Birmingham, Al. 1908. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet, 6.25 x 5 inches. Portrait on first page. Moderate soiling, mild edge wear. A highly-ephemeral and likely unique surviving program celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the First Congregational Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, February 23, 1908. The first page of..... More

Columbus, Oh. Vanguard League, March 1, 1944. [4]pp., on a single 5.5-x-12-inch sheet of beige paper, folded twice. Minor soiling, creasing, and edge wear, small illegible ink signature on rear blank. A very rare informational leaflet published by the Vanguard League, providing background on the organization's origins and objectives through..... More

[Fagleysville, Media, and Philadelphia, Pa. 1956]. Eleven leaves, illustrated with seventy-four black-and-white photographs in corner mounts, each approximately 3.5 inches square, most annotated in white ink, with manuscript caption on initial blank leaf reading, "Fellowship House Farm June '56 - Sept '56 - I was the 'intern' cook." Oblong folio..... More

Dix Hills, N.Y. [i.e., Seattle, Wa.]: Fitzgerald Publishing Company, Inc. [i.e., Bill R. Baylor], 1966-1976 [but 1983]. Sixteen issues, each [32]pp., all retaining illustrated front cover and bound together. Contemporary black cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Minor edge wear. Text of later issues occasionally trimmed close..... More

[N.p., likely Atlanta]: May 28, 1897. 12pp. on lined paper, with a handful of manuscript corrections, held together with one metal tack at top right, docketed on verso of final leaf, "Commencement Oration 1897. May 28." Even toning to paper, minor dust-soiling to outer leaves, light edge wear. Manuscript text..... More

[Gadsden: 1937]. 34pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Several shallow chips to wrappers, larger chip to top rear corner, wrappers tanned. Internally quite clean. A scarce report comprised almost entirely of testimony given in front of a committee assembled by the Gadsden Central Labor Union to investigate allegations that companies in..... More

[Atlanta: 1962]. Photographically-illustrated broadside, 11 x 9 inches, printed in green ink on yellow paper. Minor edge wear, old center horizontal fold, a few minor creases, mild dust-soiling. An unrecorded broadside advertising a June 6, 1962 performance by Harry Belafonte as a benefit concert for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference..... More

Brooklyn: Bunny Studio, 1960. Seventeen leaves, with thirty-four black-and-white photographs, each 8 x 10 inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary off-white pebbled leather, gilt stamping on front cover reading, "Our Wedding Anne and Earl April 17, 1960." Photographs individually inserted into cloth picture window sleeves, then mounted into corners of album leaves..... More

Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Company, 1928. 88pp. Original dark green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover. Minor edge wear, rubbing, and soiling to boards. Light even toning to text. A scarce meditation on the relationship between religion and race by Rev. A.P. Shaw, a noted African-American bishop in Los..... More

San Francisco: Spaulding & Barto, 1874. 138pp., including five full-page lithographic or engraved plates and four mounted photographs. 12mo. Original brown pebbled cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. Modern clear tape repairs to spine, shelf marks to spine, remnants of white sticker on rear board, corners worn. Ex-Los..... More