n.p. [194-]. Pamphlet. Eight-panel pictorial brochure, without identification of issuer; minor foxing to rear panel, otherwise very good. Anti-US propaganda from WWII, intended to weaken criticism of the Axis powers' human rights abuses by pointing out racist incidents in the United States. Includes photos of lynchings and race riots, the..... More

Cat.No: 299216

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

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, 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

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

Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1936. Paperback. 132p., wraps worn on spine; a bump at top left corner has caused a crumpled area with short tears. Occasional ball-point pen underlining in the text. Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers #15. More

Cat.No: 13163

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

Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1969. xviii, 553p. No dust jacket. The articles focus on black-white violence. More

Cat.No: 91022

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

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 germane to the action, and no fewer than nine vignette photoportraits of library staffers, of whom three ladies..... More

Cat.No: 228491