Catalog 248 contains 86 items relating to African-Americana, including signed and inscribed first editions, photo albums, scrapbooks, hand-written letters, broadsides, posters, and more!
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New York: Harper & Brothers, (1925). Hardcover. Early printing (publisher's code "F-A" = June, 1926). Small octavo. 108pp. Quarter yellow cloth and black patterned paper-covered boards with printed cream paper labels. Small bookseller label on the rear paste-down, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small owner name stamp..... More
Detroit: Villarod Publishers, (1973). Hardcover. First edition. Folio. 180, [13]pp. Heavily illustrated from photographs. Original red cloth titled in silver. Hinges neatly repaired, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with several small chips and tears, and some slight loss. A scarce publication by Detroit African-American author George "The King" Cunningham..... More
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 287pp. Red cloth titled in gilt. Sunning on the boards, very good or better. Pioneering study on lynching. More
![Item #448024 [Television Script]: "Matt's Team Reunion" [for] Mister Dugan. William DAVENPORT](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/448024-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620237753)
Los Angeles: T.A.T. Communications, 1979. Unbound. Two scripts. First Draft (dated 2/28/79) and Final Draft (dated 3/5/79). 37pp. and 32pp. White, blue, and yellow quarto sheets. Both scripts brad bound together, along with a rehearsal schedule for each. Near fine with light wear at the edges including some creases. Two..... More
![Item #450434 [Broadside]: The West Philadelphia Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/450434.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1616078012)
Philadelphia: The West Philadelphia Committee to Free Angela Davis, [1972]. Unbound. Mimeographed broadside or flyer. Measuring 8½" x 14". Tiny tear and nick, very good or better. Meeting called at the YMCA at 52nd and Sansom Streets. More
(Clarksdale, Mississippi: The Delta Press Publishing Co., 1945). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 62pp. Illustrated with vignettes. Printed blue wrappers with small photographic portrait of the author. Modest chip and tear on rear wrapper, a little scuffing on front wrap, a very good copy. Diary that stretches over a year, advertised..... More
Hartford, Conn: Park Publishing Co., 1882. Hardcover. Probable second edition. Stout octavo. Illustrated. Publisher's purple cloth stamped in blind and gilt. A couple of signatures very slightly sprung, a few spots on the front board, and a label on the lower spine removed leaving an a nearly imperceptible shadow, a...... More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1980. Hardcover. First edition, clothbound issue. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few small stains at the bottom of the front panel. The very uncommon clothbound edition of the poet's first regularly published book preceded only by a small chapbook. It was the publisher's practice..... More
London: Jarrold & Sons, 1903. Hardcover. First English edition, published in America as *The Sport of the Gods*. Octavo. Photographic frontispiece portrait. Beveled blue cloth gilt. Stamp of an English printer and stationer twice on the half-title, foxing on the foredge, else a nice, near fine copy. An exceptionally uncommon..... More
![Item #457067 [Offprint]: The Sport of the Gods. Paul Laurence DUNBAR](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/457067-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614104205)
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901. Hardcover. Offprint of this novel, preceding the published book version by a year, consisting of the pages from the published magazine supplied with a separate title page. Octavo. P. 515-594. Bound at a later date in black buckram titled in gilt. Small number stamp on..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Illustrated brown cloth. A little foxing on the foredge, slight rubbing on the boards, very near fine. An especially nice copy of this uncommon collection of short stories. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1898. Hardcover. First edition, binding "A," with the author's middle name spelled incorrectly. Cover decoration by George Wharton Edwards. Some moderate rubbing and spotting on the front board, very good. Author's first novel and one of his scarcer titles, about small town bigotry in..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903. Hardcover. First edition. Frontispiece and photographic illustrations by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Bookplate of John Needels Chester, and an old bookseller's description, both on front pastedown, a small clipping mentioning Dunbar's house on the front fly, corners a...... More
![Item #457064 [Prospectus]: Romances of the Negro in American History Dramatic Episodes in Our...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/457064.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617941409)
Wilmington, Delaware: Aliceruth Dunbar-Nelson, [circa 1925]. Unbound. Single 8½" x 7" leaf folded in half to make four pages. Slight toning at the edges of the paper else fine. A brief prospectus for a series of five lectures offered directly by Dunbar-Nelson. The lectures were: 1. The Seven Fabled Cities..... More
Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1891. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. 410pp., 9 maps, plates, and extensive photographic illustrations. A couple of small tears at the crown, corners a little bumped, else a nice and clean, near fine copy with the gilt lettering bright. Possibly the best book..... More
Chicago: 1942-1956. Unbound. Group of more than 170 gelatin silver black and white and sepia-toned press photographs, with a few duplicates, taken between 1947 and 1956. Most measure 10” x 8”. Some with scattered captions on the back along with photographer‘s stamps (Caltoa Foto, Gushiniere Studios, R.D. Jones’ Studio, Adams..... More
Quarryville, Pa. The Sun Printing House, 1898. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 154, [2]pp. Black cloth gilt. Small contemporary owner's name on first blank leaf, rubbing on the boards, and a small hole in the rear gutter, a sound and nice very good copy. Early source of information on the fugitive..... More
Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1936. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 108pp. Small stain in upper right corner of front board not affecting the pages, thus very good in very good dustwrapper with a corresponding stain on the front panel. Excerpts and summaries of 20 contemporary novels by African-Americans. Ford was a...... More
Baltimore: Press of Thomas & Evans, 1902. Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 269pp. Frontispiece portrait, copiously illustrated from photographs. Some spotting and modest stains on the boards, corners a little bumped, thus about very good, and internally about fine, a reasonably attractive copy of this very cheaply produced volume. African-American..... More
Nashville: Fisk University Press, 1932. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. 75pp. Blue cloth titled in gilt. Nicks and tears at the spine ends, other light general wear, about very good. Nicely Inscribed by Frazier to an important Black educator: "For Horace Mann Bond with the esteem of the author, E...... More
New York: Wendell Malliet, 1942. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Margaret Widdemer. Scattered spotting on the boards, crease on the top corner of the first leaf, a very good plus copy in about very good dustwrapper with a number of creases and short tears, and a small..... More
[No place]: Journal of Applied Psychology, 1924. Softcover. Offprint. First separate edition. Octavo. Paginated as in the journal: p.75-88. Stapled self-wrappers. Very near fine. A scholarly article by Herskovits who was an African-American anthropologist and a pioneer in the field of African-American studies. *OCLC* locates one copy (Northwestern). More
![Item #455440 [Cover Title]: 145 Years With Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, New...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/455440.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1616424565)
(New York: Park Publishing Co.), 1972. Hardcover. First edition. Slim quarto. [56]pp. Heavily illustrated in black and white, with many photographs of the congregation. Blue cloth gilt. Trifle worn, a fine copy. A celebration of Mount Zion AME church of New Brunswick New Jersey's 145th anniversary. Includes a church history..... More
New York: New Dimensions Publishing Co. Inc., (1968-1974). Unbound. An archive of scarce African-American material for young people created in New York City by author and publisher John Hines. The 10 items include three plays illustrated with contemporary photographs, three books on African Culture (plus a salesman’s sample), and three..... More
New York: Greenberg, (1950). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 249pp. Illustrated from photographs. Previous owner name marked over on front fly, modest wear on the boards, very good in very good spine-faded dustwrapper. Early biography of Lena Horne. More