200. *Davenport, M. Marguerite. Azalia: The Life of Madame E. Azalia Hackley. Boston: Chapman & Grimes, (c. 1947). 1st ed. frontis (portrait), photos (portraits), 196p. Blue cloth. dj. 20cm. Jacket Fair (soiling and several chips). Emma Azalia Smith Hackley (1867-1922) was an African American choral director who emphasized the importance of African American spirituals and folk-songs. Marian Anderson sang, when a pre-teen, in a choral group directed by Hackley. 125.00

201. *Davenport, Mildred. Dance Programs. Davenport, a 1918 graduate of the Boston Girls' High School, apparently taught briefly at Tuskegee, danced in "Hot Chocolates," "Flying Colors" and other Broadway productions in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and was the first African American women to appear as a dance soloist in a group of dance interpretations of African American spirituals with Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops. From this material it would appear that her most important contribution to dance was as a long-time teacher of dance to Boston-area African Americans. She may have married in 1942 since she joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps as Mildred Davenport Carter. This lot includes annual dance programs (called "The Bronze Rhapsody of [year]") for 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940 and 1941. There is also one earlier undated four-page leaflet for an "Annual May Pageant and Dance." The lot also includes two folded four-page Appreciation Day programs from the Resthaven League for 1948 and 1953; Davenport (no longer Carter?) is listed as founder of the League; *A. Philip Randolph was the featured speaker in 1953. Condition varies but most programs show wear. Good. [See item 142 for more material about Davenport/Carter]. 200.00

202. *Davis, Jr., Benjamin J. To My People: A Message from Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. Philadelphia: Communist Party of Eastern Penna. & Del., n.d. [probably 1949]. Folded four-page leaflet. 22cm. Printed on newsprint quality paper. Browned. Good. Davis mentions that he is one of 11 Communist leaders under indictment for the crime of belonging to the Communist Party. The fourth page contains information about "The People Rally" to be held in Philadelphia on Friday, November 25 which was to feature Eugene Dennis and Mr. Davis as speakers. 40.00

203. *Davis, Elizabeth Lindsay. Lifting as They Climb. [cover title]. [Washington]: National Association of Colored Women, 1933 (date on backstrip). 1st ed. photos, 424p. Blue cloth. 23cm. Fraying at extremities. Name written along upper portion of back cover in large letters with a black marking pen. Some gathering of pages browned (paper used probably not of uniform quality). Good. Scarce history of the National Association of Colored Women. Issued without a title-page. This invaluable book contains biographical and other information on a host of African American women and their activities on behalf of the NACW and its state and local chapters. 300.00

204. *Davis, H. Barrington. Zokar: Divinity of Love, Peace, Truth and Justice. NY: Malliet, 1950. 1st ed. 306p. Hardcover. 23cm. Backstrip faded. Moderate cover wear. Good. Fantasy novel - Davis, born in Costa Rica and educated in Jamaica, emigrated to the USA in 1907. 75.00

205. Dawson, Warrington. Le Caractere Special de la Musique Negre en Amerique. Paris: Au Siege de la Societe, 1932. [273]-286p. Wr. 29cm. Cover spotted and soiled. Contents sound and clean except for a little soiling and wear along top edge. Good. SIGNED on front cover ("Hommage de l'auteur Warrington Dawson"). Extrait du Journal de la Societe des Americanistes, Nouvelle Serie, t. XXIV. French text. Laid in is a program for three Matinees Musicales 11 Juin, 9 Juillet et 13 Aout, 1933, at Dawson's Versailles residence. The last two included a combination of African American music and opera. 125.00

206. [*Delaney, Beauford] Greenwich Village Gourmet. Favorite Recipes of 100 Village Artists, Writers, Musicians and Theatre People. NY: Bryan Publications, 1949. 1st ed. 127p. Wr. 22cm. Cover soiled and stained. Large piece cut out from upper corner of front cover. Top 5 cm. of front cover torn along spiral binding. Fair. Page 38 contains Delaney;s recipe for Southern Gumbo. 85.00

207. [College Annual] Delaware State College, Dover Delaware. The Statesman [for 1967]. [Dover]: (1967). photos, 96p. Hardcover. 27cm. Minor cover soil. 50.00

208. *Delsarte, Walter W. The Negro, Democracy and the War. Detroit: Wolverine Printing Co., 1919. 1st ed. 135p. Red cloth. 19cm. Bookplate. The New York Times has posted online a 1904 letter to the editor from Delsarte responding to a bigoted Times editorial which opposed an organization that sought to help African Americans find desirable apartments. 300.00

209. _____ SAME. Covers worn at ends and dulled. Hinges weak. Fair. 150.00

210. *Demby, William. Beetlecreek. NY: Rinehart, (c. 1950). 1st ed. 223p. Hardcover. dj. 20cm. Jacket backstrip and back cover lightly stained. Some cover wear. Browned newspaper review of Beetlecreek taped to half-title. Good. INSCRIBED (by "Bill Demby") to Victorine Louistall, an African America woman of achievement from Demby's hometown of Clarksburg, West Virginia. Laid in is an announcement of the 1947 marriage of Gloria Bernice Demby to Dr. Edward Aldridge Maddox in Nashville, Tennessee. This novel was Demby's first book. 200.00

211. [Democratic Party]. The Republican Party Versus A White Man's Government. n.p.: n.d. [1928]. Folded 4p. leaflet (small newspaper size). 32cm. Several later folds, probably for mailing in a business-size envelope. One section, as folded, browned on last page with some splitting along fold (loss of a few letters of text). Good. Argues that Hoover was sympathetic to African Americans and urges Southern white voters to vote the straight Democratic ticket. Al Smith is praised for his unrelentingly hostility to African Americans. We found no explicit claim of authorship and no identification of the issuing organization but it seems likely that this was issued at some level within the Democratic Party. 75.00

212. De Molay Commandery of Knights Templar. Lowell, Massachusetts. Archive Relating to 1957 Attempt to Admit of "Negro" Member. 10+ Letters or drafts of Letters, one telegram and about 15 Printed De Molay reports and forms, mostly relating to the Lowell or nearby Chapters. Condition varies but generally The Lowell Chapter took steps to admit an African American to membership although such membership was prohibited by De Molay. While the exact events are unclear to us, the result was that the longtime and much honored "Dad" Advisor Frank H. Fiske was summarily "relieved of all duties and connection with the chapter and the De Molay movement." Another member of the Advisory Council resigned in protest. This archive appears to have belonged to one of the two former members. The archive includes the letters of dismissal, a telegram from the National Headquarters harshly confirming Fiske's ouster and other actions but not mentioning the reason for such actions, and drafts of letters sent by the former members to their superiors about the event. The printed reports and forms provide information about De Molay and the Lowell Chapter but make no reference to the controversy. 375.00

213. *Denney, Carrie Dunn. A Study of the Negro Rural Elementary Schools of Davidson County, 1934-1944. n.p.: June 1946. ills, 72p. Black buckram. 28cm. Hinges weak. Good. Typed carbon copy of a Master's thesis at Tennessee [A & I] State College. 45.00

214. [Calendar] Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company. Little Known History of the Negro. Detroit: (c. 1956). 12 sheets (one for each month) printed on one side. Lettered in red and black. 35 x 50cm. Small half-moon shaped grease stain on right side of first two leaves. Last leaf (December) stained and worn at top and has a small jagged hole with some loss of image. Fair. January's little known fact repeats the old Southern white claim that Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's first Vice President, was an African American. Other months are devoted to a variety of subjects such as Ida Wells Barnett, two local Civil Rights Leaders in Detroit, and a crinkly-haired ancestor of the Queen of England. 65.00

215. *Dial, Thornton. Abstraction in the Art of Thornton Dial. Marietta: Kennesaw State College, (c. 1995). color ills, 28p. Wr. Oblong 22cm. Held Jan.18 - Feb. 23, 1995 in the Sturgis Library Gallery. 40.00

216. Dickerson, E. Patent Medicines and the Negro. Hampton: Press of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1912. 18p. Wr. 23cm. Name stamp on front. Staples rusty. Extensive light staining on last few pages; all pages rippled as if damped. Fair. Hampton Leaflets, Vol. V, No. 8. Reprinted from the 12th Annual Report of the Hampton Negro Conference, and issued as Hampton Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 3. Dickerson identified as a physician from Ware Neck, Virginia. 45.00

217. Dillard, James Hardy, et al. Twenty Year Report of the Phelps-Stokes Fund 1911-1931 with a Series of Studies of Negro Progress and Developments of Race Relations in the United States and Africa during the period, and a Discussion of the Present Outlook. New York: The Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1932. index, 127p. Hardcover. 26cm. 85.00

218. [Business Directory] Directory of Negro Businesses, Professions and Churches for Detroit and Environs. [cover title]. Detroit: Associates Advertisers' Service. (1952), 56p. Wr. 23cm. A few small and rather light coffee stains on cover. "Complimentary Copy" on cover. 250.00

219. *Dixon, Sr., Richard H., editor. National Goodwill Salute with Highlights from Dr. Booker T. Washington to Dr. Martin Luther King from President Roosevelt to President Johnson: 55 Years of Active Public Life.... n.p.; 1966. photos, approximately 104 unnumbered pages. Wr. Green comb binding. 29cm. Split in comb binding. Assemblage of material about Dixon, the National Baptists and Buffalo where Dixon was the pastor of Second Temple Baptist Church. Dixon was also Chairman of a group called the National Goodwill Committee. 60.00

220. Douglas High School, Memphis, Tennessee. Douglas Speaks Published by the Senior Class. Volume 1, No. 1 (May, 1947). Some chipping and edge-tears, mostly along right side. Horizontal fold. Good. 40cm. Segregated high school for African Americans which opened in 1946. According to a rather forthright article in this newspaper, Douglas was terribly overcrowded -- built for 500 students, it struggled to accommodate twice as many with some classes holding over 100 students. We found more online references to this high school as Douglass than Douglas but we assume the students knew what the name of their high school was in 1946. 75.00

221. *Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, (c. 1845). frontis, xvi, 125p. Contemporary red leather. American binding, ruled and decorated in gilt around the edges of both covers. Title on backstrip: Frederick Douglass. 18cm. Backstrip scuffed, with loss of some gilt. Former owner's name, dated in 1861, on endpaper. Attractive copy of an early, but not first, printing of his first book and the first of his three autobiographies. Faint pencil note on back of frontis lists former owner's name and says "full gilt," suggesting that she had the book rebound. 600.00

222. *Doyle, Rev. H. Seb. Whence and Whither? Emancipation Address, Delivered in the Wigwam, Birmingham, Ala January 1, 1894. [caption title]. n.p.: n.d. [1894?]. 12p. Wr. 21cm. Worn pamphlet. Lacks back cover. Front cover chipped and extensively reinforced with clear cellophane tape. Fair. Advertisement inside front cover for the Alabama Penny Savings Bank in Birmingham. Reverend Doyle encourages his fellow African Americans to remove all of their savings from white banks and deposit them in this bank [page 8]. Doyle also has very harsh things to say about Christianity as practiced and taught by white Americans. An unusually strong and forthright speech to be delivered and published by an African American in Alabama in the 1890s. 200.00

223. *Dover, Bennie James. An Analysis of the Biology Program in the Negro Senior Colleges in South Carolina. Orangeburg, South Carolina: 1951. 68p. Contemporary cloth. 28cm. Cover detached at rear hinge and heavily spotted and worn. Endpapers browned. Contents sound. Fair. Typed carbon copy of a Master's thesis presented to [South Carolina] State A. & M. College in Orangeburg. Five colleges (Allen, Benedict, Claflin, Morris and State A & M) were included in the study. 65.00

224. *Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963. Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Chicago: McClurg, 1903. 1st ed. ix, 265p. Black cloth, which has been rebacked with almost all of original backstrip mounted. Top edge gilt. 21cm. New endpapers. Lacks the frontis portrait of Du Bois, as often seems to be the case. Several pencil markings, mostly in margins. Text moderately browned. Good. Cornerstone book for any collection of African-Americana. 550.00

225. _____ SAME. Recent quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in brown leather). 20cm. Trimmed when rebound. Lacks the frontis portrait of Du Bois. Text moderately browned. Good. 550.00

226. _____ SAME. Chicago: McClurg, 1903. 2nd ed. viii, 264p. Black cloth. 21cm. Cover spotting, mostly on backstrip and, to a lesser extent, on front cover. Ends of backstrip & corners rubbed. Second and third printings (called editions by McClurg) were also issued in 1903 in the same black cloth binding. They were not issued with a frontis. 500.00

227. _____ SAME. Chicago: McClurg, 1903. 3rd edition. ix, 265p. Modern quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in brown leather). Title lettering in gilt directly on backstrip. 21cm. Lettering on backstrip off center by a couple of millimeters. Text lightly browned. 375.00

228. _____ SAME. NY: Blue Heron Press, 1953. xv, 264, (1)p. Original cloth-backed boards. 21cm. SIGNED by Du Bois on a Special bookplate mounted inside the front cover -- the bookplate states that this is a copy of the limited, numbered and signed edition published on the 50th anniversary of publication. No stated limitation. Scarcity suggests 500-1000 copies. This edition of his classic work is probably your best chance to own a book signed by Du Bois since he doesn't seem to have signed many copies of most of his other books (or other editions of this work). 650.00

229. *Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963, editor. A Select Bibliography of the American Negro: A Compilation Made under the Direction of Atlanta University, together with the Proceedings of the Tenth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May 30, 1905. Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1905. 1st ed. 71p. Wr. 22cm. Original gray wrapper chipped and detached. Contents reasonably sound and clean. Fair. Atlanta University Publications, No. 10. 150.00

230. *Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963, editor. The Health and Physique of the Negro American: Report of a Social Study Made under the Direction of Atlanta University; together with the Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May the 29th, 1906. Atlanta: 1906. 1st ed. index, 112p. Wr. 22cm. Orig. gray wrapper chipped and worn. Backstrip & adjacent areas solidly reinforced with cellophane tape. Contents sound and clean. Fair. Atlanta University Publications, No. 11. 150.00

231. *Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963. The Quest of the Silver Fleece. Chicago: McClurg, 1911. 1st ed. frontis, ills, 434p. Gray cloth, lettered in silver. 21cm. Several ragged portions (only about 40%) of jacket present. Attractive copy of his first novel. 875.00

232. *Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963. The Gift of Black Folk; The Negroes in the Making of America. Boston: Stratford, 1924. 1st ed. index, iv, 349p. Dark blue cloth. 19cm. Cover basically sound but rather shabby and worn. Shallow gouges in front cover. Backstrip darkened. Contents sound but age-toned and showing wear. Fair. Knights of Columbus Racial Contribution Series. A good book and rather uncommon. 125.00

233. *Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963. Dark Princess; A Romance. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (c. 1928). 1st ed. 311p. Black cloth, lettered in orange. 19cm. Extensive but relatively invisible cover spotting and discoloration. Cover edges worn (numerous small holes). Good. His scarce second novel. 250.00

234. *Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935, editor. The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer Containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and about the Negro Race.... Naperville: J. L. Nichols, (c. 1920). frontis, photos, index, 288p. Cloth. 21cm. Cover soil. Wear and some fraying along cover edges. Former owner's name. Good. 75.00

235. *Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935, editor. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the Days of Slavery to the Present Time. Edited by Alice Moore Dunbar. NY: Bookery, (c. 1914). 1st ed. frontis (portrait), index, 512p. Green cloth, backed in red. 23cm. Ends of backstrip and corners rubbed. Published on the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Speeches by Douglass, Washington, Blyden, Dumas, Miller, Du Bois, and many others. 275.00

236. *Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906. Majors and Minors; Poems. Toledo: Hadley & Hadley, (c. 1895). 1st ed. frontis (portrait), 148p. Tan cloth with beveled edges. 19cm. Covers reasonably sound but quite heavily soiled and having numerous stains and some small tears, holes and other wear. Original floral endpapers present (minor corner chips; hinges cracked). Small stain on title-page; contents otherwise sound. Fair. Dunbar's elusive second book with the first state binding. Copies are found bound in tan or bluish-gray cloth with no established priority. 750.00

237. *Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906. Poems of Cabin and Field. NY: Dodd Mead, 1899. 1st ed. frontis, photos, 125p. Hardcover. 22cm. Decorated cloth. Spine slightly sloped. Backstrip and cover edges slightly faded. Bookplate. The first of his six popular large-format books of poetry with Hampton Institute Camera Club photographs. 150.00

238. _____ SAME. 1st ed. Spine slightly sloped. Bookplate. Bookplate of L. A. Alexander Gumby, a well-known Harlem resident who compiled 300 scrapbooks on African American life that are now at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. 185.00

239. _____ SAME. 1st ed. Spine sl. sloped. Backstrip faded. Front hinge a bit stiff. Good. 125.00

240. _____ SAME. NY: Dodd Mead, 1902. Spine sloped. Backstrip and cover edges faded. Former owner's name and two clippings about Dunbar's death on endpaper. 50.00

241. *Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906. Li'l' Gal. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1904. 1st ed. frontis, photos, 123p. Decorated cloth. 22cm. Some cover wear. Ends of backstrip and other extremities frayed. Minor soil. Good. Photos by Leigh Richmond Miner of Hampton Institute Camera Club. 90.00

242. *Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906. Howdy Honey Howdy. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1905. 1st ed. frontis, photos (by Leigh Richmond Miner), (117)p. Decorated cloth. Photo mounted on front cover. 21 cm. Spine slightly sloped. Bookplate. Hampton Institute Camera Club photos. Bookplate of L. S. Alexander Gumby [See item 238]. 200.00

243. *Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906. Chris'mus' is A'Comin' & Other Poems. NY: Dodd, Mead, n.d. [copyright date of 1905 but published no earlier than 1907]. 48p. Wr. Plain glassine dj. 14cm. Jacket Good (some chipping and wear). Book clean and attractive. Scarce ephemeral item missing from most Dunbar collections. Second of two printings noted in BAL 4957: Title-page in orange and pale green; title-page imprint undated. 275.00

244. Easter, Opal V. Nannie Helen Burroughs. NY: Garland, 1995. frontis, photo, index, x, 146p. Hardcover. 23cm. Scarce biographical study. We know nothing about the author. 65.00

245. *Easton, William Edgar. Dessalines: A Dramatic Tale: A Single Chapter from Haiti's History. n.p.: J. W. Burson-Company, 1893. 1st ed. frontis, viii, 138p. Dark cloth. 20cm. Ends of backstrip chipped. Cover corners worn. Former owner's name stamp on endpapers and title-page. Signature pulled. Good. The play (pp. 3-117) is followed by "A Tribute to Haitian Heroism," by Norris Wright Cuney Pages 122-128), the "Oration of Hon. Frederick Douglass ... delivered on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Haitian Pavilion at the World's Fair" (pages 131-138), and two other short extracts. 375.00

246. Eating and Sleeping South: A Guide to Hotels, Motels, Tourist Homes and Restaurants in the Southern States Catering to Negro Patronage. n.p.: n.d. 118p. Wr. 16cm. A very uncommon travel guide. No publisher or date given but we'd guess that this is from the 1950s. 375.00

247. [African American Newspaper] The Echo. Four issues: Vol. 10, Nos. 14, 16 and 17 (1913) and Vol. 12, No. 29 (1916). Four pages per issue. 39cm. Horizontal fold. Issues quite worn, missing some good-sized chips or pieces. Extensive cellophane tape reinforcement along folds and to repair old tears and creases. Poor. First issue split at fold -- we can't be certain that the second leaf is from this issue. This rare newspaper was published by *Wm. E, Rock in Red Bank, New Jersey. 225.00

248. [African American Cinema] Eddie's Laugh Jamboree. Set of 4 purple tinted Lobby Cards. Undated [1947?]. Toddy Pictures presentation starring *Eddie Green. 36 x 28cm. Minor browning and edge-wear. 95.00

249. *Edwards, S. W., pseud. Go Now in Darkness. Chicago: (c. 1964). 1st ed. 255p. Wr. 22cm. Light cover foxing. A few red marks on backstrip. INSCRIBED ("To Ma and Dad with love -- something long and arduous. Wally"). A novel about interracial love by Walter E. Sublett. 150.00

250. Emancipation Proclamation League of New Jersey. Golden Jubilee and Exposition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Atlantic City New Jersey, September, 1913. Printed broadside receipt. 26 x 21cm. Fully executed receipt No. 136 for a donation of fifty cents to the organization. Signed by the organization's President and Treasurer and embossed with an official seal. *Alain Leroy Locke, then a young Assistant Professor at Howard University, is listed as one of three Assistant Organizers of the Exposition. 75.00

251. [Slave Documents] Estate Settlement and Hire of Slaves in South Carolina. Three small holograph documents. Dated 1865. Good. First document (16 x 6cm.): Small partial sheet on which one of the heirs to the estate of I.C. Haile acknowledges receipt of four named slaves valued at $2400 plus $15 in gold coin. Second document (15 x 12cm.): Two persons named Haile promise to pay B.W. Massey, who is listed as executor on first document and as acting for Laura J. Haile, the sum of $200 on January 1, 1866 for the hire of two Negroes named Bob & Polly. Third document (20 x 21cm): Pencil notes calculating or listing the value of seven groups of slaves (two to five in a group) -- value of the groupings ranged from $2000 to $2400; we assume this was for purposes of distribution to the heirs. A receipt dated 1876 from a commission merchant on Fort Mill, SC came with these documents. 250.00

252. The Ethiopian Voice, Vol. 1, No. 8 (July 18, 1942). 8p. Wr. 26cm. Vertical crease. Published weekly in New York and aimed at persons of African descent. The editor was Lij Ayara Abebe. This may have been a publication of the Ethiopian World Federation; a proclamation by J. Finley Wilson as President of that group appears in this issue. 150.00

253. [Signed Hardcover] *Evans, Mari. A Dark & Splendid Mass. NY: Harlem River Press, 1993. 1st ed. ii, (2), 62p. Black boards backed in black cloth. dj. 23cm. SIGNED on title-page ("Mari Evans 9/6/93"). Poetry. 150.00

254. [Evansville, Indiana] Colored Draft Men Off to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Public Demonstration and Benefit Coliseum Tue. Night Aug. 20. The occasion of their Departure, called by the District Boards of this City and County, to leave for Camp Dodge, Iowa; We Hope to Make Memorable for These Boys ... Hon. Mayor Benj. Bosse ... Oration: "The Negro Soldier" -- Miss Francis Dickerson ... Music by the Memphis Jazz Orchestra ... Everybody Invited. [Evansville?]: Speed Press, n.d. [1918]. Large broadside poster. 72 x 104cm. Printed in green ink. Numerous later folds where folded (presumably for storage). Some chipping and tears along edges and at folds but still a striking poster. We identify this as Evansville, Indiana because a Benjamin Bosse was their mayor from 1914-1922. We date this World War I poster as 1918 because August 20 fell on Tuesday in that year. 500.00

255. Exposition of Negro Business Chicago, Ill. 1940. [cover title]. n.p.: 1940. [20]p. plus wrapper. Wr. 30cm. Blue cover faded to brown around edges. Some small chips. Contents sound. Good. Ticket stub for free admission laid in. Sponsored by Chicago Negro Chamber of Commerce. Held June 8-9, 1940. This program has a one page exposition of the reasons why African Americans should support African American businesses; rest of pamphlet filled with advertisements for various Chicago-area businesses and very brief general listing of anticipated program events. 165.00

256. The Eye Opener, Vol. 1, No. 7 (November 7, 1931). 17p Wr. (white wrapper). 23cm. Cover chipped, soiled and wrinkled but basically intact. Contents reasonably sound. Fair. Unusual African American periodical published monthly in Princeton, Ky. Lead article: "The Colored Fair Oct. 9th and 10th, 1931, Princeton, Ky. was a Glorious Success." 85.00

257. Fabre, Michel and *John A. Williams. Way B(l)ack Then and Now: A Street Guide to African Americans in Paris. NY: Center for American Culture Studies, Columbia University and Centre d'Etudes Afro-Americaines, Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, (c. 1992). 141p. Wr. 21cm. Wr. SIGNED on title-page by both authors. First edition of 500 copies for the "African American and Europe" conference in Paris in 1992. Unnumbered as seems to be the general case with copies of this item. 250.00

258. Fact Finders Associates, Inc. Analysis of 500 Baltimore Negro Families Who Read the Afro-American Compared with 500 White Families Representative of the City of Baltimore. October 1956. Baltimore: c. 1957. 74p. Wr. 28cm. Report prepared for the Baltimore Afro-American (newspaper). 85.00

259. Fact Finders Associates Inc. Analysis of 525 Washington, D. C. Negro Families Compared with 525 White Families Living in Homes of Similar Rent or Value. NY: June, 1953. 43p. Wr. 29cm. Front cover detached at staples. Contents sound. Good. Report prepared for the Washington, DC Afro-American (newspaper). 50.00

260. Fact Finders Associates, Inc. Survey of the New York City Negro Market Made Among 2,075 Families in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens & Richmond. NY: August 1952. 49p. Wr. 28cm. Stapled copy. Printed on one side. Lacks backstrip. Both covers present but partially detached at the staples. Signature of "Cl. Holte" on front cover. Good. Prepared for the New York Amsterdam News. 85.00

261. [Program] Farewell Public Reception to Hon. James Logan Curtis, Minister Resident and Consul General of the United States of America to the Republic of Liberia, at St. Mark's M.E. Church, (West Fifty-third Street) Rev. W. H. Brooks, Pastor On Thursday, (Thanksgiving) November 25th, 1915.... [NY: 1915]. 4p. Tied stiff paper cover. Photo on cover, 22cm. Cover soiled and somewhat worn. Original tie replaced with later plain string. Good. Numerous speakers are listed including *W.E.B. Du Bois who was to speak on "Sociological Aspects." 75.00

262. Farmer, Harold E. An Account of the Earliest Colored Gentleman in Medical Science in the United States. [Baltimore?: 1940]. pp. 599-618. Stapled Wr. 26cm. No separate wrapper. INSCRIBED by Farmer. An offprint or reprint from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. VIII, No. 4 (April, 1940). 45.00

263. [*Father Divine] The New Day. Bound volume containing 12 issues: Vol. III, Nos. 39-45 and 47-52 (Sept. 21-Dec. 28, 1939). Hardcover. 26cm. Trimmed when bound. Newsprint text browned and brittle. Original wrappers bound in. Good. Each issue contained 116 pages. Lacks No. 46 (Nov. 16, 1939). Father Divine's massive weekly magazine. 200.00

264. Faubus, Orval E. Television Address of Governor Orval E. Faubus, August 11, 1959. [caption title]. 6p. Unbound except for a single staple at top. Legal size sheets. No separate title-page. 36cm. Staple rusty. Governor Faubus, still mad about forced integration of the schools, directs some of his venom at current members of the Little Rock School Board and others who have rejected his scheme to integrate only those students and teachers who want to be integrated. 40.00

265. *Fauset, Arthur Huff, 1899-1983. Sojourner Truth; God's Faithful Pilgrim. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, (c. 1938). 1st ed. frontis, index, viii, 187p. Blue cloth. dj. 21cm. Corners clipped on jacket flaps. Jacket also has some chipping at ends of backstrip with those ends reinforced on back with now yellowed pieces of cellophane tape. INSCRIBED in red ink on endpaper by Fauset in 1974. The endpaper also has the signature of another former owner. 350.00

266. *Fauset, Arthur Huff. Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944. 1st ed. photos, x, 126p. Cloth. 23cm. "Duplicate" stamp on front free endpaper from Louisville Presbyterian Seminary Library. The city was Philadelphia; the five religious groups given chapters were Mt. Sinai Church of America, United House of Prayer for All ("Daddy Grace"), Church of God ("Black Jews"), Moorish Science Temple of America, and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement. 40.00

267. *Fauset, Jessie Redmon. There Is Confusion. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1924. 1st state of 1st ed. [with errata slip]. 297p. Orange cloth. 19cm. Backstrip somewhat darkened and has some fraying at ends. Sound copy. Good. First of four novels about middle class African Americans. 500.00

268. *Fauset, Jessie Redmon, 1882-1961. Comedy: American Style. NY: Stokes, 1933. 1st ed. 327p. Hardcover. Recent quarterbinding (marbled boards backed with leather). 20cm. Very Good. An attractively rebound copy of her fourth (and final) novel. 400.00

269. [Signed] *Fax, Elton C. Black Artists of the New Generation. NY: (c. 1977). 1st ed. photos, index, xii, 370p. Cloth. dj. 21cm. Minimal cover spotting. Scattered foxing on fore-edge. Minor tapemark on endpaper. SIGNED by Fax ("With best wishes from Elton C. Fax 1977"). 50.00

270. Felton, Ralph A. These My Brethren: A Study of 570 Negro Churches and 1542 Negro Homes in the Rural South. Madison, NJ: Department of the Rural Church, Drew Theological Seminary, (c. 1950). 102p. Wr. 23cm. Cover splitting at fold. 40.00

271. [Odd Volume] *Ferris, William Henry. The African Abroad or His Evolution in Western Civilization; Tracing His Development under Caucasian Milieu. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1913. 1st ed. Vol. II ONLY (of 2). frontis, photos, vi, [2], [524]-982p. Maroon cloth. 24cm. Ends of backstrip and other extremities frayed. A couple of small newspaper clippings mounted and a few others now removed. Former owner filled three or four blank pages with religious stuff about Abyssinia, written unfortunately in startlingly red ink. Good. Printed slip laid in announcing publication plans for Volume III of this work. We've also had this in green cloth (no binding priority known to us). The projected third volume was never published. Ferris writes about race, racism, and African & African American history. A final section is titled "The Forty Greatest Negroes in History and Who's Who in the Negro Hall of Fame - the Forty Colored Immortals," which Ferris intended to complete in the never-published Vol. III. 225.00

272. 54th Anniversary of John Wesley M. E. Church, Lower Penn's Neck, New Jersey, 1853-1907. n.p.: 1907. Stiff broadside on thin card. 21cm. Browned. A few chips and tears around edges. Good. Has photos of an African American man in clerical collar and a photo of the church beneath our title. The bottom third contains a list of ex-Pastors, First Trustees, Present Trustees, and names of the Pastor, Chairman of the Trustees and Church Clerk. 40.00

273. *Fisher, Rudolph, 1897-1934. The Conjure-Man Dies; A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem. NY: Covici-Friede, (c. 1932). 2nd (and final) printing of the original edition. 316p. Hardcover. 19cm. Cover moderately soiled. Backstrip lightly lacquered. Blurb from jacket flap mounted on endpaper. Good. A very scarce mystery by a talented Harlem Renaissance writer. 200.00

274. _____ SAME. 2nd printing. Light soil and a small splash stain on cover. Endpapers browned. Name on endpaper. Good. 175.00

275. Fisher, S. J. The Negro Boy and Girl: Study Book for Juniors. [cover title]. Pittsburgh: Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., n.d. [1920s?]. 33p. Wr. 20cm. Some cover stains. Former owner's name inside front cover. Quartermoon-sized stain in right margin throughout text. Fair. An uncommon Presbyterian item. Issued without a title-page; the only publication information appears on the cover. 75.00

276. Fitzhugh, George. Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters. Richmond: A. Morris, 1857. 1st ed. 379p. Cloth. 19cm. Lacks backstrip. Light penciling throughout text. Pages browned and foxed. Fair. Important book written by a self-educated Southern supporter of slavery. He argued that modern capitalism in Europe and the North turned free white workers into slaves who were much worse off than slaves in the South because white workers lacked the paternalistic, mutually beneficial protections built into the Southern master-slave relationship. 200.00

277. Five Decades: John Biggers and the Hampton Art Tradition. Hampton: Hampton University Museum, (c. 1990). photos, 36p. Wr. Square 22cm. 45.00

278. [Odd Volume] Fleming, Walter L. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time. Cleveland: 1906. 1st ed. Vol. I ONLY (of 2). frontis, xviii, 493p. Dark olive cloth. 24cm. Mostly unopened. 50.00

279. *Fletcher, Tom, 1873-1954. The Tom Fletcher Story: 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business. NY: Burdge, (c. 1954). 1st ed. ills, xx, 337p. Hardcover. dj. 23cm. Foxing on endpapers and half-title Former owner's name. Musty -- probably was in a basement. Good. Jacket Fair (soiled and has significant chipping along edges and folds). Replete with interesting facts and anecdotes about a wide variety of entertainers. Fletcher died before this book was actually published. 50.00

280. *Flipper, Henry Ossian. The Colored Cadet at West Point. Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color From the U.S. Military Academy. NY: Homer Lee & Co., 1878. 1st ed. 2 portraits (including frontis), 322p. Green cloth. Gilt design on front and backstrip. 19cm. Recased. New endpapers. Frayed ends of backstrip reinforced when recased. One portrait has some foxing, a small edge stain, and no tissue guard. Former owner's name. Flipper, the first African American to graduate from West Point, had his army career cut short by rampant racism and his own mistaken actions. He died in 1940, His dishonorable discharge was changed to honorable in 1976. President Clinton pardoned Flipper in 1997. We've had copies in blue, green, and maroon cloth; we are unaware of any priority among the different colors. 1750.00

281. *Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-1923. Floyd's Flowers or Duty and Beauty for Colored Children: Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience. [Washington]: Hertel, Jenkins, (c. 1905). 1st ed. frontis, ills (by *John Henry Adams), 326p. Light green cloth. 20cm. Cover heavily spotted (or discolored). Ends of backstrip and corners bumped. Hinges weak. Contents sound. Good. Simple tales, which have a strong helping of advice favoring hard work, thrift, thoughtfulness, and steadfast Christianity. 200.00

282. Focus, 1964. [Cleveland]: (1964). many photos, 78p. Wr. 28cm. *Ray L. Gillespie, editor. Introductory statement says that the theme for the magazine Focus for 1964 is "Religious Leadership in a Changing World." We have not seen other issues. Includes a few "Community Relations" columns that Gillespie wrote for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. 50.00

283. *Fortson, Bettiola Heloise. Original Poems and Essays. [Chicago?]: c. 1915. 1st ed. frontis, 62p. Red cloth. 18cm. Some discolored spots on cover. Gift inscription in pencil on endpaper. Good. Twenty-three poems and two essays. Cover title: Mental Pearls. A brief biographical sketch by Julius F. Taylor precedes the text. According to that sketch, Fortson was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1890, and moved to Chicago when she was 12. After living for a while in Evansville, Indiana, she returned to Chicago. She appeared in a "leading" role in a play called "Tallaboo." Taylor says that Fortson, a suffragette & club worker, served as President of the University Society of Chicago and as a Vice President of the Alpha Suffrage Club [organized by Ida B. Wells, who is the subject of one of Fortson's poems]. Fortson's only book. 500.00

284. Foster, Rev. Gustavus. Uncle Johnson, the Pilgrim of Six Score Years. [caption and cover title]. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, n.d. [late 1860s?]. 24p. Wr. 16cm. Wrapper wrinkled and rather worn, with chipping and soil. Contents have some edge-wear and soil but generally sound. Fair. At head of cover title: Second Series, No. 27. Uncle Johnson's full name was Johnson Harrison. His age of 120 at death seems highly unlikely and is based on Johnson's own guess as to when he was born. Exact details about Johnson are not plentiful in this religiously-oriented biographical sketch but he is said to have lived in a cabin upon a lot adjoining the author's in a town described only as "Y----." The author of this work also wrote a sermon on "The Past of Ypsilanti." Accordingly, we suspect that Uncle Johnson, who says he was born a slave in Virginia in 1745 and freed and sent to Canada after he reached the age of 100, spent his last years in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This work apparently had more than one printing. The University of North Carolina reprint, in their Documenting the American South series, is a copy of an 1867 edition which had "No. 96" on the cover and no reference to a second series. 150.00

285. *Fowler, Manet Harrison. Four items relating to this Musician and Founder of Mwalimu. Includes: (1) 1940-1941 Mwalimu Presents the First of a Series of Downtown Debut Song Recitals of Classical and Sacred Music. [broadsheet. 25cm.]; (2) Mwalimu Song. Words by Fowler. Music by *Hall Johnson. Translated into Yoruba by Duro Dole Cole. [Broadside. 23cm]; (3) Certificate of membership in the Mwalimu Culture League. [broadside. 28cm. Unused]; and (4) Business card from Ms. Fowler identifying her as Managing Editor of The Negro Musician and President and Founder of Mwalimu and listing her address as 76 Edgecombe Avenue in New York City. Items have some edge-wear and minor chipping. Good. 45.00

286. Fox, Minnie C., compiler. The Blue Grass Cook Book. NY: Fox, Duffield & Co., 1904. 1st ed. frontis, photos (by Alvin Langdon Coburn), xlii, 350p. Ribbed light blue cloth. 19cm. Light cover soil. Former owner's name. Twelve of the thirteen photos by this famous American photographer are of African American women (and one man) engaged in food preparation. 600.00

287. [Signed by Author] *Frazier, Edward Franklin, 1894-1962. The Negro Family in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1932. 1st ed. ills, index, xxv, 294p. Cloth. 20cm. Backstrip faded. Cover rubbed. Small reddish stain to title-label on front cover. Light waterstain on upper portion of back cover. Gift inscription. Good. SIGNED by Frazier (on endpaper beneath the gift inscription which is not in Frazier's hand). 150.00

288. Freemasons (Prince Hall). Indiana. Official Souvenir Grand Masonic Conclave Knights Templar, Royal Arch Master Masons, Richmond, Indiana, August 19, 20, 21, 22, 1929. n.p.: 1929. photos, 48p. Wr. Tied. Oblong (23 x 31cm.). Cover faded and somewhat worn. Contents sound. Good. 50.00

289. Freemasons. Union Grand Lodge of Michigan. Proceedings Sixtieth Annual Communication M. W. Union Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Michigan ... 1925 Flint, Michigan. Nashville: [Printed by] A. M. E. Sunday School Union, 1925. photos, 93p. Blue wr. 24cm. Cover soiled and somewhat worn. Contents sound but bound in upside down. Good. 50.00

290. [Mississippi] Freemasons (Prince Hall). M. W. Stringer Grand Lodge. Constitution and By-Laws of the Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Mississippi: Rules and Regulations of the Grand Lodge and Subordinate Lodges of the Jurisdiction of Mississippi. n.p.: n.d. [1949?]. 100p. Wr. 20cm. Cover and contents worn but still quite usable. Former owners' names. Occasional underlinings and pencil markings. Fair. 60.00

291. Freemasons (Prince Hall). Ohio. Grand Lodge. Official Program One Hundred and Fourth Annual Communication of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Ohio … and the Sixty-Sixth Communication of the Amaranth Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star, August 9, 10, 11, 12, 1953. Held at Central State College Wilberforce, Ohio. n.p.: 1953. photos, 110p. Softcover. 23cm. Brown paper reinforcement around spine chipped & worn. Good. 50.00

292. Garnett High School, Charleston, West Virginia. Garnett 1900 Garnett 1956. [cover title]. [Charleston: 1956]. photos, 250p. Hardcover. 27cm. High school yearbook format and appearance, but actually a pictorial history of the first fifty-six years (1900-1956) of this segregated school for African Americans. 75.00

293. *Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. NY: Universal Publishing House, 1923. 1st ed. frontis (portrait), portrait, 102p. Recent quarterbinding (marbled boards attractively backed in dark brown leather). 21cm. Contents Good (moderate soiling, wrinkling and spotting). Edited by *Amy Jacques-Garvey. A second volume (larger and somewhat more common) was published in 1925. 850.00

294. *Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940. The Tragedy of White Injustice. NY: Amy Jacques Garvey, (c. 1927). 1st ed. 22p. plus (2)p. advertisements for other works by Garvey. Wr. 21cm. Wrapper chipped and worn, and heavily reinforced with cellophane tape around all edges. Upper right corner clipped on last three leaves. Poor. Poetry. The first edition of this harsh indictment of the nature and practices of white people. Not a great copy, but good luck trying to find a better. 250.00

295. [*Marcus Garvey] Black Cross Navigation & Trading Co., Inc. Promissory Note. Printed Certificate No. 1565 for $20 dated November 13, 1924. Bordered in orange. Interest 5% per annum. No fixed maturity date. Approx. 29 x 22cm. Two vertical creases. SIGNED by G. Emonei Carter as Secretary, and by Marcus Garvey as President of this ill-fated venture. 1500.00

296. Gellert, Lawrence, compiler. Me and My Captain (Chain Gangs): Negro Songs of Protest from the Collection of Lawrence Gillert. NY: Hours Press, n.d. (Preface dated 1939). 31p. (music and lyrics). Wr. 26cm. Cover soil. Gift inscription on front cover. Good. Signed ("Lawrence Gellert") on title-page. Second volume in his "Negro Songs of Protest" series. Arranged for voice and piano by Lan Adomian. 65.00

297. George Washington Carver Museum, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Historical Dioramas: Contributions of Negro People to World Civilization. [cover title]. Tuskegee Institute Press: n.d. 20 ills, (22)p. Wr. Oblong (26 x 18cm.). Cover sound despite quite a bit of staining & spotting. Contents clean & sound. Good. Minimal text. Consists mostly of 20 dioramas, rather poorly reproduced one to a page. Brief captions & quotations beneath each illustration. The Dioramas were created for the American Negro Exposition held in Chicago in 1940. *Charles C. Dawson co-supervised their construction under the direction of Eric Lindren. 75.00

298. Georgia Funeral Directors & Embalmers Association. Thirty-Second Annual Convention ... May 21, 22, 23, 1957 Educational Building of Washington Street Presbyterian Church ... Dublin, Georgia. [cover title]. [28]p. Wr. 31cm. Staples rusting. African American organization. Program consists mostly of advertisements. Photo of J. T. McLean, President of the organization, on front cover. 75.00

299. Georgia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. [Program for] Twentieth Annual Convention June 28, 29, 30, 1923, Columbus, Georgia. [cover title]. 8p. Wr. No separate wrapper. 21cm. Paper rippled. Good. [Accompanied by] unused Pledge card for "$10,000 Drive for Home for Colored Youth of Georgia" (chipped at top, and foxed). 65.00