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.....

A cabinet card photograph of two young African American women wearing similar solid-color dresses with elaborate headpieces. One woman stands with her arm on a pedestal, the other is seated to her right. The photograph is captioned in a later hand, "Grandmother and Aunt Maggie 1888." The date seems correct.....

First Edition. The first of four volumes seeking to define " a new Blackness, real and strong as our history, pushing consciousness toward a new place" through photography. At the time Joe Crawford started this series, African American photographers had been almost completely left out of the photographic literature. See.....

First Edition. A modern-day classic of surfing literature by a New Yorker magazine staff writer. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Finnegan on the title page and uncommon thus.....

First Edition. A short novel, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards and the basis of the film of the same name. The US edition is the correct first, preceding the British. The US edition was published on July 1 and the UK edition on August 5. Illustrated by Dave.....

First Edition. An attractive example of a Spanish-language gift annual published in the United States. Carey, who was actively developing a Spanish-language export business, issued a few gift volumes under the title El aguinaldo and this one-off volume directly aimed at the women's gift market. Presente a las damas consists.....

First Edition. A complete 28-volume set of the first Japanese tankobon printings of wildly popular and profoundly influential manga series published in English as Lone Wolf and Cub. Like most manga, Kozure okami first appeared in short segments in manga periodicals, beginning in 1970. The series was collected into books.....

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.....

First Edition. The collected graphic novel of the first six issues of Monstress, a full-color, high-concept fantasy series by a Chinese-American writer and a Japanese artist. This initial installment in the series won the British Fantasy Award and the Hugo award. A later volume earned Liu the best-writer Eisner, the.....