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

n.d. n.d. Promotional broadside. 28 x 17 cm. Moderately browned. Nothing we saw online leads us to believe that Ms. Stamley's troupe included any African American performers. Year and location not given. 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

Lima, Peru: n.d. [1927?]. Paperback. photos, 21, [5]. Softcover in partial wrapper (only the front cover appears to be present). Oblong (23 x 16cm.). Bound with two, rather rusty, staples along left side. A sound copy with moderate soiling, wear and corner-creasing. An uncommon early item on the education of..... More

New York: NAACP, 1922. Paperback. pages [51]-94. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Foxing along fore-edge. Internally sound and clean. Cover illustration by Henry Ossawa Turner. Includes: "When Christmas Comes," by Jessie Fauset (pages 61-63), "Steps toward the Negro Theatre," by Alain Locke (pages 66-68) and "Mother to Son," an early..... More

Kingston: National Gallery of Jamaica, 1990. Paperback. photos, 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29cm. 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

[Texarkana]: n.d. [probably somewhere between 1910 and 1930]. Small pasteboard ticket. 7.5 x 3.5cm. Stain on upper left corner. Paper remnant on back, probably from a scrapbook. Name filled in on Contestant line. More

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

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

Boston: 1937. Paperback. illustrations, 33p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Bottom edge of front wrapper worn. Large corner crease on back cover. More

Newark: The Newark Musuem, (1993). Paperback. illustrations, 16p. Wrapper. 28cm. Catalog for the traveling exhibition held at the Newark Museum January 30 through February 28, 1993 on tour from the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Twenty-one works by seven illustrators were exhibited. More