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New York: Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Third printing (retaining 1941 on titlepage, but actually 1946). Photo-Direction by Edwin Rosskam. Quarto. About fine in very good or better dust jacket with a bit if rubing and tiny nicks and tears. A handsome copy of this beautiful photographically illustrated essay about the black experience, with striking images photos by Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn, and others, with text by Wright.

Washington, D.C.: Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1993. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. 113, [1]pp. Illustrated from photographs. Glossy photo-illustrated boards. Small ink mark on front cover else fine.Fine. Elaborate anniversary book of a black church, printing a congratulatory letter from Presdient Bill Clinton in facsimile, another from Eleanor Holmes Norton, and several other. Lavishly illustrated with photographs. *OCLC* locates no copies.

Boston, Massachusetts, 1797. Very Good. Letterpress document printed and completed in manuscript on both sides (18½" x 15"). Full title: *Passport and Roll of Equipage, Agreeably to the 25th and 27th Article of the Treaty between France and the United States, made the 6th of February, 1778*. Dated 22 September 1797. Signed by James Lovell, former delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1782, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Lovell was appointed naval officer of the port of Boston and Charlestown from 1789 until his death in 1814. Additionally signed by Benjamin Weld, Collector of Customs at Boston, and Samuel Cooper, Notary Public. With a long manuscript note written in French on one side (23 lines), signed by Charles Théodore Mozard, former printer and bookseller at Saint Domingue (Haiti), and French consul to Boston. The document has three embossed seals affixed next to the signatures of Weld, Cooper, and Mozard. A few small closed tears and chips at… Read More

New York: Bantam, 1992. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in wrappers.

(Havre de Grace, Maryland: Press of Havre de Grace Republican, Printers), 1944. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 16pp. Illustrated reproducing eleven black-and-white photographs, including a view of the church, and portraits of African-American clergy and church members, etc. Blue printed wrappers. Light tanning at extremities, else a near fine copy. Text includes a "History of St. James A. M. E. Church," a program of events for the Mortgage Burning Ceremonies, a list of pastors of the church from 1850 to 1944, a list of the church's "Official Family," etc. Rare. No copy located by *OCLC.*.

U.S.S. Germantown at Boston, 1853. Near Fine. Autograph Note Signed. Laid paper half-sheet with a border of blue paper. Measuring 6½" x 4½". One faint vertical crease, near fine. Written on board U.S.S. *Germantown* by William F. Lynch, who later served as a commander in the Confederate Navy, to U.S. naval officer and abolitionist Andrew Foote.The note reads as follows: "U.S. Ship Germantown, Boston, Nov 21, 1853 Dear Foote, I thank you for the prompt return of my M.S. report and hope that it [does] not much fall short of your expectations, Very truly, Yr. friend, W.F. Lynch." Lynch was commander of U.S.S. *Germantown* in the Africa Squadron, whose mission was to patrol the coast of West Africa and suppress the slave trade. In 1852 U.S.S. *Germantown* had seized two slave ships: the M.S. report referenced in the letter was likely the *Report of Commander W.F. Lynch, in Relation to His Mission to the Coast of Africa* published a few months after this note. Andrew Foote was a naval officer active… Read More

Ship Island, Mississippi, 1865. Near Fine. Printed certificate completed in manuscript. 8" x 10". Two slight original horizontal folds, near fine. This Union Army "Certificate to be Given to Union Volunteers at the Time of their Discharge" was issued for Robert Brown, an African-American Private in Company C of the Second Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guard (also known as the Corps d'Afrique). The document is Signed by Captain Hannibal Carter, and the additional text was likely handwritten by him. Carter was Brown's African-American Company Commander. He formerly had been a Private in the first Black Confederate Army unit, also known as the 1st Louisiana Native Guard. When Louisiana seceded from the Union, New Orleans free Black citizens and Creoles of color initially supported the Confederacy and briefly offered their volunteer service as soldiers and nurses. When Union General Benjamin Butler occupied New Orleans with regiments hailing from New England, his command was inundated with enslaved… Read More

[Cincinnati, Ohio: No Publisher, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 547pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Grand Master E.L. Lyburger. Beveled blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Covers have light wear at tips of spine and corners, else a very good copy, with gilt stamping bright; front and rear hinges are started (due to quality of paper of endpapers), text is fresh and clean. This publication also prints a poem by Rudyard Kipling, The Mother Lodge (on page 94-95, noting that Kipling was a Freemason). Most of the book (pages 88 to 404) is devoted to 'Report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence,' including detailed information about 'English-speaking Grand Lodges' in the United States (listed by each state, and including 'Indian Territory'), Canada (by province) Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, etc., and a section devoted to thirteen 'None English-speaking Grand Bodies' (including Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico). This publication (for the year 1900), as… Read More

Somerville, New Jersey, 1923. Very Good. Autograph letter addressed to "Mr. Griggs" from an unidentified correspondent at Somerville, New Jersey, dated January 30, 1923. Octavo. 2pp. Neatly written in pencil on one sheet of lined note paper. The sheet is lightly toned, with three tiny stains, very good. A detailed letter setting forth the terms for "a colored man" to be engaged as a farmer in Somerville, New Jersey: "Mr. Griggs / Dear Sir, My brother Irving was here yesterday with a colored man that wanted to work my farm for one third of everything but chickens. Those for one half. We thought it would be better than having help. So I would like you to write out leases, I suppose two for us to sign when we come down as he wants to move about the middle of Feb. He is to occupy half the Farm House ... To have one third of the harvest for gathering and selling it and each of us to pay half the threshing bill ..." Several additional terms between the "Owner" and "Farmer" are set forth. The letter is… Read More

Boston: Ploughshares Books, 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Illustrated wrappers. Slight edgewear else near fine.

[Hampton, Virginia]: The Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, 1947. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. 68pp. Illustrated from photographs. Printed wrappers. Dated "1946/1947" on the front cover, with proceedings of the thirty-third and thirty-fourth annual meetings. This copy lacks two leaves: (pp.37/38 and 47/48 have been excised), and over half of another leaf (pp.59/60) has been cut away, else very good or better: the articles and proceedings are complete. Staples are rusty, spine is nicked and rubbed. Founded in 1912 on the campus of Hampton Institute in Virginia, the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association is the oldest African-American athletic conference in the United States, consisting mostly of historically black colleges and universities on the east coast from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. This issue includes the article: "Basketball in the C. I. A. A." by John B. McClendon, Jr. (known today as "the father of black basketball"), and Football in the C. I. A. A. by E. P. Hurt.… Read More

[Hampton, Virginia]: The Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, 1949. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. 54, [2]pp. Cream yellow pictorial wrappers printed in dark blue and silver. Staples are rusty, spine is rubbed, very good or better. With proceedings of the thirty-sixth annual meeting. Founded in 1912 on the campus of Hampton Institute in Virginia, the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association is the oldest African-American athletic conference in the United States, consisting mostly of historically black colleges and universities on the east coast from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. This issue includes: "The President's Address" by John H. Burr; and the text of a panel discussion on the subject of "New Horizons in College Athletics" by the following college presidents and chairmen: Charles H. Williams (Hampton Institute), Dr. L. H. Foster (Virginia State), Dr. H. L. Dickason (Bluefield State), Alonzo G. Moron (Hampton Institute), Dr. Alfonso Elder (North Carolina College at Durham), and… Read More

[Hampton, Virginia]: The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, 1950. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. 43pp. Illustrated from photographs. Blue pictorial wrappers. Staples are rusty, spine is rubbed, very good or better. With proceedings of the thirty-seventh annual meeting. Founded in 1912 on the campus of Hampton Institute in Virginia, the Central (formerly "Colored") Intercollegiate Athletic Association is the oldest African-American athletic conference in the United States, consisting mostly of historically black colleges and universities on the east coast from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. In addition to the proceedings, this issue includes the "President's Address" by Paul J. Moore, "Reports of Vice Presidents," and committee reports for baseball, boxing, wrestling, tennis, track, soccer, swimming, etc. Scarce. An attractive, well-preserved copy.

St. Louis: The School Press, 1957. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Thick 12mo. 179pp. Stapled orange printed wrappers. Small spots on the front wrap, very good. An unusually elaborate program or yearbook for an African-American dance school in St. Louis with posed photographs of all the staff and students, and with a poem dedicated to each student on the page facing their portrait. *OCLC* locates no copies.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. Softcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper as issued.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in wrappers as issued. Advance issue of author's well-received first novel.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in wrappers as issued. Advance issue of author'swell-received first novel.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 297pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance review copy with publisher's material laid in.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. 297pp. Near fine with foxing on the top page edge in a fine dust jacket. Advance review copy with publisher's material laid in.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.