(Charlottesville, VA: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2002). First edition, an exhibition catalogue. Oblong 4to (16 x 23 cm). (8) pp. Illustrated from eight color paintings by Gibbs and with a portrait and biographical sketch of the artist who “imagines a Monticello peopled in the [four seasons] of another time … alone..... More
Portsmouth, VA: Somerville Printery, 1934. Printed broadside, 11 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, the text framed on top and bottom by ornamental rules, the imprint under the bottom rule. Daniel Atkins (1866-1923), for whom the post was named, served as a steward in..... More
Baltimore, MD: (Printed by David Graham, at the new Printing-Office, in Calvert-street), July 31, 1792, Vol. I, No. 242. 4to. (4) pp. [printed triple-column]. Includes two pages of ads, various goods, help wanted, passage on ships, real estate, dance instruction, a runaway indentured servant (German, “supposed to be with child”)..... More
Birmingham, AL: Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity, August, 1972. First edition (?). 4to. 47, 77 pp. [printed rectos only]. An important post-integration organization fostering co-operation between white and African-American communities in the county, “searching for new approaches to old and complex problems and designed to enable disadvantaged persons to..... More
![Item #61668 Bully for Us. [caption title] Composed and sung by Harry Fox, the Popular Negro...](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/61668.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1622559470)
New York: H. de Marsan, nd [1861?]. First edition. Broadside song sheet, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (trimmed to edge of ornamental border), printing five verses and a chorus in two columns separated by a thin rule, and enclosed within a wide ornamental and illustrated border, with pictorial scenes..... More
Boston, (MA): By Thomas Adams, printer to the Honourable, The General Court, 1792. 22 x 18 cm. 8pp. Stitched sheets, splitting across center of the first leaf where text had been folded, with loss of a word or two, edges worn. EVANS 24521. Lists what is rateable including Mulattoes, Negroes..... More
[New York]: Printed at the Porcupine Press by Pasquin Petronius, [1807]. Collected edition. Full leather; gilt stamped black morocco spine label; gilt decorations on spine. 22 cm. xv, [1], 331, [11] pp., [8] leaves of plates [printed in black], including the frontis. and title page. Copyrighted by Noah Bailey on..... More
Forwarding a regimental return of “deceased soldiers” 4to. One-page, approximately 25 words. Brown (1842-1889) served as an officer in the Civil War with the 11 th Ohio, serving through the western theater to Atlanta, the March to the Sea, and the Carolinas, to surrender, mustering out with the unit in..... More
[Washington, DC]: (Daily American Telegraph, 1852). One of at least three 1852 printings. 8vo. 16 pp. [printed double-column]. Issued as Whig propaganda against the 1852 Democratic nominee for President of the United States, Franklin Pierce, "a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity..... More
(Norfolk, VA): Seaboard Air Line Railway (Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbek Crawford Co, N.Y.), nd [1920s]. First edition (?). Small 4to (23 cm.), folded into narrow 8vo wrappers. (8) pp., text in double columns on two of the pages. Illustrated from six full-page beautiful color lithographs by James McKell, picturing a...... More
November 15, 1908. Black & white real photo postcard, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in., showing groups of men, horses and buggies gathered in front of a couple of small wood framed houses, in a rural setting. Two spots are marked on the photo, with accompanying hand-written captions in white..... More
(Arlington, VA: National Genealogical Society), Vol. 89, No. 3, September 2001. (this issue only, completely devoted to its subject). Small 4to (26 cm). (4), [165]-247, (5, ads) pp. One DNA genealogical chart. Feature article is “Sally Hemings’s Children: A Genealogical Analysis of the Evidence” by Helen F. M. Leary (43..... More
Washington, NC: The college, 1981-1987. Vol. I, No. 1 – Vol. VI, No. 2, 14 issues, complete through the first six volumes (published irregularly, 1988-2002). 8vo. 14 issues. Each 36-88 pp. Illustrated from photographs, current and historical, plates, portraits. Life around the Pamlico Sound and its rivers, hand-made furniture, trapping..... More
(Jackson, MS: Meredith Publishing, c1995). Prospectus for a collected edition of ten titles written and published by Meredith, including James Meredith vs Ole Miss; The Father of White Supremacy [Meredith’s white great-grandfather]; Letters to My Unborn Grandchildren; History of Attala County; Mississippi; and six others. Signed by the author on..... More
Allison Park, PA: Publishers for Conventions of Pittsburgh, 1971. 4to. Bound volume of ephemeral items relating to African-American history, Black Studies programs, etc. "The main purpose of the 'National Conventioneer' is to educate the registrants to a convention by providing them with an organized compendium of suppliers; brochures, catalogs, descriptive..... More
(Arlington, FL): Norman Studios, [1928]. Double-folio. (4) pp. Illustrated advertising pressbook for the 1926 Norman film; at head of front cover: "Coming to this Theater (This is exact reproduction of window card.)." Includes list of available ads (lobby cards, etc.), with sample illustrations, notes on production, address panel, etc., prepared..... More
(New York: Pickens & Teackle, "Advertising that Advertises"), nd [ca. 1900]. First edition (?). Oblong folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). 12 leaves printing 14 illustrations from photographs [rectos only], 11 of the images full-page (6 x 8 inches), the other plate with a triptych (each illustration 2 5/8..... More
![Item #61651 [Portrait from a photograph, 3 x 2 inches] / Rev. Gaar M. Davis / Preacher, Singer,...](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/61651.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1622491711)
[Ohio?]: [1940s]. Calling card, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches, for this A.M.E. Church preacher, active with congregations in Newark, OH (1943), and Lima, OH (1947). A little rubbing and soiling, but very good. (8534). More
Three examples offered here, each signed by a different person, from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee; all postmarked in 1929. OCLC locates one example (Temple). Poor quality paper browned. For the lot, More
Boston, MA: Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1866. First edition. 8vo. 29 pp. Includes "Address by the Rev. Francis Wharton, LL.D., delivered in St. Paul's Church, Brookline, and other Churches, During the Month of December, 1865," with a first running title "Education of Freedmen Needed by the Whole..... More
NP: np, nd [ca. 1950s?]. 4to. One-page reproduced typescript presenting 12 numbered paragraphs, each holding several or multi-part questions (e.g., “1. Have you ever heard of the ‘Wheel of Damnation’? What is it supposed to look like?,” “7. Can you give any details about old slavery-time Negroes who worshipped African..... More
[Charleston, SC]: St. Philip’s Church, 1876. First edition. 8vo. 14 pp. Turnbull IV, p. 66 (without noting a location): “No Title Page, no imprint … [Dealt] with the general question of the position of Negroes in the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina.” OCLC (locating only South Carolina): “The 1876..... More
Washington, (DC): Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1856. First edition, House of Representatives Report No. 200, 34th Congress, 1st Session. Thick 8vo. vii, 1206 pp. Conflict over the legality of slavery in the Territory of Kansas, resulting in bloody and lethal confrontations and the rise to prominence of the abolitionist John Brown..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Childs & Inman, 122 Walnut Street, 1832. Lithograph, 39.5 x 29 cm., a portrait drawn by Albert Newsam from a painting by Henry Inman. Johnson (1780-1850), born near present-day Louisville, is reputed to have killed Tecumseh in this battle; he later became Martin Van Buren's Vice-president (1837-1841), the..... More
Richmond, (VA): The union, 1924. Program for a fundraiser to support state missions. Narrow 16mo. (3) pp., title, "programme" on page two, list of Union officers on page three, details about the event on page four (verso of an integral leaf). The main address was given by M.M. Fisher, a...... More
