The Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater
Oklahoma City: Black Liberated Arts Center, Inc., n.d. [later 1970s]. Paperback. (8)p. Original wrapper (unevenly faded). 28cm. More
Oklahoma City: Black Liberated Arts Center, Inc., n.d. [later 1970s]. Paperback. (8)p. Original wrapper (unevenly faded). 28cm. More
Morristown: Art in the Atrium, 2012. Paperback. color photos, (59)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Modest curling at top right corner. Signed on half-title by Tarin Fuller, author of "Featured Artist Norman Lewis" (text at pages 5-8). More
Jacksonville, Florida: Norman Film Manufacturing Co., n.d. (ca. 1922 or 1923). Bifolium of four printed and illustrated pages. 30 cm. Two horizontal folds enabling this to fit in a business-sized envelope. Richard E. Norman, a white Floridian, is best known for the "race" films for African Americans which his company..... More
700 Eshleman Hall, UCBerkeley, Berkeley, CA: 1992. illustrated, 12p. Newsprint. 30 x 45 cm. Horizontal fold. Modest browning around edges. Successor to Third World Press which had debuted earlier in 1992. We don't know whether additional issues were published. More
Boston: Hiram Cummings, 1845. (4)p. Newspaper. Published weekly. 49 x 66 cm. Fold marks indicate that was folded not once but thrice. Some wear at edges. Light foxing. Inked signature ("J. G. Birney Esq") in an unknown hand (Birney's?) in upper left margin. An abolitionist weekly published in Boston. James..... More
Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. 2nd ed. Paperback. 43p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Softcover. No separate wrapper present. The Free Military School enrolled a total of over 1000 applicants The school was established in December, 1863 and and gave brief training to many white civilians and soldiers..... More
Chicago: PP & F Co., c. 1911. Vintage Black & White Print. 41 x 51cm. Recently framed under glass in a flecked silver wooden frame. Light wear to the print, including a small hole near the inner elbow of the girl and some minor chips elsewhere. Some staining on protective..... More
Washington: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1940-1941. Hardcover. photos, 216p. plus index (3p.). Black cloth. original wrappers (included in pagination) bound in. 28 cm. Moderate cover spotting. Lettering on backstrip mostly gone. Internally sound and clean. No jacket (as published). Published nine times yearly -- no..... More
New York: The Library of America, (c. 2003). 1st printing. Hardcover. 2 vols. index, xvi, 996, (5), xv, 986, (6)p. Neatly rebound iin full leather by Asprey. 20 cm. All edges gilt. An attractive set. More
[Lexington?]: (1941). Paperback. Folded four-page mimeo program stapled at upper left corner a folding cover which has an appealing titled front page ("Negro Song Festival Lexington, Ky. U. K. Gym Sunday May 11") and three blank pages. 22 cm. Sponsored by the Music Department of the University of Kentucky, and..... More
Greenville County Museum of Art, (c. 1990). Paperback. [Exhibition catalog] illustrations (some color), 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Front free enpaper lightly spotted. Catalog for an exhibition at Greenville County Museum of Art, May 15 through July 1, 1990, and at McKissick Museum September 2 through October 28..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph R. A. Skerrett, 1826. Paperback. 40p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 21 cm. Moderate vertical crease. Minor foxing. No separate wrapper present. The extracts focus on the state of the slave trade and efforts to restrict or end that trade. More
NY: Gallery of Modern Art Including the Huntington Hartford Collection, 1969. Paperback. [Exhibition Catalog] 2 black & white photos, Single folio-sized sheet printed on one side and folded to form an unnumbered 6-panel exhibition catalog. 23 cm. Minor foxing. Catalog for an exhibition sponsored by Farleigh Dickinson University and held..... More
Cleveland: Printed by Wilfred-Gardner Pub. Co., (1927). Paperback. 99p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Cover soiling and modest wear. More
Lorain, Ohio: (1929). Paperback. 99p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Front and back covers detached; most of the backstrip lacking. Contents browned and somewhat worn. [Website Only]. More
Clarksville, Tennessee: 1947. 4p. folded Program. 22 cm. Cover slighlty soiled with fading on edges. Roscoe Conklin Simmons, a nephew of Booker T. Washington and the scheduled speaker, was a Republican Party functionary, a newspaper columnist and a popular orator at African American events. No subject is given for his..... More
Greenwood, Mississippi: (1957). Paperback. 15p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Minor cover wear. White supremacist organization. [Website Only]. More
[Washington?]: n.d [1886?]. Hardcover. [8] unbound plates in modest gray portfolio boards. The whole is tied together with two red ribbons threaded through cover slits. 25cm. Some chipping and soiling on portfolio covers. Ribbon ragged on one end (missing the tip). Plates in nice condition with just a touch of..... More
New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1833. Second Separate edition [so stated]. Paperback. 24p. Pamphlet. 23 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Foxing (fairly heavy on title-leaf, light elsewhere). Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. No separate wrapper present. Bacon was one of the leading lights..... More
n.p. n.d. [Preface dated 1954]. Hardcover. 100 + photos (black & shite), 82p. Original blue cloth. 28cm. Gouged area on backstrip. Slightly swaybacked. Contents sound. No Jacket. Martha P. Anderson is listed as General Chairman --0presumably of the committee which produced this loosely organized history of this Illinois convention of..... More
Philadelphia: J. Marsh; New York: S. T. Gordon; Boston: O. Ditson & Co., 1865. 1st ed. [we presume although it is possibly that not all three publisher's were initially listed]. title-leaf, blank on back, 3p. music. Final page contains an advertisement for Marsh's Music Store, No. 1029 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia..... More
28 cm. Jesse Binga was an important figure in Chicago's African American community and opened BInga State Bank in Chicago in 1921. The bank did not survive the depression and Binga ended up imprisoned for three years for embezzlement as the result of trying to conceal some assts. Langston, the..... More
New York: Parallax Publishing Company, (c. 1967). Mort Drucker and Neal Adams. Paperback. 44 unnumbered pages cartoons. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Cover partially split along fold. INSCRIBED inside front cover by Cambridge "To Peter Its been a pleasure working with you, your talent and devotion are something I...... More
Philadelphia: McKay, (c. 1942). 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, (94)p. Origiinal pictorial boards. No jacket. 19 cm. Modest cover soiling and wear. Spine moderately sloped. Campbell, an African American, was a successful cartoonist, particularly with Esquire magazine. There were no African American characters in his Esquire cartoons and there are none..... More
Tuskegee: Tuskegee Institute Steam Press, 1906. 1st ed. Paperback. 10p. Wrapper. 21cm. Moderate vertical crease. Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 9. The San Jose Scale is a tiny, unwelcome insect found particularly on fruit trees. Cardoza is identified as on the Tuskegee Experiment Stations' s staff for Horticulture. We know nothing..... More