Baltimore: Printed by Sherwood & Co., 1855. 7 5/8” x 5”. Red cloth embossed in blind, spine decorated in gilt. Pp. 250. Good plus: boards moderately worn with losses at corners and spine tips; some foxing and occasional light spotting internally. This is a scarce book of poetry, and..... More
[N.p.]: self published, (©1937). 10¾” x 7½”. Stapled wrappers. pp. [36]. Good: wrappers with moderate wear, some light staining to front wrap, light scattered foxing, center bifolium detached, one poem with five small inked checkmarks and a few inked numbers, two line dedication crossed out in pencil, inscription in crayon..... More
Bronx, NY: Black Forum, 1977. 10” x 7”. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. 48. Very good: front wrap lightly spotted with moderate coffee stain to side, corner dogear and small bite to bottom edge, all extending to first few leaves; several leaves with faint stains at edges. This is..... More
Bronx, NY: Black Forum, 1977. 10” x 7”. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. 48. Very good plus: minimal wear, some light dust soiling to wrappers. This is a heavily illustrated issue of an uncommon African American poetry and literary journal, Black Forum (BF). BF was founded in the mid-1970s by Horace..... More
Bronx, NY: Black Forum, 1977. 10” x 7”. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. 48. Very good plus: minimal wear, some light dust soiling to wrappers. This issue has a poem and a couple of articles by Horace Mungin, an interview with Nikki Grimes and a profile on a poet named..... More
Bronx, NY: Black Forum, 1977. 10” x 7”. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. 48. Very good: minimal wear, some spotting to wrappers. This issue features an interview with fiction writer John Oliver Killens, has a profile of photographer Ed Sherman and an article on Afro-Brazilian dance. There are numerous..... More
[Devon, England]: 1916. 10 ” x 8¼”. Quarter leather over boards. Pp. 135, [20]. Very good: backstrip perished, light scuffing and faint spotting to boards; foxing to pastedowns and loss to (blank) RFEP; a few chips to title page not approaching illustration; foxing and offsetting common throughout but still internally..... More
New York, NY: 1938-1940. 13¼” x 10”. Commercial album, brad-bound and string-tied boards, filled about halfway with 68 clippings, 9 items of ephemera, 2 photographs and 4 pieces of original art adhered. Pp. [40, 51 blank, 2, 5 blank]. One photo 3¼” x 2½”, the other 9¾” x 7½” and..... More
![Item #9117 [Extra-Illustrated Copy of] One Hundred and One Famous Poems . . Roy J. Cook, Don Gilbert](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9117.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778858922)
[Publication data obscured; creation data unknown; extra contents circa 1935-1985]. 8¼” x 4½”. Blue cloth over boards, spine and title gilt. Pp. 186 plus hundreds of clippings adhered inside boards, to endpapers, margins, edges and laid in. Very good minus: hinges cracked and prelims loose; light dampstains and waviness; faint..... More
Dallas, Texas: Rev. R.S. Jenkins, [1905]. 8½” x 6”. Illustrated brown cloth. Pp. [double-sided frontis], [6, title and table of contents], x, 238. Good: first leaf supplied in facsimile; boards with moderate wear and heavy soiling; leaves lightly toned, several with small tears; front pastedown with two different names in..... More
![Item #8137 Contempo [Vol. 1, No. 13 (Dec 1 1931)]. Langston Huges](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8137.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729531537)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Contempo, Ltd., 1931. About 17” x 12½” (issued). Newsprint. Pp. 4. Fair: bottom tattered, with about 3” of loss and susceptible to more; moderate foxing to lower quarter; some small stains and spotting. This is an issue of Contempo, a fairly well-known North Carolina..... More
Boston, U.S.A. The Christopher Publishing House, 1952. 8” x 5½”. Cloth over boards, spine and title gilt, original jacket. Pp. 46. Very good due to several small bites and chips from backstrip and top edge of jacket; rear hinge a tad loose but holding; internally very good plus with a...... More
Omaha, Nebraska: N.P., 1906. 6¼” x 4¼”. Blue cloth, gilt. pp. 96 + portrait frontis and three interspersed photographic plates. Good: heavily worn with patches of boards threadbare; heavily shaken but holding; frontis detached. This is an autobiography, family history and small collection of poetry written by Eliza..... More
Chicago, IL: N.P., 1943. 8¼” x 5½”. Stapled wrappers. Pp. 16. Good: wrappers moderately soiled with a three-inch neat excision from front, affecting first word of cover title; penciled notation to top of one page; lightly toned and spotted with a few small stains. This is a rare..... More
New York, New York: New York, New York, 1976. 10¼” x 3½”. Stapled thin card wrappers. Pp. [30]. Very good minus: center bifolium detached with a moderate crease; wrappers lightly toned, creased and soiled; one corner with a tiny dogear and several with a dash of stray ink... More