The Uncalled, a Novel.
Dunbar’s first novel, originally published by Lippincott in the same year as the book. BAL 4923, binding A with Dunbar’s middle name spelled incorrectly. This..... Read More
American Literature
Folks from Dixie.
Twelve stories, first edition of Dunbar’s first prose collection. A remarkably bright and exceptional copy. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898. Rust-brown cloth, stamped..... Read More
![“The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe [within:] The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849.](/images/noimage-req.png)
“The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe [within:] The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present.
First edition, first printing of Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” a short story of the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition..... Read More
The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd.
Novel of an upwardly mobile black woman who wants her daughter to move up into New York’s café society. Inscribed by the author: “For the..... Read More
Plough and Furrow. [Presentation Copy]
A collection of essays. Presentation Copy from the author, inscribed and signed and dated in the year of publication. Paul Green (17 March 1894–04 May... Read More
A Glance Away.
The author’s first book. Wideman twice won the International PEN/Faulkner Award (the first to do so) and in 2000 won the O. Henry Award. The..... Read More
![William Goodell Jr. or Sentimental Recollection of his youth, written during the years of extreme adolescence, in the City of Pera of Const’ple in the year of our Lord 1845. [manuscript caption title of commonplace book kept by the son of an Turkish missionary]. William Jr Goodell, 1829–1894.](/pictures/thumb/145396_1.jpg?v=1547508359)
William Goodell Jr. or Sentimental Recollection of his youth, written during the years of extreme adolescence, in the City of Pera of Const’ple in the year of our Lord 1845. [manuscript caption title of commonplace book kept by the son of an Turkish missionary].
Commonplace book with literary and religious inscriptions kept in Turkey by young American William Goodell, Jr. from 1845 to 1847. The son of an Turkish... Read More
Go Tell It On the Mountain.
First edition of Baldwin’s first book, a mid-century American literature classic story of a fourteen-year-old city boy’s spiritual, sexual, and moral awakening. Told partly through..... Read More
![Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]. John O. Killens, 1916–1987, John Oliver Killens.](/pictures/thumb/3727372_1.jpg?v=1545242456)
Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]
Novel about a black family’s struggles in a Southern factory town, set in 1920s–1930s Crossroads, Georgia. Killens, a native of Macon, Georgia, wrote six novels..... Read More
The Colored American Magazine. August, 1900.
The Colored American Magazine is a rare, short-lived, and important African-American periodical published in Boston from 1900 to 1909. Contributing authors over its run included... Read More
The American Prose Miscellany. Original and Selected.
In 1809, The American Prose Miscellany, was published by Johnson, Conrad, and Carey in Philadelphia. In the same year, under the same imprint, The American... Read More
![[Thoreau & the Transcendentalists:] Concord Free Public Library. Paintings and Statuary. Paintings. Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, A. Bronson Alcott.](/pictures/thumb/3727502_1.jpg?v=1540933228)
[Thoreau & the Transcendentalists:] Concord Free Public Library. Paintings and Statuary. Paintings.
Ephemeral 4-page catalog of paintings, sculptures, etchings, and photographs in the Concord Free Public Library in Concord, Massachusetts. Portraits and busts of Transcendentalists Henry David... Read More
![[Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook, 1827–1905, David H. Anderson.](/pictures/thumb/3727777_1.jpg?v=1539214280)
[Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs].
Four stereoview photographs of scenes in Richmond, Virginia photographed and published by Cook, Anderson Gallery of Richmond. The images, likely from the 1870s, are from... Read More
![Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy]. Piri Thomas.](/pictures/thumb/3727385_1.jpg?v=1538433154)
Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy]
Signed by the author, his first book. This copy owned by a Freedom Summer volunteer and Civil Rights protestor. Story of a young Puerto Rican... Read More
The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes.
“A classic of its kind, the volume was the most extensive collection of pre-World War II Afro-American writings ever published. This impressive and indispensable anthology..... Read More
The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes.
Second printing of the first comprehensive anthology of African American literature. Within are texts by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Booker T. Washington, James Weldon... Read More
The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes.
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
Images of the Preacher in Afro-American Literature.
Academic monograph on the image of the preacher in 20th century African American literature. The work was the fruit of the course “Uses of Religion..... Read More
Lonely Crusade.
Chester Himes began writing in prison after being convicted of armed robbery at age nineteen. While many of his novels are now considered classics in... Read More
![The Call of the Wild. [Publisher’s Complimentary Copy, Ephemera]. Jack London.](/pictures/thumb/3727482_1.jpg?v=1535477307)
The Call of the Wild. [Publisher’s Complimentary Copy, Ephemera]
Attractive copy of this early 20th-century American literature classic. In the Klondike Gold Rush-era, grieving the death of his master, Buck the dog goes native... Read More
Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends).
The unlikely story of Trick E. Dixon, peace-loving Quaker and President of the United States of America. Farce, fantasy, indignant indictment of the times in... Read More
Gleanings: Girlhood and Womanhood.
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
The Home of Cooper and the Haunts of Leatherstocking.
Description of a visit to the Cooperstown, New York home of American novelist, James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851). The author explored Cooperstown and its environs, which... Read More
![Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ... Programme. R. C. Benchley, 1889–1989.](/pictures/thumb/3725651_1.jpg?v=1534362314)
Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ... Programme ...
Robert Charles Benchley (1889–1989) honed and developed his skills as a humorist and actor while at Harvard (Class of 1912). Benchley was an active, and... Read More
The Pearl; or, Affection’s Gift.
What shouts Christmas more than red and green together? Picture a sprig of holly. Santa’s red suit and pine boughs spring to mind. How about..... Read More