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Postally used envelope sent from the Baltimore Association for the Moral & Educational Improvement of the Colored People to an African-American woman who had established a school in Royal Oak, Maryland

Postally used envelope sent from the Baltimore Association for the Moral & Educational Improvement of the Colored People to an African-American woman who had established a school in Royal Oak, Maryland

Baltimore: 1868. Unbound. This envelope measures 5.5” x 3”. It bears a hand-stamped corner card from the “Baltimore Association for the Moral & Educational Improvement of the Colored People,” and is addressed to Miss Rebecca Primus at Royal Oak, Maryland. It is franked with 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65) that... More

Price: $600.00

A Tribute for the Negro: being a Vindication of the Moral Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind. Wilson Armistead.

A Tribute for the Negro: being a Vindication of the Moral Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind.

Armistead, Wilson

Manchester: William Irwin, 1848. First Edition. Leather. 8vo. Deluxe edition with two extra (twelve total) full-page engravings with tissue-guards. xxv, 564 pp plus 2 pages of advertisements. Black morocco with gilt decorations and lettering. All edges gilt. Text printed within an engraved border. Expertly rebacked with original spine laid down... More

Price: $2,750.00

Thomas Earle as a Reformer. Edwin B. Bronner.

Thomas Earle as a Reformer

Bronner, Edwin B.

Philadelphia: International Printing Company, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Complete. 97 pages plus frontispiece. Signed by the author on the title page. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Almost no wear to cover. Somewhat scarce biography about a staunch supporter of... More

Price: $50.00

Abraham's Daughter, or Raw Recruits [Sheet Music]. Dan Bryant.

Abraham's Daughter, or Raw Recruits [Sheet Music]

Bryant, Dan

New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1861. First Edition. Sheet Music. Complete: 6 pages including the cover. Early Civil War music with a terrific cover showing five black misfit volunteers in various milita and zouave uniforms. Slightly trimmed and with nice corners and old tape binding so probably from an... More

Price: $250.00

Polly Perkins of Pemberton Green - Sheet Music. Harry Clifton.

Polly Perkins of Pemberton Green - Sheet Music

Clifton, Harry

Boston: Henry Tolman & Co., Circa 1860. First Edition. Sheet Music. From Buckleys Comic Songs as sung by R. Bisop Buckley [and] Buckleys Serenaders. 5 pages including the front cover. Cover includes five b/w vignettes showing members of the Serenaders. One of the vignettes shows R. Biship Buckley, and the... More

Price: $300.00

Vietnam War report titled “Discrimination in Administration of Military Justice” prepared for the African-American Commanding General of the 199th Infantry Brigade. Captain Donald P. Kirkpatrick.

Vietnam War report titled “Discrimination in Administration of Military Justice” prepared for the African-American Commanding General of the 199th Infantry Brigade

Compiled by Captain Donald P. Kirkpatrick

[Vicinity of Saigon]: 15 October 1968. This eight-page mimeographed fact sheet with typewritten cover was prepared for the Commanding General of the 199th Infantry Brigade. It is dated 15 October 1968 and was written while the unit was responsible for defending the northern approaches to Saigon. Its stated... More

Price: $500.00

Three legal documents reporting the sale of a female slave and her child. D. J. Hotchkiss, George W. Montague.

Three legal documents reporting the sale of a female slave and her child

D. J. Hotchkiss and George W. Montague

Taylor County, Kentucky. 1860. Unbound. Three one-page Taylor County, Kentucky documents regarding the sale of two slaves, Ann and her son John, as part of an inheritance lawsuit following the death of their owner, James F. Campbell of Taylor County, Kentucky. All three documents are in nice shape. After James... More

Price: $750.00

I'm Off to Charleston. William Donaldson.

I'm Off to Charleston

[Donaldson, William]

[Philadelphia]: T. M. Scroggy, 1855. _. Broadside. Songsheet lyrics for a popular minstrel song originally published as sheet music several years earlier. 6" x 8". African-American dialect.Light wear and marginal toning. Very faint vetical crease. Five stanzas recounting a slave's surreptitious trip to Charleston to visit a woman while his... More

Price: $60.00

Advertising envelope for Duluth Imperial Flour. Duluth Superior Milling Co.

Advertising envelope for Duluth Imperial Flour

Duluth Superior Milling Co

Duluth, Minnesota: Duluth Superior Milling Co, 1909. Unbound. The multi-color illustrated advertising cover (envelope) features a African-American baker, dressed in a spotless white suit with red tie, resting his right elbow on a sack of Duluth Flour while holding a sliced loaf of white bread in his left hand. The... More

Price: $150.00

The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together. and Samuel Rhoads, Abraham L. Pennock.

The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together

Edited by William J. Allison [and Samuel Rhoads and Abraham L. Pennock]

Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. 24 monthly issues bound together. Complete; each volume contains 104 text pages. Half-leather with marbled boards; 6.75” x 10.25”. Sound binding. Clean pages with light intermittent foxing. Old pencil annotation at top of the first title page. Light dampstain to the first six... More

Price: $2,500.00

Slave-hiring record. Shadrach Atkinson on behalf of a. minor.

Slave-hiring record

Executed by Shadrach Atkinson on behalf of a minor

[Thomas County, Georgia]: 1843. Unbound. This document measures 9.5” x 3” and is in nice shape. It reads, “Bryan minor of Joseph Bryan dc’d: / Hire of negro woman Patience 80.00 / Hire of Old woman Mary 50.00 / Hire of Girl Sal 48.00 / [Total] 178.00 / Subscribed &... More

Price: $125.00

One-page partially-printed temporary bond pledging the River Oaks Plantation and five slaves as security to ensure the administrators of an estate complete and tender its inventory to the State of Tennessee within two years. Harris Bradford’s estate.

One-page partially-printed temporary bond pledging the River Oaks Plantation and five slaves as security to ensure the administrators of an estate complete and tender its inventory to the State of Tennessee within two years

Harris Bradford’s estate

Gibson County, Tennessee: 1836. Unbound. This partially printed document measures 7.75” x 13.5” It is in good shape with some moderate soiling and short split along one storage fold. The document requires the administrators of Harris Bradford’s estate to provide a complete inventory of his property and belongs within two..... More

Price: $150.00

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. Joel Chandler Harris.

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation

Harris, Joel Chandler

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Church, Frederick S. and James H. Moser. First Edition, 1st State. Hard Cover. 12mo. 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... More

Price: $1,250.00

Nicodemus and the Gang. Inez Hogan.

Nicodemus and the Gang

Hogan, Inez

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939. Hogan, Inez. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hard Cover. 12mo. Complete with dust jacket. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Cover has light wear and soiling; a split along the spine is just starting. Minor wear to most of the dust jacket, but missing about... More

Price: $250.00

A LOVE LETTER FROM A WHITE OFFICER ASSIGNED TO THE ALL-AFRICAN-AMERICAN 25TH CORPS AS IT SAILED ON BOARD THE SHIP EUTERPE TO NORTH CAROLINA TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SECOND ASSAULT ON FORT FISHER; Four-page letter from Lt. J. R. Goodard to his sweetheart. J. R. Goodard.

A LOVE LETTER FROM A WHITE OFFICER ASSIGNED TO THE ALL-AFRICAN-AMERICAN 25TH CORPS AS IT SAILED ON BOARD THE SHIP EUTERPE TO NORTH CAROLINA TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SECOND ASSAULT ON FORT FISHER; Four-page letter from Lt. J. R. Goodard to his sweetheart

J. R. Goodard

On board the Euterpe: January 5, 1865. 1865. Unbound. Lightly soiled with some doodling at the upper corner of the first page. In this letter, Goddard expresses heartfelt sorrow to “Eva” that he would not be able to take leave for a visit. The reason he explains as follows... More

Price: $400.00

Photograph album documenting an Ohio farm family’s life including images of African-American roustabouts erecting tents for a Barnum & Bailey Circus as well as of Harry Atwood’s hydroplane rides over Lake Erie. “Proberty of Fred J. Hildebrandt.”.

Photograph album documenting an Ohio farm family’s life including images of African-American roustabouts erecting tents for a Barnum & Bailey Circus as well as of Harry Atwood’s hydroplane rides over Lake Erie

“Proberty of Fred J Hildebrandt.”

[Vicinity of Toledo, Ohio]: Circa 1910-1913. Album. This faux leather album measures approximately 7.5” x 6” and contains 50 photographs (mostly silver gelatin but two cyanotypes as well).. The photos vary slightly in size, but most are about 5.5” x 3.5” inches. The album is identified as the “Property of... More

Price: $300.00

Parasols is for Ladies. Elizabeth Ritter.

Parasols is for Ladies

Ritter, Elizabeth

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1941. MacKnight, Ninon. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. Complete with dust jacket. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Light wear to cover. Slight spine slant. Price-clipped dust jacket is edge-worn, heaviest at top of spine; closed tear on front cover. Child's name on front free... More

Price: $250.00

Bella Rosa [Sheet Music]. The Campbell Minstrels.

Bella Rosa [Sheet Music]

The Campbell Minstrels

New York: Wm. Hall & Son, 1848. First Edition. Sheet Music. Complete with 5 pages including the front cover. Wonderful black, white, and tan cover illustration with six vignettes, five of which show the Campbells performing both male and female roles in blackface. Once bound in a private album, so... More

Price: $250.00

Under the Bamboo Tree - Sheet Music. James Weldon Johnson, Rosamond Johnson, The Johnson Brothers, Bob Cole.

Under the Bamboo Tree - Sheet Music

The Johnson Brothers (James Weldon Johnson and Rosamond Johnson) and Bob Cole

New York: Jos. W. Stern, 1902. First Edition. Sheet Music. 8 pages including the cover. Clean; no splits or tape. Some minor cover wear including tiny closed marginal tears. Owner's name on front cover. Long before he wrote the classic fictional autobiography, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," James Weldon... More

Price: $90.00

Job advertisement for teachers to work at the Presbyterian Colored Missions in Louisville, Kentucky. The Reverend John Little.

Job advertisement for teachers to work at the Presbyterian Colored Missions in Louisville, Kentucky

The Reverend John Little

Louisville, Kentucky: 1929. This small 2” x 3” typewritten advertisement was enclosed in the accompanying envelope with a printed return address that reads, “Presbyterian Colored Missions, Incorporated, 314 South Hancock Street, Louisville, KY.” The advertisement reads, “EXTRA ****** WANTED—TEACHERS At the Presbyterian Colored Missions, 314 S. Hancock St. Won’t YOU..... More

Price: $100.00

Photograph showing a group of five young African-American men posing with what appears to be a brand new 1950 Ford Tudor sedan

Unknown photographer and subjects

St. Louis: circa 1950. Unbound. This 7” x 5” night-time photograph shows five fashionably dressed, young black men posing with a bright and shiny, light colored 1950 Ford Tudor sedan. The photo has some minor, hard-to-see wrinkling. It is annotated on the reverse, "the Ville." At one time, the Ville... More

Price: $100.00

Zehn Kleine Negerlein: Ten Little Niggers. Unlisted.

Zehn Kleine Negerlein: Ten Little Niggers

Unlisted

Germany: Pestalozzi Verlag, Circa 1950. Pictorial Cover. 8vo. Circa 1950, possibly earlier as the last page shows a 1930s era automobile. Cardboard leaves with cloth spine. Pestalozzi-Verlag icon and the number 1801 appear on front cover. Sound binding. Clean pages. Bright, colorful illustrations. Classic-but now never heard--counting rhyme in German... More

Price: $75.00

One-page, partially printed writ ordering a Sheriff to attach slaves and real property in compensation for an unpaid debt. V. B. Woolfolk.

One-page, partially printed writ ordering a Sheriff to attach slaves and real property in compensation for an unpaid debt

V. B. Woolfolk and others

Madison County, Tennessee: 1855. Unbound. This partially printed document measures 7.75” x 9.75”. It is in nice shape with light toning and short split just starting along one storage fold. The document directs the county sheriff to seize property, including two slaves, in compensation for a debt owed by V.... More

Price: $75.00

Handy Andy's Budget of Songs.

Handy Andy's Budget of Songs.

Various

New York: W. H. Murphy, Circa 1846. Cardboard covers. Approximately 3" x 4.5". The cover features a humorous wood engraving of Handy Andy, the blundering servant of and English squire in a very popular bawdy, slapstick novel of the same name published in 1842. Complete with the usual irregular pagination... More

Price: $150.00

Three-page deposition taken in relation to “a certain matter of controversy in the . . . Circuit Court” regarding “the Marshall of West Tennessee,” who, it appears, may have kept court fees, including some raised by the sale of a slave, for his personal use.

Three-page deposition taken in relation to “a certain matter of controversy in the . . . Circuit Court” regarding “the Marshall of West Tennessee,” who, it appears, may have kept court fees, including some raised by the sale of a slave, for his personal use

Various

Madison County, Tennessee: 1840. Unbound. This document measures 7.75” x 12.5” It is in good shape with some moderate soiling, and tape repairs on the reverse of the third page. The document records the testimony of a witness who sold a slave to pay for both a judgment levied against... More

Price: $75.00

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