Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1957. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Black cloth, stamped in orange of spine and front cover; dustjacket; 119pp. Slight bumps to upper board corners, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly soiled and edgeworn with a small chip at crown of... More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1985]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in blue pictorial dust jacket; 216pp. Some minor toning and edge wear to jacket extremities, spine crown a bit chipped, else Very Good and sound. Review copy with slip laid in. More

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, [before 1912]. Reprint. Early reprint, with East Kinzie Street address (Kerr's address from 1908-1912); ads for "Ancient Society" on rear wrapper. Printed white self-wraps, retaining the fragile, unprinted red cellophane outer wrappers; 25pp + (7)pp ads. Small chips and tears to cellophane wrappers; text slightly age-darkened;... More

N.p. Weather Underground / Red Dragon Print Collective. Final issue of this important New Left journal, printed clandestinely by members of the Weather Underground between 1975 and 1976. The place of printing shifted a number of times during this period, as the Collective sought to evade detection by authorities. Later... More

Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, [1978]. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); original cloth in white dust jacket illustrated with photograph by Gordon Parks; xiii,[3],174pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece of Shirley Graham Du Bois by Carl Van Vechten, additional photographic illus. throughout. A few closed tears and chips to jacket extremities, the largest a.... More

[San Diego: 1970]. Announces establishment, by the UCSD Art Department in conjunction with chancellor William McGill, of the "George Winne Memorial Shrine...taking George's charred remains as its core, the Shrine will seek to involve and encompass the entire campus....Passive Resistance can only have effect under conditions of complete self-sacrifice. In..... More

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. A collection of essays and open letters Cleaver wrote while incarcerated at Folsom State Prison, one of the most influential books of the 1960's that changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. Soul On Ice describes Cleaver's experiences during... More

Onitsha: Membership Bookshop, [1971]. Fourth Edition. A cautionary tale about a beautiful Nigerian girl named Mabel ("...her skin would make your blood flow in the wrong direction"), who, once she goes down the path of sexual promiscuity, ultimately comes to a very bad end. One of numerous examples of the... More

N.p. [Chicago? ca 1920s]. Roscoe Conkling Simmons (1881-1951), the Tuskegee-educated nephew of Booker T. Washington, was among the most popular African-American political orators of the pre-War period. He remained a staunch Republican, even through the New Deal era when many Blacks switched allegiance to the Democratic Party, and gave the..... More

New York: Liberation Collective, 1972. First Edition. Single quarto issue. Staple-bound card wrappers; 35pp; illus. Address label affixed to front wrapper; Very Good. Monthly magazine of non-Marxist leftist opinion and commentary, co-founded by Dave Dellinger and A.J. Muste in 1956. This issue with articles by Muriel Schein and Carol Lopate... More

New York: Society of Umbra, 1963. Scarce second issue of this important Black Arts journal, published by members of the Umbra Workshop. Contents include contributions by Ishmael Reed, Rolland Snellings, Clarence Major, Maryanne Raphael, Conrad Rivers, and Will Inman, et al. With cover and internal photographs by Henri de Chatillon... More

[Carmel, CA: Lucia Lane & Associates, 1974]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original yellow staplebound card wrappers printed in green; [4],16pp. Fine. Scarce proposal, with OCLC listing 7 copies as of December, 2015. More

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., [1970]. Second (1979) Printing. New, abridged edition of Cunard's seminal anthology, first published in 1934. A monumental work, compiling some 250 contributions by more than 150 authors (two-thirds of whom were Black), first published and financed by Cunard, a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin... More