Legal argument in the New Jersey Supreme Court for the immediate abolition of slavery made by Alvan Stewart “to test the institution of slavery in..... Read More
Critique of slavery in the American South by a Methodist Episcopal minister and Maryland native. Long’s controversial treatise, published by himself, drew on his own..... Read More
Fact book for the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church, the first independent U.S. black church, presented in a catechism-like format, with questions and answers. Includes..... Read More
Selective and Critical Bibliography of Horace Mann p10: “Contains speeches and letters delivered or written during Mann’s Congressional term [...]; letter written in answer to..... Read More
A Blockson 101 title: “I have never been lucky enough to acquire a copy of this extremely rare item, I do have a copy of... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![Slavery: Letters and Speeches. [Inscribed and Signed]. Horace Mann, 1796–1859, 1809–1867, Henry Summer Esq.](/pictures/thumb/3728304_1.jpg?v=1548792726)
![Plough and Furrow. [Presentation Copy]. Paul Green.](/images/noimage-req.png)
![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)
![[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)
![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)
![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)
![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)
![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)
![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)