(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.....
(MANSONG, JACK). Famous Negro Robber, and Terror of Jamaica, or the History and Adventures of Jack Mansong. Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers., [n.d]. 24pp. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Removed, else near fine. Chapbook about the exploits of runaway Jamaican slave turned pirate, Jack Mansong, also known as "Three Fingered Jack," who.....
(AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY). The Fifteenth Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States. With an Appendix. Washington: Printed by James C. Dunn, 1832. 1st ed. xxix,[3],56,[8] pp. Disbound. Title page separated and toned but present, scattered foxing, else a very good.....
(NEBRASKA). The Nebraska Question Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate by Mr. Douglas, Mr. Chase, Mr. Smith, Mr. Everett, Mr. Wade, Mr. Badger, Mr. Seward, Mr. Sumner Together with the History of the Missouri Compromise: Daniel Webster's Memorial in Regard to It--History of the Annexation of Texas--the Organization of.....
(NEBRASKA). The Negroes of Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: Woodruff Printing Company, 1940. 1st ed. 48 pp. Illus. Orig. printed wrappers. A Federal Writers' Program history of Blacks in Nebraska. Small stain at foot of spine, not affecting text, else a very good or better copy.
NEW JERSEY AND THE NEGRO: A Bibliography, 1715-1966. Compiled by the Bibliography Committee of the New Jersey Library Association. N.p.: New Jersey Library Association, 1967. 196pp. Fine in orig. cloth.
(MISSISSIPPI). Report of the Committee on Outrages in Mississippi. [N.P.: n.p., 1876]. 1st ed. 16pp. double-columned. Orig. self-wrappers. Very good. Congressional investigation into the Mississippi race riots of November 1875.
(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.....
CHANNING, [William Ellery]. Dr. Channing's Last Address, Deliverd at Lenox, on the First of August, 1842, the Anniversary of Emancipation in the British West Indies. Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1842. 1st ed. 24 pp. Some light scattered foxing, else a very good copy. Channing was the foremost Unitarian theologian of his.....
ABRAHAMS, Roger D. Deep Down in the Jungle...: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia. Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, 1964. 1st ed. 287pp. Illus., pictorial endpapers. Orig. pictorial cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Some chipping to d/j, else very good or better.
ADAMS, E[dward] C.L. Potee's Gal. A drama of Negro Life NEar the Big Congaree Swamps. Columbia, SC: The State Co., 1929. 8vo, 49pp. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in lightly worn d/j. One of 250 copies signed by Adams. Scarce. Turnbull V, 297.
ADAMS, Nehemiah. South-Side View of Slavery; or, Three Months at the South, in 1854. N.Y., [1969]. 214pp. Fine in orig. cloth. Reprint of the 1854 ed.
ADDAMS, Jane. The Second Twenty Years at Hull House, September 1909 to September 1929. With a Record of a Growing World Consciousness. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. 1st ed. xiii,413pp. Illus. Orig. cloth. Near fine. Ownership signature of Adelaide M. Cromwell, with some notes by her on rear free.....
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.....
ANDERSON, Osborne P. A Voice from Harper's Ferry. A Narrative of Events at Harper's Ferry; with Incidents Prior and Subsequent to Its Capture by Captain Brown and His Men. Boston: Printed for the Author, 1861. 1st ed. 72pp. Later cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. Faint scattered foxing, else very.....
(ANTI-SLAVERY). Anti-Slavery Reporter. A Periodical, Containing Three Months in Jamaica, Correspondence on the Colonization Society, &c. &c. &c. Vol 1, No. 2. New-York: [Charles W. Denison], 1833. [19]-32 pp. Trimmed with slight losses to outer margins slightly affecting text, else very good.
ARMSTRONG, Orland Kay. Old Massa's People: The Old Slaves Tell Their Story. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1931]. 1st ed. 357pp. Pictorial endpapers. Orig. cloth, priceclipped d/j. Spine of jacket lightly sunned, else fine. Blockson 9809. Recollections of former slaves.
BAILEY, Hugh C. Hinton Rowan Helper: Abolitionist-Racist. University of Alabama, [1965]. 1st ed. Frontis. xi, 241pp. Very good in d/j.
BEACH, E. Merrill. From Valley Forge to Freedom: A Story of a Black Patriot. Chester, CT: The Pequot Press, [1975]. 1st ed. 69pp. Illus., maps, map endpapers. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Ex-library, library stamps, rear free endpaper neatly removed, else very good. Life of Nero Hawley as slave, Revolutionary soldier.....
BERLIN, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [1998]. X,497pp. Frontis., illus., maps. Orig. boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Small private ownership stamps, else fine.
[BOYER, Benjamin Markley]. New Orleans Riots. Minority Report. [Washington, DC: n.p., 1866]. 1st ed. 26pp. Orig. self-wrappers. Faint foxing to wrappers, else very good. Congressional report on the New Orleans race riots of July and August 1866 due to disenfranchisement.
(AFRICA). BRADY, Cyris Townsend Jr. Commerce and Conquest in East Africa. With Particular Reference to the Salem Trade With Zanzibar. Salem, 1950. 1st ed. Illus. frontis. endpaepr maps. xxi, 245pp. A fine copy in orig. cloth, signed by the author.
BREWER, James H. The Confederate Negro: Virginia's Craftsmen and Military Laborers, 1861-1865. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1969. 1st ed. xvii,212pp. Plates, map. Orig. cloth. Fine in d/j. Study of the use of blacks as quartermaster and commissary employees, workers in naval and ordnance operations, transportation laborers, hospital attendants, and.....