First Edition. A picture book, winner of many awards, including the Pura Belpré, Tomás Rivera, Jane Addams, and the Américas award. The author-artist was born in Mexico to American and Mexican parents; he attended high school and college in the US and now lives in Mexico. This book won the.....
Price: $75
A late example of a Back-to-Africa movement organization. Materials from the African-American Repatriation Association are rather scarce. It may have been a mostly-regional association, but it had some juice. They convinced Representative Robert Nix of Philadelphia to introduce a bill calling for the Repatriation of Americans of African Descent into.....
Price: $250
![Item No: #361790 [Candid Photograph, Signed]. Audre Lorde](/pictures/thumb/361790.jpg?v=1678049186)
An original black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph of Audre Lorde speaking, pictured in three-quarters profile. Lorde (1934–1992) is an influential and popular writer, a self-described, “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” The image is inscribed on the back (verso) and signed "Audrey Lorde." Printed on 8 by 10 inch Kodak paper.....
Price: $500
This powerful epic poem, in parallel English and Spanish versions, was the literary manifesto for the Chicano movement. It was widely read and performed during the late 1960s and early 1970s, bringing together literature and politics, the hallmark of Chicano political movements for many years thereafter. The book was widely.....
Price: $125
The editor of the Nation responds to a reader who suggested articles on I. F. Stone and on the Sobel case (Morton Sobel was a Soviet spy during the Second World War; he was released from prison in 1969, two years after these letters were written). Both notes are on.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A reprint of an article from Harper's Magazine by a Navy doctor stationed in Hawaii who describes the response of the Japanese-American community to the attack on Pearl Harbor and to the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Coggins describes their efforts to demonstrate that they.....
Price: $300
In this widely reproduced Lange image, a bulky white man appears to hold court while standing with one foot on the bumper of a car; five thin black men sit and stand behind him on the steps of a clapboard store. In the years immediately after she made the negative.....
Price: $1,500
In this Lange image, a man and woman, both African American, stand in a field holding hoes or other farming implements. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A memoir of Cleaver's growing up, the Black Panthers, his time in Algiers, and his conversion to Christianity. Illustrated with halftone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in a dust jacket showing light wear along the top edge. Signed.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #361850 [Socialist Theory] Shakaishugi ron. Isoo Abe](/pictures/thumb/361850.jpg?v=1664165065)
First Edition. A rare early work explaining the ideas of socialism by one of the founding members of the Japanese Socialist Party. The fourteen short chapters were originally published in the Niroku Shinpo newspaper. This book version was published by another early Japanese Socialist leader, Katayama Sen. Katayama and Abe.....
Price: $2,500
![Item No: #362057 The Yolo Portfolio [Winds of Change]. R. Crumb, Robert](/pictures/thumb/362057.jpg?v=1658703854)
First Edition. Four 20 by 20 inch single color (black) serigraphs / screenprints of cover art designs Crumb made for the Winds of Change environmental newspaper in the early 1980s. Crumb joined the staff as an art director and drew many covers, spot drawings, and cartoons, but ultimately he found.....
Price: $500
A copy print, made from a photograph of the original print (see below). In this Lange image, six people wearing long shirts and hats are bent over at the waist tending to rows of lettuce. A dried and cracked furrow fills the left foreground. Lange took this image while working.....
Price: $300
This is the most dramatic and attractive publication from the Free Los Siete incident and one of most decorative pieces of Chicano protest material from the period. The folio-sized publication is printed on a single sheet of newsprint folded to make four pages. One side is printed in orange, green.....
Price: $500
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
![Item No: #360845 Mrs. L. E. Parsons [Lucy Eldine] [Cabinet Card Photograph]. L....](/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
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
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
![Item No: #306800 [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
First Edition. A criminologist describes criminal activities and criminals in Buenos Aires, with chapters on professional criminals, thieves and loan sharks, prostitution, pimps (the "parasites of prostitution"), vagrancy, faith healers, and of greatest current interest, homosexuality. Gomez first traces the history of homosexuality to Greece and Rome and then discusses.....
Price: $750
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. A two-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. Both poems are critical of the Soviet Union. [7] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples beginning to rust. A bit of wear to the corners.
Price: $10
