Chicago: Golden Brown Chemical Co., n.d.[1920s??]. Single sheet folded to form and 8-panel brochure. 18cm. Later vertical and horizontal folds. Issued to promoted the sale of a variety of "Madame Mamie Hightower's Golden Brown" beauty products aimed at the African American women. The Golden Brown Chemical Co. had been set..... More about A Beauty Book Written by Stars of Stage and Screen

[New Orleans]: Publisher not identified, n.d. [probably 1911-1912]. Paperback. [96]p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume) with brown backing on backstrip and later stitch marks visible). Original front and back covers of this rare little paperback are still present. Also present is the blue buckram binding into which this had..... More about Blue Book

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 about Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, No. 5, Vol. 2, (February, 1979

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 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

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 about Portfolio 1894. [Six Monographs bound in One Volume