Early American Wall Paintings, 1710-1850
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926. 1st ed. Hardcover. black & white illustrations (two folding), xiv, 110p. Original cloth. 29 cm. Scattered foxing. No Jacket. More
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America's Race Problems: Addresses at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, April Twelfth and Thirteenth, MCMI
New York: Published for the American Academy of Political and Social Science, by McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901. 1st ed. Hardcover. 187p. Original blue cloth. 23 cm. Ex lib. (Bigelow Free Public Library). Various library markings including an oval stamp embossed in upper right corner of title-leaf and on at..... More
America's Race Problems: Addresses at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, April Twelfth and Thirteenth, MCMI
New York: Published for the American Academy of Political and Social Science, by McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901. 1st ed. Hardcover. 187p. Original blue cloth. 23 cm. Front free endpaper partially split along gutter. Covers soiled. Backstrip soiled andchipped and end and around edges. Ex lib. (Goodwyn Institute Library bookplate..... More
The Authorship of the Vengement Alixandre and of the Venjance Alixandre
Princeton: Princeton University Press; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1926. Paperback. xii, 55p. Original wrapper. 25cm. Unopened. Light browning. Elliott Monographs in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 19. More
Mission from Cape Coast to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of Other Parts of the Interior of Africa
London: John Murray, 1819. 1st ed. Hardcover. 3 maps (1 folding and 1 which is called an "Ichnographical" Sketch), folding facsimile, 6 (of 7) color plates, 1 of which is folding, 5 pages of music (on 3 leaves), viii, [2], 512p. Rebound in new quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in dark..... More
The Persian Revolution of 1905-1909
London: Frank Cass, 1966. Hardcover. frontis, photos, index, xxvi, 470p. 22cm. Minor wear. No Jacket. Reprint of the 1910 London edition. More
Leila; or, the Siege of Granada: and Calderon the Courtier. By the Author of "Eugene Aram," "Rienzi," &c.
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838. Hardcover. frontis, engraved 2nd title, illustrations, vi, 400p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 23cm. Joints and edges have some rubbing. Bookplate (Melba Peters). Minimal foxing and age-toning. More
The Pilgrims of the Rhine
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. Hardcover. x, [3], [13]-239p. 19th century 1/2 leather over blue marbled boards. 18cm. Minor cover rubbing. Spine lettering dulled. Edges marbled. The publisher's advertisements were not preserved when this was rebound. More
Die Lautveranderung Aztekischer Worter in den Sonorischen Sprachen und die Sonorische Endung AME
Berlin: Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857. Hardcover. [433]-557p. Original paper-covered boards. 29 cm. Hinges reinforced with paper tape. Mostly unopened. German text. Reprinted from Abhandlungen der Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1856. More
Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa. Part the Second: Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. Sections One-Three
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812-1816. 1st ed. Hardcover. Part the Second Complete in Three volumes (constituting Vol. 2-4 of the 6 volume First Edition published between 1810 and 1823). 88 (of 89) plates and maps (some folding), xix, (13), 715, xv, (12), 20, 822, xx, [14], 735p. Rebound..... More
To Geyserland: Oregon Short Line All Rail Route to the Yellowstone National Park. [Cover title: Where Gush the Geysers]
n.p: Oregon Short Line, (c. 1910). Paperback. photos and illustrations (many color), double-page map, [40] unnumbered interior pages. Softcover in original pictorial wrapper. 27 cm. Modest cover spotting and wear including some spltting along fold. Printed by Poole Bros, Railway Printers in Chicago. More
Harvard College Class of 1890. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Dinner, Algonquin Club, Boston, June 23rd, 1915. [cover title]
[Cambridge? 1915]. Paperback. illustrations, [28]p. Limp red suede (missing back cover). 24cm. Basically a wreck, with outer leaves detached, and several leaves chipped. Browned. We also don't know for sure that this item actually ends at page 28 although the text is consistent with that. Du Bois was one of..... More
The Philosophy of Ignorance
Boston: Christopher Publishing House, (c. 1951). 1st ed. Hardcover. xiii, [15]-170p. Original ribbed black cloth. dj. 20 cm. Modest soiling on jacket. Religious speculation an African American minister who wrote at least four other books. More
Musings of a Minister
Winston-Salem: 1939. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (an odd photographic image on the author), 51p. Original swirling black and green patterns on decorative boards with silver lettering and a circular decoration containing a lyre. 18 cm. Pages lightly browned. No jacket. Only book of poetry by this African American minister who..... More
A Short Visit to the Ionian Islands, Athens, and the Morea
London: Murray, 1837. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, map, 5 plates, vi, 399p. Original cloth. Yellow endpapers. 20cm. Joint cloth splitting at top. Former owner's name on endpaper. More
A Short Visit to the Ionian Islands, Athens, and the Morea
London: Murray, 1837. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, map, 5 plates, vi, 399p. Original hardcover binding almost entirely gone. Front and back covers replaced with chipped and almost completely detached brown wrapper. 20 cm. Library bookplate inside front cover ("Berkeley Trinity School" stamped "withdrawn in blue). Moderate staining on plates; contents..... More
The Feast of Bong, as I Saw It. A Paper Written Several Years Ago by Commander E. Hooker ... and Read before the U. S. Naval Lyceum, New York.
n.p. n.d. Folded four-page leaflet. 22cm. Soiling and several, mostly short, tears. Fragile. Hooker, born in Farmington, Ct. in 1822, entered the merchant service in 1836 and the US Navy in July 1861. He served on Louisiana and Victoria before being transferred to the Potomac Flotilla where he commanded, successively..... More
The Pageant of Venice
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. 1st trade ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 146p. Original cloth. Partial dj. 32cm. Jacket lacks most of backstrip panel and is edge-worn. More
A Glimpse of the Tropics: Or, Four Months Cruising in the West Indies
London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1900. Hardcover. frontis, photos, 2 maps (1 folding), 284p. Gray pictorial cloth. 19cm. Extremities rubbed (minor fraying at corners). Name on endpaper (pencil). Text moderately browned. No Jacket. More
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Pathology for Students and Practitioners. [Complete three volume set]
Philadelphia: Blakiston's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. 3 vols. Original cloth. 25cm. Vol. 1 is a darker shade of maroon than the other two volumes. No Jackets. More
Masterpieces of Japanese Sculpture: Photographed by Yasukihi Irie, Ken Domon, Shihachi Fujimoto & Manshichi Sakamoto
Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha; Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, (c. 1960). 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. frontis, photos, xvi, 327p. Original cloth. dj (price-clipped). 34 cm. Jacket edge-worn. More
Revolt in the Desert
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. 1st printing of the abridged (and retitled) edition of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" Hardcover. color frontis, illutrations, folding map, index, xvi, 335p. Original cloth. 24cm. Backstrip faded.. No jacket. More
Pause and Other Poems
New York: Exposition Press, (c. 1954). 1st ed. Hardcover. 64p. Worn dj. 21cm. INSCRIBED by Locke (as "Ed"). African American author. More
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Three Autograph Letters Written from Ningpo [now Ningbo], a port city in China in 1879, 1881 and 1882 to His Daughter Fanny (or Fannie) who was then living in the United States, probably with Esther Lord McNeill, Edward's Sister and a leader in the Temperance Movement, who lived in Fredonia, NY. Also includes one letter each to Fanny from three of her "Brothers" (Frank, Will and H. D.). Also includes an autograph letter to Fanny from Ella Davis, a friend in Fredonia.
Lord's letters to daughter Fanny are, respectively, 2, 2 and 4 pages in length. The 1879 letter has some chipping in heavily browned areas with loss of a few letters in the text. The 1881 letter is missing a jagged piece of the second page with loss of large portions..... More
Directory of Blacks in the Performing Arts. [Second Edition 1990]
Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1990. 2nd ed. Hardcover. index, xvii, 594p. Original black cloth. 22cm. No Jacket. More