Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1894. xvi, 452pp., plus frontispiece and numerous additional illustrations, including nine maps (five single-page and two folding). Original deep blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Ex-Shirley Public Library, with shelf mark on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, and paper remnants on rear.....

Boston: Published at the Office of the Society, 1864. 86pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine titles. Light chipping and soiling to wrappers. Contemporary notation to header of title, else internally clean. Very good plus. An account of the second year of the.....

New York: Youth Committee for Peace and Democracy in the Middle East, 1970. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor discoloration to inner two pages, otherwise very nice. A very rare, if not unrecorded, offprint of an interesting article by notable African-American social activist Bayard Rustin, focused on support for.....

[New Haven, Ct. 1970]. Broadsheet, 14 x 8.5 inches. Minor edge wear, light soiling and foxing, soft horizontal fold. Small ink notation at bottom noting "Feb - 1970." A striking broadsheet advertising a Black Panther demonstration at the Federal Building in New Haven in early 1970, to protest the manslaughter.....

New York: YIPPY, 1971. Pictorial poster, 28 x 22 inches, printed in black and white. Old soft creases, minor edge wear. A rare poster parodying Grant Wood's American Gothic by photomechanically superimposing the heads of Shirley Chisholm and George Wallace onto the original subjects of the painting. The artist responsible.....

New York: [1961]. Broadside, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Remnants of old tape at top and bottom edges, minor soiling and wear. Handbill advertising a "bus brigade" to Washington for the opening of Congress in 1961 in support of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. Powell would be seated as chairman of the.....

Baltimore: primarily 1954. [17] leaves, illustrated with twenty-seven original photographs, most in corner mounts, and numerous ephemeral items and periodical clippings. Folio. Original black cloth, embossed in blind on front cover, with titles and decoration in gilt, string-tied. Moderate chipping to edges of leaves, text leaves tanned and somewhat fragile.....

[Monroe, La. 1973-1991]. Two large folio scrapbooks: First scrapbook: [63] leaves, illustrated with seventy-seven original photographs, plus numerous programs, certificates, newspaper clippings (including many photographically illustrated), and other ephemeral items. Large square folio. Contemporary green cloth with white vinyl laid down to boards, the front board titled with green wooden.....

[Philadelphia: 1867]. Broadside, 12.5 x 9.25 inches, illustrated with several woodcuts. Old folds and creases, some scuffing and minor chipping to edges, rectangular-shaped portion of left margin cut away, not costing any of the printed area. A very rare political cartoon lambasting the Republican Party for its continued support of.....

[Memphis: Us Incorporated], February, 1954. 32pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in brown and orange, stapled. Mild wear to wrappers, small marginal stain to top edge of last several leaves. The rare inaugural, and only, issue of this well-illustrated African-American magazine from Memphis. The stated goals of the magazine were.....

[Dallas]: Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce, [1941]. lxxx,448pp., including illustrations and advertisements. Text printed in double columns. Original pictorial wrappers (with two copies of the rear wrapper), orange cloth backstrip. Noticeable chipping, staining, and rubbing to wrappers, costing parts of the border, but with no loss of text, small cello.....