Fort Scott, Kansas: Fort Scott Sorghum Syrup Company, 1914. 26 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's stapled pictorial wraps. Very Good or better with light soiling and wear to wraps. Several page corners creased. When sugar, flour, bacon and oil were scarce or expensive, African American customs of..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 1973. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original pictorial wraps. Very Good, with wraps lightly rubbed, lightly edge worn and with a light reading crease to the front cover. A narrative poetry book adapted from Lightnin' Rod's album of the same title, telling the story..... More
New York: American Music League, 1936. First edition. Signed by Lawrence Gellert and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Publisher's brown faux-suede wraps lettered in black, in white dust jacket printed in black and red. Very Good with short tear to top edge of front cover, light..... More
San Diego: Morrow Publications, 1966. 187 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's white wraps printed in black with red and blue barber pole stripes near spine. Very Good. Wraps creased at spine, worn at extremities, toned and lightly soiled, previous owner name on title page. A very thorough..... More
London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot Limited, 1928. 382 pp. + 2 [ads]. First British edition, first printing; precedes the first American edition, which was published the following year. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth textured in blind, with titles stamped in red; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine, with light sunning..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1900. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth, pictorially stamped in dark green and silver, with titles in gilt on spine. Fine, with light rubbing at corners and spine ends, pages lightly tone. A fantastic copy of the author's first novel, set shortly..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1899. 229 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's illustrated brown cloth with titles in gilt. Near Fine. Light rubbing to cloth at edges, darkening to spine and toning to pages. A sharp copy. More
1956. Eleven photographs, some original and some wire service, ranging in size from 4.5"x6" to 8"x10". Very Good with signs of use and age, several edge tears, press markings and notations on rear. Depicts Autherine Lucy and school integration at the University of Alabama, where she was the first African..... More
Miami, FL: Miami Herald, 1968. Three 8" x 10" press photos depicting Charlene Mitchell smoking a cigarette. Very Good with some discoloration, oil crayon markings to two of the images, bottom margin partially missing from one image, stamps to verso. Mitchell was the first African American woman to run for..... More
Houston, TX: D. Armstrong Co., 1977. First edition. Signed by Barbara Charline Jordan on the front free endpaper. Jordan was the first Southern African-American woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, and was the first woman to deliver the keynote speech at a Democratic National Convention..... More
New York: Lee & Shepard, 1867. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the publisher, William Lee. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine, lightly rubbed, with front free endpaper lightly edge-chipped. Covers the history of African American soldiers in..... More
Boston: Fetridge and Company, 1854. 86 pp. + 12 pp. of ads. Bound in publisher's original wrappers with portrait of Anthony Burns on the front cover. Very Good. Lean to spine, uneven toning to wraps. Dust-soiled with early page corners curled and creased. Born a slave in Virginia, Burns escaped..... More
New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856. First edition. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine, with dulling to gilt titles, shallow chipping at head of spine. Several small stains to top edge of textblock. Small corner missing from front..... More
Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers, 1887. 4 pp. ads, 152, 6 ads. First edition. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in black and gold. Very Good with light wear and soiling to covers, toning to pages. A racist and misogynistic detective story set in New Orleans involving stolen identity, love..... More
Tuskeegee, Alabama / Charleston, South Carolina: Tuskeegee Institute / Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., 1897. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's yellow beige cloth over beveled boards, decorated in green and lettered in gilt, with all page edges colored red; introductory written by Booker T. Washington and photographic portrait..... More
Louisville, KY: The Bradley & Gilbert Co., 1909. 64 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth titled in gilt. Good, with light wear to cloth at edges, and dampstaining visible in raking light. Previous owner address stamp and evidence of bookplate removal to front free end paper. Black bleeding..... More
Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1922. 125 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt on the upper board. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and soiled. Pages toned, with a faint tidemark to the bottom of the early and final pages. A scarce collection of..... More
New York: Exposition Press, 1949. 54 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth binding with titles in gilt. Very Good with cloth faded at spine, lightly worn. Pages toned. The African American author's first and only book of poetry. More
Washington, D.C. Will W. Allen, 1921. 80 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's original brown paper covered boards with titles in black, Fair, missing bottom corners of covers, affecting some pages as well. Pages toned, with tidemarks to early pages. The first blank and portrait are cracked at the gutter..... More
New York: Self Published, 1931. 37 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's gray faux-suede wraps with titles in black. Very Good. Sear to wraps, with light scrapes to front cover and faint creases. Two tiny holes to author's portrait at frontis. A collection of poems by an early 20th-century African..... More
Atlanta, GA: A. B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1922. 126 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Staples visible at front and rear inner hinges. Former owner notation to front paste down, crease and wear to front free end paper. Hinge at final page of text is..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. First edition, first printing. Signed by Henry Beston on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with cloth darkened at spine and..... More
Boston: John W. Luce & Company, 1925. First American edition. xiv, 165 pp. Original tan cloth with black lettering and ruling. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with slightly darkened and spot-stained spine panel, head chipped, tiny nick to top of back panel. A play by the imaginative Czech author..... More
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1886. First edition. (First collection of these stories and essays, which were each published separately in wraps first. Title page is a cancel, apparently first issue. Binding is a later state with star on spine and no publisher imprint at foot.) 229 pp. Original maroon pebbled cloth..... More
[Detroit]: Negro Retail Store Employees Association / The Inner City Organizing Committee. [ca. 1940-1960?]. Single sheet measuring 9-7/8" x 10, printed on recto only. Top edge rough cut, perhaps as issued or with blank margin partially missing. Moderately toned, and with a faint vertical crease down the center. Beginning in..... More