Category: African American

Black history; past and present (Author Signed)

By: Allen, James E

Price: $88.97 USD

Publisher: Exposition Press : 1971

Seller ID: 58810

ISBN-13: 9780682473224

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Inscribed to "Frederick Douglass, James Egert Allen" on end paper. This may be the grandson of the famous Frederick Augustus Douglass an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman who lived in the late 1800's. Endpapers have discoloration from age. Dust has some small tears and spotting. (See Scan) Excellent historical information about notable African American people in history. Dust Jacket now in Mylar Protective Cover. Rare signed copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages; Signed by Author
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The Story Of A Slave, Slavery's Social Evil

By: Anonymous

Price: $78.97 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Wesley, Elmore and Benson : c1894

Seller ID: 43128

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Rare Pulp fictional account of slavery romanticizing the Old South and plantion life of the slave Paul who is seduced by the white mistress Virginia. The author may NOT be Paul Hamilton Hayes and may actually be UNKNOWN. Paul Hamilton Hayes name appears in the book on the back of the contents page. Yellowing pages show age and are brittle. Set in Louisiana?. The writer makes you believe he is Paul and he will never betray Virginia's true identity. Title page has hole worn through about 1 inch and contents page is detached from binding due to brittleness. Edges of front and back covers have chi...
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A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of The Patriarch Abraham To The Nineteenth Century addressed to the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D.

By: Hopkins, John Henry

Price: $148.97 USD

Publisher: New York , NY, W. I. Pooley & Co. : 1864

Seller ID: 43121

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Professionally rebound in black cloth with gilt print. Contents are original and look almost new, clean and bright. This is not a recent reprint or print on demand.Reverend Hopkins conviction is captured in his statement , "...while I should rejoice in the adoption of any plan of gradual abolition which could be accepted peacefully by general consent, I cannot see that we have any right to interfere with the domestic institutions of the South, either by law or by the Gospel." "John Henry Hopkins (January 30, 1792 January 9, 1868) was the first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and the...
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Piney Woods and its Story (Author Signed)

By: Jones, Laurence C.

Price: $88.97 USD

Publisher: New York, Fleming H. Revell : 1922

Seller ID: 61422

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Original First Edition, not a reprint.. Rare inscribed copy "To Mrs. C. B. Hartwick in the spirit in which you have helped us. Sincerely Laurence C. Jones, Buxton, Miss. , may 9th, 1923." Slight browning to end papers. Dust Jacket now in Mylar Protective Cover.The Piney Woods Country Life School (or The Piney Woods School) is a co-educational independent historically African-American boarding school for grades 9-12 in Piney Woods, Mississippi. It is one of four remaining historically African-American boarding schools in the United States. It is currently the largest African-American boarding s...
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Mists of Fire, Author Signed A Trilogy and Some Eclogs

By: Kinney, Coates

Price: $38.97 USD

Publisher: Rand McNally : 1899

Seller ID: 63101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued

Rare author signed "To. W.C. Collins, A Happy New Year, Cincinnati, January1, 1900, Coates Kinney". Collection of works from the talented and formerly well-known American lawyer, politician and poet.Photo of author opposite Title Page. oates Kinney was born in 1826 near Penn Yan, New York. He was partly educated at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and was accompanied by Thomas Corwin while he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1856. He became a journalist, and worked on papers in Cincinnati, Ohio, Xenia, and Springfield, Illinois.From June 1861 until November 1865,...
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Twelve Years A Slave, Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1811, and rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana

By: Northup, Solomon

Price: $2,997.97 USD

Publisher: Auburn/ Buffalo/ London, Derby and Miller : 1853

Seller ID: 64037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with No dust jacket as issued

Bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind with spine lettered in gilt. 1853 stated on both title and copyright pages. Chip out of right front cover edge. Edges and top and bottom of spine well worn. Original yellow endpapers tanning. Foxing to title page and some content pages. Top of title page has Eight Thousand. Illustration of Northup opposite Title Page has tissue covering. Foxing. No writing or highlighting to text. One signature of leaves is slightly pulled but still secure in the binding. Dedication page says "To Harriet Beecher Stowe; whose name, throughout the wo...
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A Tribute to the Negro Preacher and Other Sermons and Adresses

By: Spivey, Charles S.

Price: $179.97 USD

Publisher: Wilberforce, OH, Author : 1942

Seller ID: 45987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Green cover with gold print. Clean contents. Browning. Slight yellow spots on endpapers. Rare work on early African American Preachers. Rare. Our photo's/scans are of the actual item being sold, not a borrowed image! We provide delivery tracking on US orders. We provide tracking and ship daily or next business day!; 12mo; 272 pages
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Category: African American

Black history; past and present (Author Signed)

The Story Of A Slave, Slavery's Social Evil

A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of The Patriarch Abraham To The Nineteenth Century addressed to the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D.

Piney Woods and its Story (Author Signed)

Mists of Fire, Author Signed A Trilogy and Some Eclogs

Twelve Years A Slave, Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1811, and rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana

A Tribute to the Negro Preacher and Other Sermons and Adresses