Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1912). Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays and speeches by this American newspaperman, humorist and later a clergyman who became well-known through his paragraphs in Iowa's 'The Burlington Hawkeye' which he joined in 1872. Includes his most famous lecture, "The Rise and Fall of the Mustache" - in the foreword, he claims to have given this speech more than 5000 times. Laid in is a newspaper article from shortly after his death and tipped onto the rear endpaper is a picture of his final home in California. Top edge gilt. 325 pp.

Freeport, NY: Books for Libaries Press, 1971. Hardcover - A work by this pioneering Black education and activist, originally published in 1896. Includes a brief biographical sketch by Edward L. Parks, and talks given by Crogman over the 13 years preceding publication, all related to "the race of which I am a member" as he noted. Among the subjects are Frederick Douglass, Bishop Atticus Haywood, the 26th and the 32nd anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation, and Negro education, needs and claims. xxiii, 330 pp.