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

[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

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

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

[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

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

[Detroit?]: n.d. [1964]. 1 page flyer. Later in 1964, Albert Cleage was the Freedom Now Party candidate for Governor of Michigan. Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, an African American from Providence, Rhode Island, was a fundraiser and a Field Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. 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