Search Results: Authors starting with N from Langdon Manor Books LLC

New York: Sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, 1858. Good. 7 3/8" x 5¼". Brown cloth over boards. Pp. 312. Good: front cover split at joint, nearly detached but holding; light to moderate wear, spotting and small stains to covers and throughout; owner name inked to front free endpaper and penciled in two spots. This is a travelogue written by an American woman who spent several years working as a missionary, humanitarian and writer in the United Kingdom and Europe, Asenath Nicholson. Asenath Hatch Nicholson was born in Vermont in 1792. She was trained as a teacher in her hometown before she married and moved to New York. She opened a boardinghouse based on the tenets of temperance and vegetarianism, and in 1835 penned what is believed to be the first American vegetarian cookbook, Nature's Own Book. Widowed in 1844, Nicholson left for Ireland and spent 15 months walking the country. She distributed bibles, lived among the poor and witnessed the early days of the potato blight. She returned to… Read More

Illinois, 1948. Good. 10¼" x 13½". String-tied photo album lacking its covers. 56 pages with 156 black and white photographs inserted into corner mounts + an additional 65 photos laid in. Photos range from 2" x 3" to 8" x 10" and around one third are captioned. Album good: lacking covers and several leaves are loose; photos generally very good plus or better. This is a collection of photos compiled by an African American man from Illinois, Elmus Norris, Jr. Norris was born in 1929 raised in Murphysboro and attended Murphysboro High School. The album covers Norris' life from high school through early adulthood, though there are a handful of photos from an earlier period likely showing his family around their home. High school photos include an entire page devoted to a basketball tournament in 1945 and there are two 8x10 team photos and two smaller group shots, showing that Elmus was one of two Black players on the team. He also played football for Murphysboro and a small team shot showed he was… Read More