![Item #3937 Get a Head Start at the Library...[caption title]. African Americana, American Library...](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3937.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762195101)
[N.p.]: American Library Association / Padgett & Walsh, 1985. Two color-printed, photographically-illustrated posters, each 34 x 22 inches. Minor edge and surface wear, one poster with two small gouges at center of the image area. A vibrant pair. A pair of promotional posters advertising the American Library Association's 1985 campaign.....
![Item #5302 [Prospectus and Order Form for the Novel, Dark Valor (The Man History Forgot)]....](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5302.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761714363)
Toledo, Oh. Commonsense Publications, 1969. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Small folio. Heavy tanning at edges; occasional staining. An enthusiastic prospectus for an apparently unrecorded African-American novel, Dark Valor, by author Don Benn Owens, Jr. The cover blares, "The book in a million books!...An historical novel in which a black man.....
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., [ca. 1926]. [8]pp. Illustrated. Original self wrappers, stapled. Light toning and thumb-soiling. Very good. [with:] Pictures of Distinguished Negroes. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., [1927?]. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Folded, with short separations to upper fold lines. Light toning. Very good. An.....
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.....
Washington, DC: Austin Jenkins Co., Manufacturing Publishers of High Grade Subscription Books, 1920. Irregularly paginated with a selection of the published text, along with numerous plates and unused subscription leaves at the end of the text. Original blue cloth decoratively stamped in red, grey, and black on the front cover.....
Nashville: State Department of Education, 1935. 22pp. Original gray printed wrappers, stapled. Light discoloration to front wrapper, minor creasing. Internally clean. A scarce state publication designed to guide teachers and librarians in segregated Tennessee in assembling a collection of works related to the African American experience. The Foreword reads, in.....
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 #4448 [Promotional Poster for John Armor and Peter Wright's Manzanar]. Japanese Americana,...](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4448.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762131402)
[New York]: Times Books, [1988]. Photographically-illustrated poster, 19 x 24 inches. Minor wear. A promotional poster for the publication of John Armor and Peter Wright's Manzanar, a 1988 book that combined Ansel Adams' photographs with a powerful original essay by John Hersey entitled "A Mistake of Terrifically Horrible Proportions," along.....
![Item #5515 Catalogue Jewish Books and Jewish Publications [cover title]. Judaica, Bloch...](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5515.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762317518)
Cincinnati: The Bloch Publishing and Printing Co, [late 1899 or early 1900]. 43,[2] [i.e., 48]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled, 5.25 x 3 inches. Minor wear and toning, small chip to three corners, larger chip to top corner of front wrapper, costing a couple of letters. Light foxing, otherwise clean internally.....
San Luis Potosi, Mx: May 26, 1872. 2,[2]pp. on a folded folio sheet. An intriguing issue of the San Luis Potosi state newspaper, La Sombra de Zaragoza, produced in the late-Spring of 1872. The paper was issued at irregular intervals at the time, but was most frequently issued as a four-page.....
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.....
St. Louis: F.L. Rand Company, 1926. [2],246pp. Original red cloth stamped in black. Minor scuffing and edge wear to boards. Hinges a bit over-opened, but very clean internally. A handsome pocket dictionary from the early-20th century produced as a promotional item for a shoe store in rural Texas. The front.....