Washington, D.C. April 20, 1857. [1]p., docketed on verso, "Orders from Com. Conover, July 19th, '57 enclosing a letter from Mr. Cass to Mr. Toucey." Marked "Copy" at head of letter. Original horizontal folds, minor spotting. Following the Slave Importation Act of 1807, which forbade further importation of slaves into..... More

Jackson, Tn. 1946. xv,380pp. 16mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Corners lightly bumped, binding rubbed. Contents clean with a few ink notations. Governing text of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, outlining criteria for organization, ministry, membership, church property, rituals and rites. More

[Various locations: ca. 1930s to 1970s]. [48] leaves, illustrated with 260 mounted photographs, most black-and-white but some in color, between 1.5 x 1.5 to 8 x 10 inches, and a few ephemeral items. Full brown pebbled leather photograph album, screw-bound. Moderate edge wear and some chipping, front joint split but..... More

[N.p., but likely Little Rock, Ar. ca. 1920s]. Albumen photograph, 7.75 x 9.25 inches, matted and framed. Minor surface wear to photograph. Short tear to mat at bottom right. Frame backed in renewed paper, but preserving most of the original framer's label from "W.H. Bray Co., 702 Main Street, Little..... More

Dayton, Oh. The Otterbein Press, [1923]. 30pp. 16mo. Publisher's wrappers, stapled, with photographic portrait of Manly on front wrapper. Minor soiling and staining to wrappers. The rare updated second edition after the first of 1919, relating the story of David Jayn Manly's life from Sierra Leone to his college experiences..... More

Paris: Imprimerie et Librairie Adminstratives de Paul Dupont, 1855. 20pp. In French. Quarto. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers tanned, with minor chipping and soiling. Bottom corners of most text leaves dogeared. A rare French translation of a notable work by Charles Fenton Mercer, United States Congressman and one of the founders..... More

Galveston County, Tx. August, 1860. [4]pp. on a single folio sheet. Original folds, small ink stain. A contemporary manuscript retained copy of Beden Stroud's will, executed in August 1860. Stroud, who died five years later in 1865, settled in Burr Oak Springs, Texas, with his brother, in 1844. Stroud died..... More

[N.p., likely Newark: 1942]. [8]pp. Original printed self wrappers. Minor wrinkling, light toning. A very rare program for a performance by Marian Anderson in Newark on December 9, 1942. The program prints twelve classical pieces performed by Anderson that night, authored by the likes of Haydn, Handel, Schubert, Bellini, and..... More

[N.p., likely Camp Funston, Ks. ca. 1918]. 44pp. Original gray printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, some adhesive remnants and small abrasions on rear wrapper, likely resulting from removal from a scrapbook, previous owner's signature on front wrapper, "W.E. Howard." Soft vertical crease throughout. A pocket-sized book of regulations governing the..... More

New York: William Mather Song Book Depository, [ca. 1840]. 34pp., including five partially-hand-colored illustrations. Original brown pictorial self wrappers, illustration on front cover partially hand-colored, rear cover printed with Contents list. Wrappers toned and somewhat soiled, minor edge wear, light chipping along spine and top front corner, short split to..... More

Tuscaloosa: F.E. Shide, [ca. 1890s or early 1900s]. Five albumen prints, each 7.5 x 9.5 inches, each on slightly larger mounts with photographer's blind-embossed studio stamp at bottom right. Mild chipping foxing to some mounts, minor dust-soiling and rubbing to photographs. A collection of five striking professional photographs documenting the..... More

Los Angeles: Western Christian Leadership Conference, 1961. [16]pp. Quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and rubbing, soft vertical crease throughout. A few passages underlined within text. A rare original program for the June 18, 1961 Freedom Rally led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., which took place in..... More

New York: Wright, Printer, 1854. x,13-150,[1]pp. (as issued), including eight engraved plates, some with later amateur hand-coloring. Publisher's tan cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and both covers; front cover reading, "A Land of Rest Peace and Unity A Government of Wisdom and Equality;" rear cover stamped, "Looking Glass 1854."..... More