![The Balance and Columbian Repository, [Vol. I], No. 26 (June 29, 1802](/pictures/thumb/91142.JPG?v=1599598997)
Hudson, N.Y. Sampson, Chittenden & Croswell, 1802. An 8-page weekly newspaper (pages 201-208). Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 29cm. Later horizontal fold. Leaves separating at fold. Includes this brief note on page 206: "Authentic intelligence is received, via Norfolk, that the negroes in Hartford County, N. C. were embodied..... More
San Francisco: The Black Panther Party, Ministry of Information, 1970. Tabloid newspaper format. 30 x 45 cm. Newsprint. photos, illustrations, (20)p. Later horizontal fold. Piece chewed off at top and bottom. Moderate browning. Subtitle: Black Community News Service. Appears to have a weekly in 1970. More
Stanford: 1969. 4p. newspaper format. 37 x 29 cm. Slightly crooked horizontal fold. At head of title: Freedom or Revolution. This small format newspaper identifies itself as "Organ of Black Students of Stanford University." Ray Davis is listed as editor. We don't know how long or how many issues of..... More
Chicago: Lu Palmer Foundation, Inc., 1979. Paperback. 52p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Generally sound and clean although there is visible cover foxing and wear. Julian Bond was the keynote speaker at this tribute for Jarrett, an African American journalist who started his career at the Chicago Defender and became..... More
Springfield: 1944. 4-page newspaper. 38 x 56 cm. Headline, "Negro Churchmen Endorse Roosevelt: National Non-Partisan Churchmen's Committee for Re:Election of President Roosevelt. Moderate browning. Edges chipped. Later vertical crease. Two small yellow spots on front leaf. African American newspaper. First three pages mostly devoted to biographical and other information about..... More
Chicago: John H. Johnson, 1944. Paperback. 98p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20cm. Minor cover soil. Edges rubbed. An original item in this issue is "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience" by Ralph Matthews, Managing Editor of the Washington Afro-American (pages 61-62). More
n.p. n.d. [1920s or earlier]. Ink and pencil notes/draft for an essay on 19 pages in ruled (19 lines per page) softcover notebook which lacks original front cover and has some staining and wear on the printed back cover. The final 21 leaves in the notebook are unused. Author unidentified..... More
New York: 1906. Paperback. [pp. 537-586] plus a total of [20] unnumbered pages of advetisements before and after text. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. Cover has edge-wear. Small sticker on front cover. A few leaves have a short tear in right margin. One of the articles in this issue is..... More
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, 1863. Paperback. 24p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Vertical crease. Creasing, chipping and dog-earing on outer corners on back cover and most text leaves. Prooeedings of a meeting of the Pennsylvania Freedman's Relief Association. More
(Cleveland): The Centennial Committee, (1949). Paperback. photos, 37p. Softcover in original wrapper. 31cm. Cover scuffed and rather worn. Minor wrinkling. More
Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson [at] 88 and 94 West Nile St. n.d. [probably circa 1870 or somewhat later]. Paperback. 71p. plus [8]p. publisher's advertisements. Original printed pictorial wrapper. 17 cm. Later quarterbound slipcase and matching green cloth chemise (by James MacDonald Co. of New York City). Modest chipping on cover..... More
n.p. 1965. Unsigned 3-page photocopied memo for the demonstrators. Stapled at upper left corner. This instruction in non-violent demonstrating in Chester came to us with other material relating to Reverend Lloyd P. Zimmer, a white Episcopalian who served as Urban Missioner for the [Episcopal] Diocese of Philadelphia from 1965 to..... More
1944. Paperback. photos, [8p. plus printed wrapper. Softcover. 22cm. This segregated USO Club for African American soldiers was located in Pulaski County, Missouri, somewhere in the Ozarks. More
Institute, West Virginia: West Virginia State College, 1938. Paperback. photos, [40]p. including wrapper. Softcover in original wrapper. 27 cm. Sound copy with some foxing, soiling and wear. Cover title on this issue: Reveille to Taps: Candid Camera Shots of West Virginia State College. An appealing photographic look at campus life..... More
![Fives Plays by Various Authors bound together in a single volume] (1) Richard III, Drame en Cinq...](/pictures/thumb/88667.JPG?v=1545171093)
Buuxelles: J.-A. Lelong, 1852, 1846, 1846, 1849 et 1849. Undetermined editions but several are likely to be 1st Belgian editions. Hardcover. 150, 88, 85, 4, 107, 147p. Original wrappers not preserved. Old pebbled cloth. 13cm. French text. This volume appears to have been part of someone's large collection of plays..... More
Boston: Wm. Crosby & H.P. Nichols, 1847. Paperback. 40p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Some cover soil. Short tear at top of front cover. More
n.p. (1924). Paperback. 63p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Cover soiling and modest wear. More
![First, Second, Third and Fifth] Annual Report[s] of the American Anti-Slavery Society. American...](/pictures/thumb/85778.JPG?v=1550500247)
New York: [American Anti-Slavery Society], 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1838. 1st eds. Paperback. 64, 87, 97, and 152p. The first 3 reports are disbound (removed from a bound volume) and the 1835 and 1836 report lacks their original wrappers. The 1838 report has its original yellow wrapper. 21-22cm. All 4..... More
New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1833. Second Separate edition [so stated]. Paperback. 24p. Pamphlet. 23cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Foxing (moderate on title-leaf, light elsewhere). Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. Bacon was one of the leading lights of Congregationalism during his lifetime. This..... More
New York: Knopf, 1953. 1st ed. Hardcover. Original orange cloth. 21cm. Ex lib. (Free Public Library Atlantic City -- withdrawn stamp on title-page and rear endpapers). Various library markings. Cover soiling. Spine moderately sloped. Rectangular discoloration around edges where a library label appears to have been removed from lower ortion..... More
n.p. [1933]. Paperback. 8-page pamphlet. No separate wrapper. 21 x 10cm. Moderate wear. "Read at National Medical Assn. Convention, Aug. 16, 1933." Dr. Barnes was a prominent Philadelphia-based African American otolaryngologist. More
Chicago: 1970. Hardcover. iii, [1], 188p. Hardcover in contemporary cloth. 28cm. No jacket (probably never had one). A doctoral dissertation in the Dept. of Education at the University of Chicago. Beggs, a graduate of Haverford College, appears to be white. Hand-addressed slip laid in suggesting that Beggs gave this copy..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (c. 1982). 1st ed. Hardcover. This Volume Only. frontis, index, xxxv, 852p. Original blue cloth. dj. 23cm. More
New York: Printed by F. Hubner, (c. 1946). 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, 183p. Cloth. dj. 21cm. Jacket rather shabby and missing a good-sized chip on upper corner of front panel. Very Good/Fair. INSCRIBED by Blair (on half-title, which also has a gift inscription). An uncommon novel that casts a light..... More
Richmond: Everett Waddy, 1889. 1st ed. Hardcover. ix, 147p. Original green cloth. 19cm. Some spotting on front cover. Former owner's name stamped on endpaper. Blair argued that the South would never become truly prosperous as long as African Americans were degraded and made lazy and uncooperative by segregation and other..... More
