Search Results: Ethnic Studies from R & A Petrilla

Matakong, Guinea, 1848. Original manuscript. Very Good. 1.5pp, octavo, written in a neat hand on blue laid paper. Datelined "Matacong" [Matakong, Guinea], Dec. 15th, 1848. Addressed to Edward D. Kimball, Esq. head of the Salem family of maritime merchants, bankers, and textile industrialists. In part: "...I am very sorry to inform you that the Tam O Shanter is in such a very bad condition that I am afraid she will not be fit to come home unless there is a great deal of money laid out .... I have been up the Coast in her and disposed of part of her Cargo and the Remnant of Ruby Powder .... I have left my 2d mate at Sierra Leone he being sick but will come home in the [brig] Ohio .... My Chief mate has allso been sick ...." Implores Kimball to pay the second mate on his return, promises to "do all in my power to forward the voyage...," &c. Signed by Horace Tufts. Docketed as received from him to travel via the third voyage of the "Ohio" Employed in the Triangle Trade, Captain Tufts and his crew plied… Read More

NY: Tudor Publishing Co, 1943. copyright 1930. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 392pp with index; frontispiece and 32pp of illustrations from photographs on plate stock. Bound in tan hopsacking, green lettering, in the original dust wrapper with a wrap-around illustration of the Hopi Pine Tree Dance. 9.25" x 6.25

Edinburgh / London: William Blackwood / T. Cadell, 1823. First Edition. Morocco & Cloth. Very Good. Quarto. pp: xxvii, 209. Bound in quarter red morocco and grained cloth, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; corners of boards scuffed. 9.5" x 7.5" Text in English.

Philadelphia: Coleman, 1963. First Edition. Original Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. pp: (xiii), 121, (5). Inscription on rear endpaper: "To Esther M. Moyer ... From Pat-tee-Miller." 7.5" x 5.25" "...new insight into the meaning and purpose of the existence of the American Negroes.

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books, 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes bound as one. pp: 338, 62; 486, 28, 21 (indices and supplements). Bound in green cloth, red spine block with gilt lettering. 8.5" x 5.25" "This Reprint is Strictly Limited to 150 Copies" (statement on verso title-page).

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books, 1998. Limited Edition Reprint. Original Cloth. Fine. 698pp. Contains more than 10,000 citations of books and periodicals pertaining to African-American history and culture, arranged under topical headings. 9" x 6" Originally published in 1928 by Tuskegee Institute, where Monroe Work was Director of Records and Research.

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1972. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: xiii, 273, index; frontispiece portrait of Langston Hughes. 8.75" x 5.5" Tipped in is a "checklist update," dated March 1992.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 286pp. Comprises 18 folksy sketches, including: The Man from Caloosa-Hatchee; The Jug of Live-forever Water; One-eye Pete Neaffie's Parrot; Scornful Sue and Lean Lucinda; Headless Ghost that Walked with a Crutch; &c. Bound in green cloth, stamped gilt and black, with a pastedown photo of an elderly Black man on the cover. Binding lightly rubbed, shallow tide mark and prior owner's name on front endpaper. 7.25" x 5" Jimtown is set in the piney woods of Cape Fear country, These sketches, which first appeared in The New York Sun, are narrated in dialect by an old man born "'fo' de wah" on "de ol' McKeevuh plahntation...." [Wright, American Fiction, III-3862. Work, Bibliography of the Negro, 470.].

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (xii, 188); frontispiece and three plates from photographs. Bound in red cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine. 7" x 4.5" A readable study of boy gangs and their activities in early 20th-century Boston.

Gettysburg, PA: Brethren Heritage Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 205pp; illustrations in the text. Bound in tan hopsacking, red lettering on spine and cover. One of a limited edition of 2,000 copies. 9" x 9

NY: M. Witmark & Sons, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8pp, words and music, in part: "I miss yo' in de mo'nin', when ole Bob-white gives his call, Caroline, Caroline...." 13.5" x 10.5

Salem, MA / Mansfield, CT: Essex Institute / Martino Publishing, 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. pp: ix, 392 with index. Bound in gray cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 9" x 6" Facsimile reprint of the 1926 edition.

NY: Clarence Williams Music, 1933. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 48pp. Contains words and music to 26 songs, including: Sugar Blues; Gulf Coast Blues: Tain't Nobody's Biznesss If I Do; Harlem Rhythm Dance; Chizzlin' Sam; Swing, Brother, Swing; Papa De Da Da; and 19 more. 12" x 9" Clyde McCoy (1903-1990), jazz trumpeter, was known for the wah-wah sound that he developed in the 1920s. Listen to "Sugar Blues" to hear it.

NY: Negro Universities Press, 1970. First US Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (xviii), 680, (24). Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. 10.25" x 7" First published at London in 1731.

NY: Firth, Pond, 1850. Tenth Edition. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 6pp, four verses and a chorus. In part: ".I'se gwine to roam the wide world In lands I've never hoed, With nothing but my banjo To cheer me on the road...." Embellished cover title Spine reinforced. 13.75" x 10.5

NY: Firth, Pond, 1851. Early edition. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 6pp, four verses and a chorus. In part: "...I'se gwine to roam the wide world In lands I've never hoed, With nothing but my banjo To cheer me on the road...." Embellished cover title. Spine reinforced. 13.75" x 10.5

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xviii, 662; 16pp illus from photographs. Has a long checklist of folksong titles, a 100-page discography, and more than 200 pages on singers of ballads and folksongs. Bound in black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, printed dust wrapper. 8.5" x 5.75" This excellent reference work includes sections on major folksong collectors and collections, folkore societies, folk festivals, "new faces," folk instruments, etc.

Philadelphia: Wm. W. Moore, 1860. First Editions. Softcover. Good. 14 issues, each numbering 16 pages, printed on rag paper, drop-title. In addition to some religious content and memorials to Quakers who passed, these issues present a variety of topics: Trench's Lectures on Words; Children's Literature; On "Skeletonizing"; Cuttle Fish; Fresh Water Sponges; Chemical Affinity; Household Science--Tea; Presidential Election of Lincoln; Solar Eclipse of 1860, Washington Territory; Travels in the Amoor; Philadelphia Markets; On the Peak of Monte Rosa; "The Celestial Railroad--An Allegory" by N[athaniel] Hawthorne [complete here in three issues]; Female Association of Philadelphia; The Falls of Niagara; The Wood Thrush by John J. Audubon; The Pacific and Its Islands; Dr. Livingston's African Explorations; etc. Some spotting here and there, still intact and readable. 11" x 7.25

New York: Carl Fischer, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 40pp, including title-page and song index. Contains words and music to 25 "Negro Spirituals from 'The Green Pastures'." Bound in green and black pictorial wrappers, cover illustrations by Robert Edmond Jones based on his stage sets for the New York production. 12" x 9" [OCLC identifies only one print version, by Farrar & Rinehart, 1930.

NY: H. Metzinger, Photos, 1890. Original photograph. Good. Sepiatone photo, 5" x 6.5", mounted on larger photo-board. The Waffenfoofen Band, named on the verso in pencil, is posed in front of a painted, village-street backdrop. Metzinger's studio was at 81 Sixth Avenue, NYC, as shown by his stamp on the verso. Two chips from edge of photo-board do not affect the image.