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,...
Rather scarce late 19th-century tract written by an enthusiastic life insurance agent who wants to broaden and expand the life insurance field into the thoughts... Read More about Notes of a Veteran Life Agent
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
![The Lost Zoo. [Inscribed by Countee Cullen (and His Cat)]. Countee Cullen](/pictures/thumb/3727471_1.jpg?v=1561563370)
Inscribed on the half-title by Mr. Cullen and his cat: “To Long Island City High School where [The Lost Zoo] was so nicely exhibited. Christopher..... Read More about The Lost Zoo. [Inscribed by Countee Cullen (and His Cat
1853–1856 copy book kept by Quaker girls Hannah Darlington and Sarah M. Darlington of Parkerville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The copy book collects poems and calligraphic... Read More about Hannah Darlington and Sarah M. Darlington Copy Book with Calligraphic Illustrations
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—...
Posthumously published, privately printed collection of writings and poems by Elizabeth C. Hill (1825–1887) of Concord, New Hampshire. The volume was published by her husband... Read More about Gleanings: Girlhood and Womanhood
![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...
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
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
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
![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...
First Edition of the first comprehensive anthology of African American literature. Blockson 101: “A classic of its kind, the volume was the most extensive collection... Read More about The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes
