Louisville: University of Louisville Library, 1969. [8p.], nine b&w images including foldout plates, printed on cardstock throughout, 8.5x5.5 inch wraps; period photos from the collection, all of which early 20thC, five featuring automobiles (cover plate shows a Model T wrecked against a telephone pole). Exhibition catalogue. More about Caufield and Shook Collection; University of Louisville Library's photographic archives, Allen R....

Cat.No: 132496

Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1972. [28p.], staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Includes three articles from Labor Age, published by the Conference for Progressive Labor Action. Reprints articles by J. Louis Engdahl, Eugene Gordon, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Molly Jackson and others. More about Harlan & Bell Kentucky, 1931-2, the National Miner's Union. As reported at the time in The...

Cat.No: 81119

Clintwood, VA: Council of the Southern Mountains Inc., 1973. Magazine. 23p., wraps, newsprint lightly browned, wraps worn, pen notation on front wrap else very good condition, 8x10.75 inches. Cover story on the Harlan County mine strike. More about Mountain life & work, the magazine of the Appalachian South, October 1973, vol. 49, no. 10

Cat.No: 240194

Louisville: Southern Conference Educational Fund, [1971?]. Four-panel brochure, 4x5 inches, very good, promoting the work of SCEF. More about "Poor and working white people in the South must be organized ..."

Cat.No: 27549

Lexington, KY: Liberation Projects, 2009. [16p.], wraps. 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 about Total destruction, a straightedge fanzine against the ruling social order. May, 2009, the final...

Cat.No: 148459

Louisville: Historic Homes Foundation, Inc., n.d. 16p., 7.5x10.5 inches, illustrations, notes, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps with short closed tear on front cover. More about Farmington's chapter in the Lincoln story

Cat.No: 166613

Lexington: Bill Bartley for US Senate, 1972. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed leaflet, printed both sides, very good. Bartley, a law student, was running as the candidate of the People's Party. More about William E. Bartley Jr. for Senate. People's Party [handbill

Cat.No: 224858

Concord, N. H. Parker Pillsbury, 1885. 48p., third US edition, string-tied wraps with corner torn from top of final leaf, not affecting text, and two spots on the front. Includes an introduction by Pillsbury. More about The American churches, the bulwarks of American slavery

Cat.No: 90693

[Joliet, IL]: 1stbooks, 2002. Trade Paperback. xii, 136p. including illus. from period family photoportraits, inscribed by Boswell, 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 a doctorate in education. More about Lizzie's story: a slave family's journey to freedom

Cat.No: 104264

[Louisville, KY]: Anne Braden, 1955. xv, 330p., original boards slightly edgeworn and smudged. Imprint information from label pasted on verso of front cover. Related newspaper clipping laid insiude front cover with resultant toning of adjacent endpapers. At head of front cover: Court of Appeals of Kentucky. Braden was tried and... More about Carl Braden, appellant, versus Commonwealth of Kentucky, appellee. Appeal from Jefferson Circuit...

Cat.No: 80623

Louisville KY: Pentecostal Publishing Company, 1951. 37p., b&w frontis portrait of Robert Chung and family, staplebound 7.5x5 inch black on red wraps. An old ownership name is pencilled faintly across the cover, some external handling soil and splash-spots; inscribed and signed by the author in Lexington KY. On Chung's escape..... More about Red terror or Robert Chung's escape. Third edition

Cat.No: 171672

Reading: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1969. Paperback. xxviii, 98p., introduction, footnotes, appendix, very good first printing thus trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Fugitive Slave Narratives Series #2. More about The narrative of William W. Brown a fugitive slave and a lecture delivered before the female...

Cat.No: 179610

[New York]: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Hardcover. 169p. + 4p. tables, first printing, dj. On the integration of Louisville's schools. European American authors. More about The Louisville story

Cat.No: 10727