Exceptionally handsome copy of this classic work on observations of Southern life in antebellum America. While Olmsted is known today for his landscape architecture, he..... Read More about The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American States....
![Gorilla, My Love [Uncorrected Proof]. Toni Cade Bambara](/pictures/thumb/3729027.jpg?v=1574292619)
“Uncorrected Page Proof” for Toni Cade Bambara’s first book. “Gorilla My Love (1972), the first collection of Bambara’s own short stories, became an immediate bestseller..... Read More about Gorilla, My Love [Uncorrected Proof
Surprisingly difficult to find in suitable, collectible condition. A children’s story on the life of African-American astronomer Benjamin Banneker. Nashville: Abingdon, (1978). Second Printing. Hardcover..... Read More about Benjamin Banneker, Genius of Early America
![“Black Elks”; I.B.P.O.E.W.] 40th Anniversary Banquet of Capt. Levi M. Hood, Lodge No. 159....](/pictures/thumb/3729019_1.jpg?v=1574295691)
Post-war banquet program and menu for the 40th Anniversary of West Chester, Pennsylvania’s Capt. Levi M. Hood, Lodge No. 159 of the Improved Benevolent Protective..... Read More about “Black Elks”; I.B.P.O.E.W.] 40th Anniversary Banquet of Capt. Levi M. Hood, Lodge No. 159....
An historical survey and evaluation of the current situation African Americans in the broader U.S. society. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year..... Read More about American Civilization and the Negro, The Afro-American in Relation to National Progress. [Signed...
History of this fraternal organization founded for college graduates, the oldest African-American Greek-lettered organization, founded in Philadelphia in 1904. A lovely copy. Washington, D.C.: The..... Read More about History of Sigma Pi Phi, First of the Negro-American Greek-Letter Fraternities
![Joe Louis, Man and Super-Fighter. [Signed by Joe Louis]. Edward Van Every](/pictures/thumb/3729015_1.jpg?v=1574292617)
One of the earliest published biographies of professional boxer Joe Louis (1914–1981), this copy being signed by Louis in the year of its publication. The..... Read More about Joe Louis, Man and Super-Fighter. [Signed by Joe Louis
History and hardships of African American soldiers in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War written by an African American veteran..... Read More about The Black Phalanx; A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the wars of 1775-1812,...
First comprehensive anthology of African American literature. Blockson 101: “A classic of its kind, the volume was the most extensive collection of pre-World War II..... Read More about The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes
First Edition of the first comprehensive anthology of African American literature. Blockson 101: “A classic of its kind, the volume was the most extensive collection..... Read More about The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes
Prospectus for Brooks Seminary, a women’s non-sectarian boarding school in Poughkeepsie, New York. The school was founded in 1871 by Mary Bryan Johnson and subsequently..... Read More about Prospectus For 1877—‘78, and Record of 1876—‘77. Brooks Seminary for Young Ladies,...
![HBCU Football] Souvenir Program Sat., Nov. 16, 1946 ... Lincoln University vs. Wilberforce...](/pictures/thumb/3729009_1.jpg?v=1574292616)
Just post-war and scarce, a football program for a game between two HBCUs, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Wilberforce University of Ohio. The gridiron match..... Read More about HBCU Football] Souvenir Program Sat., Nov. 16, 1946 ... Lincoln University vs. Wilberforce...
Advertising poster for an appearance of the Count Basie Orchestra, likely from 1985, less than a year after the death of the legendary jazz pianist..... Read More about Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra
![First Atlantic City Jazz Festival] Sid Bernstein Presents Jazz at the Warren Theatre, Atlantic...](/pictures/thumb/3729007_1.jpg?v=1574295690)
Illustrated program for the First Atlantic City jazz Festival held over three days in June 1960 at the Warren Theatre located on the New Jersey..... Read More about First Atlantic City Jazz Festival] Sid Bernstein Presents Jazz at the Warren Theatre, Atlantic...
Trade catalog of steel rails and other steel rail fixtures manufactured by the Pennsylvania Steel Company in Baldwin Station, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five full-page schematics..... Read More about Pennsylvania Steel Company ... Philadelphia. Manufacturers of Steel Rails. Steel Billets, Blooms,...
Scarce advertising booklet for “Diamond” brand eyeglasses, issued by the Spencer Optical Mfg. Co. of New York City, manufacturers of “Gold, Silver, Steel, and Plated..... Read More about Diamond Spectacle Receipt Book. [cover title of eyeglasses advertisement and cooking recipe book
Three broadsides issued by Mahan Brothers’ Trained Animals of Charlton, Massachusetts for three separate performances of trained animals at the 1897 Vermont and New Hampshire..... Read More about Be Sure and See! Mahan’s Performing Patagonian Dogs, Only Dogs of this Kind Ever Trained…...
April 1907 issue of McGirt’s Magazine, an illustrated African American literary periodical published in Philadelphia. First published in 1903 and edited by poet and short..... Read More about McGirt’s Magazine. Art, Science, Literature and of General Interest. April, 1907
Surprisingly scarce 1907 edition of a late 19th century title on women’s medical health, with an appendix of 22 drug prescriptions for urinary, menstrual, and..... Read More about A Doctor’s Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother
Health and deep breathing exercises for the benefit of tuberculosis patients written by Methodist clergyman, lecturer, and editor, Rev. James Monroe Buckley (1836–1920). Outdoor exercises..... Read More about A Hereditary Consumptive’s Successful Battle for Life. [with promotional fold-out for lung...
Anthology of African American orations, chronologically arranged, documenting the struggle against slavery and for civil rights in the United States. Orators include “Othello,” James Forten, Prince..... Read More about Negro Orators and Their Orations
Unrecorded memorial keepsake for Booker T. Washington, educator, author, popular speaker, and founder of Tuskegee Institute. This keepsake—which gathers epigrams and short prose pieces by..... Read More about Legacies of a Life. Being a Collection of Thoughts Gleaned from the Public Utterances of the Late...
![President Taft Denounces Lynching. [Within text box:] Tells representative Negro gathering it is...](/pictures/thumb/3727549_1.jpg?v=1574706662)
Rare Republican Party leaflet presumably handed out among African-American audiences at campaign rallies. The inset box text on the title-leaf sums up the substance within;..... Read More about President Taft Denounces Lynching. [Within text box:] Tells representative Negro gathering it is...
Unrecorded catalog listing numerous books and magazines available on the library cars of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, commonly called the..... Read More about Not to Be Taken From Car, Library and Magazines…Soo-Spokane Service. [cover title of railroad...
Undoubtedly printed in a small run; remarkably scarce with only one copy recorded in OCLC (Library of Congress). Anthology of creative or historical works, addresses..... Read More about An Unfailing Legacy
