Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
by Alice Moore Dunbar [Nelson] [ed.]; Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Frederick Douglass, Prince Saunders et al. [contrs.]
New York: The Bookery Publishing Company, 1914. Very Good. New York: The Bookery Publishing Company, 1914. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's red over green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; 512pp.; portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass with tissue guard. Light wear to edges; spotting to front board; a few scuffs and smudges; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. Quite substantial collection of Black speeches from Prince Saunders to W.E.B. Du Bois compiled by... Read More
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A Yankee Girl at the Battle of the Wilderness
by Alice Turner Curtis; Hattie Longstreet Price [illus.]
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1929. Very Good. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Frontispiece + two additional black and white plates. Green cloth stamped in black with color illustration mounted to front board. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure, most heavily a patch along top edge of front board. Binding is sound. Spotting to preliminaries and bottom edge of text block, but pages otherwise clean and... Read More
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![Reveille for Radicals [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/882/828/1678828882.0.l.jpg)
Reveille for Radicals [Signed]
by Saul D. Alinsky
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. First Edition, first printing with no additional printings listed. Signed by Saul Alinsky at front free endpaper without inscription. Octavo. 228pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Black cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; red topstain. Several chips and tears along edges of jacket and to center of spine; general rubbing. Boards scuffed and lightly stained with rubbing to edges and... Read More
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A Choice of Enemies
by Ted Allbeury
London: Peter Davies, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. London: Peter Davies, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. 186 pp. Original dust jacket; purple boards stamped in gilt. Publisher's review slip laid in. Unclipped dust jacket shows light edgewear with some creasing and smudging to front flap. Boards lightly shelfworn. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's first book.
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Snowball
by Ted Allbeury
London: Peter Davies, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. London: Peter Davies, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 170 pp. Original dust jacket; red boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly edgeworn with some toning and a few very short closed tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's second novel.
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Palomino Blonde
by Ted Allbeury
London: Peter Davies, 1975. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Peter Davies, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 150 pp. Original dust jacket; purple boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket gently worn along edges with some general rubbing. Boards show just a touch of shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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![Address at the Funeral of Gideon Granger, September 5, 1868 [Cover title: In Memoriam. Gideon Granger]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/573/467/1602467573.0.l.jpg)
Address at the Funeral of Gideon Granger, September 5, 1868 [Cover title: In Memoriam. Gideon Granger]
by Frederic B. Allen
Canandaigua, NY: Privately Printed, 1868. Very Good-. Canandaigua, NY? Privately Printed, 1868. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's buff wrappers printed within thick black rule; 28pp. Wrapper margins heavily toned and a bit rubbed, spine ends chipped, light dust-soil, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound.
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![Empty Mirror: Early Poems by Allen Ginsberg [Signed by Ginsberg with annotation]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/516/558/1699558516.0.l.jpg)
Empty Mirror: Early Poems by Allen Ginsberg [Signed by Ginsberg with annotation]
by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams [intro.]
New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1961. Very Good. New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1961. First Edition, second printing, with Corinth, Totem, and Jargon titles listed on p. 48. Octavo (20.2cm); stapled stiff white paper wraps with $1.25 price; 47pp. Covers crisp with light shelfwear; toning along spine and top edge, with a small stain to front and some smudging and thumbprinting to rear. Pages toned but unmarked. Binding is sound. Signed by... Read More
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Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams [intro.]
San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1958. Very Good +. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, [1958]. Fourth Printing, stated at rear along with 75 cents price. 12mo. 44 pp. Original stiff stapled wraps. Light rubbing and toning to wraps with a crease to bottom front corner. Binding is sound. Contemporary ownership inscription and original pencil price to title page; interior otherwise unmarked. Early printings of Howl have become relatively scarce, A Very Good copy.
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Columbia's Daughters: Girlhood Embroidery from the District of Columbia
by Gloria Seaman Allen
Baltimore, MD: Chesapeake Book Company, Sampler Consortium, 2012. Very Good/Very Good. Baltimore, MD: Chesapeake Book Company, Sampler Consortium, 2012. Quarto (28.5cm). Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's green cloth with title stamped in gilt to spine and cross-stich motif blind-stamped on cover. Green endpapers. Full-color illustrations throughout. 272 pp. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear. No tears, no chips. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Overall, Very Good condition.
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![The Negro in New York: A Historical-Biographical Evaluation From 1626 [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/561/561/1699561561.0.l.jpg)
The Negro in New York: A Historical-Biographical Evaluation From 1626 [Signed and Inscribed]
by James Egert Allen
New York: Exposition Press, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Exposition Press, 1964. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21cm); typographic dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; boards in gray cloth with black lettering; 94pp. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow tears; fairly heavy toning to front, rear, and spine, with foxing to flaps; toning and foxing to verso. Boards square with light rubbing at corners and spine ends. Foxing to rear endpapers, else interior unmarked. Binding sound. ... Read More
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Guerrilla: A Monthly Newspaper of Contemporary Kulchur, Vol. 1 No. 1, January 1967
by Allen Van Newkirk, John Sinclair [editors]; Andre Breton, Joel Oppenheimer, Diane DiPrima, Michael McClure, et al. [contributors]
Detroit, MI: Artists' Workshop Press, 1967. Very Good -. Detroit, MI: Artists’ Workshop Press, 1967. First Edition. Newsprint tabloid format (44cm); 28pp. Black text with red graphics; 35¢ price intact. Folded horizontally, as issued. Illustrations and photographs throughout. Toned; chips appear at edges and folds but do not touch text. An overall Good to Very Good copy. Inaugural issue of the short-lived underground newspaper, co-edited by Allen Van Newkirk and John Sinclair.
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Blankets and Moccasins: Plenty Coups and His People, the Crows
by [Plenty Coups]; Glendolin Damon Wagner; William A. Allen
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1936. Very Good/Very Good -. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1936. Second Printing. Octavo. 304 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Decorated cloth boards; illustrated endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped with a few closed tears along edges, general rubbing. Boards show light shelfwear with some minor fraying and repair to base of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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Fibrilia: A Practical and Economical Substitute for Cotton. Embracing a Full Description of the Process of Cottonizing Flax, Hemp, Jute, China Grass, and Other Fibre, so that the same may be spun or woven upon either cotton or woollen machinery
by [Stephen Merrill Allen]
Boston: L. Burnett and Company, 1861. Very Good. Boston: L. Burnett and Company, 1861. First Edition. Octavo. 182 pp. Ten plates plus frontispiece with tissue guards, complete. Embossed brown cloth with copper lettering to spine; pink endpapers. Spotting and edgewear to boards. Binding sound. Ownership inscriptions and bookseller notes to preliminaries; else unmarked and a Very Good copy. Uncommon treatise on what the Northern States could do in the event of a disruption from the South... Read More
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Hawk's Nest, or, the Last of the Cahoonshees: A Tale of the Delaware Valley and Historical Romance of 1690
by James M. Allerton
Port Jervis: The Gazette Book & Job Print, 1892. Very Good -. Port Jervis: The Gazette Book & Job Print, 1892. First Edition. Octavo; 246pp +6pp appendix. Portrait frontis. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to front. Boards a bit shelfworn with light bumping to corners and spine ends, a small waterspot to front, scuffing to gilt lettering, and a few brief runs to cloth. Front free endpaper removed along gutter with a few shallow remnants. Crack starting... Read More
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New Afrikan Dinner & Inner-Attainment Sunday Dec. 23 5 to 9 pm
by Afrikan Peoples Alliance
Oakland, CA: Afrikan Peoples Alliance, 1974. Very Good. Oakland, CA: Afrikan Peoples Alliance, n.d., [ca. 1974]. First Edition. Pictorial broadside flyer (21.5x28cm) printed offset on cream stock. Previous folds, brief soiling and red dampspot to verso, else Very Good. Invitation to a fundraising dinner at the Breakfast Club on 4606 Grove St. (renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Way in 1983) in Oakland. The event promised dinner, music, and poetry, with donations used to benefit the APA... Read More
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More Work for the Undertaker
by Margery Allingham
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948. Very Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); 320pp. Publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Street-map endpapers. Missing dust jacket. Boards scuffed along bottom edge; spine a bit cocked, with a vertical crease to cloth. Opens easily between gatherings but binding sound. Scattered, light foxing occasionally along gutter and to pages, with heavier foxing to edges of textblock. Pages unmarked. Mystery novel featuring the author's most popular... Read More
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Traitor's Purse
by Margery Allingham
New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1941. Very Good. New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's green decorative buckram, black titling to upper cover and spine, black topstain; [8],280pp. Light wear to cloth extremities minor soil to upper cover, spine and topstain a bit faded, contemporary bookselller ticket of Lauriat's Books, Boston, to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.
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![Bastard Out of Carolina [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/492/285/1743285492.0.l.jpg)
Bastard Out of Carolina [Signed]
by Dorothy Allison
New York: Dutton / Penguin, 1992. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Dutton / Penguin, 1992. First Edition, stated first printing. Octavo (22cm); 309pp. Publisher’s price-clipped dust jacket; boards quarter-bound in white and grey cloth; blush-colored endsheets. Dust jacket bumped. Boards bumped and rather foxed. Binding sound. Textblock shows some foxing; endsheets and interior pages clean. A Very Good or better copy of Allison’s semi-autobiographical novel about growing up in South Carolina. Signed without inscription by the... Read More
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The Reflections of an African Arabian in American Captivity
by Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour
San Francisco, CA: First African Arabian Press, 1982. Very Good. [San Francisco, CA: First African Arabian Press, 1982.] First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; xxii,380pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Moderate shelf wear to wrapper margins, light toning, else Very Good and sound.
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The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835-1986
by Miguel C. Alonso
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Very Good. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. First Edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.5"); xii, 200 pages. Illustrated boards. Ex-library with discarded stamp to front free endpaper and library marking blacked out on top edge, but no other library markings or additions. Light shelfwear to covers with a few faint smudges. Binding is sound and pages are clean and unmarked.
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Organizing: The Art of Self-Defense in Middle-Class Occupations
by Burt Alpert
[Oakland, CA]: [Vocations for Social Change], 1974. Very Good +. [Oakland, CA]: [Vocations for Social Change], [1974]. First Edition. Quarto (29cm); staple-bound photocopied sheets in blue folder with clear acetate cover; 58pp.; black-and-white illustrations throughout. Wraps rather worn; acetate cover creased. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages toned with a few instances of soiling and creased corners. Very Good. Across several decades, Alpert authored several pamphlets, some self-published, on labor unions and organizing. This one is... Read More
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Smash
by Hollis Alpert
New York: Dial Press, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dial Press, 1973. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 343 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. White and yellow boards stamped in purple. Orange endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket shows general rubbing and is worn along edges with some shallow slight chipping. Boards stained at spine ends and edges rubbed. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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Dark Temple: A Solitaire Adventure for Tunnels & Trolls
by Stefan E. Jones; Rob Prior [illus.]; et. al
Scottsdale, AZ: Flying Buffalo Inc, 1991. Very Good. Scottsdale, AZ: Flying Buffalo Inc., 1991. First Edition. Octavo. 61 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Cover art by Rob and Alan Prior and interior illustrations by Steven S. Crompton. Light wear to corners of wraps, but binding is sound and pages are unmarked. A very good, sound copy. Tunnels & Trolls was the second modern role-playing game published, after Dungeons & Dragons, and was... Read More
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Shameless Hussy Review
by Alta et al.
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1970. Very Good. San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, n.d., [ca. 1970]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; [36]pp.; halftone photographic centerfold portrait of Alta. Some toning and finger-soil to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. According to a previous bookseller's pencil note, this is the inaugural issue of the Shameless Hussy Review published by the feminist press founded by poet Alta (Gerrey). Contributors include Stephanie Miles, Judy... Read More
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