First Edition. One of the Library of Congress's 88 Books that Shaped America: "'Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this rare position,' said Du Bois biographer Manning Marable. Du Bois’s work.....
Price: $20,000
![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
A pair of artifacts from the private Japanese-language schools that operated at the Tule Lake internment camp between 1943 and 1945. One book, bound in brown wrappers, is Jinjo shogaku shushinsho [尋常小学校修身書 (Elementary School Ethics, volume 6; [2],128 pages]; the other book, in blue wrappers, is Teishin kominka koyo zenpen.....
Price: $3,500
![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
Possibly the earliest surviving image of Helen Keller (1880–1968), taken in August 1887, when she was seven years old, about five months after Anne Sullivan (1866–1936) became her teacher; together with a second photograph of Sullivan taken about the same time. The image of Keller shows her sitting in a low.....
Price: $1,850
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
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: $500
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
![This Is the Zoot Suit [Press Photo]. Associated Press](/pictures/thumb/551.jpg?v=1598073316)
On June 10, hundreds of newspapers reprinted this photograph, transmitted over the news wire, catapulting the defining costume of pachuco style into the national spotlight. Every survey of the Zoot Suit refers to this image. Roughly 8 by 11 inches. AP Wirephoto of medium quality with a caption on the right-hand.....
Price: $250
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. [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. 242 pages. Text in Spanish. 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.....
Price: $750
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
![Texte: der RAF [Karlek med forhinder]. Rote Armee Fraktion / Red Army Faction, as A. Rosenberg](/pictures/thumb/4931.jpg?v=1603129613)
First Edition. 599 pages. An anthology of writings and publications by the leaders of the Red Army Faction, the violent, radical leftist group that bombed government targets in Germany in the 1970s. The organization, often known as the Baader-Meinhof Group after the surnames of its founders, was banned in West.....
Price: $300
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
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
