A cabinet view albumen silver print of erosion and bank protection improvements on the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri. The image depicts the river and a line of A-frame supports with wire and branches below the waterline to stop debris flows during the rainy season. Two Black men sit.....
Price: $300
First Edition. An early draft of a novel—to date never commercially published—circulated to friends of the author. Bennett (who also wrote under several pseudonyms) is an African American Korean War vet who published a number of novels and non-fiction books while living as an expatriate in Mexico. This is a first.....
Price: $200
![The Lightning Express: Or, the Team of a Florida Cracker [Stereoview]. Florida Club](/pictures/thumb/307572.jpg?v=1613094618)
A stereoview card that can be read at many levels: as a glimpse of post-Reconstruction African American life in Florida, as a White supremacist image, as a statement of class superiority, and as an early image of the Lost Cause. These photographs offer a portrait of a young Black boy at.....
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First Edition. A guide to help officers combat racial discrimination in the army in the waning years of the Viet Nam war. The authors report that the army had few Black officers, that Black soldiers had a hard time obtaining technical positions, and that Black soldiers were twice as likely.....
Price: $200
50 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Venablos. An essay on an aspect of the antislavery movement in 19th century Cuba, in Spanish and in Portuguese translation. Illustrated by Carlos M. Oliva and designed by Johann E. Trujillo. The text is photocopied onto white bond and.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A young adult novel about five generations of an African American family. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a price-clipped, else fine, dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on the title page, "To Scott, Best wishes + Peace! Walter Dean.....
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![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......
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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
Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, October 31, 1944. 7 by 9 inches. Captioned on the back on a mounted label: "A worker at the Scullin Steel Co. in St. Louis moves a completed 6-ton 'earthquake bomb' forward on its platform to a freight car." These bombs were manufactured for the British.....
Price: $100
First Edition. [7] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A two-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. Both poems are critical of the Soviet Union. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples beginning to rust. A bit of wear to the corners.....
Price: $10
First Edition. [12] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A three-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. The title poem is about China. A near fine copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples a bit rusted.
Price: $20
First Edition. [12] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A single-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. Here he is critical of Idi Amin. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples a touch rusted, very minor spotting to covers.
Price: $15
First Edition. [32] pages. A short story, illustrated here by Catherine Deeter, and published as a children's picture book. The story follows a Mr. Sweet, who always is always on the verge of dying, only to be revived by a little girl. At the end of the story, the girl.....
Price: $125
First Edition. 293 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small spot of varnish missing from the front panel. Signed by Hansen.
Price: $15
First Edition. 280 pages. Cullen's only novel, a social comedy of African American life in New York City. One of the classic Harlem Renaissance novels. First edition (stated). Light wear to paper labels on spine and front cover; front hinge a bit sprung, otherwise generally very good. A decent copy.....
Price: $125
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
49, [23], [1] pages. Offers background, policies, procedures, forms, talking points, and position papers for the NAACP in California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska. Dating based on 1959–60 California legislature list bound in. Uncommon. Minor staining to covers, else very good in brad-bound wrappers.
Price: $300
The vintage gelatin silver prints of Jamaican migrant workers in Florida taken by a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. The images show workers preparing to return home with large boxes of items purchased stateside and their personal belongings. One man, named Mervin McWon, carries two boom-box-style radios; another photograph depicts two.....
Price: $500
Single sheet of newsprint folded to make four 11-1/2 by 16-1/2 pages. The first page prints Cleaver's call for a Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention; the center spread is a message delivered on the 107th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation; and the back page offers Newton's outline of basic principles for.....
Price: $300
