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Poems and Editorials of Arthur Hurt Taylor. Arthur Hurt Taylor, 1880–1917

Poems and Editorials of Arthur Hurt Taylor.

First and sole edition of this memorial collection of writings by teacher, soldier, poet, and journalist, Arthur Hurt Taylor. Among Hart’s editorials printed here are..... Read More about Poems and Editorials of Arthur Hurt Taylor

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My Scarlet Shawl: A Wife’s Story. but likely George Etell Sargent Anon

My Scarlet Shawl: A Wife’s Story.

Told in the first-person narrative, Maggie is no Mary Magdalene, and no scarlet woman, but she is the woman with the scarlet shawl. This shawl..... Read More about My Scarlet Shawl: A Wife’s Story

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Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed). Langston Hughes

Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed)

First edition of this first collection of the “Simple” short stories written about the everyday lives of Harlemites. Given by Hughes, in the year of..... Read More about Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed

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The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. Stories by Reginald McKnight. Reginald McKnight

The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. Stories by Reginald McKnight.

First edition, first printing. McKnight won the O. Henry Award and the Kenyon Review New Fiction Prize for “The Kind of Light That Shines on..... Read More about The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. Stories by Reginald McKnight

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A Poem on the Last Day. In Three Books. Edward Young

A Poem on the Last Day. In Three Books.

An attractive copy of this scarce 1802 New England edition of Young’s Poem as printed by the ever-enterprising firm of Nathaniel Coverly. Three poetical “endorsements”..... Read More about A Poem on the Last Day. In Three Books

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October Journey. (Signed). Margaret Walker

October Journey. (Signed)

A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about October Journey. (Signed

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Prophets for a New Day. (Signed). Margaret Walker

Prophets for a New Day. (Signed)

A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about Prophets for a New Day. (Signed

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This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed). Margaret Walker

This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed)

A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed

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When Rocks Dance. (Signed). Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell

When Rocks Dance. (Signed)

First Edition. The first novel by this Trinidad native. Inscribed: “For Oliver St. C Franklin. Your appreciation of my work gives me the courage and..... Read More about When Rocks Dance. (Signed

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Hoodoo Hollerin’ Bebop Ghosts. Larry Neal

Hoodoo Hollerin’ Bebop Ghosts.

First edition. A collection of poetry by this Atlanta native who studied at Lincoln University and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971. Neal authored..... Read More about Hoodoo Hollerin’ Bebop Ghosts

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How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed). Margaret Walker, Maryemma...

How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed)

A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed

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The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems. Gwendolyn Brooks

The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems.

A collection of 15 poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in any category.  Brooks used the sizable influence..... Read More about The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems

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Winnie. (Signed). Gwendolyn Brooks

Winnie. (Signed)

Inscribed by the author in 1994. Winnie is a lengthy poem celebrating the life of Winnie Mandela and published here, in this edition, by Third..... Read More about Winnie. (Signed

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Original Photograph of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky giving a spoken word performance at the...

Original Photograph of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky giving a spoken word performance at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (author of ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’) and his partner Peter Orlovsky are seen seated onstage. As Ginsberg reads, Orlovsky gazes in..... Read More about Original Photograph of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky giving a spoken word performance at the...

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Temple University Presents, A Reading by Chinua Achebe. May, 10, 1988. [opening lines]. Chinua...

Temple University Presents, A Reading by Chinua Achebe. May, 10, 1988. [opening lines]

An ephemeral program for a reading given at Temple University in 1988 by Chinua Achebe, the award-winning Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart. Achebe may..... Read More about Temple University Presents, A Reading by Chinua Achebe. May, 10, 1988. [opening lines

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The House of the Honeymoon, a Story. Harry Eskew

The House of the Honeymoon, a Story.

An unusual American binding comprised of the publisher’s Fabri-Ko-Na burlap; a material they also used for their custom curtains, draperies, seat covers, and art pillow..... Read More about The House of the Honeymoon, a Story

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The Story of Inca Rocca, and Other Short Poems. Chauncey Thomas

The Story of Inca Rocca, and Other Short Poems.

Scarce book of American poetry with a long poem on the Incas, indigenous to Peru. Author Chauncey Thomas was a coach-builder in Boston and he..... Read More about The Story of Inca Rocca, and Other Short Poems

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Romance of Bar-U Ranch. A Novelette. The Fourth Year English Class of Excelsior High School

Romance of Bar-U Ranch. A Novelette.

The proverbial novel written by a committee. A Romance of Bar—U Ranch has 16 chapters, each written by a different student in the senior class..... Read More about Romance of Bar-U Ranch. A Novelette

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Scenes at Washington; a Story of the Last Generation. By a. Citizen of Baltimore

Scenes at Washington; a Story of the Last Generation.

Obscure American novel set in early eighteenth-century Jeffersonian-era Washington. Contemporary reviews were, by and large, positive. Godey’s described the work as “...emphatically a religious novel..... Read More about Scenes at Washington; a Story of the Last Generation

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Highboy Rings Down the Curtain. [Limited Edition, Signed]. George Agnew Chamberlain, 1879–1966

Highboy Rings Down the Curtain. [Limited Edition, Signed]

Scarce American fiction, horses being the theme, in an interesting binding. This novelette was written by this Brazilian-born author who studied at Princeton, had a...... Read More about Highboy Rings Down the Curtain. [Limited Edition, Signed

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Man in the Shadows [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Elias Lieberman

Man in the Shadows [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]

Lieberman was a Russian Jew who emigrated to America as a young man. he is noted for his 1916 poem “I Am an American.” In..... Read More about Man in the Shadows [Inscribed and Signed by the Author

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Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems. Katharine S. Harrington

Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems.

First edition. Scarce volume of self-published poetry by a retired schoolteacher and native of Sandy Creek, New York who removed to a farm in Gilboa..... Read More about Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems

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Years Are So Long. A Novel. Josephine Lawrence

Years Are So Long. A Novel.

The basis for Leo McCarey’s 1937 film Make Way For Tomorrow, starring Victor Moore and Beulah Bonndi, this early reprinting has distinct artwork from the..... Read More about Years Are So Long. A Novel

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Majella; or, Nameless and Blind. A Story of the Susquehanna. Ella Maude Stewart,...

Majella; or, Nameless and Blind. A Story of the Susquehanna.

Obscure American fiction by this female author from Clifford Township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Ella Maude Stewart Dann (d. 1943) was born with a significant..... Read More about Majella; or, Nameless and Blind. A Story of the Susquehanna

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Colors of Life. Poems and Songs and Sonnets. [Inscribed copy]. Max Eastman, 1883–1969

Colors of Life. Poems and Songs and Sonnets. [Inscribed copy]

Presentation Copy: “My greetings to Bruce Berlind —Max Eastman, October 1965.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf, MCMXVIII [1918]. First Edition. 129pp. 6¼ x 4¾ inches..... Read More about Colors of Life. Poems and Songs and Sonnets. [Inscribed copy

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