New York: Civil Rights Congress of New York, 1947. Newsletter. Two-page mimeographed newsletter; 8.5x14 inches, minor toning, very good. Not found in Danky's "African-American Newspapers and Periodicals." Newsletter for local members of the CRC, asking them to take action to "Get Congress moving on the anti-lynch bill." Outlines the provisions..... More
Cat.No: 277802
n.p. Communist Party, [1935]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, paper toned, tiny corner chip, some staining. "500 of these distributed" penciled at top, date added in pen at bottom, with penciled note "Rochester?" "At election time, the Republican, Democratic and Socialist Parties come fawning around for the vote of the Negro..... More
Cat.No: 283085
Buffalo, NY: 5th Ward Branch, Communist Party, 1939. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, city and date added in pencil at bottom, evenly toned, very good. Issued during the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, when the CPUSA took an isolationist position. "Dear Mr. Moneybags, All the messengers and radios you own are working overtime to..... More
Cat.No: 283088
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
Chattanooga, TN: Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association, 1936. Pamphlet. 4p., 5.5x8.5 inch bulletin, holes punched at left (no text loss), minor corner crease. Ames, executive director of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, argues that despite taking editorial stances against lynching, newspapers often report alleged sexual assaults..... More
Cat.No: 276436
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: Bobbs-Merrill, 1959. Hardcover. 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 offset color..... More
Cat.No: 99444
Buffalo, NY: the Council, [1938]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed leaflet, year penned neatly under the date, very good. Stark artwork depicts a man who has been lynched. "The disgraceful filibuster in the US Senate has temporarily side-tracked the Anti-Lynch Bill from being acted upon. These deliberate Hooligan tactics of part..... More
Cat.No: 277216
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
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation Inc., 1938. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure, 4x9 inches, fourth edition; ownership stamp in corner of cover, otherwise very good. Short statements from Southern officials & leaders (mostly white with the exception of Booker T. Washington & Mary McLeod Bethune), for better racial understanding, and often..... More
Cat.No: 283785
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: 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
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
