San Francisco: Industrial Welfare Commission, 1950. First Edition. Report by the Industrial Welfare Commission, an organization established in 1913 to regulate hours, wages, and working conditions in the State of California. "Many important changes have taken place since the present California minimum wage for women and minors was fixed in..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition. An early poem by Randall, issued as No.8 by his Detroit-based Broadside Press, which issued nearly 100 poems (roughly one per month) in its Broadside Series. Broadside, with text printed in black on cream cardstock, measuring 5 13/16" x 11.5". Light wear and dustiness..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. First Edition. Single poem by the Chicago poet and member of the Nommo circle, issued as No.31 by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press, which issued nearly 100 poems (roughly one per month) in its Broadside Series. Broadside, with text printed in blue on white cardstock, measuring 6.75"..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition. Fabio (1928-1979) was a major figure in the Black Arts movement of the Sixties and Seventies, perhaps best known for her series of spoken-word recordings for Folkways which established her as one of the leading performance poets of her generation. This poem issued as..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition. An early work by the Cleveland poet and sculptor, issued as Broadside No.9 by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press, which issued nearly 100 poems (roughly one per month) in its Broadside Series. Broadside, with text printed in purple on pale gray stock, measuring 5.75" x...... More
New York: Harlem Trade Union Council, 1950. First Edition. "The text of an address to the National Labor Conference for Negro Rights, June 10, 1950, denouncing President Truman and the U.S. government for enslaving Negroes and others at home, and colonial people abroad with the Marshall Plan and the Point..... More
Chicago: Calliope Publishing, 1979. Single quarto issue in original staple-bound wrappers; 44pp; illus. Slight ageing and soil to covers, else Very Good. Articles on Holly Near, Carla Bley, Sophie Drinker, New Harmony Sisterhood Band, others. Holly Near cover portrait. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Edition. A novel "largely concerned with the social education and disillusionment of the son of an oil tycoon, set against the background of the oil scandals of the Harding Administration. There is also the background of southern California society, movie stars, evangelists..... More
[Berkeley: Free University of Berkeley / Berkeley Graphic Arts], 1969. First Edition. Detailed syllabus for the Spring, 1969 semester at Free University of Berkeley, containing a detailed synopsis of each class being offered. "Originally the Free University grew out of the free classes in Sproul Hall during the Free Speech..... More
Berkeley: Free University of Berkeley, 1966. First Edition. Premiere issue of the official journal of the Free University of Berkeley, founded by students and Free Speech Movement activists and operational between 1965-1972. Contents include contributions by Frank Cieciorka, Jim Glass, Joe Isom, Gerald Rosenfeld, Douglas Lummis, David Fields, and Robert..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Democratic National Campaign Committee, 1938. A near-complete set of broadsides (3 lacking) trumpeting the accomplishments of FDR in his first term and warning against the regressive social and fiscal policies of the Republicans. Each broadside on a different theme: Housing; the WPA; Trade Policy; Taxes; Farm Relief, etc...... More
[Richmond, IN: Paul Graphics, Inc.], 1977. First Edition. Collection of sermons by Harvey (1911-1976), an A.M.E. Church pastor and educator who, together with his wife, Claire Collins Harvey (1916-1995), were heavily active in civil rights causes in Mississippi and Louisiana. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],188,[4]pp; illus. Signed by editor..... More
Nashville: Southern Publishing Association, 1934. First Edition. Volume of Seventh Day Adventist doctrine by Peterson (1893-1969), the first Black graduate of Pacific Union College, and the first Black Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists. BLOCKSON 8801. Octavo (20.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and pictorial elements..... More
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1942. First Edition. Year-in-review report by the ACLU, covering "both the activities of the national office of the Union and the more significant activities of its affiliated local committees" (p.11). Contents include coverage of the German-American Bund, aliens, rights of labor, censorship, subversive activities..... More
New York: Aperture, 1981. First Edition. Collection of photographs and commentary from the former SNCC staff photographer, covering the Civil Rights Movement, motorcycle gangs, prison and street life, and his travels through Latin America. Wrappered Issue. Oblong quarto (22.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; 142pp; illus. Modest wear and dust-soil to wrappers;..... More
New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1967. A widely-reprinted pamphlet, first published a month after Malcolm X's assassination, containing Breitman's speech delivered to the Friday Night Socialist Forum at Eugene V. Debs Hall in Detroit on March 5, 1965. Fourth Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Trivial wear to extremities..... More
London: Heinemann / Contemporary Fiction, 1962. Reissue. The Nigerian author's second novel, and the second volume in his "African Trilogy," consisting of Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God. The story of an Igbo man who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial..... More
[Berkeley: Daily Californian, 1968]. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound, printed self-wrappers; 95pp. On newsprint. Mild age-toning to text, but not fragile. Report of sweeping changes made to U.C. Berkeley campus culture following the Free Speech and Vietnam protests of 1964-8. More
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound wrappers (softcover); 41,[8]pp. Fine. Description of the North Carolina "Homemaker Services" initiative, established in 1947, which placed social welfare agents in the homes of families and individuals in need, including shut-ins, children of disabled or incarcerated..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Welfare Administration, Children's Bureau, 1965. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound wrappers (softcover); 39pp. Fine. Summary analysis of findings, followed by statistical tables on "...the 245 public institutions for delinquent children that reported for the fiscal year 1964." More
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Welfare Administration, Children's Bureau, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound wrappers (softcover); 85pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Includes reports of various subcommittees including Services for Adolescent Girls; Families & Children of Agricultural Migrants; Parent & Family Life Education; etc...... More
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Welfare Administration, Children's Bureau, 1964. First Edition. Report on implementation of the 1962 amendments to the Social Security Act, dealing with the extension of child welfare services including expansion of child day care services, expanding services in rural communities, increased..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1963. First Edition. Summary progress report on Kennedy-era anti-delinquency initiatives in New York, Cleveland, New Haven, Boston, and seven other American cities. Quarto. Side-stapled sheets; printed cover-wrappers; 83pp. Slight external wear; ownership signature ("Return to Wyckoff") to front cover; Very..... More
New York: New York Journal-American, [1938]. Two WW2-era Hearst editorials, reprinted from the New York Journal-American of July 31, 1938 and July 21, 1938. Hearst disparages the "racial purity" of Hitler and his allies, praises the "American Race" which he describes as strong precisely because "...we have absorbed and assimilated..... More
New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 31pp. Mild dusting and age-toning to text and covers; cover wrappers slightly pulled; Very Good. Review of Mussolini's Fascist dictatorship five years on, with Salvemini, the exiled antifascist intellectual, taking the anti-Mussolini side. Rosselli was a Vassar..... More
