Sale 484 Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:00 AM Fine Americana Travel & Exploration With Ephemera & Manuscript Material Auction Preview Tuesday July 17, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, July 18, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, July 19, 9:00 am to 11:00 am Other showings by appointment 133 Kearny Street 4th Floor:San Francisco, CA 94108 phone: 415.989.2665 toll free: 1.866.999.7224 fax: 415.989.1664 [email protected]:www.pbagalleries.com REAL-TIME BIDDING AVAILABLE PBA Galleries features Real-Time Bidding for its live auctions. This feature allows Internet Users to bid on items instantaneously, as though they were in the room with the auctioneer. If it is an auction day, you may view the Real-Time Bidder at http://www.pbagalleries.com/realtimebidder/ . Instructions for its use can be found by following the link at the top of the Real-Time Bidder page. Please note: you will need to be logged in and have a credit card registered with PBA Galleries to access the Real-Time Bidder area. 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Administration Roger Wagner, Chairman Scott Evans, President Shannon Kennedy, Vice President, Client Services Angela Jarosz, Administrative Assistant Megan Hipsley, Shipping Clerk Consignments, Appraisals & Cataloguing Bruce E. MacMakin, Senior Vice President George K. Fox, Vice President, Market Development & Senior Auctioneer Gregory Jung, Senior Specialist Erin Escobar, Specialist Marketing Maureen Gross, Vice President of Marketing Photography & Design Chad Mueller, Photographer Summer-Fall Auctions, 2012 July 19, 2012 – Fine Americana – Travel & Exploration August 2, 2012 – Fine Press – Illustrated Books – Fine Bindings & Sets – Miscellanea August 16, 2012 – Fine Golf Books & Memorabilia August 30, 2012 – Fine Literature September 13, 2012 – Rare Books & Manuscripts September 27, 2012 – Americana - African-American History - Travel & Exploration Schedule is subject to change. Please contact PBA or pbagalleries.com for further information. Consignments are being accepted for the 2012 Auction season. Please contact Bruce MacMakin at [email protected]. Front Cover: Lot 62 Back Cover clockwise from upper left: Lots 29, 139, 386, 201 Bond # 14425383 Section I: Americana: Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Ephemera, Lots 1-342 Section II: Travel & Exploration, Lots 343-411 Section I: Americana 1. Adams, Ansel and Edward Joesting. The Islands of Hawaii - condensed edition. [16] pp. including wrappers. 28x35.5 cm. (11x14”), wrappers. Hawaii: Bishop National Bank of Hawaii, 1959 “Since we have had many more requests for the book than we have been able to supply we decided to publish this condensation.” -introduction. Some light wear to wrappers, a small tear at spine; dust soiling inside and out; very good. (100/150) SELECTION OF BLACK AMERICANA 2. (African-American) Cobb, W. Montague. The First Negro Medical Society: A History of the Medico- Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia, 1884-1939. x, 159 pp. (8vo) original green cloth. First Edition. Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, 1939 Written by a Professor of Anatomy at Howard University, and published by the first African- American publishing company in the US, brainchild of the “father” of Black history, Carter Woodson. Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good. (200/300) 3. (African American) Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore. The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer Containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and About the Negro Race. 288 pp. Portrait frontispiece and several other plates from photographs. (8vo) cloth. First Edition. Naperville, Ill: J.L. Nichols & Co., [1920] First printing of an early literary anthology of Black writers and poets, published at the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance and edited by the widow of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, an author in her own right, as well as an active suffragette and political reformer. Selections from Dunbar himself, as well as William Stanley Braithwaite, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chestnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Charlotte Grimke, T. Thomas Fortune – and Alexander Pushkin, the great Russian romantic poet, who was descended from an Ethiopian prince held captive in Turkey. Light wear and soiling to cloth, short split to rear joint at head; very good. (150/250) Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue. Go to www.pbagalleries.com Page 1 4. (African-American Children’s Literature) Floyd, Silas X. Charming Stories for Young and Old. 320 pp. (8vo) original red cloth. New edition “greatly revised and enlarged, with ABC’s Supplement by Mrs. Alice H. Howard” Washington, D.C.: Austin Jenkins Company, [1925] Though sub-titled “for young and old”, this collection of stories was clearly aimed at African- American children, for whom few books of non-racist content were written until some twenty years later. The “Negro Authors” are not identified, and it’s possible that most of the stories were written by Floyd himself, a Baptist Minister who wrote children’s stories for a variety of periodicals. This may be the first such anthology to appear, as the first edition was published in 1905 under the title “Floyd’s Flowers”, while Floyd was working as an editor of “The Voice of the Negro”, one of the earliest Black literary journals of the 20th century. Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good. (300/500) 5. (African-American) Locke, Alain. Plays of Negro Life: A Source-Book of Native American Drama. [18], 430 pp. Illustrations by Aaron Douglas. (8vo) cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927 A Harvard Ph.D. and the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke is often called “the father of the Harlem Renaissance” because of his encouragement of Black writers, musicians, and artists – including Aaron Douglas, the illustrator of this book and one of the premiere Black artists of the Art Deco period. Among the selections in the anthology is Eugene O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones”, with a photograph of Paul Robeson in the starring role. Binding worn and soiled, abrasion to front board, hinges cracked, gift inscriptions on front free endpaper; good. (150/250) 6. (African-American) Seventy Years of Service: New Orleans University. 106 pp. (8vo) original blue cloth. First Edition. New Orleans: Published by the Faculty, 1935 Scarce history of one of the first Historically-Black Colleges in America, originally founded as a Bible Institute in New Orleans after the Civil War by the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After its “seventy years of service”, this was the College’s last publication before it merged into the present-day Dillard University. Light wear, lower corners bumped; very good. (200/300) 7. (African-American) White, Newman Ivey & Walter Clinton Jackson. An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes. [2], xii, 250 pp. (8vo) original blue cloth. First Edition. Durham, N.C.: Trinity College Press, 1924 An early anthology of Black poetry, with a 25-page Introduction by James Hardy Dillard, the white educator who devoted his life to training Black teachers, Includes poems by Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Timothy Thomas Fortune, William Stanley Braithwaite, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen. Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good. (150/250) 8. (African-American - Photography) Lindsley, H[arvey] B. Autograph Letter, signed, from the man who photographed Harriet Tubman. Autograph Letter, signed. 1 page. With an unidentified and undated carte-de-visit from Lindsley’s Gallery. Auburn, NY: September 24, 1889 To a Miss Whitney, about some lost negatives.