Gidra. June 1973
Los Angeles: Gidra, Inc., 1973. Newspaper. Single issue of the radical Asian-American newspaper, 16p., pages toned, minor edgewear. Includes a cover story on Japanese American gangs in LA (part II). More
Cat.No: 286244
Los Angeles: Gidra, Inc., 1973. Newspaper. Single issue of the radical Asian-American newspaper, 16p., pages toned, minor edgewear. Includes a cover story on Japanese American gangs in LA (part II). More
Cat.No: 286244
Paris: Editions Sylleps, 1992. Newsletter. 8p., 11.5x8 inches; newsletter, edge slightly toned, else in very good condition. Articles in French, but this issue includes an interivew in English. French journal conveying the lesser known American left to French-language readers covering topics from the AFL-CIO to Mumia Abu-Jamal to Labor Notes..... More
Cat.No: 274127
Paris: Editions Sylleps, 1992. Newsletter. 8p., 11.5x8 inches; newsletter, edge slightly toned, else in very good condition. Includes French and English language articles. French journal conveying the lesser known American left to French-language readers covering topics from the AFL-CIO to Mumia Abu-Jamal to Labor Notes. This issue includes an article..... More
Cat.No: 274130
Los Angeles: Precocious Publishing Co., 1985. Pamphlet. 54p., 8.5x11 inches, card covers with plastic binding (a crack near the bottom of the spine), minor handling wear and soil. Not found in OCLC as of May 2023. Poems by 8th and 9th grade students about gangs as dead ends; one of..... More
Cat.No: 302829
[San Francisco]: StolenLives.com, 2004. Six-panel brochure, 3,75x8,5 inches, very good. Argues that the gang investigation group is sloppy and over-eager to determine gang status, and that it provides cover for torturing and killing young men of color. More
Cat.No: 215171
[c201-?]. Pamphlet. 12p., 5.5x4.25 inch wraps; in very good condition. Marcos is the leader of the Primeiro Comando da Capital, Brazil's largest gang that formed partly out of the need to organize for better prison conditions. More
Cat.No: 312927
Tulsa: Vincom, 1991. Paperback. 89p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The Mexican American subject of this book founded the Set Free Christian Fellowship in Southern California. His story is one of Christian reform. Cuban American author. More
Cat.No: 38397
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995. Hardcover. 134p., b&w photographs, very good first edition, first printingstated in laminated pictorial boards. The Puerto Rican author wrote the book as a 16-year-old. More
Cat.No: 74766
New Jersey: S. Baker Publishing, 2008. Paperback. 357p., wraps a bit handled with slightly curled corners, minor rubbing to base of spine, else very good. More
Cat.No: 307696
Jersey City: WriteEye Books, 1998. Paperback. 96p., wraps. 8 x 5 in. Covers creased and binding slightly askew. Very Good. Urban young adult fiction. A young college-bound Latino buys a gun in an attempt to prove he is tough. Cover in black and white. Includes publisher’s note on urban fiction..... More
Cat.No: 317857
Bogota: Tercer Mundo Editores, 1991. Paperback. 2217p., wraps, 5.25 x 8.25 inches, maps, charts, very good condition. Text in Spanish. Sociologia y Politica. On the origins and development of gang violence in Eastern Colombia, focusing on the period between 1930 and 1960. More
Cat.No: 234637
London: Clarke Hall Fellowship, 1950. Pamphlet. 34p., 5x7.25 inches, stapled pamphlet, ex-library, stamped withdrawn from the Home Office library, catalog numbers written on front and inside front covers, staining to back cover, a few dog-ears, a reading copy. The author was the Headmaster of Eton College. More
Cat.No: 238425
[Seattle]: Self-published by the author, 2013. Paperback. 193p., fine first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Gay Hispanic gangbangers. More
Cat.No: 226591
New York: Popular Library, 1955. Paperback. 175p., very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Gangs in Spanish Harlem. 685. More
Cat.No: 136678
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1959. Hardcover. 384p., hardbound first edition in pale-apricot boards titled red, in dust jacket. A nice copy, no ownership or other marks; unclipped dj is bright but has a small adhesion scar to front panel affecting author's name, and back panel has a light dampstain with offset color..... More
Cat.No: 99444
Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. Hardcover. xi, 179p., very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 44710
Chapel Hill: Institute for Experimental Freedom, [200?]. Staplebound. [35pg.] staples removed, leaves inlaid, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, wraps edgeworn and front wrap slightly soiled, good condition. Zine with excerpts from Chang's book on racial hostilities, the Los Angeles Uprising, and the state targeting of gang peacemakers. Chang is a Chinese..... More
Cat.No: 278872
Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. Hardcover. xiii, 264p., preface, notes, references, index, tables, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Ethnography of a Mexican American community in Chicago. More
Cat.No: 39580
New York: Danad Publishing, 1979. Magazine. 100p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, entertainment news, reviews, opinion, interviews, ads, listings, photos, lightly-worn, magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. This issue covers gangs on the street and screen with photos from "The Warriors" "Defiance" (your bibliographer worked both) and "The Wanderers" (he also roomed..... More
Cat.No: 214877
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996. Paperback. xii, 250p., wraps, large bookseller sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 318212
Los Angeles: Americas 2001, 1988. Magazine. 32p., includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, bilingual texts in Spanish and English, photos, art, columns, news, opinion, services, ads, events, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Articles on Gang Sweeps and Sheriff Sherman Block. More
Cat.No: 209060
New York: New York City Youth Board, 1960. Hardcover. xviii, 305p. + [16]p. of plates, very good condition in a price-clipped and edgeworn dust jacket. On the Youth Board's Street Club, which did outreach to juvenile delinquents. More
Cat.No: 316124
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970. Paperback. 477p., wraps, previous owner's name on half-title, wrappers slightly yawning from handling, else good condition. More
Cat.No: 4343
Berkeley: Frog, Ltd., 2004. Paperback. 234p., wraps. Second edition (first printing thus) of a well-received novel by the Oakland-based African American author; glossy comix cover art by Ariel Shepard. As new. More
Cat.No: 79740
Oakland: LaDay Publishing, 1998. Paperback. 234p., text is reproduced from a typewritten mss with inconspicuously-achieved justified right margin, amateur title page and preliminaries. Glossy wraps in near-fine condition, very first printing of the original self-published first edition, cover art by Barbara Jim-George. First novel by the African American author, subsequently..... More
Cat.No: 167666