Annual Financial Report 1962
n.p. (1962). Paperback. (24)p. Wrapper. 22cm. African American church located at 3550 Lydia Street. More
n.p. (1962). Paperback. (24)p. Wrapper. 22cm. African American church located at 3550 Lydia Street. More
1945. Includes: (1) folded four-page program for concert at Carmichael Auditorium in Clarksburg, West Virginia on May 1, 1945 (minor chipping); and (2) broadside concert program for May 27, 1945 appearance at Salem College (3 later folds, light foxing and moderate wear). The Salem program is signed by the four..... More
Wilberforce, Ohio: Printed by Eckerle Printing Co., 1942. 1st ed. Hardcover. 272p. Original green cloth. 19 cm. Sermons and addresses presented at conferences of the AME Church. Spivey was Dean of Payne Theological Seminary when this was published. He later (1964-1972) served as Secretary-Treasurer of the A.M.E. Sunday School Union..... More
n.p. (1978). Paperback. photos, 108p. Wrapper. 28cm. Cover spotted and creased. African American church. More
1946. *Stevens, Walter James, 1877-. Chip on My Shoulder: Autobiography of Walter J. Stevens. Boston: Meador, (c. 1946). 1st ed. frontis (portrait), 315p. Dark cloth. Worn dj (waterspotting & large chips). 20cm. Pages slightly browned. Boston-born Stevens was Steward of the Signet Club at Harvard and later lived successively in..... More
Canandaigua, N.Y. Published by the author, 1867. Leadley Miller Mix. 4th Amer. ed. Hardcover. frontis (a portrait of the author engraved by J. C. Buttre from an unidentified ambrotype), 4 plates (by Leadley Miller Mix) on thin pale yellow paper, xii, [13]-360p. Original cloth. 19cm. Spine sloped. Chipping at ends..... More
Philadelphia: [Printed by] Press of J. B. Lippincott Co. [but actually published by Wm. Steward], 1913. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), ills, photos, index, 237p. Original green cloth. 24cm. Backstrip fraying along base and also has a bit of wear along top. Minor corner bump. Name on endpaper. Split along..... More
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis: People's Publishing Company, 1879. Revised Ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 780p. plus [5] unnumbered Index pages and [7] unnumbered pages of promotional material (endorsements, etc. for this book). Original thick pebbled and paneled reddish-brown cloth, rebacked with almost all of original backstrip (chipped at ends and..... More
Atlanta: Atlanta University. School of Education, 1952. Hardcover. map, v, 62p. Carbon copy. Original purple buckram binding. 28 cm. Minor white streak on front cover.Ends of backstrip and joints rubbed. Endpapers slightly yellowed. Thesis submitted to the School of Education, Atlanta University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Degree..... More
New York: Henry C. Bowen, editor and publisher, (1875). 32p. 40 x 28 cm. Horizontal crease where once folded. Disbound (removed from a bound volume. A weekly Congregationalist newspaper issued in four-columned tabloid-sized format. Each issue included a wide variety of mostly progressive material. What caught our eye in this..... More
New York: Exposition Press, (c. 1953). 1st ed. Hardcover. 64p. Cloth. dj. 21cm. Corner tips frayed. Jacket chipped along top edge and browned. The jacket blurb says that Taylor is of East Asian descent; the first poem says that her father is "one generation removed from cobra charmers and voodoo..... More
Washington: National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, (c. 1968). Hardcover. frontis (portrait), index, (16), 454p. Red cloth. dj (price-clipped). 22 cm. Jacket has some edge-wear and chipping. Extremities rubbed on cover. Preface by H. G. Wells. Reprint of the 1940 edition, with the addition of two chapters, written by Marvin..... More
Small broadside flyer/program. Approximately 13 x 18 cm, Minor spot on edge. Information found online has The Gary American, an African American newspaper in Gary, as publishing its first first issue on Nov. 10, 1927 so it unclear to us why their 18th anniversary was being celebrated in 1942. Roscoe..... More
New York: Grove Press, (c. 1960). 2nd printing. Hardcover. 399p. Original yellow boards backed in black cloth. dj. 20 cm. Jacket has some browning and wear. Former owner's name on endpaper. Thelwell was teaching Third World Literature in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts when this..... More
New York: Wyn, (c. 1953). 1st ed. Hardcover. xi, 290p. Cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket somewhat worn. Owen Dodson's copy with his bookplate, notes in pencil on front free endpaper as well as some pencil underlinings and check marks, etc. in margins. Laid in is a typed and SIGNED two-page Book..... More
New York: Vantage Press, (c. 1996). 1st ed. Hardcover. 92p. Original black hardcover binding. dj. 21 cm. Poetry and episodic recollections by Thompson who was born in Trinidad, raised in Barbados, and worked in Venezuela and elsewhere before emigrating to the United States and working as an insurance broker 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
New York: Barlenmir House, (c, 1972). 1st ed, Hardcover. 56p. Original orange cloth. dj. 30 cm. Jacket slightly soiled. Cover edges very slightly soiled. INSCRIBED on half-title by Troupe ("To Evette: To my beautiful sister black in her do, bad in her mojo juju. Peace and beautiful moments to you..... More
Tuskegee: Tuskegee Institute, (1964). Paperback. photos, 12p. Original stapled wrapper. 28 cm. Modest cover soil and wear. Front cover wrinkling. Printed photographic image on front cover of eight people who were among the eleven African Americans who were allowed for the first time in the 20th century to be poll..... More
Tuskegee Institute, Ala: Tuskegee Institute, 1942. Paperback. photos, 33p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29 cm. Significant soiling and modest wear on cover. Minor dog-earing. Subscriber's address stamp on back. Published monthly, 1936-1954, and "dedicated to the men and women engaged in various fields of service." Includes a 4-page, half-photos, article..... More
Tuskegee Institute, Ala: Tuskegee Institute, 1940. Paperback. photos, 33p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29cm. Modest cover scuffing and soiling. Some dog-earing. Published monthly, 1936-1954, and "dedicated to the men and women engaged in various fields of service." This issue Includes a 3-page article ("Work Habits for a Maid in a...... More
Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, Printers, n.d. [1916]. Hardcover. 87p. Original maroon cloth. 19 cm. Small spot on front cover. Ends of backstrip slightly rubbed. No Jacket. SIGNED by Underhill toward the bottom of the title-page. Laid in: (1) a sheet of coated paper on which is printed a portrait of..... More
New York: Pocket Book edition, (c. 1966). 1st paper ed. Paperback. 174p. Wrapper. 18cm. Reasonably light cover soil and wear. INSCRIBED (but not signed) in 2007. Van Dyke's first novel. Postcard deated 2007 from Van Dyke (signed by "H") laid in which Van Dyke compliments the recipient on some poetry..... More
Ann Arbor: Neo Press, (1994). "Voices of Conscience" vintage republication. Hardcover. 159p. Original boards. 22 cm. No jacket (as published?). SIGNED by Van Peebles on the title-page. More