Portrait Photograph of Harry Belafonte in "Almanac"
New York: Feb. 18, 1954. Belafonte's film and singing career was taking off -- in 1954 he landed... Read More
Price: $2,000
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Portrait photograph of Geoffrey Holder.
[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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Portrait photograph of Billie Holiday.
[New York: March 23, 1949]. Van Vechten, Carl. A dramatic portrait of Billie Holiday in full-throated song. Read More
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Black Diamonds. Life in the Negro Leagues from the Men Who Lived It.
[Westport, Conn.]: Meckler Books, [1989]. First edition. Read More
Price: $250
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Colonization and Abolition Contrasted [drop-title].
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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Inscribed to Lena Horne
The Friends.
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
The First Annual Report
Annual Report of Howard University…for the Year 1867-8.
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
350 Years of Illustrations
A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, [1956]. First Edition. 350 Years of Illustrations. Read More
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I, Too, Sing America. A Song Cycle...Poems by Langston Hughes.
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
Equality Land and Freedom. A Program for Negro Liberation.
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
Price: $300
Laughing to Keep From Crying.
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
Price: $275
Simple Stakes A Claim.
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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Simple's Uncle Sam.
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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Typed Letter, signed, to Maria N. Randall of Sarah Lawrence College, regarding his unpublished play, MULATTO.
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
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Signed Envelope with FDR and ER stamps with a musical scale.
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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Mamma's Black Nurse Stories.
London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1890. First Edition. Jamaican dialect folk stories, including West African Anansi tales. Read More
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Modern Politics. Being a Series of Lectures on the Subject given at the Trinidad Public Library, in its Adult Education...
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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Discrimination — U.S.A.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1960]. First edition. Inscribed, December 1, 1960. To Mildred & Shepard with affectionate regards ---JKJ N.Y." Read More
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A Letter to the Committee Chosen by the American Tract Society, to Inquire into The Proceedings of its Executive Committee...
[New York: 1857]. First edition. An attack on the American Tract Society by Jay, one of the founders of the NY Anti-Slavery Society, for its attempts to sidestep the issue of slavery. Read More
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THE CARGO THAT FED A SPANISH ARMY
Partially printed Bill of Lading of the Royal Charlottes of cargo, Signed by Silvanus Jencks.
Mississippi: 18 October 1769. THE CARGO THAT FED A SPANISH ARMY. Reading in part: "Shipped by the grace of God… in and upon the good Ship, called the Royall Charlotte whereof is Master under God for this recent voyage Silvanus Jencks and now riding at anchor in the Road to... Read More
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The Slave Trade. Slavery and Color.
Columbia, S. C: The State Company, 1925. First Edition. Read More
Price: $275
Early printing
God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1929]. First English edition. Early printing. Includes "The Prodigal Son", beginning "Young man...Your arm's too short to box with God." Read More
Price: $75
God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955. Fifteenth printing. Includes "The Prodigal Son", beginning "Young man...Your arm's too short to box with God." Read More
Price: $400
God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse.
New York: The Viking Press, 1950. Thirteenth printing. Includes "The Prodigal Son", beginning "Young man...Your arm's too short to box with God." Read More
Price: $125
Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems.
New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. Read More
Price: $50