Chinese Art of World Renown by Stanley Charles Nott - 1944

, 1954; Two handwritten signed letters from singer/ actor Todd Duncan (1903-1998) addressed to early television director Jerome Shaw. Duncan, the original Porgy in "Porgy and Bess," was Gershwin’s personal choice, singing the role more than 1,800 times. His first operatic performance was in 1945 at the New York City Opera Company as Tonio in Leoncavallo’s "Pagliacci." He taught at Howard University for over fifty years, during which time he continued a rigorous concert performance schedule, logging over 2,000 performances the world over. He was a recipient of the George Peabody Medal, the Donaldson Award, the New York Drama Critic’s Award for "Lost In The Stars," and numerous domestic and foreign honorary awards and degrees. The first letter, dated Feb. 1, 1954, is written on stationery from the Hotel Monticello, Longview, Washington, and is in the original addressed and stamped envelope. In it Duncan at one point makes a pun by advising Shaw not to be consumed by… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. Printed letter, signed in ink, from H. Johnson, Governor of Louisiana, to the Governor of New York (DeWitt Clinton), dated February 16th, 1826, stating that the state of Louisiana rejects Ohio's plan for the gradual emancipation of slaves. 2 pages, 8 by 10 inches. The letter reads: In compliance with the request of the Legislature of this State, I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a resolution of the said Legislature, passed at their present session, and to request that you will be pleased to lay the same before the Legislature of the State over which you preside . . . Your Excellencys Obedient servant, H. Johnson. The address leaf carries a New Orleans circular cancel with a 25 ms rate. Together with the resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That this legislature does not concur in certain resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of Ohio, at their session in the year one thousand… Read More

Important Maya Angelou Archive. 10 historically relevant books from Angelou's personal library; also includes 5 Maya Angelou-owned pre-publication copies preceding the first editions of 5 of her own books. Also comes with Maya Angelou's Personal Photo album documenting her philanthropic work with UNICEF and 2 Original Honorary PhD degrees awarded to Maya Angelou. The books from Angelou's personal library include Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin, which also has Angelou's bookplate in pink in the front cover and an inscription by the author reading "To our poetess, One of the Greatest Women of the Century" ; and A Profile of the Negro American, with Angelou's pink bookplate.(the book is a review of disparate impacts on health, education, and crime, together with an interpretation of the Negro American identity and an evaluation of civil rights progress through the early 1960s; and The Story of Atlanta University with an inscribed note "To Maya" which goes over the history of the… Read More

Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 60pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce third issue of this important multiracial South African literary magazine. Includes work by a vast number of writers. Unmarked copy, clean with minor wear.

Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 60pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce second issue (3000 copies printed) of this important multiracial South African literary magazine. Includes letters on the banning of the first issue by the apartheid government. Plus the work of over 50 writers. Unmarked copy, clean with corner bumps.

Important Maya Angelou Archive. 10 historically relevant books from Angelou's personal library; also includes 5 Maya Angelou-owned pre-publication copies preceding the first editions of 5 of her own books. Also comes with Maya Angelou's Personal Photo album documenting her philanthropic work with UNICEF and 2 Original Honorary PhD degrees awarded to Maya Angelou. The books from Angelou's personal library include Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin, which also has Angelou's bookplate in pink in the front cover and an inscription by the author reading "To our poetess, One of the Greatest Women of the Century" ; and A Profile of the Negro American, with Angelou's pink bookplate.(the book is a review of disparate impacts on health, education, and crime, together with an interpretation of the Negro American identity and an evaluation of civil rights progress through the early 1960s; and The Story of Atlanta University with an inscribed note "To Maya" which goes over the history of the… Read More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 184pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Revealing and disturbing study of the racist ideas and fantasies of southern whites after the Civil War.

M. A. A. H. Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Rare. Brown cloth cover has light wear to corners and spine caps and bumped bottom front corner with light soiling but bright and in very good- condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Gift inscription on front end sheet. Inscribed and signed by author on title page "To the Palmer School Students & Staff, with best wishes from Margaret Burroughs 1/10/69". Pages have a faint damp stain on the lower 2" that extends only 1/8" into the margin and a small ink notation on lower margin of one page. ; 32 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers / A Story Press Book, 1938 Presentation copy from Richard Wright to Ernest Hemingway: "To Ernest Hemingway / From / Richard Wright." Stated second edition in married original dust jacket, first published with four novellas; two more were added when the book was reprinted in 1940. In Down by the Riverside, included in this collection, Wright transposes the Italian retreat at the Battle of Caporetto in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms to the American South. Richard Wright was known to be a great admirer of Ernest Hemingway, whom he once named as a modernist writer whose work should be read by aspiring black authors (Scruggs, Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, 58–59). Mild toning to margins of endpapers, light toning to page margins, spine ends gently crimped, and a light pale stain to bottom front cover, foot of spine, and just an inch to bottom back spine fold, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with professional restoration to extremities, mild… Read More

Washington, D. C.: The Rappahannock Press, 1993. First edition / First printing. Beige cloth. Very fine in about fine dust jacket.