3 Checks written and signed by New York School poet and artist Joe Brainard, with his Greene St. NYC address printed on checks. August 13, November 1, November 5, 1992, to Con Edison, Manhattan Cable TV, and one Elaine Friedman, who owned an antique store near Brainard’s residence, where he..... More
[n.p.]: [n.p.], [c. 1960s]. 12 pp. Stapled illustrated wraps. VG overall (rusting to staples, soiling, old price written in pen on front cover). A booklet that accounts for the variations of spellings and pronunciations of Native American personal and camp names, alphabetized by tribe. Tribes include Dakota Sioux, Omaha, Osage..... More
New York: B&D Pleasures Ltd., 1982. Edited by Bill and Debbie Majors. Arthur Wallace, Art Director. Advertisements in this issue point to a February 1982 publication date). 11" x 13" printed on newsprint, VG or better overall. 32 pp. On p. 9 in his column, Jay Hartwell (original publisher of..... More
Edited by Bill Kilson. 6-page folding sheet with illustrations. VG+ overall (foxing and edgewear). Premiere issue of the newsletter of the Black Action Society at the University of Pittsburgh. Contents include poetry, short articles on the “Social Trend of Black Pregnancies” and Rhodesia’s status at the Olympics, critical review of..... More
Brochure for an All-University Conference at the University of Wisconsin February 3-8, 1969. Speakers included Gwendolyn Brooks (“Informal Discussion”), Rev. Jesse Jackson (“The Necessity of Being Militant”), Jonathon Kozol (“White Schools, Black Revolution”), Rev. Andrew Young (“Where Do We Go From Here?”), Hoyt Fuller (editor of Negro Digest on “Black..... More
New York: Blackfrica Promotions, [1970]. First Edition. [21 pp.]. Near Fine stapled illustrated wrappers. From the Introduction: “Blackfrica Promotions Inc. is an attempt to rescue Black culture from its centuries old history of exploitation; an attempt to promote the natural development of Black artistic expression…Because Black people don’t control..... More
8 pp. Illustrated with photos, advertisements throughout. About VG (vertical crease, folded, as issued, 2” dampstain to top and right lower corner although not affecting any text or images within). A rare weekly paper for the Black community with “News & Pictures Covering all New England.” Cover article, “Boston Girl..... More
Birmingham: Center for Developmental and Learning Disorders, University of Alabama in Birmingham, [1968]. Blue stapled wraps, 44 pp. with 26 photographs and a list of audio visual titles at rear. VG with rubbing and wear. Includes sections "Toothbrushing--How and When," "How to Recognize Abnormal Mouth Conditions," and "The Attendant's Role..... More
Published by the Chicano Students of the University of Fullerton, Fullerton, Califas (Cal State Fullerton). 12 pp. with photographs. VG or better newsprint with titles and center two-page spread in color. The second issue of this scarce California Chicano student newspaper, with articles on the organizing of a Chicano Employees..... More
Belmar, NJ: Neptune Productions, 1980s. Issues lack dates, but we date these to the early 1980s. Numbers 39, 43, 45, 48, 49, 51. Billed as "The Only Drag Newspaper," each issue ranges from 20-24 pages, printed on newsprint, each with horizontal fold lines. VG overall, with signs of dampstaining on..... More
Double-sided flyer printed immediately following the notorious December 8 pre-dawn shootout at the Black Panther Headquarters in Watts. Rally was to be held at the Federal Building in SF to demand “an end to the racist attacks against the Black Panther Party and the daily attacks against all black working..... More
Poster measures 11” x 17” (previously rolled, a touch of wear, 1” closed tear at top edge). A striking poster featuring an image of Martin Luther King, Jr. that was promoting protests against the Vietnam War from April 2-4 and April 24 for marches on Washington and San Francisco. Includes..... More
Approximately 4” x 2.5”. VG with chipping to two corners, not affecting printed text A scarce ephemeral item from the anti-Japanese exclusion movement distributed prior to the 1920 election. No copies in commerce, with 4 holdings in OCLC (Stanford, UC Irvine, NYPL, Williams) and one other in the Japanese American..... More
1968. Volume 3, No. 12. Special Issue: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. June, 1968. Carl Offord, Publisher, and Carlton Brown, Editor. VG+ stapled pictorial wraps. 42 pp. Special issue of this magazine published in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Contents include Happenin’s, Broadway Cool, Martin..... More
Panama, Jamaica, Cuba, New York, March-May 1914. Thick oblong (8" x 5.5") string-tied album in limp black cloth boards with "Photographs" in gilt lettering. 109 original photographs (most 3.5" x 5", many captioned in white ink), 11 clipped news articles by MacWethy, and 13 pieces of ephemera, including postcards, the..... More
New York: Pan-African Students Organization, 1968. Edited by Maina D. Kagombe. VG+ in stapled blue printed wraps (soiling and toning with penciled address on rear cover and marking inside rear cover). 48 pp. Premiere issue of the Pan-African Journal, established to "promote African Student' creativity and scholarship"; "to create a...... More
Two typed stapled pages. Issued the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. “Martin Luther King is dead—the victim of a white racist bullet.” Rare. More
[Roxbury, MA], [1975]. Approximately 16” x 14” large format, wire bound. VG or better with soiling, toning, and light creasing to front cover corner. Roxbury, MA, experienced two riots in 1968 in the aftermath of Martin Luther King’s assassination. According to the archives at the University of Massachusetts, “The..... More
A postwar friendship between Harry and Toku Mitoko from Fukuoka, Japan, and Vernon and Gladys Hill of Miami/Coral Gables, Florida (and later Flat Rock, NC). Harry Mitoko was a chauffeur in the 1930s when he apparently met the Hills and returned to his native Japan in 1940 after his brother..... More
Los Angeles: Futique, Inc., 1988. Manual by Timothy Leary, Vicki Marshall, and Ron Lawrence. VG+ stapled wraps (soiling). [23 pp.]. SIGNED by Timothy Leary on front cover. Together with 5.25” floppy disk in sleeve (IBM/PC Compatible in Color) and two single sheets, one printed on white stock and the other..... More
Washington, D.C.: George Washington University. Edited by Thecla Fabian. 4 pp. 8.5” x 14”. VG (stapled at top corner, crudely folded with horizontal and vertical folds, toning). Inaugural issue of this feminist newsletter from the Womanspace Women’s Center on the campus of George Washington University. Contents include a discussion of..... More
New York: Black Standard Publishing Company, 1963. First Edition. [28 pp.]. 8.5” x 11” in VG illustrated stapled wraps (shelfwear and soiling, light creasing and spotting). A “satirical analysis of the present crop of so-called leaders” infused with Black nationalist thinking in the form of a coloring book (Brath studied..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1969. First Printing. INSCRIBED by the author on second free endpaper: “Power then Peace. H. Rap Brown.” Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (edgewear, tiny chip to rear edge, small abrasion near spine). A scarce signed hardcover of Brown’s “Political Autobiography.” Brown, an African American..... More
Madison, WI: [Radical America], 1968. An SDS Journal of American Radicalism, published bi-monthly. In this issue, "Radical America takes on certain new dimensions, particularly in neo-Marxist theory and the arts." Contents include articles by James P. O'Brien, "The Early Days of the New Left"; Andre Schiffrin, "The Student Movement in..... More
Chattanooga, TN: W.D. Clark II, 1979. First Edition. 81 pp., with 12 illustrations. VG+ in illustrated wrappers (light rubbing and soiling). INSCRIBED on inside of front cover to singer and activist Harry Belafonte: “Mr. Belafonte, I know you are an action man that desires to see equality for all people..... More