Florence Isbell - eight DVDs and a CD, labelled oral history, conversations, stories, photograph, New Haven [unviewed]
no city: no publisher, 2008-09. Ms. Isbell was an ACLU stalwart. The nine items as a small lot. More
Cat.No: 229202
Oral tradition / transcription
Go for Broke, Inc. The National Nisei Veterans Organization
Richmond, CA: Go For Broke, [1982]. 8p., 7x8.5 inch brochure; introduction to the organization. Includes an advertisement for the book by the same title. More
Cat.No: 201728
Living memories: how to do an oral history
Washington: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, 1985. 16p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. Urges the reader to preserve memories of early Arab immigration; includes a sample oral history outline. More
Cat.No: 234408
Nan nan zheng zhuan: Xianggang nian zhang nan tong zhi kou shu shi
Hong Kong: Jin yi bu duo mei ti you xian gong si, 2014. 233p., new in original shrinkwrap, with original warning label ("This article contains material which may offend..." etc). Text in Chinese. Oral histories of gay elders from Hong Kong. More
Cat.No: 207973
Punchin' out with The Mill Hunk Herald. Fall 1984
Pittsburgh, PA: Piece of the Hunk, 1984. 65p., staplebound magazine, pages toned; address label taped to rear cover. Single issue of the labor publication, this issue with an emphasis on oral histories. More
Cat.No: 250186
Remembering the Spanish Civil War; James Wilkinson, Charles Molesworth, Steve Nelson, Rockwell Gray, Stanley G. Payne and Donald L. Miller, in Salmagundi, no. 76-77, fall 1987-winter 1988
Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 1987. 279p., slightly worn wraps else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 23671
Saturday night and Sunday morning; a national black heritage tour of blues, gospel, buckdancing and storytelling
Washington: National Council for the Traditional Arts, 1986. [16]p., 8.5x11 inch program, photos in text (some historical, some of the performers), very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 125847
Tiempo de historia, ano III num. 31, junio 1977
Madrid: the magazine, 1977. 130p., numerous illustrations, 9.5x6.5 inch newsprint textblock in color wraps, a bit worn with a small corner chip, pages evenly toned else good condition. Text in Spanish. Nine articles most of them on the Civil War or its aftermath, features an interview with Federica Montseny, includes..... More
Cat.No: 157743
Deep down in the jungle ... Negro narrative folklore from the streets of Philadelphia
Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, 1964. Hardcover. 287p., first edition, very good condition in a lightly worn dj. More
Cat.No: 62488
Ruth Acty, first African American teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District an interview conducted by Therese Pipe of Berkeley, California in 1994-1994 with the assistance of Jerri Lange
Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Historical Society, 2001. Paperback. xii, 122p., printed recto-only, 8.5x11 inches, photos, interviews, facsimile documents and newsclippings, index, appendixes (appendix A laid-in separate, a 16p. booklet 8.5x11 inches) very good in Perma bound covers. "Transcribed by the Berkeley Oral History Project of the Berkeley Historical Society, 2001."... More
Cat.No: 155203
Peacework, oral histories of women peace activists
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. x, 228p., first edition, dj. Twayne's oral history series. More
Cat.No: 125450
Tradiciones Orales de San Ignacio
Sinaloa, Mexico: DIFOCUR, 1989. Paperback. 133p. text in Spanish, illustrated with drawings, trade paperback first edition of 3000 copies in decorated wraps, some curl to wraps with a severe crease to lower front cover, and mild sunning to spine. More
Cat.No: 209270
Devil's Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes
Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books / Chicago Review Press, 2009. Hardcover. ix, 369p., photo section on inserted stock, first edition hardbound in black boards with black cloth backstrip titled in metallic blue and enclosed in a photographic dust jacket. An absolutely clean sound copy unmarked by anybody. More
Cat.No: 253120
The Afrocentric idea
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. Hardcover. ix, 217p., dj. African American author. More
Cat.No: 46814
I remember when... oral histories by ATDP Class Original Research & Journal Production
Berkeley: Academic Talent Development Program, n.d. 87p., printed recto-only, 8.5x11 inches, some illustrations, very good in spiral-bound blue pictorial wraps. From the Berkeley schoolchildren at ATDP. More
Cat.No: 206191
Growin' up country
Clintwood: Resource and Information Center Council of the Southern Mountains, 1973. 260p., introduction, illustrated throughout with drawings, maps and photos, addendum card laid-in, very good limited first printing of 1500 copies in pictorial wraps. Personal inscription to folk historian Archie Green signed by the editor. Appalachian oral histories. More
Cat.No: 131751
Homeless, friendless, and penniless; the WPA interviews with former slaves living in Indiana
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Hardcover. xx, 341p., text consists of 134 different interviews (presumably excerpted) and illustrated with the handful of photoportraits that turned up. Hardbound in openweave mulberry cloth boards gilt and dust jacket; near-new condition, boards very faintly yawn, jacket's spine panel may be slightly sunned (hard..... More
Cat.No: 69184
The elocutionist, consisting of declamations and readings, in prose and poetry; for the use of colleges and schools
New Haven: Published by Hezekiah Howe and A. H. Maltby. Printed by Hezekiah Howe. 1829. xi, 359p., first edition 7x4.3 inch full calf boards are rubbed and worn with joints cracked but hinges holding. Spine label presumably gone missing, leaving no shadow or scar. Within, expect pervasive foxing, several small..... More
Cat.No: 175391
Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848
Berkeley: Heyday Books/Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, 2006. Paperback. xxxvii, 470p., prologue, introduction, testimonies, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, photos, very good first edition trade paperback in red pictorial wraps. A collection of Hispanic women's oral histories. More
Cat.No: 232142
Bring me a story
Oakland: Floricanto Press, 1986. 66p., very good first trade paper edition in original pictorial wraps. Family tales of Turkish Sephardic Jews who immigrated to the US. More
Cat.No: 113710
Conversations with Dr. Leslie Latty Bennett; the research tradition at UCSF; Professor Emeritus and Former Chair, Department of Physiology, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Emeritus, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco: UCSG Oral History Program, Department of the History of Health Sciences, UCSF, 1992. Paperback. xvii, 174p., foreword, preface, introduction, appendixes, index, footnotes, references, illustrations and photos, first edition in 9x7.5 inch wraps. Newspaper obituary tipped-in to inside front cover; it has toned but not offset. Mild edgewear, a...... More
Cat.No: 146604
Oral history and delinquency the rhetoric of criminology
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. xv, 363p., dj. More
Cat.No: 60824
Working womenroots, an oral history primer
Ann Arbor: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, The University of Michigan - Wayne State University, [1978?]. vi, 74p., wraps, illus., 9x6 inches. Errata slip crediting Debra Bernhardt as the principle author tipped in on title page. More
Cat.No: 144931
Xiao er hei jie hun kuai ban
Hankou: Zhongnan xinhua shudian, 1950. 76p., slender paperback, local reprint edition on somewhat crude paper, some rust marks by the staple. Kuaiban (oral storytelling version) of the story of "Young Black's wedding." More
Cat.No: 244767
Slave testimony; two centuries of letters, speeches, interviews, and autobiographies
Baton Rouges: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. lxv, 777p., footnotes, illustrations, indexes, very good later printing trade paperback in pictorialwraps. African American scholar. More
Cat.No: 136220