n.p. n.d. Promotional broadside. 28 x 17 cm. Moderately browned. We know next to nothing about Stanley and her troupe and don't know whether her troupe actually included any "genuine" African Americans. Stanley shows up in a few online listings from around 1910 with her troupe described as "picks." Year..... More
Paris: O.R.S.T.O.M., 1971. Paperback. [3], [132]-231p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27cm. French text. "Du Mariage en Afrique Occidentale." More
1979. Paperback. 174p. Wrapper. 22cm. This copy is INSCRIBED by *Yvonne, one of the contributors, on the page containing her poem "Eva." Women Poets: A Special Issue. More
New York: Club Women of New York Company, (c. 1905). Hardcover. 400p. Original Violet cloth. 24 cm. Call number inked in white on backstrip (but we see no other library markings). Minor cover soil. No Jacket. More
New Haven: Domestic Science Deparatment New Haven City School District, n.d. [1916?]. Paperback. 8p. Softcover in original wrappers. 21 cm. Cover and contents basically sound but rather chipped, soiled, stained (here and there) and worn. Prior to coming to New Haven, Ms. Deeter appears to have been one of the..... More
New York: NAACP, 1925. Paperback. photos, pp. 196-238p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Cover damaged (top right corner containing most of the word "Crisis" missing on front cover; partially split at fold; other soiling foxing, tears and chipping). Contents sound but with with some staining, wrinkling and chipping throughout. Text..... More
Kingston: National Gallery of Jamaica, 1990. Paperback. photos, 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29cm. More
1896. The Letters are either unsigned or signed "Your loving old mammy." Includes: (1) Dated Tokyo, Jan. 17/96. 8p. on 2 sheets (each folded to make 4p.). 22cm. Contains descriptions of an exhibition of Japanese flower arranging, a visit to a Temple grounds, and a visit to the Japanese House..... More
(ca 1896). Yellow patterned fabric background, possibly cotton from a flour or feed sack, large piece of red possibly upholstery cloth in the shape of a heart with a soft focus reproduction (on cloth?) of a photographic image of two young African American Women in the center. Tan (paper?) banner..... More
Pawtucket: Bliss, Potter & Co., 1850. Presumed 1st ed. Hardcover. added second title-page dated 1851, 167p. Original dark cloth. Gilt decorations on backstrip and a gilt image of a dove flying above a vine-covered cross in the center of the front cover. 12cm. (a small book). Spine sloped. Joints and..... More
New York: B. Ela, n.d. [1853]. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 384p. 22cm. Extremities chipped & frayed. Illustrations browned. Substantial foxing throughout. An uncommon annual, much of which appears to have been reprinted from "The Mother's Magazine." More
Los Angeles: Multicultural Arts, Inc.; Hollywood, Fl.: The International Review of African American Art, (c. 1990). Paperback. illustrated ( color and black & white), 61, [3]p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Issue on women artists who matured during and after the 1960s ("African American Women Artsists: Another Generation") --..... More
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Parkville, Victoria (Australia): n.p., 1980. Paperback. black & white photos & illustrations of various sizes, 141p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29 cm. Fifth (of eight) annual(?) issues published between 1976 and 1984. More
Moscow: Printed [by] Vneshtorgisdat, n.d. [1930s or later]. Single sheet folded to make an 8-page leaflet (of which 2 1/2 pages are blank). 22 cm. Photo of Natalie Satz on front panel. As described in the leaflet, "The Negro Boy and the Monkey" was a popular play, that had been..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London: Low and Company, 1853. Hardcover. 2 illustrations (including frontis), xv, 224p. Light green cloth. 18cm. Moderate cover soil and some spotting. "361" in heavy black marker at base of backstrip and on bottom edge of pages. Foxing throughout (heavy on..... More
n.p. n.d. [probably 1913]. Paperback. photos, (10)p. unnumbered. Softcover in original wrapper. 16cm. Small promotional booklet for an American Tour. Inside front cover is announcement of performances ar Boston Opera House for Sunday October 25 (matinee and evening) and Wednesday October 29 (evening) -- probably in 1913. More
London: Seeley and Co., 1894. Hardcover. Contemporary red 1/2 leather. 27cm. Some cover scuffing. Minor foxing.Contains six monographs: William Sharp's Fair Women in Painting and Poetry (80p.); C. J. Cornish's The New Forest (80p.); Walter Armstrong's Thomas Gainsborough (88p.); W. Y. Fletcher's Bookbinding in France (80p.); Lionel Cust's The Engravings..... More
Boston: 1937. Paperback. illustrations, 33p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Bottom edge of front wrapper worn. Large corner crease on back cover. More
Penang: International Commission of Jurists and Consumers' Association of Penang, (c. 1982). Hardcover. 254p.Blue boards. dj. 22cm. Jacket scuffed. More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1921. Paperback. photos, pp. [49]-96. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover lightly browned. Cover chipping. Mostly unopened. Among the contents: "A Hampton Graduate at Work," by Warren K. Blodgett (pages 65-70 with 5 photos); "Negro Commercial Activities in Tidewater Virginia" by William M. Rich (pages..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1920. Paperback. photos, pp. [341]-388. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover lightly browned. Mostly unopened. Among the contents: "The Tuskegee Women's Club," by Mrs. Booker T. Washington [Margaret Murray Washington] (pages 365-369 with no photos); "National Aspects of the Negro Problem," by Moorfield Storey, founding..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1920. Paperback. photos, pp. [389]-436. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover lightly browned and the front cover is chipped, mostly along right edge. Among the contents: "Health Work among Negroes," by Florence Chapman Williams, State Director of Health, Education and Organization of Negroes (pages 405-411..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1918. Paperback. photos, pp. [465]-512. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Partially unopened. Among the contents: "Saving the Indian from Peyote," a four paragraph note recommending "hearty support" for a Congressional bill to ban Native American use of peyote (pages 470-471 with no photos); "County Training..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1918. Paperback. photos, pp. [561-608. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover soiling. Partially unopened. Among the contents: "Women Farmers," by Alice M. Price, of the Hampton Institute Staff, writing about her summer spent working with the Chester Valley Unit of "The Women's Land Army of..... More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1918. Paperback. photos, pp. [417]-464. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Partially unopened. Among the contents: "Negro Women and the War," by Eva D. Bowles, Secretary for Work among Colored Women and Girls, National Board, YWCA (pages 425-426 with no photos); "Haiti and Its People," by..... More
