![A Marsh Island. [First Edition, first printing of First Gay American Novel]. Sarah Orne Jewett](/images/noimage-req.png)
A Marsh Island has been recently brought forth and proposed as the first gay American novel by Don James Brown, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century American... Read More about A Marsh Island. [First Edition, first printing of First Gay American Novel
ANB notes that “Hughes dedicated Not without Laughter to his friends and early patrons, the Spingarns.” New York: Knopf, 1930. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth without..... Read More about Not Without Laughter
![The Invisible Man. [Signed by Author]. Ralph Ellison](/pictures/thumb/3728671_1.jpg?v=1556662535)
Ellison’s first book, a significant addition to 20th century American literature, winner of the National Book Award in the year of its publication. This edition..... Read More about The Invisible Man. [Signed by Author
Twelve stories, first edition of Dunbar’s first prose collection. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898. First Edition. Rust-brown cloth, stamped in gilt and black..... Read More about Folks from Dixie
Single issue of the underground New York City newspaper, The East Village Other, featuring the headline article “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a...... Read More about Ishmael Reed’s “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a stepladder, and a megaphone”...
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 about “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe [within:] The Gift: A Christmas and New...
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
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
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 about William Goodell Jr. or Sentimental Recollection of his youth, written during the years of extreme...
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 about Go Tell It On the Mountain
![Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]. John O. Killens, 1916–1987, John Oliver Killens](/pictures/thumb/3727372_1.jpg?v=1545242456)
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
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 about The Colored American Magazine. August, 1900
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
![Thoreau & the Transcendentalists:] Concord Free Public Library. Paintings and Statuary....](/pictures/thumb/3727502_1.jpg?v=1540933228)
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....
![Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook, 1827–1905, David H....](/pictures/thumb/3727777_1.jpg?v=1539214280)
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
“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 about 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 about 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 about The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes
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
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 about Lonely Crusade
![The Call of the Wild. [Publisher’s Complimentary Copy, Ephemera]. Jack London](/pictures/thumb/3727482_1.jpg?v=1535477307)
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 about The Call of the Wild. [Publisher’s Complimentary Copy, Ephemera
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
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 about Gleanings: Girlhood and Womanhood
