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[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. 11 titles, including 3 by W.

The Negro. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. 12mo (171 x 121 mm). 4 maps. Publisher's yellow cloth, cover and spine stamped in blind. Condition: pencil markings and some discoloration; covers worn, spine faded. first edition of this important exploration of african history and culture. [With:] The College-Bred Negro: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Fifth Conference for The Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University, May 29-30, 1900. Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1900. Octavo (222 x 152 mm). 115 pp. Charts and tables. etc. Blue wrappers printed in black. Condition: light spotting; covers lightly worn. first edition. [With:] HAWKINS, Rev. William G. Lunsford Lane; or, Another Helper from North Carolina; LEWIS, Charles Bertrand. Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club. Being the Regular Proceedings of the Regular Club for the Last Three Years. With Some Philosophy, Considerable Music, a Few Lectures, and a Heap of Advice Worth Reading. first edition; PAYNTER, Jno. H. Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam; MERRIWEATHER, Claybron W. The Pleasures of Life: Lyrics of the Lowly, Essays, and Other Poems. rare; How You Get T.B. National Tuberculosis Foundation. a rare public-health brochure by a well-known Harlem Renaissance writer; The Brown Thrush: Anthology of Verse by Negro Students; Condition: upon request. Provenance: some with bookplate of Joseph J. McGuigan. [With:] DU BOIS, W. E. Burghardt. The Negro. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. 8vo (165 x 108 mm). Publisher's yellow cloth, lettered on upper cover and spine. Condition: covers and spine lightly soiled and stained, upper cover stained with small punctures to cloth. Provenance: Joseph J. McGuigan (bookplate). [With:] HAWKINS, William G. Lunsford Lane. Or, Another Helper from North Carolina. Boston: Crosby & Nichols, 1863. 12mo (191 x 127 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. Brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Condition: wear to head and foot of spine, endpapers town along joint on endpapers, light browning to endpapers. first edition. Sabin 30961. [With:] The Brown Thrush: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Students. Memphis: Malcolm-Roberts, 1935. 8vo. Provenance: Ernestyne Johnson [bookplate]. number 41. [With:] PAYNTER, JNO. H. Joining of the Navy. Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Co., 1895. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Condition: browning throughout, front board detached at endpaper, shelfwear to bottom edges and head of spine, browning to spine.(11)

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