Boston: American Peace Society (for both periodicals), 1873-1874. Hardcover. Bound volume. Marbled boards backed in cloth with tiny matching corners. Text double-columned. All issues of The Advocate of Peace bound in before any issues of Angel of Mercy. Vol. III, No. 11 of the latter magazine includes a contribution ("A... More about The Advocate of Peace. New Series, Vol. IV, Nos. 6-12 (June-Dec., 1873, and Vol. V, Nos. 1-7, 912...

Oakland: Black World Foundation, 1992. Paperback. 158p. Wrapper. 26cm. Published quarterly. This is a special double issue on the Clarence Thomas Confirmation process. More about The Black Scholar, Vol. 22, Nos. 1 & 2 (Winter 1991 - Spring 1992

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 about Cahiers O.R.S.T.O.M. -- Serie Sciences Humaines Vol. VIII, No. 2 (1971

Los Angeles: Produced by Elgin Davis Studios Inc., n.d. [1959?]. Paperback. photos, [28] unnumbered pages. Softcover in original wrapper. Oblong (23 x 15cm.). A fund-raising booklet seeking donations for improvements (a Pediatrics Annex, etc.). Pobably issued by or on behalf of the Foreign Mission Board, National Baptist Convention. More about Carrie V. Dyer Maternity and Child Welfare Center, Monrovia, Liberia

Chicago: Negro Story Press, (c. 1945). Paperback. 32p. Softcover. 24cm. Cover browning around edges. This rare children's magazine was edited by *Alice C. Browning who was also co-editor of Negro Story magazine. We don't know whether any additional issues were published. More about Child Play: A Magazine for Boys and Girls 4 to 14, (Vol. 1 No. 1) Summer 1945

[Muskogee?]: Cimeter Job Printing Company, n.d. [1907]. [2], 7, [3]p. Softcover booklet in original wrapper. 14cm. Later vertical crease. Also included is a 1907 postcard to Annie Stigger at the Creek Orphan's Home from Mrs. Booker T. Washington thanking Stigger for a donation to "the piano Fund." The 1907 session... More about Colored Teachers' Normal for Creek and Seminole Nations to be Held at Dunbar High School...

New York: NAACP, 1914. Paperback. [108]-154. Softcover in original wrapper. 30cm. Light soiling. Cover almost entirely split along fold. Internally sound and clean. Cover illustration by *John Henry Adams, Jr. Includes "My House and a Glimpse of My Life Therein. A Story," by *Jessie Fauset (pp. 143-145). More about The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. 8, No. 3 (July, 1914

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 about Five Autograph Letters sent to a grown daughter in Massachusetts by an Unidentified American...

[Washington]: 1945. Paperback. Program consisting of 12 unnumbered pages. Wrapper. 29 x 22cm. More about Helen Thigpen Soprano In Recital Friday, September 28, 1945 8:30 P.M. Metropolitan Baptist Church...

Clayton, Australia: Monash University, (1980). Paperback. photos, map, iv, 94p. Stapled. 28cm. Annual Indonesia Lecture Series, No. 5. Five papers by various authors. More about Kartini Centenary: Indonesian Women Then and Now

Moscow: Printed [by] Vneshtorgisdat, n.d.[1930s or later]. Single sheet folded to make and 8-page leaflet (of which 2 1/2 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 first presented... More about The Moscow Children's Theatre: The Negro Boy and the Monkey. [caption title

Boston: John M. L. Babcock, editor, 1875. 8-page weekly newspaper. 39cm. Untrimmed. Later horizontal fold. Progressive pro-labor, pro-women's suffrage paper. More about The New Age, Volume I, No. 1 (November 6, 1875

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 about The Persian Flower: A Memoir of Judith Grant Perkins or Oroomiah, Persia