African Americana September 2022

James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to offer a catalogue of our fine inventory of African Americana ranging from abolition to twenty-first century visual art. Highlights include a mint first edition of W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk, the scarce Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, the revised and corrected History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865, and more.

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Item #339249 [Partly-printed quarterly membership ticket to the African Methodist Episcopal...

(African Methodist Episcopal Church) African Methodist.

[Partly-printed quarterly membership ticket to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, issued to William Stratton, and signed by minister G. Greely]...

[Philadelphia]: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Spring 1844. Accomplished for William Stratton (who seems to have been involved with the Lombard Street School), and Signed by George Greely. Greely is listed (twice) as in attendance at the Philadelphia Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1841 ("admitted on trial") and..... Read More about Partly-printed quarterly membership ticket to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, issued to...

Price: $300

Cleaver, Eldridge.

Soul on Ice.

New York: Ramparts / McGraw-Hill, (1968). Inscribed to Dr. Philip Shapiro. First edition. Introduction by Maxwell Geismer. Nicely Inscribed by Cleaver: "To Dr. Shapiro, a comrade in the struggle for Human Rights and Dignity. I always see you at the right places at the right times. Keep on pushing, baby!"..... Read More about Soul on Ice

Price: $5,500

Item #325674 Typed letter signed, "Alex" to publisher Barney Rosset ("Dear Barney") on the...

Haley, Alex.

Typed letter signed, "Alex" to publisher Barney Rosset ("Dear Barney") on the progress of the writing of Roots.

Westmoreland, Jamaica, West Indies: May 28, 1975. In part: "... The sundry publishing and television folk are really on my ass. Roots has got to be published during February 1976, a week or two before the premiere of the television series that's to be filmed this summer and fall. I'm..... Read More about Typed letter signed, "Alex" to publisher Barney Rosset ("Dear Barney") on...

Price: $4,500

Havens, Richie.

[Art Archive].

[New York]: c. 1960s. Richie Havens' art portfolio from the 1960s. Richie Havens (1941–2013) was an American musician made famous by his opening set at Woodstock in 1969. Born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Havens became a regular fixture in the Greenwich Village scene of the 1950s and '60s. Primarily..... Read More about Art Archive

Price: $30,000

Minstrelry.

110 Verses Jim Crow Still Alive! ... [and:] New Verses. Dinah Crow.

Philadelphia: Published and sold at No. 9 North Eighth St, [1830s]. UNRECORDED DOUBLE BROADSIDE, JIM CROW & DINAH CROW. "Jump Jim Crow" is believed to have originated in the late 1820s by a blackface minstrel performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice. The earliest known broadside songsheets were published in the 1830s, with..... Read More about 110 Verses Jim Crow Still Alive! ... [and:] New Verses. Dinah Crow

Price: $22,500

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