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The Dream of Arcady, Place and Time in Southern Literature. Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan

The Dream of Arcady, Place and Time in Southern Literature.

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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The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd. John Oliver Killens, 1916–1987

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 about The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd

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Prospectus:] Preliminary Address. The National Gazette and Literary Register ... To Be Printed...

[Prospectus:] Preliminary Address. The National Gazette and Literary Register ... To Be Printed and Published by William Fry ... by Whom Subscriptions and Communications will be Received. Terms, Five Dollars Per Annum, to Be Paid in Advance, by Distant Subscribers.

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...

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Lincoln University Broadside and Newspaper for a Lecture by David Bradley, author of the...

[Lincoln University Broadside and Newspaper for a Lecture by David Bradley, author of the Black-Themed, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Novel, “The Chaneysville Incident.” Both Signed by Bradley].

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...

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Illustrated with Sixteen Lithographs by Miguel Covarrubias. [Limited Editions Club; signed by Covarrubias]

A superior copy. Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation slave life, first published in 1852. This..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....

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Smoking Flax. [Second Edition: Black Americans, Race, Lynchings]. Hallie Erminie Rives,...

Smoking Flax. [Second Edition: Black Americans, Race, Lynchings]

Rare to commerce in all editions and one of the nicest copies we’ve handled to date. Controversial novel in favor of lynching, written by Southern..... Read More about Smoking Flax. [Second Edition: Black Americans, Race, Lynchings

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The Scrap Book; a Selection of Humorous Stories, Interesting Fables, and Authentic Anecdotes....

The Scrap Book; a Selection of Humorous Stories, Interesting Fables, and Authentic Anecdotes. [gift book]

Rare literary annual and gift book of American humor, the well-illustrated volume in an embossed and gilt decorated binding. Relief print illustration plates and textual..... Read More about The Scrap Book; a Selection of Humorous Stories, Interesting Fables, and Authentic Anecdotes....

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The Heart of a Woman. Maya Angelou, 1928–2014

The Heart of a Woman.

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

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Rabbit, Run. [Signed by the Author]. John Updike

Rabbit, Run. [Signed by the Author]

The first of Updike’s Rabbit novels. The Franklin Library, 1977. Signed Limited Edition. Signed by John Updike on front blank, protected by tissue guard. Illus..... Read More about Rabbit, Run. [Signed by the Author

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C.1930–1945 Archive of 35 Typed Manuscripts for Novels and Short Stories by Donald M....

[C.1930–1945 Archive of 35 Typed Manuscripts for Novels and Short Stories by Donald M. Kirkpatrick, Noted Bermuda Artist, and his Wife, Artist Renée D. Kirkpatrick].

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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Contemporaries [Anti-Slavery History]. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1823–1911

Contemporaries [Anti-Slavery History].

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

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Native Son. Richard Wright

Native Son.

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

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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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A Marsh Island. [First Edition, first printing of First Gay American Novel]. Sarah Orne Jewett,...

A Marsh Island. [First Edition, first printing of First Gay American Novel]

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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Plough and Furrow. [Presentation Copy]. Paul Green

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 about Plough and Furrow. [Presentation Copy

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A Glance Away. John Edgar Wideman

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 about A Glance Away

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Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]. John O. Killens, 1916–1987, John Oliver Killens

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 about Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy

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The American Prose Miscellany. Original and Selected. William Duane, 1760–1835,...

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 about The American Prose Miscellany. Original and Selected

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Thoreau & the Transcendentalists:] Concord Free Public Library. Paintings and Statuary....

[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 about Thoreau & the Transcendentalists:] Concord Free Public Library. Paintings and Statuary....

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Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook, 1827–1905, David H....

[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 about Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs

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Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy]....

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 about Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy

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Images of the Preacher in Afro-American Literature. Walter C. Daniel

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 about Images of the Preacher in Afro-American Literature

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Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends). Philip Roth

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 about Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends

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Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ......

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 about Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ... Programme

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MacDowell Colony Poem, other Sonnets, and a Typed Letter by Isabel Fiske Conant; accompanied by...

[MacDowell Colony Poem, other Sonnets, and a Typed Letter by Isabel Fiske Conant; accompanied by an Autograph Letter Signed by Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner, MacDowell Club Perfomer].

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...

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