New York: Alfred Scott, [1951]. 16pp. Publisher's pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear. Very scarce program for Anderson's March 25, 1951 performance at Carnegie Hall. The great contralto is pictured on the cover and her schedule of songs is listed on three different pages interspersed with advertisements and other information..... More

Bronx: The Bronx Conference for Racial and Religious Unity, 1944. 24pp. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear, some uneven discoloration and rubbing to wrappers. Soft vertical crease throughout. A rare pamphlet on race relations published by the Bronx Conference for Racial and Religious Unity, a New York civil..... More

Sandy Creek, N.Y. 1895. Broadside, 12.25 x 5.5 inches. Uniformly tanned, old folds, moderate marginal chipping. Mounted to slightly larger cardboard backing. A seemingly-unrecorded broadside advertising a performance by an African-American singing troupe while on the road in New York. Somewhat incongruously, the Original and Famous New Orleans Jubilee Singers..... 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

[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

Nueva York: 1864. 926,[4],304pp. Contemporary Mexican-style calf, elaborately blindstamped covers, spine titles in gilt. Spine sunned and somewhat worn, minor wear to edges, corners a bit rubbed. Occasional minor foxing to text. A Spanish language translation of The Holy Bible printed in New York in the penultimate year of the..... More

[N.p.]: 1932. Broadside, 9 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear. Father Divine was the most prominent black religious cult leader of the 1930s, believed to be a divine messenger, the messiah, or God himself by tens of thousands of African-Americans and middle-class whites during the Great Depression. In November 1931, Divine..... More

New York: 1854. Letterpress broadside, 14.5 x 9.25 inches, printed in three columns. Old folds, minor toning along fold lines, small loss just below center horizontal fold costing a few words, expertly repaired on verso, a couple of tiny areas of loss along center horizontal fold just touching a few..... More

Tokyo: Seikyosha, 1914. [2],3,1,18,498,[1]pp., plus forty-six plates (two folding). Text in Japanese. Original blue pebbled cloth, gilt titles stamped on front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Minor shelf wear to boards. Binding a bit cracked at page 80, scattered, mostly minor foxing. An acerbic memoir by Japanese author Toichiro..... More

New York: Japanese American News Corp. 1948. [273]pp., varying paginations. Original red cloth, gilt lettered. Dampstaining to boards, heavier at edges, light wear to cloth. Ink inscription in Japanese on rear cover. Faint dampstain to edges of outer leaves. The first postwar directory and yearbook published in 1948 by the..... More

Auburn: William J. Moses, 1859. 418pp. 12mo. Publisher's cloth, spine chipped with minor losses. Provenance: Henry Jackson (signature and inscription to:); Rev. F. J. Peck; Rev. D. G. Hill (bookplate). Third edition, with provenance to a Native American minister and two noted ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal church. Chippewa..... More

New York: 1902. [4],58pp. plus five plates (three folding). Folio. Original black publisher's cloth, cover gilt. Light wear and soiling to covers. Internally clean. "Prepared by the committee representing property owners of Park Avenue and Vicinity." Report stemming from several incidents of detrimental blasting and tunnel collapse in the subway..... More

[Brooklyn, NY: 1868-1913]. 121pp. plus assorted ephemeral items tipped in or pinned in throughout. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter black calf and marbled paper-covered boards, gilt leather spine label on front board. Moderate scuffing and edge wear to boards, binding tender, with front cover and first twenty-or-so leaves partially detached. Minor occasional..... More