Inscribed to Kay Boyle
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. Inscribed to Kay Boyle. Inscribed in green ink on the... Read More about The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Price: $3,250
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Four Addresses: The Soldiers' Field: The Harvard Union I: The Harvard Union II: Robert Gould Shaw.
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 about Four Addresses: The Soldiers' Field: The Harvard Union I: The Harvard Union II: Robert Gould Shaw
Price: $350
The White Slave; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America.
London: Clarke, Beeton & Co., 148, Fleet Street, [1852]. Later edition, bound from the 18 parts. Read More about The White Slave; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America
Price: $300
Portrait photograph of Bertha "Chippie" Hill (1905-1950).
New York: October 8, 1947. American blue and Jazz singer who is most famous for her recordings with Louis Armstrong. She was hit by a car and killed in NYC at 45. Read More about Portrait photograph of Bertha "Chippie" Hill (1905-1950
Price: $2,000
Portrait photograph of Chester Himes.
New York: June 28, 1955. Reproduced (from this print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Chester Himes
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Portrait photograph of Chester Himes.
New York: July 10, 1962. Read More about Portrait photograph of Chester Himes
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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 about Black Diamonds. Life in the Negro Leagues from the Men Who Lived It
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 about Colonization and Abolition Contrasted [drop-title
Price: $100
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 about The Friends
Price: $150
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Inscribed to Lena Horne
Footprints. A Tap Dancer’s World. [A Portfolio of Sixty-five Photographs].
Chicago: Footprints, Ltd, [1993]. First edition. Inscribed to Lena Horne. With lengthy INSCRIPTIONS to Lena Horne by Jim Swenson, Susan Pollard, Patsy Perkins, and George Hood, who all worked with Horne on the documentary “Charles Honi Coles — A Class Act of Tap” about tap dancer Charles Honi Coles. This..... Read More about Footprints. A Tap Dancer’s World. [A Portfolio of Sixty-five Photographs
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The Catalogue of the Officers and Students [of Howard University, Washington, D.C.,] from March, 1901 to March, 1902.
Washington, D.C: Printed at the Industrial Department of Howard University, 1902. Chartered in 1867, in its first five years of operation, Howard University educated over 150,000 freed slaves. The present catalogue from 1901-02 records the names of 939 students. Read More about The Catalogue of the Officers and Students [of Howard University, Washington, D.C.,] from March,...
Price: $150
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 about A Pictorial History of the Negro in America
Price: $100
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 about Laughing to Keep From Crying
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 about Simple Stakes A Claim
Price: $250
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 about Simple's Uncle Sam
Price: $150
The Color Question. A Letter written for the Sixieth Annual Meeting of the American Colinization Society, Washington,. D.C. January 16...
Washington, D.C: Coliniztion Rooms, 1877. Read More about The Color Question. A Letter written for the Sixieth Annual Meeting of the American Colinization...
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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 about God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse
Price: $400
The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States.
Richmond, Va: The Presses of The Virginia Presses, [1908]. First edition. Both authors were born slave's children. Daniel Webster Davis (1862-1913) was a teacher, poet, pastor. Jackson (1853-1924) was a Richmond attorney, civil rights activist and nespaper publisher. Read More about The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States
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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 about Signed Envelope with FDR and ER stamps with a musical scale
Price: $200
Portrait photograph of Mahalia Jackson.
New York: April 16, 1962. Read More about Portrait photograph of Mahalia Jackson
Price: $1,500
Mamma's Black Nurse Stories.
London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1890. First Edition. Jamaican dialect folk stories, including West African Anansi tales. Read More about Mamma's Black Nurse Stories
Price: $175
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 about Modern Politics. Being a Series of Lectures on the Subject given at the Trinidad Public Library,...
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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 about Discrimination — U.S.A
Price: $125
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 about A Letter to the Committee Chosen by the American Tract Society, to Inquire into The Proceedings...
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A Rare Document Relating to the Louisiana Rebellion of 1768
Partially-printed Bill of Lading for a cargo aboard the ship Royal Charlotte, bound for "Mississippi" [i.e. New Orleans], Signed by...
[Likely printed in Newport, RI, but accomplished in manuscript at St. Eustatius, West Indies]: 18 October 1769. A Rare Document Relating to the Louisiana Rebellion of 1768. Reading in part: "Shipped by the grace of God … in and upon the good Ship, called the Royall Charlotte whereof is Master..... Read More about Partially-printed Bill of Lading for a cargo aboard the ship Royal Charlotte, bound for...
Price: $3,500