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
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. 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. 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
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
Congaree sketches; scenes from Negro life in the swamps of the Congaree and tales by Tad and Scip of heaven and hell with other miscellany
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
Cat.No: 14713
Congaree sketches; scenes from Negro life in the swamps of the Congaree and tales by Tad and Scip of heaven and hell with other miscellany
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
Cat.No: 184676
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
The possible dream; toward understanding the black experience
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
Cat.No: 89198
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
Anarchist voices, an oral history of Anarchism in America
Edinburgh / Oakland: AK Press, 2005. Paperback. xiii, 574p., publisher's ads, softbound reprint in 9x6 inch decorated wraps. Slightest edgewear, clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 240506
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., first printing, dj. 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
Testimonies: 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
Parliament, People & Power; Agenda for a Free Society. Interviews with New Left Review.
London: Verso, 1982. Paperback. xi, 133p., softbound, an 8x5 inch glossy black paperback. Nice copy, clean and sound, near-fine. . More
Cat.No: 238082
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