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Manhattan,: A Weekly for Wakeful New Yorkers, No.1 Vol. 1,, January 18th, 1933.. 410 by 610mm (16.25 by 24 inches).. A Night Club Map of 1930s Harlem Lithograph map within magazine and open pocket. Simms Campbell's magnificent map of 1930s Harlem. To succeed in a white-dominated society, Campbell, the first nationally-prominent African-American cartoonist, rarely used Black themes in his drawings. But he had close ties to Harlem's cultural "Renaissance" and this map was his most important early Black-related work, forgotten for decades because it appeared in the first issue of an obscure magazine for Manhattan night-owls which failed in a month. The map itself, embellished with numerous small cartoon vignettes, illustrating a wide range of Harlem street scenes including "he Reefer man", selling "Marihuana Cigarettes, 2 for $25"; highlights the Cotton Club with Cab Calloway's band "one of the fastest stepping revues in New York", the Savoy Ballroom, Lafayette Theatre; "Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson,… Read More

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1943 Book. Illus. by Cartoons By Author. Good. Hardcover. Signed By 11 Cartoonists and Other Celebrities. 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 Inches. Original red, white and blue paper covered boards with cartoon of a soldier and his lady on the front. Paper on spine has come away from spine at front gutter, but is still present. Hand soil. This book was written by the first openly black cartoonist to be syndicated in white newspapers in the U.S. We believe that this important piece of comic strip history was given as a gift to cartoonist C.D. Russell (who was identified as an influence on Campbell in his obituary) and his bride (?), Mary, in 1945. The blank pages in the front and back of the book have been signed along with sketches by some of the earliest members of the National Cartoonists Society: Milton Caniff, Jay Irving, Otto Soglow, George McManus, Bela Zaboly, Paul Frehm, Gus Edson, Dow Walling, Bill Holman, Ed Hughes, and Elmer Woggon. In addition, there are signatures… Read More

New York: Wendell Malliett and Company, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. E. Simms Campbell. Signed. SIGNED BY THE POET to her benefactor Mrs. Albert Partridge, who long supported her work as part of the New Negro Movement, with which she was intimately connected as related in the foreword by Arthur P. Davis of Virginia Union University, a historically black college. Important to the Negro Renaissance. Original black gilt cloth. A fine, clean and unmarked copy. Scarce.

Chicago: Esquire, Inc., 1933. Magazine. Fine. Soft cover. Folio. Entire Autumn issue, October 15, 1933, in original colorful Edward A. Wilson cover. This is a exceptional copy with only a slight nick at spine tail, a partial small dog-ear at lower outer corner, and a bit of rubbing at rear wrap. There is otherwise no creasing, cracking, chipping, bumping, soiling, or other blemishes, and is close to as-new condition. Clearly, it was handled only very lightly. In this, the premier issue of Esquire, the author contributed his first of a series of "letters" that would continue through February, 1939. This one is illustrated with 17 photographs of the author and second wife Pauline Pfeiffer fishing and landing marlin. One photo shows a young John Hemingway with a small marlin. From the opening paragraph, "The rooms on the northeast corner of the Ambos Mundos hotel in Havana look out, to the north, over the old cathedral, the entrance to the harbor, and the sea, and to the east to… Read More

Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. [100]pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. A fine, bright copy in just about fine dust jacket with two tiny nicks at the crown and a short creased tear on rear panel, else very bright. Work by Campbell, an African-American cartoonist and illustrator, appeared in *Esquire, The Crisis,* and *Ebony*. He also illustrated books by Sterling Brown, Arna Bontemps, and others. A collection of humorous sketches of glamorous white American women in situations involving soldiers and World War II themes. A much nicer than usual copy.

Philadephia: David McKay Company, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 96pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Near fine copy with faint toning on spine and the front flyleaf has two small abrasions and tape marks, with text fresh and clean, lacking the dust jacket. Humorous sketches of glamorous white American women in situations involving soldiers and World War II themes. Campbell was an African-American cartoonist and illustrator, whose work appeared in *Esquire, The Crisis*, and *Ebony*. He also illustrated books by Sterling Brown, Arna Bontemps, and others.

Lancaster, SC: Springs Cotton Mills, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Arthur William Brown, E. Simms Campbell, James Montgomery Flagg, Rockwell Kent, Russell Patterson, Petty, Frederick Smith, and Fritz Willis. Photo pictorial cloth covered boards in a colorful dust jacket, in a clear Mylar wrapper. . 8vo, 446 pages.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Hardcover. Octavo, 100 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine half bound in black spine and fore corners with black tape bearing yellow lettering to the spine. Lacking the issued dust jacket. Tan boards have moderate plus wear exteriorly with slight rubbing wear to the edges and black maker marking to the front. Text block has moderate age toning to the edges. Ex-library with several markings interiorly. Ex-library bookplate and stamped dedication text to the front pastedown. Bookbinders tape to the hinges. Slight offsetting and minor soiling marks interiorly. Previous owner's embossed stamp to the title page. Frontispiece. Front flap to the dust jacket adhered to the half title page. Illustrated. Reprinted. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1375574. FP New Rockville Stock.

Esquire, Inc.. Condition: light cover soil; light to moderate cover wear in places; small chip to each of upper and lower outer narrow spine edges. Contents include: Mike Wallace interviewed (with photos, entitled "Mike Wallace on the Spot! Five celebrities who've appeared on his show turn tables on TV's rudest interviewer"); play "The Quare Fellow" by Brendan Behan; photospread of Vikki Dougan; article "King Saud's Harem" by Maria La Yacoma ("The only American girl ever permitted behind its walls describes it here in detail"); article "The Pacific-Orient Special" by Richard Joseph (with photos: "New directions for tourists traveling the eastern world"); article, with photos "G-String Gormorrah" by Nelson Algren ("An expert reports on Calumet City, a baby Babylon where spitbacks wait for marks and 11 a.m. is dead of night"); article "The Clarification of Audrey Hepburn" by Robert W. Marks; verse… Read More

Cuties in Arms, David McKay, 1942, first edition, spine extremities very slightly bumped, else fine in vg color pictorial boards in matching vg or better dust-wrapper. While Campbell was an African-American artist, there are no African-Americans depicted in this WW2 book of cartoon illustrations.

Chicago: Esquire, 1937. Paperback. Very good. A. Von Frankenerg, E. Simms Campbell, Gilbert Bundy, D. McKay, Paul Webb, George Petty, Abner Dean. Bound in the publisher's original full-color pictorial wraps. Some light wear at the edges, all pages bright. Cover has started but is holding. Contains the story "An Alcoholic Case" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Illustrated throughout in black & white and color. The interior is bright and the text is a great glimpse at the 1930's.

Chicago: Esquire, 1937. Paperback. Very good. A. Von Frankenerg, E. Simms Campbell, Gilbert Bundy, D. McKay, Paul Webb, George Petty, Abner Dean. Bound in the publisher's original full-color pictorial wraps. Some light wear at the edges, all pages bright. Contains the story "The Guest in Room Nineteen" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Illustrated throughout in black & white and color. The interior is bright and the text is a great glimpse at the 1930's.

Chicago: Esquire, 1940. Paperback. Very good. A. Von Frankenerg, E. Simms Campbell, Gilbert Bundy, D. McKay, Paul Webb, George Petty, Abner Dean. Bound in the publisher's original full-color pictorial wraps. Some light wear at the edges, all pages bright. Contains the story "A Man in the Way" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Illustrated throughout in black & white and color. The interior is bright and the text is a great glimpse at the 1940's.

Chicago: Esquire, 1940. Paperback. Very good. L. S. Soderstrom, E. Simms Campbell, Gilbert Bundy, D. McKay, Paul Webb, George Petty, Abner Dean. Bound in the publisher's original full-color pictorial wraps. Some light wear at the edges, all pages bright. Front cover has started but is holding. Contains the story "Pat Hobby's Secret" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Illustrated throughout in black & white and color. The interior is bright and the text is a great glimpse at the 1940's.

Lancaster, SC: Springs Cotton Mills, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Arthur William Brown, E. Simms Campbell, James Montgomery Flagg, Rockwell Kent, Russell Patterson, Petty, Frederick Smith, and Fritz Willis. Photo pictorial cloth covered boards in a colorful dust jacket, in a clear Mylar wrapper. . 8vo, 446 pages. There is a signature of a Springs Cotton Mills executive on the half-title page, with a 6/16/49 date. The dust jacket is chipped at the corners - not affecting the colorful illustrations.

First edition first appearance of this collection of short stories. Collected are the following: Teamed with Genius by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Little Miss Whisk by Hannibal Towle, A Triumph in Theory by Charles Rawlings, The Flatfooted Angel by Len Zinberg, One Quiet Afternoon by Ernest Redmond Buckler, An Affair in Tahiti by Donald Barr Chidsey, The Birthday Party by Roderick Lull. The Fitzgerald story is Pat Hobby story number 4. A collection of Petty women from 1933 to 1939 called A E. Simms Campbell black and white fold out on pg 45. A Petty Portion of Memorable Cartoons starting on pg 59. There is a 3 inch closed tear to the front corner of the spine. A corner crease to the bottom right hand corner of the front cover. in good condition.

Oxford University Press, 2000-12-07. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Oxford University Press, 1993-10-21. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Philadelphia: David McKay Company [1943], 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 4to. Unpaginated. Pictorial boards printed in black, blue, red, white, with white and black lettering on the red spine, boards and spine with the same design as is on the dust jacket. Price of 1.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with numerous full-page drawings printed in blue, yellow, and black. Illustration History, "E. Simms Campbell". E. Simms Campbell was a Black cartoonist born in St. Louis. In 1939, Campbell's series Cuties became syndicated in the United States. He was the first Black artist to achieve syndication. This volume collects Cuties comics done during American involvement in the Second World War. Light wear to the boards' edges; jacket with a few traces of edge wear and minor foxing on its rear flap.

Richmond: T,H, White, 1840. First Edition . Soft Bound. Near Fine. Very good in original wrappers with light edgewear, light soiling, chips on the spine and corner creases on covers and pages. Complete issue.