Louisville, Ky. Pentecostal Publishing Company, [1919]. 56pp. Original green cloth, white titles. Mild rubbing and very light soiling, minor bumping to top corners. Internally clean and bright. A rare work by African American poet Sterling M. Means, who dedicates the book "To the Nine Hundred Thousand Black Troops who fought.....
[San Francisco: National Poetry Association (S.F.), 1995]. Small broadside, 8 x 11 inches, printed in brown and black on light tan paper. Light wear. Near fine. A small but striking broadside advertising a September 1995 performance by legendary poet Maya Angelou in Oakland. Angelou performed on this occasion with her.....
Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, October, 1791. [2],[595]-642,647-656pp. Lacking two leaves of text. Disbound. Moderate foxing, first text leaf chipped along fore-edge, costing a few letters, with an old repaired tear just into the text. A significant issue of The Massachusetts Magazine, with two items of African American.....
Naperville, IL: J.L. Nichols & Company, [ca. 1907]. [98]pp., variously paginated, plus photographic frontispiece of the author, twenty doubled-sided plates, and eight pages of lined paper at rear for recording subscriptions. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and in more elaborate black and white floral designs with.....
[N.p., possibly Brownsville, Tx. ca. 1916]. [1],11pp. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers soiled, partially split along spine, penciled ownership signature on front cover. Light creasing, occasional minor foxing to text. An unrecorded collection of poetry by First Sergeant Merritt H. Fuson of the 5th Nebraska Infantry, capturing military life.....
[Havana, Cuba: ca. 1860-1889]. [69]pp. of manuscript text, plus [77]pp. of newspaper extracts. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper-covered boards. Moderate scuffing and wear to boards and edges, spine scuffed. Hinges broken, with text block only nominally attached by threads, with many leaves detached. Ownership ink stamp on front free.....
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Americus, GA: [early 20th century]. Broadside, 12.25 x 9.5 inches, printed in two columns inside a four-line border. Moderate staining, foxing, and edge wear, several short closed edge tears, tiny hole in left column just touching one letter, small hole near top right in blank area, tiny chip to top.....
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Honolulu: 1928. [28],105,[26]pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled, with front cover stamped in black, orange, green, blue, and yellow. Moderate staining and chipping to wrappers. Text block detached between endpapers, fairly regular thumb-soiling to outer margins, occasional minor staining. Good condition. An informative yearbook issued for the students of Japanese High.....
New Bedford, MA: Mercury Press. B. Lindsey & Son, Printers, July 1, 1831. 16pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Wrappers stained, soiled, and a bit chipped. Small hole in rear wrapper and last leaf of text, costing a couple of words. Small dampstain throughout, scattered foxing. Good condition. Untrimmed. The prospective.....
Mexico City: 1869. Four volumes in two. 339,[3]; 315,[3]; 313,[2]; 268,[2]pp. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Edges and spine ends somewhat worn; boards scuffed. Even toning and occasional foxing. Rare contemporary Spanish translation and Mexican edition of this historical novel by French author Arsène Houssaye. Despite the.....
Mexico City: 1888. 210,[6]pp. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine leather scuffed in places, corners and edges with some moderate wear. Even toning and occasional foxing. First Mexican edition of this realist novel by Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós, published in 1888. Miau tells the story of.....
Mexico City: 1897. 247,[1];214pp. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Light wear to spine and boards; small scorch mark at fore-edge of front board. Text occasionally trimmed close. Tanned, but not brittle. Unrecorded popular Mexican edition of this French adventure story by prolific author Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail.....
Mexico City: F. Neve, 1868. 394,[2]pp. Contemporary quarter sheep and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to corners and spine; boards lightly soiled. Front and rear free endpapers town away. Even toning, an occasional fox mark. Rare Mexican edition of these collected philosophical and political essays and journalism by Spanish.....
[Utrecht: 1857]. Illustrated broadside, 17 x 13.75 inches, with large illustration at top printed in black, and title and body text printed in gold in three columns. Old folds, minor toning around edges, a few short closed tears, two small repairs on verso to short line separations, light surface wear.....
New York: Monarch Books, [ca. 1964]. Gouache and tempera on art board, 19.5 x 14 inches, total board size 25.75 x 20 inches. With Monarch Books' printed label on verso. Minor edge wear and thumb-soiling to margins, publisher's registration marks framing the edges of the painting. A visually stunning original.....
Paris: Aux Bureaux du Magasin Pittoresque, 1853. viii,399pp. Contemporary maroon pebbled cloth, leather backstrip, gilt spine titles. Minor wear and bumping to boards, minor soiling. Light toning to text. Very good. An early French edition of A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in order to.....
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. 4pp. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers with vignette of "Little Eva and Uncle Tom in the Arbor" on front cover, sewn, but removed from a bound volume with some paper remnants along spine. Minor soiling to outer wrappers, mild edge wear, light thumb-soiling to.....
La Haye [The Hague]: Correspondence Musicale, [ca. 1852-1855]. [3]pp., on a single folded folio sheet, lithographic illustration on front cover. Minor toning, foxing, and edge wear. Stated second edition of rare Dutch sheet music for a piano piece inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The central illustration on.....
Brownsville: Bishop's Print Shop, [ca. 1920]. [4]pp. Small bifolium, 6 x 3 inches. Light wear, some slight loss to paper. An ephemeral piece of Texana, handed out by the Eagle Pharmacy in Brownsville. The front page contains the title and a cut of an eagle, while the back advertises the.....