Charles Agvent

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA] LINCOLN, Abraham

THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT. JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE THIRTY EIGHTH CONGRESS ... PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION ... ABOLISHING SLAVERY. RESOLVED

Chicago: Western Bank Note & Engraving Co., 1868. First Edition. Framed Document. Large folio (16-1/4" x 21-3/4") matted and framed to an overall size of 21-1/2" x 27." Finely engraved and printed on good quality paper with elaborate decorative borders with a "US" monogram to upper corners, a bold calligraphic.....

Price: $12,500.00

BRUCE, Blanche K

DOCUMENT SIGNED (DS)

Washington, DC: 1890. Document. A deed SIGNED by Bruce as Recorder of Deeds, a position appointed to him by President Benjamin Harrison replacing Frederick Douglass. Bruce is best known as the first African-American to serve a full term in the United States Senate.

Price: $100.00

HOWARD, Benjamin C

A REPORT OF THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE OPINIONS OF THE JUDGES THEREOF, IN THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT VS. JOHN F. A. SANDFORD. DECEMBER TERM 1856

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Printed wraps lacking the front cover; complete, pages 393-633 [240 pages]. Grolier American 68; Howes S218; Sabin 33240. One of two simultaneous printings, the other in Washington D.C., for which no precedence has been established. The opinion of the court.....

Price: $650.00

KING, Martin Luther, Jr. [Martin Luther King, Jr.]

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: CHAOS OR COMMUNITY?

New York: Harper & Row, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author filling most of the front free endpaper: "To David Hunter/Whose moral and financial/support have been of/inestimable value for the/continuance of my humble/efforts/Martin Luther King Jr."

Price: $20,000.00

OWEN, Robert Dale

THE FUTURE OF THE NORTH-WEST: IN CONNECTION WITH THE SCHEME OF RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT NEW ENGLAND

Philadelphia: 1863. First Edition. Wraps. Decorated wraps; 15 [1] pages. Addressed to the people of Indiana, Owen argues against those who would make a separate peace with the South. Includes a brief discussion of the Dred Scott case. Robert Dale Owen was the son of Robert Owen, founder of the.....

Price: $60.00

PETTIT, Eber M

SKETCHES IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, COMPRISING MANY THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE ESCAPE OF FUGITIVES FROM SLAVERY, AND THE PERILS OF THOSE WHO AIDED THEM

Fredonia, NY: W. McKinstry and Son, 1879. First Edition. Softcover. Printed salmon wraps; 174 pages. A somewhat scarce title, dedicated to Frederick Douglass, this is the only copy we have been able to find published in wraps as opposed to hardcover. Pettit was a traveling salesman, mostly of patented medicines.....

Price: $1,500.00

ROBERTS, Robert

THE HOUSE SERVANT'S DIRECTORY, OR A MONITOR FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES: COMPRISING HINTS ON THE ARRANGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF SERVANTS' WORK, WITH GENERAL RULES FOR SETTING OUT TABLES AND SIDEBOARDS IN FIRST ORDER; THE ART OF WAITING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; AND LIKEWISE HOW TO CONDUCT LARGE AND SMALL PARTIES WITH ORDER; WITH GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING ON TABLE ALL KINDS OF JOINTS, FISH, FOWL, &C. WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLEANING PLATE, BRASS, STEEL, GLASS, MAHOGANY; AND LIKEWISE ALL KINDS OF PATENT AND COMMON LAMPS: OBSERVATIONS ON SERVANTS' BEHAVIOUR TO THEIR EMPLOYERS; AND UPWARDS OF 100 VARIOUS AND USEFUL RECEIPTS, CHIEFLY COMPILED FOR THE USE OF HOUSE SERVANTS; AND IDENTICALLY MADE TO SUIT THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH FRIENDLY ADVICE TO COOKS AND HEADS OF FAMILIES; AND COMPLETE DIRECTIONS HOW TO BURN LEHIGH COAL

Boston & New York: Munroe and Francis; Charles S. Francis, 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2") bound in contemporary, possibly for the publisher, linen-backed marbled boards with an intact printed paper label spine; 180 pages. A rare example of the FIRST COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED BOOK WRITTEN BY AN AFRICAN.....

Price: $25,000.00

STYRON, William

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Price: $100.00

STYRON, William

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

New York: Modern Library, (1970). First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Number 396 of the Modern Library series.

Price: $35.00

STYRON, William

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Price: $50.00

STYRON, William

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Price: $100.00

WASHINGTON, Booker T

AUTOGRAPH QUOTE SIGNED (AQS)

Tuskegee, AL: 7 Dec. 1897. Autograph. A fine quote--"Be too great to be little"--on a 6-1/2" x 8" page removed from an autograph album SIGNED and dated by Washington in Tuskegee. The verso bears an unknown signature as does the top of the page that Washington has signed, but this.....

Price: $1,500.00

WASHINGTON, Booker T

UP FROM SLAVERY

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Denver Gillen. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in brown-black buckram with a Swedish-made textured brown Tumba Ingres paper sides and a brown leather spine labe; 236 pages. Introduction by Booker T. Washington III. Illustrated with 12 full-page and 2 double-page color plates by.....

Price: $65.00