[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
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
Cat.No: 224743
Los Angeles: Precocious Publishing, 1987. Hardcover. 195p., first edition, long inscription signed by Bakeer, very good condition in a slightly worn and soiled dj. African American author, source material for the movie "South Central" by Oliver Stone. More
Cat.No: 247929
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
Cat.No: 234637
London: Clarke Hall Fellowship, 1950. Pamphlet. 34p., 5x7.25 inches, stapled pamphlet, ex-library, stamped withdrawn from the Home Office library, catalog numbers written on front and inside front covers, staining to back cover, a few dog-ears, a reading copy. The author was the Headmaster of Eton College. More
Cat.No: 238425
New York: Popular Library, 1955. Paperback. 175p., very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Gangs in Spanish Harlem. 685. More
Cat.No: 136678
Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. Hardcover. xi, 179p., very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. More
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
Cat.No: 214877
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, date stamped on cover. Originally Ballroom Dance Magazine and Dance Magazine.. Some numbering inconsistencies in the first few volumes. This issue covers Zeffirelli's boxing film..... More
Cat.No: 243807
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
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
Cat.No: 206412
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
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..... More
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
Cat.No: 211970
Oakland: LaDay Publishing, 2000. Trade Paperback. 250p., wraps. First printing of the original (self-published) edition from 2000. More
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
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
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
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
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
Cat.No: 194241
Mill Valley, CA: Hartmus Press, 1969. 92p, very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 129713
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993. Hardcover. viii, 214p., preface, introduction, conclusion, references, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards. More
Cat.No: 113424
San Francisco: First Word Press/Youth Speaks, 2003. Paperback. 81p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 182032
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
Cat.No: 206499
