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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) DU BOIS CLUBS OF AMERICA.
Insurgent. Volume 1, No. 1, March-April, 1965.
Illustrated. 27 pages, Small folio, orig-
inal pictorial black and white wrappers. San Francisco: Du Bois Clubs, 1965
[300/400]
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) GILMORE, F. GRANT.
Masonic and
Other Poems.
Portrait frontispiece. 20 pages. 8vo, original blue cloth stamped in white;
very lightly rubbed.
Rochester, N.Y.: For the author. 1908
[700/1,000]
FIRST EDITION
,
RARE
.
ONLY ONE COPY LOCATED BY OCLC
.
Featured poems are “Prince
Hall,” and “The Candidate,” dealing expressly with Masonic subjects. Grant Gilmore, a vet-
eran of the Spanish American War was also the author of a novel, “The Problem, a Military
Novel (1915). The latter dealt with the color lines within the African American community.
Porter, page 39.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.)
GOODING, [JAMES] HENRY.
The
Sailor’s Thoughts of Home * Oh Do
They Sometimes Think Of Me * In
Memory of Albert Hooper Who was
Lost Overboard, October 4th 1856 *
In Memory of Eli Dodge, who was
Killed by a Whale, Sept. 4, 1858.
Four
printed poems on thin paper, each with a
woodcut border, and averaging 6 x 3
1
⁄
2
inches; paper evenly toned; a couple with
archival paper repairs.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
[New Bedford?, circa 1864?]
[1,000/1,500]
FOUR RARE EXAMPLES OF POEMS BY A
YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN WHALER
.
James Henry Gooding (1836-1864) poet,
sailor, and Civil War soldier, was born in Troy,
New York. Little is known of his early life but
six poems composed while at sea on the whal-
ing ship Sunbeam from 1856 to 1859 were
printed in small broadside format. His letters
home have been published in a collection “On
the Altar of Freedom, a Black Soldier’s Civil
War letters from the Front, edited by Virginia
M. Adams (University of Massachusetts
Press), where these poems are cited. There is no
record of where the poems were printed, though
the editor mentions similar work by the
Mercury Job Printer in New Bedford, which
would make sense. They are not cited by Porter
or French, nor included in Brown University’s enormous Harris Collection of American poetry. A
complete set of six were given to the Old Dartmouth Historical Society in 1916 by Frank E. Brown,
a New Bedford manufacturer of Whaling gear. Other than that, the present four examples are the
only other known copies.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) GRANT, JOHN WESLEY.
Photographic
portrait.
Oval silver print photograph, 5 x 3
1
⁄
2
inches, on the original photographer’s card
mount; the latter somewhat soiled, the photo clean.
Philadelphia: Lay, circa 1900
[300/400]
