Black Americana from Tannery Books

Houghton Mifflin & Co,, 1888. First Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library. Charles Dudley Warner, On Horseback - A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee With Notes of Travel in Mexico and California. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co., First Thus [previous version in The Atlantic Monthly, 1885]. Brown cloth hc with black-stamped cover illustration and gilt spine… Read more

Greensboro: Younts Printing Co., 1995. First Printing. Paperback. Very good. Gladys Scarlette, Summerfield, North Carolina, A Pictorial History, Greensboro, by the author (Younts Printing Co.), 1995, First Printing. Textured paper covers with brown illustration, 4to (28 cm), [xiv] 170 pp with index, many bw photos and copies of documents. Very Good: front cover slightly warped, po name on… Read more

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1968. Hardcover. Ex-library. Bliss Forbush, Moses Sheppard, Quaker Philanthropist of Baltimore, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1968. Brown cloth hc with pink metallic lettering on spine, 8vo (20 cm), 318 pp with notes and index. Topics include Quaker relations with American Indians and with slaves, including colonization in Liberia. Good/no DJ: ex-library with… Read more

Chapel Hill: University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Slavery and the Making of the University: Celebrating Our Unsung Heroes, Bond and Free, A bibliography of sources in The Wilson Library, University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. Extracts from university records of slaves and… Read more

Richmond, Ind.: Friends United Press, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. Levi Coffin, abridged and edited by Ben Richmond, Richmond, Ind., Friends United Press, 2006. Trade pb, xxviii, 402 pp. Very Good: corner lightly bumped, crisp, no markings.

Paperback. Near Fine. Ed. Mary Lib Clark Joyce; Stephen (Steve) Chester Clark (1885-1957), David Lowery Clark (1824-1915), et al; ca. 1999; Clarks' Collection of Historical Remembrances, Collections and Recollections from Three Generations of Clark Historians: From the Historical Files and Writings of Stephen C. Clark; Articles and Letters of Recollections of High Point from: Betty Sapp Kirkman, W.C.… Read more

New York: Clarion Books, 2004. Later printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Russell Freedman, The Voice That Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, New York, Clarion Books, 2004. Tan cloth and white quarter-spine with copper lettering on spine, 4to, [x] 118 pp, many bw photos; Newberry Honor sticker. Good (ex-lib)/Good: Ex-library with tape residue, corners… Read more

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. Ernest Townsend. Harry Stillwell Edwards, illustrated by Ernest Townsend, Eneas Africanus, New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1940 [reprint], copyright 1920. Tan cloth with green spine, stamped block with title pastedown on front, 8vo (22 cm), green map of Eneas' wanderings through seven states on endpapers, xx, 38 pp [8],… Read more

Greensboro News & Record, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Glossy, reduced-size (about 8.5 by 13 inches) bound version of Sept. 16 and 23, 1990 editions of the Greensboro News & Record. Paperback, 188 pp total, many photos. Restrospective articles from 100 years of the newspaper, including Piedmont history, ads, Richard Petty, tornado of 1936, police and fire history, a… Read more