African Americana Sept. 2021

James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present this collection of African-Americana, most of it new arrivals. Highlights include a number of important slave narratives; a scarce decorative broadside printing of the Emancipation Proclamation; William Wells Brown's American Fugitive in Europe, the earliest African American travelogue; Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue, the first ever dictionary of "jive"; selections in photography, visual art, archives, and Abolitionist material culture, including a printed billhead from a shop that offered "Dry-Goods, Groceries, &c. Free from Slave Labour"; as well as all of the very special items below.

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Item #320363 Photograph signed and inscribed in the image ("Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong), to Jackie...

Armstrong, Louis.

Photograph signed and inscribed in the image ("Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong), to Jackie "Moms" Mabley, "Best wishes to Jackie Mabley, my...

Inscribed. "Moms" Mabley (1894-1975) was the preeminent African American female comedian from the mid-20th century, and opened for Louis Armstrong on several occasions. A fabulous association between two of the most important African-American performers of the period. Read More about Photograph signed and inscribed in the image ("Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong), to Jackie...

Price: $2,500

[Day, Thomas and John Bicknell].

The Dying Negro, A Poem.

London: W. Flexney, 1775. Third edition, Corrected and Enlarged. The Advertisement following the title states: "The following Poem was occasioned by a fact which had recently happened at the time of its first publication in 1773. A Negro, belonging to the Captain of a West Indiaman, having agreed to marry..... Read More about The Dying Negro, A Poem

Price: $2,500

Item #314384 De la Littérature des Nègres, ou recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles,...

Grégoire, Henri.

De la Littérature des Nègres, ou recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et leur littérature; suivi de Notices...

Paris: Chez Maradan, Libraire, 1808. First edition. First edition of the first history of black literature. Grégoire (1750-1831) was an abolitionist and a former Bishop of Blois. His De la Littérature des Nègres (Paris, 1808) was aimed at the seemingly false sympathy of Thomas Jefferson as expressed in his Notes..... Read More about De la Littérature des Nègres, ou recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs...

Price: $5,000

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