Search Results: African American from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

Augusta, GA: Pritchard, Abbott, & Loomis. Fair. 1860. 1st edition. Subtitled: "Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this Important S ubject, by E. N. Elliott, L.L.D., President of Planters' College Mississippi.With an Essay on Slavery in the Light of Internationa l Law". . s. Publisher’s brown calf, black/red spine labels. Includes "Li berty and Slavery: Or, Slavery in the Light of Moral and Politica l Philosophy" by A.T. Bledsoe; "The Bible Argument: Or, Slavery i n the Light of Divine Revelation" by Thornton Stringfellow; "Slav ery In the Light of Social Ethics: by Chancellor Harper; "Slavery in the Light of Political Science" by J.H. Hammond; "Slavery in the Light of Ethnology" by S.A. Cartwright; and "Slavery in the L ight of International Law" by E.N. Elliott. Reprinted in 2017-18, this first edition is quite scarce with only four copies… Read More

Charles T. Powner. 1946. 1946 reprint of a book first issued in 1924. 8vo illustrated wra ppers. 130 pp. A collection of minstrel gags, jokes, and speeches 'adapted to the use of amateurs and professionals.' Fine copy; no chips or tears - mild age-toning to the news pulp pages. .

1972. Original unpublished and unproduced screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship [the Fair Angelica] navigating the middle pa ssage, circa 1835. A very unusual subject for Matthiessen. Fair Angelica is a first draft, typed carbon, 123 loose leaves -- an agency copy used to solicit producers and investors -- one of whom was the progressive filmmaker Martin Ritt. Black Cargoes is a revised and retitled draft, 112 pp. in black studio 2 -post covers. Mostly mimeographed, but with a dozen typed and corrected pages interleaved; numerous holographic additions or changes throughout by Matthiessen. The change in title may have been to capture investor interest; there was popular work of non-fiction several years prior [Black Cargoes - A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Daniel Mannix and Malcom Cowley.] However this treatment by PM is a work of fiction and unrelated to the earlier book. This screenplay is not mentioned in any bibliographic works about PM. The only other known copy is in… Read More

Revised edition (Seventy-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. 8vo, decorated cloth stamped in black and gold.
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Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); 2 tinted lithographic portrait plates; and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University).
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Condition: Fair. Small ownership signature in pencil on the front free endpaper verso, corners lightly rubbed; spine somewhat darkened with ends moderately rubbed; front hinge lightly cracked but fully intact. Internally clean and tight overall but with a loose signature at p. 199