Beach Spring, Blountville, Tn. 1829-1839. [24]pp. Tall, thin folio. Contemporary drab wrappers, manuscript title on front cover reading, "1829 1830 Day Book." Wrappers stained, toned, chipped, and with a horizontal tear across the front cover and up about half of the spine. Manuscript label affixed to rear cover reading, "Abram..... More

[Zanesville, Oh. and other locations: 1954-1974]. [10] leaves, illustrated with thirteen photographs, assorted newspaper excerpts, and ephemeral items, plus sixty loose photographs, most 8 x 10 inches, removed from a previous album, and a handful of newspaper excerpts and ephemera. Contemporary brown buckram photograph album with self adhesive pages, spiral..... More

Mexico City: 1849. 35pp. Original brown printed wrappers. Very minor wear, slight discoloration along fore-edge of rear wrapper. The slightest faint dampstain along the extreme outer margin of first two leaves, else internally clean. Untrimmed. One of the most influential works on civil rights in Mexico, setting the basis of..... More

Paris: Auguste Bry, [n.d., but 1853]. Handcolored lithograph, 18.5 x 13.75 inches, highlighted with gum arabic. Minor foxing and light wear, but overall a vibrant and colorful lithograph. An unrecorded, attractive, and large depiction of Uncle Tom and Eva St. Clare by French artist Joseph Félon, a highly regarded Parisian..... More

52; 40pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and light soiling to each. Internally, both clean. A pair of programs for consecutive years documenting the famous Pine Street YCA's "Y Circus" in St. Louis. The Y Circus was a fundraising event hosted by the Pine Street branch of the YMCA..... More

New York: Amerikanischen Traktat-Gesellschaft, [ca. 1850s]. 64pp. In German. 16mo. Original dark green limp cloth. Light wear and soiling. Small marbled-paper bookplate on inside front cover, pencil ownership signature on front flyleaf from "Ellen S. Kem." A pocket-sized edition of Legh Richmond's The African Servant, printed in German by the..... More

New York: People's Voice, 1944. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor soiling and wear. A 1944 campaign brochure issued by the Board of Directors of the New York African American newspaper, The People's Voice. The board, headed by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., here "calls upon the Negro people of..... More

[Mainly Chicago, Il. 1948-1975]. Spiral-bound sketchbook, with nineteen full-page sketches, some in color and some in pencil, 12 x 9 inches; plus a finished color painting on art board, 14 x 9.75 inches; twenty-eight photographs, 3 x 3 inches to 8 x 10 inches; fourteen printed art exhibition catalogues; and..... More

Montgomery, Al. 1958. [92]pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Quarto. Original textured wrappers, printed in blue and gilt, stapled. Moderate soiling and minor edge wear. Some foxing to initial and terminal leaves, but mostly clean internally. An unrecorded souvenir program from the seventy-fifth annual convention of the Alabama State Teachers Association..... More

[N.p., likely the American Southeast: ca. 1890s to 1910s]. Silver gelatin photograph, 5 x 7 inches, on a decorative mount, 7.75 x 9.75 inches. Minor silvering and light surface wear to image. Diagonal crack to mount at top left corner, not affecting image, moderate soiling. A wonderful image showing an..... More

Baltimore: Published by John F. Weishampel, Jr., [1859]. 86,[4]pp., including two engraved plates. Original brown cloth decoratively blindstamped, with gilt titles on front cover. Minor edge wear and moderate staining to boards, spine ends scuffed. Occasional foxing to text. The rare first edition of Reverend Noah Davis's redemptive autobiographical "emancipation..... More

San Antonio, Tx. 1956. Sepia-toned photographic collage, 10.25 x 7.25 inches. Minor wear and creasing, mounting remnants on verso. A handsomely-arranged photographic roster featuring a handful of officers (including two women) and the seventy-two female members of Squadron 3743, Flight W1 of the United States Air Force while in training..... More

Flint, Mi. Schultz Printing Company, 1942. 36pp. Original orange wrappers, rectangular window cut in front wrapper to display portrait of subject on first page of text, as issued. Minor edge wear. Internally clean. A rare pamphlet containing the "remarkable story of Dr. Charles Albert Tindley of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" by his..... More