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Support the Black Panther Party
Folded twice, else near fine. [webonly] [JSP01; JHG2019]
Book ID: 93630More details Price: $1,000.00 -
Wanted by the FBI Interstate Flight - Assault with Intent to Commit Murder Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
First Edition
Washington, D.C: FBI. Wanted Flyer 447, issued December 13, 1968, 3 days following a Federal warrant issued on December 10, 1968, at San Francisco, California, charging Cleaver with unlawful interstate flight to avoid confinement after conviction for assault with intent to commit murder. Photo-printed poster with 4 images, 2 taken in 1966 and 2 in 1968. Signed with facsimile signature of J. Edgar Hoover. Poster was mailed to Postmaster, High Bridge, New Jersey. Folded for mailing. 14 x 10.5 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1049272.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Folded for mailing in half and again in thirds. Middle fold is tanned and there is edge and corner wear. Small edge chip on right center.
Book ID: 264850More details Price: $600.00 -
If the Sands of the Seas Were Pearls
First Edition
New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co, 1914. 6 pages. The multi-talented Johnson was an early black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a Consul in Latin America, and the author of a number of books. In his spare time, he wrote songs like this one, in partnership with Will Marion Cook, one of the leading African American composers of his day. ISBN: 281AIB1024330.
Two copies, both very good or better. One, with a list of salon and concert songs numbered 7823 on the final page, and the other with an ad for All Aboard for Dixie Land on the back cover, with the ID number 9609. The former is probably the first issue. Uncommon. Housed in a custom cloth case. [JSP01]
Book ID: 107685More details Price: $200.00 -
Free Ruchell Magee and All Political Prisoners
New York: Founding Conference for a National Defense Organization, (n.d. but 1973). Single 14 by 8-1/2 inch sheet folded in half to make four pages. A rather late circular in support of Magee. Magee's first trial following the attempted kidnapping of a judge in the Marin County courthouse in 1970 resulted in a hung jury. This publication was issued as his second trial, in which he would be convicted, was just getting underway, in 1973. The publisher was a Communist Party group that started as the Angela Davis Defense Committee (Davis was acquitted in 1972). Uncommon; apparently not in OCLC. ISBN: 281AIB1017752.
Near fine.
Book ID: 79420More details Price: $75.00 -
The Negro Boy and Girl: Study Book for Juniors
First Edition
Pittsburgh: Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church, 1920s. 33 pages. An uncommon Presbyterian item. Issued without a title page. The only publication information appears on the title page. ISBN: 281AIB1048751.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy in tan wrappers (paperback). Former owner's name inside front cover. Quartermoon-sized stain in right margin throughout text. Covers with stain.
Book ID: 264005More details Price: $75.00 -
A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Treasures of the Library of Congress)
(Norwalk, CT): The Easton Press / Library of Congress, 1989. A fascimile of the original 1760 edition of the "first slave narrative independanty printed in the North American colonies" -- from the publisher's notes. First published in 1760. ISBN: B000C2Q6QS.
A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Still wrapped in publisher's original paper with gold sticker seal. Small smudge to paper wrapping. Publisher's notes laid in.
Book ID: 154445More details Price: $62.50 -
Thursday, January 25th Rally - Press Conference Hear: Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, Erica Huggins
[Berkeley or Oakland]: [Black Panther Party], [1972?]. Flyer, 6-7/8 by 8-1/2 inches. A rally promoting Black Panther Ericka Huggins's candidacy for "political office in Berkeley." In 1972, Huggins was elected, with three other Panthers, to the Berkeley Community Development Council Board of Directors. It is not clear if this leaflet refers to this election or to another planned candidacy. ISBN: 281AIB1017749.
Creased from folding twice, else very good. Apparently unrelated notes on the the verso (back).
Book ID: 79421More details Price: $50.00 -
Gerald Lefcourt Defender of Panther 21 [flyer]
[State University of New York, Brockport?]: (n.p.), [1970]. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Flyer for a speech by the attorney Gerald Lefcourt, then defending the Panther 21, a large group of Black Panthers then being prosecuted for conspiring to bomb New York police precincts (they were acquitted). (Leonard Bernstein gained some notoriety for hosting a fundraiser for the group, an event publicized by Tom Wolfe's long essay, These Radical Chic Evenings. The location of the event is speculative. SUNY Brockport still has "BSG fees," which are mentioned on the flyer. A minor ephemeron from a significant moment in American cultural and political history. ISBN: 281AIB1017617.
Mimeograph quality lacking, but else near fine. "1970" written in pencil in the lower right corner.
Book ID: 78623More details Price: $50.00 -
The Iron Furnace: or, Slavery and Secession
William S. & Alfred Martien, 1863. ISBN: B002FP099A.
Fair
Book ID: 55824More details Price: $50.00 -
Paradise Valley Days: A Photo Album Poetry Book of Black Detroit, 1930's to 1950's
First Edition
Detroit Black Writer's Guild, (1998). 112 pages. 8-7/8 by 11-1/4 inches. Poems, stories and profiles of residents of Detroit's lower east side and the vibrant black mecca that thrived there. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photo reproductions. ISBN: 9781888754025.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 218236More details Price: $50.00 -
Proverbi Dei Negri D'America
First Edition
Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1966. 35 pages. 3-3/8 by 4-7/8 inches. Early African American proberbs in English with Italian translations. Editor's introduction in Italian. A copy of this book was in the Rosenbach museum in 2006 exhibit Look Again: African American History IS American History. ISBN: B0059VD7U0.
First edition (first printing). Light edge wear, thus a near fine copy in wrappers (paperback), with attached paper jacket.
Book ID: 173285More details Price: $43.75 -
Ruth Acty, First African American Teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District
First Edition
Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Historical Society, 2001. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. 122 leaves printed one side (rectos) only. With a 16-page appendix of illustrations laid in. ISBN: B0050G367I.
First edition (first printing). Fine in velobound wrappers.
Book ID: 224336More details Price: $40.00 -
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. ISBN: 9780393239379.
NEW
Book ID: 258611More details Price: $35.00 -
How to Be an Antiracist
One World, 2019. ISBN: 9780525509288.
A new hardcover copy.
Book ID: 264334More details Price: $27.00 -
How to Be an Antiracist
One World, 2019. ISBN: 9780525509288.
NEW
Book ID: 264308More details Price: $27.00 -
How to Be an Antiracist
One World, 2019. ISBN: 9780525509288.
NEW
Book ID: 264422More details Price: $27.00 -
The Critic, June - July 1964
Chicago: Thomas Moore Association, 1964. 76 pages. An issue of the Catholic magazine, with the first appearance of King's article The Sword that Kills, "taken from Dr. King’s forthcoming book, Why We Can't Wait, which will be published in June by Harper & Row.” Other contributions by Daniel Berrigan, Muriel Spark and others. ISBN: 281AIB1049333.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Address sticker on rear cover.
Book ID: 264990More details Price: $25.00 -
A Black Value System
First Edition
Sausalito, CA: 1969. 8 pages. A reprint from The Black Scholar journal in which Baraka offers seven African terms to define a value system for all black people. Uncommon in this first edition; the work was reprinted by Jihad Productions in 1970. ISBN: B003S9FTJW.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 142573More details Price: $25.00 -
Down in Tennessee and Back by Way of Richmond
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. 282 pages. Facsimile reprint; original published in 1864. The Black Heritage Library Collection. ISBN: 9780836988062.
A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued.
Book ID: 172284More details Price: $18.75 -
Blue Grass Ballads and Other Verse
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969. 222 pages. Verse; a facsimile of the 1900 edition. Black Heritage Library Association. ISBN: 9780836986761.
Second printing of this edition. A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued.
Book ID: 172286More details Price: $18.75