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Our Lady's Choir: A Contemporary Anthology of Verse...
Boston: Printed by Fred Anthoensen of The Southworth Press for Bruce Humphries, 1931. First edition, no. 4 of... Read More
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Boston: Printed by Fred Anthoensen of The Southworth Press for Bruce Humphries, 1931. First edition, no. 4 of... Read More
Price: $1,500
[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1870]. Harvard's First Black Graduate, One of the “Talented Tenth”. Of particular interest is the portrait of Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard College's first black graduate and the first black graduate of a top-tier university (Slater, "The Blacks who First Entered the World of White Higher Education" p.... Read More
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Inscribed. Presentation copy of this memoir of one of the Civil Rights movements great heroines, inscribed on the flyleaf by the author. Read More
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1929. No. 74 of 175 copies SIGNED BY HEYWARD and the designer JOSEPH SANDFORD. Signed by the Author and Designer. Read More
Price: $350
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1929. No. 50 of 175 copies SIGNED BY HEYWARD and the designer JOSEPH SANDFORD. Signed by the Author and Designer. Read More
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Boston: D.B. Updike: The Merrymount Press, 1902. First edition. INSCRIBED TO H.C. LODGE. Inscribed: " H.C.Lodge from H.L. Higginson July 8, 1902". Robert Gould Shaw and his black soldiers of 54th Massachusetts Volunteers has been immortalized by the movie. Read More
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London: Clarke, Beeton & Co., 148, Fleet Street, [1852]. Later edition, bound from the 18 parts. Read More
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New York: June 28, 1955. Reproduced (from this print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More
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[New York]: Sept 2 1954. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photography of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Bust and shoulders. Read More
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[New York: March 23, 1949]. Van Vechten, Carl. A dramatic portrait of Billie Holiday in full-throated song. Read More
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[Westport, Conn.]: Meckler Books, [1989]. First edition. Read More
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Philadelphia: Herman Hooker, 1853. First Edition. An argument for the superiority of a policy of African colonization and the repatriation of Afro-Americans over one of mere abolition, which special attention given by the author to Liberia. Read More
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. First edition. Inscribed to Lena Horne. INSCRIBED to Lena Horne, “To Miss Lena Horne, A great artist from an adicted admirer. Rosa Guy”. Read More
Price: $150
Washington D.C: Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1868. First Edition. The First Annual Report. The first annual report of Howard University, which was founded in 1867 and named after Oliver Otis Howard, a veteran Union general who headed the Freedman’s Bureau and who was instrumental in the founding of the univeristy, and... Read More
Price: $750
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, [1956]. First Edition. 350 Years of Illustrations. Read More
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Elkins Park, Pa: Music Publication Co, n.d, [1950]. First Edition. Inscribed by the composer, Serge Hovey, on the first page. Read More
Price: $175
New York: League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 1933. Langston Hughes is listed as President of this organization on p. 44, and Hughes may well have had a hand in its contents, which include: (1) Draft Program of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; (2) The Bill of Civil... Read More
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1954. First Edition. “Interrelated stories on many phases of Negro life from the twenties to the present. ” (Whiteman). Read More
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New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1957. First Edition. The third of the Simple series, after Simple Speaks His Mind and Simple Takes a Wife. Read More
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New York: Hill and Wang, 1965. First Edition. New collection of forty-six stories appearing in the book form for the first time. Read More
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np: April 5 1943. To Miss Maria Randall of Sarah Lawrence College, reading in part, “I regret that I do not have a copy of MULATTO which I could send you, as I have given my only manuscript copy to the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at Yale University. The... Read More
Price: $750
Feburary 23, 1975. Jackson was the Black chief petty officer who often played the accordion for FDR at his Georgia retreat Warm Springs and was made famous in the LIFE magazine hotograph of him playing as FDR's coffin was moved from the Little White House to Washington, DC. He is... Read More
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London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1890. First Edition. Jamaican dialect folk stories, including West African Anansi tales. Read More
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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Printed by P.N.M. Publishing Co., Ltd, 1960. First edition. The author was born in Trinidad in 1901. He was a "teacher and Newspaperman, left for England in 1932. In Great Britain, 1932-1938, the United States, 1938-1953, and again in Great Britain, 1953-1958, wrote and radio. Returned to the... Read More
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1960]. First edition. Inscribed, December 1, 1960. To Mildred & Shepard with affectionate regards ---JKJ N.Y." Read More
Price: $125