[Oakland]: Voice Publishing Company, 1946. 140pp. Original tan wrappers printed in black. Some creasing and light chipping to wrappers. Internally clean. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged, with the subtitle reading "A book discussing the problems of unity and co-operation among American Negroes in those matters concerning their betterment." Barrett's work.....
[San Francisco: National Poetry Association (S.F.), 1995]. Small broadside, 8 x 11 inches, printed in brown and black on light tan paper. Light wear. Near fine. A small but striking broadside advertising a September 1995 performance by legendary poet Maya Angelou in Oakland. Angelou performed on this occasion with her.....
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Los Angeles: Black Business Directory, Inc., 1970. ii,66pp. Square quarto. Original illustrated peach wrappers printed in black, stapled. Minor edge wear and rubbing, uneven toning to wrappers. Text toned but clean. Very good. A rare business directory intended for use by the African-American community of Los Angeles at the outset.....
Oakland: Voice Publishing Company, November 11, 1960. 8pp. Large folio. Gathered signatures. Uniformly tanned, moderate edge wear, old folds, with minor wear at fold ends. A representative issue of a scarce Bay Area African-American weekly newspaper. Established in 1919, the California Voice later touted itself as "The oldest Black paper.....
Los Angeles: 1950. 198pp., plus a folding panoramic photographic plate. Original green printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, worn, and detached, with about a fourth of the spine perished. Minor thumb-soiling to first several leaves, but otherwise clean. A rare edition of the annual meeting minutes and other proceedings of the.....
San Diego: [ca. 1966]. 16pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Printed entirely in blue ink. Some staining and wrinkling to covers, waterstain and minor chipping at bottom of gutter throughout, occasionally affecting a few words. A seemingly unrecorded and ephemeral souvenir program published to coincide with the dedication.....
[Oakland, Ca. 1958]. 20pp. Quarto. Original blue wrappers printed in black, stapled. Minor soiling and rubbing to wrappers. Top corner of one leaf torn away, just touching one letter. A seemingly unrecorded program for the biennial meeting of an African American Masonic group at the Most Worshipful Golden West Lodge.....
Oakland: Marquette Press, 1971. Photographically-illustrated handbill, printed in blue ink, 11 x 8.5 inches. Minor creasing. A seemingly-unrecorded handbill or flyer advertising a revival meeting at the Golden Gate Baptist Church in Oakland. The revival was presided over by Reverend James Coffee, pastor of the Community Baptist Church in Santa.....
[Various locations. ca. 1910 to 1955]. [9] leaves, illustrated with twenty-nine photographs, various sizes between 3 x 2 inches and 9.5 x 7.5 inches, with a manuscript index at front identifying the subjects. Later blue-green limp vinyl album with self adhesive pages. Minor wear and soiling. Photographs in generally nice.....
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[Los Angeles or Chicago: ca. 1926]. Single sheet, 9.25 x 16 inches, folded three times vertically to form a slim 8pp. pamphlet. Dampstain to top margin throughout, moderate soiling throughout especially along bottom margin, slight biopredation to one panel. About very good. A rare pamphlet touting the advantages of Eureka.....
[Los Angeles]: California Eagle, [1934]. Broadside, 14.5 x 9 inches. Moderate toning, old folds, very minor loss at two crossfolds, a few short splits along fold lines, some small marginal chipping. A highly ephemeral broadside touting the message of Father Divine and denouncing a recent fraud by "a Set of.....
[San Francisco: ca. 1940s]. Printed handbill, 8.5 x 6 inches, illustrated. Minor handling wear, horizontal crease. Very good. An unrecorded handbill advertising the Bay-Area radio broadcasts by Bishop Ezra Nero, leader of the Landmark Spiritual Temple in San Francisco. The work includes a photographic portrait of Bishop Nero in his.....
[N.p., probably San Francisco: 1962]. 20pp. of mimeographed text, on variously-sized and variously-colored paper stocks, paper-clipped. Minor overall wear. A long and detailed compilation of notes compiled by the Northern California Negro Commission, apparently overseen by the Communist Party of California between April and July 1962. The notes begin with.....
[N.p., but perhaps Oakland or Berkeley: 1944]. Printed broadside, 5.25 x 8 inches. Minor foxing and staining, light edge wear, penciled note covering most of verso. A small and apparently unrecorded broadside calling for African Americans interested in working as bus drivers and street car operators in the San Francisco.....
Fresno, Ca. 1965. 68pp. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Minimal wear. Unrecorded program for the annual convention of the Most Worshipful Hiram of Tyre Grand Lodge Scottish Rite Masons, which took place at Del Webb's Town House in Fresno in July 1965. The work includes a short schedule of events.....
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Los Angeles: 1977. [108]pp. Original silver pictorial wrappers printed in white and gray, stapled. Minor wear and dust-soiling. A profusely-illustrated souvenir program celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Las Fidelas Matrons of the Apostolic Faith Home Assembly, a notable African-American Christian women's organization. The organization was formed in Los Angeles.....
Oakland: 1967. Printed leaflet, 11 x 8.5 inches, with photographic portrait of Muhammad Ali. Minimal edge wear. A very rare small broadside or handbill promoting the 1967 national convention of the Congress for Racial Equality, held at the Oakland Auditorium in the summer of 1967. The motto of the convention.....
San Francisco: [1968]. Broadsheet on blue paper, 13.5 x 8.5 inches. Slight discoloration along top and bottom edges, minor edge wear, a few soft creases, old horizontal folds. An exceedingly rare broadsheet advertising a multi-faceted public march and rally against the Vietnam War and "racism, poverty and repression," which took.....
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[Los Angeles: LA Friends of SNCC, 1965]. 4pp. of mimeographed text on 8.5-x-14-inch sheets, stapled at top left corner. Minor toning and edge wear, folded once horizontally. Very good. An unrecorded document written by a Los Angeles-area "friend" of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee named Jimmy Garrett, containing his ruminations.....
Pacoima, CA: [mainly 1969-1970]. Assortment of manuscript notes, typescripts, mimeographs, flyers, and ephemera, totaling approximately [80]pp. Overall minor wear, with some chipping to the largest flyer. Overall very good. An informative file of notes and documents relating the activities of the San Fernando Branch of the NAACP, which covered the area.....
San Francisco: [ca. 1970]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Some sunning around the edges. Very good condition. An uncommon, and perhaps unrecorded, printing of Mao's statement on African American civil rights, promulgated within a larger leaflet from the Bay Area Revolutionary Union. The first page prints the title and.....
[Various locations in California, mostly Sausalito and other locations in Marin and Sonoma Counties: 1870s to 1930s]. Nine photograph albums in a variety of bindings, containing approximately 810 photographs, the great majority paper prints but with a fair share of tintypes and CDVs in the earliest two albums, plus 102.....
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[N.d., but Paris]: Le Breton, [n.d., but between 1854 and 1910]. Hand-colored lithograph. Image area: 9.75 x 14.25 inches, overall sheet size: 14 x 19.5 inches. Mounted to later board. Small bump to lower left edge, some chipping to bottom edge, paper remnants along top edge and some marginal discoloration.....
Santa Rosa, CA: Graphic Concepts, 1989. Broadsheet cartoon map, 22.25 x 16.75 inches, with printed information on verso intended as a brochure but in this case unfolded. Some dampstaining along bottom portion mostly visible on verso, with old tape at each corner of verso from previous mounting, likely removed from.....
Santa Rosa, CA: Graphic Concepts, 1983. Cartoon map of California wine country, 22.25 x 17 inches, eight panel brochure on verso. Folded, minor creasing, tiny losses at cross folds. Very good condition. A rare and display-worthy map of California wine country, depicting over a hundred wineries across four different counties: Lake.....