This ongoing catalogue / wish list is compiled using the catalogue of Anne Spencer's personal books from the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. The PLL is looking for the exact editions stated.
GARDENING & NATURE
-De La Mare, A.T., ed.,
Garden Guide: the Amateur Gardeners’ Handbook (A.T. De La Mare Co., 1940)
AFRICAN & AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
-(--), An Appeal to the Common Sense of Colored Citizens (Republican National Committee, 1940)
-(--), Africa: Questions and Answers for Mission Circles and
Bands (Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
of the Presbyterian Church, 1897)
-(--), One year from
the day that the Supreme Court of the United States outlawed segregation in
public schools everyone interested in implementing that decision is invited to
attend a Southwestern Regional Conference on Integration in Houston, Texas, May
17, 1955 (Southern -Regional
Conference on Integration, 1955)
-Atlanta Urban League, The Negro School Child in Atlanta (The Atlanta Urban League, 1945)
-Davidson, Basil, A Guide to African History (Doubleday & Company, 1965)
-Dobler, Lavinia and William A. Brown, Great Rulers of the
African Past (Doubleday, 1965)
-Lee, David, The Negro Problem: Editorial (1948)
-McCulloch, James E., The Call of the New South: Addresses
Delivered at the Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tennessee, May 7 to
10, 1912 (Southern Sociological Congress,
1912)
-Ottley, Roi, ‘New World A-Coming’: Inside Black America (Houghton Mifflin, 1943)
-Streeter, Daniel W., Denatured Africa (Garden City, 1929)
-Willkie, Wendell, Wendell Willkie Speaks to Negroes:
Address at Rally of Colored Republicans, Chicago, Illinois, September 13, 1940 ( Republican National Committee, 1940)
LABOR & SOCIAL JUSTICE
-Hutchison, Keith, Labour in Politics (Labour Publishing Company, 1925)
-Nathan, Maud, The Wage Earner and the Ballot (National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1908)
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Does
Your Congressman Represent You?: A Voters Guide (1964)
FICTION & POETRY
-(--), Chronicle and
romance : Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (P.
F. Collier & Son, 1910)
-(--), Heartsease: or, The Brother’s Wife (D. Appleton and Co., 1855)
-Boyeson, Hjalmar H., Falconberg (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899)
-Brinker Post, Mary, Annie Jordan: A Novel of Seattle (Doubleday & Co., 1948)
-Butterworth, Hezekiah, Up
from the Cape: a Plea for Pepublican Simplicity;
Mayflower Tales (J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company,
1883)
-Chevalier, Maurice, With Love (Little, Brown & Co., 1960)
-Dunsany, Lord, Five
plays : the gods of the mountain, The golden doom,
King Argimēnēs and the unknown warrior, The glittering
gate, The lost silk hat (Little,
Brown & Co., 1917)
-Ellmann, Richard, ed., The Norton Anthology of Modern
Poetry (W.W. Norton & Company, 1973)
-Fallada, Hans, Little Man, What Now? (Simon & Schuster, 1933)
-Fast, Howard, Citizen Tom Paine (Bantam Books, 1946)
-Gras, Felix, (Catharine Janvier, trans.), The White
Terror: A Romance of the French Revolution and After (D. Appleton and Co., 1900)
-Harris, Cyril, Street of Knives (Little, Brown & Co., 1950)
-Johnson, Johnson's
Chief Lives of the Poets : being those of Milton,
Dryden, Swift, Addison, Pope, Gray, and Macaulay's Life of Johnson (Foreword by
Matthew Arnold) (Henry Holt & Co., 1880)
-Kerlin, Robert T., Contemporary Poetry of the Negro (Press of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural
Institute, 1921)
-Kipling, Rudyard, Barrackroom Ballads (Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1899)
-Kipling, Rudyard, Departmental Ditties (M.A. Donohue & Co., 1901)
-O’Brien, Edward J., ed., The Best Short Stories of 1924:
and The Yearbook of the American Short Story
(Small, Maynard & Co., 1925)
-Patten, William, ed., Short Story Classics (American) ( P.F. Collier & Son, 1905)
-Rothberg, Abraham, The Thousand Doors (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965)
-Scott, Sir Walter, The Lady of the Lake (Thomas Crowell & Sons, 1893-1900)
-Shoup, Francis Elliott, ed., Pope's The Iliad of Homer : books I, VI, XXII, and XXIV (B. F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1901)
-Smart, C., trans., The Works of Horace (David McKay, 1896)
HISTORY
-(--), Washington Merry-Go-Round (Liveright, 1931)
-Addington Symonds, John, Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library, 1935)
-Anthony, Katharine, Catherine the Great (Garden City, 1927)
-Dabney, Richard Heath, The Causes of the French
Revolution (Henry Holt and Co., 1889)
-De Tocqueville, Alexis, Democracy in America (Colonial Press, 1899)
-Gibson, Hugh, ed., The
Ciano diaries, 1939-1943 : the complete,
unabridged diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian minister for foreign
affairs, 1936-1943 (Doubleday and Co., 1946)
-Langford Warren, Herbert, The Foundations of Classic
Architecture (Macmillan Co., 1919)
-Parman, Jr., Francis, The California and Oregon Trail:
Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (Hurst and Co., 1900)
-Turner, Edward Raymond, Europe, 1789-1920 (Doubleday, Page, 1920)
-Vehanen, Kosti, Marian Anderson: A Portrait (McGraw Hill, 1941)
LANGUAGE & EDUCATION
-Orlanidi, Nazareno, Italian Grammar (Tip. Sociale, 1910)
-Tuckerman, Julius, Simplicité : a Reader of French Pronunciation (American Book
Co., 1908)
SCIENCE & MATH
-Chamberlin, Thomas, A College Text-Book of Geology (Henry Holt and Co., 1909)
-Curry, Preston E., and Ralph Rice, Applied Business Arithmetic (South-Western Publishing Co., 1940)
-Korzybski, Alfred, Manhood of Humanity: the Science and Art of Human
Engineering (Dutton and Co.,
1921)
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