A superior copy. Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation life and slavery, first published in 1852..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
Critical study of post-Civil War Southern writers. The book examines the works of such authors as Sidney Lanier, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, William..... Read More about The Dream of Arcady, Place and Time in Southern Literature
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Scare prospectus for the National Gazette and Literary Register, begun as a twice-weekly newspaper first published in Philadelphia by printer William Fry on April 5..... Read More about Prospectus:] Preliminary Address. The National Gazette and Literary Register ... To Be Printed...
Lincoln University printed matter—a small broadside and a student newspaper—promoting a campus visit, book signing, and lecture by Black novelist and university instructor, David Bradley..... Read More about Lincoln University Broadside and Newspaper for a Lecture by David Bradley, author of the...
The fourth volume in writer, poet, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s autobiography, chronicling events taking place between 1957 and 1962 including her work for..... Read More about The Heart of a Woman
Archive of completed and working copy manuscripts of 13 novels and 7 short stories by American architect and artist, Donald Morris Kirkpatrick (1887–1966). Whereas Kirkpatrick..... Read More about C.1930–1945 Archive of 35 Typed Manuscripts for Novels and Short Stories by Donald M....
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Collection of biographical sketches of American literary figures and others, including some Transcendentalists and/or other abolitionists: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier..... Read More about Contemporaries [Anti-Slavery History
First edition of the author’s magnum opus; one of the most powerful protest novels ever published on the African American condition in America. Blockson 101..... Read More about Native Son
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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A Marsh Island has been recently brought forth and proposed as the first gay American novel by Don James McLaughlin, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century American..... Read More about A Marsh Island. [First Edition, first printing of First Gay American Novel
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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 about Plough and Furrow. [Presentation Copy
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 about A Glance Away
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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 about Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy
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 about The American Prose Miscellany. Original and Selected
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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 about Thoreau & the Transcendentalists:] Concord Free Public Library. Paintings and Statuary....
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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 about Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs
![Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy]....](/pictures/thumb/3727385_1.jpg?v=1538433154)
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 about Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy
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 about Images of the Preacher in Afro-American Literature
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 about Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends
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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 about Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ... Programme
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...
Excellent Arts and Crafts folklore title collecting tales of American folk hero Paul Bunyan in the Pacific Northwest. Linoleum print illustrations and decorative page borders..... Read More about Paul Bunyan Comes West
