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
Washington DC: Beresford, 1904. viii,228pp., plus photographic portrait frontispiece. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt spine titles. Small chip at spine head, minor edge wear. Clean internally. A tight, square copy. The rare first edition of W. Bishop Johnson's excellent collection of twenty-six orations delivered by the African-American Baptist minister from the..... More
[South Dakota: ca. 1900?]. 17,[3]pp. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Minor edge and spine wear; staples beginning to oxidize. Minor foxing and soiling to wrappers. An unrecorded polyglot booklet published for use in an Episcopalian confirmation ceremony, with a thirty-two question and response catechism in parallel English and Dakota text. The Niobrara..... More
Rio de Janeiro: February 16, 1844. [7]pp., written in a secretarial hand, but signed and dated by Gardiner. Folio. Gathered bifolia, stitched. Minor dust-soiling. Thin strip of paper running along the spine of the last page with paper remnants. A manuscript report composed by Capt. Allen Francis Gardiner (1794-1851), a...... More
Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board, [1951]. 112pp. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. Light dust-soiling to wrappers, minor edge wear. Small ownership ink stamps to front wrapper, title page, last text page, and inside rear wrapper. A seemingly-unrecorded collection of "real life stories" published for the Young People's Department of..... More
Shreveport: Ellis Mays & Son, [1946]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Bottom portion of first leaf torn away below the imprint, not affecting any text, soft vertical fold to both leaves, minor dust-soiling. A detailed program for the annual convention of the Colored Association of Louisiana, held in Shreveport..... More