![Foto Kompozicijos. [Published in America as Form and Content]. S. J. Algimantas Kezys](/pictures/thumb/3731697_1.jpg?v=1654571333)
First edition. Collection of black and white art photographs by Lithuanian-American Algimantas Kezys (1928–2015). A Jesuit priest, Kezys studied at Loyola University and was the..... Read More about Foto Kompozicijos. [Published in America as Form and Content
First edition. The anthropologist Margaret Mead described this photo documentary and essay as an “astute staccato comment on present and needed changes in sensory modes..... Read More about They Became What They Beheld
After Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), the Czech painter and decorative artist. A lovely color lithographic poster hand reproduced in 1969 by Henri Deschamps, the Mourlot Studio’s..... Read More about Lorenzaccio. Piece en V Actes et un Epilogue D’ Alfred de Musset. Adaptation de M. Armand...
After Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), the Czech painter and decorative artist. A lovely color lithographic poster hand reproduced in 1969 by Henri Deschamps, the Mourlot Studio’s..... Read More about Tragique Histoire D’Hamlet Prince of Danemark. Sarah Bernhardt. (After) Alphonse Mucha, 1969
Written by two white composers, this ragtime song first appeared in an illustrated newspaper supplement. For this supplement, a grotesque cover art illustration was used..... Read More about Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title
First edition of this first collection of the “Simple” short stories written about the everyday lives of Harlemites. Given by Hughes, in the year of..... Read More about Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed
Signed publicity photograph of Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993), showing him holding his iconic trumpet with its bell bent upward. Gillespie is noted for his bebop style..... Read More about Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer
First edition. From the collection of Anna and Thomas O. Johnson with their bookplate. Thomas O. Johnson was a Harlem dentist and a friend to..... Read More about The Gift of Black Folk. Negroes in the Making of America. (Presentation Copy?
This 1874 speech in support of the Civil Rights Act was the “defining moment” in the career of Robert Brown Elliott (1842–1884), a two-term Black..... Read More about Civil Rights. Speech of Hon. Robert B. Elliott, of South Carolina, in the House of...
Early twentieth century wall map of Baltimore and its environs including parts of Baltimore, Howard, and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland. Baltimore City, its harbor, and..... Read More about Flamm’s New Map of Baltimore and Vicinity Compiled from Latest Records and Official Surveys
Autobiography of Howard Thurman (1899?–1981), theologian, educator, author, and civil rights mentor. Thurman taught at Howard University and worked behind the scenes with many important..... Read More about With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
First edition. A handsome copy. A review of the epistolary debate between two Baptist clergymen conducted in 1844–1845 in a Boston newspaper, the Christian Reflector..... Read More about A Review of the “Correspondence” of Messrs. Fuller & Wayland, on the Subject of American...
Victorian Female Journalist vs. Same. Elizabeth Bisland’s 1891 account of her “race around-the-world” to beat another “Elizabeth” —Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman— better known as Nelly Bly..... Read More about A Flying Trip Around the World ... In Seven Stages
First edition, first printing. McKnight won the O. Henry Award and the Kenyon Review New Fiction Prize for “The Kind of Light That Shines on..... Read More about The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. Stories by Reginald McKnight
Early eighteenth-century treatise of the care of horses written, in fact, by William Burdon and not Henry Bracken, here seen as Blacken.) The work proved..... Read More about The Gentleman’s Pocket-Farrier, with Large Additions and Remarks by Dr. Henry Blacken of Lancaster
A pleasing copy of a late Roycrofters title. Carpenter was accompanied on his African big game hunting safari by the able-bodied famous white hunters, Don..... Read More about My African Safari. (Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.’s copy
In a 19th-century armorial binding stamped with the family arms and crest of General Lambert Loveday. His large armorial bookplate is mounted inside the front..... Read More about The Cook’s Oracle; Containing receipts for plain cookery, on the most economical plan for...
Photo documentation of a little-remembered international Franco-American event. In 1927, special trains and ocean lines were chartered to bring almost 10,000 American Legionnaires to Paris..... Read More about Nine Real Photo Postcards from the American Legion Parade at the 1927 National Convention in Paris
The front and center article, in 1½ columns, describes the chaotic events in Mauch Chunk, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, coal country. This “Irish, Welch and German..... Read More about Molly Maguires) The Pennsylvania Coal Mines ... Buckshots and the Molly McGuires on the Rampage....
“Mrs. Kingman, If you please, Think of me, at twilight hour, And I will think of thee.” The Osgoods of Cincinnatus, New York, John Osgood..... Read More about 1836–1840 friendship album owned by Mary S. Osgood of Cincinnatus, New York and then owned by...
![Presentation Copy] Genealogy from Adam to Christ, with the Genealogy Genealogy of Adam Heineck...](/pictures/thumb/3731502_1.jpg?v=1645196910)
Heinecke’s book was first published in 1869 and then expanded 12 years later, with this edition. Contrary to its title, Heinecke’s “brief account” of his..... Read More about Presentation Copy] Genealogy from Adam to Christ, with the Genealogy Genealogy of Adam Heineck...
Well-illustrated from original photographs. This season’s report is devoted to the numerous sick infants brought on board Boston’s floating hospital, many in need of immediate..... Read More about Boston Floating Hospital ... Season of 1902. [cover title
![New York State Anti-Rent War Antecedents] 1786 Lease on Mortgage, Indenture between Samuel...](/pictures/thumb/3731486_1.jpg?v=1645196906)
Gilbert Livingston understood the system well. His grandfather was Robert Livingston the Elder, the first Lord of Livingston Manor, and one of the wealthiest man..... Read More about New York State Anti-Rent War Antecedents] 1786 Lease on Mortgage, Indenture between Samuel...
First American edition and first published ten years earlier in London. From the collection of the noted African-American collector Charles L. Blockson with his bookplate..... Read More about Black Hamlet. (Charles L. Blockson copy
Inscribed by this Kenyan critic, novelist and dramatist: “For Oliver Franklin. The struggle for a real homecoming continues. All the best. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o.” From..... Read More about Homecoming. Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics. (Signed
