![Steropé: The Veiled Pleiad [Inscribed by Author]. William Hayes ACKLAN](/pictures/medium/47883.jpg?v=1585883584)
Washington DC: Gibson Bros., Printers and Bookbinders, 1892. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); medium green cloth, diaper-grain, spine title stamped in gilt; green patterned endpapers; 300pp. Cloth faded along upper margins, with surface wear and mild rubbing to extremities; soiling to rear panel, possible biopredation to front gutter. Light foxing intermittent..... More
New York: American News Co., 1872. First Edition. Sympathetic view, by a first-hand observer, of African-American society in the South during Reconstruction. With much on the retrograde attitudes of white southerners, including some of the earliest first-hand accounts of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. HOWES S-907. Octavo (19.5cm);..... More
Atlanta: S.i., [1961]. Jailhouse letter by Leroy Washington, freedom rider, a member of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and a student at Brown Morris, a historically black college in Atlanta. Washington, together with Leon Green and 17 others, was arrested on February 7, 1961, for participating in a...... More
Mobile, AL: Aug. 10, 1840. Letter from Jesse Bemis (1808-1843), a Mobile transplant, to his brother David of Spencer, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, where Jesse was born. The author thanks his brother for some fly nets sent him, "I have sold about half of them at some profit," later noting that..... More
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, [1932]. First Edition. Brief but informative statistical account of deaths by lynching based on findings by the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. Octavo bifolium (23cm.); text printed in double columns in brown ink on cream stock. Quite dampstained, tiny closed tear at bottom..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1969]. Octavo (21.5cm.); original leatherette in grey price-clipped dust jacket lettered in black and white; xxii,471pp.; 32 leaves of photographic illustrations, almost all printed on rectos and versos. Small soil spot to upper jacket panel, light rubbing to extremities, spine a hint toned, else Very Good..... More
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 273pp. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; near-new. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original decorative cloth in off-white pictorial dust jacket by Kent; [8],310pp.; frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. Jacket extremities rubbed, the whole rather toned and lightly soiled, rear panel dampstained though only truly apparent on recto--jacket possibly married as there is no..... More
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, [1976]. First Edition. Square quarto (22.75cm.); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 100pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wear from handling, especially at spine foot; toning and light dampstaining to spine edge of upper wrapper; About Very Good. Showcasing the worst housing available in each Alabama county, including shacks..... More
N.p. [New York?]: [1926]. First Edition Thus. A Sherwood Anderson rarity. This finely-printed keepsake on thick paper appears to be the only separate appearance of an article which first appeared in Vanity Fair for September, 1926. Later reprinted in Hello Towns (SHEEHY 333), but this printing not noted by the..... More
Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836. First Edition. Influential study of the domestic slave trade in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, authorized by the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race, formed the year prior. The letters date chiefly from Baltimore, as well as Washington..... More
Raleigh: Weston R. Gales - Raleigh Register Office, 1843. First Edition. The address is a sweeping (and rather pedestrian) survey of the development of all literature, from its possible origins in "Hindoo civilization" to its apotheosis in the age of Sheakespeare and Spencer. This however is a noteworthy presentation copy..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954. First Edition. First printing. 12mo; cloth-backed patterned boards (hardcover); dustjacket; red top-stain; 240pp; six inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Faintly musty from storage, but still a Very Good, straight, tight copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price intact on front flap, with a few nick2s..... More
Charleston: Observer Office Press, 1829. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); removed; 47pp. Some brief internal soil, minor wrinkling from handling, else Very Good and sound, errata slip tipped to p. 47. Installation sermon by the Pennsylvania-born pastor William Ashmead (1798-1829) who moved south after contracting tuberculosis, though he died before the..... More
Raleigh: Holden & Wilson, 1855. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 32pp. Front signature separated but present, some shallow chips and tiny losses along margins, textblock rather foxed; Good only. Admiring account of the life and deeds of Oliver Cromwell by the Bishop of North Carolina. SABIN 2286. More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908. First Edition. Considered the muckracking journalist's most controversial work, a collection of articles written during his travels through the American South, garnering praise from Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, and others. Baker's work includes an account of the Atlanta riots..... More
![Jacklighting [Limited Edition, Signed]. Ann BEATTIE](/pictures/medium/24477.jpg?v=1529353427)
Worcester: Metacom Press, 1981. First Edition. Wrappered issue, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.32. Slim octavo; letterpress printed sheets sewn into wrappers, with title label applied to front cover; 20, [4]pp. Fine copy. More
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1935. First Edition. Novel set in a Louisiana steamboat town, featuring a prostitute protagonist who takes a pair of youths under her protective wing and moves them to New York, where they accomplish (and ultimately suffer) more than they ever thought was possible. Basis for..... More
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1988. First Edition. Scholarly study of the way blacks and whites worshipped together throughout the antebellum period. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],257pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. More
![King's Highway [Inscribed]. Lucille Papin BORDEN](/pictures/medium/27066.jpg?v=1529353524)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. First Edition. Final book in the author's Starforth Trilogy, the story of the early formation of the southern states of America - with a short incursion into Canada - and a great deal about the Indians. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); navy blue cloth, with..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original decorative cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],320pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with minor puncturing to spine affecting text without loss of meaning, yellow portion of spine sunned to white, cloth a bit spotted else Very..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in pictorial dust jacket; [10],255pp.; illus. Front jacket flap fold splitting along bottom two inches, spine just a hint faded, cloth spine crown frayed and boards rubbed else Very Good in Very Good or better jacket..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in pictorial dust jacket; [10],255pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, some general dustiness, else Very Good or better. "Negro plantation life in Louisiana" - HANNA 414; COAN, p. 186. More
[San Francisco]: Bruce's Print, n.d., ca. 1870s. First Edition. Reconstruction-era three verse ballad broadside addressed to Dolly Varden (not /the/ Dolly Varden of Charles Dickens' novel "Barnaby Rudge," though the name was hugely popular as a result of the work, and inspired a fashion craze and the name of a...... More
New York: John C. Haney & Co., 1865. Uncommon edition of this mock sermon on the life of "Jabez Flint, Hardshell Baptist," the text almost entirely in dialect. Author attributed to William Penn Brannan, who later claimed that the scene was set in "Waterproof, Louisiana," though no such place is..... More
