![3733146] A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina. Marina Wikramanayake](/pictures/thumb/3733146_1.jpg?v=1675296724)
The author discusses how Free Blacks in South Carolina pre-American Civil War were allowed to remain free due to their tremendous economic output and presents..... Read More about A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina
![3733124] Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956]. Don Friedman, Ken Joffe](/images/noimage-req.png)
Essays and photographs published on the occasion of the 1956 Randall’s Island Jazz Festival with performances by Billie Holliday, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie..... Read More about Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956
Educator and abolitionist Cyrus McNeely was the founder of The McNeely Normal School which then became Hopedale Normal College. It was the first co-ed college..... Read More about Circa 1870s Albumen photograph of McNeely’s Normal School, later Hopedale Normal College,...
First edition; limited to 750 copies. Short treatise on bookworms from an historical, literary, and scientific perspective written by a Jesuit priest, librarian and Georgetown..... Read More about Facts about Bookworms. Their History in Literature and Work in Libraries. (Association copy
First edition. Annotated catalog of graduate school theses on Texas themes, with detailed descriptions of their illustrations, maps, tables, and contents. This copy possibly from..... Read More about Texas History Theses. A Check List of the Texas Theses and Dissertations
First edition, firs printing. Novel of bullfighting and a tragic Mexican matador by this noted Texas writer and artist. With color title page (and dust..... Read More about The Brave Bulls. A Novel
First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Olaus J. Murie. The natural history and lore of the coyote in the American West based on the author’s..... Read More about The Voice of the Coyote
First Edition, thus. This copy with a laid-in typed note signed by Bill Holman of Roger Beacham Publisher, sending this copy as a gift, plus..... Read More about How to Conquer Texas Before Texas Conquers Us. With a Speech by Charles J. Jack on Re-Annexation...
![3732967] Peerless Japanese Transparent Water Colors. Trial Edition. [cover title]. Japanese Water...](/pictures/thumb/3732967_1.jpg?v=1675199486)
An unusual publication serving as an instructional booklet and as an advertisement for this firm operated by one C.F. Nicholson that sold water colors for..... Read More about Peerless Japanese Transparent Water Colors. Trial Edition. [cover title
The son of a Philadelphia house carpenter, Archibald is a wayward child whose thievery and lack of moral fibre lands him in detention in the..... Read More about The Refuge or, Story of Archibald Thompson. [House of Refuge in Philadelphia
Motorist’s pocket, state-by-state directory of restaurants, hotels, and roadside motor courts plus select private homes open to tourists. The guide was sponsored by a trade..... Read More about Federal Hi-Way Silent-Nite Homes. [cover title
First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed and with a drawing of the moon and stars with a rose below: “For Lea [Gee?] – in..... Read More about The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. (Inscribed and signed
First edition, first impression. The second novel by this American-British suffragist and author. Scarce. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1929. 305, [1], [vi]pp. Octavo. Publisher’s..... Read More about King Log and Lady Lea
Large wood engraving of the “Bathers” by Emil Ganso (1895-1941), the German expatriate painter and printmaker who was part of the Woodstock, New York School..... Read More about Bathers. [Wood engraving by Emil Ganso
Inscribed and signed by Samuel Farmar Jarvis (1786–1851), Yale graduate, bibliophile, noted historian of the Episcopal Church and consecrated bishop. Jarvis later became embroiled in..... Read More about Inscribed Copy:] A Sermon, Preached Before the Auxiliary Education Society of the Young Men of...
A tribute to Samuel A. Frazer (c. 1742–1838) shipbuilder and Plymouth County, Massachusetts judge. Frazer was raised in Boston, but removed to Duxbury and built..... Read More about Small broadside within:] A Discourse, Delivered in Duxbury, August 31st, 1838, on occasion of the...
Ten political campaign ribbons for independent candidate Henry Wilson Scott (1866–1935)—“The People’s Candidate”—running for judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District in Kansas. The sitting Register..... Read More about Ten Political Ribbons for Henry W. Scott, Candidate for Kansas Judge and later Oklahoma Territory...
![3733100] Maple Leaf Rag by King of Ragtime Writers ... Scott Joplin. Scott Joplin](/pictures/thumb/3733100_1.jpg?v=1675296440)
Born into a family of freed slaves in Texas, Scott Joplin was an accomplished pianist and American composer, widely considered to be the “King of..... Read More about Maple Leaf Rag by King of Ragtime Writers ... Scott Joplin
![3733097] Message. [1853 State of the Union address given by Franklin Pierce]. Franklin Pierce](/pictures/thumb/3733097_1.jpg?v=1674689661)
Rare and apparently unrecorded. The present item publishes President Franklin Pierce’s first State of the Union address given on December 5th, 1853. Pierce’s address emphasized..... Read More about Message. [1853 State of the Union address given by Franklin Pierce
First and sole edition of the very first literary production of this prolific author, clergyman, exponent of New England Theology and professor in Bangor Theological..... Read More about A Sermon, on the Divinity of Christ, Delivered August 13, 1815. To the Church and Congregation in...
![3733095] L.M. Hatch, Commission Merchant, and Insurance Agent ... Charleston, S.C. [drop-title...](/pictures/thumb/3733095_1.jpg?v=1674689660)
Scarce antebellum South Carolina trade catalog by Lewis M. Hatch (1815-1887), an enterprising Charleston merchant. Hatch’s firm offered whale, large and sperm oil and belting..... Read More about L.M. Hatch, Commission Merchant, and Insurance Agent ... Charleston, S.C. [drop-title from South...
First American edition of an 18th-century play by British songwriter and poet Henry Carey (1687–1743). This copy stitched and untrimmed, in its as-issued state. The..... Read More about Chrononhotonthologos : The Most Tragical Tragedy that ever was Tragedized by any Company of...
First published in 1820, a very-worn, but scarce 1826 New Hampshire edition retelling the sensational (and spurious) account of one Eliza Bradley who was shipwrecked..... Read More about An Authentic Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of Mrs. Eliza Bradley. The wife of Capt....
![3733076] Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Accompanying a Communication from the...](/pictures/thumb/3733076_1.jpg?v=1674689660)
In 1802, a continuation of the claims and petition of Comfort Sands and others that Alexander Hamilton had originally authored a report upon in 1797..... Read More about Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Accompanying a Communication from the Comptroller of...
First edition, limited and an attractive output from the press of a small fine press Texas printer. A brief essay written by Carl Hertzog (1901-1984)..... Read More about Close to the Work
