Catalog 261 contains 120 items, including signed and inscribed first editions, photographs, broadsides, posters, and more!
Download PDF of African-Americana![Item #522089 [African-American Sororal Order Badge]: Sisters of the Mysterious Ten: Justice,...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/522089.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689347505)
St. Louis, Mo. [Manufactured by] Steiner Engraving & Badge Co. [for] Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, [circa 1900?]. Unbound. Sororal order badge. An elaborate ribbon and badge: red silk measuring 2¾" x 6½" printed with silver lettering stating: "Christobel. Temple No. 326. S. M. T. St. Louis, Mo." with decorative..... More
New York: American Society of African Culture, 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 70, [2]pp. Illustrated from photographs. Stapled printed buff wrappers. Bound in brown cloth gilt, wrappers bound in; whether issued as such, or rebound by the previous owner is unclear. There is a small number stamp ("0033") on the..... More
![Item #543822 [Broadside]: Meet Me There! Where? At the Gardens, Washington, PA..... Concert and...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/543822.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669756482)
Pittsburgh, Pa. Liberty Show Print, [1926]. Unbound. Photographically illustrated broadside. Measuring 22" x 14½". Small chip bottom left corner, modest wear at the margins, but otherwise near fine. Upper left of the broadside features an image of the 40 piece African-American band under the direction of Fritz Hawkins, who became..... More
![Item #534521 [Broadside]: Thirty-Second Annual Celebration Negro History Week February 10-17, 1957](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/534521.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689613900)
Washington, D.C. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1957. Softcover. Double-sided illustrated broadside. Thin orange card stock. Measuring 8½" x 11". Tiny pinholes in each corner, very faint nominal crease, else about fine. One side features a large portrait of Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), the founder..... More
Blair, Neb[aska]. Hart, [circa 1880]. Unbound. Albumen portrait photograph. Image approximately 4" x 5½" on 4¼" x 6½" thick card mount with photographers mark on front. Three tiny stains in upper background else near fine. A well-dressed young Black man stands full-length in front of a photographer's painted background. Subject..... More
Kearney, NE / Texas: Cookbooks by Morris Press / 10th Episcopal District African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1990. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 244pp., plus index and additional material. Frontispiece photographs of Bishop Pruitt and three A.M.E. women responsible for the book. Illustrated red plastic three ring binder. One leaf partially pulled..... More
![Item #445959 [Flyer]: First Annual Black Memorabilia Extravaganza Sale & Show. Silver Spring...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/445959.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1595280069)
Silver Spring, Maryland: 1984. Unbound. Handbill or flyer. Approximately 7" x 8½". Vignette of black "mammy" in upper left corner. Creases, several small tears, a good copy of this ephemeral little flyer advertising a show featuring black collectibles including books, prints, sheet music, toys, kitchen items, figurines, postcards, etc. Early..... More
![Item #549065 [Manuscript]: A Deposition Regarding the Ownership of Enslaved Negroes Claimed by...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/549065.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679336335)
Gonzales County, Texas: [circa 1857]. One manuscript leaf. Folio (8” x 12 ¼”). An incomplete deposition statement written in ink on the recto only of a loose leaf (numbered “52” in lower left corner), presumably removed from a larger legal document. Near fine. The deposition was made by a relative..... More
![Item #541742 [Menu and Wine List]: Harlem Uproar House](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/541742.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690218716)
New York: Harlem Uproar House, [circa 1935]. Unbound. Menu. Measuring 9" x 12". One card leaf folded to make four pages. Cover illustration of a nearly nude African-American woman and a baby with a balloon. Chip at the bottom corner of back cover removing a modest amount of text (and..... More
![Item #554037 [Photo Album]: Glimpses '96 [1896](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/554037-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687360330)
Softcover. Small photo album. Measuring 7” x 6½”. Ribbon-tied card wrappers with title "Glimpses '96" handwritten in gold. Six thick decorative card leaves, each with a mounted 4¾" x 3¾" gelatin silver image of a Black farming family. No captioning beyond the title, but likely from the South. Small stain..... More
![Item #542757 [Photo Album]: Images of 1991 Unity Day Celebration in Philadelphia](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/542757-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689347520)
(Philadelphia: 1991). Softcover. Spiral bound “Kromacolor” photo album. Measuring 6” x 4”. Contains 36 color photographs neatly laid into plastic sleeves. In fine condition. A collection of color snapshots taken at the 1991 Unity Day celebration held along the Parkway in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The album..... More
![Item #546640 [Program Handbill]: Benefit for the Calhoun Colored School. Miss Gertrude May Stein...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/546640.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690557105)
[Calhoun, Alabama? circa 1910]. Unbound. Handbill. Approximately 5¼" x 7¾". Old folds, very good or better. Consisting largely of classical music selections; both of the soloists were professional musicians from the Boston area. The Calhoun School in Calhoun, Alabama, was founded in 1892 by two New England women in conjunction..... More
[No place]: Tuskegee Airmen Incorporated, [1994?]. Hardcover. First edition? Small quarto. ii, 322pp. White plastic three-ring binder with blue printed title sheet in a sleeve on front cover. Just about fine. Member's handbook lists national and regional officers and directors, and lists members, first divided by geographical chapters, and then..... More
Unbound. Two 1/6 plate tintypes. Examined out of the mats with no obvious identification. Circa 1865-1870. One image of a woman seated in a dress, with a touch of gold tinting on the brooch at her neck; the second image of a man seated with a jacket, tie, and hat..... More
(New York: National Urban League / Office of Vocational Guidance, 1952). Softcover. First edition. Slim quarto. [24]pp. Stapled wrappers. Staples oxidized, cover has modest foxing, near fine. A publication prepared by the Office of Vocational Guidance at the National Urban League, providing information about their Career Conference program, designed to..... More
Omaha: Educational Publishing Co. / (Beacon Press - Better Printers), (1919). Softcover. First edition. Oblong octavo. [32]pp. Illustrated with 16 halftones from photographs. Stapled buff wrappers printed in blue. Owner name on front wrap, and several tiny date stamps (one on front wrap), else near fine. Scarce illustrated account of..... More
Seattle, Wash. J.P. Ball & Sons, [circa 1898]. Unbound. Cabinet card photograph. Image measures approximately 4" x 5½" on photographer's cardstock mount with photographer's imprint beneath the image. Bust-style image of a Black woman, perhaps in her 30s, with an elaborate black lace collar. A scratch and soiling on the..... More
Boston: George H. Ellis, Printer, 1890. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 142pp. Printed gray wrappers. Staples oxidized with stains on covers, else a near fine copy of a fragile publication. The Mohonk Conference on the Negro Question was modeled on a similar conference on Indian Affairs that was held the previous..... More
Poughkeepsie, New York: Artists & Writers Guild, 1938. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated by George Wright. Stapled illustrated wrappers. All “moving pictures” present. Slight age-toning on wrappers, near fine. A children’s book about the history of cotton and its production told in verse, with two pages of photo strips at..... More
![Item #532773 [Exhibition Catalog]: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Blue Ribbon Paintings. Jean-Michel...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/532773.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690819958)
South Hadley, Massachusetts: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, (1994). Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Essays by Bruce Guenther, and Lenore and Herbert Schoor. Slim quarto. 14pp. Illustrated with color plates and a black and white artist portrait. Light wear, cover and another leaf with a tiny stain (plus a tiny abrasion on..... More
Freeport, N.Y. Submitted by JMG Books, 1996. Unbound. First edition. 64 printed quarto leaves printed rectos only with a blank yellow leaf at the end. Likely scanned or photocopied from a single original. The original was apparently on high-quality textured paper, with various irregularities on the copied paper appearing as..... More
New York: Excel Publishing, (1995). Softcover. First edition. Trade paperback original. Octavo. 117pp. Illustrated wrappers. Very near fine. Laid in is a brief Autograph Note Signed from co-author Erik Sherman, to "Tom" dated in 1995 thanking him for being considered for the 1995 Casey Award. Burke played for the Los..... More
Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, [2011]. Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Nelson Mandela. One corner a trifle bumped else fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by both Carter and co-author Klonsky. More
Ship Island, Mississippi: 1865. Printed certificate completed in manuscript. 8” x 10”. Two slight original horizontal folds, near fine. This Union Army “Certificate to be Given to Union Volunteers at the Time of their Discharge” was issued for Robert Brown, an African-American Private in Company C of the Second Regiment..... More
New York: Community Relations Project / National Urban League, 1945. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 29pp., mimeographed rectos only. Clothbacked stapled card wrappers. Faint cover stain and staples a bit oxidized, near fine. A snapshot, sponsored by the Houston Council of Social Agencies, of the social and recreational organizations, programs, and..... More