Parker - Scott

800. [Program] *Parker, David W. Religious Services Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons Prince Hall ... 80th Grand Annual Sermon Manhattan Casino, 155th Street & Eighth Avenue New York City ... May 31, 1925 ... Rev. Charles Martin, 4th Moravian Church Rev. Richard Bolden, 1st Emanuel Church. Folded four-page leaflet. 22cm. Lightly soiled and worn. On the fourth page is the order of service for the Lodge of Sorrow to be held the next day in memory of Parker. *A. A. Schomburg was the Eulogist. 25.00

801. Paul Cuffee: the Black Hero: a Narrative Founded on Facts. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, n.d. [1884?]. frontis, 64p. Decorated green cloth. 17cm. School prize label inside front cover. Soil & dog-earing in lower right corner on several pages (one corner clipped). Good. A scarce fictionalized biography for juveniles. 85.00

802. The Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments and The Dunbar National Bank of New York City Founded by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. [NY: ca. 1929]. photos, [12]p. (including wr.). Softcover pamphlet. Minor browning. Splitting at ends of fold (3 small cellophane tape strips at top of fold. Good. Application for Dunbar apartments laid in. Much of the text was reprinted with minor corrections & additions from articles in the Oct. & Nov. 1928 and Jan. 1929 issues of The Crisis, with additional photos & two items from The Dunbar News of May 1, 1929. The apartments were marketed to middle class African Americans. Rockefeller apparently sold the unsuccessful Dunbar apartment complex in 1937. 50.00

803. Paul Quinn College (Waco, Texas). Annual Report to the Board of Trustees for the Scholastic Year 1951-52, Sherman L. Greene Jr., President. [41] leaves (mimeo on one side only). Plain wrapper (backed with torn paper tape). 28cm. Covers unevenly browned. Pencil underlinings. Good. Historically black college affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 40.00

804. Paul Quinn College (Waco, Texas). Commencement Program, Tuesday Morning, May 29, 1952. 4p. Leaflet. 24cm. Horizontal crease. Pencil and ink annotations. 25.00

805. Paul Quinn College (Waco, Texas). Development Fund. The Paul Quinn Comet, Vol. I, No. 1 (September, 1955). one illustration. 8p. Pamphlet. No separate wrapper. 28cm. Wrinkled. Unrelated name and address written in margin on last page. Good. 25.00

806. *Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893. Recollections of Seventy Years. Nashville: Publishing House of the A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1888. 1st ed. frontis, photos, ills, 335p. Mustard-yellow cloth. 19cm. Recased. Original endpapers preserved (new hinge tape). Extremities frayed. Covers soiled (also a few stains and spots). Former owner's name and church (Wayman Chapel AME Church) on front pastedown. Text moderately browned and rather brittle but still sound. Good. A very scarce autobiography of an important A.M.E. bishop. We've also had copies in blue cloth and in reddish-brown cloth. 750.00

807. *Payne, Thomas, editor. Centennial Celebration of the Slate River Baptist Association, Rev, H. J. Scruggs, Jr. [cover title]. n.p.: n.d. [1976]. photos, [27] unnumbered pages. Wr. 29cm. Significant foxing and wear but still sound. Fair. African American church in Central Virginia. 35.00

808. *Paynter, John Henry. Joining the Navy or Abroad with Uncle Sam. Hartford: American Pub., 1895. 1st ed. frontis, 298p. Hardcover. 20cm. Recased in scuffed original cloth (which lacks a thin strip along base of backstrip). New endpapers. Service as a steward and cabin boy aboard the Ossipee on a cruise to Asia in 1884. Appears to be the only published account by an African American of service in the US Navy during the latter part of the 19th century. A second edition, with an Introduction by W. E. B. Du Bois, was published in 1911. 500.00

809. _____SAME. Not recased. Covers have some spotting and soil, and are rather heavily scuffed. Contents sound and clean. Good. 375.00

810. Peacocke, James S. The Creole Orphans; or, Lights and Shadows of Southern Life. A Tale of Louisiana. NY: Derby & Jackson, 1856. 1st ed. 365p. Hardcover. 19cm. Extremities frayed. Lacks front free endpaper. Light foxing. Good. Fiction. 100.00

811. *Pennington, James W. C., 1809-1870. A Text Book of the Origin and History, &c. &c, of the Colored People. Hartford: L. Skinner, Printer, 1841. 1st ed. 96p. Hardcover (cloth-backed marbled paper on boards). 13cm. Lacks front free endpaper. An unusually clean copy of a rare book. Pennington is perhaps best remembered for his 1850 book ("The Fugitive Blacksmith") which was an autobiographical account of his escape from slavery and later life in the North. Pennington was a prominent Presbyterian minister and served at one point as President of the Hartford Central Association of Congregational Ministers. Pennington officiated at the 1838 wedding of Anna Murray and the recently escaped Frederick Douglass. 4000.00

812. Pennsylvania Negro Business Directory Illustrated 1910: Industrial and Material Growth of the Negroes of Pennsylvania. Bressler: Huggins Printing Co., (1977). photos, 157p. Hardcover. 23cm. Light cover soil. A few text leaves wrinkled at top. Reprint. The original edition was compiled and published in 1910 by Jas. H. W. Howard & Son of Harrisburg. 50.00

813. *Perry, Charles. Portrait of a Young Man Drowning. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1962. 1st ed. 307p. Cloth. 21cm. African American novelist. 25.00

814. *Perry, John Edward, 1870-1962. Forty Cords of Wood: Memoirs of a Medical Doctor, by J. Edward Perry. Jefferson City: Lincoln University, (c. 1947). 1st ed. 459p. Hardcover. 23cm. Jacket lightly soiled and has a couple of reddish streaks. SIGNED on half-title by Perry (in 1954). Uncommon autobiography by an 1895 graduate of Meharry who opened a private hospital for African Americans in Kansas City which later became a public institution. 250.00

815. *Perry, William. Revival Hymns. [cover title]. Norfolk, Va.: Minter-Moore Printing Co., n.d. 48p. Wr. 20cm. Area with edge-tears reinforced with archival tape on back cover and last two leaves of text. Unrepaired edge-tears on other text leaves. Fair. Perry, an African American whose portrait appears in this pamphlet, is identified as having served as pastor of Baptist churches in Washington, D.C, Pawtucket, R.I., and Princeton, Cranford and Montclair, N.J. 85.00

816. Peterkin, Julia. Black April. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (c. 1927). 1st ed. 1st state. 316p. Hardcover. dj. 19cm. Jacket has light chipping at ends of backstrip and at corners. Top of backstrip wrinkled. A novel of plantation life in South Carolina. 150.00

817. *Petry, Ann (Lane), 1911-1997. The Street. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (c. 1946). Later printing. 436p. Hardcover. dj. 21cm. Jacket scuffed, somewhat browned, and has a couple of chips or jagged tears. Glue marks on endpapers. Contents sound but not "fresh." Good. INSCRIBED by Petry (in pencil on the front free endpaper and dated Feb. 23, 1946). This important novel was Petry's first book. 300.00

818. *Petry, Ann (Lane), 1911-1997. Legends of the Saints. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, (c. 1970). 1st ed. ills (by Anne Rockwell), 47p. Hardcover. dj. 23cm. Jacket has a few small chips and short tears. SIGNED by Petry (on the title-page). Children's book about ten Christian saints. 200.00

819. Philadelphia Afro-American Newspaper. 16th Annual Honor Roll Citations Sunday, April 22, 1956 7:00PM Zion Baptist Church Broad and Venango Streets Philadelphia, PA. Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, Pastor. [Philadelphia]: 1956. Folded three-page program. 23cm. Among the honorees was Wilt Chamberlain as Outstanding Athlete. 25.00

820. The Philadelphia Negro Directory of Business and Professional Men and Women. Philadelphia: Negro Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia, 1944. [34]p. Wr. 29cm. Contains an introductory page, a blank page, a page listing officers and directors, six triple-columned pages of names and address of individuals and institutions engaged in various businesses and professions, and twenty-five pages of advertisements. 225.00

821. [Phonograph Record] Bill's Visit to St. Peter (Coon Vaudeville Sketch with Banjo) by Billy Golden and Billy Heins [and] A Police Court Scene (Talking) by Steve Porter & Co. Orange, N.J.: Edison Diamond Disc Re-Creation (no. 50587), (c. 1919). Single thick disc. Original record sleeve present. We haven't tried to play this but it looks pretty good although there is a shiny section on the Police Court side. 45.00

822. [Photo Album] African American Soldier and Football Player in Occupied Japan in the 1940s. [our title]. Album contains 34 football-related photos, 27 photos of military life, girl friends and family members, and 8 Japanese Postcards. Three of the photos are large (approx. 25 x 20cm. Size varies on the rest but most are 10 x 8cm. or smaller. Photos generally have decent detail. No captions. A few photos split [continued on next page] [Item 822 continued] and taped together on the back with archival tape. Many photos loose in the album; many empty spaces where photos have become detached or are missing. Also laid in the album is a worn but apparently complete Official Program for the Oct. 3, 1948 football game between the First Corps "Bullseyes" and the 24th Division Artillery "Cannoneers, a certificate issued to our soldier certifying that he was a member of the undefeated 1948 Bullseyes" football team, and a four-page leaflet from I Corps with their football schedule on the back and the center two pages given over to a re-enlistment pitch, extolling the possibility of a $100 monthly pension available to a 20-year man. Oblong lacquer-style album. 30 x 21cm. Fair. 200.00

823. [Photo Album] Jack Johnson Postcard in an Album of Photos from Western Canada. [our title]. Album with 20 real photo postcards, 37 decent-sized photos (most circa 12 x 7cm.), and 19 tiny oval snapshots. Decent detail. No captions. Photos and postcards glued down, at least partially, to black paper album leaves. Several postcards appear to have been trimmed before mounting. Small black album (19 x 14cm.). Inside the back cover is the infamous postcard view of the end of the Johnson Jeffries fight with Johnson lying on the canvas with one of his arms held above his face. The Johnson photo has a creased corner and is fully pasted down. Almost at the end is a blue tinted photo of a very heavy woman. All of the other photos relate to a family living somewhere in one of Canada's prairie provinces. One of the postcards, postmarked Beauchamp, Sask., is of a rather bleak looking prairie railroad station ("Watson" painted on the side) backed by a couple of grain storage buildings ("Western Canada Four Mills Co. Ltd. No. 47" visible on one). One of the other postcards (faded) is of "The Rev. Fr. G. A. Guertin and St. Anthony's Church and Rectory." Three other postcards appear to be of grade school classes. 200.00

824. [Photo Album] Small Album with a cover that reads Snapshots Baldwin, Mich. [our title]. Contains eight photos mounted on one side of black album leaves. Front cover is limp leather. Tied. Oblong (13 x 8cm.). Photos are generally clear with good detail except for one which is slightly out of focus. No captions. Five of the photos of an African American woman or an African American man and woman standing beside the steps of what appears to a court house or other government building. Two of the other photos are of one or two African American women in what appear to be one-piece bathing suits. The slightly out of focus picture is of two young African American women. 25.00

825. [Photograph] AME Bishop Gregg Demonstrating Ping Pong Skills to WWII Soldiers at a Red Cross Club for African American Soldiers in London. December 3, 1943. Glossy 25 x 20cm. Press or Army photo. Printed purple caption on back along with some Confidential and U.S. army censor stamping. Bishop Gregg is holding a paddle and is standing at one end of the table while five soldiers look on. 45.00

826. [Photograph] Lewis G. Clark is the Original George Harris of Uncle Tom's Cabin Was Born in KY in 18 and 15 is 73 years of Age. Sept the 20 1888. [stamped statement on back of photo]. Cabinet Photo. Undated but circa 1888. Image measures approximately 10 x 13.5cm. Card mount chipped & worn. Image faded. Heavy horizontal crease across lower portion of image. Fair. 200.00

827. [Photograph] Margaret Walker at Erasmus Bookshop in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1972. [our caption]. 24 x 20cm. Slightly browned. Laid in is a check from Margaret Walker (Margaret W. Alexander) to Erasmus Bookshop which was returned for Insufficient Funds. Walker, seated on a chair in front of a row of bookshelves and wearing a white hat, appears to be talking to someone out of camera range off to her left. 125.00

828. [Carte-de-Visite Photograph] Millie-Christine: The Two-Headed Nightingale. Born 1851. Age 31 Years. ca. 1882? Brown tinted photo (5.5 x 8cm.) mounted on card (6 x 10.5cm.). Printed on back: "Olivier & Co. Photographers 779 Broadway, Opposite Stewart's New York." Small corner missing at upper left on photo. Sound, but somewhat faded; far from a sharp and bright image. Millie and Christine McCoy were conjoined twins born into slavery in North Carolina in 1851. They were almost immediately separated from their family and sold several times. They were a popular attraction and made their living being exhibited, even meeting Queen Victoria. They retired in 1900. 175.00

829. [Photograph] Two African American Men, one in an Apron, Standing in Front of a Temporary Dining Tent Erected on a Grassy Field. 10 x 12cm. photo mounted on sl. larger card stock. Inked on back: "Centreville Aug. 3rd 1895 Camp Jackson Dining Tent Co C 2nd Rgt. ???[a word or abbreviation that we couldn't decipher]." 40.00

830. [Photographs] Six Boxing Photos, including two which picture Joe Louis. Undated. 12 x 9cm. Stamped on back of each photo: "Air Forces." Remnant of mounting tape along top of back side. Five photos are of two boxers in a ring; four are unidentified and the fifth, taken from behind a figure whom we assume is Joe Louis, shows the immediate results of a punch landed by Louis with his opponent, head concealed by Louis' body, appearing to be falling backwards toward the ropes while the referee looks on. This photo is captioned in ink on the back: "Fights with Joe Louis." The sixth photo is captioned "Joe Louis" and shows Louis ringside surrounded by soldiers. These photos appear to have been taken while Louis was in the Army during WWII. None of the other boxers are identified. 65.00

831. *Pickens, William, 1881-1954. Bursting Bonds. Boston: Jordan & More, 1923. 3rd printing. frontis, x, 222p. Hardcover. dj. 20cm. Jacket Good (somewhat soiled with some chipping on edges). Substantially expanded from the first edition, titled "The Heir of Slaves," which was published in 1911. Pickens was a popular speaker who served as Dean and then Vice President of Morgan College in Baltimore. He notes at the end that he became Field Secretary of the NAACP in 1920. He remained with the NAACP until World War II and was then employed by the U.S. Treasury Department to encourage African Americans to purchase War and Savings Bonds. 50.00

832. _____ SAME. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (c. 1991). frontis, xxviii, 76p. Wr. 21cm. INSCRIBED by his Grandson of the same name. This edition was edited, with a new Introduction, by William L. Andrews. 25.00

833. *Pickens, William, 1881-1954. The Vengeance of the Gods and Three Other Stories of Real American Color Line Life. Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, (c. 1922). 1st ed. 125p. Hardcover. 20cm. Gilt cover lettering slightly dulled. Endpaper partially split at front hinge. Scarce volume of short stories. 450.00

834. A Pictorial History of the Negro in the Great World War, 1917-1918. NY: Toussaint Pictorial Co., (c. 1919). 1st ed. ills, photos, 80p. Softcover (cloth-backed red wrapper). Oblong (40 x 27cm.). Wrapper bright & unfaded. Two short (3cm.) jagged closed tears on front cover. Tear and crease on back cover. Minuscule tear at top of most pages. An attractive copy. Includes text by various authors. 500.00

835. Pike, Gustavus D. The Jubilee Singers, and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1873. frontis, 8 ills, index, 219p. Green cloth.19cm. Minor cover spotting & wear. Scattered foxing (mostly on title-page & illustrations). Fisk's Jubilee Singers were quite popular; this book went though many printings. 35.00

836. Pilgrim Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois. Souvenir Program Observing the Fourteenth Anniversary of the Pastorate of Dr. Junius C. Austin, 1926-1940. [cover title]. Chicago: 1940. 3 photos, [8]p, Wr. 29cm. Wrinkling, edge-wear and cover soil. Vertical crease. Fair. Austin was a "progressive" who continued to serve as Pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church for many more years. 40.00

837. *Pipkin, James Jefferson, 1861-. The Story of a Rising Race: The Negro in Revelation, in History and in Citizenship. What the Race Has Done and Is Doing in Arms, Arts, Letters, the Pulpit, the Forum, the School, the Marts of Trade and with Those Mighty Weapons in the Battle of Life, the Shovel and the Hoe. A Message to All Men That He Is in the Way to Solve the Race Problem for Himself. n.p.: N. D. Thompson, (c. 1902). 1st ed. frontis (portraits), ills, photos, map, tables, index, xix, [32]-491p. Decorated dark green cloth. 24cm. Moderate cover wear soil and spotting with gilt lettering largely worn away. Rear hinge-paper reglued. Text age-toned but sound and clean (other than a few short reinforced tears). Good. 150.00

838. [*Pippin, Horace] Memorial Exhibition: Horace Pippin, 1888-1946. NY: M. Knoedler & Company, [1947]. Not illustrated. Folded (3)p. leaflet. Rare exhibition leaflet. Held Sept 29 - Oct 11, 1947. 33 paintings were exhibited; most belonged to private collectors. This exhibition was arranged by Selden Rodman in conjunction with the publication of his book about Pippin. 85.00

839. Piquion, Rene & Jean F. Brierre. Marian Anderson. Port-au-Prince: Editions Henri Deschamps, n.d. [ca. 1950]. 4 photos (including frontis), 13p. Wr. 20cm. INSCRIBED by Piquion (on title-page). French text. 65.00

840. *Pitcher, Oliver. Dust of Silence. NY: Troubador, (c. 1958). 1st paper ed. frontis, 31p. Wr. 18cm. Fold marks on front cover near backstrip. Endpapers splotchily browned. Good. Poetry. Also published in hardcover. 25.00

841. [Gullah music] Plair, Sally. Something to Shout About; Reflections on the Gullah Spiritual. Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Molasses Lane Pub., (c. 1972). [1st ed.]. frontis, 71p. Wr. 22cm. Several small cover spots and faint evidence of removal of a price sticker. Elusive item on Gullah spirituals 40.00

842. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Kansas City, Missouri. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 1881-1981. [Kansas City]: 1981. photos, 99p. Hardcover. 28cm. Centennial Book for this African American church. 50.00

843. The Political Life of Cornelius Cuffey, Esq., Patriot, &c., &c. [London: Printed for sale at the bazaar in aid of ... Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, Letter-press Printers and Lithographers, 1848]. 9 color plates. Lacks portfolio wr., title-page and text (if any). Stitch-marks along right side of plates indicates removal from a bound volume. Good. Prints approx. 22 x 28cm. These nine highly-stereotyped images are complete and tell the sad tale of a would-be politician in an intolerant world. OCLC locates copies of this portfolio at two institutions (Harvard University & The Library Company of Philadelphia). 1875.00

844. Pollard, Edward A. Black Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of the South. NY: Pudney & Russell, 1859. 1st ed. xiv, [17]-122p. Original black cloth, rebacked in thick brown leather. "Darkey Homes" as gilt title on backstrip. 19cm, Extremities worn. Library discard stamp at base of title-page. Fair. Pro-slavery; white Southern viewpoint. 75.00

845. *Porter, Dorothy (Burnett), 1905-1995. North American Negro Poets: A Bibliographical Checklist of Their Writings, 1760-1944. Hattiesburg, MS: Book Farm, 1945. 1st ed. 90p. Wr. 24cm. Ex lib. Moderate cover soil and a couple of chipped corners. Contents sound. Good. Heartman's Historical Series No. 70. Pioneering bibliography. 40.00

846. *Porter, Dorothy (Burnett), 1905-1995, editor. Early Negro Writing 1760-1837. Boston: Beacon, (c. 1971). 1st ed. frontis, index, xiii, 658p. Hardcover. dj. 20cm. Deserves a place of honor in serious collections of African Americana. 60.00

847. The Possibilities of the Negro in Symposium. Atlanta: Franklin Printing and Publishing Co., (c. 1904). 1st ed. (3), 165p. Red cloth. 19cm. Bottom of backstrip worn. Portion of backstrip lightened (probably where a spine label was removed. Bookplate. Good. At foot of title: "A Solution of the Negro Problem Psychologically Considered. The Negro Not a 'Beast'" (title of the book's last essay, by Willis B. Parks, who was also editor of this compilation). Essays & speeches on race relations from a white southern pro-segregation viewpoint. Bishops Turner & Holsey are the only African Americans among the authors -- their articles reinforce the other calls for racial separation and segregation. 250.00

848. The Postal Alliance, Vol. VI, No. 2 (Nov. 1919). Atlanta: National Alliance of Postal Employees, 1919. 12p. Wr. 31cm. Significant soiling and wear (some chipping also). Fair. Periodical for African American postal workers. *Welborn Victor Jenkins, the Business Manager, contributed a short story ("Verner twists the Strings: A Story of the Service") at pages 8-9. There is also a poem by William M. Young and a report from the 12th Annual Meeting of Monroe Trotter's National Equal Rights League in Washington. 30.00

849. [Postcard] Home Office of Excelsior Life Insurance Company, Flora at Good -- Dallas, Texas. Unused. Undated. States on back that Company gained over a million dollars in assets in 12 years of experience. Idealized view of a two story office building. 25.00

850. [Postcard] Young Colored Women's Protective Association. Indianapolis. 3 photos on 1 side of postcard (First club Home of Y.C.W.P.A., Miss Dayse D. Walker, & Present Y.C.W.P.A. Club Home). Undated (ca. 1909?). 14 x 10cm. Unused. Address side of card has some soiling and wear and a short tear repaired with archival tape. Good. 35.00

851. *Powell, Adam Clayton, 1865-1953. Palestine and Saints in Caesar's Household. NY: Smith, 1939. 1st ed. 217p. Red cloth. 20cm. Moderate cover soiling. Minor fraying at head of backstrip. Endpapers browned. SIGNED (on half-title). 85.00

852. *Powell, Adam Clayton, 1865-1953. Riots and Ruins. NY: 1945. 1st ed. 171p. Red cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket price-clipped and moderately chipped and soiled. "Race discrimination which stems from race hatred is the cause of all race riots." [p. 112] 85.00

853. *Powell, Adam Clayton, 1865-1953. Upon This Rock. NY: Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1949. frontis, photos, xv, 132p. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 22cm. Ends of backstrip and cover corners frayed. Contents sound and clean. Good. A history of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York. 85.00

854. President Carter: Free the Wilmington 10. Demonstrate! Sat., Sept. 17, 1977 12 Noon Democratic Party Headquarters 342 Madison/43rd St./N.Y.C.... NY: National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, [1977]. Broadside. 21 x 28cm. Edge-wear and chipping. Horizontal crease. Good. 25.00

855. *Prince, Nancy (Gardener), b. 1799. A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince. Written by Herself. Boston: Published by the Author, 1853. 2nd ed. 89p. Hardcover. 16cm. Small oval hole in backstrip; small piece of cover cloth missing on bottom edge of back cover. Minor foxing. An attractive copy. Mrs. Prince was born in Newburyport, Mass. She lived in St. Petersburg, Russia, for almost ten years (1824-1833) with Nero Prince, her husband who was a ceremonial door-opener in the Czar's Palace. After the her husband's death, Mrs. Prince remained in the U.S. for a few years. She went to Jamaica in 1840 as a mission worker but appears to have stayed only a year or two. The first edition was published in 1850; a third edition was published in 1856. 750.00

856. Program for the First Anniversary Celebration of 'The Girls' Club' Thursday, October 5, 1944 8:15 O'Clock P.M. at Masonic Temple Birmingham Alabama. [Birmingham: 1944]. photos, (9)p. Softcover program. 23cm. Wrapper unevenly browned. Edge-wear. Crease. Good. Appears to be an African American organization but may have been just an organization for African American girls. Has photos (grainy) of the girls who were officers and also a photo of *Celia B. Williams, Supervisor of the Club. 40.00

857. Program of American Music. Washington: GPO, 1939. 5p. Wr. Tied at spine with a red, white & blue ribbon. 23cm. Light horizontal crease & wrinkling. around crease. Program for the controversial June 8, 1939 concert at the White House in honor of the State visit of the King and Queen of England. Among the performers were Marian Anderson who sang three songs (Ave Maria, My Soul's been Anchored in the Lord, and Tramping). 100.00

858. The Progressive March of the Negro, Vol. 9 (1920). n.p.: 1920. 16p. [wrapper included in pagination]. Wr. 22cm. Wrapper intact but has small chips at corners and is moderately soiled. "Sample" stamped in small letters on front. Someone has inked on the front cover "No. 1" (probably to indicate that this is Vol. 9, No. 1) and also "And printed by J. P. Wharton 447 Lenox Ave. Lenox Avenue New York"). Short tear on last three leaves. Good. Identifies itself as a "Monthly Magazine published by John E. Patton." The contents consist of 14 poems, all of which appear to have been written by Mr. Patton, and advertisements for five local businesses in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We've never heard of this magazine or of Mr. Patton, who is clearly an African American from Chattanooga; no other details about Patton appear in this issue. 200.00

859. Pulse, Vol. 1, No. 8 (September 1943). photos, ills, 35p. Wr. 28cm. Wrapper worn along fold. Vertical crease. Good. African American periodical published in Washington by Pulse Publishing Co. Ceased publication with Vol. 6, No. 6. 85.00

860. Queen Street Baptist Church, Norfolk, Va. 90th Anniversary, 1884-1974. [cover title]. [Norfolk]: 1974. photos, 48p. Hardcover, 28cm. Pictorial endpapers. Small white spot and a couple of very light stains on cover. African American Church. 75.00

861. Racial Digest, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1942). Detroit: Community Publishing Company, c. 1942. 32p. Pages browned. Wr. 20cm. A short-lived monthly that sought to reprint "articles of interest on the Negro." One of the articles in this inaugural issue was "One Friday Morning" by Langston Hughes which was condensed from The Crisis. 50.00

862. The Radio Committee of the Progressive Business Alliance Presents the First Anniversary of the Negro Business Hour, Mon. Nov. 25th, 1940 8 p.m. Antioch Baptist Church: Souvenir Program. [cover title]. photos, [20]p. Wr. 31cm. Intact but rather wrinkled and worn, especially along the edges. A few tape repairs on inside of wrapper. Fair. The PBA was organized in 1938 by Frank C. Lyons, a Cleveland attorney and first President of the organization. 75.00

863. Ramsey, Jr., Frederick. Been Here and Gone. New Brunswick: Rutgers University, (1969). 2nd printing. frontis, photos, xiii, 177p. Hardcover. dj. 24cm. Folk roots of African American music in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. 25.00

864. *Ramsey, Leroy L. The Trial and the Fire. NY: Exposition Press, (c. 1967). 1st ed. 160p. Cloth. dj. 21cm. Jacket Good (small edge creases and chips. From the jacket: A novel of racial conflict in a small southern town. 25.00

865. *Randolph, Paschal Beverly, 1825-1875. Eulis! The History of Love: Its Wondrous Magic, Chemistry, Rules, Laws, Modes, Moods and Rationale; Being the Third Revelation of Soul and Sex. Also, Reply to "Why Is Man Immortal?" The Solution to the Darwin Problem. An Entirely New Theory. Toledo: Randolph Publishing Co., 1874. "Second" edition. 221p. plus 17p. advertisements for other works by Randolph. Hardcover. Gilt symbols on front cover above the word "Try." 23cm. Ends of backstrip lightly chipped. Top third of front joint cloth split. Hinge paper partially cracked. Portion of fore-edge of pages roughened. Stamped in purple at base of title-page: "Notice.-In the Future all orders for books advertised herein must be addressed to National Institute, Masonic Temple, Chicago." Contents sound and clean. Good. Some prices in the adverts. changed manually with ink. Randolph was a spiritualist, Rosicrucian, sex-magician, and mail-order sex therapist and adviser. He wrote numerous exotic and obscure books and pamphlets. He may also have been the first commercially successful importer and promoter of hashish (though he later repudiated its use). His writings are likely to strike many readers as the zany theories of an entertaining and largely harmless oddball, but he had a real following in his lifetime. Some of his books have been reprinted from time to time for those who have a continuing attachment to parts of his mystical thinking. Randolph's mother was an African American. His writings contain occasional, sometimes veiled, references to his racial identity. Randolph, at one point, stated that his mother was of royal descent from Madagascar, with not a drop of blood from the continent of Africa, but this was only one of several explanations by Randolph of his mother's ancestry. Randolph's mixed racial background was not unknown during his lifetime, though it seems to have been forgotten after his death until publication of Deveney's book [Deveney, John Patrick. Paschal Beverly Randolph ... Albany: SUNY PRESS, (c. 1997)]. Deveney's fascinating biography is the source for virtually everything now known about Randolph.

Eulis is one of his most important books, representing, according to Deveney, Randolph's "most succinct statement of the esoteric theory and practice of love that Randolph had been expounding since 1860: true love is the complete exaltation of the magnetic union of male and female." [Deveney p. 362]. Deveney states that this Second Edition is the earliest known edition of this title. The first "edition" may have been a manuscript version. 600.00

866. *Randolph, Terry. Randolph Report: Educational Racism through Testing: Its Catastrophic, Demoralizing and Inhuman Effect upon Blacks and Other Minorities and a Black Man's Thoughts. [San Jose?]: (c. 1974). (13), [4]-195p. Flexible green binder. 28cm. Photocopy. Printed on one side. Randolph appears to have been a student or professor at California State University at San Jose. 60.00

867. *Ransom, Reverdy Cassius. The Negro: The Hope or the Despair of Christianity. Boston: Ruth Hill, (c. 1935). (9), 98p. Hardcover. 20cm. Backstrip slightly frayed at ends and has a few whitish scratches. Two preliminary pages quite roughly opened. W. E. B. Du Bois contributes a brief "Word" in which he says kind things about Bishop Ransom, before concluding: "I have little faith that Christianity can settle the race problem but I have abiding faith in man." 100.00

868. *Ransom, Reverdy Cassius. Preface to History of A. M. E. Church. Nashville: A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1950. 1st ed. index, 220p. Hardcover. dj. 20cm. 150.00

869. [Program Flyer] The Redpath Bureau Presents The Dixie Chorus in The Epic of the Negro; A Lecture Recital produced by Ralph Dunbar. Broadside. 13 x 24cm. The Lecturer and manager was Henry F. Coleman. 40.00

870. Republican National and State Advisory Committee for Colored Voters. An Appeal to Negro Voters for Clear Thinking ... Vote for Herbert Hoover for President, Charles Curtis for Vice President. n.p.: [Fall of 1932]. 8p. Stapled. Wr. Narrow 24cm. 75.00

871. *Revels, Hiram R. Public Schools in the District. Speech of Hon. Hiram R. Revels, of Mississippi, in the United States Senate, February 8, 1871. [Washington]: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, n.d. [1871?]. Folded four-page pamphlet. Somewhat ragged and browned along right edge. A few brown spots. A former owner has written across the top: Revels is a negro." Good. Revels served in the U.S. Senate from February 23, 1870 until March 3, 1871. 375.00

872. *Richardson, Willis, 1889-1977, compiler. Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro. Washington: Associated Pub., (c. 1930). frontis, ills, x, 373p. Pictorial brown cloth. 23cm. Illustrations by *James Lesesne Wells. 50.00

873. Riley, Benjamin Franklin, 1849-1925. The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington. NY: Revell, (c. 1916). frontis, index, 301p. Cloth. 21cm. 60.00

874. *Robb, F. H. Hammurabi. The Vest Pocket Encyclopedia of African & Afro-American Achievement & Needs. Philadelphia: Century Service Exchange, (c. 1936). ills, 36p. Wr. 16cm. Minor cover soil. Text browned. Good. In addition to a wide variety of "facts," this booklet promoted various products and services offered by Century Service Exchange which claimed, rather improbably, to have 13 offices and branches throughout the U.S.A. and to provide 113 services of interest to African Americans. We don't know whether this is the same Robb who edited items 875 and 876. 125.00

875. *Robb, Frederic H. H., editor. 1927 Intercollegian Wonder Book; or 1779 - The Negro in Chicago - 1927. Volume I. Chicago: Washington Intercollegiate Club of Chicago, (c. 1927). photos (portraits), index, 232p. Printed on coated sepia-toned paper. Blue cloth. 27cm. Joints frayed at ends. Front hinge cracked. Author's name & address (signed?) in pencil on "Contents" page. A second volume was published in 1929 (item 875). OCLC lists both volumes under the general title: The Negro in Chicago, 1779-1927. 450.00

876. *Robb, Frederic H. H., editor. The Negro in Chicago 1779 to 1929 Volume 1-2. Chicago: Washington Intercollegiate Club of Chicago, (c. 1929). photos (portraits), 312p. Hardcover. 27cm. Ex library. Perforated library marking on title leaves. Embossed blue cloth with title in gold on gold background. Extremities rubbed. Lacks a small corner of front free endpaper and the bottom 4.5 cm. of rear free endpaper. Fair. This is a separately-issued second volume to the previous item, despite the Volume 1-2 statement in the title. 350.00

877. *Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976. Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings - Speeches - Interviews, 1918-1974. NY: Brunner/Mazel, (c. 1978). photos, index, 623p. Cloth, dj. 23cm. Edited by Philip S. Foner. 25.00

878. [Record] *Robeson Paul. Robeson Sings, with Orchestra and Chorus. 33 r.p.m. record produced by Othello Recording Corp. #L-101. Undated but circa 1953. Subscribers' edition. Copy No. 4326 of an unspecified. Robeson SIGNEd each copy of the Subscriber's edition on the back of the cover beside the copy number. Record appears clean and quite playable. Cover bright with only minor soiling. 200.00

879. *Robinson, James H. Love of this Land: Progress of the Negro in the United States. Philadelphia: Christian Education Press, (c. 1956). 1st ed. xiv, 76p. Wr. 23cm. Moderate general wear. Good. One-third page illustrations by *Elton C. Fax at beginning of most chapters. 25.00

880. [Slave Narrative] *Robinson, William H., b. 1848. From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or Fifteen Years in Slavery. [Eau Claire, Wisc]: 1913. 3rd ed. ills (1 color), photos, 200p. Green cloth. 19cm. Tightly bound (hinge-paper cracked at folds). Reverend Robinson was born in 1848 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Robinson mentions briefly at page 117 that he served in the 54th Massachusetts and later in the 28th Indiana but provides no details of his military service (1863-1865). He later worked as an entertainer, teacher, Pullman car porter, steward and cook before becoming a minister (first a Baptist and later Methodist). An uncommon narrative. 375.00

881. Rodman, Selden, 1909-2002. Horace Pippin; A Negro Painter in America. NY: Quadrangle, 1947. 1st ed. frontis, ills (some color), 88p. Cloth. 31cm. Backstrip faded. Address label on free front endpaper. The first major study of this important African American artist. 150.00

882. *Rogers, Joel Augustus, 1883-1965. As Nature Leads: An Informal Discussion of the Reason Why Negro and Caucasian Are Mixing in Spite of Opposition. [n.p.]: (c.1919). 1st ed. 207p. Recent quarterbinding. 19cm. An uncommon book. 375.00

883. *Rollins, Charlemae H. Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes. Chicago: Rand McNally, (c. 1970). 1st ed. frontis, photos, ills, index, 143p. Hardcover. dj. 21cm. Jacket price-clipped and has several short tears along top. Covers slightly warped. Three small finger-sized stains on front cover. Good. Biography for young adults. 25.00

884. *Roman, Charles Victor, 1864-1934. Meharry Medical College: A History. Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board of National Baptist Convention, 1934. 1st ed. ill, photos, index, (12), xvi, 224p. Cloth. 23cm. Loss of several small pieces of cover cloth at both ends of backstrip. Text lightly browned. Good. INSCRIBED by Roman to "the scholarly dean of A & T State College [followed by an indecipherable name]." Organized as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College (Nashville) in 1876, Meharry Medical College became independent in 1915 under a new State charter. 400.00

885. Romulo, Beth Day, 1924-. Little Professor of Piney Woods: The Story of Professor Laurence Jones, by Beth Day. NY: J. Messner, 1956. 3rd printing. frontis, index, 192p. Hardcover. dj. 21cm. INSCRIBED (by Jones). 25.00

886. Ross, Warner A. My Colored Battalion. Chicago: Warner A. Ross, (c. 1920). 1st ed. frontis (portrait), 119p. Hardcover. 20cm. Edges rubbed. INSCRIBED by Ross to a fellow officer in the 365th Infantry. Uncommon WWI account. 250.00

887. Roster 23rd Kansas Vol's. [caption title]. n.p.: n.d. [ca. 1900]. [20]p. Partial wrapper (only the detached back cover remains). 19cm. Fragile & worn. Poor. Item about an African American Regiment in the Spanish-American War. Consists of 12 ½ pages of roster and then 7 pages of advertisements, in the middle of which are listed the events scheduled to take place at the First Biennial Encampment of the Regiment. The missing front cover may have had a different title but we couldn't find any listing that seemed likely. 250.00

888. Rowland, Mabel, editor. Bert Williams, Son of Laughter; a Symposium of Tribute to the Man and to His Work. NY: The English Crafters, 1923. 1st ed. frontis (portrait), photos & ills, xvii, 218p. Cloth. 19cm. Head of backstrip and cover corners frayed. Split (2cm.) at base of rear joint. Sound and clean but not a tight, bright copy. Good. 250.00

890. Rust College. The Bearcat 1964. [Holly Springs]: 1964. photos, 104p. Hardcover (padded plasticized covers). 27cm. Cover scuffing, soil and wear. Text tight and clean. Good. College annual. Methodist-affiliated African American college located in Holly Springs, Mississippi. 40.00

891. Saint Philip's Church, New York. The Year Book and Register Saint Philip's Parish in the City of New York A. D. 1933. NY: National Church Directory and Year Book Co., (1933). photos, 104p. Hardcover. 26cm. Bookplate. Two ink underlinings. Episcopal parish for African Americans. 100.00

892. Saint Philip's Church, New York. Anniversary Book of Saint Philip's Church New York 1943. [NY: 1943]. photos, 64p. Hardcover. Blue plastic comb binding. 26cm. Light cover soil. Gift inscription. A few red ink underlinings. Good. See also item 573. 100.00

893. Sampson, Emma (Speed), 1868-1947. Miss Minerva's Cook Book. Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1931. 1st ed. frontis, ills, 280p. Hardcover. dj. 21cm. Jacket bright but has moderate chipping & wear along edges (including a fairly large chip at the base of the backstrip) and some wrinkling & wear along folds. Sampson wrote a series of Miss Minerva novels for children. The stories include some African-American characters. This cookbook seems much scarcer than the other books in the series and is quite uncommon in a jacket. 950.00

894. *Saunders, John A. 100 Years After Emancipation: History of the Philadelphia Negro, 1787 to 1963. [Philadelphia?]: F.R.S. Pub, n.d. [1963?]. photos, 225p. Hardcover. dj. 21cm. Jacket Fair (chipped, soiled & worn). Some staining on endpapers and along base of covers. Good. 50.00

895. *Schuyler, George S. The Communist Conspiracy against the Negroes. NY: Catholic Information Society, (c. 1947). 16p. Wr. 14cm. 40.00

896. *Schuyler, George Samuel, 1895-. Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia. NY: Brewer, Warren and Putnam, 1931. 1st ed. 290p. Hardcover. dj. 19cm. Jacket only Fair (scuffed, chipped and worn, and almost completely reinforced on back with the big strips of brown paper). Schuyler's second and final novel, written to expose the exploitation of native Liberians by the African American ruling class. 950.00

897. _____ SAME. Minor cover soil. No jacket. 275.00

898. *Scott, Elder B. The New Road to Psychology by the Right Way to the New World: The Astounding Miracle of the Mastery of One's Self. This is More Precious to You Than a Billion Dollars at Least. n.p.: Elder B. Scott, 1947. ills, 53p. Wr. 22cm. Edges faded. Old prices inked on wrapper and exterior pages. Good. 45.00

899. Scott, Neil. Joe Louis; A Picture Story of his Life. NY: Greenberg, (c. 1947). photos, (122)p. Hardcover. 20cm. Foreword by Frank Sinatra. 40.00