Newark, NJ: Whitehead & Hoag Co., 1899. Red, white, and blue ribbon, fringed along bottom, vertical pin on verso. 4 x 12 cm. "Reception Committee / Douglass Monument Unveiling / Rochester June 9, 1899" printed in gilt. "Whitehead & Hoag Co. Newark, NJ" printed at top of verso in bold;..... More
Washington, D. C. The Associated Publishers, 1930. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in black. A review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Near Fine with toning to pages in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor chipping at the corners and spine ends. John..... More
Concord, CA: Nitty Gritty Books, 1969. First edition. [xii], 210, [1] pp. Publisher's wraps. Good+ with wear along edges, creased spine, slight curling to wraps, dampstain to bottom corner of last few pages. An uncommon soul food cookbook mentioned in Toni Tipton-Martin's The Jemima Code. More
New York: Published for the Author, 1853. [Boston: Published for the Author, 1854]. Second edition, early issue with title page dated 1853 with a New York imprint, and front wrapper resetting title page within an ornamental border dated 1854 and with a Boston imprint. BAL 19381 describes an 1853 dated..... More
Omaha: [no publisher], 1919. First edition of what is apparently the third cookbook written by an African-American woman, after rarities by Malinda Russell (1866) and Abby Fisher (1881), and published just eight years after Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat. An eclectic mix of 700 recipes, with some Southern. 112..... More
Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1903. First edition. [iv], 298 pp. Bound in publisher's pebbled blue cloth lettered in gilt; appears to be the more modern-looking of at least two variants. Near Fine with light shelf wear, age-toning to pages. Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents, Jacob Tileston Brown..... More
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1932. First edition, first printing. 252, [4, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in blue. Darkening to cloth at rear joint, light foxing to textblock edge and erased owner notation to front free endpaper, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust..... More
Philadelphia: Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1908. Second edition. 178, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's dark brown cloth lettered in black; later unobtrusive cloth reinforcement of head and tail, new endpapers. Photo frontis of the author. Very Good+ with exposed tips, small stain to fore edge. A very neat, sturdy copy..... More
Detroit, MI: Dept. of Christian Social Relations, Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1958. First edition. The text of King's keynote speech, which he delivered on May 16, 1958 at a Detroit conference entitled "Christ, Church and Race" before an audience of roughly 260 Episcopal priests and laymen. In which, he encourages..... More
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1963. First edition, first printing dated May, 1963. Bound in publisher's original printed stapled wraps, 16 pp., including wrappers. Near Fine with light wrinkling toward bottom, light creasing and light wear. King was imprisoned for participating in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation. From his jail cell..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first printing. Signed by Martin Luther King on the front free endpaper. Very Good with owner name effaced and taped over above King's signature, abrasion to front and rear pastedowns. Former ownership stamp and handwritten date to half-title page. In a Very..... More
New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First edition. Signed by Matthew Henson on the page following the half title, inscribed to former owner and dated 3/7/54, about a year before his death. xx, [ii],200 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with photographic frontispiece mounted on front board, lettered in..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977. First edition, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original green leatherette boards with green titles to the spine. Near Fine with light wear at the extremities, top fore..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed by Angela Davis on the title page, and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering.Very Good with tape stains to boards, stain and residue to front endsheet, binding pulled with some tenderness to..... More
Mrs. T. P. Mahammitt: Omaha, Nebraska, 1939. First edition. Small quarto. In publisher's original blue cloth boards stamped in silver with white plastic spiral binding. Very Good with soiling, wear to cloth, several plastic teeth lacking. Pages toned with an occasional small stain, and several check marks. Very uncommon cookbook..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901. First edition, first issue; in the original dust jacket with the "Second Edition" plug at the bottom of the front panel. Bound in publisher's ribbed maroon cloth stamped in gilt, gilt topstain. Very Good with Cloth a little darkened at spine end edges..... More
Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981. First edition, first printing. xxvi, 261 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with edge wear, creased and slightly sunned spine. A rare classic anthology of second wave feminist essays, poems, and stories. More
New York: Random House, 1959. First edition. Signed by Paule Marshall on the title page. Bound in publisher's original paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in red and white. Near Fine with bumping to bottom inner corner of front board, pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition. A fantastic association copy of this Harlem Renaissance work, signed and inscribed by Walrond to the woman who was crucial in helping him reach literary success. Inscribed in the year of publication to his literary patron and agent Edna Worthley Underwood on..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1967. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with former owner names written to front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing. More
New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, Publishers, 1868. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth decorated in blind with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, small areas of rubbing through to cloth at corners and spine ends. Contemporary former owner ex-libris label..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. First edition, first printing. xi, [v], 239 pp. Publisher's buff cloth stamped in yellow and black. Very Good with light soiling, rubbing, and staining to cloth, wear at tips, slight lean, contents a bit toned with age, a few easily erasable pencil notations to..... More
Mills College, CA: The Eucalyptus Press, 1945. First edition, first printing. Signed by Howard Thurman on the title page. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper board. Near Fine with toning to spine, edges of boards and lightly so to pages, in a Very Good..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First edition stated, first printing. Near Fine with light sunning to edges of boards and light toning to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with streaks of browning as typically seen with this dust jacket, but in general a much, much..... More
