![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: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. First Edition. Collection of Gullah dialect stories and folk tales, many collected on Cape Fear, Noth Carolina, and all of which first published in "The New York Sun." LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 6905; WRIGHT III 3862; see also "American Negro Dialect Literature" in "A Bibliography of..... 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
Saxonville, MA: [by the Author], 1876. First Edition. Critique of Reconstruction, accusing northern politicians of using the "...colored man as a stepping-stone to place and power;" accusing white southerners of keeping the Black race in "a state of seclusion and degradation;" asserts that the opportunity for equal rights was lost..... 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
Charleston: John Russell, 1854. First Edition. Lengthy poem of 1,576 lines romanticizing the slave-holding South, described by one scholar as "One of the most effective of the many books defending the institution of slavery in the eighteen fifties" (Thomas D. Jarrett, "The Literary Significance of William J. Grayson's 'The Hireling..... More
[Memphis: Memphis Pink Palace Museum Foundation / Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association, n.d. but ca.1970's]. First Edition. Booklet accompanying an exhibit at the Memphis Park Pink Palace, partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which recognized the contributions of Black Memphians to the growth of the city. Supplies photographic portraits..... More
College Park, MD. McGrath Publishing Company, 1967. Facsimile Reprint. Octavo. Red cloth boards; no wrapper; 253pp; includes footnotes. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Appears unread; a tight, clean copy in about fine condition. More
Charleston: September 24, 1924. Legal deposition made by one Ethel Walters as a witness to the death of an African American man, Abel Smalls, on September 1, 1924. Walters and her young child had been riding from Charleston to Folly Island that evening when the car they were in broke..... 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
Boston: Lincoln and Edmands, 1830. First Edition. A Commonwealth, contented, gentle, kind, Each separate member to one whole combined, And thence conclude, a reasoning not unjust, Where slaves exist, a hostile force is nursed-- Freedom alone creates a power to trust! (p. 16). AMERICAN IMPRINTS 3555 (spelling the title "Traveler"); SABIN 88510. Octavo (ca. 21cm.);..... 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
