![Juniata Memories, Legends Collected in Central Pennsylvania. [Presentation Copy]. Henry W. Shoemaker, 1880–1958.](/pictures/thumb/3728082_1.jpg?v=1547508362)
Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author and dated 1916. This book compiles the folklore and tales of the southern Juniata River valley in Central Pennsylvania... Read More
Biographical and historical study of leading Africans from the 11th century to the 20th century by Africa-American historian Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Negro... Read More
Medical, biological, and pathological investigations in Liberia and the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo) with an emphasis on infectious and tropical diseases in humans... Read More
First edition, first issue, before being expurgated in subsequent printings. Classic Western book written by one of the the West’s most colorful figures; cowboy, detective..... Read More
Captivating collection of four handmade booklets made by William H. Leggett augmented with 20 of his original watercolor illustrations with gouache highlights. Leggett’s booklets are..... Read More
![Clarence E. Long. Age 10 Yrs. The Hoosier Boy Rifle Shot. Lafayette, Ind. [caption title]. Clarence E. Long, c.1883–?](/pictures/thumb/3725231_1.jpg?v=1546988876)
C. 1893 photo souvenir card of a 10-year-old boy trick shooter, Clarence E. Long of Lafayette, Indiana. The composite photograph shows nine vignettes of young... Read More
![[1736–1829: Two Sammelband Volumes with Twenty-Three Pamphlets of Pro-Tory, Anti-Jacobin, Anti-Thomas Paine Sentiment, Famous Dwarfs, etc.]. Various.](/pictures/thumb/3724945_1.jpg?v=1547508360)
Within this sammelband, some pamphlets are unrecorded in both ETSC and OCLC. Many copies, in America, are thinly-held. Of special note, the apparently unrecorded pamphlet... Read More
![William Goodell Jr. or Sentimental Recollection of his youth, written during the years of extreme adolescence, in the City of Pera of Const’ple in the year of our Lord 1845. [manuscript caption title of commonplace book kept by the son of an Turkish missionary]. William Jr Goodell, 1829–1894.](/pictures/thumb/145396_1.jpg?v=1547508359)
Commonplace book with literary and religious inscriptions kept in Turkey by young American William Goodell, Jr. from 1845 to 1847. The son of an Turkish... Read More
![Bronzeville Boys and Girls. [Inscribed Copy]. Gwendolyn Brooks.](/pictures/thumb/3728245_1.jpg?v=1546963432)
Children’s book by this Pulitzer-Prize winning author. This copy inscribed and signed in 1985 by Gwendolyn Brooks. A collection of poems about children who live..... Read More
First edition of Baldwin’s first book, a mid-century American literature classic story of a fourteen-year-old city boy’s spiritual, sexual, and moral awakening. Told partly through..... Read More
![A Most Masterly Work of Art. The Standard Steel Line Portrait of Gen. U.S. Grant by The World-Renowned Prince of Line Engravers, William Edgar Marshall. [engraving prospectus]. Publishers Hubbard Brothers, 1837–1906, 1822–1885, William Edgar Marshall, Ulysses S. Grant.](/pictures/thumb/3728238_1.jpg?v=1545257798)
Rare prospectus for a line engraved portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant in military uniform by painter William Edgar Marshall (1837–1906). Marshall is here described... Read More
![The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed Copy]. Alfred A. Moss Eric Anderson, Jr.](/pictures/thumb/3728231_1.jpg?v=1545242465)
Brief inscription with autograph of John Hope Franklin. Here, ten scholars offer their interpretations of various facets of Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, (1991). First... Read More
![For His Brother’s Crime. A Novel Founded Upon the Melodrama of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series. Charles E. Blaney, 1866–1944.](/pictures/thumb/3728228_1.jpg?v=1545247772)
Pulp fiction novel based on Charles E. Blaney’s play For His Brother’s Crime. The romantic melodrama concerns the travails of twin brothers, Victor and Ben..... Read More
![Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. A Novel Founded Upon the Great Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series. Charles E. Blaney, 1866–1944.](/pictures/thumb/3728226_1.jpg?v=1545247772)
Women’s pulp fiction novel based on Charles E. Blaney’s play Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. The melodrama concerns a young single woman..... Read More
![Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. Founded Upon the Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series. Grace Miller White, 1868–1957, 1870–1951, Albert H. Woods.](/pictures/thumb/3728225_1.jpg?v=1545247771)
Women’s pulp fiction novel based on A.H. Wood’s play Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. The melodrama concerns a young single woman’s struggle..... Read More
![Breakfast Dance Hit of the Year, Ethyl Fitzgerald and Her Original Southern Play Boys from Louisville, Kentucky…1st Northern Tour. [African American Female Singer]. Ethyl Fitzgerald.](/pictures/thumb/3728224_1.jpg?v=1547575457)
Entertainment advertising poster for a 1941 musical performance in Muncie, Indiana by African American singer Ethyl Fitzgerald and “Her Original Southern Play Boys.” Fitzgerald and..... Read More
![The Soldier’s Story [Salesman’s Dummy or Canvassing Book]. Warren Lee Goss, Thomas Nast, 1835–1925, 1840–1902.](/pictures/thumb/3728223_1.jpg?v=1547508363)
Early post-Civil War and pre-Chicago Fire canvassing book for a memoir of captivity in the Confederate prisons at Andersonville and elsewhere. Six manuscript pages in... Read More
C.1911 Leather manufacturer’s trade catalog offering belting, lacing, straps, packings, frictions, and gears for industrial use. The Chicago-based company specialized in mechanical leather goods such..... Read More
![The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier Series. Sandy G. V. Griswold, 1834–1891.](/pictures/thumb/3728220_1.jpg?v=1545247771)
Twenty-first title in “Beadle’s Frontier Series” of dime novels first published 1908–1910, but here re-issued by Arthur Westbrook c.1912. The plot involves the Native American..... Read More
![The Forest Avenger. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier Series. Capt. Frederick Whittaker, 1838–1889.](/pictures/thumb/3728219_1.jpg?v=1545247770)
Twelfth title in “Beadle’s Frontier Series” of dime novels first published 1908–1910, but here re-issued by Arthur Westbrook c.1912. The adventure story is set in..... Read More
Official transactions of second meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in 1832 also including reprints of the the association’s objects..... Read More
A narrative of the history of Paramus New Jersey gathered from oral history interviews of residents as well as previous literary histories. Paramus, New Jersey... Read More
![Joseph Barker, Recollections of the First Settlement of Ohio. [Inscribed and Signed by the Editor]. ed Joseph Barker George Jordan Blazier, 1765-.](/pictures/thumb/3728067_1.jpg?v=1545242459)
Colonel, justice of the peace, and pioneer; publication of Barker’s manuscript. With extensive footnotes. Indexed. Marietta, Ohio: Marietta College, 1958. 96pp. First edition, thus. Dark..... Read More
History of this historically black college, founded in Atlanta Georgia. This copy with an ink presentation to the alumnae office of Spelman College upon the... Read More
![Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]. John O. Killens, 1916–1987, John Oliver Killens.](/pictures/thumb/3727372_1.jpg?v=1545242456)
Novel about a black family’s struggles in a Southern factory town, set in 1920s–1930s Crossroads, Georgia. Killens, a native of Macon, Georgia, wrote six novels..... Read More
