![I Cared I Was There. Illinois Rally for Civil Rights [cover title]. African Americana, Civil...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2662_01.JPG?v=1641319421)
Chicago: 1964. [6]pp. on a single tri-folded sheet. Old creases, minor toning and dust-soiling. A very rare program for the Illinois Rally for Civil Rights, which took place at Soldier Field in Chicago on June 21, 1964. At the time it was held, the rally was the second largest Civil..... More
![Command of Negro Troops [caption title]. African Americana, World War II](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2661.JPG?v=1640021050)
[Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, ca. 1944]. Small card printed on both sides, 4.5 x 2.5 inches. Mild toning around the edges. A rare pocket-sized, or wallet-sized card intended to be carried by White officers to instruct them how best to treat African-American soldiers in the field during World War..... More
![The Basis of Negro Morale in World War II [cover title]. Charles H. Thompson](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2571_01.JPG?v=1640020806)
[Washington, D.C. ca. October, 1942]. [1],454-464pp. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Minor fraying to edges, light dust-soiling and toning to wrappers. An offprint of an important article on the morale of African-American soldiers during World War II, written by Charles H. Thompson and first published in the Journal of Negro..... More
Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1913. 171pp., plus photographic portrait of the author. Original red cloth stamped in gilt on front cover. Former owner's ink signature on each cover, minor edge wear and dust-soiling to boards. Same former owner's business stamp (Sargent's Enterprises) on front pastedown, title page, author's portrait..... More
Boston: The Cornhill Company, [1918]. vi,55pp. Original black cloth and brown paper-covered boards, gilt titles stamped on front cover and spine. Spine a bit sunned, corners bumped, light rubbing and soiling to boards. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper, short tape repair to penultimate text leaf. A scarce work..... More
Long Beach, Ca. Worth While Publishing Company, [1923]. xxiv,103pp., including nine full-page illustrations with printed tissue guards, plus a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Original beige cloth stamped in black on the front cover. Moderate soiling and staining to covers. Dampstaining to lower margin of first several leaves. Poetry..... More
Washington: [1917]. 61,[1]pp., plus photographic portrait frontispiece of the author. Original maroon cloth, front cover stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear, corners lightly scuffed, crease in cloth on rear cover. A few text leaves bumped on fore edge. The decidedly-rare first edition containing thirty-two poems written by Walter E. Todd..... More
Los Angeles: Free Tract Society, [ca. 1935]. 112pp., plus sixteen pages of illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers. Moderate scuffing and staining to covers. Minor occasional foxing, even toning to text. A normally-uninteresting imprint, being a simple pocket-sized printing of the Gospel of John intended to be given away, but the..... More
![Mt. Shasta Minstrel and Comedy Co., of Yreka [caption title]. California, Theatre](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2440.JPG?v=1638288608)
[Yreka]: Press of the Siskiyou News, [n.d., but after 1895]. Broadside, 10.75 x 5.5 inches. Several tiny edge chips, slightly bigger chip to bottom right corner, old folds, short closed tear, minor toning, a few contemporary pencil notations. An unrecorded theater broadside touting a satirical minstrel performance of "One of..... More