New York: The Alliance Publishing Co., 1900. 40pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some discoloration along front wrapper, minor dust-soiling to wrappers. Thin dampstain along outer margin of first few leaves, otherwise internally clean. A rare report compiled by noted African-American educator, author, and businessman George Allen Mebane of North Carolina..... More

[New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., 1948]. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Old horizontal folds, minor wear. A rare declaration of civil rights "approved at a Conference on Civil Rights at Madison Hall, University of Virginia" in 1948 by the Southern Conference Educational Fund. The group bills..... More

[Buffalo: 1937]. Photo-illustrated broadside, approximately 12 x 9 inches. Tanned, darker around the edges, with minor creasing. Small manuscript note at bottom, reading "Buffalo, 1937." A striking and seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising a speech by James W. Ford, the "Outstanding Negro Leader - twice Vice Presidential candidate of the Communist..... More

[Washington, D.C. 1959]. [19]pp., mimeographed on rectos only. Original printed blue wrappers, brad bound. Covers stained and worn. Mild uneven toning to a few leaves. A seemingly unrecorded directory for the Howard University School of Law, published by the Student Bar Association in 1959. This humble, handmade directory includes a...... More

New York: NAACP, 1949. Broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, short separations of crossfolds, minor toning. An offprint of an article printed in The Crisis, discussing the "old phrases," "name-calling," "angled 'news' stories," "half-truths" and "whole lies" being printed by the Communist Party in their mouthpiece, The Daily Worker..... More

New York: 1863. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Very minor edge wear. Light foxing on text edges, but clean internally. A tight, square copy. A rare work containing important information on the New York City Draft Riots, including first-hand accounts by African-American victims of the bloody events in mid-July 1863. Between..... More

Boston: February 20, 1862. 4pp. on a single sheet of newsprint. Folded, split along top central vertical fold lines of both leaves with minimal loss, bottom portion of spine fold also split, some edge darkening and minor chipping. A rare surviving issue of The Pine and Palm, an abolitionist newspaper..... More

[N.p., likely Camp Funston, Ks. ca. 1918]. 44pp. Original gray printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, some adhesive remnants and small abrasions on rear wrapper, likely resulting from removal from a scrapbook, previous owner's signature on front wrapper, "W.E. Howard." Soft vertical crease throughout. A pocket-sized book of regulations governing the..... More

Mexico City: Imprenta Imperial de D. Alejandro Valdes, 1823. 4,[2]pp. Loose sheets, neatly removed from a sammelband. Uneven left edge. Light dust soiling. An important and scarce document that seeks to ensure public support for the installation of a federal congress as part of a representative government in independent Mexico..... 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

San Francisco: George Spaulding & Co., 1893. 90pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Front cover detached, a bit chipped. Light toning to first and last leaves. Minor scattered foxing. "This annotation of the General Street Law, as amended in 1889, 1891 and 1893, attempts only to clarify the text where that..... More

[San Francisco? 1890]. Twelve handbills, each approximately 9 x 6 inches, plus 7pp. pamphlet and three small promotional cards. Mounted to card backings. Several chips and short closed tears at edges. Tanned. An interesting series of twelve small broadsides or handbills relating to the 1890 California state elections, in which..... More

[N.p., but California: 1934]. Broadside, approximately 11 x 5 inches. Previously folded. Minor wear and soiling. Scarce campaign literature in support of Frank Merriam but primarily against Upton Sinclair in the 1934 California gubernatorial election. Sinclair had formerly run for Congress as a Socialist, but won the Democratic nomination for..... More