Catalog 251 contains 114 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: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905. Hardcover. First edition. Photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. Decorations by Will Jenkins. Decorated cloth with applied gravure portrait. Slight rubbing on the boards, a near fine copy in a good only example of the rare dustwrapper that is split along the front flap..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903. Hardcover. First edition, *BAL* binding A. Brown cloth titled in gilt and stamped in black and green, with applied paper illustration. Contemporary, neat owner name on the front fly, a bit of spotting at the top of the spine and on the edge..... More
Dayton: Published by United Brethren Publishing House, 1893. Hardcover. First edition. Pale blue (or pale blue-green) cloth titled in gilt on front cover (see further note below). Previous owner's penciled name ("M.J. Snowden") on rear endpaper, very modest rubbing on rear cover, near fine. No priority to cloth color has..... More
Dayton: Published by United Brethren Publishing House, 1893. Hardcover. First edition. Red cloth titled in gilt on front cover (see further note below). Tiny tear on the edge of the first leaf of text, else a fine copy. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case with printed paper spine-label. No..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. Hardcover. First edition. Faint shadow on the front board and a little rubbing at the edges of the spine, else a lovely, fine copy of a novel generally found very rubbed, in this case with the usually rubbed away white lettering unrubbed. A...... More
![Item #443979 Diane, Priestess of Haiti [complete novel in] Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, April...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/443979.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1608148931)
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902. Softcover. First and apparently only edition published in the 20th Century. Small chips on the front wrap, and modest erosion at the bottom of the spine, a very good copy. This issue contains the only appearance of a complete novel by the African-American author. The..... More
Stanford, Ca. Firesign Press, 1976. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 44pp. Stapled illustrated yellow wrappers. Small price sticker on rear wrap (possibly as issued) else fine. Poetry by a Black poet. Eckels was a founder of Uhuru, a community newspaper of the Oakland Liberation School for Youth. *OCLC* locates a single..... More
![Item #410437 [Library Card]: Carnegie Negro Library. Greensboro, N.C. Doris E. FARMER](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/410437.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629749121)
Greensboro, N.C. Carnegie Negro Library, (1938). Unbound. Library card. Measuring 3" x 5". Partially printed card, with the name of Doris E. Farmer of Bennett College handwritten in, an expiry date of 1941, and evidence of three books borrowed and returned in 1938. Bennett College is an historically black college..... More
New York: Homer Lee & Co., 1878. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 322pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Green cloth (one of several colors, with no known priority) elaborately decorated in gilt. A few small stains, mostly on the front board near the spine, extremities a bit bumped with slight loss of the..... More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., (1955). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 225 pp., illustrated from photographs. Just about fine in price-clipped very good or better dustwrapper with a bit of rubbing and a couple of internally repaired short tears. Very scarce. More
![Item #450522 [Oil Painting]: Black Cat. Rex GORELEIGH](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/450522.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602600227)
1966. Unbound. Oil portrait on board of a watchful black cat. Approximately 30" x 20". In hand painted white frame. Signed in lower left: "Goreleigh '66." A bit of fine crackling on the surface of the paint and a trifle rubbed, very good or better, the frame is worn. The..... More
Philadelphia: Afro-American Pub. Co., 1899. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 710pp. Many illustrations. Publisher's decorative blue cloth stamped in brown, silver, and red. Discreet ex-library copy with a faint stamp on an interior page and a pocket on the rear pastedown, title page reinserted with resulting wear at the margins..... More
(New York: Robert W. Kelly Publishing Corp.), 1957. Softcover. Program. Quarto. [46]pp. Illustrated from photographs and with art by Miguel Covarrubias. Comb-bound in blue illustrated coated paper wrappers. Broadside sheet with a message from President Eisenhower laid-in. Near fine with light rubbing and a tiny spot. A tribute celebrating the..... More
(New York: Hatch-Billops, 1982). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 56pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. Poems by James Hatch and Victoria Sullivan, with illustrations by noted African-American artist and sculptor Camille Billops, who is married to Hatch. Very uncommon. *OCLC* locates five copies. More
![Item #414553 [Broadside]: Declaration of Sentiments of the Colored Citizens of Boston, on the...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/414553.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1486568543)
Boston: Printed [by George C. Jenks] at no. 86 Hanover Street, 1850. Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 16" x 23". Includes an "Address to the Clergy of Massachusetts." Some modest offsetting and toning, narrow chip at one fold, slightly affecting four words in two lines at the margin, else a nice, crisp..... More
London: "Christian Age" Office, 1877. Hardcover. English edition, stated "Fifty-Fifth Thousand" (first English edition was 1876, published in wrappers), published well after Henson's original narrative in 1849. Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Edited by John Lobb. xii, 231pp. Frontispiece portrait. Publisher's beveled red cloth decorated in black and gilt..... More
New York: Lion Books, 1971. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Biography by an African-American reporter from *The New York Times* about Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. Uncommon title issued by a small publisher, and seldom found in nice condition. More
Boston: Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, 1840. Hardcover. Third edition. 12mo. 123,[1],115pp. Two volumes bound in one. Publisher’s cloth-backed boards, printed spine label. Boards scuffed and a bit soiled, small losses along spine label extremities, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary (1851) gift (or possible ownership) inscription on the front pastedown: “James M...... More
New York: Hyperion, (1941). Hardcover. First edition. Large folio. Cloth covered boards with applied color illustration on paper. Copy number 378 of 1000 numbered copies Signed and dated by Hirschfeld. Contains 24 color lithographs on handmade paper mounted on lined pages. Paper at the foot of the spine a little..... More
![Item #460447 [Two Manuscript Documents] Francis Hopkinson, Signer of the Declaration of...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/460447a-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629749147)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1781. Two remarkable manuscript documents relating to the capture of three enemy British ships in June, 1781, one of which, the schooner *Tryal*, was transporting four slaves from Bermuda to Portsmouth, Virginia. The names of all four slaves, three men and one woman, are recorded in the first..... More
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1967. Hardcover. First edition. Large quarto. 375pp., illustrated. Small ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist and anthropologist on the front fly else fine in in lightly rubbed else fine dustwrapper. A bright copy of this vast, sweeping account of African-Americans and their influence on..... More
New York: Liaison, 1962-1963. Unbound. Fourteen consecutive issues. Each issue consists of a single leaf folded to make six 8½" x 11" pages. Ownership signature of noted American psychologist Henry Guze, co-founder along with Albert Ellis, of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, on the first page of..... More
Los Angeles, California: Bryant Foundation for the Vanguard Society of America, 1959. Softcover. First edition. Narrow octavo. 12pp. Stapled printed cream wrappers. Slightest age-toning, still fine. Text of an address concerning segregation in the Alabama educational system and other issues. We were unable to find the text of this address..... More
![Item #456954 [Printed Transcript]: The National Broadcasting Company Presents Meet the Press......](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/456954.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617941403)
Washington, D.C. Merkle Press, Inc., August 21, 1966. Softcover. Stated "Special Edition," and likely first edition. Small octavo. 31pp. Stapled printed self-wrappers. Bottom corner chipped, tiny crease in another corner, modest vertical crease, overall a very good copy. The transcript for a special 90-minute edition of *Meet the Press*, a...... More
Atlanta: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1961-1964. Newsletters. Consisting of 13 issues: Vol. 1, Nos. 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11 and Vol. 2, Nos. 1, 4-9. Each issue is between 4pp. to 12pp. Folded and stapled quarto sheets. Overall near fine with light wear, horizontal folds from mailing and printed..... More