Missouri
KOPN June Guide
Columbia, MO: KOPN radio, 1974. Newspaper. [8p] folded tabloid newspaper with listing of events and radio programs for June 1974, lightly-worn newsprint. Long and detailed report by Koehner on the Columbia Renaissance Faire. Crazy collage on cover includes images of Hitler's head pasted backward on a guy in chaps exposing..... More
Cat.No: 285911
Love dreams
Brookefield & Kansas: Artcraft Books for the Author, 1949. xii, 130p., introduction, How to write poetry, very good first edition in red buckram, gilt and lightly-spoiled dj. Missouri poet and writer of lyrics intended for the airwaves; he "is a member of the National Song Writers Guild in Hollywood." Self-published..... More
Cat.No: 134456
Property values and race; studies in seven cities. Special research report to the Commission on Race and Housing
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961. Hardcover. xix, 256p., first printing, very good. Worn, torn and rubbed dj. Studies San Francisco, Oakland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit and Portland. More
Cat.No: 21770
Do lord remember me
New York: Holt , Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Paperback. 210p. Uncorrected proof in plain blue printed wraps. Lightly soiled, a good to very good copy. St. Louis, Missouri-born, Nashville, Tennessee-raised African American writer. More
Cat.No: 205877
Search for the new land; history as subjective experience.
London: Allison & Busby, 1969. Hardcover. 195p., first British edition, dj. Stamp to bottom page edges near spine. St. Louis born, Kansas City and Nashville raised African American author. More
Cat.No: 58956
Two Love Stories
New York: The Dial Press, 1972. Hardcover. 180p., very good first edition in boards and clipped dj. Missouri-born, Nashville-raised African American writer. More
Cat.No: 205876
Two Love Stories
London: Kestrel Books, 1974. Hardcover. 180p. very good first UK edition in boards and price-clipped dj. Missouri-born, Nashville-raised African American writer. More
Cat.No: 213696
A pinch of poison; a Mr. and Mrs. North mystery
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1941. Hardcover. lacking dust jacket, slight tilt to spine, boards a bit edgeworn, corners bumped, spine & boards slightly faded, back board mildly rubbed, else good. Both authors were born in Missouri. More
Cat.No: 299322
Desolation Pass
Aurora, MO: Burney Bros. 1937. Hardcover. 391p., small stains on edges, shelfwear, first edition in very rubbed dark brown cloth boards with yellow titles faded to a greenish yellow. No copies located in OCLC as of 6/2021. Western Fiction with six-guns and badmen. More
Cat.No: 267481
For Bishop Arthur Marshall, Jr
St. Louis: African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, [1964?]. 4p. brochure supporting the St. Louis pastor's candidacy for AME Bishop, with Marshall's photo on front wrap, 5.5x8.5 inches, faintly creased else very good condition. Curriculum vitae. More
Cat.No: 130602
Our Negro population. A sociological study of the Negroes of Kansas City, Missouri. With a preface by L.A. Halbert. Accepted as a thesis for a M.A. Degree at William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri
Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Publishing Company, 1913. Hardcover. 189p., first edition, signed by Martin and dated 4/8/13, frontispiece map, illus., tables, Somewhat soiled brown cloth binding, some scuffing along edges. No dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 170172
Our Negro population. A sociological study of the Negroes of Kansas City, Missouri. With a preface by L.A. Halbert. Accepted as a thesis for a M.A. Degree at William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri
Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Publishing Company, 1913. Hardcover. 189p., first edition, signed by Martin, frontispiece map, illus., tables, blue cloth binding soiled and frayed at the head and tail of the spine. No dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 170994
Our Negro population: A sociological study of the Negroes of Kansas City, Missouri. With a preface by L.A. Halbert. Accepted as a thesis for a M.A. Degree at William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. 189p., map, tables, very good condition. No dust jacket. First published in 1913. More
Cat.No: 300185
Souvenir guide to Missouri's capitol
Jefferson City, MO: Missouri Div. of Commerce & Industrila Development, [1973]. [20]p., softcover brochure, thoroughly illustrated in color, 8.5x11 inches, very good condition. Verso of cover shows youthful portrait of Christopher Bond, at that time the youngest governor in the country. Photos of the capitol building include a feature on..... More
Cat.No: 118614
Driving under the cardboard pines, and other stories
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1990. Paperback. 316p., wraps, very good condition, first edition. Stories by the St. Louis-born African American poet, More
Cat.No: 182377
A long way from St. Louie; travel memoirs
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1997. Trade Paperback. 241p., first printing. inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Autobiographical travel writings by the St. Louis-born African American poet, More
Cat.No: 89507
From prairie to prison: the life of social activist Kate Richards O'Hare
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993. Hardcover. xv, 261p., as new, in dust jacket. Missouri biography series. More
Cat.No: 34358
Divided to the vein; a journey into race and family
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996. Hardcover. 259p., first printing clothbacked boards in dj. Sound and clean, a very good copy. The mixed-race reporter tracks down his white mother's Missouri family. More
Cat.No: 72505
Race, redevelopment, and the new company town
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. Hardcover. xxi, 250p., very good condition in glossy pictorial boards. Study of St. Louis & urban redevelopment. More
Cat.No: 216502
A semblance of justice; St. Louis school desegregation and order in urban America
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985. Hardcover. xiv, 221p. first printing, dj with some fading along spine. "Released" stamped to lower corner of front free endpaper. Foreword by Derrick A. Bell. More
Cat.No: 52498
The Sheaf; The Principia Annual [with variant titlings] 1927, 1928, 1932
Saint Louis MO / Elsah IL: The Principia Junior College, 1927, 28, 32. Three standard-format yearbooks, rather more neatly designed and produced than most, with cover decoration in blind and tint or gilding to cover seal. The 1928 issue features a subtle background printblock by Bernard Maybeck on every page;..... More
Cat.No: 231699
The Missouri review: Vol. 18 No. 3 , 1994: On the Fringe
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1994. Paperback. 218p., fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, very good literary journal trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Includes 15 never before published letters from Jack Kerouac to Ed White. More
Cat.No: 289370
The Missouri review: volume 20, #2: Rituals
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Paperback. 219p., fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, very good Southern literary journal trade paperback in pictorial wraps. First publication of Tennessee Williams' play"Will Mister Merriweather Return from Memphis?" More
Cat.No: 201926
Army general exposes Jews. General George Van Horn Moseley, one of the three top generals in the first World War and close adviser to General Pershing, lifts the lid on the Jewish conspiracy and the Communist plot
Metairie, LA: Sons of Liberty, n.d. Pamphlet. 31p., staplebound pamphlet, some toning. Reprint, perhaps 1970s, of the 1939 tract. More
Cat.No: 288296