Nashville: A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1906. xiii,[1],90pp., including portrait frontispiece. Original maroon cloth, gilt titles stamped on front cover. Noticeable surface abrading and soiling to boards and edges, front cover titles somewhat faded. Minor occasional thumb-soiling to text. A scarce work written by an African-American preacher from South Carolina..... More

San Francisco & Portland: M. Gray, 1871. 5pp., including chromolithographed front cover. Loose sheets, separated along spine. Minor toning, soiling, and staining. Faint ink stamp at base of title page for contemporary retailer William A. Frey on Kearny Street. An uncommon piece of sheet music lithographed by famed artist Grafton..... More

[Natchez, Ms. 1824-1838]. [23]pp. of manuscript entries. Quarto. Contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper boards, faint manuscript title on front cover reading, "Memorandum Book for Estate of Wm. R Smith." Boards heavily rubbed and chipped, spine mostly perished, front cover and first two text leaves detached but present. Text a...... More

[Way Key, Fl. 1865]. Partially-printed muster roll completed in manuscript, approximately 21 x 31 inches. Old folds, some separations at crossfolds (as usual), minor wear and soiling. A rare muster roll recording details of the service of an African-American infantry company while stationed in Florida during the final year of..... More

Chicago: G. Renesch, 1918. Chromolithograph, 19.5 x 26 inches. Minor occasional wear and scuffing to edges, tiny chips at a couple corners, short unobtrusive one-inch puncture below the central subjects, but otherwise a bright and vibrant example. A visually-powerful poster produced in the midst of the First World War, which..... More

[N.p., probably New York or Boston: ca. 1890s]. [20]pp. Original green wrappers, printed in red and black, with small vignette of a cabin on the front wrapper. Considerable staining and soiling to wrappers, some chipping to spine, especially at the head, a few short closed edge tears. Text uniformly tanned..... More

[N.p. 1923]. 23pp. Original yellow wrappers printed in black, stapled. Very minor edge wear. Clean internally. A seemingly-unrecorded pamphlet containing the governing documents of an important African American trade union, the National Alliance of Postal Employees. According to the Department of Labor's 1926 Handbook of American Trade-Unions: "In 1913 the..... More

[Prairie View, Tx. 1973-1974]. [19] leaves, illustrated with 248 photographs, mostly in color but some in black-and-white, ranging from thumbnails to 8 x 10 inches, plus several ephemeral items. Square folio. Contemporary handmade photograph album comprised of self-stick album pages bound in blue velvet with white felt decorations affixed to..... More

[Shreveport, La. 1949-1954]. [35]; 49pp., with a handful of newspaper clippings laid in. Contemporary composition books bound in blue wrappers, black cloth backstrip. Moderate wear, abrading, and creasing to wrappers. A pair of manuscript accounting books recording the personal expenses of Whit H. and Lula Smith Howard of Shreveport, Louisiana..... More

New York: The Alliance Publishing Co., 1900. 40pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some discoloration along front wrapper, minor dust-soiling to wrappers. Thin dampstain along outer margin of first few leaves, otherwise internally clean. A rare report compiled by noted African-American educator, author, and businessman George Allen Mebane of North Carolina..... More

Hempstead County, Ar. 1917-1918. Three separate quarto reports, each [4]pp. on single folded pre-printed sheets, completed in manuscript. Light chipping to edges, discoloration and chipping along top edge of November report. A collection of three reports on rural education in Arkansas, produced under the aegis of the Negro School Fund..... More

[Philadelphia: 1850]. 7pp. Gathered signatures, folded, likely removed from a binding. Partially detached along spines. Moderate foxing. A quite rare pamphlet recording a jingoistic speech given by former Vice President George Mifflin Dallas in front of the Union meeting in November 1850. Supporting the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive..... More

Utica, Ms. 1911. 8pp., accompanied by a single-page fundraising typed letter, signed, and original transmittal envelope. Original mailing folds to pamphlet and letter, minor wear and toning. A very rare annual report from the Utica Normal & Industrial Institute of Utica, Mississippi, issued by the school's founder and principal, William..... More