This list contains thirty items documenting the historical Black experience in America. Items range in date from the mid-18th through the mid-20th century, and include photographs, manuscript materials, ephemera, and printed works.  Highlights include a vernacular photo album recording rare images of workers in southeast Texas; a large broadside advertising an African American comedian touring in Australia; documents on slavery in Cuba; a rare 1890 directory from Baton Rouge noting "colored" citizens; a volume of tracts assembled and presented by abolitionist Anthony Benezet; and a handsome vernacular album of an Oakland family from the 1910s.  Enjoy!

Our first REAL book fair since March 2020! We will be in sunny Santa Monica with an assortment of Californiana, important and interesting Mexican works, a rare and early guide to Cuba, several pieces of Japanese Americana, maps, posters, and much more. Enjoy!

Our latest list features twenty works of poetry from the late-19th and early-20th century, many of them unrecorded or known in minimal copies.  Though slightly outside our usual bailiwick, we hope you enjoy these unusual imprints and obscure verses.