Search Results: Titles starting with N from Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1903. vii,14 pages. Slim folio. Publisher's original green cloth. Limited edition; one of 500 copies. Faint bumping to base of spine and small corner bump to upper cover; Near Fine. Facsimile edition of this 1693 William Bradford imprint. With an Introductory Note by Adelaide R. Hasse. "This was Frontenac's expedition against the Iroquois, during which Schenectady was threatened. The First book printed in New York." (Howes B-257)

New York: Negro Universities Press, (1850, 1969). Frontis., [2], xiv, [1], [13]-204, [3]pp. Sm. 8vo. Brown cloth; gilt spine titling. Facsimile Reprint of "Third Stereotype Edition." Fine condition. Autobiography of author, editor, and antislavery activist Henry Walton Bibb (1815-1854), enslaved from birth in Shelby County, Kentucky. This 1969 facsimile reprint of Bibb's autobiography was reprinted from the third edition published in New York in 1850. "Although [Bibb's] highly regarded Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave was not published until the spring of 1849, Bibb began telling the story of his life before antislavery crowds in Adrian, Michigan, in May 1844. His story proved so poignant in its depiction of human suffering and endurance, so heroic in its accounts of ingenious escapes, and so romantic in its adventures in the territories of the West that the Detroit Liberty Association undertook a full-scale investigation to allay public incredulity, an… Read More

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 221pp. Illustrated. Publisher's quarter-cloth spine, printed boards. Fine in publisher's clear acetate wrapper. First Edition. The publisher's copy, as identified on the book's colophon in red ink, and signed by the editor.

Chambersburg, Pa: Published by the Society, Printed at the office of publication of the German Ref. Church, 1844. 20 pages. 8¼ x 5¼ inches. Pamphlet; removed and without wrappers; foxed; Good. Scarce Chambersburg imprint for this address given by William M. Nevin who also served as president at Marshall College.

Boston: Rand & Avery, 1865. 14pp. 8vo, self-wrappers, as-issued; very good. First edition? (A 21-page ed. was issued the same year in Boston by Wright & Potter). Less than six months after the Civil War had ended, Sumner's speech to the Republican State Convention warned that "Neither the Rebellion nor Slavery is yet ended. The Rebellion has been disarmed; but that is all. Slavery has been abolished in name; but that is all." He adds: "Emancipation not complete, so long as the black' code exists... Slavery begins by denying the right of a man to himself; and the Black Code fortifies this denial by its cruel exclusions. Every freedman must be secured in this right by admission to the full panoply of citizenship." Blockson Catalogue 3443. LCP, Afro-Americana 10024.

Boston: Wright & Potter, 1865. 21pp. 8vo, self-wrappers, as-issued; very good. First edition? (A 14-page ed. was issued the same year in Boston by Rand & Avery, no priority known). Less than six months after the Civil War had ended, Sumner's speech to the Republican State Convention warned that "Neither the Rebellion nor Slavery is yet ended. The Rebellion has been disarmed; but that is all. Slavery has been abolished in name; but that is all." He adds: "Emancipation not complete, so long as the black' code exists... Slavery begins by denying the right of a man to himself; and the Black Code fortifies this denial by its cruel exclusions. Every freedman must be secured in this right by admission to the full panoply of citizenship." Blockson Catalogue 3443. LCP, Afro-Americana 10023.

London: John Murray, Albermarle Street, Publisher to the Admiralty, 1849. Thick 8vos. ix, 1400 pages. Bound in three-quarter calf, marbled sides, and black leather spine labels. From the library of Raymond L.J. Riling, his illustrated bookplate. bjcb 352255 A very handsome copy of this monumental biographical work; here bound in the nineteenth-century as two volumes. "O'Byrne was scarcely out of his teens and 'a civilian, previously unconnected with the Service' (O'Byrne, v), when he had the idea of compiling and publishing a record of the service of every living naval officer of the executive branch. Permitted access to Admiralty records, he worked at this for six years, publishing the first parts in 1845, and completed the volume of 1400 closely printed pages, on nearly 5000 officers, in 1849. The labour was great for the Admiralty records, his major source, were in a semi-chaotic state. He had extensive correspondence with his subjects, but he seems to have checked their statements against official… Read More

Chicago: The David Company, (1986) 1987. Small Octavo. 31 pages. Second printing. Faint soiling to publisher's stiff wrappers; near fine. A collection of 15 poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in any category.  Brooks used the sizable influence of her writings and stature to aid in the fight against anti-Black racism. This title was published by the David Company of Chicago, founded by Brooks. Blockson Catalogue 5944.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933. 326pp. First edition. Publisher's navy cloth, without dust jacket. Light rubbing and small impression marks to top of spine; very good. From the library of, Annie Kizer Bost, (North Carolina State Commissioner of Public Welfare from 1930-1944, her name in ink on the front free endpaper and dated July 27, 1933.) This multifaceted study was to accomplish the following objectives: "To help the institutions now caring for delinquent, dependent, neglected and defective Negro children to understand their problem in relation to the whole field of Negro child welfare...To work out a State-wide program for the care of the feeble-minded Negro children in North Carolina." (from vii of the introduction).

[Spine title: "Nigga Forget Me-Not Songster".] Philadelphia [and] New York: Turner & Fisher, [1849]. 12mo. Frontispiece, 256, [2] pp. Publisher's decorated cloth. Binding worn; rear board dampstained and waved; dampstaining throughout; one leaf with text loss costing affecting 20 or so lines; good. Note: Our description includes images and quoted text from this book that may be considered racist, offensive, or harmful by contemporary readers. Among antebellum Blackface minstrelsy songsters, this edition stands out as one of the rare few featuring both a frontispiece and caricature illustration cuts throughout its text. The tunes, presented as being in "Black" dialect, are divided into two sections: "Popular Songs" (pp5-114 and "Nigga Songs" (pp115-250). Song titles include "De Original Jim Crow Sung by the Celebrated Tom Rice," "De New York Nigga," "Jim Along Josey," " Bowery Gals," "The Charleston Gals,"  "Ching a Ring Chaw," and "Philisee Charcoal: A Niggeretto Ballad sung with great applause by… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1962. 24 pages. 11 x 8¼ inches. Pictorial wrappers. Half tone illustrations. Faint discoloration to cover, else Near fine. Includes articles by Charlotte Kendrick Brooks, Ernest C. Tate ("Wit of James Weldon Johnson"), Kenneth Faris ("A Small Portrait of Richard Wright"), Horace Montgomery on the University of Georgia riot of 1961, and E.J. Josey ("Libraries and Negro Progress").

Washington, D.C.: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1958. 24 pages. 11 x 8¼ inches. Pictorial wrappers. Half tone illustrations. Near fine. Includes articles by Gilbert Voight ("South Carolina Negro Paradise" [Port Royal Experiment]), Earl Thorpe, Lawrence Howard ("A Note on New England Whaling and Africa Before 1860"), and Alvin McCurdy ("Henry Walton Bibb").

Washington, D.C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., (1966). [1], 45pp. Pamphlet. 8¼ x 5½ inches. Stiff yellow wrappers; stapled. As New. Anthology of articles on African American history and the celebration of "Negro History Week" (now Black History Month), aimed in part at elementary, secondary, and college teachers. Includes an interesting section on "How Negro History Week was Once Celebrated" and articles by such Black writers as Carter G. Woodson-the founder of Negro History Week, Charles H. Wesley, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

Washington, D.C.: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1954. 24 pages. 11 x 8¼ inches. Pictorial wrappers. Half tone illustrations. Near fine. Includes articles by Bernard Mandel ("Anti-Slavery and the Southern Workers"), Marguerite Cartwright, and Mrs. Vivian R. Beavers ("Teaching the History of the Negro in Secondary Schools"). Cover portrait of "Carter G. Woodson, Father of Negro History," founder the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and founding editor of The Negro History Bulletin.

[America. July 1996]. Limited Edition, No. 26 of 250 copies. 16 x 20 inches. Signed by the artist in pencil at lower left and with the ink autographs of the five subjects depicted. Cream colored paper. Near Fine. Autographed by five Negro League Baseball players all of whom played for the New York Cubans. The New York Cubans team was organized in 1935 with mostly Latino players. Artist R. Michael Armstrong, who also signs here, depicts five New York Cubans players from the 1940s and 1950s in uniform: Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernández Marin (1911-2000), James "Pee Wee" Jenkins (1923-2002), Rafael "Ray" Noble Magee (1919-1998), Armando Vasquez Cotilla (1923-2008), and Claro Duany (1917-1997).  All except Jenkins were natives of Cuba. "Pee Wee" Jenkins is noted for having pitched for the New York Cubans when they won the 1947 Negro World Series. His championship teammate "Ray" Noble later played Major League Baseball for the New York Giants. Ref. New York Cubans - Negro Leagues [Negro League Baseball Players… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Octavo. vi, [1], [1]-173pp.Publisher's maroon cloth with red titling. Spine ends rubbed; corners bumped; cover stains; front free endpaper excised; a few leaves with creasing; otherwise, good. First edition. Toward the end of his literary career, New Orleans-native and Southern author George W. Cable turned from popular novels-e.g. Old Creole Days, Madame Delphine, and The Grandissimes-to writing about social reform. "[H]is best-known writings from this period are The Silent South (1885) and The Negro Question (1890), which served only to alienate further the southerners who had once been his most ardent supporters..." (ANB) This copy has the private library rubber stamp of "Rev. H.P. Anderson," a Black Episcopal pastor in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Additionally, it has a gift presentation inscription from African American journalist, John E. Bruce (1856-1924), also known as "Bruce Grit" from the Washington, D.C. newspaper he published. Curiously, there is… Read More

Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1923. First Edition. xxxii, [4], 5-389pp. 4to. Blue cloth; gilt titling. Half tones; charts, tables, and graphs. Some rubbing to gilt on spine; lower tips bumped; very good. Extensive, statistical study of African American school attendance, using the entire State of Delaware as the sample case. The investigation, which contrasts Black and White students' attendance records, was made possible by the philanthropy of Pierre S. duPont III (1870-1954) who served on the Delaware State Board of Education and financed the Delaware School Auxiliary Association for the improvement of public school conditions in the state. The report examines school enrollment, issues of promotion and non-promotion, the "Attendance Problem", the causes of absence, etc. Negro School Attendance in Delaware was published during the era of racially segregated schools: "...the re-building of colored schools of the state will soon place in every colored community a modern, well equipped… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. 218pp. First Edition. Publisher's navy cloth in very good condition, with good dust jacket. Jacket has loss at spine, a few closed tears and stray marks, housed in protective clear wrapper. Text is bright and clean. A study of segregation in the American Protestant church. From the dust jacket, "The author compares the ideals and goals held by representative Methodists, both Negro and white...Other instances of segregation and of a movement toward a non-segregated church are reported in detail..."

Washington, D.C.: The Minorities Publishers, 1945. viii, [1], 95pp. First Edition. Sm. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth; dust jacket. Near fine in a good dust jacket with age toning, chips and short tears along edges, and front flap clipped; lettering rubbed on cloth spine. Immediate post-World War II survey of the plight Blacks in Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States by Howard University professor, author, and Pan-Africanist, Rayford Whittingham Logan (1897-1982). Published by the African American publishing firm, The Minorities Publishers. Prof. Logan decries the legacy of over 400 years of slavery and the resulting treatment of Blacks as being inferior. "The raising of the status of the Negro will make it more difficult to argue that the Negro is by nature inferior and the growing body of literature portraying the achievements of Negroes will make it more difficult to carry on this propaganda based on ignorance." (p10)

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, (1961,1976). 231pp. Eighth printing. Publisher's blue cloth with dustwrapper; jacket with minor rubbing, overall a near fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on the book's front free endpaper. "This classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the first time the diplomatic repercussions created by the British evacuation of African Americans at the close of the war. The compelling narrative brings the Revolution to life by portraying those tumultuous years as experienced by Americans at all levels of society." (University of North Carolina Press).