![Plough and Furrow. [Presentation Copy]. Paul Green.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Plough and Furrow. [Presentation Copy]
A collection of essays. Presentation Copy from the author, inscribed and signed and dated in the year of publication. Paul Green (17 March 1894–04 May... Read More
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The Field God and In Abraham’s Bosom [Inscribed Copy]
Inscribed and signed by Paul Green and dated in the year of publication, 1927. Paul Green (17 March 1894–04 May 1981), playwright and champion of... Read More
Half a Man. The Status of the Negro in New York.
Civil rights reformer, Mary White Ovington, caucasian, was a founder of the N.A.A.C.P. “Ovington began in 1904 a study of black Manhattan. Focusing particularly on..... Read More
![Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]. Woodrow Wilson, 1856–1924.](/pictures/thumb/3728280_1.jpg?v=1548270571)
Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]
WWI-era poster calling on operators and workers “to assume the burden of producing an ample supply of coal” to win the war: “The existing scarcity..... Read More
![Tell My Horse. [Ex-Library of Charles L. Blockson Collection]. Zora Neale Hurston.](/pictures/thumb/3728269_1.jpg?v=1546963435)
Tell My Horse. [Ex-Library of Charles L. Blockson Collection]
This copy from the library of noted African-American book collector Charles L. Blockson; with his bookplate, and his autographed gift presentation of this volume written... Read More
The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States.
First edition of an important American Civil War-time work arguing for emancipation of slaves by noted American reformer and former congressman, Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877)... Read More
A Glance Away.
The author’s first book. Wideman twice won the International PEN/Faulkner Award (the first to do so) and in 2000 won the O. Henry Award. The..... Read More
Suzie a Shy Little Mouse.
A little mouse named Suzie who lives with her parents “in an old wooden box in a corner of the garden,” with toadstool “trees” outside..... Read More
The Colored Cadet at West Point An Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S. A, First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy.
Born a slave in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940) became the first African-American to graduate from the United States Military Academy. The Colored Cadet... Read More
The Cities of the Sun.
Curious astronomical/religious hybrid proposing an innovative and unusual cosmology. Chapter titles include: “The Sun is Not Hot”; “The Nebular Hypothesis and Gravitation are Unscientific”; “The..... Read More
The Civil War and Reconstruction.
Classic study and important re-interpretation of the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras, by a noted academic and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. “Rejecting the older..... Read More
African Heroes and Heroines.
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
The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo. Based on the Observations Made and Material Collected During the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. [Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by editor].
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
Riata and Spurs. The Story of a Lifetime spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and Ranger.
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
[Four Handmade Poetical Booklets with 20 Original Watercolor and Gouache Illustrations by W.H. Leggett of Pontiac, Michigan, 1943–1947].
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)
Clarence E. Long. Age 10 Yrs. The Hoosier Boy Rifle Shot. Lafayette, Ind. [caption title]
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 Sammelbands with Twenty-Three Pamphlets of Famous Dwarfs, Pro-Tory, Anti-Jacobin, Anti-Thomas Paine Sentiment, etc.].](/pictures/thumb/3724945_1.jpg?v=1548266862)
[1736–1829: Two Sammelbands with Twenty-Three Pamphlets of Famous Dwarfs, Pro-Tory, Anti-Jacobin, Anti-Thomas Paine Sentiment, etc.].
Between these two volumes are twenty-three titles, either unrecorded or (if in American institutions) thinly-held. One title worth mentioning, an anomaly of the group, is... 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)
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].
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
Go Tell It On the Mountain.
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
![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)
The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed Copy]
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)
For His Brother’s Crime. A Novel Founded Upon the Melodrama of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series.
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)
Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. A Novel Founded Upon the Great Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series.
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)
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. Founded Upon the Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series.
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)
Breakfast Dance Hit of the Year, Ethyl Fitzgerald and Her Original Southern Play Boys from Louisville, Kentucky…1st Northern Tour. [African American Female Singer]
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 Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Co. Tanners and Manufacturers of Mechanical Leathers and Mechanical Leather Goods…
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