New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Thurgood Marshall, Ronald L. Fair, Anthony Monteiro, W. Alphaeus Hunton, Tom Dent, Johnetta Richards, and Barry D. Amis. Cover portrait of Nelson Mandella. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; pp.[iii],124-184; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, gentle sunning to..... More
New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Porter Kirkwood, Jr., Richard G. Hatcher, Lisbeth Grant, Ann Allen Shockley, Sha'ir Rasul, Dorothy Cotton, J.H. O'Dell, Ruby Dee, and John Henrik Clarke, et al. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; pp.[iii],308-400; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers..... More
New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Contents include contributions by J.H. O'Dell, Julius E. Thompson, Julius K. Nyerere, Keith Baird, Jim Williams, Rosa Marshall, Constance E. Berkeley, and Lily Golden, et al. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; pp.[iii],100-192; illus. Light shelfwear and dustiness; Very Good+. More
New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Special issue commemorating the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with a photographic portrait of the civil rights leader on the front cover, beneath the quote "I have climbed to the top of the mountain." Contents include a moving editorial (Farewell..... More
New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Loyle Hairston, Cheddi Jagan, C.E. Wilson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, with cover art by Charles White. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-96pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine, light shelfwear, with several lower page corners creased; Very Good+..... More
New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Special issue on Mississippi. Contents include contributions by Fanny Lou Hamer ("Life in Mississippi: An Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer"), George W. Crockett, Jr., Tom Dent, Mike Kellin, Joanne Grant, Staughton Lynd, Eric Morton, and Jim Williams, with an investigation of the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First American Edition. The Trinidadian author and historian's first novel (initially publshed by Andre Deutsch in 1963), a cycling novel set against the backdrop of the Southern Games and Trinidad's annual Carnival. Octavo (28cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into printed card covers; pp.1-68a. Light wear..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. First Edition. The African American author and sculptor's second and best-known book, a tragic coming-of-age novel that served as the basis for Joseph Manduke's 1975 film Cornbread, Earl and Me, starring NBA star Jamaal Wilkes and Laurence Fishburne in his film debut..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. The author's third novel, a provocative satire set in New York "that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America" (Penguin Random House). Kelley (1937-2017) was an African-American novelist and short story..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Third book and second novel by Kelley (1937-2017), an African-American novelist and short story writer best known for his debut novel, A Different Drummer. "One of the great jazz novels of any era, A Drop of Patience tells the story..... More
San Marino, CA: The John Birch Society, 1976. Reprints an anti-busing article from the John Birch Society newspaper. McManus blames the NAACP and Brown v. Board of Education for initiating forced school busing beginning in the 1950s, and characterizes integration as a "nightmare that won't go away." Probably intended for..... More
N.p. Socialist Labor Party, 1982. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 25pp. Pencil underlining and marginalia; owner's name to front cover ("Massi"), else fine. The Party's constitution as amended at the 1982 National Convention. More
[San Rafael]: Marin County Council of the National Council of Catholic Women, [1954]. Statement from the Catholic Legion of Decency regarding the moral perils of the movie theatre. Beneath instructions to "Pin Me Up" appears a six-point directive, delivered with papal clarity: "Pictures classified as "C" movies must be avoided..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Depression-era New England farm novel very much in the Erskine Caldwell vein, populated with wanton farmers' daughters and slack-jawed plowboys. Reissued in 1951 as a Pyramid pulp, retitled Farm Girl. Not in HANNA. Limited Issue, one of 1,000 numbered copies signed..... More
Los Angeles: S.i., [1963]. First Edition. Elusive newsletter produced by the Marxist-oriented youth group Los Angeles Youth for Peace & Socialism. The group was headed by acting chairman Paul Rosenstein, and held its first meeting on April 3, 1962. Contents contain articles on an attacked carried out on the NY..... More
Los Angeles: Sponsred Comics, Inc., [1952]. First Edition. Promotional comic book produced by the RNC for Dwight D. Eisenhower's first presidential campaign, prominently featuring the famous "I Like Ike" slogan on the front wrapper. Illustrated by comic book artist, director, film and TV producer Norman Maurer (1926-1986), best known for..... More
New York: United Labor and People's Committee for May Day, 1951. First Edition. Pamphlet containing Fast's superb essay on May Day, and illustrated throughout by a host of radical artists. Front and rear covers are illustrated by Charles Keller and Rockwell Kent, respectively, with illustrations throughout by Fred Ellis, Hugo..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. The first printing of the Third Edition, entirely re-set, and the first edition of TSL to have been printed from stereotype plates. One thousand copies printed. Later printings of this edition are designated by an 1851 date on the title page. CLARK A.16.3.a. First..... More
Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co., 1839. First Separate Edition. An essay built around Martineau's review of the three annual reports of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society for 1835-37 (published under the uniform title, Right and Wrong in Boston). The essay originally appeared in the Westminster Review for December, 1838. In..... More
Philadelphia: [Joint Committee on Research of the Community Council of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania School of Social Work], 1935. First Edition. A substantial study on the health and welfare of Pennsylvania children five years into the Great Depression. Compiled by the Joint Committee on Research of the Community Council of..... More
Washington DC: President's Committee on Economic Security, 1935. First Edition. Pamphlet based on a symposium entitled "The Economic Security Program," broadcast by the Columbia Broadcasting system on March 16, 1935. Contains brief essays by Harry Hopkins ("The Economic Security Plan"), Murry W. Latimer ("Security Against Old Age Dependency"), Katharine Lenroot..... More
[Washington, DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935. First Edition. Pamphlet focusing on the special child-welfare measures within Roosevelt's Economic Security Program, detailing measures for fatherless children, child and maternal health, and child care services. "It must not be for a moment forgotten that the core of any social plan must..... More
[Washington, DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935. First Edition. Brief government-issued pamphlet outlining the benefits of President Roosevelt's Economic Security Program - "For the millions now unemployed, jobs instead of relief...For the large majority of American workers, unemployment insurance...For all American citizens, old age security...For the child, better health and..... More
Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Company, 1969 (but ca.1972). Beck's first book, arguably the most influential 20th century depiction of the urban African American experience, chronicling his life and experiences as a pimp over several decades. Reprint. Octavo (17.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-317,[3]pp ads. Light wear and some trivial dustiness..... More
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Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First Edition. The African-American author's second book, "a personal look at the love relationship, through sensitive interviews with people...It is about the motivations, goals, and about some things that lovers don't even realize about themselves, like greed and deception"..... More
