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Santa Fe NM: Twin Palms, 2000-2002. Magazine. Unpaginated, respectively about forty and fifty-two pages, brilliant photography sales catalogues from sellers having a general interest in the unsettling (lynching, fellatio, decay, absurdities). Prints and books are (were) for sale with prices listed; offered are items both period and contemporary. Presswork on..... More
Cat.No: 295932
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
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. Hardcover. 332p., first printing, very good condition in like dj with the original flap price intact. More
Cat.No: 81323
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
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
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 germane 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
Fresno: Sage-West Publishing Company, May 1971. Pamphlet. 31p. including photos, later printing, 9x6 inch photodecorated wraps. Mild crimping along the spinefold, and back cover bears thumbprints; a fine copy within, no ownerships or any marking. On the only woman lynched during the gold rush; heavily reported at the time and..... More
Cat.No: 15816
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
