![First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable] The Ocean Cable. [caption title]. Alfred J. Bloor](/pictures/thumb/3728993_1.jpg?v=1576538174)
Poetical 1908 keepsake commemorating the 50th anniversary of the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858. First composed in 1858, this biblically-themed poem..... Read More about First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable] The Ocean Cable. [caption title
An important association copy, given by Robert Fulton to his Quaker friend, patron, and portrait sitter, Joseph Bringhurst, Jr. Joel Barlow’s The Columbiad is an..... Read More about The Columbiad a Poem. [Robert Fulton Association Copy; Likely Given to Fulton’s Quaker Friend,...
Epic 218-page poem, “Thebes. A Poem to its Rise and Fall,” on the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Located near Nubia and the Eastern Sahara..... Read More about Thebes and Other Poems
![Color [Signed by the Author]. Countee Cullen](/pictures/thumb/3727472_1.jpg?v=1561563371)
Autographed early printing of this African-American author’s first book of poetry. Color was published shortly after Countee Cullen was accepted into Harvard’s masters program. Cullen..... Read More about Color [Signed by the Author
Extraordinary volume of posthumously published poetry by an African-American educator. Illustrated poems on themes of racial discrimination, segregation, and violence are prominently featured. Half the..... Read More about Black Labor Chant and Other Poems
Dramatically decorated and highly illustrated handwritten album of poetry and some prose by Philadelphian Edward J. Paxson. Using the pseudonym “Edward Jay,” Paxson writes of..... Read More about Songs and Poems,—and Writings of,—Edward Jay. The Property of Edward J. Paxson.—Vol. 2—...
![Abraham Lincoln] “A Crime Without a Name.” April 14, 1865. Eugene Munday](/pictures/thumb/3726712_1.jpg?v=1534362447)
Undoubtedly composed and printed within days of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this sorrowful tribute takes its name from the April 15, 1865 newspaper headline..... Read More about Abraham Lincoln] “A Crime Without a Name.” April 14, 1865
Poetical friendship album kept by Martha Shippee in Jefferson County, New York, 1838–1841, before her 1844 marriage to Isaac Farley and removal to Charlemont, Massachusetts..... Read More about 1838–1841 Friendship Album. Kept by Martha Shippee in Jefferson County, New York an Charlemont,...
Johnston’s collection is notable for not only the poems he has gathered, but the thumbnail sketches of the author’s within. Authors of both gender are..... Read More about The Poets and Poetry of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Scarce collection of American poetry and essays with an unusual imprint: Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Punxsutawney, [Pennsylvania]: Press of the Spirit Publishing Company, 1912. 87pp. First Edition..... Read More about Poems and Near-Poems
Lovely copy of this charming little book of poetry by this African American author and noted African American illustratror Lois Mailou Jones. Washington, D.C.: Associated..... Read More about The Picture-Poetry Book
A sweet, gentle little collection all about North Dakota and the land of prairie by this female author. Boston: Richard R. Badger, (1920). 45pp. Small..... Read More about In the Land of Dakota. A Little Book of North Dakota Verse
Isabel Fiske Conant a.k.a. Isabella Fiske Conant Three typed sonnets and a typed letter by prolific late 19th and early 20th century poet Isabel Fiske..... Read More about MacDowell Colony Poem, other Sonnets, and a Typed Letter by Isabel Fiske Conant; accompanied by...
Volume of poems by civil-rights leader, Harlem Renaissance poet, and novelist, James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938). In addition to the title poem, the book includes such..... Read More about Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems
Collection of poetry by this obscure American poet. New York: Duffield and Company, 1921. 107pp. First Edition. Small octavo. Quarter cloth, paper covered boards, printed..... Read More about Mid Light and Shade
![Shakespeare in Harlem. [Signed Presentation Copy]. Langston Hughes, 1902?–1967](/pictures/thumb/3729142_1.jpg?v=1579733587)
Signed and inscribed book of poems by Langston Hughes, the “Poet Laureate of Harlem.” Includes his poems “In a Troubled Key,” “Death in Harlem,” “Black..... Read More about Shakespeare in Harlem. [Signed Presentation Copy
Edited by Waring Cuney, Langston Hughes, and Bruce McM. Wright. Foreword by Dr. Horace Mann Bond. Introduction by J. Saunders Redding. One of a 1000..... Read More about Lincoln University Poets
![Married Life. A Blessing to the Truly Married. [Pre-WWI dust jacket]. Mrs. Dora E. W. Spratt](/pictures/thumb/3728934_1.jpg?v=1571682575)
Poetical and prose anthology of love, marriage and the married life, arranged and anthologized by a married woman. The slim volume, bound in nuptial white..... Read More about Married Life. A Blessing to the Truly Married. [Pre-WWI dust jacket
Commemorative book of poetry, drama, translations and short essays by Oliver Pancoast Lund M.D., D.D.S. (1862-1901), published a year after his death in 1902. Lund..... Read More about Poems, Translations and Essays
According to Charles Blockson, “Dunbar (1872-1906) was the leading Afro-American literary’ figure before World War I.” DANB informs through “the help of Dr. H. A...... Read More about Majors and Minors: Poems by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Posthumous collection of poems by American civil rights and women’s rights activist, co-founder of NOW, lawyer and Episcopal priest, Anna Pauline Murray (1910-1985). Many of..... Read More about Dark Testament and Other Poems
Friendly letter from Yogi Pundit Acharya (i.e. Basudeb Bhattacharya) written to author, scholar, lecturer, and radio personality, William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) thanking Phelps for praise..... Read More about Typed Letter Signed from Yogi Pundit Achaye, pseudonym of Basudeb Bhattacharya, in 1940
![First Atlantic City Jazz Festival] Sid Bernstein Presents Jazz at the Warren Theatre, Atlantic...](/pictures/thumb/3729007_1.jpg?v=1574295690)
Illustrated program for the First Atlantic City jazz Festival held over three days in June 1960 at the Warren Theatre located on the New Jersey..... Read More about First Atlantic City Jazz Festival] Sid Bernstein Presents Jazz at the Warren Theatre, Atlantic...
![The Life Boat. A Poem. [within:] A Discourse Delivered before the Humane Society of the...](/pictures/thumb/3727268_1.jpg?v=1534362507)
Of drownings, and lifeboats, and lifesaving: “As you peruse the interesting details, with tears of joy you will thank God for the discovery which led..... Read More about The Life Boat. A Poem. [within:] A Discourse Delivered before the Humane Society of the...
Advertising card for a public reading of African American poetry, given by Truda T. Weil at the Woman’s Club of Reading, Pennsylvania. The program consisted..... Read More about The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the...
