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
[Chicago]: Henry J. Wehman, 1897. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's white pictorial wrappers printed in blue; 30pp.; illustrated ads bound in rear and printed on rear wrapper. Wrapper extremities unevenly foxed and dust-soiled, textblock a bit browned, else Very Good or better. BLOCKSON 7397 (citing a New York, 1870, imprint of 60pp.)..... More
![dem [Bound Galley Copy]. AFRICAN AMERICANA, William Melvin KELLEY](/pictures/medium/50996.jpg?v=1601343545)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. The author's third novel, a provocative satire set in New York "that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America" (Penguin Random House). Kelley (1937-2017) was an African-American novelist and short story..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1929. First Edition. A comprehensive and unflinching portrait of African-American life in the first decades of the Twentieth Century. In his 1929 review of the book for The Book League Monthly, Langston Hughes concluded: "...is it not almost unbelievable...that twelve million people should live in an..... More
![The Civil Rights Congress Tells the Story...[Signed]. AFRICAN AMERICANS, William PATTERSON, CIVIL...](/pictures/medium/41362.jpg?v=1555174561)
[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
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, [1932]. First Edition. Brief but informative statistical account of deaths by lynching based on findings by the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. Octavo bifolium (23cm.); text printed in double columns in brown ink on cream stock. Quite dampstained, tiny closed tear at bottom..... 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
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
London: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, 1960. First Edition. An examination of the socio-political situation in South Africa during the Apartheid era. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout. First Impression. Octavo (22.5cm); black cloth, blocked and titled in red and gilt on spine; dustjacket; x, 276pp; illus. Remainder price..... More
Richmond: Lee Monument Association, 1890. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). In maroon publisher's cloth, titled in gold on front; green and cream floral endpapers; 45pp. Fresh and clean, with minor scuffing at base of front board, creases to first three leaves, stain to p.8; otherwise clean: Very Good or better. A...... 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
[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=1599878166)
[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=1597111989)
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
London: Africa Bureau, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Printed paper wrappers; 15pp. Minor edge-creasing; Very Good. Examination of the developing character of the Rhodesian Front, with particular attention to the "racialist and authoritarian character of the Rhodesian Front's pattern of government." 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
New York: Duenewald Printing Corporation, [1943]. First Thus. Small, slim quarto (22cm.); publisher's pictorial spiral-bound paper-covered boards; [18]pp.; color illus. throughout, including six moveable plates. Boards rubbed with brief exposure to corners, small paper flaw to upper cover not affecting text, else Very Good, internally fine and unused. A moveable..... More
Johannesburg: Voortrekkerpers, 1967. First English Language Edition. Personal memoir of South African Prime Minister Verwoerd by his private secretary. Verwoerd, who was assassinated the previous year, is best known for engineering and implementing apartheid in 1948. Rather overly obsequious portrayal of "that man," endearingly described in the opening page as..... More
