The manxman-A novel by Dall Caine - 1895

Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1894. Very Good Plus, wrappers have shallow chips at edges. Pages are uncut and are clean and tight and unmarked. "The following papers are petitions to Congress from Northwest and Indiana Territories for the suspension of the sixth article of compact of the Ordinance of 1787, and the admission of slavery to the Territory, together with the counter-petitions, the reports on them, and the accompanying documents." Rare.. First Printing. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued.

New York: John A. Gray, 1859. Very Good, wrappers with small chips, corner crease at spine top edge. Stitched wrappers. 23 pgs. "Read by appointment before The Congregational Ministers' Meeting of New London County, Ct." . Rev. Henry Cheever was the brother of famed abolitionist George Barrell Cheever., and while certainly an avowed abolitionist himself, is perhaps best remembered for his documenting of his travels in the Hawaiian Islands. In this SCARCE tract he argues that the teachings of the Bible provide ample reason to withhold fellowship from churches and individuals who tolerate slavery. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

Chicago: Univ. Of Chicago Press, 1935. Winner of the first Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, in 1936. Near Fine, light soiling. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - "To Commissioner L. D. White (p.221) Harold F. Gosnell". Gosnell cites White's "Prestige Value of Public Employment" (Chicago 1929) at page 221. Uncommon SIGNED. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

Boston: National Anti-Slavery Bazaar. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, spine sunned, hinges . cracked and tender, shaken.. 1847. Hardcover. Green ruled cloth with liberty bell design stamped in gilt on front boards and titles stamped in gilt on spine, (the "cloth, gilt extra" binding). All edges gilt. viii, 304pp. One of the annual gift books containing poems, prose, and short stories by various authors on the subject of slavery which were compiled by Boston abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman. The books were one of the items sold at annual bazaars that were major fundraisers for the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, This volume contains writings by William Lloyd Garrison, John Quincy Adams, Edmund Quincy, James Russell Lowell, Maria Lowell, Edmund Jackson, Wendell Phillips, David Lee Child, Joseph Mazzini, and many others. Scarce. LCP/HSP 5877.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Atlanta, Georgia: American Library Association, 1985. RARE 1985 poster published by the American Library Association, featuring a Bob Fitch/Black Star portrait photograph of Dr. King with an extended handwritten quote provided by the Martin Luther King Centre, Atlanta, lower right corner that begins "Hence, the forging of priceless qualities of character is taking place...". Near Fine, a small faint crease. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 15" x 23".

Dust jacket is very worn, now protected with a mylar book cover. Clipped dj. flaps inside, both ends. No Awards listed past 1969, see photos. Book iteself in near fine condition. States this is William Armstrong's first children's book, 1069 on dj.

THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.

A definitive work on the African-American community in Los Angeles from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.

Signed. Near Fine. Softcover. The late R C Hickman became a professional photographer after WW II. He made a visual record of the black community in Dallas, Texas for 3 decades. He worked for the Dallas Star, Jet Magazine and the NAACP. There are 109 mostly full page black and white photographs. He got photos of important celebrities when they came to Dallas: Martin Luther King, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Louis and Thurgood Marshall to name a few. His photos of regular folks are the best though. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan wrote the Preface and said, "These are images of the ordinary lives of extraordinary people". The book is in near fine condition with only very slight shelf wear. The dust jacket has a crease on the upper left front. The pages are clean and unmarked, and the corners are square. The author has dated and signed on the title page (no inscription).

Bricks Without Straw, A Novel. By Albion W Tourgee, Author of "A Fool's Errand" etc. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert. 1880. Believed to be first edition. 'A classic of American political fiction first published in 1880, a mere three years after Reconstruction officially ended, Bricks Without Straw offers an inside view of the struggle to create a just society in the post-slavery South. It is unique among the white-authored literary works of its time in presenting Reconstruction through the eyes of emancipated slaves. As a leading Radical Republican, the author, Albion W. Tourgée, played a key role in drafting a democratized Constitution for North Carolina after the Civil War, and he served as a state superior court judge during Reconstruction. Tourgée worked closely with African Americans and poor whites in the struggle to transform North Carolina's racial and class politics. He saw the ravages of the Ku Klux Klan firsthand, worked to bring the perpetrators of Klan atrocities to justice, and… Read More