DUNBAR, Paul. Oak and Ivy. Original gilt-decorated cloth, professionally rebacked in matching cloth. Dayton, OH: Press of United Brethren Publishing House, 1893. First edition of the author's first book. BAL 4916. Rare. With the ownership signature "J.W. Cromwell March 6, 1915" on front free endpaper. This is either John Wesley.....
(PROSTITUTION). Blue Book. [New Orleans, n.p., 1912]. 1st ed. [96]pp. Illus. Orig. printed wrappers, housed in custom blue-morocco backed folding case with inner cloth case. Rear wrapper and final leaf separated but present, lower free corner of front wrapper missing, very old water stain to rear wrapper and final few.....
(PROSTITUTION). Blue Book. [New Orleans: n.p., 1913-15]. 1st ed. [96]pp. Illus. Orig. printed wrappers, housed in red morocco-backed marbled board folding case. Wrappers rubbed, else very good. Arceneaux, Guidebooks to Sin 10. A rare series of guides to the bawdy houses and prostitutes of New Orleans, issued between 1900 and.....
SUMNER, Charles. His Complete Works. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1900. 1st ed. 20 Vols. Bound in 1/2-red morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, gilt starburst ornaments, marbled endpapers, T.e.gs. One of 1000 numbered sets. Fine. The "Statesman Edition." Tipped in is a 3-page autograph letter from Sumner to "My.....
VAN EVRIE, J[ohn] H. The Dred Scott Decision. Opinion of Chief Justice Taney, with an Introduction by Dr. J.H. Van Evrie. Also, an Appendix, Containing an Essay on the Natural History of the Prognathous Race of Mankind, Originally Written for the New York Day-Book, by Dr. S.A. Cartwright, of New.....
ALEXANDER, J[ames] E[dward]. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With Notes on Negro Slavery and Canadian Emigration. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. 2 Vol, 8vo. 1st ed. xxiii,384;xiii,320 pp. Frontis., 9 full page plates, map. Orig. 1/2-calf and marbled.....
ALEXANDER, J[ames] E[dward]. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With Notes on Negro Slavery and Canadian Emigration. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. 1st ed. [xxiv], 384; [xiv], 320 pp. Frontises, illus., map. Period-style 3/4-leather, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, raised.....
HOWARD, Benjamin C. A Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott verses John F. A. Sandford. December Term, 1856. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857. Pp.[4], 393-633. Period-style calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-ruled.....
(CUMBERLAND COUNTY). (GOULDTOWN). STEWARD, William and STEWARD, T.G. Gouldtown. A Very Remarkable Settlement of Ancient Date...Sketches of Early Colonial History of Cumberland County and Southern New Jersey. Phila., 1913. Illus. Outer edge of front board lightly stained, else a Very good copy in orig. cloth. Very scarce...
[WEBB, Samuel, ed.]. History of Pennsylvania Hall, Which Was Destroyed by a Mob, on the 17th of May, 1838. Phila.: Merrihew & Gunn, 1838. 1st ed. Very good in orig. cloth. Illus. with two plates (one by Sartain) and color frontis. 200pp. Howes W-189. Currier p. 611. Contains John G......
HOWARD, James H.W. Bond and Free; A True Tale of Slave Times. Original cloth. Harrisburg: Edwin K. Meyers, 1886. Wright III, 2797. Cloth soiled and edgeworn. Front hinge cracking. Overall a good copy of this novel by a former slave.
STIRLING, James. Letters from Slave States. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1857. 1st ed. vii,374pp. Map frontis. Orig. decorated cloth. Light wear to spine ends, rear inner hinge starting, else a very good. HOWES S-1012. Stirling "gave a critical and sometimes biased picture of the American way of life.....
GEORGE, James Z. The Political History of Slavery in the United States. Book I. The Political History of Slavery in the United States. Book II. Legislative History of Reconstruction. N.Y.: Neale Publishing Company, 1915. 1st ed. Portr. Illus. xxiv, 342pp. Fine copy in orig. cloth. Krick 162. "...well constructed and.....
[HINTON, Richard Josiah]. Rebel Invasion of Missouri and Kansas, and the Campaign of the Army of the Border, against General Sterling Price, in October and November, 1864. Chicago: Church & Goodman, 1865. 1st ed. 351pp. Portrait frontis., portraits, maps. Orig. blindstamped cloth. Minor wear to head of spine, bookplate of.....
TOWER, Philo. Slavery Unmasked: Being a Truthful Narrative of a Three Years' Residence and Journeying in Eleven Southern States: To Which Is Added the Invasion of Kansas.... Rochester, 1856. 1st ed. Frontis. 452pp. Howes T-310. Very good in orig. cloth. "The wildest flight of anti-slavery fantasy."--Howes.
WELD, Charles Richard. A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855. 1st ed. Folding map. xi, 394pp. A very good copy in original green cloth. Howes W-234.The author travelled as far south as Richmond and west as far as Ohio. In addition.....
BLAKE, W.O., ed. The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. Columbus, 1860. Illus. A political history of slavery in the United States. Very good in original full embossed leather.
(AFRICA). LIVINGSTONE, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London.....
OLMSTED, Frederick Law. A Journey in the Back Country. New York: Mason Brothers, 1861. 492pp. Orig. cloth. Spine lightly sunned, else very good or better. Howes 0-77. Clark 481. One of the truly classic accounts of ante bellum travel providing an almost unparalleled picture of the institution of slavery...
(UNITED STATES NAVY). STANTON, Fred[erick]. P[erry]. Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the Establishment of a Line of Mail Steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and Thence via the Mediterranean to London; Designed to Promote the Emigration of Free Persons.....
(BENEZET, ANTHONY). VAUX, Roberts. Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet. Phila.: Published by James P. Parke, 1817. 1st ed. Frontis. v, 136pp. Very good in orig. cloth. Sabin 98704. Shaw 42769.
(SLAVERY). Southern Slavery Considered on General Principles; or, A Grapple with Abstractionists. By a North Carolinian. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861. 24pp. Lacks wrappers, small piece lacking from lower free corner of title page, else very good or better. Thornton 13097. Not in Blockson. Afro-American 9563. Attempt to distinguish.....
CARNES, J.A. Journal of a Voyage from Boston to the West Coast of Africa: With A Full Description of the Manner of Trading with the Natives on the Coast. Boston, 1852. 1st ed. 479pp. Very good in orig. cloth. Sabin-10947.
DOW, George Francis. Slave Ships and Slaving. Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1927. 4to. xxxv, 349pp. Illus. Fine in d/j.
LE CATO, N[athaniel] J. W. The Curse of Caste. Original pictorial cloth. New York: Walker-Ellerson Publishing Co., [1903]. First edition. Inscribed on front pastedown "From the Publishers." A scarce novel on race relations by a prolific Black author. Spine lightly sunned, light wear to spine ends, else very good...