New York: American Missionary Association, 1868. Paperback. 72p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. A few spots on cover. Inked name (looks like "Prof. B. N. Weston") on thin piece of paper tipped to back cover. Foxing here and there. Focused on Missions and Schools among the Freedmen and Abroad. More
New York: Lancelot Harty, 1923. Paperback. 12p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Edges slightly discolored. Published Monthly by Lancelot Harty, an African American. OCLC locates only one holding (The Schomburg Center which holds Vol. 1, Nos. 1-11 (October, 1923-November, 19240. We don't know if additional issues were published after November..... More
n.p. 1964 (4/30/64). 6-page photocopied memo. Printed on one side. Stapled in upper left corner. Authorship unclear. Outlined situation in Chester, Pennsylvania, where efforts at integration and fair treatment for African Americans was being resisted by the white population. More
[Bourbon County, Kentucky]: n.d. [1936]. Paperback. 104p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Cover still present but chipped and rather worn. Contents sound and clean. The lists of residents in Paris and in Millersburg are divided into two lists by race (white and "colored"). The "Colored" List for Paris is found..... More
![Colonial Document] Tailor's Bill](/pictures/thumb/91585.JPG?v=1631655243)
(ca. 1763). Handwritten bill, receipted on back as paid in full Jan., 1764. 21 x 14 cm. James Young details 15 bits of tailoring or clothers making done for Grant Gibbon between Nov. 1760 and March 1762. Total bill appears to have been 5 pounds, 17 shillings, 5 pence. One..... More
![Navy News, [Guam Edition]. Vol. 1, No. 95 (Oct. 26, 1945](/pictures/thumb/90802.JPG?v=1591718109)
Guam, Marianas Islands: 1945. Folded four-page newspaper. 36 cm. Some wrinkling and wear, as well as minor staining. Lead article is about Navy Day to be held the following day in Guam. AP news item at bottom of 4th page about Branch Rickey's signing of Jackie Robinson and assigning him..... More
Paperback. Broadside. 13 x 24cm. The Lecturer and manager was Henry F. Coleman. More
n.p. n.d. [1880?]. Paperback. 19p. Wrapper (singed around edges, with some chipping). 26cm. Old stain in top and bottom margins. Signed in type at end: A Sufferer. This anonymously issued pamphlet attacks the split decision of the South Carolina Supreme Court in a tax-related case (Douglass & Jackson vs. P...... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1931. Paperback. photos, pp. [147]-192. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Library stamp on front cover ("Library American Bible Society"). Contents include: "The Negro Rural School Problem," by Dennis R. Cooke (pages 156-160); "The Negro Church in Rural Virginia," by J. Marcus Ellison (pages 176-179; and."The..... More
1937. Paperback. Eight-page pamphlet. No separate wrapper. 22cm. Some wrinkling. More
Lorain, Ohio: (1929). Paperback. 99p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Front and back covers detached; most of the backstrip lacking. Contents browned and somewhat worn. More
Washington: 1833. Paperback. [130]-160p. Wrapper. 23cm. Moderate browning and wear on wrapper. Foxing. Name on front. Published monthly. More
[Hampton, Va. The Hampton School Press, n.d. [ca. 1897 or 1898]. Paperback. 3 illustrations. 15p. [outer leaves included in pagination]. Softcover. 17 cm. Minor cover soil. Loss or a small bit on paper in upper left corner on front cover. Some spotting on back cover. Reprinted from The Youth's Companion..... More
Atlanta: Peachtree, (c. 1991). Benny Andrews. Hardcover. illustrations (by Benny Andrews), 203p. Original cloth backed boards. dj. 23cm. SIGNED by Benny Andrews on front free endpaper. 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
Paris: Kra, (1927). Colin, Paul. Edition Originale. Hardcover. 30 illustrations (mostly full-page, all black & white except the frontis, and all by Paul Colin), 186, [1]p. Rebound in modern, grained oatmeal-colored cloth. Leather title label mounted on backstrip. Original wrapper not preserved. 19cm. Copy No. 63 of 300 numbered copies..... More
Cincinnati: The Willis Music Co., (c. 1924). Paperback. 17p. Softcover in original wrapper. 30cm. 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
Berne: Berne Witness Co, 1944. 1st ed. Hardcover. photos, 194p. Original blue cloth. 19cm. Small magazine clipping about the author mounted inside front cover. Browned rectangle on title-page from a mounted newspaper clipping (on the facing page) about the author's appearance at the Baptist Church of Boone (Iowa). No jacket..... More
![Blind Boone's Southern Rag Medley No. One: Stains from the Alleys [cover title]. John William...](/pictures/thumb/90163.JPG?v=1572994114)
Columbia, Mo. Allen Music Co., 1908. 1st ed. 5p. Cover lettered in bold red letters. 35cm. Modest stain in upper right corner. Some chipping and wear, mostly along right side. An uncommon piece of sheet music by Boone. Melissa Fuell published the first biography of this talented African American in..... More
New York: Robert Speller & Sons, 1959. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, 194p. Original red cloth. 21 cm. Inked hard-to-read note on page 69 (apparently about using the shrimp jambalaya recipe on 12-12.1983 at some event). Insect damage in several margins, most seriously to top margin around page numbering on pages..... More
Dallas: (c. 1935). De Luxe Edition. Hardcover. frontis/colophon, photos, folding illustration, index, x, 134p. Red suede backed in black (cloth or leather?). 29cm. Bookplate removed. Modest pitting on bottom edge -- perhaps to remove the former owner's name. Small stain on top edge. No jacket (not sure the De Luxe..... More
Dallas: (c. 1935). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis/colophon, photos, folding illustration, index, x, 134p. Original green cloth. 20cm. Extrensive light spotting on cover. Minor insect damage onrear endpaper. No jacket. An uncommon book. 50 copies of a Deluxe Edition signed by Brewer and in a fancier binding were also published. More
Madison, Wisconsin: n.d. [1972? Paperback. illustrations, 6p. Softcover in original wrappers. 22cm. Promotional booklet for this African American artist and educator who was born in Magnolia, Mississippi in 1947, earned a degree in Art Education from Jackson State University in 1968 and eventually (2007) earned a degree in landscape architecture..... More
[Memphis: 1889]. Hardcover. 192p. Later brown library binding with call number and an abbreviated title inked in white on the backstrip. 22cm. Lacks title leaf and original wrapper. Typed title-page added. Ex lib. (card pocket, perforated stamp on added title-page, date and number stamped on first text page). Contents sound..... More
