Results for: African Americana January 2023

Item #346885 Manuscript document signed, recording monies received from Pennsylvania Hospital for...

Allen, Richard.

Manuscript document signed, recording monies received from Pennsylvania Hospital for chimney sweeping.

Philadelphia: October 26, 1799. Richard Allen, born enslaved in 1760 on Benjamin Chew's Whitehall plantation in Kent County, Delaware, in 1768 he and his family were sold to a neighboring plantation owned by Stokely Sturgis. Just a few years later, Allen would be separated from his mother and several siblings..... Read More about Manuscript document signed, recording monies received from Pennsylvania Hospital for chimney...

Price: $22,500

(Baseball).

El Negro en el Beisbol Norteamericano.

[Cuba?]: Servicio de Informacion de los Estados Unidos de America, 1954. With an image of the great Minnie Miñoso on the upper cover, the pamphlet evidently issued to promote baseball in Cuba. OCLC locates a single copy at Notre Dame. Read More about El Negro en el Beisbol Norteamericano

Price: $400

(Baseball).

Photograph of an African American baseball player.

Np: Circa 1900. A slim clean-shaven African-American baseball player is shown going through the motions of throwing the ball (although still clutching the ball after the point from which the ball would likely be released) with a mitt on his left hand. From the uniform and Boston style cap, we'd..... Read More about Photograph of an African American baseball player

Price: $2,500

Item #346309 [Photograph of the 1917 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship...

(Baseball).

[Photograph of the 1917 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship team from Virginia Union].

Richmond, Virginia: 1917. Virignia Union was a founding member of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1912 and won the baseball championships in 1917 and 1920. Read More about Photograph of the 1917 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship team from...

Price: $3,000

Item #346674 Typed letter signed, to Miss C. Livingston of Manitou, NY, soliciting funds for the...

Benson, William E.

Typed letter signed, to Miss C. Livingston of Manitou, NY, soliciting funds for the Kowaliga School for Colored Youth.

Kowaliga, Alabama: August 22, 1912. The letter begins: "Imagine in a remote rural community of Alabama, one thousand colored men, women and children 'leveling up' by means of the school-life which the name at the top of this letter-head signifies ... The uplifting influence of this unique work is all..... Read More about Typed letter signed, to Miss C. Livingston of Manitou, NY, soliciting funds for the Kowaliga...

Price: $500

Item #346518 Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. Notice to Colored People. All...

(Broadside).

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. Notice to Colored People. All Colored People (Bond or Free) wishing to travel on the...

Baltimore: Wiley, Pr., American Building, March 1, 1858. In their Annual Report for 1857, the directors of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PWBR) noted that lines have been or would shortly be connected for a direct train service from Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee to Philadelphia: "This safe and..... Read More about Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. Notice to Colored People. All Colored People...

Price: $35,000

Carroll, Howard.

Twelve Americans: Their Lives and Times.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. Presented by Frederick Douglass to an Important African-American Luminary. A book of biographical sketches and portraits of twelve widely varied but significant men of 19th-century America, presented by Frederick Douglass to Civil Rights activist, journalist, and intellectual renaissance man John Wesley Cromwell. Douglass himself..... Read More about Twelve Americans: Their Lives and Times

Price: $8,500

Child, Lydia Marie.

An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans.

New York: John S. Taylor, 1836. Second edition and first edition published in New York (originally published in Boston in 1833). Presentation copy inscribed to Caroline Weston. Inscribed by the author: "To Caroline Weston, from his affectionate friend, L. M. Child." Caroline Weston served as Vice President of the Boston..... Read More about An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

Price: $9,500

Cullen, Countee.

Copper Sun.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition. "Author's Copy - Countee Cullen" The AUTHOR'S COPY, inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper "Author's Copy - Countee Cullen / New York." The second book of poems by the Harlem Renaissance author. Read More about Copper Sun

Price: $1,200 save 25% $900

Delany, Martin Robison.

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party.

New York: Thomas Hamilton; London: Webb, Millington & Co.; Leeds: J. B. Barry, 1861. First edition. "At first opposed to colonization, Delany came to believe blacks could not and would not receive equal status with whites in America. Representing the National Emigration of Colored Men, he led an investigation into..... Read More about Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party

Price: $15,000

Du Bois, W.E.B.

Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1945) / [probably 1946]. Third Printing. Signed on the half-title. Uncommon, especially signed. Read More about Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace

Price: $2,500

Du Bois, W.E.B.

Darkwater. Voices from within the Veil.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First edition. Scarce first edition of Du Bois's autobiographical collection of essays, verse and fiction, rarely found with the dust jacket. "If The Souls of Black Folk achieved its singular impact through W.E.B. Du Bois's masterly interweaving of the personal and the universal..... Read More about Darkwater. Voices from within the Veil

Price: $7,500

Lawrence, Jacob; illustrator.

The First Book of Moses, called Genesis.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Lawrence. This is number 341. Read More about The First Book of Moses, called Genesis

Price: $10,000

Item #326003 Constitution of the Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons...

(Masonry).

Constitution of the Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Mississippi.

(Memphis): [Prince Hall] Grand Lodge of Mississippi / (Paul & Douglass, Printers), 1904. First edition. Constitution of a Prince Hall Lodge of the Freemasons. OCLC locates a single copy at the Amistad Center, Tulane. Cheaply printed, the rarity of the volume comes as little surprise. Read More about Constitution of the Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Mississippi

Price: $7,500

(McKoy, Millie and Christine) Mckoy.

Carte-de-visite of the conjoined twins.

[Great Britain]: Brown, Barnes & Bell, [circa 1870s]. Born enslaved in 1851 in North Carolina to Monimia and Jacob McKay, as infants the twins were sold along with their mother to a series of showmen and put on display. The twins appeared at Barnum's American Museum and toured Europe before..... Read More about Carte-de-visite of the conjoined twins

Price: $4,500

Item #351974 [Small album of tintypes and cdvs of African American men, women and children, plus...

(Photography).

[Small album of tintypes and cdvs of African American men, women and children, plus cdvs of prints of Lincoln reading...

Np: 1870-1900. The images are unidentified, and likely unrelated to each other, but include some nice studio portraits. Read More about Small album of tintypes and cdvs of African American men, women and children, plus cdvs of prints...

Price: $3,500

Item #346512 The House Servant's Directory, Or a Monitor for Private Families: Comprising hints...

Roberts, Robert.

The House Servant's Directory, Or a Monitor for Private Families: Comprising hints for Arrangements and Performance of Servants' Work.

Boston: Munroe & Francis; New York: Charles S. Francis, 1827. First edition. First edition of the first cookbook written by an African American and the first book by a black American ever published by a commercial publisher. Roberts (1780-1860) was employed for many years by Christopher Gore, governor and senator..... Read More about The House Servant's Directory, Or a Monitor for Private Families: Comprising hints for...

Price: $17,500

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.

Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First edition, first issue. With Rev. Henson's Autograph and Stowe A.L.s. tipped in. “In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent..... Read More about Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

Price: $15,000

(Truth, Sojourner) Stone, William L.

Matthias and His Impostures or the Progress of Fanaticism.

New York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1835. Third edition. Born into slavery as Isabella Van Wagenen in Ulster County, New York in the late eighteenth century, she won her emancipation under New York state law in 1827 and adopted the name Sojourner Truth in 1843.In the years before becoming..... Read More about Matthias and His Impostures or the Progress of Fanaticism

Price: $3,500

Item #346496 EAST INDIA SUGAR. The Following Short and Simple Facts Are Strongly Recommended to...

West Indies.

EAST INDIA SUGAR. The Following Short and Simple Facts Are Strongly Recommended to Your Serious Consideration: 1st, The labour of...

[England]: [likely published for the Chelmsford Female Negroes' Friend Society], [circa 1833]. Unrecorded by OCLC; a similar card, which was published for the Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society, is held by the Cambridge University Library. Martha Katz-Hyman, in her article 'Anti-Slavery Images,' notes "…the English [abolitionist] movement turned its objective toward..... Read More about EAST INDIA SUGAR. The Following Short and Simple Facts Are Strongly Recommended to Your Serious...

Price: $1,500

Whittier, John Greenleaf.

Autograph manuscript signed, fair copy of his poem The Cause.

Np: March 12, 1864. A fair copy of an anti-slavery poem consisting of extracts from "Derne," first printed under the title "The Cause" in the Amesbury and Salisbury Villager, 16 June 1864. "Derne" was first printed in an 1850 periodical and collected in The Chapel of the Hermits, 1853. The..... Read More about Autograph manuscript signed, fair copy of his poem The Cause

Price: $3,500

Item #346587 [Small archive of 22 photographs of Richard Wright and the filming of the first film...

(Wright, Richard) Freund, Gisèle.

[Small archive of 22 photographs of Richard Wright and the filming of the first film adaptation of Native Son in...

Argentina and Paris: [1951-1959]. On the set of Native Son, with an unknown Richard Wright interview. Directed by Pierre Chenal, the first film adaptation of Wright's controversial 1940 novel starred the author himself as Bigger Thomas and was filmed in Argentina. MGM had initially offered Wright $25,000 for the film..... Read More about Small archive of 22 photographs of Richard Wright and the filming of the first film adaptation of...

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