no city: no publisher, 2008-09. Ms. Isbell was an ACLU stalwart. The nine items as a small lot. More about Florence Isbell - eight DVDs and a CD, labelled oral history, conversations, stories, photograph,...
Cat.No: 229202
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 about Go for Broke, Inc. The National Nisei Veterans Organization
Cat.No: 201728
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 about Living memories: how to do an oral history
Cat.No: 234408
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 about Nan nan zheng zhuan: Xianggang nian zhang nan tong zhi kou shu shi
Cat.No: 207973
Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 1987. 279p., slightly worn wraps. More about Remembering the Spanish Civil War; James Wilkinson, Charles Molesworth, Steve Nelson, Rockwell...
Cat.No: 23671
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 about Saturday night and Sunday morning; a national black heritage tour of blues, gospel, buckdancing...
Cat.No: 125847
Madrid: the magazine, 1977. 130p., numerous illustrations, 9.5x6.5 inch newsprint textblock in color wraps, a bit worn with a small corner chip. Nine articles most of them on the Civil War or its aftermath, features an interview with Federica Montseny, includes survey of recent assassinations in the United States. More about Tiempo de historia, ano III num. 31, junio 1977
Cat.No: 157743
Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, 1964. Hardcover. 287p., first edition, very good condition in a lightly worn dj. More about Deep down in the jungle ... Negro narrative folklore from the streets of Philadelphia
Cat.No: 62488
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 about Ruth Acty, first African American teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District an interview...
Cat.No: 155203
San Francisco: New Glide Publications, 1978. Hardcover. xii, 337p., prologue, interviews, Nancy's story, selected bibliography, illustrated with b&w photos and film stills, very good first edition in half-cloth boards and edgeworn, unclipped dj with closed tears. Based on the documentary film. More about Word is Out: stories of some of our lives
Cat.No: 9148
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1927. Hardcover. xvii, 116p., first edtion boards gilt in two fabrics (black linen backstrip, marigold buckram) and what looks like handsewn headbands, in dust jacket; UNC bindery at the top of its form. Tinted top edge, the calendared paperstock thick and in... More about Congaree sketches; scenes from Negro life in the swamps of the Congaree and tales by Tad and Scip...
Cat.No: 14713
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1927. Hardcover. xvii, 116p., first edtion boards gilt in two fabrics (black linen backstrip, marigold buckram), the buckram is somewhat soiled else very good condition. European American author who, according to the introduction, sets the background for the flowering of African American... More about Congaree sketches; scenes from Negro life in the swamps of the Congaree and tales by Tad and Scip...
Cat.No: 184676
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. x, 228p., first edition, dj. Twayne's oral history series. More about Peacework, oral histories of women peace activists
Cat.No: 125450
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 about Tradiciones Orales de San Ignacio
Cat.No: 209270
Mexico D. F. Editorial Diana, 1982. Paperback. 213p., paperbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps; shows some handling wear all round the extremities, a good sound copy completely clean within. More about Emancipacion femenina en el subdesarrollo
Cat.No: 216250
New York: Friendship Press, 1971. Paperback. 140p., review slip laid in, wraps. Paperback original by a European American philosopher, with an introduction by Floyd B. Barbour. More about The possible dream; toward understanding the black experience
Cat.No: 89198
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. Hardcover. ix, 217p., dj. African American author. More about The Afrocentric idea
Cat.No: 46814
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 about I remember when... oral histories by ATDP Class Original Research & Journal Production
Cat.No: 206191
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 about Growin' up country
Cat.No: 131751
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Hardcover. xx, 341p., first printing, dj. More about Homeless, friendless, and penniless; the WPA interviews with former slaves living in Indiana
Cat.No: 69184
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 about The elocutionist, consisting of declamations and readings, in prose and poetry; for the use of...
Cat.No: 175391
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 about Testimonies: Early California through the eyes of women 1815-1848
Cat.No: 232142
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 about Bring me a story
Cat.No: 113710
London: Verso, 1982. Paperback. xi, 133p., softbound, an 8x5 inch glossy black paperback. Nice copy, clean and sound, near-fine. . More about Parliament, People & Power; Agenda for a Free Society. Interviews with New Left Review
Cat.No: 238082
San Francisco: UCSG Oral History Program, Department of the History of Health Sciences, UCSF, 1992. xvii, 174p., foreword, preface, introduction, appendixes, index, footnotes, references, illustrations and photos, very good first edition in wraps. Newspaper obituary tipped-in to inside front cover. More about Conversations with Dr. Leslie Latty Bennett; the research tradition at UCSF; Professor Emeritus...
Cat.No: 146604
