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The Colored Boy [wrapper title] by [African Americana]: Somerville, C.C.

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Title: The Colored Boy [wrapper title]
Author: [African Americana]: Somerville, C.C.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: [N.p., likely Portsmouth, Va, 1929. [5],25pp. Original pictorial wrappers with photographic portrait of the author as a young man on front wrapper, stapled. Substantial toning and some dust-soiling and pencil math markings to wrappers, moderate chip to bottom corner of rear wrapper. Internally quite clean. Overall about very good. An exceedingly rare work of African American uplift published at the outset of the Great Depression by a notable Virginia preacher. Dr. C.C. Somerville was an active and in-demand traveling preacher based in Portsmouth, Virginia. However, according to contemporary newspaper records, Somerville preached up and down the eastern seaboard from North Carolina to Connecticut in the 1920s and '30s. In his "Publisher's Note" in the present pamphlet, Somerville indicates the work is the "third edition of this brochure," but such a claim might be hyperbole. The work opens with a small contemporary portrait of the author, followed by his note, then a dedication, two pages of testimonials, and then the main text of the work. Somerville dedicates the work "for hope and inspiration of the coloored youth who erstwhile has been held down with many a handicap, but who has the right and ability to rise when shown the way, and who will some day come into his own." The testimonials come from four pastors from Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, plus the newspaper office of the Newark Herald. One pastor commends it "to anyone who is interested in the race uplift." The main text begins with a musing on the "circumstances" of "the colored boy" in history, that "he is born in and surrounded with poverty...sees much to discourage and very little to encourage" and so forth. "But," says Somerville, "the youth must take for his cue that the things worth having must be won by effort and that much of the opposition he meets must be made stepping stones by which he must rise." Somerville's text continues in much the same vein, with sections titled, "Use to Which He Should Apply His Talents," ","What Have We A Right to Expectof Him?," and "Some Specimens," being a series of short biographical notes on various African American figures of the day. Towards the end of the work, Somerville includes as an Addenda the text of a report from the Commission on Interracial Co-operation titled, "America's Obligation to the Negro" which includes sections on "Popular Fallacies About Race Relations" and"What Does the Negro Want?" The pamphlet concludes here, with the sentence, "In short, the Negro asks no special privileges, but simply even-handed justice and a fair chance in the struggle for existence." Being a man of God, Somerville's narrative is naturally tinged with religion, but he also widens out his thoughts on the history and social situation faced by African Americans. A very rare work. No copies are reported in OCLC, but we found two holdings through online searches, at the Maryland State Archives (also a stated "third edition") and the Atlanta University Center's Robert Woodruff Library.

Tsirk / Polet na lunu (Circus / Flight to the Moon) [Two-in-one Board Games] by Anonymous

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Title: Tsirk / Polet na lunu (Circus / Flight to the Moon) [Two-in-one Board Games]
Author: Anonymous
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Tallinn: Oktoober, 1960. Very good. A single, card stock board, hinged with linen, n. d. (1960s), 16 x 12 1/4; the two games on opposite sides; slipcase-style, card stock box, 8 1/2 x 13 1/2; single sheet of instructions, 8 x 5 3/4; box with a bit of rubbing to edges and a few small spots; board with light wear to margins and a small pen scratch; instructions sheet with some creasing; overall in very good- condition. In Estonian and Russian.A set of mystery board games from a phantom manufacturer, they were reminiscent of Chutes and Ladders and were created at the height of the lunar programs' competition between Russia and the United States. Although the rules called for pawns and a dice, it did not appear, as if they had been originally supplied with the box. Also, possibly because the two games relied on the same principle, the instructions described the rules for only the Circus game.

Letterproef Films en Rasters. by [TYPE SPECIMENS]. Jos. Neve.

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Title: Letterproef Films en Rasters.
Author: [TYPE SPECIMENS]. Jos. Neve.
Seller: Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA) (United States)
Condition: Somewhat rubbed and soiled; in good to very good condition.
Description: [Amsterdam]: ClichÈ- en Stereotypie-Inrichting Jos. Neve, [1946]. First edition.. Somewhat rubbed and soiled; in good to very good condition.. Oblong spiral-bound in pictorial card stock boards (6 x 9.75 inches), 87, [3] plus a mounted leaf and a laid-in circular. Illus. Met een gevoel van vreugde zenden wij U deze nieuwe letterproef toe." A relatively early specimen of types available from this Amsterdam phototype type supply shop, with period-appropriate workhorses like Nobel, Cooper, Futura, and Bodoni. Includes a few ornaments and rasters. The introduction is dated January, 1946. This 1946 specimen noted in OCLC at University of Amsterdam only. One letter in a Futura sample neatly razored out, presumably from a printer in a pinch.

Childe Harvard; a Romance of Cambridge by Senor Alguno [pseud. for Nathan Ames]

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Title: Childe Harvard; a Romance of Cambridge
Author: Senor Alguno [pseud. for Nathan Ames]
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Fine.
Description: Boston: Printed for the Author, 1848. First Edition. Original publisher's green embossed cloth.. Fine.. 8vo, [4], [5] - 172 pp. A piece of light verse celebrating Cambridge and college life in the manner of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Sabin #12728.

Days And Ways In Old Boston by Rossiter, William S. (editor)

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Title: Days And Ways In Old Boston
Author: Rossiter, William S. (editor)
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Boston: R. H. Stearns and Company. Fair. 1915. Hardcover. Book is in fair condition due to the cracked hinges making the book very fragile to handle while there is soiling throughout the book. The spine is almost completely worn off and the material of the board edges are very worn. There are some dates and signatures on the inside toward the spine on the preface page, perhaps from a previous book seller or owner. There is a handwritten note from a mother to her son as a gift in 1993 ; ; 8vo; 144 pages .

FABIAN ESSAYS IN SOCIALISM

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Seller: Second Life Books Inc

Title: FABIAN ESSAYS IN SOCIALISM
Seller: Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description: London: Water Scott, 1890. Walter Crane. 8vo. Edited by G. Bernard Shaw. Laurence BB7c. Reprint of the 1889 edition with a new cover by Walter Crane. Moderate handling wear but a VG copy. Essays by Shaw, Sidney Webb, William Clarke, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas and Hubert Bland.

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