New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. First Edition. Small octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in teal decorative dust jacket; ix,[1],155pp. Light shelf wear, including shallow chipping at spine crown, spine a bit sunned, else Very Good and sound. More
Paris: A. Lahure, 1925. First Edition. Translation of the 12th-century epic into Modern French, with facing Old-French text, by the distinguished African-American scholar, educator and civil rights activist Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964). Cooper, born into slavery in 1858, was educated at Oberlin and went on to become only the... More
Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1989. First Edition. Native Oakland author's novel about a young woman entering UC Berkeley, against the backdrop of the anti-war and civil rights conflicts that consumed campus life during the 1970's. Octavo; illustrated card wrappers; 191pp. Some pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine and unread. More
New York: Lyle Stuart, Publisher, 1960. First Edition. "This Is What We Found" began as a history assignment for Carl Creger, a seventeen-year-old white student of Little Rock's Central High School. Ralph Creger is his father, chief train dispatcher in Little Rock for the Rock Island Railroad. Both father and... More
New York: Negro Labor News Service, N.d. [1936]. First Edition. Socialist campaign pamphlet, outlining the racial policy platform of the Socialist Party of America in the elections of 1936. Frank R. Crosswaith, the pamphlet's principal author, was a West Indian-American socialist, prominent in Harlem politics and the 1936 Socialist Party... More
New York: Regan / Harper Collins, 2007. First Edition. Quarto; 328pp; illus. Cloth spine over pictorial paper-covered boards; issued without dustwrapper. Fine, apparently unread copy. Collects hundreds of Davis's b/w and color photographs, most of fellow show business personalities but also including a section of Civil Rights Movement photographs. Surprisingly... More
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Plano, TX: Winone Publishing Guild, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 168pp. Mild discoloration to wrappers, else Fine. "...Women's lost history up to and including the present women's liberation movement, with special insight into the present movement from a religious and historical viewpoint." Louisiana author. More
Chicago: De Rose Publishing Co, 1953. First Edition. First-hand (if unreliable) account of the 1951 Cicero Race Riot, which was precipitated when the author rented an apartment to an African-American couple in her otherwise all-white apartment building. In the chaos that ensued, more than 4,000 white citizens of Cicero descended... 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
[New York]: Library of America, [1986]. Second Printing. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth, spine lettered in brown and gilt, housed in gilt-lettered paper-covered slipcase; [8],1334pp. A hint of dust-soil to slipcase, else Fine. More
[New York: Freedomways Associates], 1962. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original black and white card wrappers; 111pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, light dust-soil, else Very Good and sound. Contents include poems by Walter Lowenfels and Du Bois. More
Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1901. First Edition. A survey of deplorable conditions in segregated schools throughout the South at the turn of the 20th century; one of the first statistical refutations of the "separate but equal" fallacy. A key early Du Bois work, an expanded edition published ten years later... More
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial thick-paper wrappers; 216pp; illus. Mild external rubbing and wear; Very Good or better. The Du Bois memorial volume, with tributes by several dozen luminaries of the African and African-American independence movements, including Horace Mann Bond, Langston Hughes, Roy Wilkins, C.L.R. James..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1934. First Edition. Statement on the floor of the Senate, by Mississippi's segregationist Senator, on the recent Brown v. Board of Education decision in the Supreme Court. "Mr President, a court cannot enforce its will in these fields. Racial instincts are normal, natural, human instincts... More
New York: Atlas & Co., [2008]. First Edition. Folio (31cm.); original boards in black and red photo-illustrated dust jacket; 239pp.; illus. Corners a bit bumped, else Fine. More
Bucharest: Editura de Stat, [1951]. Romanian language edition of Fast's detailed account of the 1949 Peekskill riots, which took place after Paul Robeson's benefit concert for the Civil Rights Congress in Westchester County, NY. OCLC finds a single holding at U.Pennsylvania. Small octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; 122, [6]pp; text is... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 255pp; illus. Inscribed and signed by the author on front endpaper: "To --- / with my best wishes and I hope you enjoy the reading," dated 1993. Fine copy in very Near Fine jacket -- a new-appearing copy. More
New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1970. Important early work on the Panthers, compiled by a sympathetic white author utilizing documentary material drawn from original Party publications and speeches. The first edition is uncommon. Third printing. Octavo. Black cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 274pp; illus. Faint spotting... More
[New York]: The American Civil Liberties Union, 1944. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 32pp. Text mildly toned, small chip at base of front wrapper; else Near Fine. Pamphlet to supplement an article published in the May 1939 issue of the Minnesota Law Review. Commentaries on contemporary legal interpretations... More
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound; stiff pictorial wrappers; 34pp; illus. Lightly rubbed; else clean, tight copy in very good condition. More
[New York: Freedomways Associates], 1964. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original brown and white card wrappers; [6],575pp.; illus., chiefly cartoons by Brumsic Brandon. Extremities a bit rubbed, light dust-soil, else Very Good. More
[New York: Freedomways Associates], 1965. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original green and white card wrappers; [6],463-552pp.; illus. Extremities a bit rubbed, light dust-soil, else Very Good. Contents include Robert S. Browne's "The Freedom Movement and the War in Vietnam." More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. First Edition. Book by a young African-American reporter who spent a year traveling as an itinerant laborer in the American South. He concludes: "...economics is the great controller. Economics is money is power is white. The paycheck is a more powerful controller than a hundred vicious... More
Chicago: Path Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; [8],349pp. General shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Novel set among early members of the Civil Rights movement in southern Illinois during the Truman presidency. The African-American author, born in... More
New York: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1945. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pale grey dust jacket printed in maroon; 41pp. Light wear and toning along jacket extremities, short closed tear to top edge of upper panel, spine toned. Fine in About Very Good jacket. "Poems Inspired by... More
