The Politics of Pro-Slavery Sentiment in Indiana, 1816-1861.
Muncie: Ball State University, 1968. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. vii, 45pp. Near fine. Ball State monograph number twelve. More
Black History
America's Ethnic Politics.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, [1982]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering. x, 403pp. Near fine. Tight, handsome first edition of this volume in the "Contributions in Ethnic Studies" series, featuring essays by noted scholars covering not just African-Americans, but also Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Scandinavians, Germans..... More
England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy.
New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 184pp. Fine. A tight and pristine facsimile of the 1864 revised and amended second edition. Norman Ferris reviewed this as "An ardent appeal to the English to support the North in achieving slavery's abolition." NEVINS..... More
African American Historic Places.
Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, [1994]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 623pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Faintest of edgewear; small inked note on inside rear wrapper. A tight, attractive first edition of this thick guide to the National Register of Historic Places for African-American related sites -- indispensably..... More
Black Humor Fiction of the Sixties.
Athens: Ohio University Press, [1973]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 156pp. Fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A superbly tight and nice first edition of this scholarly approach. Review slip laid in. More
"A Practical Recognition of The Brotherhood of Man": John G. Fee and the Camp Nelson Experience.
Berea, KY: Berea College Press, 1986. Paperback. Foreword by Thomas D. Clark. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. v, 86pp. Illustrations. Very good. Spine a bit roughened. Tight, nice first edition -- issued in softbound form only. Surprisingly uncommon. More
Henry Warren Sewing: Founder of the Douglass State Bank -- An Autobiography.
New York: Exposition Press, [1971]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 137pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket a bir edgeworn and rubbed. A tight, clean and nice first edition of this memoir by this banker who named his Kansas City, Kansas institution after Frederick Douglass. Inscribed and..... More
The Search for Justice: A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case.
[New York]: Warner Books, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. xix, 363pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight, nice first edition, inscribed huge and bold by the author in black marker on the half-title page: "To Dan / Here's to happy / Days ahead! /..... More
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1933]. Hardcover. Illustrations by John Farleigh. 8vo. Black cloth with white lettering. 75pp. Engraved title page, engravings, engraved endpapers. Very good. A tight and handsome first edition, first state, of this slim tale of a young African girl's quest for religion, featuring Farleigh's powerful..... More
Slavery in the United States of America; Its National Recognition and Relations, from the Establishment of the Confederacy, to the Present Time. A Word to the North and the South.
New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. xiii, 187pp. Near fine. Facsimile of the 1860 second edition of this 1858 text. More
Freedom from Fear: The Slave and His Emancipation.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1961]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan decorated cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 200pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine a bit sunned. First edition. More
Freedom from Fear: The Slave and His Emancipation.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1961]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan decorated cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 200pp. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition. More
Political Lexicography.
N.p. N.p., n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 4pp. Very good. Mild edgewear and age toning; binding traces on left margin. Probable sole printing of this bibliographically-challenged leaflet by this New York Democratic legislator, lawyer, abolitionist and all-around gadfly (1810-89) who spent years in Texas and got himself elected to the Texas..... More
History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue.
New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 280pp. Fine. A tight and pristine facsimile reprint of the 1859 first edition of this court case transcript introduced by Henry E. Peck and Ralph Plumb -- a famed test of the Fugitive Slave..... More
History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue.
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blind-ruled grown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 280pp. Good plus overall. While inner hinges and text block are a solid very good, clean and nice, the binding is quite rough and edgeworn, especially along length of spine, which..... More
Freedom's Champion: Elijah Lovejoy.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1994]. Hardcover. Foreword by Clarence Page. 8vo. Tan cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 206pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A tight and superb first edition of this uncommon biography of the Illinois abolitionist, signed large and bold by Simon in blue marker on the..... More
Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom.
St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 150pp. Very good/very good. Jacket somewhat rubbed and with the slightest bit of edgewear. Tight, clean, handsome first edition of the Illinois senator's first book. Rather uncommon. The front jacket panel features a blurb from then-Ambassador Adlai E...... More
The Negro and New Jersey: A Checklist of Books, Pamphlets, Official Publications, Broadsides, and Dissertations, 1754-1964.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Library, 1965. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. 56pp. Fine. Much material on the Civil War and Reconstruction. More
The Liberty Party.
Peterboro, NY: N.p., 1850. Paperback. 1850 November 28. 4to (8" X 12½"). Self-cover. (4pp). Near fine. Faint age toning at margin. Smith (1797-1874) was an ardent abolitionist and philanthropist and among the founders and leaders of the short-lived Liberty Party. It was founded in 1840 by a group who split..... More
Three Discourses on the Religion of Reason.
New York: Ross & Tousey, 1859. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 85pp. Very good. Light soiling and minor edgewear. First edition. Collection of three lectures delivered in Peterboro on 21 February 1858, 23 January 1859 and 19 June 1859, followed by Smith's letter to William Goodell of 13 August 1859 defending his..... More
Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, [1997]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 174pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight, handsome second printing of this highly-regarded collection. More
An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, [1985]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with silver lettering. ix, 314pp. Near fine. Tight and attractive first edition of Number 89 in the "Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies" series. From the library of noted medical Civil War collector Ralph C. Gordon, who signs the front pastedown..... More
Walkin' over Medicine.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, [1998]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xv, 311pp, (1p). Near fine. Tight, clean and handsome first paperback edition. Name/address label on inside front wrapper of pediatric medicine professor and medical history scholar Ralph C. Gordon. More
Facts and Opinions Touching the Real Origin, Character, and Influence of the American Colonization Society: Views of Wilberforce, Clarkson, and Others, and Opinions of the Free People of Color of the United States.
New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 224pp. Fine. Facsimile of the 1853 first edition. More
Facts and Opinions Touching the Real Origin, Character, and Influence of the American Colonization Society: Views of Wilberforce, Clarkson, and Others, and Opinions of the Free People of Color of the United States.
New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 224pp. Near fine. Facsimile of the 1853 first edition. More