![3733667] Runaway Slaves. Rebels on the Plantation. (Inscribed and signed). John Hope Franklin,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
First edition, first printing and inscribed by John Hope Franklin. An important and illuminating work on the history of slavery and the basic nature of..... Read More about Runaway Slaves. Rebels on the Plantation. (Inscribed and signed
First published in 1922, this is the eighth edition of Carter G. Woodson’s seminal textbook. Woodson was one of the most significant Black publishers of..... Read More about The Negro in Our History
First edition and very rare to commerce. Matlack’s History of American Slavery and Methodism is crucial for its copious knowledge, especially to understanding the secession..... Read More about The History of American Slavery and Methodism, from 1780 to 1849; and History of the Wesleyan...
![3733619] Women Want Information [caption title of c.1929–1935 illustrated women’s broadside...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733619_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701136337)
Political broadside issued by the Baltimore City Federation of Republican Women, aimed at women voters, attacking the president of Johns Hopkins University, Joseph S. Ames..... Read More about Women Want Information [caption title of c.1929–1935 illustrated women’s broadside attacking...
![3733618] “The Monarch” [caption title of 1930 illustrated Maryland women’s political...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733618_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701136335)
Blunt political document by women, aimed at women and illustrated by Japanese American artist and designer Mabel Kaji (1891–1965) of Baltimore. Political broadside aimed at..... Read More about “The Monarch” [caption title of 1930 illustrated Maryland women’s political broadside...
First published in 1857, this second edition appears to have been hastily prepared by the author in 1861 as the Civil War gained momentum. Not..... Read More about American Slavery and Colour
An 1880 edition of Ingraham’s The Sunny South; or. The Southerner at Home, Embracing Five Years’ Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of..... Read More about Not “A Fool’s Errand.” Life and Experience of A Northern Governess in the Sunny South
![3732149] Blowing My Hero. Amber O'Neil, Libby Vaubel](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732149_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696784343)
First Edition and number 70/500 copies. Eight letters to Charles Bukowski are reproduced inside. Withdrawn from sale after major controversy. Libby Vaubel was Bukowski’s lover..... Read More about Blowing My Hero
![3731381] James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882. Robert Franklin...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731381_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701136332)
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
![3733564] Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom. Charles H. Wesley, 1891–1987, Charles Harris...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733564_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696531961)
Biography of Richard Allen (1760–1831), once-enslaved, the African American, preacher, hymn book publisher, founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church. Charles H...... Read More about Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom
An unusual Victorian American penmanship item, a trade card (identical text on both sides; 3¾ x 7¼ inches) laid into its illustrated box (worn, heavily..... Read More about One Dozen Tower’s Anti-Nervousness Penholders for Sale by Booksellers and Stationers Everywhere...
A rare and early issue of this Rosicrucian publication. This issue discusses the origins of the Society, has a “Question Department” section, a poem entitled..... Read More about Echoes from Mount Ecclesia [1914 Oceanside, California issue of Rosicrucians publication
First edition, first printing. Second issue of this collection of essays and excerpts with contributions from Richard Wright, W.E.B. Du Bois, LeRoi Jones, Toni morrison..... Read More about Amistad 2: Writings on Black History and Culture
![3733543] History’s Missing Pages … The Journal of Negro History. [Prospectus; Carter G....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733543_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696531960)
Prospectus for the cloth-bound 54-volume set of the Journal of Negro History, published since 1916 by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and..... Read More about History’s Missing Pages … The Journal of Negro History. [Prospectus; Carter G. Woodson
![3733493] Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines. (First edition; two...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733493_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696380820)
First edition, first printings. A handsome set. An exploration of ancient Rome’s legal framework, encompassing natural law, individual rights, contracts, and property rights that influenced..... Read More about Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines. (First edition; two volumes
![3733484] Journal of a Tour to Malta, Greece, Asia Minor, Carthage, Algiers, Port Mahon, and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733484_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696747904)
First edition, first printing. Woodruff’s journal of this travelogue and expedition to distribute food and clothing to the Greeks. Woodruff offers thorough descriptions and observations..... Read More about Journal of a Tour to Malta, Greece, Asia Minor, Carthage, Algiers, Port Mahon, and Spain, in...
![3732651] Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing). Irvine Welsh](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732651_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686674705)
True first edition first printing. “The first edition of Irvine Welsh’s first and best-known book. It made its author a celebrity, and put contemporary Scottish..... Read More about Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing
The first photograph depicts Senators Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy arriving at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church amidst a bustling crowd, accompanied by police officers and..... Read More about Two 1968 wire press photographs of Robert Kennedy and others at the funeral services for Dr....
![3733475] 1881–1882 Gilbert & Sullivan, three programs for the comic opera “Patience” at the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733475_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1685400183)
Three variant Savoy Theatre programs for Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic opera Patience; or, Bunthorne’s Bride, a satire on the aesthetic movement. The lead character Reginald..... Read More about 1881–1882 Gilbert & Sullivan, three programs for the comic opera “Patience” at the...
Architectural and landscape plan book issued for Floridians by McCormick-Hannah Lumber Co. of Orlando, dealers in millwork and building materials. Color plates showcase drawings of..... Read More about Home and Garden. [cover title of trade publication marketed to Floridians
A collection of 18 letters. The first 14 were written by Gladys M. Manweiler of Santa Cruz, California when she was a student at San..... Read More about 1899 to 1912 collection of letters by Gladys M. Manweiler studying at the College of the Pacific,...
Two letters addressed to U.S. Treasury Secretary Howell Cobb discussing proposed legislation for a New York City branch of the U.S. Mint. Philadelphia Mint Director..... Read More about Communication from the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury relative to a...
1886–1887 Catalogue of Allen Academy, a co-ed “English, Classical, French and German Boarding and Day School” conducted by Ira Wilder Allen. Includes a list of..... Read More about Twenty-Fourth Annual Circular of Allen Academy…Boarding and Day School…Chicago
Circular letter announcing the inaugural session of Irving Female College, the first women’s college in Pennsylvania to grant degrees in arts and sciences. The school..... Read More about Irving Female College, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania [1856 circular
![3732712] Homes of American Statesmen: with Anecdotal, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches. [First...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732712_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696553631)
Issued in Christmas of 1853 as a companion to Homes of American Authors, this 1854 gift book is the “first American book with an original..... Read More about Homes of American Statesmen: with Anecdotal, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches. [First American...
