![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,...
![African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy]....](/pictures/thumb/3727447_1.jpg?v=1586388383)
Study of African-American psychology and religion and their influence on the slave songs or “spirituals” of the South by this noted Black historiographer, academic, and..... Read More about African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy
![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
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
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
![West-Town. [Westtown School; Chester County, Pennsylvania]. Joseph Kite](/pictures/thumb/3729730_1.jpg?v=1599170969)
Scarce poem outlining the early history of Westtown School, a co-educational Quaker boarding school established in 1799 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The poem, which has..... Read More about West-Town. [Westtown School; Chester County, Pennsylvania
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
Scarce in both first and second editions, a collection of poems by this native of Pottersville, New York. See J.R. Miller, (Editor), Recollections of Mrs..... Read More about The Chimes of Amsterdam and Other Poems
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
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...
Typed manuscript poem, “Jack’s Radiovisionettes,” written in tribute to radio/proto-television actor Jack Wolseifer—“one of the Radiovisionaries.” The poem celebrates the integration of aural and visual..... Read More about Jack’s Radiovisionettes. [poem dedicated to radio/proto-television actor and...
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...
![Volk-Songs Translated From the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum [and] Selections From...](/pictures/thumb/141254_1.jpg?v=1599682802)
Rare. No copies recorded in America. Translated by Henry Phillips, Jr. Hugo von Meltzel’s or Meltzl’s work is the first English translation of Romanian folk..... Read More about Volk-Songs Translated From the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum [and] Selections From...
Captivating collection of four handmade booklets made by William H. Leggett augmented with 20 of his original watercolor illustrations with gouache highlights. Leggett’s booklets are..... Read More about Four Handmade Poetical Booklets with 20 Original Watercolor and Gouache Illustrations by W.H....
Anthology of poetry edited by William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), African American mixed race poet, literary critic, and some-time professor at Atlanta University. “Braithwaite’s perceptive and..... Read More about Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1958… and Anthology of Poems from the Seventeen Previously...
![Colorado:] The Homes of Our Favorite Poets. Wilson, Barnard](/pictures/thumb/3726690_1.jpg?v=1534362442)
Advertising booklet for Pueblo, Colorado dry goods merchants Wilson & Barnard. While the booklet touts the Wilson and Barnard’s new building and their store’s amenities..... Read More about Colorado:] The Homes of Our Favorite Poets
![Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne. one of the boys&rdquo](/pictures/thumb/3728738_1.jpg?v=1557940086)
Sub-titled: “Fought January 1st, 1863, between the Michigan, Engineers and Mechanics, under Col. Innes, and a Brigade of Cavalry and two pieces of Artillery under..... Read More about Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne
