Jackson, Tn. 1946. xv,380pp. 16mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Corners lightly bumped, binding rubbed. Contents clean with a few ink notations. Governing text of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, outlining criteria for organization, ministry, membership, church property, rituals and rites.
Utica, Ms. 1911. 8pp., accompanied by a single-page fundraising typed letter, signed, and original transmittal envelope. Original mailing folds to pamphlet and letter, minor wear and toning. A very rare annual report from the Utica Normal & Industrial Institute of Utica, Mississippi, issued by the school's founder and principal, William.....
Richmond, Va. Presses of the Virginia Press, [1908]. 400pp., including scores of photographic plates and illustrations within the text. Publisher's light blue cloth stamped in black. Minor wear and rubbing to boards. A profusely-illustrated historical treatment of African American industrial history intended as a textbook for teaching Black youth. The.....
New York: Sidney Hillman Foundation, [1956]. 11,[1]pp. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Mild creasing. Minor toning and dust soiling. An address by Charles S. Johnson, the first Black president of Fisk University, before a convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1956 on subject of education and desegregation in the.....
New York: The Alliance Publishing Co., 1900. 40pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some discoloration along front wrapper, minor dust-soiling to wrappers. Thin dampstain along outer margin of first few leaves, otherwise internally clean. A rare report compiled by noted African-American educator, author, and businessman George Allen Mebane of North Carolina.....
Boston: Published at the Office of the Society, 1864. 86pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine titles. Light chipping and soiling to wrappers. Contemporary notation to header of title, else internally clean. Very good plus. An account of the second year of the.....
![Item #4601 The Student Protest Movement, Winter 1960 [caption title]. African Americana, Southern...](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4601.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762017065)
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, April 1, 1960. [2],6,xxv leaves printed on rectos only, stapled, with "Special Report" wrapper. Minor wear, light soiling. The revised edition of a special report on the student protests and sit-ins that occurred in early 1960 in the American South. The report was issued on April.....
Montgomery, Al. 1958. [92]pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Quarto. Original textured wrappers, printed in blue and gilt, stapled. Moderate soiling and minor edge wear. Some foxing to initial and terminal leaves, but mostly clean internally. An unrecorded souvenir program from the seventy-fifth annual convention of the Alabama State Teachers Association.....
Little Rock: Central Printing Company, 1924. 291pp., plus thirty-one photographic portrait plates. Publisher's green cloth with titles stamped in black. Considerable wear and staining to boards, edges worn. Hinges partially separated but holding by mull cloth. Latter portion of text dampstained. A well-worn copy of a rather scarce book. An.....
[Atlanta: ca. 1950]. [24]pp. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor dust-soiling, edge wear to wrappers, front wrapper detached. Central four-page gathering detached. A very rare, if not unique surviving copy of a celebratory pamphlet focused on Bishop King Hezekiah Burruss, the founder of the Churches of God, Holiness in Atlanta.....
Nashville: 1949-1950. Two yearbooks: 244; 208pp. The first bound in blue textured cloth, the second in maroon textured cloth, each front cover stamped in gilt with a mounted photograph. Some scuffing to edges. Light thumb-soiling to texts, previous owner's inscription in each volume. A pair of yearbooks once belonging to.....
![Item #12938 A Pictorial History of the Piney Woods Country Life School [cover title]. African...](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12938.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775236416)
[N.p., likely Braxton, MS: 1952]. 24pp. Profusely illustrated. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in green, brown, and red. Minor edge wear and foxing to wrappers. Light toning to text. Very good condition. A scarce and wonderfully-informative history of the first forty years of the Piney Woods Country Life School, Laurence.....
![Item #3089 The Famous Suwanee River Quartette [cover title]. African Americana, Music](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3089.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761713717)
[Philadelphia? ca. 1920]. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Quarto. Tanned and somewhat brittle, minor edge chipping, some short closed edge tears. A seemingly unrecorded promotional touting the talents of the now-obscure Famous Suwanee River Quartette. The group, formed in Cleveland, Ohio around 1910 and led by John Gantt, traveled.....
[Shreveport, La. ca. 1930s]. Broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, some tenderness to folds, a few short fold separations, some creasing and edge wear, mild rubbing. Some pencil notations on the verso. With organizational leader's ink stamp at bottom right. Very likely a unique surviving letterpress broadside advertising a......
[South Carolina: 1884]. 8pp., single sheet folded into eight panels. 24mo. Moderate soiling and foxing, even toning. A scarce promotional pamphlet for the Mt. Pleasant Home for Destitute Children. The home was founded in 1881 by Abby Munro, a Philadelphia Quaker, and served as the first orphanage for African American.....
Louisville, Ky. March 26, 1967. [1],26pp., contemporary copy, printed on rectos only, stapled. Minor toning and small paperclip stain to top edge of title leaf, last leaf loose. Otherwise clean. A nice contemporary copy of the annual report for the Southern Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), prepared.....
Tuskegee, Al. 1950. [2],28pp. of mimeographed text printed on rectos only. Folio. Original blue wrappers, printed in black, tan paper backstrip. Minor wear and soiling. Small institutional ink stamp on front cover and title page. A scarce and informative entry in the field of African-American bibliography, compiled by Jessie Parkhurst.....
![Item #4143 Hampton [cover title]. African Americana, Virginia](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4143.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761714664)
[Hampton, Va. The Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, January, 1924]. [8]pp. 16mo. Original self wrappers, stapled. Very minor wear. A very rare fundraising brochure printed and issued by Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute during the Roaring Twenties. The short, pocket-sized work includes sections titled, "What Hampton Is,".....
![Item #5007 [Small Collection of Materials Related to the Afro-American Life Insurance Company]....](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5007.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761974680)
[Atlanta, Ga. 1949]. Eight printed documents, most completed in manuscript. Some folds, mostly minor dust-soiling, wear, and creasing, moderate toning and some unobtrusive chipping. An interesting group of documents issued from the Afro-American Life Insurance Company's Atlanta District during the Jim Crow period. The collection includes a Member's Receipt Book.....
Chicago: The W.H. Parish Publishing Co., 1895. Title leaf, twenty-one text leaves (one illustrated with a photograph), plus seventy-one photographic plates (all called-for), most full-page but some with two photographs per sheet, and the wrappers to Part 12 bound in at rear. Folio. 20th-century green buckram. Ex-library, with stamps or.....
Montgomery: Department of Agriculture and Industries, [1904]. Twenty-one panel illustrated folding promotional on recto, printed with a color county map of Alabama on verso. One tear along fold lines and minor separations at a few crossfolds, light toning. An Alabama promotional touting the advantages across the state for potential "home.....
Montgomery: 1882. 11pp. Original printed wrappers, sewn. Three soft vertical folds throughout, minor edge wear and foxing. A detailed, and apparently unrecorded circular letter issued by Jerome Cochrane, the Health Officer of the State of Alabama. Cochrane details the "unsatisfactory character of the work so far done" in most counties.....
Tuskegee, Al: Tuskegee Institute, [1922]. [6],17pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor even toning. Small tape repair to lower edge of first text leaf. Very good. A scarce work issued by the Tuskegee Institute's Board of Trustees in answer to "what progress the school has made since Dr. Washington's death and.....
Montgomery, Al. Montgomery Post Book and Job Office, 1860. 8pp., with a secretarial manuscript certification covering inside rear wrapper, with affixed state seal. Original tan printed wrappers, sewn. Minor dust-soiling to wrappers, soft vertical crease throughout. One pencil correction to text, minor even toning. A seemingly unrecorded Alabama imprint, being.....
Birmingham, Al. 1914. [18]pp., with frontispiece photograph tipped-in on inside front wrapper. Original beige printed wrappers, string tied. Some uneven discoloration and minor staining to wrappers. Some offsetting to title page from frontispiece, otherwise internally clean. A program of the dedication services for Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914.....