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Harper's Ferry Invasion. [Spine title]
by (BROWN, John)
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- 1860
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$395.00
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Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1860. Hardcover. Small 4to. Rebound in brown cloth, with original blind-embossed front/rear board cloth and spine (with gilt lettering) remounted. 71pp, 255pp, (1p). Very good. Original remounted binding a bit rubbed; text block tight and bright. Attractively rebound in matching brown with original brown cloth remounted, the first part of this Senate report… Read more about this item Item Price
$395.00
America's Most Famous Book: A Dissertation on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle's Tom Cabin and Uncle Tom Shows
by FOSTER, Thomas Henry
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- 1947
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$45.00
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Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with paper label and tan/brown patterned paper over boards. 37pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this Christmas keepsake, an essay by the noted Iowa meatpacking company president (1875-1951), remembered for his bookplate collection and as a Victorian book collector and, strangely enough, as a… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
The Black Military Experience in the American West
by CARROLL, John M. (editor)
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- 1971
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- Hardcover
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- 9780871405197
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$75.00
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New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxv, 591pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition of this hefty survey, with chapters covering the black regiments (9th and 10th Cavalry, 24th and 25th Infantry) as well as large sections on "The Cavalry," "Action… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Yardbird Reader: Volume One and Volume 4
by REED, Ishmael (editor)
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- 1972
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- Paperback
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$150.00
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Berkeley: Yardbird Publishing Cooperative, 1972. Paperback. Two issues. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. (28pp), 184pp; x, 198pp. Illustrations. Very good. Quite minor binding edgewear only, else tight and internally fine. Two tight and handsome issues of this influential yearly journal of African-American culture and history. In the premiere volume Chester Himes provides the preface ("YARDBIRD READER has thoroughly… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
Lincoln's Negro Policy
by COX, Earnest Sevier
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- 1938
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$150.00
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Richmond: The William Byrd Press, Inc, 1938. Hardcover. 12mo. Stiff green printed wrappers. 36pp. Good only. Quite homely, in other words -- heavily age toned throughout, more so along the gutter, as well as mottled and discolored -- but in its defense it's fairly tight, easily readable and fully handleable, with no edge chips. First edition of this bizarre… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
Gather Together in My Name
by ANGELOU, Maya
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- n.y.
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- Hardcover
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- 9780394486925
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$25.00
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New York: Random House, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 214pp. Very good/near fine. Tight and attractive later printing (despite "FPT" on front jacket flap -- price $22.00, not $5.95 -- and full number line on copyright page) of the poet's third book (first published 1974), a sequel to her memoir "I Know… Read more about this item Item Price
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Adventures of an African Slaver: Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Story as told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer
by CANOT, Theodore
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- n.y.
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$175.00
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Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co, n.y.. Hardcover. Edited and with introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxi, 376pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Tight, attractive reprint edition of the 1928 Albert & Boni edition of this classic slave-trading narrative, first published in 1854 -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
An Historical Sketch of the Early Movement in Illinois for the Legalization of Slavery, Read at the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Historical Society, December 5th, 1864
by BROWN, William H.
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- 1876
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- Paperback
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$55.00
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Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1876. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff salmon wrappers. 31pp. Partly uncut. Very good. Chip at upper left corner of front wrapper and a tad rough cut along top edge; partly uncut. Tight and nice first edition of this address by the attorney, anti-slavery advocate and friend of Lincoln (1796-1867) and president of the Chicago Historical Society who… Read more about this item Item Price
$55.00
History of the Republican Party in Illinois 1854-1912 with a Review of the Aggressions of the Slave-Power
by CHURCH, Charles E.
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- 1912
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$50.00
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Rockford: Press of Wilson Brothers Company, 1912. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 248pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 10 full-page plates. Very good. Faint edgewear (mainly head of spine), else tight and internally near fine. Tight, quite nice first edition of this uncommon title. Item Price
$50.00
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The Underground Railroad in Illinois
by TURNER, Glennette Tilley
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- 2001
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- Paperback
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- 9780938990055
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$50.00
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Glen Ellyn, IL: Newman Educational Publishing, 2001. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xix, 285pp. Numerous illustrations, maps. Fine. Handsome and perfect first edition of this readable, well-illustrated young adult survey of the Land of Lincoln's runaway slave system -- and inscribed and signed large and bold by the author in blue ballpoint on half-title page: "To Tom, /… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
History of the Republican Party in Illinois 1854-1912 with a Review of the Aggressions of the Slave-Power
by CHURCH, Charles E.
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- 1912
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$50.00
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Rockford: Press of Wilson Brothers Company, 1912. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 248pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 10 full-page plates. Very good. Inoffensive stain to upper outer corner of several leaves; ownership inkstamp on front pastedown and flyleaf. A tight and attractive first edition. Rather uncommon. Item Price
$50.00
Three Grand Mistakes!
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- n.y.
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$250.00
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N.p.: N.p., n.y.. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. Very good. 4pp. Mild binding traces, else bright, clean and nice. Apparent first edition of this frustratingly-cryptic pamphlet, likely published in 1861 -- a rousing defense of slavery. The author's simple-minded response to the charge that "Slaveholding is in itself sinful, and therefore immediate and general emancipation is a duty" is "It is… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
An Appraisal of the Negro in Colonial South Carolina: A Study in Americanization
by KLINGBERG, Frank J.
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- 1941
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$25.00
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Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, 1941. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. xii, 180pp. Very good. A tight and decent first edition of this influential study. Mild, inoffensive ex-library, with very few and discreet markings. Item Price
$25.00
Facts and Opinions Touching the Real Origin, Character, and Influence of the American Colonization Society: Views of Wilberforce, Clarkson, and Others, and Opinions of the Free People of Color of the United States
by STEBBINS, G.B.
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- 1969
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- Hardcover
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- 9780837121840
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$20.00
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New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 224pp. Near fine. Facsimile of the 1853 first edition. Item Price
$20.00
History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
by SHIPHERD, Jacob R. (compiler)
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- 1859
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$95.00
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Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blind-ruled grown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 280pp. Good plus overall. While inner hinges and text block are a solid very good, clean and nice, the binding is quite rough and edgeworn, especially along length of spine, which is chipped along the top, and rear board cloth… Read more about this item Item Price
$95.00
Kingdom Coming: The Emancipation Proclamation of September 22, 1862
by WILEY, Bell Irvin
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- 1963
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- Paperback
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$20.00
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Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1963. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff blue wrappers. 18pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear, with price sticker mark near bottom of front and rear wrapper. Tight and nice first edition of Wiley's address before the Chicago Historical Society of September 21, 1962. Item Price
$20.00
Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership
by COX, LaWanda
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- 1994
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- Paperback
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- 9780872499973
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$15.00
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Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. Paperback. Foreword by James M. McPherson. 8vo. xvii, 254pp. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. Near fine. A tight and quite nice first paperback edition of this 1981 study. Item Price
$15.00
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
by FOX-GENOVESE, Elizabeth
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- 1988
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- Paperback
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- 9780807842324
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$10.00
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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xvii, 544pp. Map, illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear; yellow remainder mark on bottom page edges. A tight and nice fourth printing of this thick study. Name/address label inside front wrapper and rear flyleaf of noted pediatric medicine specialist and book collector Ralph C.… Read more about this item Item Price
$10.00
The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives
by BAKER, T. Lindsay, and BAKER, Julie P. (editors)
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
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- 9780806127927
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$30.00
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full black leatherette with light blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 543pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A superbly tight and handsome second printing of this hefty compilation of reminiscences gathered during the Depression -- 14 of them never before published. Item Price
$30.00
Everybody Say Freedom: Everything You Need to Know About African-American History
by NEWMAN, Richard, and SAWYER, Marcia
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- 1996
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- Paperback
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- 9780452275935
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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$20.00
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New York: Plume, 1996. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xv, 318pp. Near fine. Henry Louis Gates Jr. introduces this compact primer. A tight, attractive first edition. Item Price
$20.00
