Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. 2nd ed. Paperback. 43p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). No separate wrapper present. More

Paperback. 20p. Softcover in original wrappers. 23cm. Later vertical crease. Stamp on front cover "From Board of Publication of the Union League of Philadelphia" More

Printed Document. Unused. 21 x 16cm. Rather tender along later horizontal crease. Paper remnant along top of blank back where this had probably been glued in a scrapbook. More

Philadelphia: Printed for Gratuitous Distribution, n.d. [1863]. Hardcover. 8p. Recent marbled boards. Original wrapper bound in. 23cm. The first six pages of this item also appeared separately in 1863 as an eight-page pamphlet titled "General Washington and General Jackson on Negro Soldiers." Banks' statement and Boker's poem were added to..... More

Philadelphia: H. C. Baird, 1863. 1st ed. Paperback. 8p. No separate wrapper. 23cm. Unevenly browned. Issued to urge the use of African American soldiers in the Union army. More

New York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, (c. 1863). 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 plates (including frontis portrait of the deceased), 216p. Recent quarterbinding. 15cm. A father's loving memoir full of Christian sentiment for a son who sickened and died in Beaufort, South Carolina while serving as..... More

Philadelphia: Printed for Gratuitous Distribution, 1863. 1st ed. Paperback. 24o. Softcover pamphlet in original wrapper. 24cm. Former owner's name on front cover which is a bit ragged along right edge. Ex lib. ("Brookline Public Library" stamps or embossed (or both) on cover, title-page and one other leaf). Contents sound. A...... More

Baltimore: N. Murray, Pulication Agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1887. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, index, 176, (10)p. Original green cloth. 24cm. Cover slightly scuffed. A mob tried to prevent the 6th Massachusetts Militia from passing through the streets of Baltimore to the railroad station on their way to Washington. Four members..... More

Boston: A. G. Brown & Co., 1880. New edition. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), xvi, 380p. plus (2)p. publisher's advertisements for two of Brown's other books. Original dark cloth. 19cm. Ends of backstrip and corners rubbed. Pioneering effort to produce a military history of African Americans. Largely focused on African American participation..... More

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867. 1st ed. Hardcover. xvi, 380p. Original maroon cloth. 20cm. Modest uneven cover fading. Plain endpapers browned and rather fragile. Front endpaper split along hinge. Pioneering effort to produce a military history of African-Americans. It is mostly devoted to African American participation in the Civil War..... More

2 1/2 page Letter (on a singled lightly-ruled 8 x 10 inch sheet folded to form four pages). Later folds, probably for mailing in a small envelope. Austin writes that he wants to attend the Free School for applicants seeking commands in colored troops. He asks Benjamin to send him..... More

Single sheet folded to form four pages, 20 x 26 cm., as folded. Written in a neat hand although there were quite a few words that we didn't decipher. Corey devotes the first three pages of this letter to reporting on the unpleasant voyage to New Orleans which featured two..... More

Dayton: United Brethren Publishing House, 1883. 1st ed. Hardcover. xii, 293p. Original blue cloth. 19cm. Ends of backstrip and corner of cover worn. Endpapers and contents sound. Uncommon Civil War regimental about an African American unit which was raised in Tennessee in 1864 and served in Tennessee and Mississippi until..... More