![March on Washington Funds Solicitation]. Martha Elwell](/pictures/thumb/306800.jpg?v=1598906105)
Portland, OR: Highland Congregational Church, 1963. Ephemera. 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.....
Price: $200
London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1861. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo. 376; iv, 404 pages. Large folding map. "Based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations by the same author." Olmsted, the white landscape architect behind New York City's Central Park, made three trips into the American South in.....
Price: $1,500
Chicago: Sun-Times, 1968. 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.....
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
Stanford: C. P. Times Press, 1984. First Edition. Pamphlet. [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.....
Price: $10
(Stanford, California): (C.P. Times Press), 1984. First Edition. Pamphlet. [7] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A single-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. A poem about an anti-imperialist delegation to North Korea and China. Designed by George Mattingly. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.....
Price: $20
Stanford, CA: C. P. Times Press, 1984. First Edition. Pamphlet. [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
(Stanford): (C. P. Times Press), 1984. First Edition. Pamphlet. [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.....
Price: $15
(Stanford, CA): (C.P. Times Press), 1984. First Edition. Pamphlet. [8] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A two-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. One addresses toxic waste in black neighborhoods and the other describes moral failings of African American preachers. First edition (first printing). A near.....
Price: $25
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. [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.....
Price: $125
New York: Ecco, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 African-American Outfield: Monte Irvin, Willie Mays, and Hank Thompson]. Osvaldo Salas](/pictures/thumb/8970.jpg?v=1597798831)
Berkeley: Photolab for Serendipity Books, 2010. Black-and-white photograph. Image 18 by 14 inches on 16-by-20-inch paper. This photograph was taken on October 4, 1951, during Game 1 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants. The Giants started three black players.....
Price: $250
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 97 pages. A collection of poems, including a translation of Euripides' The Medea, written for the great African American actor, Rose McClendon. First edition (stated, with code F-K on copyright page). A very good copy in a good dust jacket, with.....
Price: $50
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $125
[New York]: [American Anti-slavery Society], 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. 231 pages. An anthology of anti-slavery sentiment from a wide variety of politicians and other public figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Lydia Maria Child. There are chapters on "Authentic anecdotes of United.....
Price: $750
Charleston: Steam Power Press of Walker, Evans & Co., 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 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.....
Price: $450
San Francisco: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, West Coast Region, 1959. Pamphlet. 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.....
Price: $300
![Bond and Free; A True Tale of Slave Times [first edition, first issue]. Jas. H. W. Howard, James](/pictures/thumb/3029.jpg?v=1597107719)
Harrisburg: Edwin K. Meyers, 1886. Hardcover. First edition, first issue. 280 pages. A novel of two slaves who escape bondage for Canada. Howard was one of the few African American writers born before the Civil War to publish a novel. While relatively little is known about him, other than that.....
Price: $400
San Antonio: National Photo News Service, 1947. Photograph. Original photograph, 16-7/8 by 19-7/8 inches (paper); image size, 13-1/2 by 16 inches. A photograph of soldiers forming the air force symbol. "Goldbeck's last major insignia effort was also his most spectacular. It enlisted the support of more than 21,000 men... Staging.....
Price: $250
(n.d. but mid 1980s). Photograph. Three vintage gelatin silver prints, two 8 by 10s and one 8-1/2 by 11 photographs. The images show Jamaican migrant workers in Florida preparing to return home with large boxes of goods—items purchased stateside and their personal belongings. One man, named Mervin McWon, carries two.....
Price: $500
(N.-pl.): Black Panther Party, (n.d. but ca. 1970). 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.....
Price: $300
(N.-pl.): Black Panther Party, (n.d. but ca. 1970). Ephemera. Broadside. 8-1/2 by 14 inches. A head-and-shoulders portrait of Cleaver is superimposed over the text, a broadside printing of Cleaver's call for a revolutionary people's constitutional convention. "We're saying that there's something wrong in Babylon, and the form of its organization is.....
Price: $250
