First Edition. A wry, even caustic, take on some of the social movements of the 1960s. In Radical Chic, "Wolfe describes one of the intriguing phenomena of our time: the courting of romantic radicals—Black Panthers, striking grapeworkers, Young Lords—by New York's socially elite" and in Mau-Mauing, he surveys the San.....
Price: $20
First Edition. A reprint of an article entitled "Issei, Nisei, and Kibei" from Fortune magazine, April 1944. The tone is gently critical of internment on procedural grounds and sympathetic to the incarcerated American citizens, but it rather lacks compassion for the real people involved. Miné Okubo, a Japanese American artist who.....
Price: $125
A printed fundraising brochure to help bail Joan Bird out of Rikers Island jail, where she had been held for more than a year as part of the Panther 21. Bird and twenty other members of the Black Panthers were arrested in 1969 for allegedly planning to attack police stations.....
Price: $250
First Edition. An offprint from the Ecology Center magazine and a very uncommon stand-alone Huxley publication, an essay that explores the connections between population growth, contraception, war, and democracy. 7 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. First edition. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
Price: $40
![Mrs. L. E. Parsons [Lucy Eldine] [Cabinet Card Photograph]. L. Gogler, Louis](/pictures/thumb/360845.jpg?v=1633729242)
A rare original cabinet card of the most well-known portrait of the anarchist and radical labor organizer Lucy Parsons, taken by German immigrant photographer Louis Gogler. Gogler operated a large studio in the Bowery neighborhood in New York City but Parsons obtained the copyright for the image and thus the.....
Price: $3,500
A portrait of an unidentified migrant farm worker on the edge of the California desert, just north of the Mexican border. He sits on a dirt berm, in a row of other men, suggested only by their elbows, which are visible at the edges of the image. Lange took this.....
Price: $1,500
One of Lange's powerful portraits of destitute farmworkers taken in California in 1936 while she was working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. This image shows Jess Power.....
Price: $2,500
The most famous photograph from the Depression and perhaps the most famous documentary image ever. This is a portrait of Florence Thompson with three of her children taken by Dorothea Lange in a migrant farmworkers camp in San Luis Obispo County, California. The image is usually called Migrant Mother, but.....
Price: $9,500
First Edition. Essays on equality and social change by the great basketball player who has found a second career as a public intellectual. Written with Raymond Obstfeld. 243 pages. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Abdul-Jabbar on the.....
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First Edition. The memoirs of the brother of the assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers. xii, 196 pages. First edition (stated first printing). Very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "Thanks for reading my book, Charles Evers, Mayer, Fayette, Miss. 4-5-89."
Price: $150
![The Freedmen of Port Royal, South Carolina. Official Reports [cover title]. The Negroes at Port...](/pictures/thumb/308185.jpg?v=1625847796)
Second Edition. The second (separate) edition of this important early report on a pilot project that helped determine federal policies to govern and assist the enslaved people who were freed during the Civil War. The Union army occupied the Port Royal area (a network of islands just north of the.....
Price: $500
![Portrait of V. G. Korolenko, Russian Writer and Activist [Cabinet Card]. Maksim Petrovich Dmitriev](/pictures/thumb/307854.jpg?v=1618678948)
A cabinet card portrait of the Russian-Ukranian writer and political activist Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko. Korolenka was exiled to Nizhny Novgorod, where he met the up-and-coming photographer M. P. Dmitriev. According to Wikipedia, Dmitriev showed this portrait to great acclaim at the 1889 Russian exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A brief biography of a British Quaker prison reformer, told in part through extended quotations from her writings. Fry was honored in the UK with her picture on the 5-pound note. This is an adaptation of a book published by the London Tract Association. 94 pages. 4-1/8 by 6-1/4.....
Price: $50
![March on Washington Funds Solicitation]. Martha Elwell](/pictures/thumb/306800.jpg?v=1598906105)
A letter to members of the Highland Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, soliciting funds to send a delegation to the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Elwell, the chair of the church committee, needed to raise $3500 to charter a......
Price: $200
An original woodblock print of the iconic counterculture fist, signed and dated by the artist in the year of its creation. Cieciorka's image became one of the most widely used protest symbols of the last fifty years. According to the New York Times obituary of Cieciorka (1939–2008), his "woodcut rendering of.....
Price: $3,000
Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, January 31, 1968. 10-1/4 by 8 inches (oblong). A dramatic image of a white woman throwing an uppercut at a young white man protesting for the integration of an elementary school. The clipping attached to the photo on the back (verso) reads, "Two men carrying signs.....
Price: $75
First Edition. 31 pages. A Southerner argues that a revived foreign slave trade was crucial to the Southern economy. Spratt believed that importing new slaves from Africa would reduce the price of slaves in the United States, lower labor costs, and bring slaves within the economic reach of the average.....
Price: $450
