BEIN 2003 Folio 79: From the library of Paul Mellon., Contains only twelve portraits and biographical sketches. According to Sabin, the work was finished in 1856., and General Zachary Taylor -- John Caldwell Calhoun -- Daniel Webster -- Silas Wright -- Henry Clay -- John Charles Fremont -- John James Audubon -- William Hickling Prescott -- General Winfield Scott -- Millard Fillmore -- William Ellery Channing -- Lewis Cass.
Publisher:
M.B. Brady, F. D'Avignon, C.E. Lester,
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Biography and United States--Portraits
Subject (Name):
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896, Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850, D'Avignon, F, and Mellon, Paul--Ownership
Dust jacket price clipped. Bookplate of Scott Cunningham. Presentation inscription to Scott Cunningham from the author dated January 8, 1927.
Publisher:
Boni & Liveright,
Subject (Name):
Boni & Liveright, publisher, Cunningham, Scott--Bookplate., Cunningham, Scott--Presentation inscription from F. Newman., and Newman, Frances,--d. 1928.--Presentation inscription to S. Cunningham.
Inscribed for Carl Van Vechten by William Christopher Handy. and Ragtime for piano.
Publisher:
Pace & Handy Music Co.,
Subject (Name):
Handy, W. C.--(William Christopher),--1873-1958--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten and Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from W.C. Handy
Our eternity., Unknown guest., and Wrack of the storm.
Description:
Binding design, signed D[backward D], by Decorative Designers., Bookplate of Leonard and Lisa Baskin. Inscribed: A very Merry Christmas 1917 to Faith from Russell., Introduction -- Our injustice to death -- Annihilation -- Communications with the dead -- The fate of our consciousness -- Two aspects of infinity -- Our fate in those infinities -- Conclusions -- The knowledge of the future -- Heroism -- On rereading Thucydides -- The dead do not die. -- In memoriam -- The life of the dead -- The war and the prophets -- The will of earth -- When the war is over., The "essays ... are taken [from] Our eternity, The unknown guest and The wrack of the storm"--P. vii., and Translated from the French.
Publisher:
Dodd, Mead and Company,
Subject (Topic):
Future life, Parapsychology, and Parapsychology--Research
A powerful visual record & concise narrative of the slave trade that describes life in Africa & horrifying details of slave ships. This is an important book about the slave trade. Sixty-four narrative paintings chronicle the journey of a slave ship & a historical introduction traces four centuries of slave trade. Map of the slave routes.
Description:
BEIN 2010 Folio 7: Dust jacket. Dial Books bookplate signed by the author. and Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher:
Dial Books,
Subject (Name):
Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998, Dial Books for Young Readers Bookplate, Feelings, Tom, and Feelings, Tom--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Africans in art, Slave ships--Pictorial works, and Slavery in art
Bibliography: p. 421-446. and Dust jacket. Editor's presentation inscription to Carl Van Vechten. Auographs from contributors throughout: James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Aaron Douglas, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Miguel Covarrubias and Walter White. Bookplate of Carl Van Vechten.
Publisher:
Albert and Charles Boni,
Subject (Name):
Albert & Charles Boni publisher, Covarrubias, Miguel,--1904-1957--Autograph, Cullen, Countee,--1903-1946--Autograph, Douglas, Aaron--Autograph, Fisher, Rudolph,--1897-1934--Autograph, Hughes, Langston,--1902-1967--Autograph, Johnson, James Weldon,--1871-1938--Autograph, Locke, Alain LeRoy,--1886-1954--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten, Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from A.L. Locke, and White, Walter Francis,--1893-1955--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
African American art, African Americans--Folklore, American literature--African American authors, Art, Black, Blacks--Folklore, and Literature--Black authors
"The greater part of this poem was delivered before the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in June, 1911"--Verso of 2d. prelim. leaf. and Bookseller's label: The Old Corner Book Store, Inc, Boston, Mass.