New York: Communist Party, USA, 1947. Pamphlet. 11 leaves, printed on rectos only, stapled at top left corner. 8.5x11 in. Very Good. A packet of talking points and articles for discussion at CPUSA literature clubs. Includes a section on anti-lynching law campaigns (calls for the re-arrest and re-trial of 28..... More
Cat.No: 345761
Paradise, CA: the quarterly, 1994. About [60]p.; Self-wraps magazine, 10.75 x 8.25 inches with a decorated unglazed cover, illustrated where possible with period photography, plats, line maps and images. Cover is possibly a trifle faded, otherwise as new. Collector's edition. Scholarly articles, this time featuring "Lookout lynching / Father MacNamara..... More
Cat.No: 99388
Paradise, CA: the quarterly, 1995. 63p., self-wraps magazine, 10.75 x 8.25 inches with a decorated unglazed cover, illustrated where possible with period photography, plats, line maps and images. Faint browning of paperstock. Collector's edition. Scholarly articles, this time featuring "John Muir and the Bidwells / Trappers at the buttes /..... More
Cat.No: 99389
Paradise, CA: the quarterly, 1995. 63p., self-wraps magazine, 10.75 x 8.25 inches with a decorated unglazed cover, illustrated where possible with period photography, plats, line maps and images. This issue is damp-rippled throughout, with two small stains (only) and no mustiness. Collector's edition. Scholarly articles, this time featuring "The Modoc..... More
Cat.No: 99419
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
Cleveland, OH: Burton for Senator Committee, [1928]. Four-panel brochure, very good. Issued during Burton's 1928 Senate campaign, which was successful. However, he died less than a year into his term. “Mr. Burton has for many years received the almost unanimous vote of colored people, recognition of the fact that he..... More
Cat.No: 347741
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. Hardcover. 332p., first printing, very good condition in like dj with the original flap price intact. More
Cat.No: 81323
Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1936. Paperback. 132p., wraps worn on spine; a bump at top left corner has caused a crumpled area with short tears. Occasional ball-point pen underlining in the text. Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers #15. More
Cat.No: 13163
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1952. Paperback. xvi, 240p., fourth printing, paperback; vertically creased front cover, slightly shelfworn wraps, else very good. More
Cat.No: 196363
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation Inc., 1936. Six panel brochure, 4x9 inches, paper slightly browned else good third edition. Short statements from Southern officials & leaders (white with the exception of Booker T. Washington & Mary McLeod Bethune) for better racial understanding and often stating opposition to lynching. More
Cat.No: 178886
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation Inc., 1938. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure, 4x9 inches, fourth edition; ownership stamp in corner of cover, otherwise very good. Short statements from Southern officials & leaders (mostly white with the exception of Booker T. Washington & Mary McLeod Bethune), for better racial understanding, and often..... More
Cat.No: 283785
New York: Amistad / HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. Hardcover. 261p., first edition hardbound in black cloth boards with white backstrip titled in candy-apple red, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Dust jacket has a three-inch slit in the cover joint that we have tacked down with removable tape to verso, and..... More
Cat.No: 303314
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. Hardcover. 373p., first edition, dj. On the all-black Florida town burned out by a white mob, and the townspeople's seventy year struggle for justice. More
Cat.No: 37163
New York: Viking, 2001. Hardcover. xiv, 384p., hardcover, first printing, unclipped dust jacket, photos, boards slightly splayed, else very good. General history of the struggle for civil rights, from Ida B. Wells and Booker T. Washington to the present. More
Cat.No: 87122
New York: Vantage Press, 2010. Hardcover. 184p., black cloth boards in dust jacket; in very good condition. Detective novel loosely based on the story of Emmett Till. More
Cat.No: 310899
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1927. Magazine. lxxii, 385-512pp., paperbound in the usual 10x7 inch plain printed format with overlapping (yapp) edges. Edges are distressed, with chipping, tail has some tatter and a split, front hinge is holding but rather rough with small losses at gutter from leaf i/ii..... More
Cat.No: 229005
New York: A Plume Book (Dutton Signet), 1994. Paperback. xv, 390p. + 16p (photo-section) + publisher's ads; softbound in 9x6 inch colorphoto wraps. A handled copy, with edgewear and a scratch to covers, paperstock mildly acidic and generally toned. A good copy (good-only), soundly bound, free of any soil or..... More
Cat.No: 331950
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. Hardcover. xxiii, 404p., hardbound in dark blue cloth boards, titled silver on red spine- and cover-panels. Somewhat dished, possibly from careless storage, else perfectly sound, clean, free of any markings. Laid in find a leaf of lined paper with holograph notes taken on contents of O'Shea's..... More
Cat.No: 219779
New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Hardcover. 242p., first American edition (so stated; based on the 1939 British text), light red series binding, 4.5x6.5 inches, titled in brown and enclosed with its dust jacket. Slightest edgewear to dj otherwise perfectly sound in every respect, and entirely clean and unmarked. Home..... More
Cat.No: 339420
Oakland: PM Press, 2018. Paperback. xii+258p., 8x10 inches, pictorial wraps, many color illustrations, New. More
Cat.No: 221621
Indianapolis: Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Press, 1998. Paperback. 151p., softbound item, first edition glossy 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, a fine clean copy with a "Review Copy" rubberstamp on the title page. Epigraphs from J. Edgar Hoover (his "prevent a Black messiah" directive) and Isaiah 11:6, about utopian peace. One year after the assassination..... More
Cat.No: 181144
Fort Wayne: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, 1955. Pamphlet. Reprint, originally chapter 14 of Rowan's 1931 book The Pinkertons, here in pamphlet format: 12p., illustrated with a few sketches germane to the action, and no fewer than nine vignette photoportraits of library staffers, of whom three ladies..... More
Cat.No: 228491
Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's, 1997. Paperback. xii, 228p., illustrated with a short group of b&w period facsimiles plus other scattered graphics and the portrait cover collage of Wells & a mass oration. Softbound in 8x5.5 inch glossy grey decorated wraps with slight edgewear to front cover: sound, entirely clean and unmarked in..... More
Cat.No: 332259
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. Hardcover. viii, 476p., a few b&w photoillustrations scattered in the text, hardbound first printing in cloth boards and photographic dust jacket, a very good copy in every respect. A study of the NAACP's civil rights efforts (anti-Klan, anti-lynching, etc.) and the DuBois-Johnson-White leadership. More
Cat.No: 132550
[Philadelphia, PA]: [Eugene Upshaw], [circa 1946-7]. Small handbill, 4.5x6.5 inches, fold-creased, a few small stains on front side else very good condition, printed on one side only. Gives a phone number and suggests going to "The South Carolina Boy's Restaurant, 4140 Lancaster Ave." The only reference we can find suggests..... More
Cat.No: 234806
