Birmingham, [U.K.]: G.F. Pigeon and John Phillip, 1807. Unbound. Original copper coin or token. Approximately 1.5" in diameter. Modest rubbing, original patina, very good or better (we are not coin dealers and can only judge this item using book standards). A medal commemorating the abolition of the slave trade by..... More

London: Benetfink & Co., [circa 1900?]. Unbound. Eight colored lantern slides (complete) in original cardboard box with applied printed labels. Slides are uniformly fine; the box has some stains but is otherwise sound and very good or better. Colorful and graphically appealing slides rendering the classic racist nursery rhyme. Rare..... More

Philadelphia: 1960-1978. Hardcover. Quartos. Measuring 9.5" x 12". Three albums. Each is floral-printed cloth over paper boards with "Photo Album" stamped in gilt on the front covers. A collection of three spiral bound albums housing approximating 260 black and white and color photographs of an African-American family between the early..... More

New Jersey, New York: 1940s-1950. Hardcover. Quarto. Measuring 9.5" x 12". String-tied wooden boards with "My Scrapbook" and a sailboat on the front board. Contains 148 sepia toned or black and white photographs measuring between 2" x 1.5" to 8" x 10", some with captions. Album is very good with..... More

[Harlem, New York: circa 1984]. Softcover. Large quarto album. Measuring 12.5" x 14.5 ". Spiral-bound black suede over flexible card covers with leaves enclosed in plastic sleeves. The album contains 96 black & white and 13 color photographs laid-down or laid into the sleeves, with 45 additional loose photographs in..... More

Philadelphia, Philadelphia: Pierson Studio, 1929. Unbound. Folio size green folder. Measuring 14" x 11". Inside is a printed cardboard chart with 56 slots provided to insert photographs of students (28 on each page) with 24 photographs of young black children inserted and captioned in ink with their names above the..... More

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by James Chattin, in Church-Alley, 1754. Softcover. A scarce colonial era antislavery pamphlet from the library of James Moon, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker who played a leading role in the long-running Quaker campaign against slavery in the 18th Century. First edition. Octavo (16.5 x 10.5 cm..... More

Boston: Herbert B. Turner, 1904. Hardcover. First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards. Verse handwritten in an unknown hand on the half-title, a couple of small notes in the text, corners a little worn, a very good plus copy of a fragile volume, possibly issued without dustwrapper. The first book by..... More

New York: Macmillan, 1913. Hardcover. First edition. 247pp. Two pages at the end of the preface roughly opened resulting in small chip on the page edges, else fine in a near very good example of the rare dustwrapper with moderate chipping and tears along the upper extremities. An important history..... More

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1965). Hardcover. 168pp., maps, illustrations. Fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper. A nonfiction account that was used as the basis for the movie *Glory*. Scarce and sought after. More

Tuskegee: Tuskegee Institute, [1918]. Unbound. Broadside. Approximately 6.25" x 11". Faint fold and a tiny tear, else fine. An attractive copy of this rare broadside printed on thin paper. The great scientist published no hardcover books, all his extant work is either in the form of pamphlets or broadsides. This..... More

Burbank: Ivan Deach, Jr., (1940). Hardcover. First edition. Frontispiece portrait. Cloth soiled, endpapers a bit smudged, a very good copy without dustwrapper, probably as issued. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author. Poetry by a black woman. This copy Inscribed twice to Hon. Oscar and Mrs. Du Priest..... More