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Jack’s Radiovisionettes. [poem dedicated to radio/proto-television actor and...

Jack’s Radiovisionettes. [poem dedicated to radio/proto-television actor and “Radiovisionary,” Jack Wolseifer]

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...

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Volk-Songs Translated From the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum [and] Selections From...

Volk-Songs Translated From the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum [and] Selections From the Poems of Alexander Petofi.

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...

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West-Town. [Westtown School; Chester County, Pennsylvania]. Joseph Kite

West-Town. [Westtown School; Chester County, Pennsylvania]

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

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The Chimes of Amsterdam and Other Poems. Mrs. George A. Paull, Minnie E. Kenney

The Chimes of Amsterdam and Other Poems.

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

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For My People. Margaret Walker

For My People.

A collection of poetry by this Black American author; her first book and part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Walker’s pleasant portrait appears..... Read More about For My People

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Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems. James Weldon Johnson, 1871–1938

Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems.

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

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African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy]....

African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy].

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

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First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable] The Ocean Cable. [caption title]. Alfred J. Bloor

[First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable] The Ocean Cable. [caption title]

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

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Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1958… and Anthology of Poems from the Seventeen Previously...

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1958… and Anthology of Poems from the Seventeen Previously Published Braithwaite Anthologies… [inscribed by Braithwaite]

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...

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Married Life. A Blessing to the Truly Married. [Pre-WWI dust jacket]. Mrs. Dora E. W. Spratt

Married Life. A Blessing to the Truly Married. [Pre-WWI dust jacket]

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

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Color [Signed by the Author]. Countee Cullen

Color [Signed by the Author]

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

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The Columbiad a Poem. [Robert Fulton Association Copy; Likely Given to Fulton’s Quaker Friend,...

The Columbiad a Poem. [Robert Fulton Association Copy; Likely Given to Fulton’s Quaker Friend, Patron, and Portrait Sitter, Joseph Bringhurst, Jr].

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,...

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Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne. one of the boys&rdquo

[Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne.

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

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Dark Testament and Other Poems. Pauli Murray, Anna Pauline

Dark Testament and Other Poems.

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

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Lincoln University Poets. Langston Hughes

Lincoln University Poets.

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

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Thebes and Other Poems. Charles S. Larned

Thebes and Other Poems.

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

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Four Handmade Poetical Booklets with 20 Original Watercolor and Gouache Illustrations by W.H....

[Four Handmade Poetical Booklets with 20 Original Watercolor and Gouache Illustrations by W.H. Leggett of Pontiac, Michigan, 1943–1947].

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....

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Poems, Translations and Essays. Oliver P. Lund, ancoast

Poems, Translations and Essays.

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

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In the Land of Dakota. A Little Book of North Dakota Verse. Huldah Lucile Winsted

In the Land of Dakota. A Little Book of North Dakota Verse.

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

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The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the...

The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the Woman’s Club.

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...

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Poems and Near-Poems. George M. Bilger

Poems and Near-Poems.

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

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Mid Light and Shade. John Langdon Jones

Mid Light and Shade.

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

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The Poets and Poetry of Chester County, Pennsylvania. George Johnston

The Poets and Poetry of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

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

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The Life Boat. A Poem. [within:] A Discourse Delivered before the Humane Society of the...

The Life Boat. A Poem. [within:] A Discourse Delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 10,1806.

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...

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Colorado:] The Homes of Our Favorite Poets. Wilson, Barnard

[Colorado:] The Homes of Our Favorite Poets.

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

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