| 001 |
|
Africa with all its States, Kingdoms, Republics, Regions, Islands &c. Improved and Inlarged From D'Anville's Map; to which have been added A Particular Chart of the Gold Coast, Wherein are Distinguished all the European Forts and Factories. |
London |
1800 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 |
805.00 |
| 002 |
(AFRICA.) Crummell, Alexander |
The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa. A Letter to Charles B. Dunbar. |
Hartford |
1861 |
USD 500.00 - 750.00 |
632.00 |
| 004 |
ARMISTEAD, WILSON |
A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind. |
Manchester |
1848 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 |
4,370.00 |
| 005 |
BAKER, JOSEPHINE |
"Paris Mes Amours" a l'Olympia. Extended-play 45-rpm record, in the original sleeve. Includes three other songs, in addition to the title piece. |
Paris |
(1959) |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 |
431.00 |
| 006 |
BAKER, JOSEPHINE |
Portrait painted on silk. Striking head-and-shoulders view of a young Baker, with background of intertwined tropical leaves and trees, in shades of red, brown, green, and yellow. Airbrush with gouache by G. Bonvallot, in typical 1920s Art Deco style. |
Np |
nd |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 |
Not Sold |
| 007 |
BAKER, JOSEPHINE |
Souvenir portrait. |
[Paris] |
1933 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 |
316.00 |
| 008 |
(BAKER, JOSEPHINE) |
Josephine Baker at Carnegie Hall. Poster, at top: "Felix G. Gerstman under sponsorship and for Benefit of Friends of the Josephine Baker International Children's Camp and NAACP --- CORE --- SNCC --- SCLC Present." Baker's silhouette in black on gray backg |
New York |
circa 1965 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
161.00 |
| 010 |
BALDWIN, JAMES |
The Devil Finds Work. |
New York |
(1976) |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
258.00 |
| 011 |
BALDWIN, JAMES |
Gypsy and Other Poems. Two engravings by Leonard Baskin; one, printed on blue paper and tipped to a page, is SIGNED BY BASKIN. |
(Hadley, Massachusetts) |
1989 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 |
230.00 |
| 012 |
(BASEBALL.) Joy, John |
Typed Letter Signed as President of the Negro Major Leagues to Dan Burley of the Amsterdam News. |
Chicago |
1947 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 |
517.00 |
| 014 |
(BASEBALL) |
Time Magazine cover for 22 September 1947 bearing a portrait of Jackie Robinson by Ernest Hamlin Baker. |
New York |
1947 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
805.00 |
| 015 |
(BASEBALL) |
Group photograph of the Wichita Falls black baseball league team. |
Wichita Falls, Kansas |
circa 1945 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 |
345.00 |
| 016 |
(BASEBALL) |
Pen-and-ink drawing of a black baseball game. |
Np |
circa 1905 |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 |
345.00 |
| 017 |
(BLACK AUTHORS) |
Group of 5 titles, all first editions; one inscribed. Ernest Tidyman. Shaft. New York, (1970) * Terry McMillan. Waiting to Exhale. New York, 1992 * Sidney Poitier. This Life. Inscribed. New York, 1980 * Piri Thomas. Savior, Savior Hold My Hand. New York, |
Vp |
vd |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
92.00 |
| 018 |
THE BLACK PANTHER |
First 3 issues of the literary arm of the Black Panther Party. |
Oakland, California |
25 April--20 June 1967 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 |
805.00 |
| 019 |
(BLACK PANTHERS) |
Two posters. The first, of Bobby Hutton --- a photographic image on background of blue and black "rays," within which are quotes from Hutton on "Liberation" and "The Black Revolution"; the second --- may also be Hutton; some soil to this poster at bottom. |
Chicago; Oakland |
1969 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
373.00 |
| 021 |
(BOXING.) Ali, Muhammad |
The Greatest, My Own Story. |
New York |
(1975) |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
126.00 |
| 023 |
(BOXING.) Johnson, Jack |
Jack Johnson. Champion of the World. Poster, showing him with a wreath, between his log cabin birthplace and a picture of him behind the wheel of a car. |
Np |
1909 |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 |
402.00 |
| 025 |
(BOXING.) Louis, Joe |
Copy Photograph Inscribed and Signed in 1980, showing a youthful "Bronx Bomber" in a boxing pose. |
Np |
1980 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
258.00 |
| 026 |
(BOXING.) Louis, Joe |
Real photo postcard showing Louis in profile, barefisted boxing pose in a rural setting, by Carl Van Vechten. |
Np |
circa 1937 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 |
1,092.00 |
| 034 |
|
BROWN, JOHN, of Osawatomie. Autograph Letter Signed to Henry Thompson, regarding a shipment of "freight" to North Elba, New York. |
Hudson, Ohio |
18 June 1855 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 |
3,680.00 |
| 035 |
(BROWN, JOHN) |
Autograph Letter Signed to John Brown from Mahala Doyle, widow and mother of 3 men killed at Pottawatomie. |
Chattanooga, Tennessee |
20 November 1859 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 |
10,925.00 |
| 036 |
BROWN, WILLIAM WELLS |
The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements. |
New York |
1863 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
345.00 |
| 037 |
[CARROLL, CHARLES] |
"The Negro A Beast," or "In The Image of God." |
St. Louis |
[1900] |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
201.00 |
| 038 |
CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON |
Autograph Letter Signed to his friend, poet Ralph Douberly, reflecting on Christmas and Easter holidays and making a veiled reference to the Scottsboro trial. |
Tuskegee |
27 March 1932 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 |
1,265.00 |
| 039 |
CHAMPONIER, P. A. |
Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana in 1852-53. |
New Orleans |
1853 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
92.00 |
| 040 |
CHRISTENSEN, A. M. H. |
Afro-American Folk-Lore Told round the Fires on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. |
Boston |
(1892) |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
345.00 |
| 041 |
(COTTON CLUB) |
Bar Mitzvah program for Bernard Stark, son of Herman Stark, part owner of the Cotton Club and agent for Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and others. |
New York |
1939 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
345.00 |
| 042 |
(CRIME) |
The Manheim Tragedy. Complete History of the Double Murder of Mrs. Garber and Mrs. Ream: With the only Authentic Life and Confession of Alexander Anderson . . . Published by H. A. Rockafield in Trust for the Benefit of Anderson's Wife and Children. |
Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
1858 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 |
316.00 |
| 044 |
DANIELS, JOHN |
In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes. |
Boston |
1914 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 |
69.00 |
| 045 |
(DAVIS, ANGELA) |
Free Angela Davis Now! and I am a Black Woman. |
New York; np |
circa 1971 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 |
Not Sold |
| 046 |
(DAVIS, ANGELA) |
Freiheit fur Angela Davis. |
Np [East Germany] |
[1971] |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
258.00 |
| 047 |
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK |
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman. |
New York & Auburn |
1855 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
431.00 |
| 048 |
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. |
Boston |
1845 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 |
575.00 |
| 049 |
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK |
Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass; One on West India Emancipation, Delivered at Canandaigua, August 4th and the other on the Dred Scott Decision, Delivered in New York . . . May, 1857. |
Rochester |
1857 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 |
3,680.00 |
| 050 |
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK |
Drypoint etching of Douglass, a portrait in his later years. |
Np |
circa late 1960s--early 70s |
USD 500.00 - 750.00 |
316.00 |
| 052 |
(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK) |
Civil Rights Bill and West Point Academy. Letter from Gerrit Smith to Frederick Douglass. Peterboro, June 27th, 1874. "Hon. Frederick Douglass, Washington, D.C., My old and much esteemed friend . . ." |
Peterboro [N.H.] |
1874 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
488.00 |
| 053 |
(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK) |
In Memoriam. Frederick Douglass. |
Philadelphia |
1897 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
316.00 |
| 054 |
(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK) |
The Official Program of Douglass Monument Day. Friday June Ninth, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine. Rochester New York (cover title). |
Rochester |
1899 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
149.00 |
| 055 |
(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Pickens, William |
Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Freedom (abridged). |
Alabama |
1912 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
92.00 |
| 056 |
DU BOIS, W. E. B. |
Black Reconstruction. |
New York |
(1935) |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
201.00 |
| 058 |
DU BOIS, W. E. B. John Brown |
/book_records/251657 |
Philadelphia |
1909 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
345.00 |
| 059 |
DU BOIS, W. E. B. |
The Souls of Black Folk. |
Chicago |
1903 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 |
1,035.00 |
| 061 |
DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE |
Folks from Dixie. Colored frontispiece and other illustrations by E. W. Kemble, some in color. |
New York |
1899 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 |
258.00 |
| 062 |
DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE |
The Sport of the Gods. |
New York |
1902 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
287.00 |
| 063 |
DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE |
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. |
New York |
1900 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 |
287.00 |
| 064 |
|
The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and about the Negro Race. Edited by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson; introduction by Leslie Pinckney Hill. |
Naperville, Illinois |
(1920) |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 |
161.00 |
| 065 |
|
Ebony and Topaz; a Collectanea. Edited by Charles S. Johnson, front cover by Charles Cullen, illustrations by Aaron Douglas et al. |
New York |
(1927) |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 |
632.00 |
| 066 |
(EDUCATION) |
Report of the Primary School Committee, June 15, 1846 on the Petition of Sundry Colored Persons, for the Abolition of the Schools for Colored Children. With the City Solicitor's Opinion. City Document --- No. 23. |
Boston |
1846 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
230.00 |
| 067 |
FATHER DIVINE |
Enormous archive of material relative to Father Divine. |
Vp |
1937--1970s |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 |
1,380.00 |
| 068 |
FATHER DIVINE |
Early photograph by James Van Der Zee. |
New York |
1934 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 |
1,380.00 |
| 071 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
Black Gold. |
New York |
[1928] |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 |
2,760.00 |
| 072 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
Black Gold. |
New York |
[1928] |
USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 |
747.00 |
| 073 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
Black Gold. |
New York |
[1928] |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 |
201.00 |
| 074 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
"The Crimson Skull." |
New York |
[1921] |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 |
1,035.00 |
| 075 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
"The Crimson Skull." |
New York |
[1921] |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 |
690.00 |
| 076 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
"The Crimson Skull." |
New York |
[1921] |
USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 |
2,530.00 |
| 077 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
The Flying Ace. |
New York |
[1926] |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 |
1,035.00 |
| 078 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
The Flying Ace. |
New York |
[1926] |
USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 |
1,955.00 |
| 079 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
The Flying Ace. |
New York |
[1926] |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 |
201.00 |
| 080 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
The Green Eyed Monster. |
New York |
[1920] |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 |
977.00 |
| 081 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
The Green Eyed Monster. |
New York |
[1928] |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 |
1,150.00 |
| 082 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
Regeneration. |
New York |
[1923] |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 |
172.00 |
| 084 |
(FATHER DIVINE) |
Group of 5 pressbooks and heralds for Norman productions. The Flying Ace * Black Gold * Regeneration * "The Crimson Skull" * Bulldogger (pressbook only). |
New York |
vd |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
345.00 |
| 086 |
|
"Life is Real." |
Foster, Indiana |
circa 1930s |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 |
201.00 |
| 087 |
McDANIEL, HATTIE |
Photograph Inscribed and Signed. |
Np |
1944 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
1,092.00 |
| 088 |
(FISK UNIVERSITY) |
Group of 7 performance programs. |
Nashville |
1923--1926 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
138.00 |
| 089 |
FLETCHER, TOM |
The Tom Fletcher Story. 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business. |
New York |
(1954) |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 |
80.00 |
| 090 |
(FOLK ART) |
Hand-carved and painted figure of a Black man on a donkey. Shows a Black man wearing top hat, seated on a donkey painted in olive green-gray with black hooves, nostrils and eyes; the rider wears white pants, buff-colored shirt with sleeves rolled up, and |
Np |
circa latter half 19th century |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 |
517.00 |
| 092 |
(FRATERNITIES.) Dreer, Herman |
The History of Omega Psi Phi, a Brotherhood of Negro College Men. 1911-1939. |
(Baltimore) |
(1940) |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 |
287.00 |
| 093 |
(GARVEY, MARCUS) |
The Negro World. |
New York |
4 September; 21 August 1926 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
287.00 |
| 094 |
(GARVEY, MARCUS) |
Hear! Hear! Hear! An International Convention of the Negroes of the World. |
New York |
20 February 1926 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
316.00 |
| 095 |
GAVAGAN, JOSEPH A. |
A Bill to assure persons within the jurisdiction of every State equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching. House of Representatives, H.R. 143. |
Washington, D.C. |
1937 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
172.00 |
| 097 |
GRIMKE, ANGELINA. Rachel |
A Play in Three Acts. |
Boston |
circa 1920 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 |
1,150.00 |
| 098 |
HELPER, HINTON ROWAN |
Nojoque; A Question for a Continent. |
New York |
1867 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 |
201.00 |
| 099 |
HILL, LESLIE PINCKNEY |
Toussaint l'Ouverture, a Dramatic History. |
Boston |
(1928) |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
258.00 |
| 100 |
HILL, ROY L. |
Archive of books, letters, programs and records. |
Vp |
1940s--1970 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 |
632.00 |
| 101 |
HIMES, CHESTER |
If He Hollers. |
New York |
1945 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
230.00 |
| 102 |
HUGHES, LANGSTON |
Scottsboro Limited. Cover and 4 tipped-in full-page illustrations by Prentiss Taylor |
New York |
1932 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 |
2,300.00 |
| 103 |
HUGHES, LANGSTON |
Autograph Letter Signed to Dorothy Warrick. Written in margins of a biographical broadside on composer William Grant Still. |
Los Angeles |
4 June 1937 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 |
690.00 |
| 104 |
HUGHES, LANGSTON |
Autograph Manuscript Signed of "Dreams," a poem written on front free endpaper of a first edition Dreams and Voices by Grace Hyde Trine. Color frontispiece by Clinton Brown. |
New York |
1920 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
575.00 |
| 105 |
HUGHES, LANGSTON |
Group of 3 items Inscribed and Signed to Herbert Coleman. |
Paris |
1964, 1966 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 |
488.00 |
| 106 |
HUGHES, LANGSTON; and HEYWARD, SAMMY |
Checkin' On the Freedom Train. |
New York |
circa 1935? |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 |
488.00 |
| 107 |
HUNTER, W. L., M.D. |
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in his Veins. |
Brooklyn, New York |
1904 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
345.00 |
| 108 |
(HYERS, ANNA and EMMA) |
Great Musical Drama "Out of Bondage." Only Colored Dramatic Company in the World. |
Boston |
circa 1877 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 |
920.00 |
| 109 |
JACKSON, ALGERNON |
Jim and Mr. Eddy. |
Washington |
(1930) |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
92.00 |
| 110 |
(JAMAICA) |
Robert Baker, His Pocket Ledger, 1789. Ledger book. Among other entries, the "Last Will and Testament"; separate pagination, in at least two hands; front cover pocket; light wear. |
Jamaica |
1789--1807 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 |
2,990.00 |
| 111 |
(JAMAICA) |
Legal Document Signed by Sir Henry Moore. Certified copy, proceedings in Court of Chancery, island of Jamaica, between Richard Farrell of the Parish of St. George, complainant, and Zachary Bayly of Kingston, for recovery of an alleged debt together with i |
Kingston |
1758 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 |
1,035.00 |
| 112 |
JONES, CHARLES C. |
Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast, Told in the Vernacular. |
Boston |
1888 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
201.00 |
| 114 |
(JUVENILE) |
The Happy Negro; to which is added, The Grateful Negro. |
New York |
circa 1840 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 |
230.00 |
| 115 |
(JUVENILE.) Harrison, William Henry |
Colored Girls' and Boys' Inspiring United States History, And a Heart to Heart Talk about White Folks. |
(Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
(1921) |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 |
977.00 |
| 116 |
KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER JR. |
Why We Can't Wait. |
New York |
(1964) |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 |
13,800.00 |
| 117 |
(KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER JR.) |
Folk art "altar." Mixed materials; depicting Jesus with his hands on Dr. King's shoulders. Printed and charcoalsketched images pasted on wood backing; heavy gilt and blue oil paint over and around images; two small candleholders are on the wooden altar wh |
Np |
circa 1968 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 |
546.00 |
| 118 |
(KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER JR.) |
Union Justice Now. |
Memphis |
[1968] |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 |
402.00 |
| 119 |
(KING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER JR.) |
Usher's badge for the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
Atlanta, Georgia |
Tuesday, 9 April 1968 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 |
230.00 |
| 120 |
(KU KLUX KLAN) |
Stop The Ku Klux Klan Propaganda in New York. |
New York |
circa 1921 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
373.00 |
| 121 |
LANGSTON, JOHN MERCER |
From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capital. |
Hartford |
1894 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 |
172.00 |
| 122 |
LAWRENCE, ROBERT H. JR. |
Portrait Photograph Inscribed and Signed |
Los Angeles |
circa 1966 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 |
402.00 |
| 123 |
(MAGIC) |
Black Herman's Secrets of Magic --- Mystery & Legerdemain. |
New York |
(1938) |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 |
230.00 |
| 124 |
MALCOLM X. |
Autograph Letter Signed, "Malcolm X," to Marie Muhammad, sending a spiritual message on La Guardia Airport postcard. |
Flushing |
21 July 1955 [postmark] |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 |
3,680.00 |
