New York: Mahlon Day, 1830. Paperback. illustrations, partly colored, [8] leaves, printed on one side. Yellow wrapper. 17cm. Name on front cover. Moderate cover soiling. Wrapper partially split at fold. Stitch marks at fold where this appears to have been disbound from some sort of later binding. The hand coloring... More
1968. Paperback. Ninety-nine issues dating between 1968 and 1980. Includes Vol. 1, No. 5 (Revised ed.); Vol. 2, Nos. 3, 9, 10; Vol. 3, Nos. 1-9; Vol. 4, Nos. 1-10; Vol. 5, Nos. 1-10; Vol. 6, Nos. 1-10; Vol. 7, Nos. 1-8; Vol. 8, Nos. 1, 4, 6-11; Vol. 9... More
[NY?]: Red Women's Detachment, n.d. [1970s?]. Broadside poster on plain paper. 28 x 46cm. Three or four later horizontal folds with modest splitting at some ends. An uncommon poster issued by this leftist, New York-based organization of working class and welfare women. About one-third of the poster reproduces a black... More
Abidjan: Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer. Centre d'Adiopodoume - Cote d'Ivoire, Janvier 1972. Paperback. [5], [2]-378 leaves. Softcover in original wrapper. 30cm. Text printed on one side. French text. At Head of title: Recherches sur le Contact Foret-Savane en Cote d'Ivoire. More
London: John W. Parker and Son, n.d. [1858?]. Hardcover. frontis, 5 maps (1 folding), xiv, 344p. Contemporary blind-stamped orange cloth. 22cm. Covers sound but rather worn (with some splitting, fraying, etc.) along joints and extremities, and with some soiling, minor spotting and uneven fading. Scattered foxing (heaviest on folding map... More
Hartford: Press of the Fowler & Miller Company, 1888. 1st ed. Hardcover. 65p. Original cloth. 20cm. Ends of backstrip frayed. Text moderately browned. Harriet Beecher Stowe is listed as one of many Vice Presidents. The organization was affiliated with the Women's National Indian Association. More
![[Study Guide for] My Lives and How I Lost Them By Christopher Cat in Collaboration with Countee Cullen. Countee Cullen.](/pictures/thumb/60033.jpg?v=1507129915)
n.p. n.d. Paperback. 24p. Photocopy stapled at left side. 28cm. Small stain on last page. We don't know who produced this study guide for Cullen's 1942 children's book. It is clean and bright suggesting that it wasn't done in the 1940s or else was later reprinted. Includes 160 short answer... More
Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1909. 1st ed. Hardcover. 136p. Recent gray cloth; central portion of original paper cover mounted on front cover. 23cm. Perforated library stamp (Union College) on title-leaf. Some dog-earing. Atlanta University Publications, No. 14. More
![James McCune Smith, First Black American to Graduate from a Medical School: Abolitionist, Suffragist, Feminist. [cover title]. Leslie A. Falk.](/pictures/thumb/77097.jpg?v=1463757164)
n.p. n.p.: n.d. [199-?]. Paperback. xiii, 158p. Original yellow covers. Black plastic comb binding. 28cm. Text printed on one side. More
London: Darf, 1984. Hardcover. 2 vols. lxxxiii, 357, 509p. Hardcover. djs. 22cm. Cover bumped. This two-volume reprint of the 1844 edition appears to have been issued without the pocket maps found in the original. More
Halis Saxonum: Schwetschke et Filium, 1837. Hardcover. 694p. Attractive modern quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in brown leather. 29cm. Two circular stains on title-page. Scattered foxing. Abridged from his similarly-titled four volume work published 1830-1837. More
Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1931. Hardcover. index, xxxiii, 368p. 27cm. Library bookplate. No Jacket. French text. Travaux et Memoires, 16. More
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Wothington; London: Low and Company, 1853. 1st ed. Hardcover. viii, 263p. Original blindstamped green cloth. 19cm. Backstrip darkened. Small hole in front joint. Stain in lower right corner through first two-thirds of book. Lower right corner missing on title, Contents... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1943. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos, index, viii, 342p. dj. 23cm. Jacket chipped and rather worn along edges and folds, and ends of backstrip. SIGNED (by "Geo W. Carver") in a shaky hand on a cancel leaf inserted between front free endpaper and half-title. This copy... More
n.p.[Baltimore?]: Printed by L. Gordon & Son, Inc. (c. 1940). Paperback. pictorial title-page, illustration, [20] leaves printed on one side. Softcover in original wrapper, 20cm. Cover has some chipping and edge-wear. Contents sound.. Copy No. 30 of an edition limited to 1000 (presumably numbered) copies. Poetry. More
Seoul: Printed by Samhwa Printing Co. (1975). Hardcover. (12), 627p. Original green cloth. 23cm. Minor scuffing and wear. No Jacket. More
Boston: Cornhill, (c. 1918). 1st ed. Hardcover. vi, 55p. Cloth-backed boards. 19cm. Small tear on margin of one leaf repaired with clear tape. Moderate cover soil & wear. Former owner's name on endpaper. No Jacket. African American poet. More
n.p. n.d. [1901]. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), illustrations, 154p. Cloth. 18cm. Text browned and rather brittle. Shabby copy stiffly glued at backstrip. No Jacket. Johnson served for several years as Editor of The Christian Recorder published by the AME Church. More
Le Caire: Imprimerie Nationale, 1904. 4e ed. Hardcover. frontis, 74p. Somewhat warped contemporary 1/2 leather. Original front wrapper bound in. 28cm. Backstrip faded. Bookplate. Foxing on blank leaves at both ends and on tissue-guard for frontis. No Jacket. French text. More
Washington: Happy News Publishing, 1951. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), one illustration, index, ix, 139p. Cloth. 23cm. Gift inscription on rear endpaper. No Jacket. Compiled and edited by Pauline Lark. A compilation of hundreds of short statements and sayings, mainly religious, by Michaux. One is "When the wicked get in trouble, let... More
Hamburg: Perthes-Besser und Mauke, 1864. Hardcover. Zweite deutsche Ausgabe. xxiv, 734p. Contemporary quarterbinding (dull marbled boards backed in leather). 23cm. Backstrip chipped at top and rather heavily rubbed. Contents moderately browned. German text. More
The Hague: Nijhoff, 1959. 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. portrait, index, 7 plates. ix, 304p. Original blue binding. 24cm. No Jacket. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Translation Series 3. More
Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1939. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xi, 142p. Cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket browned and moderately. Foxing. Light waterstain along top of back cover. A critical history of African American literature. More
Bangkok: White Lotus Co, (1994). Hardcover. 2 vols. in 1. frontises, illustrations, 4 folding maps, index, xix, [6], 330, 9, 337p. Hardcover in original purple cloth. dj. 21cm. Minor cover spotting. Reprint of the 1898 London edition with a New Introduction by Tamara Loos. Author's middle name spelled as Warrington... More
