New York: Harper and Brothers, 1840. Second Edition. First illustrated edition. 12mo. Publisher's green linen over boards; printed paper spine label; twelve unnumbered leaves of plates (lithographs); 36-pp publisher's ads at rear, dated March, 1840. External rubbing and wear, especially at board edges; remnants of spine label present but illegible;..... More

Lincoln, Nebraska: The Woodbine Press, (1913). First Edition. First printing (reputedly 1,000 copies). In the deep blue binding variant. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's blue cloth-covered boards, titled in white on spine and front cover; [8],9-311pp; frontispiece portrait and 15 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). A complete, clean and sound copy..... More

New York: Exposition Press, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [7],8-96pp. Signed by the author with his Chicago address at lower front pastedown (possibly one of his own copies), and lengthily inscribed by him..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. First Edition. First Printing, with solicitation letter from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth backstrip over tan paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],355,[1]pp; 8pp. black and white photograph (halftones) inserted. Generic SPLC sticker bearing..... More

New York: Basic Books / Civitas Books, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige and navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,352,[8]pp; illus. Signed by Myrlie Evers-Williams on the half-title page. Base of spine a bit pushed, light wear to lower board edges..... More

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2007. First Edition. Octavo (25cm); light brown cloth, with titling, text, and decorations stamped in dark brown on spine and covers; publisher's original printed band wrapped around the front cover; xii,418pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine example of the often-missing wraparound band, showing some mild..... More

New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., [1952]. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [32]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, very mild toning to wrapper edges, clean internally; Very Good or better. Powerful collaborative work between former New Orleans newspaperman Alfred Maund and artist Ben Shahn. The volume..... More

[Morogoro, Tanzania: African National Congress, 1971?]. First Edition. Includes proposal of guerrilla warfare tactics in order to fight apartheid and racist government in the southern African countries Mozamibique, Angola, South West Africa (modern-day Nambia), Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Cover subtitle: "Strategy, Tactics, and Programme of the African National Congress, South..... More

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, [1934]. First Edition. Sensationalist history of Haiti and voodoo, published during the American occupation in part as a sequel to the author's Black Baghdad (1933), advertised on the rear panel of the present dust jacket as "The Arabian Nights Adventures of a Marine Captain..... More

[New York]: Oxford University Press, [2011]. Second Printing. Octavo (24.25cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; ix,[3],236pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some wear at bottom edge of rear jacket panel, else Near Fine. More

Baltimore: Privately Published, 1899. First Edition. Octavo. Printed buff wrappers; 119pp; portraits. Generally clean, but with a faint diagonal crease to lower 1/3 of text block throughout; mild external soil and small paper losses at spine ends, still about Very Good. Anti-British propaganda issued on behalf of the Orange Free..... More

Philadelphia: William Smith, [1844]. A poignant image, depicting the first casualty of the 1844 Philadelphia Anti-Catholic riots, which roiled the city in both May and July of that year leaving dozens dead and hundreds wounded. As was the case in many other large cities on the Eastern seaboard, Anti-Catholic sentiment..... 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