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
Denver: Comstock & Coad, [1891]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Evenly toned, shallow chipping to edges, light dust-soiling, tiny hole in the spine margin not affecting text. A fragile but exceedingly rare and ephemeral work. The rare prospectus for the first meeting, which took place on January 11, 1891..... More
![Item #3970 A Declaration of Civil Rights [cover title]. African Americana, Civil Rights](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3970.jpg?v=1678125293)
[New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., 1948]. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Old horizontal folds, minor wear. A rare declaration of civil rights "approved at a Conference on Civil Rights at Madison Hall, University of Virginia" in 1948 by the Southern Conference Educational Fund. The group bills..... More
![Item #3941 [Early Phonograph Recording of Two Women's Suffrage Speeches]. Women's Suffrage,...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3941.jpg?v=1678125449)
New York, Paris, London: Pathe Freres Phonograph Co., [1915]. 78 RPM phonograph record, approximately eleven inches in diameter. In plain sleeve, accompanied by later, smaller-format illustrated Pathe brown paper sleeve. Some scratching on both sides, one small edge chip in blank area. A rare phonograph record containing two speeches in..... More
Montgomery, Al. 1900. 4pp., on a single folded sheet. Some bumping and creasing to top edge, a few short closed tears, minor soiling. Accompanied by a single-page typed letter signed with stamped signature. Old fold, minor wear along outer edge. A seemingly-unrecorded program for the first annual conference of the..... 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
[Paris: Bulla and Ladvocat, ca. 1819]. Aquatint engraving, 9.75 x 11.5 inches. Trimmed inside the neat line, costing the imprint line, moderate foxing. Hinged with archival tape to a backing and matted. A very rare engraving relating to early Texas, picturing residents - men, women, and children - of the..... More
Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Co., 1955. 52pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Moderate edge wear to wrappers, short vertical tear to top edge of front wrapper, mild soiling and rubbing. Light dampstain at bottom of gutter throughout. The rare 1955 reprint of Etienne Maxson's 1930 history of the progress of African Americans..... More