First edition of Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s final book—containing the important chapter on “Black Power.” King’s book is about non-violence in the face of growing..... Read More about Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
First three of four volumes of collected essays, addresses, sermons, and letters by and to anti-slavery and civil rights activist Francis J. Grimké (1850–1937), an..... Read More about The Works of Francis J. Grimké [First three volumes of four-volume set
Scarce first edition of Harlan’s analysis of “...the story of public education in the four Southern seaboard states [Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia]..... Read More about Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915
Scarce early issue of the long-running mail order business scheme periodical, The Schemer. A Monthly Magazine of Money-Coining Information. Founded in 1899, the magazine features..... Read More about The Schemer. A Monthly Magazine of Money-Coining Information
Large collection over just over 125 items of vintage Florida travel ephemera, mostly for the Atlantic coastal cities, but with some items in central and..... Read More about C.1914–1960s, Large Collection of Florida Travel Ephemera
Blunt political document by women, aimed at women and illustrated by a woman. Political broadside aimed at women voting in Maryland’s gubernatorial election of 1930..... Read More about “The Monarch” [caption title of 1930 illustrated Maryland women’s political broadside...
Containing one interesting item of American Judaica, a small archive of letters, certificates, and other documents—13 items in all—relating to the Hale Donation, a charitable..... Read More about 1832–1886 Archive pertaining to the Hale Donation, a Charitable Fund in Support of the Training...
Occupational photograph of hop pickers in Yakima, Washington taken by Washington State photographer Edward L. Meyer. The caption within the image reads: “W.R. Stewart’s Hop..... Read More about C.1894–1901 Naches Valley, Yakima, Washington Hop Ranch Photograph by E.L. Meyer
Fascinating broadside of Valentine sentiments, printing over 275 poetical quatrains and couplets of romantic love in very small type. Cupid, damsels, “lovely Venus,” future wives..... Read More about Valentines:] Accept this little pledge of love, / And love’s request obey… [opening lines of...
Political broadside issued by the Baltimore City Federation of Republican Women, aimed at women voters. It attacks the president of Johns Hopkins University, Joseph S...... Read More about Women Want Information [caption title of c.1929–1935 illustrated women’s broadside attacking...
After both women painters graduated from Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, Zulma Steele and Edna M. Walker removed in 1903 to Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead’s Bydcliffe Colony in..... Read More about Eighteen Stencils with Two Signed Drawings attributed to Edna M. Walker, Byrdcliffe Colony Artisan
Rare to commerce in all editions and one of the nicest copies we’ve handled to date. Controversial novel in favor of lynching, written by Southern..... Read More about African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax
Souvenir Boston Garden program for a February 4, 1945 professional hockey game between the Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers, signed by 4 Bruins—including..... Read More about 1945 Boston Bruins Hockey Program Signed by 4 Hockey Hall of Famers: Art Ross, Bill Cowley,...
Presently being catalogued; enquire for further details. [Alderson, West Virginia. 1976]. Calendar. Read More about 1978 Wolf Creek Printery ... Alderson, West Virginia. [Small Press Calendar
The story of the remarkable P.T. Barnum whose remedy to American plainness was a “prodigious swarm of divas, minstrels, circuses, museums of curiosities, beauty pageants..... Read More about P. T. Barnum: America’s Greatest Showman
Striking broadside calendar of important dates in African American history illustrated by Harlem Renaissance-influenced artist Lois Mailou Jones and with brief notices of events commemorated..... Read More about Important Events and Dates in Negro History [Lois Mailou Jones, artist
This issue carried the identifying characteristics of the magazine; a pointed or inspirational poem by Garvey on the front wrap (in this example in “The..... Read More about The Black Man. A Monthly Magazine of Negro Thought and Opinion
Very scarce first edition of Frazier’s important sociological study, winner of the Anisfield Award (1939) as the most significant contribution to race relations for 1939..... Read More about The Negro Family in the United States
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Full-length photographic portrait of Brig. Gen. (bvt.) William Nicholson Grier, U.S.A., a Northumberland, Pennsylvania native, graduate of West Point, and Union cavalry officer during the..... Read More about CDV Photograph of Civil War Union General William Nicholson Grier
Seated, half-length portrait photograph of Civil War Union officer Augustus Brown Reed Sprague (1827–1910). A merchant in Worcester, Massachusetts before the war, Reed first served..... Read More about CDV Photograph of Lt. Col or Col. Augustus Brown Reed Sprague, subsequently brevetted Brig. Gen.,...
Popular ante-bellum minstrel song Uncle Ned, here issued as a post-Civil War penny song sheet. The song-poem comprises three quatrains and a quatrain chorus. Although..... Read More about Uncle Ned. As Sung by de Colored Society in General
Two programs for the 48th and 49th anniversaries of the Star Social Club, a private African American organization in West Chester, Chester County Pennsylvania. The..... Read More about 1944–1945, Two Anniversary Dinner Programs of the African American Star Social Club of West...
Promotional circular for teacher of elocution and public dramatic reader and entertainer, John M. Stephen of Reading, Pennsylvania. Stephen was a graduate of Philadelphia’s National..... Read More about Happy New Year. Season of 1882…Elocutionist and Dramatic Reader, John M. Stephen…awarded the...
A specific study of the “legal, social, and economic history of the Pennsylvania negro in his rise from slavery to freedom.” Winner of the Justin..... Read More about The Negro in Pennsylvania. Slavery - Servitude - Freedom, 1639-1861
