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Brooks (Editor), Joanna: The Life of Olaudah Equiano. First thus Published by The Lakeside Press in Chicago: 2004. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt borders on the boards and with decorated end papers and a gilt top edge to the text block. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book remains encased in the publisher's original shrink wrap. "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself." The Lakeside Classic edition for 2004. 406 pages of text which includes a list of the Lakeside Classics published as of this date which is followed by two pages of image credits. Illustrated with 58 engravings (some in color) and maps. Originally written and published in 1789 in London the author, who experienced the horrors of slavery as a young boy, wanted to publish this book to help dismantle the practice of slavery.
TB22485 $30.00

Roll over Image to expandBurleigh, H. T.: Album of Negro Spirituals Arranged for Solo Voice by H. T. Burleigh. First Edition First printing. Published by G. Ricordi & Co. in New York: 1917. Near fine in heavy light brown paper wraps with a perfect binding. A clean bright quarto measuring 12" tall by 9" deep containing 48 numbered pages. A collection of twelve spirituals containing By An' By; Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray; De Blin' Man Stood on de Road an' Cried; De Gospel Trail; Deep River; Ev'ry Time I Feel De Spirit; Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen; Sometimes I Fell Life a Motherless Child; Stan' Still Jorgan; Wade in de Water; Weepin' Mary; and, Were You There.
TB21830 $45.00

Roll over Image to expandCampbell, Thomas Monroe: The Movable School Goes To The Negro Farmer. First Edition First Printing. Published by Tuskegee Institute Press in Tuskegee: (1936). Near fine in red cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and the same on the front board. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with a prior owner's name and address on the front free end page. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with a 2" closed tear at the lower corner of the front panel at the fold to the front flap and with several short closed tears to the ends of the spine area. The author, Thomas Monroe Cambell, was the first black Field Agent for the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. A Georgia native and educated at Tuskegee Institute, this is his autobiography. 170 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and thirteen black and white photographic reproductions.
TB25441 $300.00

Canot, Captain Theodore: Adventures of an African Slaver. Reprint Published by Albert & Charles Boni in n.p.: 1935. Very good+ in bright yellow cloth covered boards with brown decorations and text on the spine. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4" with light foxing and tanning to the end sheets. Without its issued dust jacket. 376 pages of text. The full title page reads: "Adventures of an African Slaver: Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His own story as told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer." Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight additional drawings.
TB23783 $15.00

Roll over Image to expandChase and C. H. Sanborn, Henry: The North and The South: Being A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave States. Second Edition of 1857 Published by John P. Jewett And Company in Cleveland: Š1856. Very good in the publisher's original dark brown cloth covered boards with blind embossing on the boards and with bright gilt text on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is worn and rubbed through in several area as it is at the lower fore corners of the boards. 191 pages including an appendix and index. An antebellum comparison of the Slave States and the Free States "compiled from official documents". An extremely uncommon publication in its original printing. (Sabin 12179) The first edition (printed in 1856) contained only 134 pages without an appendix or an index.
TB21831 $125.00

Roll over Image to expandCrite, Allan Rohan: Three Spirituals From Earth to Heaven. First Edition First printing. Published by Harvard University Press in Cambridge: 1948. Near fine in bright green cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and on the front board. A clean bright quarto measuring 11" tall by 8" deep containing un-numbered pages. In a good, price clipped dust jacket with chipping from the corners of the spine area, rubbing to the folds and with a number of closed tears to the panels. A collection of three spirituals containing Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and Heaven. These spirituals are presented in text under brush-and-ink drawings with the music at the head of each section.
TB21829 $75.00

Roll over Image to expandEdwards, Harry Stillwell: Eneas Africanus. Limited edition reprint Published by Sign of the Golden Head in New York: 1932. Near fine in blue wool cloth covered boards with gilt decorated title blocks on the spine and on the front board. There is a 1/4" hole through the cloth on the front board and three minor small holes to the cloth on the rear board. A small quarto measuring 9 3/8" tall by 6 1/4" deep overall containing 33 pages followed by a page stating the printing limitation and a fold-map illustrating the route taken by Eneaus Africanus through seven states over eight years and covering 3,350 miles. One of only 850 copies produced this one being copy number 458. Illustrated with text illustrations and a color frontispiece.
TB18422 $80.00

Roll over Image to expandFarrow, Joel Lang and Jenifer Frank, Ann: Complicity How The North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited From Slavery. First Edition First printing. Published by Ballantine Books in New York: 2005. Fine in brown and tan paper covered boards with white text on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by all three authors on the fly title page. 269 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes, chronology, text and illustrated` throughout with photographic reproductions of artifacts and contemporary works of art. With a foreward by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
TB21029 $65.00

Roll over Image to expandFleming, William: Slavery And The Race Problem In The South. First Limited Edition Published by Dana Estes & Company, Publishers in Boston: n.d. (circa 1906). Very good+ in 1/4 white cloth and light gray paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and front board. The 1/4 white cloth is soiled, tanned and foxed, the fly title page has a 3/4" closed tear at its upper edge and there are a prior owner's notations in light pencil on the margins of a number of pages. Without a dust jacket. This copy is identified as number 395 out of only 1,000 copies printed. This copy is also signed by the publisher on the front board of the book. 66 pages of text with a frontispiece portrait of William H. Fleming. The full title reads: Slavery And The Race Problem in The South. With Special Reference To The State of Georgia. Address of Hon. Wm. H. Fleming, Before the Alumni Society of the State University, Athens, June 19, 1906.
TB21836 $85.00

Roll over Image to expandFogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Robert William: Time On The Cross The Economics of American Negro Slavery. First Edition First printing. Published by Little, Brown and Company in Boston: 1974. Near fine in dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2" with a prior owner's name and address label on the front paste down and first free end page and light dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with very light rubbing to the ends of the spine area. 286 pages including an index. Illustrated with maps, charts and tables. From the dust jacket flap: Time On The Cross is a sweeping re-examination of the economic foundations of American Negro slavery. Based upon, and deriving from, a vast research effort involving thousands of man and computer hours and the most complete body of information every assembled on the operation of the salve system.... it constitutes an entirely new portrayal of slavery's past..... it challenges virtually every traditional assumption that has been made about the material condition of southern slaves."
TB23578 $30.00

Roll over Image to expandFuller, Edmund: Prudence Crandall An Incident of Racism in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut. First Edition First printing. Published by Wesleyan University Press in Middletown, Conn.: 1971. Fine in light blue cloth covered boards with black and silver colored text on the spine. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with a 1/2 closed tear at the upper corner of the spine area which is also faded and faded across the first 1" of the front panel. 113 pages of text including a list of sources. Illustrated with eight reproductions of early painted and photographic portraits.
TB21837 $40.00

Gordon-Reed, Annette: The Hemingses of Monticello An American Family. First Edition First printing. Published by W. W. Norton & Company in New York: 2008. Fine in black and tan paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with printed end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6". In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with nicks to the fore corners of the panels at the folds to the flaps. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for history, the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. 798 pages including an extensive index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with two sections of black and white photographs. Laid-in at the rear of the book are a number of editorial book reviews taken from Newsweek, The Washington Post, and The New York Times Book Review.
TB23784 $90.00

Roll over Image to expandGordon-Reed, Annette: Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings An American Controversy. First Edition First printing. Published by University Press of Virginia in Charlottesville: (1997). Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 1/4" by 6" with a very slight tilt to the upper part of the spine and with the underlining of small passages on a number of pages by a previous owner. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 288 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text.
TB24878 $15.00

Roll over Image to expandGreeley, Horace: The American Conflict: A History Of The Great Rebellion In The United States Of America, 1860-'65. Published by O. D. Case & Company in Hartford, Conn.: 1866. Both volumes of this two volume set are in very good+ condition in full, leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt on black title blocks in two of the compartments. Both are small quartos measuring 9 1/2" by 6 1/4". The upper 2" of the leather at front and rear joints to volume I are worn through and there is a prior owner's address label on the front paste down. The leather on volume II is worn through at the lower fore tip of the front board and there is a prior owner's address label on the front pasted down. Volume I contains 648 pages including an index. Volume II contains 782 pages including an index. Both volumes are illustrated with maps and steel engravings. (Nevins, II p. 15)
TB25668 $125.00

Johnston, Mary: The Slave Ship. First Edition First printing. Published by Little, Brown, and Company in Boston: 1924. Near fine in medium blue textured cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and on the front board and with a black and light blue illustration on the front board. In a very good- dust jacket with a 1/2" chip at the lower fore corner of the front panel, a 1/4" chip from the lower edge of the front panel, light wear and rubbing at the ends of the spine area with two short closed tears and a shallow chip at the lower edge of the rear panel. An historical fiction novel dealing with life in Colonial Virginia in the eighteenth-century and the importation of slaves to America. 330 pages of text. A most unique find in such a collectable dust jacket.
TB15967 $75.00

Roll over Image to expandLevine, Bruce: Confederate Emancipation Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War. First Edition First printing. Published by Oxford University Press in New York: 2006. Fine in 1/4 light blue paper and cream colored paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 252 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes, text. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary works of art.
TB24611 $30.00

Mayer, Brantz: Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver, being an account of his career and adventures on the coast, in the interior, on shipboard, and in the West Indies . Second Printing Published by D. Appleton And Company in New York: 1855. Recently rebound in black buckram with gilt text stamping on the spine with new end sheets. The pages of the text are all very good or better with minimal foxing generally confined to the end most pages. The frontispiece, the engraved title page and the printed title page show spots of foxing. The other plates show foxing in the margins only. A binder's error caused the last ad in the volume to be bound-in upside down. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2" by 4 3/4". 448 pages of text preceded by a one page ad the then followed by 12 pages of ads by the publisher. Illustrated with a frontispiece and six engraved plates. (Sabin, 47093)
TB25578 $150.00

Roll over Image to expandMcGowan, James: Station Master on the Underground Railroad The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett. First Edition First printing. Published by The Whimsie Press in Moylan, Penn.: 1977. Fine in rust colored cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board. A small quarto measuring 9 3/16" tall by 6 1/8" deep overall containing 181 pages including an index, bibliography, appendix and text. Illustrated with one photographic portrait of Thomas Garrett. In a very near fine unclipped dust jacket. Thomas Garrrett who lived in Wilmington, Delaware "did more to help fugitive slaves than" any one else. More than "2,700 runaway slaves" passed through his home in Wilmington on their way to freedom.
TB19030 $75.00

Nichols, Alice: Bleeding Kansas. First Edition First printing. Published by Oxford University Press in New York: 1954. Near fine in light green cloth covered boards with yellow and dark red text on the spine with decorations of the same color on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/2" tall by 5 1/2" deep. There are a few pages near the end of the text which have notes in the margins. In a very good- unclipped dust jacket with 1/2" deep chips at the upper corners of the spine area and 1/8" deep chips across the lower edge of the spine area and small chips from the corners of the panels. 307 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a map.
TB23061 $25.00

Roll over Image to expandNichols and William H. Crogman, J. L.: Progress of a Race: Remarkable Advancement of The American Negro. Revised Edition Published by J. L. Nichols & Company in Naperville, Ill.: 1925. Very near fine in red-brown cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and with black text and borders on the front board. Without its issued dust jacket. 480 pages including an index. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs.
TB21834 $75.00

Roll over Image to expandScott and Lyman Beecher Stowe, Emmett: Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization. First Edition Published by Doubleday, Page & Company in Garden City: 1917. An ex-library copy in very good condition in the publisher's original dark green cloth covered boards with slightly tarnished gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/4" with white call numbers at the base of the spine, a library stamp on the front paste down, a call number on the copyright page and a library stamp on the second to last page of text. Without a dust jacket. With a preface by Theodore Roosevelt. 331 pages of text illustrated with black and white photographs.
TB25442 $30.00

Starobin, Robert: Industrial Slavery in the Old South. First Edition First printing. Published by Oxford University Press in New York: 1970. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with white and gilt text stamping on the spine. There is a prior owner's name on the first free end page and with several pages with underlining and marginal notations. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with very light wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and with a written note of a prior owner on the rear panel. A review copy with the publisher's material laid-in. 320 pages including an index, bibliographical essay, appendix, chapter notes and text.
TB20895 $25.00

Roll over Image to expandStowe, Harriet Beecher: Dred: A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp. First Edition, First State Published by Phillips, Sampson and Company in Boston: 1856. Both volumes of this two volume set are in good+ to very good- condition in the publisher's original decorated, dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spines and blind embossing to the boards (with the 20 embossed dots on each board). The cloth at the heads and heels of the spines is worn down to the edges of the text blocks and there is a chip of 1/8" wide by 1/3" deep at the head of volume I. The top joint to volume II is cracked approximately 1/2 the length of the board but the joint remains tight and strong. There is an early prior owner's name on the first free end pages of both volumes and the cloth at the lower edges of the boards is worn through. Volume I contains 329 pages followed by six pages of ads. Volume II contains 370 pages (including the appendix) followed by one blank leaf. Both volumes are first state copies with the correct point on page 88 of volume I, no batter on page 209 and line 9 from the bottom on page 370 makes no mention of the "Ruskins". Both volumes are in binding "A" per BAL 19389 with light yellow end papers. An attractive first edition set of Stowe's sequel to Uncle Tom's Cabin.
TB20271 $250.00

Roll over Image to expandStowe, Harriet Beecher: A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting The Original Facts and Documents Upon Which The Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work.. First Edition First printing. Published by John P. Jewett & Co. in Boston: 1853. Very good in the publisher's original, stamped brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and with yellow end sheets. (BAL binding = C.) The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is frayed and has been worn down to the depth of the text block. Light foxing appears on the preliminaries and ending pages of the text block. A small quarto measuring 9 5/8" tall by 6" deep. Without a dust jacket (if ever one was issued with it). 262 pages of text including an index followed by two pages of ads by the publisher. A first issue of the first US edition with the printers imprint of only Hobart & Robbins appearing on the copyright page. (BAL, 19359; Sabin, 92412)
TB22454 $250.00

Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among The Lowly. New Edition Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company in Boston: 1886. Good in the publisher's original illustrated, red, cloth covered boards with black text on the spine with a gilt field at the upper 1 1/2" of the spine and with black text and decorations on the front board. There is an early prior owner's name in pencil on the front paste down and date of 1886. The cloth at the head and the heel of the spine is heavily worn and frayed and the front hinge is partially cracked with a dampness stain in the gutter of the preliminaries and preface (none of which impacts on the text). This edition contains a 42 page introductory account of the work by the author. 500 pages of text followed by 11 pages of ads from the publisher with a frontispiece.
TB21587 $35.00

Roll over Image to expandSutcliff, Robert: Travels in Some Parts Of North America in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806. First U. S. Edition Published by B. & T. Kite in Philadelphia: 1812. Good+ to Very good- in full leather covered boards with a tan leather label on the spine. The edges of the hinges are rubbed, the leather on the lower fore corners of the boards is rubbed through and the leather at the head of the spine has two short closed tears. The preliminaries have a dampness stain across the upper 1/4 of the pages. The text itself is uniformly tanned with little evidence of foxing. All pages are present and the binding is tight; although the one illustration (which should have been the frontispiece, is misplaced in the center of the text adjacent to the topic itself). A 16mo measuring 6 3/4" tall by 4" deep containing 289 pages of text and illustrated with one etching of the falls of Niagara. Sutcliff was a British Quaker who made a number of trips to and through the United States. This account is quite readable and is based on his second trip to the U.S. from July, 1804 to August, 1806. He spoke quite well of what he saw but regarded "slavery as a disgrace to the South, a lovely region which was 'clouded and debased by negro slavery"". (Clark) (Howes, S-1145; Sabin, 93943; Clark, II, 126)
TB18978 $200.00

Roll over Image to expandThomas, Hugh: The Slave Trade The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870. First Edition First printing. Published by Simon & Schuster in New York: 1997. Fine in 1/4 black and charcoal gray paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 908 pages including an index and illustrated with several sections of black and white photographs of contemporary works of art.
TB21208 $20.00

Roll over Image to expandWashington, Booker: Up From Slavery An Autobiography. First Edition Published by Doubleday, Page & Co. in New York: 1901. Very good+ in the publisher's original deep red cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine and front board and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4" with the cloth at the corners of the head and heel of the spine slightly worn with the cloth at the lower fore corner worn through and with a band of foxing across the tissue guard protecting the frontispiece. Without a dust jacket. The author's autobiography which traces his life from a slave in Virginia to a counselor to Presidents to the founder of Tuskegee University. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author over a facsimile of his signature. An extremely handsome volume with no dates, names or notations save for a small, 1/2" blind embossed prior owner's stamp at the upper corner of the first free end page.
TB25438 $200.00

Roll over Image to expandWashington, Booker: Working With The Hands Being A Sequel To Up From Slavery Covering The Author's Experiences In Industrial Training At Tuskegee. First Edition First Printing. Published by Doubleday, Page & Company in New York: 1904. Very good- in the publisher's original dark red cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine, bright gilt text on the front board and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine rubbed and worn and the same at the tips of the boards. 246 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author together with 31 black and white photographic reproductions. A clean and tight copy with no prior owner's markings, dates or book plates.
TB25447 $100.00

Roll over Image to expandWashington (Editor), Booker: Tuskegee Its People: Their Ideals And Achievements. First Edition Seventy-fifth thousand printing. Published by D. Appleton And Company in New York: 1905. An ex-library copy in the publisher's original red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board with a blind embossed seal on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5" with the cloth at the corners of the head and heel of the spine worn through, the ghost of a small label removed from the spine, white library call numbers at the base of the spine and evidence of a book plate removed from the front paste down and the same on the rear paste down. There are no other library markings or disfigurements. Booker T. Washington provides the general introduction to this title and acts as editor for the twenty-two contributions from others active in the Tuskegee movement. 354 pages illustrated with a frontispiece and 23 black and white photographic reproductions.
TB25440 $250.00

Roll over Image to expandWise, Steven: Though The Heavens May Fall The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery. First Edition First printing. Published by Da Capo Press in Cambridge, Mass.: 2005. Fine in 1/4 dark red and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9" by 5" with several mild bumps to the lower edges of the boards. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 282 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with photographic reproductions of contemporary works of art. The author examines the legal history and cases leading up to the landmark decision of 1772 in London when James Somerset who was rescued from a slave ship bound for the West Indies.
TB23682 $18.00

Young, R. J.: Antebellum Black Activists: Race, Gender, and Self. First Edition First printing. Published by Garland Publishing, Inc. in New York: 1996. Fine in dark gray cloth covered boards with white text on the spine. Without a dust jacket. One of the volumes in the Studies in African American History and Culture edited by Graham Hodges of Colgate University. 254 pages including an index, bibliography, appendix and text.
TB20565 $35.00

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