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[Ambrotype]: Ninth Plate Cased Portrait of a Young Black Man
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$1,847.04
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Hardcover. Near Fine. Ninth plate ambrotype. Matted with preserver to approximately 2" x 2.5". In molded black thermoplastic Union case with deep purple cut velvet pad, The case and image are near fine. Image shows a seated young Black man, well-dressed, holding one lapel of his jacket, and with the slightest of pink tinting to his cheeks. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Ambrotype]: Ninth Plate Cased Portrait of a Black Woman
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- Used - Near Fine
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$1,308.32
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Near Fine. Ninth plate ambrotype. Matted with preserver to approximately 2" x 2.5". In molded black leather case, lined in gold. blue figured velvet plush interior. The case is near fine; the image displays a small crack in the upper corner not effecting the image, likely original seal, very good. Image shows a seated well-dressed young Black woman… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Tintypes]: Two Different Sixth Plate Tintypes of a Black Man and a Friend
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$769.60
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Sixth plate tintype. Approximately 2.5" x 3.5". Unmounted. Some corners a little clipped for mounting, very good or better. The first image shows a Black man in a bowler-type hat seated on a bench in a studio, with his arm resting on the top of the bench. The second image shows the same man sitting on the same bench… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Daguerreotype]: Quarter Plate Portrait of a Young Woman Festooned with Gold Nugget Jewelry
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- Used - Near Fine
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$1,154.40
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Near Fine. Quarter plate daguerreotype. Matted with preserver in original embossed leather case with red cut velvet pad. Approximately 3.25" x 3.5". Image near fine, hinge of the case is tender, overall very good or better. Image of a seated woman tinted in gold at her neck broach, earrings, pendent, and watch, which she holds in her hands.… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,154.40
[Ambrotype]: Ninth Plate Cased Portrait of a Black Woman
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- Used - Very Good
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$1,462.24
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Very Good. Ninth plate ambrotype. Matted with preserver to approximately 2" x 2.5". In molded black leather case, lined in gold. blue figured velvet plush interior. The case is near fine; the image displays a small crack in the upper corner not effecting the image, likely original seal, very good. Image shows a seated well-dressed young Black woman… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Ambrotype]: Sixth Plate Portrait of a Well-Dressed Black Woman
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- Used - Very Good
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- Unbound
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$923.52
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Unbound. Very Good. Sixth plate ambrotype. Matted with preserver to approximately 2.75" x 3.25". Uncased. The image is near fine, as is the mat and preserver. The image shows a Black woman in a studio, seated three quarters, with her arm resting on a rustic table, with a full-skirted dress with elaborate feathered collar. The subjects are undated… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Ambrotype]: Sixth Plate Outdoor Portrait of a Young Black Child with a White Baby
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- Used - Near Fine
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$5,387.20
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Near Fine. Sixth plate ambrotype. Matted with preserver to approximately 2.5" x 3.5". In heavily molded black thermoplastic Union case, with gold lozenge on both front and back. The image is near fine, as is the case. Image shows a White baby posed in a perambulator, with a young Black girl standing and wearing a simple shift dress,… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Tintypes]: Sixth Plate Tintypes of a Black Man and a Friend
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- Used - Very Good
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$731.12
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Very Good. Sixth plate tintype. Approximately 2.5" x 3.5". Mat, preserver, and embossed leather case with cut pink plush velvet pad. Some mild tarnish on the image, spine of the case a little tender but holding, very good or better. Image of three Black men: one seated, wearing a bowler-style hat, the other two standing by a podium,… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Daguerreotype]: Quarter Plate Portrait of a Young Man Reading
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- Used - Near Fine
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$692.64
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Near Fine. Quarter plate daguerrotype. Matted with preserver in one-half of the original embossed leather case. Approximately 3.25" x 3.75". A few spots of tarnish on the image, lacks the front half of the case, else near fine. The image shows a handsome young man seated at a table with a book open in his hand. The subject… Read more about this item Item Price
A$692.64
A History of the Chinese in Nevada: 1855-1904
by BeDUNNAH, Gary P.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1966
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$615.68
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Reno: University of Nevada, 1966. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 152 photo-mechanically reproduced leaves printed rectos only. Prong bound in blue plasticized wrappers stamped Bureau of Land Management / United States Department of the Interior on front wrap, and also die-cut on front wrap to reveal the title. Additional note tipped-in and folded inside front wrap. Near fine. Thesis… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Cover title]: Year Book Church of the Advent. Cape May New Jersey. Summer 1926 - Summer 1932
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1932
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$538.72
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Cape May: Church of the Advent / (Albert Hand Company), 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine. Seven consecutive issues bound together in gray cloth and titled in black. 12mo. 56; 68; 55, [1]; 44; 50, [1]; 37; 43pp. Illustrated. Original printed blue wrappers bound in. Genealogical society embossed stamp on cover of first issue. Dampstain along the top of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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L'Occupation Americaine D'Haiti ses consequences morales et economiques
by BELLEGARDE, Dantes
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- Used - Good
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- 1929
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$538.72
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Port-au-Prince, [Haiti]: Cheraquit, 1929. Softcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. 44pp. Stitched printed salmon wrappers. Chipping at the bottom corner of the last couple leaves affecting no text, small chips and tears and a modest stain on front wrap. Inscribed at the top of the front wrap: "Dedie au President Hoover view page 37." Ink notations about Hoover on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Woman's Rights Tracts, No. 7: Speech of Mrs. M.E.J. Gage, at the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Syracuse, Sept. 1852
by GAGE
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- Used - Good
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- 1852
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$1,077.44
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Syracuse: Masters' Print, Malcolm Block, 1852. Softcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. 8pp. Self-printed wrappers. Small number stamp on front wrap, several small tears and chips, and splits at the spine ends, a good copy. Item Price
A$1,077.44
Semi-History of a Boy-Veteran of the Twenty-Eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers, in a Black Regiment. A Diary of the 28th Ill. from organization to Veteranizing. History of Fifty-Eighth Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry
by HOBART, Edwin L.
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- Used - Fine
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- 1907
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$6,156.80
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[Likely Denver: The Author, 1907. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 41; 54; [i.e. 95pp.]. Frontispiece and five plates from photographs. Printed buff wrappers. Small tear at head of the spine, front wrap with faint crease lines, very good or better. Inscribed by the author, a White soldier in the Civil War, Edwin Lucius Hoyt: "To J. M. Schenck… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Urgency of Our Mission. A Statement by Lerone Bennett, Jr. at the First Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center. Atlanta, Georgia February 3, 1970
by BENNETT, Lerone, Jr.
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- Used - Fine
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- 1970
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- Softcover
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- 9780874850857
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$346.32
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Atlanta: Reproduction Staff of the The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center, 1970. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Introduction by Vincent Harding. 12mo. 9, [1]pp. illustrated. Stapled illustrated brick wrappers. Fine. Scarce. Item Price
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[Newspaper]: Facts for the People. Vol. 1, No. 5
by BAILEY, Gamaliel, editor
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1853
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- Unbound
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$769.60
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Washington, D.C.: Gamaliel Bailey / Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1853. Unbound. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 8pp. (printed in triple columns). Old fold, very good or better. The issue is given over completely to two articles: "Does the Constitution Require Freemen to Hunt Fugitive Slaves?" and "The Southern Platform; or, Manual of Southern Sentiment on the Subject of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Report of The Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in Favor of a Line of Mail Steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; Designed to Promote Emigration of Free Persons of Color from the United States to Liberia; Also, to increase the Steam Navy, and to Extend the Commerce of the United States; with an Appendix Added by the American Colonization Society
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1850
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$461.76
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Washington (D.C.): Printed by Gideon and Co, 1850. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 79pp. *Sabin 69887. Work, p.364; LCP/HSP Afro-Americana 10594.* A little foxing but near fine. Rebound in later quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Item Price
A$461.76
The Negroes of Nebraska
by Workers of the Writers' Program, Work Projects Administration in the State of Nebraska. Drawings by Paul Gibson
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1940
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- Softcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$346.32
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Lincoln, Nebraska: Woodruff Printing Company, 1940. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 48pp. Drawings by Paul Gibson. Stapled orange wrappers printed in black. Staples partially pulled through, very good. Herbert Aptheker's copy with his ownership signature. Item Price
A$346.32
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands
by PARRISH, Lydia
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1942
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$538.72
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New York: Creative Age, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. 256pp. Introduction by Olin Downes. Music transcribed by Creighton Churchill and Robert MacGimsey. Illustrated from photographs of the residents of the Georgia Sea Islands. Cloth with pictorial label. Light rubbing on the boards, a very near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. A lovely book, compiled by… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lone Star Fullback
by McKONE, Jim
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
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- 1966
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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A$307.84
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New York: Vanguard Press, 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 189pp. About fine in lightly chipped very good dust jacket. Vanity press novel about a football team in a newly integrated Texas high school, featuring the protagonist, a Black fullback navigating his relationships with his Latino and White teammates. Inscribed by the author: "To my friend Oliver… Read more about this item Item Price
A$307.84