Missouri. Includes two Heroines of Jericho, Missouri Jurisdiction convention programs (1951 and 1970) and a collection of 18 unidentified photographs from the 1960s-1970s ranging in size from 8" x 10" to 3.5" x 3.5". The 1951 program has some water damage to the lower right corner. Some of the photographs... More
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
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
![Abraham's Daughter, or Raw Recruits [Sheet Music]. Dan Bryant.](/pictures/thumb/007954.jpg?v=1465418748)
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
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
[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
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
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
Philadelphia: Obtained by J. Frank Knight, 1872. Framed. The letter, cdv, and button are all arranged and matted in an 11” x 12” frame. The letter is written on Howard University stationery and dated Nov. 26, 1872; it reads: “Mr. J. Frank Knight / My Dear Sir / Your kind... More
![Sweet Memories of Dixie [Sheet Music]. Laurence C. Jones.](/pictures/thumb/007591.jpg?v=1465418728)
Piney Woods (Braxton), Mississippi: Piney Woods School, 1924. Sheet Music. The front cover is illustrated with black sweethearts in a rowboat and a photograph of Jones. There are numerous photos of the Piney Woods School and its students on the rear cover. Very nice shape. Clean with no tears or... More
Bo-Peep Series, 1900. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. An uncommon edition of this classic racist nursery rhyme. Complete with twelve colorful lithographs (one double-page) along with music and lyrics. Old, neatly done, thread and paper reinforcement to the spine. Minor wear and light soiling; faint dampstain... More
Lancaster County, Virginia: 1814. Paper Wrapper. Handmade, string-bound 4" x 6" booklet with 24 pages, ten of which have been used. Worn cover. Binding holding, but slightly loose. Several leaves have been clipped from the rear of the book. The rear cover is titled "Memorandum Book" in ink, the book... More
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
![Bella Rosa [Sheet Music]. The Campbell Minstrels.](/pictures/thumb/008439.jpg?v=1465418835)
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 the... More
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
Near Leland, Mississippi: 1950. Photograph. Each photograph measures 3.5" x 5.25". Mounted on a scrapbook page with a typed description of that day's drive through "the deep south." One photograph shows a group of about ten well-dressed white folks posing around a black toddler, Marie, as her grandmother looks on... More
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
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
Washington DC: 1837. 4-page bifolium newspaper. Approximately 18” x 21”. Complete. Still supple. Light toning with some wear along centerfold. Other storage folds. Nice example of the premier early 19th century Washington DC newspaper. Much interesting content including: * Long advertisement by Oscar Farish touting the sale of large land... More
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1861. First Edition. Sheet Music. Complete: 6 pages including the cover. The cover shows a white overseer, whip in hand, threatening four young male slaves. Slightly trimmed and with nice corners and old tape binding so probably from an old bound collection of sheet music. No... More
New York: Willis Woodward & Co. 1890. Unbound. Approximately 10.75” x 13.75”. Complete 4-page folio. Colorful cover features a portrait of George Thatcher on the front and his entire minstrel troupe on the rear. Minor wear and soiling. George Thatcher was a very popular performer who began his career in... More
