Onitsha: J.C. Brothers, [1972?]. First Edition. "A great majority of people cannot give details of their childhood due to the fact that no records were kept of the early periods of thier lives. It is more so because there was no properly prepared register for this purpose. The family birth..... More
London: Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; [53]-66pp. Dust-soiling, edge wear from handling with very shallow separation at spine crown; about Very Good. More
New York: Viking Press, 1936. First Edition. Classic historical and philosophical study of antisemitism from antiquity to the 20th-century. Originally published in Swedish; this translation by A.G. Chater. The book appears to be the correct first American printing ("First published 1936") on verso of title page; jacket states "Second Printing"..... More
Buffalo: Black Academy Press, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; viii,148pp. Mild dust-soiling, else Very Good and sound. Nigerian doctor's psychological study of a group of African students in Britain. More
Onitsha: Highbred Maxwell / Students Own Bookshop, [1965]. First Edition. Short fiction modeled after tales of Texas gunslingers, depicting African guys in a West Lagos setting. One of numerous examples of the popular market literature that flourished in West African market stalls in the 1960's-70's, especially in Nigeria. HOGG 228..... More
Huntington, WV: Appalachia Press, 1976. A brief statement of the culture and history of Southern Appalachia, broken up into three parts: pre-Civil War, Civil War, and post Civil War. With a poem titled "When the Leaves Come Out" by "A Paint Creek Miner" printed on final leaf. Fourth printing. Octavo..... More
Jackson, MS: The University Press of Mississippi, 1981. First Edition. A compilation of mining poems by Appalachian scholar and writer, James B. Goode. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Laid in is a newspaper clipping of the book review written by William Paulk. Author's 12-line note, dated 7/16/81, thanks Paulk..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in yellow photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],151pp.; maps. A few closed tears to jacket extremities, the longest approx. 1.5" to spine crown, spine a bit faded, top textblock edge dust-soiled, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Unsigned..... More
![Cults in America: Programmed for Paradise [Inscribed & Signed]. Willa APPEL](/pictures/medium/28906.jpg?v=1529353598)
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1983]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original simulated cloth in blue dust jacket; [12],204pp. Minor soil and edge wear, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author "For Bernarda [Shahn] -- from an old Jan. / Willa." Study of religious cults by..... More
Newark: Beneficial Management Corporation, 1936. First Edition. 12mo (18cm); original flexible green cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, all edges dyed green, green endpapers; xvi,243pp.; plain photographic frontispiece, illus. Upper cover lettering partially effaced, else Fine. Rubberstamp gift inscription accomplished in manuscript on front free endpaper, additional rubberstamp..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; 534pp; illus; map endpapers. Tight, Near Fine copy in a homemade kraft-paper dustwrapper utilizing front and rear flaps from the original jacket. More
![Drop title] Dangers in the Pro-Women Line and Consciousness-Raising. Jean ARROW](/pictures/medium/43900.jpg?v=1555363471)
[New York: The Feminists, n.d., ca. 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); pink side-stapled self-wrappers printed from typescript; 13pp. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Argument against what author calls the "static functionalism" of the pro-women line and consciousness-raising of the women's liberation movement, instead stating that "the..... More
![Drop title] The Institution of Sexual Intercourse. Ti-Grace ATKINSON](/pictures/medium/43920.jpg?v=1555363472)
New York: The Feminists, [1968]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); white and tan side-staplebound self-wrappers; [10]pp. printed from typsecript. Fine condition. Study of the vaginal orgasm and the construct of the institution of sexual intercourse, by the leading member of the New York-based group The Feminists, who splintered from the National..... More
![Broadside: "Sensational Sammy Harris: Akron's Lightweight Contender [...] This Brownskin Boy...](/pictures/medium/19028.jpg?v=1529353249)
Akron: Harry "Ping" Auber, N.d. [ca 1930]. First Edition. Excellent promotional broadside for a talented lightweight of the Twenties and Thirties. Based on the list of opponents in the left-hand column of text (as compared with the fighter's statistics at BoxRec.com) the broadside dates from late 1930 or early 1931..... More
Markham, IL: Jules St. Clair, Inc., "Mod Black" Publishers, [1972]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo (22.5cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers; x,[2],125,[6]pp. Some faint foxing to wrappers, else About Fine. Study of race relations in the city of Chicago by a British West Indies-born author. More
New York: C.L. Stickney, 1846. Fourth Edition. Small octavo (15cm); dark brown publisher's cloth, decoratively stamped in blind and gilt; xxiv,402pp. Spine somewhat cocked; boards rubbed in spots, with chapping to extremities and some mild material loss; textblock comprehensively foxed, with some leaves partially sprung and strings visible at signatures..... More
Washington Square: New York University Press, 1960. First American Edition. An examination of post-war West Indian politics and government, economic and social commentary, written by an Associat Professor of Government at NYU. Octavo; bluish-gray cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 258pp. Top edge foxed, else..... More
Onitsha: Chike Mbadugha Ziksway Bookshop, [1960?]. First Edition. Innaugural address of Nigeria's first indigenous President, who would serve from 1963-1966. With 9pp of detailed biographical data. Slim octavo (20.75cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp. Light foxing and a few soil spots to extremities, else Near Fine. More
Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1932. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, yapp edges; 206pp. Some chipping to wrapper extremities, spine a bit toned, else Very Good, internally fine and fresh. Collection of radical and experimental short stories by the author of The Underdogs (1915). More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1991]. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],308pp.; illus. Two tiny closed tears at top edge of rear jacket panel, spine a hint sunned, else Fine. More
[New York]: Published by the Author, 1889. Written during the author's 5-year sentence in Clinton Prison, New York, and self-published in the hopes that "If I can sell enough of my books to earn a living, the temptation that sometimes drives ex-convicts back to crime will, in my case at..... More
Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1858. First Edition. Collection of short essays and musings, about half of which were first published in various periodicals. Among the topics laid under Baker's microscope are the rise of Mormonism ("The mistake made by our Government was that it did not nip in the..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908. First Edition. Considered the muckracking journalist's most controversial work, a collection of articles written during his travels through the American South, garnering praise from Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, and others. Baker's work includes an account of the Atlanta riots..... More
![My Paradise Is Hell: The Story of the Caribbean [Signed]. Albert BALINK](/pictures/medium/26229.jpg?v=1529353489)
New York: Vista Publishing Corporation, 1948. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21.75cm.); original grey pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],331pp.; green map endpapers. Jacket extremities rather chipped and worn with shallow losses along edges and spine ends, a few affecting text without loss of meaning, dampstaining to jacket very faintly affecting cloth..... More
New York: Racism and Sexism Resource Center for Educators, [1976]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (21.5x28cm.); original white staplebound wrappers printed in black and green; [4],43pp.; text in double column. Fine. Produced as a joint effort with the Council on Interracial Books for Children and the Foundation for Change. Errata slip..... More
