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Arranged By Edwin P. Christy Lilly of the Valley
New York Jaques and Brother 1847 Sheet Music Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Complete with 5 numbered pages. Wonderful b/w cover illustration with five vignettes; one shows Edwin Christy and the others show the minstrels performing as both men and women in blackface. Four blackface cherubs decorate the cover as well. Christy's Minstrels invented the standard minstrel line with the interlocutor in the middle and Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones on the ends and were the most popular minstrel group of their day. "The Christy Minstrels . . . give the most decidedly original exhibition that we have seen, and accomplish what is the legitimate object of their costumes and colored faces, namely, the personation of the witty negro. In consideration of these things, we must express our preference for the Christy Minstrels. . . . We listen and laugh, and have a desire to go again, and again. And in this feeling, we think the great majority of the people are with us." The Spirit of the Times, 16 October 1847. Clean pages. Light soiling to front cover. Once bound so slightly trimmed.
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350.00 USD
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Berry, Bertice Redemption Song
New York Doubleday 2000 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Author's first novel. "Josephine 'Fina' Chambers and Ross Buchanan meet in Black Images, a small African American bookshop, as they both reach for a rare copy of a slave woman's 'memory book.' Each refuses to let go of the book until the ise and spirited owner, negotiates a deal. . . . In the process, Ross and Fina will realize that the path to their shared future may be linked to something that happened more than a century ago." Doesn't appear to have ever been read.
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20.00 USD
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Bibbins, Ruthella Mory Mammy 'mongst the Wild Nations of Europe
New York Frederick A. Stokes Company 1904 First Edition Pictorial Cover Near Fine No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Wrightman, Francis P.
Terrific copy. 305 pages. 8 glossy b/w plates. Scarce turn-of-the-century fictional travel narrative told through the eyes of an old Black Mammy who accompanies her young charge to England and Paris. In rural black dialect. More paternal than racist. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages. Bright, colorful cover with some very light soiling.
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285.00 USD
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Cleaver, Eldridge (editor) The Black Panther, Vol. IV, No. 7, Jan 17, 1970
Berkeley, California The Black Panther Party 1970 Newspaper Very Good Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall
20 pages including the cover. This issue of the newspaper of the Black Panther Party has an exceptional cover showing an American flag with black stars and portraits of two, then incarcerated Panther icons: co-founders Bobby Seale (Chairman) and Huey Newton (Minister of Defense). Feature articles include "Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton Drugged Then Murdered." There is a double-page centerfold broadside titled "The Black Panther: Mirror of the People" and another two-page spread with smaller broadside-type articles: "Rules of the Black Panther Party" and "Black Panther Party Platform and Program: What We Want, What We Believe." Almost no wear. Very light horizontal fold. Light toning.
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225.00 USD
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Dodson, Owen Boy at the Window
New York Farrar, Straus and Young 1951 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover Very Good Good to Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
First printing of African-American author's second book. FSY colophon on copyright page. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages; couple of spots to front free endpaper. Light wear to cover. Dustjacket has some edgewear with sunned spine. Protected by an archival cover. See accompanying scanned image.
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70.00 USD
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Dry, Richard Leaving
New York St. Martin's 2002 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Fictional examination of three generations of an African-American family who leaves South Carolina in the 1950s for a better life in Oakland, California. See accompanying scanned image.
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15.00 USD
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Editors of the Norfolk Herald Insurrection of the Blacks [Nat Turner's Revolt]
Baltimore Niles Weekly Register 1831 First Edition Newspaper Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Some of the earliest reporting on Nat Turner's revolt in Southampton, Virginia, which began on 21 Aug 1831. These are the first two issues of the Niles' Weekly Register (27 Aug 1831 and 3 Sep 1831) to recount the events. The 27 Aug paper, which is especially scarce, devotes 13.5 column inches and includes the initial report of the violent attacks published in the Norfolk Herald. The 3 Sep paper, which is less scarce though still uncommonly found, contains 18 column inches, corrects some errors from the previous week's report and provides additional details. The newspapers were once bound. Both are clean and supple with some light toning. The leaves of the 27 Aug edition have some edge wear at the upper right margins. Together these two newspapers provide an extraordinary contemporary record of the slaughter in which about 40 slaves hacked, stabbed, and clubbed to death 60 white people. Many of the victims were killed in their sleep and most of those killed were women and young children, eleven of whom were decapitated after being trapped in a school classroom.
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950.00 USD
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Ewart, David A Scriptural View of the Moral Relations of African Slavery.
Charleston, SC Walker, Evans & Co., Steam Printers 1859 First Edition Pamphlet Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
12 pages. In this essay, Ewart provides explanations of many Bible verses justifying slavery. Sabin 23310. From the estate of a descendant of Thomas Young Simons, a signer of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession. Faint water stain; minor foxing; previously bound.
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200.00 USD
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From the Estate of Oliver Smith Small Anti-Slavery Archive - 1834-1840
Hatfield, Massachusetts Manuscript 1834 Manuscript Very Good
A small archive of four anti-slavery documents from the estate of Oliver Smith, Hatfield Massachusetts. Documents include: 1) A two-page list of resolutions (including a major anti-slavery resolution) approved by the Methodist Episcopal Church of Orleans, Massachusetts in 1834, 2) A three-page manuscript article that was printed in 1839 as "Immediate Emancipation" on page 15 of Volume 4 of the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, a publication of the American Anti-Slavery Societym 3) A six-page anti-slavery speech from the Presidential Election of 1840 condemning both the Whigs and Democrats for lying, violence, hypocrisy, distribution of hard liquor, and most importantly, "the great evil," i.e., their pledges "to support the slavery of the south." and 4) A one-page manuscript containing a three-verse anti-slavery poem. Typed transcriptions of the first three documents are included. All of the documents are in nice shape.
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1500.00 USD
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Gaskill, Clarence, Tom Neeley, and Harry Blythe Check and Double Check! (Nobody But Me) [ Sheet Music]
New York Leo Feist 1930 First Edition Sheet Music Near Fine No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Very nice example of the scarcest Amos n Andy sheet music based on the catch phrase made famous in the NBC radio show. Terrific photo illustration of the show's stars Freeman Godson (Amos) and Charles Correll (Andy) in blackface and character clothing. The show was an immense hit and the first radio show to be distributed in the United States by syndication. Not only did Godson and Correll portray the show's title characters, they also performed the roles of all 170+ male characters through out the life of the program.. Clean with almost no wearr. No tears or splits.
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75.00 USD
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Harris, E. Lynn A Love of My Own
New York Doubleday 2002 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Bisexual, black love triangle story with classic Harris characters: John Basil Henderson and Raymond Tyler, Jr. Doesn't appear to have ever been read.
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12.00 USD
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Harris, E. Lynn Any Way the Wind Blows
New York Doubleday 2001 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover Fair Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Sequel to "Not a Day Goes By." Jilted, black Broadway bombshell stages a comeback while harboring a grudge against her bisexual former lover; "a wicked little dance of revenge" Doesn't appear to have ever been read.
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12.00 USD
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Harris, E. Lynn Not a Day Goes By
New York Doubleday 2000 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A made-in-heaven romance between an upcoming black Broadway star and a football star founders when his bisexual history is revealed. Tiny (1/16") scuff at head of dj spine. Doesn't appear to have ever been read.
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10.00 USD
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Harris, Joel Chandler Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There.
Cambridge Houghton, Mifflin and Company: The Riverside Press 1895 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Herford, Oliver
Early printing. Complete with all 32 plates. Harris's collection of 19 different folktales that "belong to three categories. Some of them were gathered from the negroes, but were not embodied in the tales of Uncle Remus, because I was not sure they were negro stories; some ar Middle Georgia folklore sotries, and no doubt belong to England; and some are merely inventions." Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Light cover wear. Small (1/4") clean tear at top of spine. Spine slightly darkened.
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50.00 USD
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Harris, Joel Chandler Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
New York D. Appleton and Company 1881 First Edition, 1st State Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Church, Frederick S. and James H. Moser
Meets all BAL 7100 first state points. 232 pages. 8 pp. advertisements. Frontispiece and 7 plates inserted; other illustrations in text. Last line of p. 9 shows the word 'presumptive'. Advertisements begin with 'New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. . . .' No mention of the title in the advertisements. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Slightly uneven text block. Two tiny owners' bookplates inside the front cover. Minor cover wear, mostly at corners and spine ends. Bright gilt lettering and decoration.
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1800.00 USD
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Hedden, Worth Tuttle The Other Room
New York Bantam 1949 Paperback Very Good No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
#463. Interracial love story set at a fictional black college (Southern?) in the early 1900s. "Nina Latham was a southen girl, trained in a rigid code of black and white. She wanted to get away from home, but when she signed for her new job she didn't she would be working with Negroes, eating with them, living among them. An certainly she didn't know that she would meet handsome young Leon who could have passed for white--but wouldn't." Tight binding. Clean and supple pages with toning. Top corner tip of first page is missing. Clean, glossy cover shows some wear.
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7.00 USD
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Herzer, Wallie Everybody Twostep Rag - Sheet Music
Jerome H. Remick 1911 Soft Cover Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
6 pages including the cover. This rag features a cover illustration of a black banjo player that is notorious for being one of most disgusting racist caricatures on any piece of sheet music. Clean; no splits or tape. Several very tiny closed marginal tears on front cover. Slight sliver of light color loss in lower left cover corner. Minor edgewear.
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150.00 USD
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Hogan, Inez Nicodemus and the Houn' Dog
New York E.P. Dutton 1933 First Edition Pictorial Cover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hogan, Inez
Hard-to-find first edition of the second book in the Nicodemus series in the extremely scarce dust jacket. Tight binding. Clean pages; small 1933 gift inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper. Bright, clean cover with some edge wear. Dust jacket has some soiling and wear including several small holes scattered here and there.
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350.00 USD
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Jones, Laurence C. Sweet Memories of Dixie [Sheet Music]
Piney Woods (Braxton), Mississippi Piney Woods School 1924 Sheet Music Near Fine Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Very nice example of music composed by the African American founder and principal of the Piney Woods Country Life School. The school was founded in 1909 to provide a practical education for poor, rural black children. Piney Woods is the second oldest African American boarding school in the United States, and one of the finest boarding schools in America. Nearly 100% of its graduates continue on to selective colleges and universities. In the early 1920s, Piney Woods added a School for Blind Negroes. The school has a rich musical tradition and has originated a number of singing groups including the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and the Cotton Blossom Singers. The front cover is illustrated with black sweethearts in a rowboat and a photograph of Jones. There are numerous photos of the school and its students on the rear cover. Clean with no tears or splits.
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100.00 USD
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