Brother Gardner (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Blue cloth boards with black design and text on front, gilt on spine. Floral design end pages are free and clear of any handwriting or bookplates. But no hinge cracks noted. First edition thus. Exterior shows spine sunning and edge bumping. There's also a stain on the front board. See photos. Gean Smith (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Reprint. Hard cover 8vo in embossed green cloth. About Very Good/ No DJ. Cloth rubbed, spine illegible, front hinge a little loose, owner info front endpaper, pencil scribbles to endpapers, else Fine and unmarked. 300pp; illustrated by Gean Smith. Uncommon. Book. …

Cloth. Condition: Good. Cover is worn with some cloth edge chipping, damp staining to the rear cover fore-edge. Light ink staining to pages 48-49. H4. Gean Smith (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 300pp. Red cloth with black stamp illustration and design. White stamp lettering on cover, lettering on spine rubbed mute. Yellowed paper, with three worm holes at the corners, not through the text. Some pencilled marks on the fly-leaf. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall R4. …

Cloth. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. (1894), 300pp, slight soiling & shelfwear to cover, owner's name stamped in several places, a few pgs beginning to loosen, pgs yellowed, no dj, contents unmarked.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. Smith, Gean (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Chicago, 1882; green boards with black cover titles and gold spine titles; heavy wear and markings to covers; mild corner and edge wear; corners bumped; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; no jacket; interior clean and unmarked. 300 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. light wear around edges and corners; discoloring due to age; loosening spine; clean pages Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gean Smith (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. Smith, Gean (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Hardcover. 300p., first edition, illustrated with 11 fullpage wood engravings of urban and country African American life; these stylized and quite capable, if stereotyped. Minor edgewear. no DJ. Dialect novel set in Detroit's black community, by a European American author. For a change of pace, the table of contents page is arranged in Alphabetical order (!?!).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo hardcover volume in dark brown embossed cloth binding. Very minor wear with a couple spots on front board. End papers tight not cracked. 300 page tight and very clean with no faults.In African American Slang.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo. 1st edition. Caxton edition. 300 pp. Decorated embossed green boards. "Satire on post-Civil War African-Americans by Charles Bertrand Lewis of The Detroit Free Press." Decorated end pages. 10 illustrations.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a collection of humorous writings and speeches from the 19th-century African American author and abolitionist George W. Cable. Focusing mainly on the experiences of Black Americans in the post-Civil War era, Cable uses satire to shed light on both the social and racial injustices of the time. His work includes anecdotes, poems, and commentary on everything from parades to politics, providing the reader with a unique and engaging look at the era, and Cable's influence on its literary landscape. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Front hinge restored, some rubbing and very modest fraying at the extremities, a near very good copy. Comic novel.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 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. Red cloth hard cover with white stamp titles on the front board, black stamp illustration on the front board and spine. It is rubbed and lightly soiled on all extremities. The binding is cracked and pulling away from the spine. The pages are age-toned. The inside is unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. by Gean Smith, 7.5 x 4.75", pict red cloth, 300pp, covers rubbed and darkened, extremities bumped and fraying, spine quite worn, pp browned and fragile with some edge-chipping. Caxton Editon. Satire on post-Civil War African-Americans by Charles Bertrand Lewis of The Detroit Free Press.…

Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnWith Some Philosophy, Considerable Music, A Few Lectures, And A Heap Of Advice Worth Reading. Not Compiled In The Interests Of Congress, Or Any Department Of Government.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. .Being the regular meetings of the Regular Club for the last three years. With some philosophy, considerable music, a few lectures, and a heap of advice with reading. Not compiled in the interests of Congress or any other department of Government. Thin white wraps, blue spine title, red cover title, lavender cover illustration, lavender back full page advertisement, & pulp textblock with frontis; A good or good+ copy of a fragile book; 300 pages. Gean Smith (illustrator).…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Condition: Very Good. Each piece of sheet music: 1 score (Illustrated cover, blank page, 3 pages of music, final page listing music books available from J. M. Russell). 30 cm. Identical comical cover on both songs which was intended for these two songs plus "De Old Folks Waiting," all copyrighted in 1881 by J. M Russell and identified as having been composed by Brother Gardner, President of the Lime Kiln Club, Detroit, Michigan. Brother Gardner and the Lime Kiln Club were fictional creations of Charles Bertrand Lewis, using a pseudonym ("M. Quad"). The Detroit Free Press was the original publisher of Lewis's series of humorous, racially stereotyped sketches lampooning the thinking and actions of African Americans. Syndicated nationally, the racial stereotyping and crude humor found a large, receptive white audience. We do not know whether Mr. Lewis was involved in composing these song. The music for "Little Baby Joe" is credited to M. J. Arthur; the music for "Old Joe's Dream" is credited to C. Alixa.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.