New York: Students for a Democratic Society, [1968]. First edition, New York SDS variant. [3]-14 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps.Very Good with toning to wraps, folded slightly askew, corner chip to front wrap, a few tiny tears along edges. The first separate publication of an interview by the underground..... More
Lockport, NY: Ward and Cobb, 1896. First edition. [vii]-xxx, [31]-485, x, with folding map at front. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine, with light rubbing to cloth at extremities, inner front hinge exposed though binding remains firm. Slight chipping to edges of front free endpaper and..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1970. First edition. [xvi], 330 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. Top edge foxed, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unfaded and unclipped, lightly shelfworn. The prison letters of a famous African American '60s radical figure. More
New York: Random House, 1972. First edition. Publisher's black cloth with red paper sides, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with one dog-eared page and a little lean to spine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with two small closed tears, bright and unclipped ($5.95). The sequel to Soledad Brother..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1931. Seventeenth edition. Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on the front free endpaper, below a tipped in illustration which is perhaps obscuring evidence of a former bookplate removal. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with spine faded, lightly worn at ends..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1962. First edition, first printing of the autobiography of the woman Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dubbed as the "Mother of the Movement," whose civil rights activism focused on voter registration, citizen education, and women’s rights. While teaching in the Sea Islands off..... More
Oakland & San Francisco: The Black Panther Party, 1967-1976. First editions. 51 tabloid issues. Newsprint in tabloid format. Publication sequence as follows: Vol. 1 No. 6; Vol.2, Nos. 5, 18, 20; Vol.3, Nos.1-3, 6, 12, 16, 21-22, 26, 27, 29, 32; Vol.4, Nos. 3-8 (both issues), 9, 12, 14, 18..... More
New York: Published for the Author, 1853. [Boston: Published for the Author, 1854]. Second edition, early issue with title page dated 1853 with a New York imprint, and front wrapper resetting title page within an ornamental border dated 1854 and with a Boston imprint. BAL 19381 describes an 1853 dated..... More
Detroit, MI: Dept. of Christian Social Relations, Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1958. First edition. The text of King's keynote speech, which he delivered on May 16, 1958 at a Detroit conference entitled "Christ, Church and Race" before an audience of roughly 260 Episcopal priests and laymen. In which, he encourages..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first printing. Signed by Martin Luther King on the front free endpaper. Very Good with owner name effaced and taped over above King's signature, abrasion to front and rear pastedowns. Former ownership stamp and handwritten date to half-title page. In a Very..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed by Angela Davis on the title page, and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering.Very Good with tape stains to boards, stain and residue to front endsheet, binding pulled with some tenderness to..... More
Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981. First edition, first printing. xxvi, 261 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with edge wear, creased and slightly sunned spine. A rare classic anthology of second wave feminist essays, poems, and stories. More