University of Texas Press, 2011. Paperback. 274p., trade paperback, revised edition, very good. "Writing nonfiction with the skill of a novelist, Akers paints a vivid portrait of a community desolated by racial hatred and its own refusal to face hard truths." - from the back cover. More
Cat.No: 253306
Boston: Nichols and Noyes, 1869. Hardcover. 156p., hardbound first edition in 7.5x4.5 inch green cloth boards with cover- and spine-titling gilt; ex libris "Friends Meeting Library, Berkeley," conspicuous exterior numerals and pocket within, edgewear &c, a better than "reading" copy but not by much. Author accuses the accusers. More
Cat.No: 188054
Paradise, CA: the quarterly, 1994. About [60]p.; Self-wraps magazine, 10.75 x 8.25 inches with a decorated unglazed cover, illustrated where possible with period photography, plats, line maps and images. Cover is possibly a trifle faded, otherwise as new. Collector's edition. Scholarly articles, this time featuring "Lookout lynching / Father MacNamara..... More
Cat.No: 99388
Paradise, CA: the quarterly, 1995. 63p., self-wraps magazine, 10.75 x 8.25 inches with a decorated unglazed cover, illustrated where possible with period photography, plats, line maps and images. Faint browning of paperstock. Collector's edition. Scholarly articles, this time featuring "John Muir and the Bidwells / Trappers at the buttes /..... More
Cat.No: 99389
Paradise, CA: the quarterly, 1995. 63p., self-wraps magazine, 10.75 x 8.25 inches with a decorated unglazed cover, illustrated where possible with period photography, plats, line maps and images. This issue is damp-rippled throughout, with two small stains (only) and no mustiness. Collector's edition. Scholarly articles, this time featuring "The Modoc..... More
Cat.No: 99419
Indianapolis: The New Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1959. 384p., hardbound first edition in pale-apricot boards titled red, in dust jacket. A nice copy, no ownership or other marks; unclipped dj is bright but has a small adhesion scar to front panel affecting author's name, and back panel has a light dampstain with..... More
Cat.No: 99444
Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1946. Paperback. 132p., wraps worn on spine; a bump at top left corner has caused a crumpled area with short tears. Occasional ballpoint pen underlining in the text. Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers #15. More
Cat.No: 13163
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Paperback. xviii+224p., trade paperback, photos throughout, very good. More
Cat.No: 253299
New York: Wilson-Erickson, 1936. vii, 261p., hardbound first edition in diced green cloth boards titled orange, and unclipped dust jacket. Dj has a little edgewear with some chipping at the head, book itself has a little toning to endsheets, a remarkably nice copy: entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Adams 6-Guns..... More
Cat.No: 37792
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation Inc., 1936. Six panel brochure, 4x9 inches, paper slightly browned else good third edition. Short statements from Southern officials & leaders (white with the exception of Booker T. Washington & Mary McLeod Bethune) for better racial understanding and often stating opposition to lynching. More
Cat.No: 178886
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. Hardcover. 373p., first edition, dj. On the all-black Florida town burned out by a white mob, and the townspeople's seventy year struggle for justice. More
Cat.No: 37163
New York: Viking, 2001. Hardcover. xiv, 384p., hardcover, first printing, unclipped dj, phtos, boards slightly splayed, else very good. General history of the struggle for civil rights, from Ida B. Wells and Booker T. Washington to the present. More
Cat.No: 87122
Seaside, CA: Standing-Celebration, 1979. Paperback. 148p., illustrated with drawings and photos, ex-library copy with minimal markings but taped number on spine, taped label on rear cover and scuffs from wear, trade paperback in pictorial wraps with drawing of Klan members at a lynching. A call to African Americans to continue..... More
Cat.No: 186143
Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1969. xviii, 553p. No dust jacket. The articles focus on black-white violence. More
Cat.No: 91022
New York: Marlowe & Company, 1996. 224p., first edition, dj. More
Cat.No: 77827
New York: The New Press, 2003. Hardcover. xvi, 477p., preface, notes, bibliography, index, b&w photo section, first edition, very good ocndition in a shelf worn dj with sticker remains on rear panel. More
Cat.No: 233972
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1927. Magazine. lxxii, 385-512pp., paperbound in the usual 10x7 inch plain printed format with overlapping (yapp) edges. Edges are distressed, with chipping, tail has some tatter and a split, front hinge is holding but rather rough with small losses at gutter from leaf i/ii..... More
Cat.No: 229005
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2006. Hardcover. xi, 257p., hardbound first edition boards in pictorial dust jacket. Aside from an ownership signature on the ffep, a fine copy: perfectly sound and clean, and free of any other marks. More
Cat.No: 253416
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. Hardcover. xxiii, 404p., hardbound in dark blue cloth boards, titled silver on red spine- and cover-panels. Somewhat dished, possibly from careless storage, else perfectly sound, clean, free of any markings. Laid in find a leaf of lined paper with holograph notes taken on contents of O'Shea's..... More
Cat.No: 219779
Oakland: PM Press, 2018. Paperback. xii+258p., 8x10 inches, pictorial wraps, many color illustrations, New. More
Cat.No: 221621
Indianapolis: Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Press, 1998. Paperback. 151p., softbound item, first edition glossy 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, a fine clean copy with a "Review Copy" rubberstamp on the title page. Epigraphs from J. Edgar Hoover (his "prevent a Black messiah" directive) and Isaiah 11:6, about utopian peace. One year after the assassination..... More
Cat.No: 181144
Fort Wayne: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, 1955. Pamphlet. Reprint, originally chapter 14 of Rowan's 1931 book The Pinkertons, here in pamphlet format: 12p., illustrated with a few sketches germaine to the action, and no fewer than nine vignette photoportraits of library staffers, of whom three ladies..... More
Cat.No: 228491
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. Hardcover. viii, 476p., a few b&w photoillustrations scattered in the text, hardbound first printing in cloth boards and photographic dust jacket, a very good copy in every respect. A study of the NAACP's civil rights efforts (anti-Klan, anti-lynching, etc.) and the DuBois-Johnson-White leadership. More
Cat.No: 132550
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. Hardcover. ix, 272p., illustrated from period photographs; first edition cloth boards in dust jacket. Faint edgewear to dj and a bright green seller's label disfigures the dj illustration, an else quite sound clean unmarked copy. Revisionist interpretation of the Vigilante movement, largely that "merchants saw..... More
Cat.No: 50416
[Philadelphia, PA]: [Eugene Upshaw], [circa 1946-7]. Small handbill, 4.5x6.5 inches, very good condition, printed on one side only. Gives a phone number and suggests going to "The South Carolina Boy's Restaurant, 4140 Lancaster Ave." The only reference we can find suggests that the restaurant was in Philadelphia and catered to..... More
Cat.No: 234806
