Columbia SC: The State Co., 1929. First, Limited Edition. First printing; no. 7 of 250 signed copies. Small, slim octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth; dustjacket; 49pp. Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), crisp and unworn, very Near Fine. Dialect drama by a white Southern author..... More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. First Edition. First Printing, in the second state binding, with Chesnutt's name spelled correctly along the lower front cover. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; x,294pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends..... More

[Tuscalooosa]: University of Alabama Press, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,[3],4-360,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper ("To Sam Pointer / Virginia Foster Durr"), and signed directly beneath by editor Hollinger F. Barnard, and..... More

New York: Basic Books / Civitas Books, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige and navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,352,[8]pp; illus. Signed by Myrlie Evers-Williams on the half-title page. Base of spine a bit pushed, light wear to lower board edges..... More

Raleigh, NC: Rev. M.L. Latta, 1903 [but 1924]. Revised and Expanded Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); dark green cloth titled in gilt on spine, with titles stamped in gilt on front cover within a brown double-ruled border; [viii],[31]-600pp, with a portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass and five inserted plates of illustrations (halftones);..... More

New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth-covered board, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xvi],[2],3-537,[7]pp. Small 1.5" scratch to upper front pastedown, else Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $19.95) with some rubbing at flap folds, and creasing and closed tears along..... More

Sunflower, MS: MFDP, 1968. First Edition. Tabloid bifolium (57.5cm); original newsprint wrappers; 4pp; illus. Two old folds, trivial wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Late issue of the official publishing organ of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), established in 1964 to challenge discrimination based on race in the electoral..... More

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto (26cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; xii,355,[1]pp. Johnson's own copy, with his pictorial bookplate designed by Aaron Douglas (printed in black on cream wove paper, measuring 4.25" x 3") mounted to..... More

New York: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, [1963]. First Edition. Pamphlet produced by the SNCC, decrying a string of brutal attacks and civil rights violations against Black citizens in the southwest Georgia city of Albany, between 1958-1963. It draws special attention to the case of Charlie Ware, shot without provocation..... More

Richmond, VA: J.L. Hill Printing Company, 1903. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's pebble grain cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 921pp. A trifle bumped to spine ends, hinges strong, tight and solid, the bookcloth used is a sort of unusual black crepe texture, and in a couple..... More

Berryville, VA: Holy Cross Abbey; Community of Cistercians of The Strict Observance, Inc., 1994. First, Limited Edition. Folio. 36cm. Lettered Edition "CC" Limited to 50 Copies only. Housed in a black and grey cloth folding case by the Élan Bindery. 33pp.;[4]. Text booklet accompanying a suite of 12 mounted photographs..... More

San Francisco: Sumner Whitney and Company, [n.d. - ca 1876]. Reprint (originally Appleton, 1853). 12mo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; clay-coated endpapers; 330pp; [4]pp ads. Mild external wear, but a bright, straight copy, solidly Very Good. Prose sketches of the antebellum American South..... More

Richmond: William Byrd Press / Garrett & Massie, 1930-1933. First Edition. First printings. Three volumes. First volume stout octavo (22cm), red cloth with gilt titles; xviii,[1]-337,(1)pp; second and third volumes quarto (27cm) in uniform decorative cream cloth stamped in red and black; x,[1]-449; xiv,466pp; black and white plates. Second two..... More