Chicago: Muhammad's Mosque/Temple No.2, 1967. First Edition. Though statements from within the Nation of Islam are often conflicting, it is generally accepted that Malcolm X founded the weekly Muhammad Speaks in 1961. A long-running and entirely independent periodical (even of advertisers) which would become the official publishing organ of the..... More

Chicago: Muhammad's Mosque/Temple No.2, 1970. First Edition. Though statements from within the Nation of Islam are often conflicting, it is generally accepted that Malcolm X founded the weekly Muhammad Speaks in 1961. A long-running and entirely independent periodical (even of advertisers) which would become the official publishing organ of the..... More

Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1942. Octavo (27cm). Blue cloth, gilt spine title, pale blue typographic dust jacket; [xiv]147,[1]pp. Inscribed by Beatrice Warde to librarian Nora Beust on front free endpaper. With bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead on front pastedown. Straight and sound, though foxed at endleaves and prelims..... More

Chicago: Institute of Positive Education, 1972. First Separate Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 7,[1]pp. Pinpoint wear, else Fine. Sharp copy of this position paper by Hoyt Fuller (1923-1981) on the subject of "tolerance," specifically as it pertains to Black men. "Black people in America have..... More

Chicago: Revolutionary Union, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 78pp; illus. Some external wear, mild toning, and dust-soil, with a few small tears; Very Good+. Theoretical organ of the Revolutionary Union, later reconstituted as the Revolutionary Communist Party. An irregularly-published journal, with a total of 7 issues printed;..... More

[West Kingston, Jamaica: Brothers of the Poor / Eventide Home Institution, 1981]. First Edition. A book produced to raise donations for the Eventide Relief Fund in the wake of the horrific May 20, 1980 fire, which tore through a building on the campus, killing 157 people. The Eventide Home Institution..... More

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019. Quarto (29cm). Yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket; x,[2],239,1]pp; 104 color plates. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Sound and clean, slightly bumped at lower edge: Near Fine. Jacket with a few small bumps and creases at head and tail, else Near Fine..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1874 / 1876. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; [ii],cviii,1-779,[780]pp. Complete, though rubbed; both hinges cracked internally with amateur tissue repairs to joints, head, tail; chips to initial and final leaves but internally clean: just Good. With the Appendix: First..... More

[Düsseldorf: 1932]. Original linocut on India paper. Sheet size 46cm x 31cm; image area 36cm x 28cm. Titled lower left; signed and dated below image; marked "probedruck" (proof) below image. In hinged gallery mat. A strong, clean impression from Kralik's "Werktätige" ("Working") series, an homage to working-class Germans at the..... More

[Düsseldorf: 1932]. Original linocut on India paper. Sheet size 41cm x 31cm; image area 38cm x 24cm. Signed and dated below image. In hinged gallery mat. Title taken from exhibition catalog (see ref. below). A strong, clean impression from Kralik's "Werktätige" ("Working") series, an homage to working-class Germans at the..... More

Original illuminated document on parchment; hand-lettered in italic with gilt illuminations at upper left and right margins; signed beneath work by the calligrapher, "E. von E." (unidentified). With original signatures of 71 board members and staff of the Henry Street Settlement. Mild soil at margins; Near Fine. A handsome, hand-lettered..... More

Mexico: Blas Vanegas Arroyo, 1919. Well-preserved example of this large Calavera broadside attributed to Manuel Manilla (see Rothenstein, Posada: Messenger of Mortality, p.172) a Mexican illustrator and engraver who was a follower of Posada's. At center is a nightmarish image of the much-disliked president Victoriano Huerta, who came to power..... More

London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First Edition. Baldwin's semi-autobiographical debut novel, which examines the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and as a source of inspiration and community. Through the character of fourteen-year-old John Grimes, Baldwin relates his..... More