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eCatalog 5 contains 55 items, including signed and inscribed first editions, photographs, broadsides, handwritten and typed manuscripts, posters, and more!

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Item #519384 Anti-Slavery Reporter. A Periodical, Containing The Address of the New York City...

Anti-Slavery Reporter. A Periodical, Containing The Address of the New York City Anti-Slavery Society, &c. &c. Vol. I, No. 5. October, 1833

New-York: [American Anti-Slavery Society], 1833. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. [16] pages (paginated [65]-80). Sewn printed self-wrappers. Early owner name in pencil on front cover. Moderate foxing, corners lightly creased, else a very good copy. The first periodical published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. The *Anti-Slavery Reporter* was published from June..... More

Price: $750.00

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Item #460603 [Broadside]: History of Harlem

[Broadside]: History of Harlem

Harlem, New York: From the Local Reporter, (1881). Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 6" x 12½". Printed in two columns. Titled *History of Harlem* in ornate capitals at top. Old neat folds and a light crease at the lower corner, a couple of tiny spots, else near fine. Summary and review of..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Item #460603

Item #538081 [Broadside]: Marriage Certificate

[Broadside]: Marriage Certificate

Chicago: P.P. & F. Co., [1910]. Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 16" x 20". Central image of an African-American couple in wedding attire with a minister between them holding a Bible. Below is a form with blanks to enter the names of the couple, date of the ceremony, and space for witness..... More

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Item #538573 [Color Lithograph]: Two Minstrel Performers: Netcong Fire Company, No. 1 – 2nd...

[Color Lithograph]: Two Minstrel Performers: Netcong Fire Company, No. 1 – 2nd Annual Minstrel, Palace Theatre, Netcong, March 20

Newport, KY: Donaldson Litho. Co., [circa 1920s]. Offset color lithograph. Measuring 20” x 28”. Slight horizontal crease, a few small closed tears at the edges, one small spot in background, two small tape mends on the back of to edge, very good or better. A bright advertising poster of two..... More

Price: $2,500.00

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Item #463093 Le Bal Des Fleurs. St. Mark's Methodist Church. Third Annual Debutante Cotillion

Le Bal Des Fleurs. St. Mark's Methodist Church. Third Annual Debutante Cotillion

New York: St. Mark's Methodist Church, 1967. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated [172pp]. Photographic illustrations. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Several light spots on the front wrap, light thumbing at the edges of the pages, near very good. Elaborate program or souvenir for a debutante cotillion for young African-American women, all illustrated, with extensive..... More

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Item #534277 [Original Partially Printed Receipt]: Boarding House for Colered [sic] Cooks &...

[Original Partially Printed Receipt]: Boarding House for Colered [sic] Cooks & Stewards. Littleton Williams. Quai Casimir Delavigne No. 9. Havre. Ship George West. Feb 15th, 1858

[Le Havre]: Imp. [H.] Bret, 1858. Unbound. Original printed receipt. Dates, names, and fees completed in manuscript. Docketed on verso: "f 152 - Cook & Steward's Board." 7½" x 11½". Old folds, slight fading of manuscript portions, still easily readable and well-preserved, near fine. An unexpected record of African-American expatriate..... More

Price: $3,500.00

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Item #455878 [Photo Album]: The Black American Center for Social Changes, Inc. Rev. Lawrence...

[Photo Album]: The Black American Center for Social Changes, Inc. Rev. Lawrence Franklin. Founder & C.E.O.

[Detroit]: The Black American Center for Social Changes, Inc., [circa 1993-1996]. Softcover. Small photo album with 42 color images. Each measuring 4” x 6”. Wallet-sized album. Images are fine, album has small tears, overall about fine. The album features a meeting or event sponsored by The Black American Center for..... More

Price: $1,200.00

Item #455878

Item #541079 A Message from Muhammed Ali. Muhammed ALI

ALI, Muhammed

A Message from Muhammed Ali

[No place: no publisher, circa 1987]. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 8pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. Inscribed on the front cover: "To Will from Muhammed Ali. 5-31-87." The name "Will" is in different colored ink, but appears to be in Ali's hand, as is the rest of the (apparently pre-written) presentation..... More

Price: $4,500.00

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Item #412817 Reggae or Not. Amiri BARAKA

BARAKA, Amiri

Reggae or Not

New York: Contact II Publications, 1981. Softcover. First edition. Small quarto. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Dampstain along the edges of the wrappers, about very good. Inscribed by the author to Piri Thomas and his wife Betty Elder Thomas, an activist attorney who fought for women's rights: "Por Piri y Betty, Unidad..... More

Price: $950.00

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ISBN: 0936556048

Item #462145 Across the Years: Memoirs. Leila Mae BARLOW

BARLOW, Leila Mae

Across the Years: Memoirs

Montgomery, Alabama: The Paragon Press, (1959). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 84pp. Frontispiece portrait of Alabama State College President H. Councill Trenholm. Black cloth gilt. Two small areas of tape residue on the front pastedown and a small inked "loaned" note on the rear fly, else fine in a near fine..... More

Price: $750.00

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Item #463824 Autograph Letter Signed from Member of Congress Henry Bennett, to his Father with...

BENNETT, Henry

Autograph Letter Signed from Member of Congress Henry Bennett, to his Father with mention and details of a Parade of "Negro Whigs"

Unbound. Letter from Henry Bennett, later a member of Congress, to his father dated May 3, 1840 from Washington, DC. Four pages. Measuring 7¾" x 9¾". Old folds from mailing, near fine. A marvelously descriptive letter reporting on political goings-on in Washington, DC and at the Whig Convention in Baltimore..... More

Price: $2,500.00

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Item #449492 [Panoramic Photograph]: "Faculty and Students of Tougaloo College" C. J. BURNELL

BURNELL, C.J.

[Panoramic Photograph]: "Faculty and Students of Tougaloo College"

Jackson, Mississippi: 1924. Unbound. Sepia-toned gelatin silver panoramic photograph. Approximately 44" x 8". Captioned in white in the negative. Rolled with creasing and small tears else, very good. A panoramic photograph taken by C.J. Burnell of the "Faculty and Students of Tougaloo College" dated April 1924. The members of the..... More

Price: $3,500.00

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Item #533352 The African Slave Trade. Thomas Fowell BUXTON

BUXTON, Thomas Fowell

The African Slave Trade

Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1839. Hardcover. First American edition, from the second London edition. 12mo. 188pp. Publisher's ribbon cloth gilt. Stain mostly confined to the foredge and faintly on the boards, a bit of foxing, a very good copy with slight loss on the cloth at the crown. The first..... More

Price: $1,000.00

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Item #539148 The Policy King. Lewis A. H. CALDWELL

CALDWELL, Lewis A.H.

The Policy King

Chicago: New Vistas Publishing House, (1945). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 303pp. About fine in attractive very good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears, mostly at the spine ends. The only novel by this African-American author examines the numbers racket and its affect on a Black family. A...... More

Price: $2,000.00

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Item #542857 Three Generations: The Story of a Colored Family in Eastern Tennessee. Charles W....

CANSLER, Charles W.

Three Generations: The Story of a Colored Family in Eastern Tennessee

[Kingsport, Tennessee]: Privately printed / [Kingsport Press], 1939. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 173pp. Blue cloth with title in gilt. Light rubbing on the boards, a near fine copy. A very uncommon family history written by an African-American. Distribution was obviously very limited, and we haven't encountered another copy in a...... More

Price: $1,000.00

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Item #520940 A Lecture on African Civilization, Including a Brief Outline of the Social and Moral...

CHRISTY, David

A Lecture on African Civilization, Including a Brief Outline of the Social and Moral Condition of Africa; and the Relations of American Slavery to African Civilization. Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio, January 19, 1850 By David Christy, Agent of The American Colonization Society

Cincinnati: Printed by J.A. & U.P. James, 1850. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 52pp. Original sewn tan printed wrappers. Spine of original wrappers eroded away with paper residue and notching on spine where once bound, otherwise a near fine copy. Uncommon. The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817, with the..... More

Price: $1,000.00

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Item #535427 Bound Volume of Vocal Sheet Music, including many Rare and Important Minstrel Songs...

CHRISTY, Edwin P., and Christy’s Minstrels; W.D. Corrister; Stephen C. Foster; (Ethiopian, Virginia, and White’s Serenaders)

Bound Volume of Vocal Sheet Music, including many Rare and Important Minstrel Songs with Illustrated Lithographic Covers, 1847-55

(1847-55). Hardcover. Small folio. Measuring 9½” x 12¼”. Contemporary half calf and pebbled cloth over boards, gilt spine with raised bands, initials “C. E. B.” stamped in gold on front cover, marbled endpapers and edges. Near contemporary ink owner name in ink on front fly leaf (“J.F. Macdonald”). Contains 38..... More

Price: $4,500.00

Item #535427

Item #436624 The Green Pastures. Marc CONNELLY

CONNELLY, Marc

The Green Pastures

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1929. Hardcover. First edition, trade issue. Boards stained, with some tidemarks in the gutters of the first dozen leaves, externally fair only, internally about very good in good dustwrapper split along the front gutter and toned (possibly supplied to the book, but as we received..... More

Price: $800.00

Item #436624

Item #532953 Copper Sun. Countee CULLEN

CULLEN, Countee

Copper Sun

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Hardcover. First edition, trade issue. Decorations by Charles Cullen. Spine label toned, boards a bit rubbed, very good in very good spine-toned and price-clipped dust jacket. A nice copy. More

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Item #89783 Inscribed Portrait Photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois. W. E. B. DU BOIS, DuBois

DU BOIS, W.E.B. (DuBois)

Inscribed Portrait Photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois

[1944]. Unbound. Large portrait photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois. Image is matted to approximately 10" x 13". The image shows a touch of oxidation at the edges but is otherwise both striking and fine. The mat has some age-toning, light creases and photographer’s pencil mark (“Gach Bros. N.Y.”) on the..... More

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Item #536921 The Souls of Black Folk. W. E. B. DU BOIS, DuBois

DU BOIS, W.E.B. (DuBois)

The Souls of Black Folk

New York: Blue Heron Press, 1953. Hardcover. Fiftieth Anniversary edition. New foreword by Du Bois, and with comments by Shirley Graham. Cloth and decorated papercovered boards. Top corners very slightly bumped, about fine, lacking the unprinted tissue dust jacket. Signed by Du Bois on a slip, as issued, that indicates..... More

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Item #519064 The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer. Containing The Best Prose and Poetic Selections...

DUNBAR-NELSON, Alice Moore

The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer. Containing The Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and about The Negro Race. With Programs arranged for Special Entertainments

Naperville, Ill. Published by J. L. Nichols & Co., (1920). Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson. Introduction by Leslie Pinckney Hill. Large octavo. 288pp. Illustrated reproducing photographs and drawings. Reddish-brown cloth stamped in black. Owner bookplate on front pastedown; binding is lightly soiled, one page of text has..... More

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Item #540670 The African Repository. Vol. XXXV. No. 2. Millard FILLMORE

(FILLMORE, Millard)

The African Repository. Vol. XXXV. No. 2

Washington [DC]: Published by the American Colonization Society [by] C. Alexander, Printer, February, 1859. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. P. 35-64. Pale blue printed wrappers. Very faint and narrow tidemark along the very edge of the pages, very good or better. Signature of former President Millard Fillmore at top of the..... More

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Item #537432 A Collection of Portraits of Black Women by African-American Photographer Arthur...

GROBES, Arthur E.

A Collection of Portraits of Black Women by African-American Photographer Arthur Grobes, circa 1970s

[Philadelphia: 1970s]. A group of 47 loose gelatin silver prints (5” x 7”), four of which have the photographer’s small ink name stamp on the verso: “Arthur E. Grobes, 1510 N. Alden Street”. All but two or three are images of Black women modeling negligees, swimsuits, and a few dresses..... More

Price: $2,950.00

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Item #542575 Father of the Blues: An Autobiography. W. C. HANDY

HANDY, W.C.

Father of the Blues: An Autobiography

New York: Macmillan Company, 1944. Hardcover. Fourth printing. Edited by Anna Bontemps. Foreword by Anne Niles. Octavo. 317pp. Frontispiece, printed music in the text. Slight rubbing at some edges, very good or better in very good dust jacket with several small chips, and front panel partially split at spine fold..... More

Price: $750.00

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