Catalog 245 contains 102 items relating to African-Americana, including original art, broadsides, posters, photo albums, signed and inscribed first editions, hand-written letters, and more!
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[Rochester, New York: Press of Henry Conolly Co.] / F. Grant Gilmore, (1915). Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 99pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Red cloth gilt. Spine sympathetically rebacked with red cloth, some spotting on the boards, a bit of foxing in the text, a good or better copy. Inscribed..... More
Chicago: The Hotel Monthly Press, 1914. Softcover. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Narrow 12mo. 225, [2], 8 ads pp. Illustrated. Flexible black leatherette covers, with titles stamped in gilt. Owner's label front fly, obscuring original owner's holograph name, with an additional name and address on rear fly, very light wear..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 263pp. Frontispiece and two additional plates. Gray cloth gilt. A bit of fraying at the spine ends and corners, heavy foxing in the text, else a nice, about very good copy. The scarce true first edition, followed by a...... More
Boston: James H. Earle, (1892). Hardcover. Stated third edition. Blue decorated cloth stamped in black and gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Introduction by William Still. Later bookplate of George and Wilma Edwards, front hinge very neatly strengthened, small nick on front fly, a very near fine copy with just..... More
(Bronx, N.Y.): Genethel Harris, 1972. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 31pp. Stapled yellow wrappers with photographic portrait of the author. Modest soiling or age-toning on the wrappers, modest crease on rear wrap, overall very good. Inscribed by the author to African-American author and critic Albert Murray and his family: "9-72. To..... More
![Item #448553 [Yearbook]: 1986 Bison. Howard University. Kamala HARRIS](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/448553.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1609948890)
Washington, D.C. Howard University, 1986. Hardcover. First editions. Large quarto. 352pp. Heavily illustrated from photographs. Corners a little bumped, a few small marginal checkmarks by some pictures, but overall near fine. The annual yearbook for the Senior Year of the first African-American Vice President. Harris is seen smiling brightly in..... More
[No place]: American Journal of Sociology, 1929. Softcover. First separate edition. Offprint. Octavo. Paginated as in the journal: p.1129-1139. Stapled self-wrappers. Modest age-toning and a finger smudge on the front wrap, very good or better. *OCLC* locates one copy (Northwestern). More
Baltimore: Warwick & York, 1929. Softcover. First separate edition. Offprint. Octavo. Paginated as in the journal: p.250-262. Stapled printed wrappers. Small nick on front wrap and modest overall age-toning, very good or better. Scholarly article. *OCLC* locates three copies. More
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1921. Hardcover. First edition. Small hole on front hinge, a couple of very modest stains on the boards, and some wear to the corners, a near very good copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Hill was an important African-American educator, teaching first at Tuskegee and later was..... More
![Item #439057 [Promotional Brochure]: Langston Hughes: One of America's Most Distinguished...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/439057.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1608136690)
New York: Folkways Records, [circa 1960]. Unbound. Single leaf folded to make six pages. Near fine. Pamphlet promoting books and records by Hughes. A printed statement on the first page of the brochure reads: "The World of Langston Hughes is just a little larger and a little livelier than any..... More
New York: Rinehart, (1957). Hardcover. First edition. Neat contemporary owner's name, the poor-quality paper much less toned than usual, and thus fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of short and barely visible tears. A superior copy. More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. About fine in price-clipped very good or better dustwrapper with a little sunning at the spine and nicks at the spine ends. Inscribed by Hughes: “Happy Holidays to the Lloyd K. Garrisons - Sincerely, Langston Hughes. New York, Christmas, 1960.”..... More
New York: Vantage, (1955). Hardcover. First edition. Small bookstore stamp on the front fly else about fine in a near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper with a couple of very small chips and a modest scrape on the front panel. Scarce, presumably autobiographical, vanity press novel by this Florida-born African-American schoolteacher..... More
New York: Oxford Book Company, (1951). Softcover. First edition? Small octavo. 60pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. About fine. No. 4 in Oxford Social Studies Pamphlets, written by the Superintendent of Public Schools in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, a white historian. An enlightened approach to the subject. Irwin also wrote *Black Studies..... More
Port of Spain, Trinidad: Allied Printers, 1973. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 37, [1]pp. Stapled decorated wrappers. A bit rubbed, very good or better. Essay disguised as a short novel by a black native of Trinidad. *OCLC* locates five copies over two records. More
New York: Exposition Press, (1970). Hardcover. First edition. Neat owner name on front pastedown else fine in near fine dustwrapper with very slight sunning at the spine and a tiny nick. Presumably autobiographical novel, issued by a vanity press publisher, written by a St. Louis-born black teacher who was arrested..... More
[Atlanta]: Gate City Free Kindergarten Association, [circa 1934]. Softcover. First edition. Illustrated by P.S. Cooke. Octavo. 96pp. Frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Printed buff wrappers. Modest soiling or toning on wrappers and a little soiling on the first few leaves, else near fine with very slight loss at the base..... More
New York: Vantage Press, (1976). Hardcover. First edition. Thin octavo. 41pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Twenty-six poems by the Sierra Leone-born author, issued by a vanity press. Very scarce. More
![Item #419993 [Offprint]: From Rutherford's Travels [first chapter of The Middle Passage]. Charles...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/419993.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1568649187)
[No place]: Callaloo, [circa 1988]. Softcover. First separate edition. Offprint. 10pp. (paginated p.109-119). Stapled self-wrappers. Horizontal crease else about fine. The first published appearance of any part of Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Middle Passage*, from the literary magazine *Callaloo* which published this first chapter when the book's tentative title..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a slightly spine-sunned, else very near fine dustwrapper. Includes many plays by notable authors including Georgia Douglas Johnson (*Blue Blood*), Eugene O'Neill, Sholem Aleichem, Heywood Broun, Colin Clements, Paul Green, Willis Richardson, Harry Kemp, Kenyon Nicolson, Florence Ryerson..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1935. Hardcover. Fourth printing. Rear bottom corner bumped, thus very good lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Goddard Lieberson, President of CBS Records. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated from photographs, and maps. Neat owner's name on the front pastedown, slight erosion of the cloth at the base of the spine, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Johnson's important history of African-Americans in New York. More
New York: Totem Press, 1965. Softcover. Four leaves mimeographed both sides to make eight pages, stapled in one corner. Some offsetting on the last leaf, else near fine. Printed notice as "Pre-Publication" this seems to be the only issue that was published by Jones at his Totem Press, seemingly it..... More
Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, (1894). Hardcover. First edition. Thick octavo. 534pp., photographs and illustrations. Paper over the front hinge neatly repaired, as almost always on this heavy volume, rubbing and a tiny hole at the extremities of the boards else a nice, near fine copy of the autobiography of..... More
