![Color [Signed by the Author]. Countee Cullen](/pictures/thumb/3727472_1.jpg?v=1561563371)
Autographed early printing of this African-American author’s first book of poetry. Color was published shortly after Countee Cullen was accepted into Harvard’s masters program. Cullen..... Read More about Color [Signed by the Author
![Double Homicide:] “Do Your Honey Do.” Comical Coon Song. Theodore A. Metz](/pictures/thumb/3727466_1.jpg?v=1561563369)
Double homicide. Murder in the music. What do you do, the lyrics ask, when you save up all your dough, but “When you feel in..... Read More about Double Homicide:] “Do Your Honey Do.” Comical Coon Song
At the 1912 Progressive or “Bull Moose” Party Convention a controversy arose over Southern black delegates. While the convention allowed black delegates from Northern States..... Read More about The Negro Question. Attitude of the Progressive Party Toward the Colored Race. Colonel...
First edition of the author’s magnum opus; one of the most powerful protest novels ever published on the African American condition in America. Blockson 101..... Read More about Native Son
The illustrated dust jacket shows Harriet Tubman, rifle at her side, pointing and leading the way to her people from enslavement to freedom. Carter G...... Read More about Harriet Tubman
![The Invisible Man. [With Sheet Signed by Author]. Ralph Ellison](/images/noimage-req.png)
Ellison’s first book, a significant addition to 20th century American literature, winner of the National Book Award in the year of its publication. Illustrated by..... Read More about The Invisible Man. [With Sheet Signed by Author
An important association copy, given by Robert Fulton to his Quaker friend, patron, and portrait sitter, Joseph Bringhurst, Jr. Joel Barlow’s The Columbiad is an..... Read More about The Columbiad a Poem. [Robert Fulton Association Copy; Likely Given to Fulton’s Quaker Friend,...
Small handbill explaining the use of a homeopathic medical instrument called a lebenswecker or “life awakener,” a skin prick device developed by Prussian wood turner..... Read More about Anweisung für Kranke unter der baunscheid’schen Behandlung. [Instruction for Patients under...
Unrecorded homeopathic medical tract—whose title roughly translates as “Rules of Conduct during a Homeopathic Treatment.” It was written by Dr. Arthur Lutze (1813–1870), an important..... Read More about Verhaltungsregeln während einer Homöopathischen Kur [Rules of Conduct during a Homeopathic...
Monograph on the role of African Americans in the Reconstruction-era of South Carolina, by a noted African American historian and academic. In 1922 Taylor [Alrutheus..... Read More about The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction
Curiously printed, 18th-century partly-printed bond issued by High Sheriff John Potter of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. John Potter became the first sheriff of Cumberland County in..... Read More about 1755 Carlisle, Cumberland County Printed and Manuscript Bond between James McCord and James...
Coroner’s appointment autographed by Thomas Ward Veazey (1774-1842), the 24th Governor of Maryland, in office from January 1836 to January 1839. Before becoming governor, Veazey..... Read More about Thomas Ward Veazey as Maryland Governor in 1836 Appoints as Medical Coroner Samuel McBride in...
Interesting circular or broadside that announces the dissolution of the printing firm of Hosford & Ketcham and boldly announces the establishment of the firm of..... Read More about Charles F. Ketcham of the Late Firm of Hosford and Ketchman, Stationer, Printer, Lithographer,...
Collected volume of poetry by writer Paul Laurence Dunbar published the year after his marriage to Alice Ruth Moore, to whom the book is dedicated..... Read More about Lyrics of the Hearthside
Autobiographical memoir of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved blacksmith Isaac Jefferson (1775–1850) as recorded by author and teacher Charles Campbell. Edited and with an historical and bibliographical..... Read More about Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac, one of...
![Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title]. Radio, Television Institute of Chicago](/pictures/thumb/3728755_1.jpg?v=1557936756)
Large and rather glamorous self-promotional item for the Radio and Television Institute of Chicago, here pitching to men looking to enter into the repair field..... Read More about Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title
Schoolboy autograph album in a gilt and blind decorated Philadelphia trade binding published by Hayes & Zell. The album was kept by Marshall B. Chambers..... Read More about Autograph Album kept in 1858 by Marshall Chambers at Lancaster County Normal School in Pennsylvania
![Aberdeen, Maryland:] “Ordnance Joe of the USO” [opening lines of broadside]. Unk](/pictures/thumb/3728752_1.jpg?v=1557936754)
With bold lettering, this ephemeral and off-the-cuff broadside brings a little levity during the second World War. “Who is the Most Popular Soldier at Aberdeen?”..... Read More about Aberdeen, Maryland:] “Ordnance Joe of the USO” [opening lines of broadside
![Cocktails by “Jimmy” Late of Ciro’s London. [Canadian Edition]. “Jimmy&rdquo](/pictures/thumb/3728748_1.jpg?v=1557936753)
Scarce Toronto imprint for this popular cocktails guide and published in the same year as the first American edition. OCLC and AMICUS both return no..... Read More about Cocktails by “Jimmy” Late of Ciro’s London. [Canadian Edition
![Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne. one of the boys&rdquo](/pictures/thumb/3728738_1.jpg?v=1557940086)
Sub-titled: “Fought January 1st, 1863, between the Michigan, Engineers and Mechanics, under Col. Innes, and a Brigade of Cavalry and two pieces of Artillery under..... Read More about Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne
![The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau](/pictures/thumb/3728735_1.jpg?v=1557936748)
The all-woman trio The Eastern Girls was comprised of a banjoist, a mandolin player, and a soprano singer. All the women sang. Here they are..... Read More about The Eastern Girls [cover title
A white couple on the speaking and Chautauqua circuits, Albert and Martha Gale, billing themselves as remarkable musicians dress up as native Americans and perform..... Read More about Songs and Stories of the Red Man
![Chicago May Her Story. [Signed by the author and her defense attorney who wrote the foreword]....](/pictures/thumb/3728723_1.jpg?v=1557940084)
Superb Association Copy. Autobiographical memoir of Irish-American woman criminal May Churchill Sharpe, born Mary Anne Duignan (1871–1929), better known as “Chicago May” or “The Queen..... Read More about Chicago May Her Story. [Signed by the author and her defense attorney who wrote the foreword
![The Negro in Our History. [Salesman’s Sample]. Carter Godwin Woodson](/pictures/thumb/3728660_1.jpg?v=1560287524)
Salesman’s sample book or canvassing book showing two bookbinding styles for the Revised and Enlarged Fourth Edition of The Negro in our History by Carter..... Read More about The Negro in Our History. [Salesman’s Sample
Revised and Enlarged Third Edition of The Negro in our History by Carter Godwin Woodson, the “father of black history,” with new Preface by the..... Read More about The Negro in Our History. [3rd Edition
