Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1836. 190pp. 12mo. Contemporary brown publisher's cloth, cover gilt. Spine lightly repaired, covers scuffed and extremities lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, a few institutional blindstamps throughout. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Light scattered foxing. Collected lectures of British abolitionist and politician George Thompson (1804-1878), assembled.....

Boston: February 18, 1841. [4]pp., numbered [209]-212, on a single large folio sheet of newsprint, removed from a binding, with some fraying along spine edge. Center horizontal fold, minor foxing. A rare issue of the Massachusetts Abolitionist, "Published Every Thursday, by J.C. Beman, for the Massachusetts Abolition Society" and edited.....

Philadelphia: 1956. 64pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear. A rare work highlighting the achievements of dozens of notable African Americans and the larger African-American community in the mid-1950s. The work opens with a prologue which begins: "As the American Negro stood at the gate of 1956, his flag of.....

[N.p.]: 1932. Broadside, 9 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear. Father Divine was the most prominent black religious cult leader of the 1930s, believed to be a divine messenger, the messiah, or God himself by tens of thousands of African-Americans and middle-class whites during the Great Depression. In November 1931, Divine.....

London [i.e. Baltimore]: [Black Classic Press, 1978]. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear, some discoloration of wrappers. Internally clean but for a small ink notation on title page. Later reprint of the third edition of this fiery polemic against "the ugly octopus of race prejudice and exploitation" from "certain members.....

Paris: 1922. x,84,[2]pp. Original grey printed wrappers. Minor toning, partially unopened. An early work by noted theologian and Civil Rights activist, William Stuart Nelson. Nelson (1895-1977) was a native of Kentucky who served in World War I. He would go on to work as an university president, teaching at Howard.....

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, April 1, 1960. [2],6,xxv leaves printed on rectos only, stapled, with "Special Report" wrapper. Minor wear, light soiling. The revised edition of a special report on the student protests and sit-ins that occurred in early 1960 in the American South. The report was issued on April.....

[New York]: American Vanguard, 1935. Broadside, 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Moderate tanning, some edge wear with some short closed tears and a few tiny chips, some faint creasing and spots of stray ink. A rare handbill for an "Inter-racial Dance" held at a Jazz club called the Dunbar Palace in.....

Berkeley, CA: Black Star Liberation Press, 1974. Black-and-white poster, 22.5 x 17.25 inches. Minor wear, light toning, most noticeable on verso. Very good condition. A visually-stunning, unusual, and unrecorded astrological poster created by and for the African American community by the Black Star Liberation Press in Berkeley. The central device.....

Washington DC: 1963. Handbill, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Even toning. A rare handbill or small broadside advertising an important Civil Rights demonstration organized and co-sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), with.....

Shanghai: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House], China International Bookstore, [ca. 1968]. Offset color lithographic poster, 30.5 x 42 inches, expertly backed on linen, with ample linen margins. Minor surface wear, light creasing. A striking Chinese propaganda poster intended for an African American audience, illustrated with a group of Black.....

New York: Council of Negro Trade Unionists, [1948]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minimal wear. A rare leaflet issued by the Provisional Harlem Committee to Free Ferdinand C. Smith and the Council of Negro Trade Unionists. Ferdinand C. Smith, secretary of the National Maritime Union, was instrumental in promoting.....

[Philadelphia: 1966]. 16pp. Quarto. Original wrappers printed in red and black, stapled. Minor wear and edge discoloration. A rare program for the 1966 Northeast Regional Conference of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), held at the Adelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, or perhaps a pre-conference advertising piece, as the text does.....