AFRICAN AMERICAN from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Boston: Christopher Publishing House, [1925]. 192 pages, plus 8 full page plates (including frontispiece) after drawings by Edna Reed Whaley. Music for several songs printed with the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. 20.5 x 14 cm. Ex-Sondley Reference Library with faint reminder of removed call number at base of spine, attractive engraved bookplate on front pastedown, and… Read more

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, [2003]. xxiv, 211 pages. Original black cloth. 23.5 x 16 cm. Fine in very nearly fine dust jacket (spine panel a trifle sunned). FIRST EDITION. Theophilus Gould Steward (1843-1924) was an African Methodist Episcopal minister from New Jersey. After the Civil War, he organized and preached to congregations in South Carolina and Georgia,… Read more

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, [1989]. xvii, 430 pages, plus a [10]-page photo essay. Original brown cloth. 23.5 x 16 cm. Fine in near fine dust jacket. The jacket has slight creasing along the top edge. FIRST EDITION. "Although McMillen meticulously details white rule, his emphasis throughout is the black experience and particularly black resistance. He examines… Read more

Raleigh, N.C.: Alfred Williams & Co., [printed by Bynum Printing Co.], 1925. 314 pages, plus six full-page photographic plates. The front free endpaper is printed with a copyright notice on the recto and prior appearance notice on verso. Original olive-green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 20 x 15 cm. There was a variant in blue cloth, priority unknown. A… Read more

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1948. x, 128, [1] pages. Printed music throughout. Original orange-red cloth with black spine lettering and decoration in blind on front cover. 29 x 23 cm. Very good in good plus dust jacket. Slight fading and wear to base of the boards, small corner chip to the front free endpaper, tasteful bookplate on the… Read more

New York: Prentice Hall, [1987]. xii, 308 pages, plus eight double-sided plates. Original quarter cloth and boards. 22 x 15 cm. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Slight bump to the spine panel of the dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, Printers, 1862. 26 pages. Original printed wraps. 24 x 15 cm. Multiple chips to the wraps, not affecting printed matter; spine worn and split for 3 cm at top and 6 cm at base, but wraps holding well. Wraps also show a few creases, toning, and several small spots.… Read more

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1954]. xv, [1], 228 pages. Original cloth. [20.9 cm.] A very good plus copy in good plus dust jacket. A few very faint spots to cloth; bright and clean internally. Jacket has small chip to head of spine (1.5 cm deep), short closed tear and associated… Read more

New York: Philosophical Library, [1966]. 120 pages. plus frontispiece facsimile. Illustrated with full-page drawings by Claude Howell (printed with the text). Original cloth. [21.5 cm.] About fine in very good plus dust jacket. Some very faint foxing to endpapers due to contact with original dust jacket. Jacket is bright, but shows light rubbing,… Read more

[Washington], March, 1830 - April, 1832. Nine issues, bound together at an early date in full sheep, without original printed wrappers. [Title given is caption title for each issue.] 8vo (in fours) [21.6 cm.] 64, [97]-160, [225]-352 pages and [33]-64 pages, plus one folding color map. Ex-Sondley Reference Library with call number on spine, bookplate on front… Read more