![America's Black Heritage Calendar; a continuing strength in our society [1987 calendar]](/pictures/thumb/214649.jpg?v=1493260499)
Oakland: Baker Mortuary, Inc., 1987. Calendar. [28p] includes covers, 8.75x9 inches, illustrations, photos, biographies, historical information, 12 month wall calendar, stapled pictorial covers. More
Cat.No: 214649
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. Pamphlet. 24p., pamphlet on nice paperstock with 7 color exhibit photos, line map, b&w photo of one of the mantles in situ (as found, carefully bundled round a corpse) and diagram. Softbound, 9x6.5 inch oblong wraps, a very good clean sound copy. More
Cat.No: 228979
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1985. 259p., color plates on glazed stock, double-column text (with sidebars) on matte brown stock, decorated 14x10 inch boards. Corners slightly scuffed with a small ding to spine panel, faint foredge smudge, lacks the jacket, otherwise a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 168397
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1972. 20p. illus. tabloid format newspaper, fold-creased, with George Jackson portrait on front cover and Emory Douglas poster on the rear cover; upper left corner of front page torn away, not affecting text. This is the first issue of the BPP paper to appear after Jackson's... More
Cat.No: 224531
Detroit: International Masons, Inc., n.d. Paperback. 12p., 4x5.75 inches, stiff wraps mildly toned at edges, staplebound, signature of former owner on inside cover, else very good. 4-page Syllabus of additional Eastern Star material from Ezra A Cook, Publisher laid in. Burial Ceremony for the Eastern Star affiliated with the International... More
Cat.No: 224282
Washington: Library of Congress, Rare Books Division, 1945. xii, 30p., 8.5x12 inches, lightly worn boards. Facsimile of 1490 edition, with engravings of dancing skeletons among the living. More
Cat.No: 135743
![Dedication - Congregation Sha'ar Zahav Cemetary [sic] at the Hills of Eternity and Congregational Memorial Service: Sunday, September 24, 1989: the memory of the righteous is for blessing](/pictures/thumb/206903.jpg?v=1484089196)
San Francisco: Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, 1989. Four 8.5x11 inch blue sheets printed on seven sides, stapled right-hand side, mostly English text, some Hebrew, program for the dedication of the cemetery, very good. Congregation Sha'ar Zahav is the main LGBT synagogue in SF. More
Cat.No: 206903
México: Secretaria de Gobernacion Consejo Nacional de Poblacion, 1984. 43p., 5.5x8.25 inches, introduction,footnotes, tables, figures, conclusions, bibliography, text in Spanish, very good first edition booklet in stapled brick-red wraps. More
Cat.No: 161627
Oxford: First Baptist Church, 1973. 4p. memorial service program, photo of the deceased, wraps. More
Cat.No: 147687
New York: Alliance for the Arts, 1992. 32p., 6x9 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes sectuions on health insurance, estate planning, resources, strategies etc. More
Cat.No: 72036
San Mateo, CA: Patterson & O'Connell, 1977. Calendar. 28p. calendar, each month illus. with 8-10 panels depicting the life of a prominent Black American (Frances Harper, Duke Ellington, James P. Beckwourth, Charles Spaulding, etc.). Calendar sponsored by Patterson & O'Connell, a San Mateo California funeral home. More
Cat.No: 42287
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. 217p., fine b&w and color illustrations, first edition white cloth boards with red Chinese titles in pictorial dj, 13x10.5 inches. Text in Chinese, staplebound supplemental insert in English and also foldout supplement in Chinese. A fine copy in a utilitarian cardstock slipcase. More
Cat.No: 50022
Sevilla: Imp. F. E., 1938. 35p., rubrications and onlay colors throughout, sewn wraps, somewhat edgeworn and dustsoiled. Elaborately produced, designed and decorated booklet. More
Cat.No: 7262
San Francisco: Fidelity Mutual Aid Association, 1890. Single long leaf (6.2x19.5 inches)of pink paperstock printed dark blue and folded five times to make 12 printed panels (6.2x3.3) filled with conditions of membership, list of late claims paid (name, city, nature of disability, amount) and excerpted letters of gratitude (name, city... More
Cat.No: 228028
Detroit: Second Baptist Church, 1975. 4p. memorial program, wraps. More
Cat.No: 147686
New York: The Center for Inter-American Relations and The American Federation of the Arts, with the cooperation of the Government of Peru, 1973. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 32p., text and most of the exhibit photography are printed sepia, with a few pale color reproductions, softbound, stapled into 9x8.5 inch decorated wraps... More
Cat.No: 198657
Willimantic, CT: Lysander Spooner Society, 1983. Special joint-issue of the Anarchist zines, [22p.], wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches. Letters, essays and poems submitted by readers from prison, plus a piece on the death penalty by Michael Parenti. More
Cat.No: 144654
Chicago: RCP Publications, 2005. 16p., printed on coated paperstock throughout with a fine photo of Shaw and a standard one of Avakian; Shaw an RCP African American militant active in Los Angeles; very good staplebound pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 121529
Oakland: Tilghman Press, [1975]. 10x7 inch funeral hand-fan, stiff cardstock cut in semi-circular shape (10 across, 6 high), illustrated in three colors with a cross on a hill on the front, b&w photos of the funeral owners on rear, photos accompanied by calendars for 1975 & 1976 plus advertising for... More
Cat.No: 215036
Paris: Éditions Adyar, 1937. 237p., wraps, very good; attractive old publisher's bookmark laid in. Text in French; a consideration of various classifications of death and how regarded. More
Cat.No: 135440
Milan: Skira, 1998. 208p., period and contemporary photos, in situ and from museum, high-resolution b&w work throughout. First English language edition 12x9 inch openweave black cloth boards in laminated dj, faint rubbing to dj, a near-fine copy. More
Cat.No: 166371
San Quentin: Esque Distributors [i.e., "S. Q." --author?], 1965. 48p., illustrated with numerious competent b&w photoillustrations in the text; staplebound 7 x 5 inch decorated wraps, entirely clean and sound, a near fine copy. "..my personal associations and experiences with prisoners is somewhat limited. The opinions and ideas expressed are... More
Cat.No: 183425
Glendale, CA: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 1935. 40p., 10.5x14.75 inches, profusely illustrated with sepia-toned photographs of the Park, a page of facts at rear including staff and board members, tissue-guard endpapers, first edition booklet/brochure in heavy blue textured and decorated stapled wraps, gilt titles. A little edgeworn with nicks in... More
Cat.No: 205765
Vatican City: L. E. V., 1993. Oversized Paperback. 191p., heavy coated paperstock with profuse color site and exhibit photography, diagrams and floorplans with spot color. 10.5x8 inch cardstock wraps, slightest signs of any handling, entirely clean and sound, a near-fine copy. More
Cat.No: 178083
![[Blank book signed with] Guest list, cocktail buffet honoring Bernice Behrens hosted by the Hemphills, Tuesday, Aughst 23, 1977, 6 - 8 p.m. 1070 Green St. Bernice Behrens.](/pictures/thumb/101227.jpg?v=1516752569)
[San Francisco]: unpublished, 1977. Three leaves signed in an otherwise blank casebound volume, about 23 names, 2-page printed guest list laid in along with a 4 x 6 inch printed card filled out by hand ("Doorman will park car" &c). Names in print seem to correspond exactly with autographs (some... More
Cat.No: 101227
