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Only Federal Labor Standards Legislation Will Assure Substandard Pay Industries the Wage Gains of Other Industries [drop title]
by AFL-CIO
N.p.: AFL-CIO, [1958]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); side-stapled self-wrappers; 3,[3]ll.; printed from typescript on rectos only. Fine condition. AFL-CIO Fact Sheet - Wage and Hour No. 3. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of May, 2020.
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Labor and the Churches: An Excerpt from the Report of the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO to the Third Convention, 1959
by EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE AFL-CIO
[Washington: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1959]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); bifolium. Light wear and dustiness from handling, else Very Good. Covers minimum wage and the "right to work" laws.
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Dinner Program L.I.F.T.: Labor's Israel Fund for Training. Hotel Statler, Los Angeles, California, October 16, 1957, 6:30 P.M.
by INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS / AFL-CIO
Los Angeles: International Association of Machinists / AFL-CIO, 1957. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); blue side-stapled wrappers; 5pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some wear from handling, old horizontal fold, light toning to extremities, else Very Good and sound. "A project of the Western states Lodges of the International Association of Machinists, AFL-CIO, for the Benefit of Israel Histadrut" (upper cover). Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of May, 2020.
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Pair of Original Photo Portraits of Samuel Gompers and John L. Lewis, ca 1950s
by [ORGANIZED LABOR - GRAPHICS] AFL-CIO
N.p.. Two round ply-board placards, each 36" diameter with original photographic portraits mounted recto and verso, with printed captions in plate. Grommets at upper extremities for hanging. Images rubbed, with surface scratches and small losses, some surface soiling, still Very Good. An extraordinary survival. A pair of exceptional original photographic portraits of John L. Lewis, first President of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Samuel Gompers, first President of the American Federation of Labor. Photographer and date are unspecified,... Read More
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[Drop title] Why the Ships Don't Sail
by [ORGANIZED LABOR] NATIONAL MARITIME UNION OF AMERICA / AFL-CIO
New York: National Maritime Union of America / AFL-CIO, n.d. but 1961. First Edition. Broadside flyer (27.5x21.5cm.) printed offset on white stock. Tiny closed tear to left-hand edge not approaching text, extremities a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Informational flyer regarding the 1961 NMU strike after the ship owners refused to negotiate the union's contracts before they expired: "The shipowners group has chosen to tie up their American flag ships rather than negotiate with the seamen's unions... Read More
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Officers' Report to the Fourth Biennial Convention, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, 1966
by WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO
[Milwaukee]: Wisconsin State AFL-CIO / Essanel Press, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 110pp. Minor wear from handling, brief ink notes to a few leaves, else Very Good or better.
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Officers' Report to the First Biennial Convention, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, 1960
by WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO
[Milwaukee]: Wisconsin State AFL-CIO / Essanel Press, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 99pp. Minor wear from handling, brief ink check marks to a few leaves, else Very Good or better.
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Officers' Report to the Second Biennial Convention, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, 1962
by WISCONSIN STATE AFL-CIO
[Milwaukee]: Wisconsin State AFL-CIO / Essanel Press, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 108pp. Minor wear from handling, rather extensive ink marginalia throughout, else Very Good and sound.
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Banjo: A Story without a Plot
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] MCKAY, Claude (novel); DOUGLAS, Aaron (design)
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); navy blue and red paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; decorative endpapers; orange topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-326,[2]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, topstain slightly dulled, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. In the original dustjacket designed by Aaron Douglas; unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears, a tiny split at rear flap fold, and... Read More
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The African Communist (Quarterly). No. 83 - Fourth Quarter 1980
by [COMMUNISM - AFRICA]
London: Inkululeko Publications, 1973. Small octavo (20cm). Printed card wrappers; 93pp; illus. Minor external wear; internally fresh; Very Good or better. Organ of the South African Communist Party, published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by Henry Winston, Bonakele Godula, georgi Galperin, Vukani Mawethu, others.
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Myths About Malcolm X: Two Views
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [CIVIL RIGHTS] CLEAGE, Albert and George BREITMAN
New York: Merit Publishers, 1968. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial wrappers; 30pp. Near Fine. Text of two speeches delivered at the Detroit Friday Night Socialist Forum in February and March of 1967.
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![Missionary Story Sketches [and] Folk-Lore from Africa](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/874/761/1728761874.0.l.jpg)
Missionary Story Sketches [and] Folk-Lore from Africa
by [AFRICA] [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] CAMPHOR, Alexander Priestley; M.C.B. Mason, introd
Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, (1909). First Edition. First printing. Tan buckram with applied photo-pictorial front cover illustration; 346pp, frontispiece and 8 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Externally a little dull, with rubbing and fading to pictorial onlay and spine lettering; front hinge thinly cracked (but holding); else complete and sound; Good or better. Camphor (1865-1919) was an A.M.E. Church missionary and President of The College of West Africa in Monrovia from 1896 to 1907. This volume... Read More
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The Untouchables
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] MAUND, Alfred (text); SHAHN, Ben (illustrations)
New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc, [1952]. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [32]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, very mild toning to wrapper edges, clean internally; Very Good or better. Powerful collaborative work between former New Orleans newspaperman Alfred Maund and artist Ben Shahn. The volume presents twelve cases ranging over two decades, dealing with the question of segregation in hospitals and the difficult, often tragic, situations which arise when hospitals do not... Read More
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Poster: Race Matters? Racism Matters
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN PRINTING] KENNEDY, Amos Paul
[Detroit: Kennedy & Sons, Fine Printers, 2013]. First Edition. Poster, letterpress printed on chipboard with black and red oil-based inks using wood type, measuring 32cm x 48cm (12.5" x 19"). A Fine copy. One of four posters in a striking series printed to promote an exhibition of Kennedy's work at the Catich Gallery (St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA), "Racism Matters, or Post-Racial, My Ass," which ran from 15 January-22 February, 2013. While the text of each poster is identical,... Read More
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I am as Sconnie as" Series
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY& LITERATURE] KENNEDY, Amos P.
[Detroit: Amos P. Kennedy, 2019]. Series of eight (8) light brown chipboard cards (measuring ca.6" x 8"), with decorative elements printed in various colored inks, and text printed in black using wood and metal type. A Fine set of cards, which together can be viewed as a colorful celebration of Wisconsin food, culture, and mannerisms. Due to the variety of inks used during the printing process, no two sets are alike. No examples separately listed in OCLC. The quotes... Read More
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Prisoners of Apartheid
by BY A SOUTH AFRICAN
[London: Christian Action Publications, n.d., 1965]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original black and white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 40pp. A Fine, partially unopened copy. "A Christian Action pamphlet" - upper wrapper.
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Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts
by [AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KHAN, Lin Shi and Tony Perez (illustrations); LEE, Andrew H. (editor); KELLEY, Robin D.G. (foreword)
New York: New York University Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Quarto (27.25cm); original pictorial card wrappers; xviii,147,[3]pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, with a patch of sticker residue at lower left corner of rear wrapper, just over the ISBN number; Near Fine. Collection of 118 linocuts representing the case of the nine African-American "Scottsboro Boys," who were accused in 1931 of raping two white women on a train.
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If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance - Signed by Angela Davis
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] DAVIS, Angela Y., Ruchell Magee, the Soledad Brothers, and Other Political Prisoners
New York: Signet / New American Library, 1971. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Octavo (17.75cm); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; xviii,19-288pp. Signed by Angela Davis on the preliminary leaf, dated 10/9/96, with the additional note "No on 209" in her hand. Modest wear and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few faint creases to same, some dustiness to right edge of textblock, with a few faint splash marks along the lower edge; Very Good. Davis's first book, a collection of writings... Read More
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Free Angela Davis Now!
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY] [DAVIS, Angela]
New York: New York Committee to Free Angela Davis, [n.d. but ca.1971]. Original lithographed poster, measuring 42.5cm x 54.5cm (16.75" x 21.5"). White stock, with black and white photographic image at center, and text printed in black at lower margin. Fine. Poster produced by the NY Committee to Free Angela Davis, reproducing a well-known and often-used black & white image of Davis in a dashiki. Not separatey listed in OCLC, though we note variations of the poster in... Read More
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Dependency and Underdevelopment: Consequences of Portugal in Africa. A Report
by RESEARCH GROUP FOR THE LIBERATION OF PORTUGUESE AFRICA
Riverside, CA: Research Group for the Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1971. First Edition. Folio (27.5cm.); original tape-backed pictorial wrappers; [4],45pp.; illus., text in double colum. Upper wrapper edges a bit toned, else Fine. Study of the negative influence of the Portuguese colonial presence in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.
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Original Photographic Portrait of Emperor Haile Selassie, Inscribed to Bob MacNeal
by [AFRICA] [HAILE SELASSIE] NEWMAN, Arnold
[N.d., ca 1970s]. Original large-format color print in presentation mat with title card affixed to mat below image. View size 49cm x 38cm (ca 19" x 15"); overall dimensions 60cm x 51cm. Title card inscribed in black ink: "For Bob MacNeal, a fellow photographer, with best wishes / Arnold Newman," undated. Mat lightly soiled, with a few small chips and abrasions to extremities; image clean and unfaded, Near Fine. ca NOTE: the mat appears permanently fixed to the... Read More
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From the Dark Tower: Afro-American Writers 1900 to 1960
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] DAVIS, Arthur P.
Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); two-tone blue cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi,306,[6]pp; illus. Base of spine gently nudged, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $10.95), edgeworn, with several tiny tears and attendant creases, and one longer one at lower rear joint that's tape-mended on verso; Very Good+. An insightful overview of Black author's, spanning the first 60 years of the 20th century. Contains entries... Read More
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The Gambia Sharia Law Reports. Volume 1, 2011. Containing some judgements and Rulings of the Cadi Appeals Panel
by [AFRICA - LAW] TAHIR, A.S.; The Gambia Judiciary
Gambia: ArtWords, 2011. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 212pp. Fine and unmarked but for Library of Congress "duplicate" stamp to title page. "...Consists of nineteen cases from 2005 to 2011 including some judgments of Justice A.S. Tahir; the pioneer Chairman of the [Cadi Appeals] Panel.
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Uganda: The Pearl of Africa
by [TRAVEL - AFRICA]
London: H.M. Eastern African Trade and Information Office, 1938. Reissue. Octavo (20.5cm). Yellow pictorial paper wrappers; 112pp; ads throughout; folding map at rear, black and white illustrations throughout. Sound but lightly rubbed with mild external soil and cracking to cover over spine: Very Good. Travel guide to British colonial Uganda for wealthy British tourists and hunters, reissued from the 1935 "Publicity" handbook. [63475].
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The Way I Feel: A Poetic Look At Politics
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] HARDEN, Aurelia Rodman
New York: Vantage Press, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red textured paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 18pp. Light spotting to top edge of text, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light foxing to extremities. The African-American poet's first (and only) collection, which "flooded her mind as she looked at the shambles in which Watergate and its aftermath left the country." Intended, she says, "to replace carrying a picket sign or... Read More
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