[New York: American & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1850]. [2]pp., plus docketing, on a bifolium. Old folds, small separations at fold lines, minor dampstaining at right edge. Extensive, unrelated manuscript written in margins and on blank versos. A scarce circular letter, addressed "to each Friend of Liberty in the United States,"..... More

Burlington, N.J. Tichenor, [ca. 1895]. Original photograph, 5.5 x 4 inches, mounted on a printed photographer's card. Minor wear and soiling. Attractive and well composed three-quarter length portrait of a young African-American woman in late 19th-century dress, taken by George Tichenor, who ran a photography studio in Burlington, New Jersey..... More

Detroit: 1942. 43pp. Original printed wrappers. Corners heavily chipped, lightly soiled. Pictorial title page with photogravure on verso. Minor soiling and wear to text. Proceedings for this early World War II-era civil rights conference held in Detroit. The March of Washington Movement lasted from 1941 to 1946 under the slogan..... More

Shanghai: 1955. [4],16pp. In Chinese. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling, upper corner lightly creased. Program booklet for a Shanghai performance of Aubrey Pankey, the first American to hold a concert in China following the 1949 revolution. The baritone was accompanied by a Czech pianist whose name was..... More

New Orleans: [ca. 1960]. Broadside, 9 x 6 inches. Minor toning. Broadside urging the white citizens of New Orleans to stop buying Ford cars, claiming Ford profits "have been distributed to integration and civil rights organizations" to the detriment of white folks "by forcing them to associate with negroes." The..... More

[Asheville, N.C. ca. 1948]. Large broadside, measuring 14 x 22 inches, printed on card. Upper left and lower right corners chipping. Some dampstaining, creasing, and mild wear. The years following World War II saw a significant economic expansion in the United States. Part of this expansion was a massive boom..... More

New York: April 18, 1815. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 7.75 x 6.75 inches, docketed on verso. Old folds, with one fold line reinforced on verso and the other fold line almost completely separated. A very rare record of the experiences of the lives of free African Americans living in..... More

[Greenwich, England: ca. 1824]. [4],67,126pp. Quarto. Original stiff vellum over boards. Boards worn and slightly bowed, hinges cracked. Several leaves and sections disbound or becoming so. Moderate staining and wear to contents. A fascinating manuscript volume that contains the reminiscences and ruminations of an 18th-century British seaman, in prose and..... More

Philadelphia: J.M. Sanderson, 1816. [2],141,[15]pp. Contemporary paper boards over sheep. Boards worn, lower half of spine perished. Contemporary ownership inscription on front board. Front free endpaper lacking. Title page untidily trimmed. Generally light dampstaining, heavier to initial leaves; scattered foxing. Toned. In a cloth clamshell box with paper spine label..... More

Dallas: Mathis Publishing Co., 1935. x,134pp., plus five pages of photographic plates. Original crimson cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Original green dust jacket ruled in white with black titles on front cover and spine and a color reproduction of the Texas state flag on the front..... More

New York: Communist Party USA & National Black Liberation Commission, [1970]. Screenprint poster, 22.5 x 17.5 inches, printed in red, blue, and black on heavy stock. Minimal wear. An excellent example. An evocative and powerful poster designed by Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), whose previous work illustrated the pages of Masses during..... More

Washington DC: 1867. [8],411,[1],[1]pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and brown pebbled cloth, leather label on front cover stamped in gilt. Spine mostly perished, with three portions of original spine (which include the gilt-stamped spine titles) re-attached with cello tape. Corners worn, mild rubbing. Both boards also holding by cello tape. Internally..... More

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1866. 84pp. 12mo. Original embossed publisher's cloth, spine gilt lettered. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Scattered foxing and dust soiling internally, heavier to initial leaves. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. The third tract in this slim volume, "Uncle Johnson: The Pilgrim..... More