![3736089] Annual Women’s Day at Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Church ... Linwood, Pa., Sunday April 4, 1948](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
Post-war “Annual Women’s Day” program detailing activities at Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Church in Linwood, Pennsylvania. Listed are all of the officers, secular music performed, numerous..... Read More about Annual Women’s Day at Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Church ... Linwood, Pa., Sunday April 4, 1948
Promotional circular issued by D.C. Humphrys Co. of Philadelphia advertising patriotic campaign banners for the 1932 Democratic ticket of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice Presidential..... Read More about Commercial Circular Promoting FDR and Texas VP Garner Campaign Banners During 1932 Campaign
![3736069] The Child’s Picture Book. [William A. Sutton, Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, Broad and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736069.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771615931)
With a typed note stating that this copy was given by William A. Sutton to his daughter Ruth, with mention of his teaching at the..... Read More about The Child’s Picture Book. [William A. Sutton, Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, Broad and Diamond...
In pristine wrappers, largely unopened and uncut. An exceptional copy of this May, 1900 issue featuring Rudyard Kipling’s prose meditation “From a Winter Note-Book.” Written..... Read More about Rudyard Kipling’s “Winter Note-Book” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. May, 1900
![3736066] Dictionary of American Negro Biography. (Inscribed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736066.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771461934)
First edition, so stated. A fine association, inscribed by two eminent African American historians, Benjamin Quarles and John Hope Franklin, to a collector in 1985..... Read More about Dictionary of American Negro Biography. (Inscribed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles
![3736065] Eight million patriotic red cross workers have made 291,004,000 necessary articles for...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736065.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767038569)
The American Red Cross experienced tremendous growth as a national humanitarian organization after the United States’ entry into the First World War in April 1917..... Read More about Eight million patriotic red cross workers have made 291,004,000 necessary articles for war purposes
![3736064] The Treatment of the Negro in American History School Textbooks. A Comparison of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736064.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768689150)
First edition of Marie Elizabeth Carpenter’s dissertation, a systematic study of how African Americans were represented in U.S. history textbooks from 1826 to 1939. Carpenter..... Read More about The Treatment of the Negro in American History School Textbooks. A Comparison of Changing...
![3736063] Natural Bridge Hotel. Natural Bridge Virginia [cover title of promotional booklet]. Unk](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736063.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771541284)
Promotional ephemera booklet issued by the Natural Bridge Company, proprietors of both the hotel and its namesake landmark. The cover bears a printed color vignette..... Read More about Natural Bridge Hotel. Natural Bridge Virginia [cover title of promotional booklet
![3736061] Andrew Bradford, Colonial Journalist. Anna Janney Dearmond](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736061.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768689136)
The best biographical study of this early Philadelphia printer, journalist, and newspaper editor. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and archival sources, Janney reconstructs Bradford’s role in..... Read More about Andrew Bradford, Colonial Journalist
![3736057] Prospectus for Roger Eliot Stoddard at Sixty-Five. A Celebration. Anne Anninger,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736057.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771549354)
Privately printed eight-page prospectus issued by Thornwillow Press in advance of the festschrift Roger Eliot Stoddard at Sixty-Five: A Celebration, honoring the distinguished Harvard curator..... Read More about Prospectus for Roger Eliot Stoddard at Sixty-Five. A Celebration
![3736052] The Adventures of a Chinaman in China. From the French of Jules Verne. Jules Verne](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736052.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771462942)
Translation of Les Tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine (1879), originally published in America as The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China and reissued here, in..... Read More about The Adventures of a Chinaman in China. From the French of Jules Verne
First edition of this collection of poems focused on the lives of society’s outcasts and downtrodden in 1914 America, including sex workers and abused women..... Read More about Songs of the Underworld by Clem Yore, 1914
![3736042] Blacks and the Law. [The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736042.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1766167349)
Volume of The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences devoted to the history and status of Black Americans and the law..... Read More about Blacks and the Law. [The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Volume...
![3736037] Ninth Annual Report of the Director of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736037.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771623139)
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. was founded in 1915 by Black historian and prolific author Carter G. Woodson, “The..... Read More about Ninth Annual Report of the Director of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and...
![3736036] Frederick Douglass — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and the Associated...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736036.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765054896)
A nearly life-size portrait of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)—famed abolitionist and orator—based on a photograph depicting him as an elder statesman. Founded in 1921 by Carter..... Read More about Frederick Douglass — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and the Associated Publishers
A noteworthy American campus literary magazine for its appearance of Charles Bukowski, then largely unknown, who contributes the poem “Poem for Personnel Managers; As the..... Read More about “Poem for Personnel Managers; As the Sparrow” by Charles Bukowski [in:] Quixote, Spring 1957
![3735751] “These Things” and “You Smoke a Cigarette” by Charles Bukowski [in:] Quixote,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735751.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768689144)
Charles Bukowski’s “These Things” and “You Smoke a Cigarette” in an early appearance. Bukowski’s work had first appeared in Story in 1944. By 1956, he..... Read More about “These Things” and “You Smoke a Cigarette” by Charles Bukowski [in:] Quixote, Winter 1956
![3734892] Countee Cullen within: Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1925 and Yearbook of American...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734892.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767635155)
First edition, thus. The thirteenth anthology edited by African-American poet and critic William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), known for his instinctive talent in identifying poetic genius..... Read More about Countee Cullen within: Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1925 and Yearbook of American Poetry
![3734869] Jazz 1951. The Metronome Yearbook. The Metronome](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734869.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744147341)
Profusely illustrated, with articles on Sarah Vaughan, Art Pepper, Stan Kenton, Sonny Stitt, Zoot Sims, Oscar Peterson, Glenn Miller, George De Witt, Ray Malone, and..... Read More about Jazz 1951. The Metronome Yearbook
![3733522] Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals. Ednah D. Cheney](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733522.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768689140)
First edition, first printing, first state per BAL 221. Edited by Alcott’s friend and admirer Ednah D. Cheney. Beyond tracing Alcott’s literary development, the work..... Read More about Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals
The very scarce salesman’s sample book for Foote’s notorious health manual, offering both home medical guidance and explicit advice on sex, marriage, and reproduction. Includes..... Read More about {Salesman’s Sample Book, 1870} Plain Home Talk About the Human System—The Habits of Men and...
![3732777] Ex Libris Mikhail Verkholantsev – Ėkslibrisy Mikhaila Verkholant︠s︡eva. (Signed...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732777.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768689139)
First Edition, signed and limited, one of 2,000 copies of ex libris prints by Soviet graphic artist Mikhail Verkholantsev, published in Moscow in 1976. Trained..... Read More about Ex Libris Mikhail Verkholantsev – Ėkslibrisy Mikhaila Verkholant︠s︡eva. (Signed and...
![3732775] Wiersze Zebrane (Collected Poems) [Inscribed and Signed]. Zbigniew Herbert](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732775.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681334117)
First edition of Wiersze Zebrane (1971), an early collected volume of poetry by Zbigniew Herbert, one of postwar Poland’s most influential writers. This copy bears..... Read More about Wiersze Zebrane (Collected Poems) [Inscribed and Signed
![3736033] 1936 typed and signed postcard from Jim Dolan of Valdez, Alaska; hunter, trapper, guide....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736033.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771530490)
A brief commercial reply concerning the sender’s available skins, noting they are in prime condition and suitable for rugs, and remarking that black squirrels are..... Read More about 1936 typed and signed postcard from Jim Dolan of Valdez, Alaska; hunter, trapper, guide
The first publication issued under the collective imprint of the New York Association of Booksellers, a short-lived cooperative formed about 1802 by ten New York..... Read More about New York Book Trade] Cicero’s Select Orations, translated into English; with the original...
