New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. First Edition. Superior copy of this collection of short tales, in which Dunbar continued to recount Black life both before and after slavery. BAL 4930; WORK, p.463. First Printing. Octavo (18.5cm); brown cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt, black, and..... 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
Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, [1907]. "Wanted" sign to be posted "In Conspicuous Place," offering a reward for the arrest and detention of William Finney, alias Ivory L. Rolland, an inmate of the United States Penitentiary of Atlanta, Georgia, and escaped on May 27, 1907. Finney, who had been serving a...... 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
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
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
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 327pp; 5 inserted leaves of black and white photographs; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Minor tears to dustjacket along edges; else..... More
Atlanta: Morris Brown College, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original brown printed staplebound wrappers; [7]-34pp.; photographic illus. Wrapper edges slightly toned, else Very Good or better. Ownership signature of a Charlotte C. Wright to upper wrapper. 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
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
Macon: Ardivan Press, 1960. First Thus. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket illustrated by W. Levitt; xvii,[3],396pp.; portrait frontispiece, map endpapers. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities, minor dust-soil, spine quite faded, else Very Good and sound. From the library of the late local Virginian historian and educator..... 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
Huntington, WV: Appalachia Press, 1976. A brief statement of the culture and history of Southern Appalachia, broken up into three parts: pre-Civil War, Civil War, and post Civil War. With a poem titled "When the Leaves Come Out" by "A Paint Creek Miner" printed on final leaf. Fourth printing. Octavo..... 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
![Freedom Ride [Signed]. James BALDWIN, foreword, James PECK, intro Lillian Smith](/pictures/medium/22126.jpg?v=1555174540)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, black topstain; 160pp. Light wear to jacket extremities else Very Good and sound. Signed by Peck on front flyleaf verso. Contemporary account of the end of segregation in the..... 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
