New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First American Edition. Second printing, octavo (19.5cm.); original decorative cloth in white price-clipped dust jacket designed by Paul Rand, top edge dyed black; 252,[2]pp. Shallow tears to lower jacket edges and spine foot; some dust soiling, else a Very Good copy. One of the..... More
!["To Whom It May Concern: A Report From Occupied Territory" [In] The Nation (July 11, 1966)....](/pictures/medium/57340.jpg?v=1646098446)
New York: The Nation Magazine, 1966. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.5cm); original printed wrapers, stapled; pp.34-64. Light wear and toning, a few tiny nicks, tears, and creases, and original recipients address label at lower front wrapper; Very Good+. Contains James Baldwin's "To Whom It May Concern: A Report From Occupied..... More
!["Stranger in the Village" [In] Harper's Magazine (October, 1953). AFRICAN AMERICANA, James...](/pictures/medium/57336.jpg?v=1646098446)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm); pictorial wrappers; 104pp; illus. Some light wear and rubbing to wrappers, with a 3.5cm split at upper front joint; Very Good+. Contains James Baldwin's essay "Stranger in the Village" (later included in his 1955 collection Notes of a Native Son)..... More
New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [iv],v-xii,196pp. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of sunning to upper board edges, with a brief gift inscription to half-title page; Near Fine. Dustjacket..... 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
N.p. [San Francisco?]: S.i., 1956. First Edition. Complete text of King's 1956 address to the NAACP, delivered at a critical juncture in the midst of the ongoing Montgomery Bus Boycott, just a few weeks after the Federal Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle which declared Alabama's racial segregation laws for..... More
[Pittsburgh: 1950s]. FILE-LEVEL INVENTORY: 1. Photographs (3). Three vintage silver-gelatin prints, two credited on versos to Harris Studio, each 8" x 10" or reverse. Worn, with marginal tears and creases; just Good. 2. Printed materials (10). Ten discrete documents, several present in multiples. Includes letterhead, form letters, event tickets, and..... More
New York: By the Author, 1957. Twenty-third Revised Edition. Rogers (1883-1966), born in Jamaica, was among the first African-American scholars to re-examine European history from an Afrocentric perspective. The current work, which went into many printings, provides a cross-section of his researches in the areas of the Arts, Ancient Civilizations..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1950. First Edition. 16mo (12.75cm.); original printed wrappers, stapled; 15pp. Trivial wear to extremities, some dust-soil to rear wrapper, else Near Fine. "Text of an address delivered at a banquet sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, November 10, 1949. Argues that the Soviet..... More
![The Civil Rights Congress Tells the Story...[Signed]. AFRICAN AMERICANS, William PATTERSON, CIVIL...](/pictures/medium/41362.jpg?v=1641872390)
[Los Angeles]: Civil Rights Congress, [1951]. First Edition. Volume produced by the Los Angeles chapter of the Civil Rights Congress, a national organization founded in 1946 dedicated to the defense of racial injustice. Contents include coverage of the CRC's involvement in cases related to police brutality, anti-semitism, and extradition, with..... 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
Winston-Salem: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 1985. Narrow 12mo (19cm). Pictorial stiff card wrappers; 40pp. Mild external creasing; Very Good. Promotional booklet fo the R.J. Reynolds Company's "More" cigarette brand. Features portraits and brief biographies of nine historically prominent African-American figures, including Duke Ellington, Jackie Robinson, Marian Anderson, Wilma Rudolph, and..... More
London: Anti-Apartheid Movement, [1963]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Fine. Small leaflet laid in requesting "Technical and scientific books and magazines for Cuba." More
Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 255pp. Tight, Near Fine and unmarked copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; Near-new. More
N.p. [New York?]: [1926]. First Edition Thus. A Sherwood Anderson rarity. This finely-printed keepsake on thick paper appears to be the only separate appearance of an article which first appeared in Vanity Fair for September, 1926. Later reprinted in Hello Towns (SHEEHY 333), but this printing not noted by the..... More
![Lithograph] Death of George Shifler - Born Jan 24 1825 - Murdered May 6 1844 - In Kensington....](/pictures/medium/56935.jpg?v=1652999409)
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
[New York]: Anti-Defamation League, 1980. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp.; half-tone photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear, postally used on rear wrapper, else Fine. Lead article a debate between Irving Kristol and Martin Peretz on the topic "Foreign Policy and the American Jewish Community," though majority of..... 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
![Blueprint for Dictatorship - Then [sic] UN-One World Government. ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA, Myron C....](/pictures/medium/50873.jpg?v=1641872618)
[N.d.; s.i.; Sons of Liberty, ca 1980s?]. Apparently a reprint of no. 126 in Fagan's "News-Bulletin" series (ca. 1967), but reprinted without the original title page. Based on cover typography (and typo), this appears to be a ca. 1970s-80s reprint, issued sans imprint but likely from the Metairie, Louisiana-based Sons..... More
N.d., s.i. [but: Sons of Liberty, ca 1980s?]. On Communist infiltration of the American television industry. Apparently a reprint of no. 83 in Fagan's "News-Bulletin" series (ca. 1961), but reprinted without the original title page. Based on cover typography, this appears to be a ca. 1970s-80s reprint, issued sans imprint..... More
Hollywood: Cinema Education Guild, 1965 [but: Sons of Liberty, ca 1980s?]. Singerman: "The international communist conspirators are members of the Council on Foreign Relations whose goal is to feed the United States 'small doses of Socialism' for the direct purpose of delivering us into the Internationalists' 'One-World Government' trap. Fagan..... More
Hollywood: Cinema Educational Guild, 1960 [but: Sons of Liberty, ca 1980s?]. Accuses American Democratic legislators of using the U.N. to establish a Jewish-Communist "One-World Government" to dominate the United States. Originally issued as no. 74 in Fagan's "News-Bulletin" series (1960). Based on cover typography, this appears to be a ca..... More
![Natives in Urban Areas [title from cover: The Law relating to Natives in Urban Areas]. APARTHEID,...](/pictures/medium/50552.jpg?v=1641872610)
Johannesburg: Non-European and Native Affairs Department, 1943. First Edition. An exhaustive compilation of laws, opinions, and legal precedents related to the South African Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 and the various proclamations and ordinances related to it. The Introduction identifies this as "the first exhaustive study of the Act..... More
Berlin: Drei Masken Verlag, 1933. First Edition. Account of a filmmaking expedition to Greenland that resulted in the American-German co-production S.O.S. Eisberg (American title: S.O.S. Iceberg), released in 1934 and starring Leni Riefenstahl. With numerous photographic illustrations (cyan-tinted halftones) and a section of line diagrams at rear. Octavo. Gray cloth..... More
