Marian Anderson's autograph, across a card, 1 7/8 x 3 3/8 inches, signed by her in blue ink from the lower left corner to the upper right.
[New York?]: nd [1930s?]. Very good. (9744). More
[New York?]: nd [1930s?]. Very good. (9744). More
Aptheker (1915-2003), born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia, joined the Communist Party in 1939 and rose to prominence in academia with the publication of American Negro Slave Revolts in 1943. After serving in World War II and the Normandy invasion (commanding..... More
Philadelphia: William S. & Alfred Martien. 606 Chesnut Street, 1863. 18.5 cm. (4), 5 - 296pp. Frontis. portrait; two plates. Black patterned cloth, few chips to cloth, corners worn, rear endpaper lacking, binding slightly cocked. Previous owner's signature in pencil on endpapers. More
Charleston, (SC): Walker, Richards and Co., 1852. First separate edition. 8vo. 31 pp. Frontispiece; with the half-title. Deification of the public figure. Inscribed on pencil at the head of the front wrapper "Chas. Brooks / from the author." Brooks, like the author's father, Joshua Bates, was a Massachusetts clergyman, temperance..... More
Ivy, VA: The author, 1980. First separate edition (first published in the Virginia Cavalcade). 8vo. 18 pp. Illustrated from facsimiles, plates. Betty Hemings and her children, including Sally, who moved to Monticello in 1775, at the death of Jefferson father-in-law John Wayles, his property passing to his daughter and Jefferson..... More
Ivy, VA: The author, 1980. First separate edition (first published in the Virginia Cavalcade). 8vo. 18 pp. Illustrated from facsimiles, plates. Betty Hemings and her children, including Sally, who moved to Monticello in 1775, at the death of Jefferson father-in-law John Wayles, his property passing to his daughter and Jefferson..... More
Four-color label, 3 x 3 7/8 inches, illustrated with an African American waiter serving a tray holding two bottles of the Atlantic Beer. An Atlanta based regional brewery operated the Orland location 1937-1954; another example of this label can be viewed on Pinterest. Upper corner with a mostly closed tear..... More
Cleveland, (OH): S. Brainard's Sons, c1866 [but 1884]. Second edition. 4to. 11 pp. Long introduction on the verso of the title page, the music with printed notes indicating stages of the battle. Thomas ("Blind Tom") Wiggins Bethune (1849-1908), an African-American autistic savant and musical prodigy, was born a slave on..... More
Buffalo, NY: Ensign & Thayer, 50 Ann St., and 12 Exchange St., printed by Rufus Blanchard of Cincinnati [OH], 1847. Hand colored broadside, 31 1/2 x 23 in. Bold title at the head of the image. A large wheel with a vignette of the U.S. Capitol building as the hub..... More
Washington, (DC): np, 1860. First edition. 8vo. 30 pp. Brown (1813-1880) served as Governor of Mississippi, 1844-1848, in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1839-1841 and 1847-1853, and in the U.S. Senate, 1854-1861; Graham N. Fitch (1809-1892), a Democrat from Indiana who served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1849-1853, and..... More
NY: Basic Books, (c2005). First edition. 8vo. xiii, 351 pp. Illustrated from old art, facsimiles, a title page, portraits. “Sets a new standard, post-DNA, for the next generation’s reassessment of the most evocative and provocative of this country’s founders.” Two-tone boards, color illustrated dust jacket. Fine. More
Philadelphia, [PA]: A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart, No. 126 Chesnut Street. 1853. 8vo. [3], 4-426 pp., erratum. Later ownership stamp “Ex Libris Wilson H. Kimnach” on front flyleaf. Later three-quarter morocco binding with gray cloth covered boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt stamping, top edge gilt. First edition..... More
Charleston, WV: Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics of the State of West Virginia, July 1934. First edition (an enlarged edition, including other cities in the state, was issued in 1938). 8vo. 21 pp. Illustrated from photographs, maps, charts. Not in Blockson catalogue. Original printed gray wrappers, stapled. Very good..... More
NP: np, 1916. One of two 1916 editions. 8vo. 12 pp. An appeal for support of women’s suffrage, tinged with bigotries of the period: “There are 50,000 more white women than all the negro men and negro women put together. The admission of women to suffrage therefore could not possibly..... More
Washington, [DC]: Printed at the Columbian Office, North E Street, 1827. First edition. 19.5 cm. 13, (1), 8 pp. Disbound pamphlet, stapled. Piece lacking from title (cut away), as per parentheses. Browned. Inscribed in ink by "the author," the recipient's name partially trimmed away. Title taken from LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue..... More
Charlottesville, VA: Jefferson Editions, (c2001). First edition (paperback original). 8vo. 207 pp. Illustrated from old art and a photograph, portraits. Issued to “expose the false information [about the Jefferson-Hemings controversy] being disseminated to destroy the reputation of [a] founding father.” Illustrated glossy wrappers. Very good. More
Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., Printers and Binders, 1901. First edition, State of Alabama Constitutional Convention, 1901, Document No. 8. 8vo. 30 pp. Cunningham (1855-1921), a physician serving Alabama’s prison system and coal mining companies, was elected to the 1901 constitutional convention and helped to design the measures that disenfranchised..... More
Richmond, VA: House of Representatives, Jan. 10, 1865. First edition. 8vo. 5 pp. Correspondence concerning the conscription of slaves between Secretary of War James A. Seddon and other government officials and military officers (including Maj. Gen. J. L. Kemper) charged with carrying out the impressment. “Rebel Archives” stamp, else a...... More
Chapel Hill, (NC): UNC Press, (c1951). First edition. 8vo. viii, (6), 260 pp. Maps, tables, charts. Books from Chapel Hill, p. 46: "Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina Negroes who held federal, state, county, and municipal offices [during the period] ....... More
Montgomery, (AL): Press of the Alabama Journal, 1846. First edition. 12mo. 260 pp. A high-spot (if such a thing may be said to exist) of antebellum pro-slavery literature. Historian John Ashworth finds in Estes “the fullest expression” of the menial theme in pro-slavery literature: “[Estes] was prepared to ‘state it..... More
Montgomery, AL: Brown printing Co. for the commission, 1916. First edition. 8vo. 125 pp. Well illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, tables, plates. Includes reports on white and African-American illiteracy. The author was serving as secretary-treasurer of the commission at the time of publication. OCLC: “Prints bulletins on illiteracy in Alabama and..... More
Natchez, (MS): Jackson Warner, 1852. Fourth thousand. Thick 8vo. xiv, [7]-637 pp. Pro-slavery "textbook," with numerous passages and citations from the Bible. Sabin 24729. Work, p. 315. LCP/HSP Afro-Americana 3706. Blockson 10112. Owner's name, but a very good copy. Publisher's sheep (rubbed, spine and edges skinned), marbled endpapers and edges..... More
[NP: np, 1865]. Broadside, 21.5 x 24.5 cm. One corner torn away and tear in blank center portion of text.This Missouri handbill advertises a community meeting at which then Governor Thomas Fletcher and Henry Taylor Blow, then a U.S. Representative would attend in Liberty, Missouri, on May 15, 1865. It..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): William F. Geddes, Printer, Franklin Place, 1855. First edition. Original printed beige wrappers. 8vo. 16pp. One inch piece cut from top of front wrapper (perhaps removing name) not affecting printing. Discusses the treaty and the suppression of the slave trade because of the African Squadron: "A great country..... More
(Ann Arbor, MI): Dissertation Abstracts, 1959. First separate edition (reprinted from "Dissertation Abstracts," Vol. XIX, No. 7). 8vo. (7) pp. Abstract of the full dissertation, earned at Ohio State University in 1953. Fulbright (1919-2012), a native of Springfield Missouri, graduated from Lincoln University in 1941, fought as a bomber pilot..... More