Lake Forest, Ill. (c. 1910). 1st ed. Hardcover. photo (portrait of the author), 44p. Original plain black cloth. 20cm. Former owner's notation on front pastedown ("Purchased August 1910 Mr. Pickard Kennedy."). No jacket. An uncommon book of poetry by an African American author who is said to have been born..... More
Kansas City: (c. 1915). 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, 204p. Original gray cloth. Illustration of Ms. Simmons on the front cover. 20cm. Extremities frayed. Modest wear to cover illustration and lettering. No Jacket (may never have had one). Uncommon novel set in Chicago. The illustrations were drawn by William Hamilton, a...... More
Nashville: Parthenon Press, (c. 1948). 1st ed. Hardcover. 215p. dj. 20cm. Jacket heavily chipped along edges. Former owner's name. SIGNED by Bishop Shaw (as "Alexander P. Shaw"). Bishop Shaw was born in Mississippi in 1879 and graduated from Rust College in 1902. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal..... More
[Philadelphia]: [For sale by J. Miller M'Kim, Merrihew & Thompson, printers], 1844-1845. n.d. [prbably 1844-1845]. Hardcover. frontis, 192p. Issues 1-12 issues (of 18). Contemporary red full leather, gilt lettered and also decorated around edges, narrow inner dentelles and on backstrip in gilt. 26 cm. Staining, now mostly colored blue, in..... More
Petersboro, N.Y.??]: 1854. Single sheet folded to form two leaves with last page blank. 31 cm. Chipped and quite ragged along top edge, but with no loss of text. Also some modest chipping and soiling along right edges. Smith, a wealthy, white New Yorker, was an important financial supporter of..... More
Charlotte, N.C. Printed by the Observer Printing House, (c. 1952). 1st ed. Hardcover. xii, 141p. Blue cloth. dj. 22 cm. Jacket rather worn; foxing on flaps and on the hiden side. Modest cover warping; some staining on bottom portion of covers. . Contents sound with some brown spotting. The Smiths..... More
pp. 49 - 63p. 16 pages stapled together at upper left corner. 23 cm. Lower right corner bent. Offprint of an article for an unidenfied journal from the 1970s. Smith, a good friend who died in 2021, had been a graduate student at Yale in American Studies before deciding in..... More
New Orleans: Mugnier, Photo, 24 Exchange Place, n.d. A almost flat-back stereoview on orange card. 18 x 10 cm. Photographic image of an African American family standing in front of a small log cabin with trees in the background. Card slightly soiled around edges and on back. "Mother - Sarah..... More
New York: Random House, (c. 1967). 1st ed. Hardcover. xvi, 428p. Original black cloth. dj. 21 cm. Black on cover shiny in spots and rather mottled, especially on back cover. More
Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1867. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), illustration (portrait), 357p. Cloth. Scattered brown spotting and foxing (heavy on plates and in some margins). Name on endpaper. James and Edward were the sons of a Protestant missionary to Turkey. They returned to the U.S. for schooling. Both..... More
Durham, NC: The Merrick-Washington Magazine, 1985. Paperback. photos, 77p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. INSCRIBED ("To John Hope and Aurelia from Lyda K. Merrick") inside front cover. Merrick was founder and editor of "The Negro Braille Magazine. John Hope Franklin and Aurelia Whittington were college sweethearts at Fisk and..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1880. Fourth Thousand. Hardcover. ills, 352, 152p. Original dark blue cloth. 19cm. Two previous owners' inked signatures accompany the private library stamp of the latest owner on the front free endpaper. Page edges soiled. Modest discoloration and some loss of cloth along edges of front cover..... More
Washington. GPO, 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. photo, index, 184p. Later 1/4 cloth over marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. 23 cm. Library labels on backstrip and library stamp on title page from alibrary in Zurich. Pages 131-132 contain a carryover paragraph titled "Untreated Syphillis in the Negro" which described..... More
Washington: [GPO], n.d. [1962?]. Paperback. 490p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. A few minor cover spots. Library call number inked at base of backstrip. Institutional stamp inside front cover ("The American Jewish Committee, Blaustein Library"). More
[Washington: 1840]. Paperback. 69, 6p. Pamphlet. No separate wrapper present. 24cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). "U Va Law Library" stamped on page edges. Minor age-toning. One leaf wrinkled and has some browning and edge-wear. 26th Congress, House. 1st Session. Doc. No. 185. More
[Washington: 1842]. Paperback. 15p. Pamphlet. 24cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). No separate wrapper present. Outer leaves detached. Minor age-toning. 27th Congress, House. 3d Session. Executive.The Chevalier d'Argaiz, the Spanish minister, was unhappy with portions of the ruling of the U. S. Supreme Court on the Amistad case. More
San Francisco: Pomegranate, (c. 2007). Hardcover. illustrations (many color), index, x, 118p. dj. 28 cm. The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume VI. More
Washington, D.C. Press of C. F. Sudwarth, 1910. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), 233p. Cloth (recased with new endpapers). 22cm. Spine lettering dulled. Ends of original backstrip chipped. Some cover spotting. Scattered foxing. Former owner's name and address (Pottstown, PA) on back of frontis. No Jacket. A novel which involves..... More
Fort Wayne: Lincolniana Publishers, 1933. 1st ed. [so stated]. Paperback. [16] unnumbered pages. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Large bookplate of Russell F. Bush inside front cover. SIGNED on title-page by Warren (as "Louis A. Warren"). Paper read at the annual Lincoln's Birthday Assembly of the Chicago Historical Society on..... More
New York: Pace Phonograph Corp. n.d. [1921]. 33 rpm phonograph record. Later plain white record sleeve. This record was the most successful record published by Pace under their Black Swan label before they went bankrupt only two years later. While we haven't played this, it appears to be in playable..... More
Belmont, Mass. American Opinion, (1959). 4th printing. Paperback. (12)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. The founder of the John Birch Society found communism behind the Brown V. Board of Education decision and the modern psychology cited in the decision. More
Washington, D.C. The Bible Way Church, (c. 1970). Hardcover. 164p. Original red cloth. 19 cm. Light cover spotting. Yellow highlighting in Chapter Six (pages 66-74). A few pencil markings. Covers somewhat soiled and darkened. No jacket. Williams, an African American, was a prominent Pentecostal minister in Washington, D.C. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. 317p. Original red cloth. dj. 21 cm. An appealing jacket despite some soiling, edge-wear, short tears, a couple of chips, and, finally, some small holes along flap folds. Endpapers generally browned and rather brittle; front free endpaper detached near fold. First..... More
New York: Who's Who in Colored America, (c. 1937). Fourth Edition. Hardcover. photos, index, 608p. Original green cloth. 27cm. Spine lettering dulled. No Jacket (presumably as published). An attractive copoy of an important biographical resource. Seven editions, of which this was the fourth, were published between 1927 and 1950. More
