![Item #7116 [Unused Ticket for] Epic of a Race](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7116.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1680291758)
Chicago, Illinois: [1933]. 2¼” x 5½”. Admission ticket printed on card stock, recto only. Near fine with a bit of edge wear. This is a ticket to the first of two annual events targeted to African Americans at Soldier Field as part of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair..... More
New York, N.Y. William K. Bell Publications, 1956. 8 1/8” x 5 3/8”. Bound, orange thin card wrappers. Pp. xi, 147. Very good: wrappers lightly worn with some dust soiling; faint evidence of water exposure to upper outer corner of around one third of the leaves. Inscribed by the author..... More
Chicago, Ill. Self-published, [1949]. 8¾” x 5¾”. Printed thin card wrappers. Pp. 112. Good: wrappers detached with water damage and patches of pink offset to first and last few leaves; owner name on dedication page; toning and dustsoiling throughout. Signed by the author on an affixed sticker to the dedication..... More
Detroit, Michigan: The H. O'Reilly Clint Co., [circa 1930]. 12¼” x 9¼”. Sheet music. Pp. 6. Very good with moderate wear and light dust soiling. This is the sheet music for a composition “dedicated to the Booker T. Washington Memorial, Detroit, Mich.” It features a full page illustrated image..... More
Cincinnati, O: Jennings & Pye, [1896]. Second edition stated. 7½” x 5½”. Green cloth, title gilt. Pp. [author frontis], [i-ix], x-xiii, 9-330 + + 8 plates interspersed. Good: corners frayed with small losses to spine tips; vertical patch of staining at the outer edge of both boards; hinges cracked but..... More
Marshall, Texas: [1941]. 11” x 8½”. Fourteen leaves of typescript typed recto only and stapled at corner. Pp. 13, approximately 4,000 words. Very good: light wear and a few small stains to edges; lightly toned. This is the text of a speech made by an African American HBCU president..... More
![Item #7190 Negro Migration From the Shreveport Area. Causes and Suggested Remedies [Cover title]....](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7190.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684955134)
[Shreveport, Louisiana]: [Shreveport Journal], [1945]. 9” x 6”. Stapled selfwrappers. Pp. 8. Good: several ink blots, affecting a couple characters of text; outer bifolium loose from bottom staple; faint water stains to edges; a few penciled notations and visible scratches. This is an offprint of a report lamenting..... More
Savannah, GA: The Morning News Print, 1888. 8¼” x 6”. Green cloth over boards, title gilt. Pp. [5], [A]-E, [6], iv-v, [blank page], 360. Good: Ex-library with remnants of call number to spine, bookplate, due cards and embossed stamp on title page; moderately shaken, boards moderately worn with losses at..... More
Savannah, GA: The Morning News Print, 1888. 8¼” x 6”. Cloth over boards, gilt. Pp. [5], [A]-E, [6], iv-v, [blank page], 5-360. Good: lacking two leaves consisting of pp. 1-4 that appear to never have been bound in; boards moderately worn and lightly soiled, leaves lightly toned with scattered dust..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1914. 6¾” x 4 5/8”. Red cloth. pp. 81. Very good minus: moderate wear and soiling to boards, small owner stamp to all four endpapers as well as eleven pages in the text; textblock split but holding b/t pages 50/51; heavy dampstain in..... More
[Kansas City, Missouri]: [Self-published], 1950. First printing stated. 10 7/8” x 8½”. Illustrated wrappers. Pp. vi, 177. Good: front wrapper partially split and reinforced with archival tape as well as a chip at the lower corner; internally very good; lightly dust-soiled. Inscribed by William H. Young on the title page..... More