[San Francisco]: StolenLives.com, 2004. Six-panel brochure, very good. Argues that the gang investigation group is sloppy and over-eager to determine gang status, and that it provides cover for torturing and killing young men of color. More about Stop the CCGIA (Central Coast Gang Investigators Association)
Cat.No: 215171
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Hardcover. 311., mild foxing and toning of endpapers, shelfwear otherwise a very good first edition in cloth boards and lightly-worn unclipped dj. Semi-autobiographical novel of a childhood as a Black in South Africa. More about Tell Freedom
Cat.No: 224743
Bogota: Tercer Mundo Editores, 1991. Paperback. 2217p., wraps, 5.25 x 8.25 inches, maps, charts, very good condition. Text in Spanish. Sociologia y Politica. On the origins and development of gang violence in Eastern Colombia, focusing on the period between 1930 and 1960. More about Matones y Cuadrilleros: Origen y evolucion de la violencia en el occidente colombiano
Cat.No: 234637
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. Hardcover. xviii, 277p., first printing, dj. On the Crips and the Bloods. More about Do or die
Cat.No: 55326
New York: Popular Library, 1955. Paperback. 175p., very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Gangs in Spanish Harlem. 685. More about The big rumble
Cat.No: 136678
Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. Hardcover. xi, 179p., very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. More about Fist stick knife gun; a personal history of violence in America
Cat.No: 44710
New York: Danad Publishing, 1979. Magazine. 100p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, entertainment news, reviews, opinion, interviews, ads, listings, photos, lightly-worn, magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Originally Ballroom Dance Magazine and Dance Magazine.. Some numbering inconsistencies in the first few volumes. This issue covers gangs on the street and screen with... More about After Dark: the national magazine of entertainment; vol. 11, #11, March 1979: Tommy Lee Jones cover
Cat.No: 214877
Los Angeles: Americas 2001, 1988. Magazine. 32p., includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, bilingual texts in Spanish and English, photos, art, columns, news, opinion, services, ads, events, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Articles on Gang Sweeps and Sheriff Sherman Block. More about Americas 2001: vol. 1, #7, July/Aug. 1988
Cat.No: 209060
Cochabamba: n.p., 1985. Paperback. 292p., illustrations, tables, text in Spanish, first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Covers somewhat browned. Pages age-toned. On the drug trafficking in Bolivia, Columbia and Miami; three of the nine chapter titles mention "los convenios secretos entre Estados Unidos y Bolivia" More about Narcotrafico y politica II: Bolivia 1982 - 1985
Cat.No: 206412
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1969. 248p., second printing, shelfworn dj, pervasive light foxing. The European American minister, who worked in Chicago with the Blackstone Rangers, was the target of a Senate witchhunt against the Rangers and other Black militant groups in the late 1960s. More about Fire and Blackstone
Cat.No: 44925
Berkeley: Frog, Ltd., 2004. 234p., wraps. Second edition (first printing thus) of a well-received novel by the Oakland-based African American author; glossy comix cover art by Ariel Shepard. As new. More about Oaktown devil
Cat.No: 79740
Oakland: LaDay Publishing, 1998. Paperback. 234p., text is reproduced from a typewritten mss with inconspicuously-achieved justified right margin, amateur title page and preliminaries. Glossy wraps in near-fine condition, very first printing of the original self-published first edition, cover art by Barbara Jim-George. First novel by the African American author, subsequently republished. More about Oaktown devil
Cat.No: 167666
Oakland: LaDay Publishing, 1998. Paperback. 234p., text is reproduced from a typewritten mss with inconspicuously-achieved justified right margin, amateur titlepage and preliminaries. Glossy wraps in near-fine condition, very first printing of the original self-published first edition, cover art by Barbara Jim-George, this copy is signed and inscribed by Jackson on... More about Oaktown devil
Cat.No: 211970
Oakland: LaDay Publishing, 2000. Trade Paperback. 250p., wraps. First printing of the original (self-published) edition from 2000. More about Shakey's Loose
Cat.No: 196706
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Hardcover. xiv, 382p., preface, introduction, conclusion, appendix, notes, bibliography. index, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Deals with Hispanic, African American and Irish American gangs. More about Islands in the street; gangs and American urban society
Cat.No: 18946
New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1953. Hardcover. [vi], 278p., generic inscription signed by the African American author, pencil ownership notes abot the signing on rear endpaper, pages 266/267 opened roughly leaving ragged edges otherwise a very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped brick red dj. African American author... More about The Pecking Order
Cat.No: 4441
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. xi, 270p., first printing, dj. With material on black and Hispanic gangs, and to a lesser extent, on Asian American gangs. More about The American street gang; its nature, prevalence, and control
Cat.No: 112728
New York: Random House, 1997. Hardcover. xviii, 217p., first edition boards in dust jacket, a fine copy signed by McCall on the title page. More about What's going on; personal essays
Cat.No: 180695
San Antonio: Self-published by the author at Mungua Printers, 2006. Paperback. 203p + appendices, preface, introduction, illustrations and photos, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Morales is a Gang Specialist and a member of the National Major Gang Task Force. More about Varrio warfare: violence in the Latino community
Cat.No: 194241
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993. Hardcover. viii, 214p., preface, introduction, conclusion, references, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards. More about Outside the wall; a Puerto Rican woman's struggle
Cat.No: 113424
San Francisco: First Word Press/Youth Speaks, 2003. Paperback. 81p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More about Both sides: collected poems
Cat.No: 182032
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. 239p., stain on fore-edge, light wear otherwise a goof first edition in cloth boards and unclipped bright dj. Young 3109. Author's first book. Filmed in 1979 and starring Ken Wahl in his first film, thanks to the guidance and hard work of Kris Schuessler. More about The Wanderers; a novel
Cat.No: 23530
Pasadena: Concrete Jungle Books, 2010. 232 p., very good in wraps; color-photo section inside of the author and other figures in the Bay Area crack-dealing scene ("George and his Lamborghini" and thirty other well-reproduced snapshots including a group photo on the cover). Autobiographical account by the self-described "youngest and most... More about Weight
Cat.No: 206499
McPherson, KS: Christ is the Answer Crusade, [197-?]. Pamphlet. 64p.. 6x8.75 inches, photos, very good first edition boojkley in stapled red pictorial wraps. The Puerto Rico-born author went from New York street gangs to a Kansas City ministry. More about "From a Needle to a Crown" an autobiography
Cat.No: 54427
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1993. Hardcover. 260p., personal inscription signed by the author, ownership names and light shelf-wear otherwise a very good first edition in cloth and unclipped dj. Autobiographical account by the Chicano poet. More about Always running; la vida loca: gang days in L. A.
Cat.No: 177633
