Racial Discrimination
New York: United Nations, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original blue wrappers; xvi,324pp. About Fine. More
New York: United Nations, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original blue wrappers; xvi,324pp. About Fine. More
Roma: Editori Riuniti, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 321pp. A few brief spots of ink underlining, else a tight, lightly worn copy, Very Good or better. Text entirely in Italian. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Brown cloth over paper-covered boards; dustjacket; xii,273pp. Fine and unmarked in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper; a new-appearing copy. More
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1926. First Edition. HANNA 3405. BOGER 434. COAN p.155. Set in east Tennessee; the central event is a KKK lynching. Dramatized for Broadway in 1928, as "Rope." Uncommon in jacket. Octavo. Cloth boards with pictorial spine and cover labels; dustjacket; 405pp. Clean and tight, very Near..... More
New York: Wessels & Co., 1906. Reprint. Early reprint of the first novel in Dixon's white supremacist "Reconstruction" trilogy, which included The Clansman (1905) and The Traitor (1907). The title page bears the motto: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?" One critic has rightly characterized..... More
[n.p.]: The Gray Book Committee, [n.d.; 1920]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Stapled pamphlet in grey paper wrappers printed in black; 53,[1]pp. Lightly rubbed, with minor external soil and faint sunning along spine, pages facing wrappers browned, else bright: Very Good. A collection, gathered from various sources, of Confederate..... More
Paris: Présence Africaine, [1956?]. First Thus. 12mo (18.75cm.); original cream card wrappers printed in red and black; 322pp. Light dust-soiling, else a Fine, unopened copy. French-language translation of the Portuguese novel Terra Morta, first published in 1949, and based on the changes in race relations at the beginning of the..... More
Washington DC: Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial glossy wrappers; 39pp; illus. Light wear; Near Fine. Articles on the State of Emergency, the Rent Boycott Campaign, Political Trials, etc. More
London: International Defence and Aid Fund, 1970. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo; mimeographed wrappers; 47pp. Fine, unread copy. Case of 22 Black defendants arrested in 1969 under the Suppression of Communism Act. More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 10pp. Mild corner-creasing and evidence of handling, else Fine. One of a series of "Topical Talks" on South African race relations issued by the SAIRR in the 1960s. More
[Johannesburg]: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1949. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); original yellow decorative wrappers; [4],86pp. Wrappers and text toned and brittle due to poor paper quality, a few shallow damp stains, spine a bit chipped. Near Very Good. More
London: International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 1983. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 112pp; illus. Minor external wear; Near Fine and unmarked. Detailed cultural history of South African apartheid, well-illustrated and replete with statistical and ethnographic data. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1834. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo (20cm). Glazed pale red cloth, titled on printed paper spine label; 428,[4]pp; 4pp publisher's ads at rear; folding map and four plates. Bookseller's ticket of Moore & Payne to front pastedown. Ownership inscriptions of Wm. M. Holland, 1836..... More
New York: Alexander Defense Committee, 1966. First Edition. Expose of state-sponsored apartheid in South Africa and Rhodesia. With several photographic illustrations (halftones). The author was Executive Secretary of the Alexander Defense Committee, organized in 1965 to advocate on behalf of the "Alexander Eleven," a group of anti-apartheid activists, headed by..... More
[Johannesburg: Rostra Printers, n.d., ca. 1948]. First Edition. 12mo (17.25cm.); original white printed staplebound card wrappers; 15pp. Extremities sunned, textblock uniformly toned and brittle due to poor paperstock, tiny loss to lower fore-edge corner of first few leaves and upper wrapper. Still, Very Good. Anti-apartheid policy of South Africa's leading..... More
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1965. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); corner-stapled self-wrappers; 10pp. Fine condition. More
Atlanta: The Southern Regional Council, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 40pp. Fine, apparently unread copy. Follow-up to the SRC's 1960 report titled "Intimidation, Reprisal and Violence in the South's Racial Crisis," documenting the continuing crisis of violence and intimidation stemming from the 1954 school desegregation decisions. The current pamphlet..... More
New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1935. First Edition. An appraisal of the state of Soviet Jewry at the conclusion of the Five Year Plan, with frequent comparisons drawn to the steady decline in Jewish autonomy under Fascism during the same period. "...the fact that the Russian Jews, during the seventeen..... More
New York: Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, [1924]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original grey wrappers printed in blue; vi,258pp. Minor wear, spine a hint toned, contemporary bookplate inside upper wrapper, else Very Good and sound. Early work in which the liberal protestant author claims that..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards, titled in white and red on spine; dustjacket; 317pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in slightly rubbed pictorial dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks at extremities; Very Good. American journalist's analysis of the South African apartheid state under the ministry of..... More
River Edge, NJ: Search fo Truth Forum, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 31pp. Very Good. Laid in, a 4-pp response to this work , also issued by Search for Truth Forum, titled "Labels." More
New York: Community Relations Service, [1951]. Reprinted from The Survey, September 1951. Staple-bound pamphlet; 11pp. Binder perforation at bound edge, else Near Fine. More
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); green paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[2],296pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Hint of sunning to crown, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $16.95). Mystery novel..... More
London: Willian Heinemann Ltd, [1937]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original black cloth in tan dust jacket printed in black and red, black topstain; [6],170pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and darkened, especially at spine, small loss at crown only just touching text, endpapers quite toned, else Very Good in Near..... More
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original grey staplebound card wrappers; 86pp. Light wear, else Very Good or better. Condemnation of racism in South Africa. More