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
Gangs
L'autre Amérique: n. 0, 4è trimestre
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
Stop the CCGIA (Central Coast Gang Investigators Association)
[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
We are at the center of the unsolvable; an interview [with Marcos "Marcola" Camacho]
[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
Heat: code of the streets; part 1
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
Street angel: plus: the city game, two powerful urban novels
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
Matones y Cuadrilleros: Origen y evolucion de la violencia en el occidente colombiano
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
The School, Society and the Delinquent; The Tenth Clarke Hall Lecture
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 Pamphlet. 34p., 5x7.25 inches, stapled pamphlet, ex-library, stamped withdrawn from the Home Office library, catalog numbers written on front and inside front covers, staining to back cover, a few dog-ears, a reading copy.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
Gangster Country
[Seattle]: Self-published by the author, 2013. Paperback. 193p., fine first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Gay Hispanic gangbangers. More
Cat.No: 226591
The Big Rumble
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
1877: year of violence
Indianapolis: The New Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1959. Hardcover. 384p, hardcover; spinal sunning, otherwise in very good condition. "Such blotches on a nation as race riots, lynchings, government corruption and graft, scandal in high places and the shocking growth of teen-age gangs provided the ingredients of certain explosion..." (dust jacket). More
Cat.No: 3690
1877: year of violence
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
What Every Parent Should Know: A Parent's Guide to Gang Awareness
Carson, CA: City of Carson Department of Public Safety, Youth Services Section, [199-]. 26p., 8.5x11 inches, card covers with plastic comb binding. Very good. Warning signs of gang activity, a short slang guide, hand signals, resources for worried parents. More
Cat.No: 337140
Angel's Town: Chero ways, gang life, and rhetorics of the everyday
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
Delinquent boys; the culture of the gang
Glencoe: The Free Press, 1961. 198p., hardcover cloth boards, no dustjacket, corners lightly bumped, else very good. From the library of Marxist economist and Stanford professor Paul A. Baran with his signature penned on the front endpaper and marginalia in his hand. More
Cat.No: 344407
After Dark: the national magazine of entertainment vol. 11, #11, March 1979: Tommy Lee Jones cover
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
The dream shattered, Vietnamese gangs in America
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996. Paperback. xii, 250p., wraps, large bookseller sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 318212
Americas 2001: vol. 1, #7, July/Aug. 1988
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
Reaching the Fighting Gang
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
The invisible web
Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing Co Inc, 2006. 125p., 5.5x8.5 inch paperback; price sticker on front cover, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 335782
Red London; mob violence, mob vengeance, mob rule!
Edinburgh: AK Press, 1994. 160p., paperback; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 347622
Oaktown devil
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
Oaktown devil
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
Oaktown devil
Oakland: LaDay Publishing, 1998. Paperback. 234p., text is reproduced from a typewritten mss with inconspicuously-achieved justified right margin, amateur titlepage and preliminaries. Glossy wraps in near-fine condition, very first printing of the original self-published first edition, cover art by Barbara Jim-George, this copy is signed and inscribed by Jackson on..... More
Cat.No: 211970
Islands in the street; gangs and American urban society
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Hardcover. xiv, 382p., preface, introduction, conclusion, appendix, notes, bibliography. index, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Deals with Hispanic, African American and Irish American gangs. More
Cat.No: 18946