Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. 1943-1993. Friday, February 12, 1993 ... Cathedral of St. John the Divine New York City. [cover title]
New York: 1993. Paperback. Folded unbound eight-page program for his funeral service. 22cm. More
New York: 1993. Paperback. Folded unbound eight-page program for his funeral service. 22cm. More
New York: Vantage Press, (c. 1973). 1st ed. Hardcover. 392p. Hardcover. dj. 21 cm. INSCRIBED by Ashley (who also signs as "Harvey"?). A suspense thriller about two brothers; one becomes a doctor, the other a criminal. The author, an African American, is pictured on the rear panel of the jacket..... More
San Francisco: Examiner, (1898). Paperback. color illustration, musical score, (4)-pages. Folded sheet of newsprint. 35 cm. Pages browned. Cover illustration shows an African American couple, dressed to the nines and arm in arm, leaving the stage entrance of a theater. "Supplement" to the San Francisco Examiner of March 27, 1898."..... More
[Palo Alto]: 1989. Broadsheet announcement. 22 x 28 cm. Two vertical folds. African American writer. More
[Washington]: [1943]. Paperback. [8]p. No separate wrapper. 23cm. Mary McLeod Bethune is listed as President, a position she filled from 1936 to 1951. More
Greenwood, Mississippi: (1957). Paperback. 15p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Minor cover wear. White supremacist organization. [Website Only]. More
Greenwood, MI: Educational Fund of the Citizens' Councils, n.d. [ca. 1957]. illustration, (5)p, Softcover pamphlet. Narrow 23 cm. White supremacist organization. More
1949. Paperback. photos, 31p. 28cm. Corner creased. Published Quarterly for alumni and friends. More
Stlanta: Atlanta University Alumni Association, (1929). Paperback. 16p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Modest vertical crease. Slightly darkened around edges. Published quarterly. More
Atlanta: The League, n.d. [ca. 1942]. Paperback. graphs, (8)p. Wrapper. 22cm. More
(1944). Letter dated September 13, 1946. 28 cm. Carbon copy on thin Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company letterhead stationery. Substantial chipping around edges (no loss of text) on first leaf. Our unnamed Captain of Police reports on an incident which began when around 200 African American soldiers were changing trains..... More
[Washington?]: n.d [1886?]. Hardcover. [8] unbound plates in modest gray portfolio boards. The whole is tied together with two red ribbons threaded through cover slits. 25cm. Some chipping and soiling on portfolio covers. Ribbon ragged on one end (missing the tip). Plates in nice condition with just a touch of..... More
New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1833. Second Separate edition [so stated]. Paperback. 24p. Pamphlet. 23 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Foxing (fairly heavy on title-leaf, light elsewhere). Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. No separate wrapper present. Bacon was one of the leading lights..... More
Chicago: U of Chicago Press, (c. 1989). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, vi, 246p. dj. 22cm. Essays presented at a 3-day conference at the University of Pennsylvania in April 1987. More
New York: Random House, (c. 1993). 1st ed. Hardcover. photos, index, xxiii, 532p. Original cloth backed boards, dj. 24 cm. INSCRIBED by both authors on dedication leaf. More
Kobenhavn: Steen Hasselbalchs, 1963. Paperback. 117p. Softcover in flapped black wrapper, as published. 21cm. Danish text. Backstrip and adjacent areas faded. Partially unopened. Danish text. Translation of "The Fire Next Time" by Gudrun Vergmann. More
New York: Rinehart and Winston, (c, 1985). 1st ed. Hardcover. xiv, 125p. Cloth-backed boards. dj. 21cm. Former owner's name (Yvette E. LeRoy") on front free endpaper. Small waterspot at lower left corner of front cover (and on the same spot on back of jacket). Essay about America inspired by the..... More
New York: Rinehart and Winston, (c, 1985). 1st ed. Hardcover. xiv, 125p. Cloth-backed boards. dj. 21cm. Horizontal slit across left third of front panel of jacket (and a shorter narrow scar across cloth portion of front cover). Browning on jacket flaps. Laid in is a 4-page program titled "Schomburg Center..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1974. 1st ed. Hardcover. 197p. Original orange cloth. dj. 20 cm. Previous owners name ("Yvette E. LeRoy June 1974") in red ink on front free endpaper. Someone (probably LeRoy) has written in pencil words from the third stanza of Handy's Beale Street Blues on a blank..... More
Dated Dec. 27, 1920. Stapled in upper left corner. A typed two-page Progress Report dated Dec. 21, 1920 is attached to the letter. Bancroft was Chairman of the Commission. Forgan, a prominent Chicago banker, headed a cooperating finance committee which struggled to raise enough money to fund the commission's ambitious..... More
St. Joseph, Missouri: Published by Rev. C. O. Banks, (c. 1947). Paperback. Sheet Music. 2p. 26cm. Laid in: 1) Broadside printed musical score titled, "Shall We Meet", Words and Music by M. M. D. Rodgers and Rev. C. O. Banks, c. 1947 by Triumphant Music Co., Chicago; and 2) a...... More
Pasadena, Calif. Printed by House of Printing, (c. 1969). Presumed 1st ed. Paperback. photos, map, [8], 80, [1]p. Softcover in original gray wrapper. 25 cm. Modest cover fading. Internally sound and clean. Banks, a white Southerner, was born south of Hernando, Mississippi. Her father was a physician who also had..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, n.d. [1903 or 1904?]. 2nd Amer. ed. Hardcover. color illustrations, v, 55p. Original cloth-backed boards with oval color illustration mounted on front cover inside a black oval with title and author printed in black above and below illustration. 15cm. Text and illustrations printed on one..... More
n.p. n.d. [Preface dated 1954]. Hardcover. 100 + photos (black & shite), 82p. Original blue cloth. 28cm. Gouged area on backstrip. Slightly swaybacked. Contents sound. No Jacket. Martha P. Anderson is listed as General Chairman --0presumably of the committee which produced this loosely organized history of this Illinois convention of..... More
Louisville: American Baptist, 1953. Hardcover. photos, 99p. Original blue cloth. 22 cm. No Jacket. An African American women's religious organization. More