[New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., 1948]. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Old horizontal fold, 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

[Oakland]: Voice Publishing Company, 1946. 140pp. Original tan wrappers printed in black. Some creasing and light chipping to wrappers. Internally clean. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged, with the subtitle reading "A book discussing the problems of unity and co-operation among American Negroes in those matters concerning their betterment." Barrett's work..... 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

[Albany: NAACP Northeastern Region, ca. 1965]. Four-color broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Soft central horizontal crease, minor adhesive remnants on verso from former mounting. A striking four-color broadside produced by the New York State Conference of the NAACP in Albany to encourage African American men and women to exercise their..... 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

San Francisco: Jos. Winterburn & Co., 1886. 14pp., plus advertisement leaf. Original printed wrappers bound into 20th-century black quarter leather and marbled boards. Erased signature and small inked numeral to front wrapper. A rare California entry in the ongoing 19th-century and early-20th century debate over the prohibition of alcoholic beverages..... More

Los Angeles: Western Christian Leadership Conference, 1961. [16]pp. Quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and rubbing, soft vertical crease throughout. A few passages underlined within text. A rare original program for the June 18, 1961 Freedom Rally led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., which took place in..... More

Cambridge, Ma. Harvard Society for Minority Rights, [1956]. Printed broadside handbill, 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Uneven toning, else very nice. A very rare handbill advertising a lecture and "Brotherhood Rally" delivered to the Harvard Society for Minority Rights by Dr. T.R.M. Howard, President of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership..... More

[Spokane]: 1938. 96pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers three-ring bound into decorative wood boards. Light wear to wrapper edges; wood boards lightly scuffed. Numerous newspaper clippings tipped onto several leaves, inside wrappers, and on title page. Occasional, slightly later manuscript annotations. Light dust soiling and toning internally. A scarce 1938 Civilian..... More

[Havana: 1960]. [42] leaves, printed rectos only. Oblong 12mo. Original black printed wrappers, string tied. Minor chipping to wrapper corners, costing the original metal tips at the corners, moderate rubbing and abrading to wrappers. Minor dust-soiling and ink stamp to title leaf, small dampstain to bottom corner of last two..... More

Omaha: Klopp & Bartlett Co., 1903. 44pp. Original red cloth, cover stamped in black. Corners lightly rubbed. Text lightly toned, last few leaves with lower corner rumpled. A series of eighteen diagrams illustrating the ceremonial movements for initiation into the Degree of Honor lodges in Nebraska. The Degree of Honor..... More

San Francisco: [1968]. Broadsheet on blue paper, 13.5 x 8.5 inches. Slight discoloration along top and bottom edges, minor edge wear, a few soft creases, old horizontal folds. An exceedingly rare broadsheet advertising a multi-faceted public march and rally against the Vietnam War and "racism, poverty and repression," which took..... More

Oakland: 1980. Broadsheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded and mailed. Light wear. A 1980 "Communal Grapevine" news sheet, with announcements for classes, want ads for housing in the Oakland Utopian community, and fundraising requests. More