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 about Simple's Uncle Sam

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 about God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse

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 about Signed Envelope with FDR and ER stamps with a musical scale

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 about Modern Politics. Being a Series of Lectures on the Subject given at the Trinidad Public Library,...

[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 about A Letter to the Committee Chosen by the American Tract Society, to Inquire into The Proceedings...

Columbia, S. C: The State Company, 1925. First Edition. Read More about The Slave Trade. Slavery and Color

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 about God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse

New York: Viking Press, 1935. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "For Mrs. Charles L. Mead/ Sincerely, James Weldon Johnson/ October 4-1937." Read More about Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems

Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 1848. First edition. COPY IN WRAPPERS — ABOLITION FOR YOUNG ADULTS. “Mother, he asked me if I were an abolitionist. What did he mean? What is an abolitionist?”A didactic novel for children about a Northern white family and their experiences with slavery and the..... Read More about The Young Abolitionists; or Conversations on Slavery

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1964. Dutchman was Jones’s first professionally produced play, the winner of the 1964 Obie Award. Read More about Dutchman And The Slave

New York: Evergreen, 1968. First Evergreen edition. Signed. An important book by Jones. Nine stories concerning the sensibility of a perceptive young black man in America (Treasure Trove)Signed on the title-page in 1981. Read More about Tales

New York: April, 1890. Kemble, E. W. Edward Windsor Kemble (1861-1933) is best-known for his superb illustrations of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Puddin’ Head Wilson, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and several of Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories. He was a self-taught artist, whose work “reveals a...... Read More about Pen and Ink Drawing: "The Promoter." Illustration for The Century Magazine of a gap...

New York: Oct. 1887. Kemble, E. W. Edward Windsor Kemble (1861-1933) is best-known for his superb illustrations of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Puddin’ Head Wilson, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and several of Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories. He was a self-taught artist, whose work “reveals a...... Read More about Pen and Ink Drawing: 4 vignette scenes of black women for "Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom at home in...