![Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author]. Benjamin Quarles, 1904–1996.](/pictures/thumb/3728030_1.jpg?v=1545088713)
Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author]
“Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was the latter who first reflected the image of the Lincoln that was to live.” (Author’s..... Read More
African American Writers
Unwritten History.
Autobiography of Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848–1924), free born Eastern Shore, Maryland-native, “thirtieth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church, editor, and missionary.” (DANB) After entering..... Read More
![Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies]. Booker T. Washington.](/pictures/thumb/3727260_1.jpg?v=1538436645)
Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies]
With two copies only in OCLC, a very scarce early reprint edition of this biography from the “American Crisis Biographies” —written by one great African..... Read More
The Rural Negro.
First Edition in the rare pictorial dust jacket, profusely illustrated from original photographs. Woodson, “Father of Black History,” authors an exhaustive study of social and..... Read More
African Heroes and Heroines.
Biographical and historical study of leading Africans from the 11th century to the 20th century by Africa-American historian Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Negro... Read More
Lonely Crusade.
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
Black Labor Chant and Other Poems.
Extraordinary volume of posthumously published poetry by an African-American educator. Illustrated poems on themes of racial discrimination, segregation, and violence are prominently featured. Half the... Read More
Tuskegee to Voorhees. The Booker T. Washington Idea Projected by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright.
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Evelyn Wright (1872–1906) School founder, educator. A native of Georgia, she founded the Denmark Industrial Institute in Denmark, South Carolina, a school for..... Read More
American Daughter.
Autobiography from this Iowa native writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to Chicago during the... Read More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
The third autobiography authored by Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American 19th century American author, orator, and reformer. This edition noted for its ten-page Introduction... Read More
The Mind and Heart of Frederick Douglass: Excerpts from Speeches of the Great Negro Orator.
With a colorful dust jacket design by James Barkley, selections from the speeches, writings, and texts of Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American orator, author... Read More
My Bondage and My Freedom.
A facsimile edition from the “Ebony Classics” of the second of three autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass with a four-page Foreword..... Read More
![The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera]. George E. Haynes.](/pictures/thumb/3727575_1.jpg?v=1540332418)
The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera]
Accompanying this book is a small 3pp., leaflet, in part, describing the work, thus: “A thoughtful attempt to show the relations between the white and..... Read More
The Picture-Poetry Book.
Lovely copy of this charming little book of poetry by this African American author and noted African American illustratror Lois Mailou Jones. Washington, D.C.: Associated..... Read More
The Greatest of These.
The author’s first book, published in 1945. A short collection of poems from this Florida-native African American theologian, philosopher, and civil rights activist. ANB: “By..... Read More
![The Brown Madonna and Other Poems. [Presentation Copy]. Irvin W. Underhill Sr., 1896–1982, c.1896–1970, E. Washington Rhodes.](/pictures/thumb/3727113_1.jpg?v=1549497784)
The Brown Madonna and Other Poems. [Presentation Copy]
First edition, an excellent copy. In The Brown Madonna and Other Poems, Underhill, who was blind, writes autobiographically with the surprisingly uplifting poem “Poor Black..... Read More
![My Life in the South. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Jacob Stroyer.](/pictures/thumb/3727526_1.jpg?v=1545174812)
My Life in the South. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]
Stroyer was a former slave born on a South Carolina plantation. Emancipated, he eventually became a minister in Massachusetts. Brignano: “An African Methodist Episcopal minister..... Read More
Go Tell It On the Mountain.
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
Vital Facts Concerning the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Its Origin, Doctrines, Government, Usages, Polity, Progress. (A Socratic Exposition).
Fact book for the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church, the first independent U.S. black church, presented in a catechism-like format, with questions and answers. Includes..... Read More
![Pioneers of Long Ago. [Lois Mailou Jones, Illustrator]. Jessie Hailstalk Roy, Geneva Calcier Turner.](/pictures/thumb/3728182_1.jpg?v=1545174819)
Pioneers of Long Ago. [Lois Mailou Jones, Illustrator]
With compelling illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones, an American history book for African American youth, written by two African American women from Washington, D.C. Each..... Read More
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
![The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009.](/pictures/thumb/3728026_1.jpg?v=1546963424)
The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]
Centennial history of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed 3.5 million enslaved African Americans. The “evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln..... Read More
![The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009.](/pictures/thumb/3727878_1.jpg?v=1542302142)
The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author]
American Civil War diary of Kentucky-native James T. Ayers, “...an Illinois lay preacher who served in Sherman’s Army. His day-by-day entries constitute a humorous and..... Read More
![Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]. John O. Killens, 1916–1987, John Oliver Killens.](/pictures/thumb/3727372_1.jpg?v=1545242456)
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
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