. Cloth. 27cm. No annuals were issued 1942-1948 by this nursing school for African Americans. 100.00

656. Kawaida Towers: Stalled Again by Racist State Officials, Another Crime against the People, March & Rally, Sat. Jan. 17th 1pm. [Newark, N.J.]: ca. 1976. Broadsheet. Mimeo. Stiff green paper, 22cm. x 28cm. Creased & browned. Good. 28.00

657. *Keckley, Elizabeth (Hobbs), 1824-1907. Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. NY: Carleton, 1868. 1st ed. frontis, 371p. plus 8p. publisher's adverts. Recent quarterbinding. 19cm. Text browned, with foxing and spotting (especially on first several leaves). Contents Good. Keckley was born a slave in Virginia and, after some hard times in North Carolina, reports that she was eventually emancipated (in 1855), along with her son, in St. Louis when white clients loaned her $1200 to purchase their freedom. A talented seamstress and dress-maker, Keckley says that she was able to repay the loans in full. Keckley was employed as a dress-maker by the wife of Jefferson Davis in 1860. Keckley subsequently became dress-maker and "friend" to Abraham Lincoln's wife and it is that relationship which occupies most of the book. 350.00

658. Keeler, Ralph Welles, 1877-. The Negro and the Flag: At the Nation's Service. [Cover title]. Cincinnati: Sent out by Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1918. photos, 14p. Wr. 23cm. Stained at bottom right corner. Good. A Lincoln Day Program Order of Service including addresses, responsive readings, and music. 40.00

659. Kellersberger, Julia Lake (Skinner), 1897-. Lucy Gantt Sheppard: Shepherdess of His Sheep on Two Continents. Atlanta: Committee on Woman's Work, Presbyterian Church in the U.S., n.d. [1938?]. ills, 28p. Wr. 21cm. Sheppard and her husband (William H. Sheppard) were pioneering African American missionaries sent to The Congo in the late 19th century. After their final return to America in 1910 they eventually settled in Louisville where Mr. Sheppard assumed a Presbyterian pastorate. Mrs. Sheppard was employed as a case worker for many years by the Family Service Organization of Louisville. 150.00

660. *Kelley, William Melvin, 1937-. Dancers on the Shore. Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. 1st ed. 201p. Cloth. dj (edgewear). 21cm. Sixteen short stories. 35.00

662. *Kennedy, William Jesse. The North Carolina Mutual Story: A Symbol of Progress, 1898-1970. Durham: North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance, (c. 1970). 1st ed. frontis (portrait), photos, index, xx, 308p. Cloth. dj. 24cm. Foxing on edges and jacket. 65.00

664. Kerlin, Robert Thomas, 1866-1950. Negro Poets and Their Poems. Washington: Associated Publishers, (c. 1923). 1st edition. frontis, ills, index, xv, 285p. Green cloth. 19cm. Name on endpaper. 125.00

665. *Killens, John Oliver, 1916-1987. And Then We Heard The Thunder. NY: Knopf, 1963. 1st ed. 485p. Cloth. Moderately worn dj. 22cm. INSCRIBED. A novel about an African American soldier in World War II. 150.00

666. *Killens, John Oliver, 1916-1987. 'Sippi. NY: Trident Press, 1967. 1st ed. xiii, 434p. Cloth. 21cm. Backstrip faded. INSCRIBED. A novel. 40.00

667. *Killens, John Oliver, 1916-1987. Youngblood. NY: Dial, 1954. 1st ed. 566p. Cloth-backed boards. Worn dj (chipping). 21cm. Edge bumped. INSCRIBED (by Killens on Oct. 2, 1954). His first novel - the story of an African American family in a Georgia factory-town in the late 1920s and early 1930s. 100.00

668. [Promotional Leaflet] *King, Luther. Luther King, Distinguished American Tenor. South Pasadena, California: Wendell Heighton, n.d. [1930s]. portrait, 4p. Leaflet. 23cm. Staining & soil. Creased. Small part of corner missing. Fair. King, born in Georgia and educated in Cleveland, Ohio, had been a featured soloist with the Fisk Jubilee Singers for three seasons and was now performing on his own, with his wife as accompanist. [information gleaned from the leaflet]. 25.00

669. [*King, Martin Luther, 1929-1968] Emancipation Proclamation Service, 1863-1963: By East Bay Ministerial Fellowship, Oakland Auditorium Arena, Tuesday, January 1, 1963. Oakland, Calif.: East Bay Ministerial Fellowship, 1963. (3)p. Leaflet (photo of MLK on cover). 22cm. Good. Dr. King delivered the "Emancipation Message". 30.00

670. *Kingberry, A. Akron Negro Directory: March 1940. [Cover title]. [Akron, Ohio]: (1940). 128p. Cloth. 23cm. Covers shabby and rather worn, especially at extremities. Foxing on endpapers. Contents sound. Fair-Good. First directory of African Americans in Akron. Quite scarce. According to this directory, Akron had an African-American population of 14,076 and a white population of 255,040. No further African American directories appear to have been produced for Akron until Theodore R. Wilson produced a few editions in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 375.00

671. Kingsley, Zephaniah, 1765-1843. A Treatise on the Patriarchal or Co-operative System of Society as It Exists in Some Governments, and Colonies in America, and in the United States, under the Name of Slavery, with Its Necessity and Advantages. n.p.: 1829. 2nd ed. 16p. No separate wr. 23cm. Partially unopened. Some tears where folded. Minor foxing at bottom and on title-page. Issued anonymously as "By an inhabitant of Florida". The Preface is signed [in type] by Z. Kingsley. 400.00

672. Kirkpatrick, Ellis Lore, 1884-. The Cost of Living Among Colored Farm Families of Selected Localities of Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas: A Preliminary Report. Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1925. 2 folding charts, 13p. Stapled. Lacks wr.(remnants of backing tape near spine. 27cm. Library stamps on title-page. Good. 35.00

673. *Kirkpatrick, Frederick Douglass, 1933-1987. "Black Music". [Cover title]. n.p. [NY?]: (c. 1980). 42p. Wr.(soil). 22cm. Good. Lyrics for eighteen folk songs about African Americans. Kirkpatrick was a folksinger and lay minister. He played football while a student at Grambling. 28.00

674. Knights of Pythias (Colored). Michigan. Grand Lodge. Knights of Pythias of Michigan. [Caption title]. n.p. n.d. Single sheet of thin card stock folded in half to make a four-page booklet. 9cm. x 16cm. (as folded). Good. Promotes the Knights and their burial insurance. Includes a schedule of "Premium Rates". 30.00

675. [Program] Knights of Pythias(Colored). Texas. Grand Lodge. Official Programme of the Grand Lodge Colored Knights of Pythias and Grand Court of Calanthe, Houston, Texas, June 3rd to 9th, 1928. Houston: 1928. photos (portraits), unpaged [32p.]. Wr.(soiled & spotted). 31cm. Good. 85.00

676. [Yearbook] Knoxville Colored High School. The Echo, Volume V. Knoxville, Tennessee: The Senior Class, 1928. photos (portraits), 78p. Wr. 28cm. Top margin stained throughout, with substantial adhesion damage. Fair. 45.00

677. [Calendar] Koontz's Beauty Salon, Lexington, North Carolina. 1957 calendar. Broadside (card stock, Approx. 14cm. x 26.5cm.). Tipped at the top is a color illustration/photo of an attractive and curvaceous young African American woman who is leaning forward with one hand to her mouth, as if calling to the viewer. She is wearing white shorts and a blue sweater. The small monthly calendar sheets with two staples (rusty) are at the bottom. All months still present. Printed between the photo and the calendars: Koontz's Beauty Salon, Specializing in the Latest Hair Styles, Phone 9329, 708 Cotton Grove Road, Lexington, North Carolina. Browned at the sides of the monthly calendars. 40.00

678. Ku Klux Klan (1915-). Printed Form Letter. Single sheet, 27cm. x 37cm., folded in half to create stationary, 27cm. x 18.5cm. Shield of the Klan, approx. 4cm. x 5.5cm., centered at top. Two horizontal creases. Undated [1920s?] form letter. Invitation to an unnamed "male, native, white, Gentile, Protestant" to attend a lecture on the "principles, Aims, and Purposes" of the KKK to be held in "this city within the coming two weeks." 45.00

679. Kuasi-Gassaway, Ase Omowale. European Colonialism, The Black American Experience, and the Potentials for Liberation: A Study in Etho-Socio-Cultural Analysis, or, Asgard: Observations of the Black/White Cultural Conflict in America. n.p.: 1975. ix, 224p. (photocopied on one side only). Bound in black cloth binder. 29cm. INSCRIBED. Honors essay for a BA with honors at Amherst College. 85.00

680. [Souvenir Dance Program] L. U. D. Fraternity. L. U. D.: "That Grand, Glorious and Noble Fraternity" Founded in '31 to Satiate Ye Primitive Impulse Presents Its "Congressional Ball", Wednesday Evening, January 24th, 1934. NY: 1934. photos (portraits), 20p. Wr.(split at fold, minor chipping). 31cm. Contents clean. Includes photographs & brief tongue-in-cheek statements about 32 Members & Associates. 65.00

681. [Yearbook] Lane College (Jackson, Tenn.). The Lanite, 1953. Jackson: 1953. photos (portraits), 102p. Cloth. 31cm. Extremities worn. Name on endpaper and last page. Good. An historically black college. 50.00

682. *Langston, John Mercer. From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol or The First and Only Negro Representative in Congress from the Old Dominion. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1894. 1st ed. frontis, photos, 534p. Blue cloth. Facsimile signature in gilt on front cover. Gilt decorations, lettering, and the dome of the Capitol on the backstrip. 23cm. Minor rubbing along edges. An attractive copy. 850.00

683. [New Jersey Slave Narrative] Larison, Cornelius Wilson, 1837-1910. Silvia Dubois, (Now 116 Yers Old.): A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom. Ringos, N.J.: Larison, 1883. 1st ed. ills, 124p. plus (8)p. publisher's adverts. Cloth. 19cm. Title-leaf partially pasted down. Good. Written in a complicated and difficult semi-phonetic spelling that few people had the patience to wade through, this odd book was collected but little read until recently translated into standard English. Now that it is being read, it is uncertain just how much of this narrative is strictly factual. 500.00

684. *Larkins, John Rodman. Alcohol and the Negro: Explosive Issues. Zebulon, NC: Record Publishing, 1965. 1st ed. ills, xi, 251p. Cloth. Moderately worn dj. 23cm. 35.00

685. *Larsen, Nella. Quicksand. NY: Knopf, 1928. 301. Cloth. 19cm. Small chip at base of backstrip. Corners rubbed. A Novel. 250.00

686. [*Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000] Fortune, Vol. XXIV, No. 5 (Nov. 1941). ills, 207p. 36cm. Cover chipped. Leaves browning. Includes an eight-page article titled, "'...And the Migrants Kept Coming': A Negro artist paints the story of the great American minority" [pp. 102-109]. 26 paintings from Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series are reproduced in color with Lawrence's captions. One of the earliest serious articles about Lawrence in any mainstream publication. 90.00

687. Leavell, R. H., et al. Negro Migration in 1916-17. Washington: GPO, 1919. 1st ed. 158p. Cloth (spotting & soil). 23cm. Introduction by J. H. Dillard. 125.00

688. *Lee, George Washington, 1894-1976. Beale Street: Where the Blues Began. NY: Ballou, (c. 1934). 1st ed. frontis, photo, 296p. Cloth (minor soil). dj. 21cm. Jacket split along folds, browned and heavily chipped. INSCRIBED (to Roscoe Conkling Simmons). Simmons, a nephew of Booker T. Washington, was a prominent African American power broker in the Republican Party. Lee, born near Indianola, Mississippi, was also a leader of the Republican Party in Tennessee, back when Republicans were more hospitable to African Americans than their Democratic counterparts. 650.00

689. Lee, A. J., and C. W. Roberts. History of the Negro in America, Volume III: A Compilation from Many Sources of the Main Facts of Negro History, Adapted for the 9th and 10th Grade. Originally Compiled, 1935 by A. J. Lee. Revised and Supplemented, 1940 by C. S. Roberts. Tulsa: Department of Social Studies, Booker T. Washington High School, (1941). Vol. 3 ONLY (of 4). 3, 144 leaves [260-403]. Mimeo (one side only). Cloth (worn). 28cm. Ex lib. (stamped in several places by a Tulsa school library). Fair-Good. A very scarce, locally-produced "Negro history manual." Vol. 3 begins with The Civil War and ends with World War I. We know nothing about the authors but assume they were African Americans (on page 401 the "author" briefly details almost being lynched in Washington, D.C. in 1919). 175.00

690. [Film Script] *Lee, Spike. Do The Right Thing. NY: Studio Duplicating Service, 1988. 2nd draft. 93 leaves (typescript photocopy on one side only). Two-hole plastic cover (soil). 28cm. Some leaves lightly stained at edges. Good. 200.00

691. Lehman, Herbert H., Governor of New York. Typed Letter, Signed, Dated August 6, 1938. To Matthew J. Eder, Executive Secretary, The Uptown Chamber of Commerce, New York. 1p. letterhead of the State of New York, Executive Chamber, Albany, Herbert H. Lehman, Governor. 28cm. 2 horizontal creases. Blue type. Minor soil at bottom left corner. Governor Lehman writes, in political double-speak, that, while he makes it a practice not to comment on agreements such as the one between the Uptown Chamber of Commerce and the Greater New York Co-ordinating Committee for Employment "intended to increase employment among Negro workers", he does, "most heartily approve of all worthwhile undertakings to extend employment to those seeking work." 75.00

692. Leipold, L. Edmond, 1902-. Cecil E. Newman, Newspaper Publisher. Minneapolis: (c. 1969). photos, index, 203p. Cloth (soil). 22cm. INSCRIBED (by Newman). Men of Achievement Series [for young people]. Newman (1903-1976) edited two African American newspapers in Minnesota -- Minneapolis Spokesman and St. Paul Recorder. 40.00

693. [*Lewis, Edmonia] The Bath Daily Times, Vol. XI, No. 70 (September 20, 1873). Four-page newspaper printed on decent paper. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). We offer this as a contribution to the uncertainty about the parentage and place of birth of this important 19th century African American sculptor. Page three contains an article (of about eight column inches) asserting that Edmonia was the daughter of Robert Benjamin Lewis, of Bath, and that R. B. Lewis, rather than his daughter, was half Indian and half black. The mother of Ms. Lewis was not identified by name but was said to be the daughter of a local African American called "Uncle Houston." The article also quotes from an article in the Portland Transcript dismissing an earlier claim by The Bath Daily Times that Edmonia graduated from the high school in Bath. Our article admits that the Portland paper was correct and that Edmonia was sent away to be educated when quite young, although her older brother Euclid and a sister (Euphrasia, Artemesia, and Hypathia are identified by name in the article as among Edmonia's sisters) did graduate from their high school. The article ventures no explanation for Edmonia being sent away. Robert Benjamin Lewis is a man of some historical prominence as the author of "Light and Truth, first published in 1836, perhaps the first book by any African American living in Maine. 150.00

694. *Lewis, Roy (photos) and *Useni Eugene Perkins (words). West Wall. [Cover title]. Chicago: Free Black Press, (c. 1969). 1st ed. photos, 20p. Wr.(browned). 22cm. Slightly curled at fore edge. Good. INSCRIBED (by Lewis). Poetry. 40.00

695. *Lewis, Samella S. and *Ruth G. Waddy. Black Artists on Art. Volume 1. Los Angeles: Contemporary Crafts, (1969). 1st ed. photos, ills, xi, 132p. Cloth. Moderately worn dj. 26cm. Covers slightly warped. SIGNED (on front pastedown) by Waddy. A second volume was published in 1971. 50.00

696. Lincoln J. Carter's Down Mobile Songster: Music and Words. Chicago: I. Whiteson, n.d. [ca. 1900]. 2 scores, 16p. Wr. 30cm. Browned and fragile (printed on high acid paper); otherwise Very Good. Contains music for two songs, words to many other songs (music for these is offered for sale by the publisher), and some advertisements for magic tricks. Cover illustration (b & w) of a formally-dressed young African American woman. 65.00

697. Lincoln University (Jefferson City, Missouri). The Midwest Journal: A Magazine of Research and Creative Writing, Vol. V, No. 1 (Winter 1952-1953). Jefferson City, Missouri. iii, 115p. Wr. 24cm. Includes "The Negro Soldier in the Civil War," by Charles W. Simmons at pages 41-54. 25.00

698. *Liscomb, Harry F. The Prince of Washington Square: An Up-To-The-Minute Story. NY: Stokes, 1925. 1st ed. ix, 180p. Decorated boards. dj (bright and unfaded, with one short closed tear and two tiny chips). 19cm. Bottom edge of cover rubbed. An attractive copy. Uncommon novel (Liscomb's only book). 400.00

699. Livingstone College, Salisbury, N.C. The Living-Stone, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April, 1889). 27p. Wr. 24cm. Good. Historically black college supported by the AME Zion Church. 75.00