Chicago: National Council of Methodist Youth, 1936. Paperback. 136 pages + 1 folded plate, illustrations, paperback. Minor toningto covers and small nick at foot of spine, otherwise very good. Includes conference program, committee rosters, speeches, and reports. The folding plate is a large group portrait of participants. More
Cat.No: 342093
New York: Committee for Miners, 1965. Newsletter. 2p., 8.5x14 inch newsletter; in very good condition. Covers the killing of Eastern Kentucky miner Ernest Creech, Boston folk concerts, and more. More
Cat.No: 309674
Louisville, KY: Southern Conference Educational Fund, [1972]. Handbill. 11x8.5 in. handbill, printed on both sides. Together with a 14x8.5 in. blank petition to Richard Nixon to free Collins and Mulloy. Handbill has 2 horizontal folds (from mailing); petition has one horizontal fold. Very Good. Collins and Mulloy, two civil rights..... More
Cat.No: 332933
Berkeley: Industrial Workers of the World, [1963?]. 8.5x11 inch handbill with two half-sheet handbills printed onto one, minor curl on one corner, else in very good condition. Handbill design by SciFi fanzine artist Dave Rike with his customary initials printed along the lower margin. "The Public Welfare Commission does not..... More
Cat.No: 348110
Bowling Green: Kentucky Folklore Society, 1980. Pamphlet. pp83-132, stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, pen notation on front wrap, bottom corner dog-eared, else very good condition. Articles, essays, reviews. More
Cat.No: 149281
Pleasant Hill: Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, Inc., nd. Ephemera. 1.5x4.5 inch matchbook cover; small map on inside cover, matches removed, tiny punctures from a removed staple, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 310541
Pleasant Hill: Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, Inc., nd. Ephemera. 1.5x4.5 inch matchbook cover; AFL-CIO union bug on front, small map on inside cover, minor toning on inside cover, matches removed, tiny punctures from a removed staple, striking strip appears slightly used, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 310545
Chicago: Committee to Shut Down Lexington Control Unit, a project of the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence, [198-]. Four-panel brochure, 7x8.5 inches, horizontal fold crease. Links the imprisonment of political prisoners in Lexington to repression of the Puerto Rican Independence Struggle. More
Cat.No: 336522
Camp Knox, Kentucky: Military Training Camps Association, 1922. 177p. hardcover, mild shelfwear, spine ends rubbed. Includes Robert Penn Warren's first published poem, "Prophecy," on page 41. More
Cat.No: 320938
Louisville, KY: Nichols General Hospital, 1945. Newsletter. 12p. mimeographed newsletter, very good, 8.5x14 inches. Not found in OCLC as of June 2023. Internal newsletter of an Army hospital in Kentucky. Includes an editorial reminding readers not to mistreat or taunt the German prisoners of war who were on work detail..... More
Cat.No: 305528
Louisville, KY: Nichols General Hospital, 1945. Newsletter. 10p. mimeographed newsletter, last page has old tape repairs, 8.5x14 inches. Not found in OCLC as of June 2023. Internal newsletter of an Army hospital in Kentucky. More
Cat.No: 305933
Louisville: Southern Conference Educational Fund, [1971?]. Four-panel brochure, 4x5 inches, very good, promoting the work of SCEF. Printed on yellow paper. More
Cat.No: 332651
Chicago: [Proletarian Party Opposition], 1932. [10p.], staplebound, 6x10.5 inches, includes two staplebound mimeographed pages of an exerpted essay by John Keracher; touch of rust to staples, else in very good condition. This newsletter, written from the perspective of the left wing within the Proletarian Party, who were generally fed up..... More
Cat.No: 280499
Louisville, KY: Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1971. 8p., tabloid newspaper format, illus., horizontally folded as issued, light wear, evenly toned else good condition. Articles on a miner's strike, a rebellion by female inmates at Alderson prison, racial conflict in Wilmington, NC, and more. More
Cat.No: 244764
Warsaw, Kentucky: [Warsaw Woman's Club], [1925-1929, 1980-81]. Three booklets, two earliest editions are 4.5x6.25 inches with a sewn binding, latest edition is staplebound 4.25x7.25 inches. Booklets from 1925-1926, 1928-1929, and 1980-1981. More
Cat.No: 342950
Lexington, KY: Liberation Projects, 2009. Paperback. [16p.], stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine. Speaks to the media-hyped "Green Scare and related round-ups," as also to a police program "Operation Backfire" now assumed to be "only a test-run, only a beginning to a larger, open-ended targeting of an entire milieu"..... More
Cat.No: 148459
Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 1985. Paperback. 531p., keyboard-set papers with texts almost exclusively in French and English (not mutual transcriptions), a huge awkward oblong (8x11.5 inches) with scribble to front cover, edgewear, and gutter gaps that portend splits at the spine. Entries are listed alphabetically and some are circled in..... More
Cat.No: 299807
Louisville, KY: The Caucasian, 1935. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill mimeographed both sides; folded, top edge torn with two missing pieces, removing most of “The” from the title; although ugly, there is no other text loss. Typed reply card with organizational address pasted to edge of verso (can be lifted to..... More
Cat.No: 288274
[Louisville, KY]: Amalgamated Wood Workers International Union of America, 1904. Small 2.6x4.25 card, slightly edgeworn and faded, one side with an ad for the ball, the other with lyrics to "Nobody's lookin' but de owl and de moon" (in pseudo-Black dialect). More
Cat.No: 229257
Louisville: Historic Homes Foundation, Inc., n.d. Pamphlet. 16p., 7.5x10.5 inches, illustrations, notes, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps with short closed tear on front cover. More
Cat.No: 166613
New York: MCC NY, 1974. Magazine. 16p., 8.5x11 inches, editorial, articles, essays, photos, ads, directory of Churches and organizations, soiled else good newsletter, nested sheets. On the murder of the minister of the Church of the Open Door in Louisville, KY. God Loves You, She Really Does. Holy Unions. More
Cat.No: 268953
[Joliet, IL]: 1stbooks, 2002. Trade Paperback. xii, 136p. including illus. from period family photoportraits, inscribed by Boswell, very good condition in wraps. On her family's Kentucky-centered history, historical narrative supplemented with reconstructed dialogue. From their arrival in chains in America through the end of slavery and reconstruction. The author has..... More
Cat.No: 104264
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Superior, WI: Port Town Pub. 2003. Paperback. 270p., signed by the author ontitle page, very good first edition trade paperback original in black pictorial wraps with award gilt label affixed front cover. Margaret Coel blurb on rear cover. Tale of mysteries featuring a race of people living in the Appalachian..... More
Cat.No: 231620
Louisville: Sponsored by the State Department of Health of Kentucky and the Kentucky State Medical Association printed at Standard Printing Co., 1940. Hardcover. xvi, 373p., preface, introductory, illustrated with 15 b&w plates, tables, index, very good first edition in green cloth and gilt with minor rubbing. Not found in Dykes..... More
Cat.No: 178490
Northport: Bacon, Percy & Daggett sponsored by Susan Sterling Towles, Librarian, Public Library, Henderson, Kentucky, 1941. Hardcover. 120p., frontis, foreword, preface, biographical notes, points of interest, index, illustrated with photos, maps and facsimile documents, good first edition in blue boards & gilt and heavily edgeworn dj. American Guide Series Illustrated..... More
Cat.No: 179334
