![African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax. Hallie Erminie Rives, 1874–1956](/images/noimage-req.png)
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 African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax
Autographed by Richard Wright on the dedication page; published in the same year as Wright’s magnum opus Native Son which would become an instant bestseller..... Read More about How “Bigger” Was Born. The Story of Native Son, one of the most significant novels of our...
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....
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
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
![Contemporaries [Anti-Slavery History]. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1823–1911](/pictures/thumb/3728793_1.jpg?v=1576019289)
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 comprehensive anthology of African American literature. Blockson 101: “A classic of its kind, the volume was the most extensive collection of pre-World War II..... 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
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,...
![A Marsh Island. [First Edition, first printing of First Gay American Novel]. Sarah Orne Jewett,...](/pictures/thumb/3727679_1.jpg?v=1563214663)
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
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
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”...
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
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
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
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
