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
Stiff (but not thick) promotional card for the Glee Club. 14 x 8.4 cm. Reverse side blank. Printed photographic image of twenty-two tuxedoed young African American males occupies three-fourths of the card, with printed text on the left. Estelle Ancrum Forster founded the Ancrum School of Music at 74 West..... More
Milwaukee: P & P Publishing Co., (c. 1977). Paperback. photos, 40p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Cover edges slightly chipped. Minor corner creasing. This appears to have been the first issue of this uncommon African American periodical -- four issues a years were initially projected and seven issues were..... 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 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
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Chicago: M.A.C. Mfg. Co., n.d. 2 glossy pictorial broadside advertisements. 28 x 22 cm. Both broadsides have a heavy horizontal fold. Small hole in center of one broadside and small piece torn from fold on the other. We found nothing about the company but they came to us with some..... 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
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
[Washington]: 1945. Paperback. Program consisting of 12 unnumbered pages. Wrapper. 29 x 22cm. 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
Clayton, Australia: Monash University, (1980). Paperback. photos, map, iv, 94p. Stapled. 28cm. Annual Indonesia Lecture Series, No. 5. Five papers by various authors. 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
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
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
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
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
[New York]: November 1956. Paperback. 6 black & white illustrations, [16]p. Original wrapper. 23cm. This 1956 exhibition/program included two concerts and an exhibition of 17 contemporary painting and sculpture. More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Proprietors, by William Young, 1791. Hardcover. [2], 439, [9]p. Contemporary leather. 21 cm. Splitting along joints. Old (contemporary?) bookplate ("Duncan. Auburn") on front cover. Front free endpaper about half gone; a leaf preceding rear free endpaper is completely gone and may have contained the tail end..... More
