Providence, RI: Angell & Co., Printers, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 230 pp. William J. Brown (1814-1855) was a free African American born in Providence in 1814, the son and grandson of slaves owned by abolitionist Moses Brown. William Brown wrote and published his captivating autobiography as a means... More about The Life of William J. Brown; With Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island

New York: Carleton Press, A Reflection Book, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 33 p. 'Deep South Showman' is the life-story of Eddie Wilson, an Alabama-born African-American who became known as "The Moving Picture Man" in the rural South during the Twenties and Thirties (from... More about Deep South Showman, The Story of Eddie Wilson

New York: (Limited Editions Club), (1983). Bearden, Romare. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 2000 copies, folio size, 231 pp., signed by Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden, with LEC Monthly Letter. Derek Walcott (b. 1930), although trained as a painter, turned to writing as a young man, having his first... More about The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott [Poems of the Caribbean] & The Art of Romare Bearden