Catalog 235 contains 102 items relating to African-Americana, including signed or inscribed literary first editions, original art, photo albums, scrapbooks, handwritten letters, and more!
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[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]: 1957. A group of 30 loose black and white snapshot photographs, each measuring approximately 3.5" square, and dated "Sep 57" in print in the margins. Some mild curling and light edgewear, near fine. A collection of 30 vernacular photographs capturing a 1957 African-American parade sponsored by the Improved..... More
![Item #412631 [Bookstore Catalog]: The Dunbar Book Company Presents Negro and African Literature...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/412631.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1491327437)
New York: The Dunbar Book Co., [1963?]. Softcover. Small octavo. 14, [2]pp. Stapled printed self-wrappers. Owner's name on rear wrap, change-of-address stamp on each cover (the store moved from 550 Fifth Avenue to 217 West 125th Street), faint bend and some check marks in the text, very good or better..... More
![Item #415803 [Broadside]: Brunch for Breakfasts: Friends of the Panthers invite you to attend a...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/415803.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1556810780)
Los Angeles: Friends of the Panthers, [circa 1970]. Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 8.5" x 11". Printed on one side of a single leaf of yellow paper. Folded twice for mailing else fine. Bulletin board poster to be used by local groups in support of the Black Panthers' free breakfast programs. The..... More
1977. Unbound. A small archive of material relating to the sale of Stax Records to a partnership, Elan Enterprises, which seems like it was a front for Fantasy Records. Consists of (1) a letter from an attorney to Bernard "Beans" Lieberman, one of the partners, enclosing (2) a fully executed..... More
![Item #426215 [Cover title]: Directory Atlanta Public Schools, Atlanta, Georgia 1942-1943. V: All...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/426215.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1539286708)
Atlanta: Atlanta Public Schools, 1942. Softcover. Octavo. 109pp. Quarter canvas and printed thin blue card wrappers. Pencil name on front wrap ("Jones"), many pencil and a few ink names on first and last couple of leaves, small bump on the foredge causing small tears on a few leaves, a very..... More
![Item #425985 [Cover title]: Prince Hall: Veteran of the Revolution, he founded 1st Negro chapter...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/425985.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559328653)
[No place]: (Bro. Robert "Bob" Leake, 1966). Softcover. First edition(?). Preface and conclusion by Bro. Bob Leake. Tall quarto. [4], 12pp. Mimeographed leaves, rectos only. Stapled illustrated blue wrappers. Modest age-toning and a very short tear on the front wrap, else near fine. History and overview of the Prince Hall..... More
[Quaker Oats, circa 1920s]. Unbound. Four wood frames containing printed cloth cutout doll fabric with glass on both sides to show the front and rear of the figures. The frames measure 10" x 17" or 13" x 21" with the figures approximately 13" x 6" or 17" x 9". Each..... More
![Item #424842 [Hand Colored Lithograph]: Flowers of Ugliness No. 9. Virginia Stock](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/424842.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1565014839)
London: G.S. Tregear, 96 Cheapside / Ingray, Lith. 1836. Hardcover. Hand colored lithograph on white wove paper. Approximately 12½" x 9½". Margins a bit trimmed affecting no text or any part of the image (as evidenced from the only other copy we could locate), slight scuffs on the verso, probably..... More
Boston: National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, 1852. Hardcover. First edition. 303, [1] errata pp. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. Frontispiece engraving of a bell ringing over broken chains and swords. Penciled ownership signature of Mary B. F. Curtis of Rochester, New York (referenced in Susan B. Anthony's *History of Woman's Suffrage*..... More
![Item #424837 [Loose Photographs]: African-American Catholic School](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/424837.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1556810802)
Iowa: [circa 1940s - 1950s]. Softcover. A collection of 21 loose sepia-toned or black and white silver gelatin photographs measuring between 3.5" x 5" and 8" x 10", with some captions. Slight curling and fading else very good. An archive of photographs from an African-American Catholic school in Iowa mostly..... More
Loudoun County, Va. September 2, 1826. Unbound. Manuscript document unsigned. Approximately 7.5" x 11". Docketed on the verso: "Warrant for Patrol." Old folds, small ink splotch, sound and very good. Issued by an unidentified Justice of the Peace in Loudoun County, Virginia, and addressed to Captain Thomas Moss, Joseph Vanpelt..... More
Paris: Societe d'editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales, 1928. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 22, [1]pp. Frontispiece portrait. Stitched printed buff wrappers. Sunning and tiny tears on the oversize wrappers, very good or better. Memorial volume about the important French colonial administrator and ethnographer of African languages. *OCLC* locates 13 copies over..... More
Boston: J.A. Collins, 1841. Softcover. First edition. Small octavo. 36pp. Illustrated with wood engraved silhouettes of Cinque and two other Amistad slaves. Illustrated blue-green wrappers. Contemporary but probably not original stitching, moderate chipping on the wrappers, some foxing in the text, near very good. An almanac noteworthy for its contents..... More
New York: Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, 1920. Softcover. Large quarto. [64]pp. Illustrated in sepia tones, mostly portraits from photographs. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Staples oxidized and partially detaching, soiling, wear, and tears on the wrappers, a few small tears in the text, a sound, good copy. A very nice..... More
![Item #435122 [Oversized Cabinet Photo] Lane College African-American Baseball Team 1912](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/435122.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563377543)
[Jackson, Tennessee]: 1912. Unbound. Gelatin silver photograph. Approximately 8" x 6", matted to a finished size of 12" x 9". Very slight fading, else near fine, on a lightly worn very good mount. The photo appears to have been the property of Arthur Riley, the team's catcher (front row, left)..... More
San Antonio, Texas and Portland, Oregon: [circa 1920]. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Measuring 7½” x 5¾”. String-tied flexible paper boards. Contains 31 black and white or sepia toned, gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 4" x 6", some with captions. Album very good with light wear and rubbing..... More
![Item #425973 [Point of Sale Bumper Sticker Display]: United We Shall Overcome](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/425973.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1559328653)
Washington, D.C. AAA Novelty Co., [circa 1963]. Unbound. Printed card display with folding "stand-up" on verso. Measuring 9.5" x 13". Stapled to the card with stout staples are approximately 100 "bumperette" stickers (we admit we didn't count them, but it appears intact and complete) each with peel-off backs intact and..... More
![Item #423757 [Postcards]: American Negro Emancipation Centennial. Biographies of Notable Negroes....](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/423757.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1528472552)
Toledo, Ohio: Graphic Publishing Co., 1968. Unbound. 21 different postcards (one more than called for). Each is 3.5" x 5.5", the group housed in a cardboard box. Cards are fine, the box has a touch of foxing, else near fine. Includes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Langston Hughes..... More
Monrovia, Liberia: College of West Africa Press, 1912. Softcover. First collected edition (originally published in serial form in a Liberian newspaper in the 1870s). Edited by Frederick Starr. Octavo. 43pp. Original thin printed wrappers. Stamped correction on title page (changing Starr's institutional affiliation from "Chicago University" to "The University of..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1771. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 144pp., 53pp., [6]pp. index (the Sharp extract is appended at the end with its own pagination). Contemporary full calf. Old ex-library copy with bookplate, small label on the spine, an old pocket on the rear fly, and a perforated stamp..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Libraries, 1984. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 96pp. Illustrated. Illustrated wrappers. Small tear on the spine else a near fine copy. Nicely Inscribed by Charles L. Blockson. Exhibition catalog of high spots from the Blockson Collection that formed the basis of his massive catalog. More
New York: Who's Who in Colored America Corp. 1927. Hardcover. First edition. Thick quarto. 333, [1]pp., heavily illustrated from photographs. Brown pebble-grained cloth gilt. Modest rubbing on the boards and a small dampmark on the edge of the front endpapers, a nice very good copy of this larger format volume..... More
[Circa 1970]. Unbound. Black and white gelatin silver photograph. Measuring 10" by 8". Image of Gwendolyn Brooks, William Edel, Andrew J. Offut and two other figures. Near fine with some very light soiling. Signed by Brooks, Edel, Offut and one other. More
Des Moines, Iowa: (The Bystander Press), 1925. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. 88, [1]pp. Portrait frontispiece of Mrs. Brown and additional illustrations from photographs, many of black Masonic Halls, largely in the South. Blue cloth gilt. Penciled gift inscription dated in 1930 in Des Moines, the textblock a little loose..... More
Houston: D. Armstrong Co., (1977). Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 105pp. Modest stain on foredge and last few leaves, very good in good only dustwrapper with corresponding stains on the front panel. Jordon was the first African-American elected to the Texas Senate and the first Southern African-American woman elected to..... More