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Carver Movie Brochure - Pinky with Ethel Waters, 1949

By: (Unknown)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alexandria, Carver Movie Theater: 1949

Seller ID: 15656

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

This is a single-fold, brochure of coming attractions for the Carver Theater in Alexandria, Virginia. The brochure has very light, general wear with even age-toning. On the front and back pages someon has written in pencil. Please see scan. Overall this brochure is in VG to VG+ condition. The brochure came from the collection of an African-American man and seems to have been a part of his collection becaue of the ad for the 1949 movie, Pinky "She Passed For White". The ad gives Ethel Waters the biggest display. Other movies in the brochure are G-Men with James Cagney, The Bride with Av...
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Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, ..., in Relation to the Present Condition and Probable Annual Expense of the United States' Agency for Recaptured Africans on the Coast of Africa, Etc. Etc.

By: (Various)

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Gales & Seaton: 1828

Seller ID: 16417

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

This is a disbound government document in original wrappers, from the 20th Congress, 1st Session [Doc. No. 193]. The front wrap is somewhat soiled with a small closed tear, overall about very good. This document deals with US Government policy, after the slave trade had been made illegal, toward captured Africans who were seized by the US Navy from illegal slave ships. All in all close to 2000 such "recaptured Africans" came under US jurisdiction. Most of these individuals were taken to camps in Key West and Charleston,SC and later returned to Africa, usually Liberia. The document give...
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Year Book: Northern California Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

By: (Various)

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Oakland, Northern California Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: (1918)

Seller ID: 16504

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light foxing and soiling at spine edge of front wrapper. Internally clean. Very good. Scarce pamphlet, ostensibly a yearbook for Northern California Branch of the NAACP, but evidently the only issue ever published. It features the decision in and several comments on the 1917 Louisville residential segregation case, Buchanan v. Warley, in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the attempts at segregation by the state of Kentucky to be unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. Moorhead Storey, a founder of the NAACP, pictured on the front wrapper, ...
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Whoopi, Poster

By: (Whoopi Goldberg)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Lyceum Theatre: 1984

Seller ID: 17016

Binding: Poster

Condition: Near Fine

This poster is, I think, from Whoopi Goldberg's 1984 Broadway solo show entitled Whoopi. This show made Goldberg a major star. This poster, on pasteboard stock, has some minor wear here and there but is still about near fine. This poster seems to be quite uncommon. ; B&W Image; Folio 13" - 23" tall
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Principal's Report to the Trustees, 1916 : Also, Two Photographs of Events on Tuskegee Campus

By: (Willcox, William G., Treasurer of Investment Committee)

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Tuskegee, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute: 1916

Seller ID: 16223

Binding: Hardcover

Originally stapled pamphlet with image of Booker T. Washington and black titles. Staples are missing and spine was long ago taped. Interior pages are held together by the tape. See scan. Overall this is VG except for the tape repair. The pamphlet, an annual financial report, has some light edge and corner wear along with a dogear and short tear at top right corner of front cover. Both interior and exterior age toning. This report is from the year after Washington's death. These annual reports are somewhat scarce. WorldCat locates only five from any year in libraries. This Report comes with two...
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New York Governor, William L. Marcy, Signed Document to Governor of Mississippi, 1836, re. Slavery and Abolition

By: (William L. Marcy)

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Albany, State of New York: 1836

Seller ID: 16342

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

1pp document on “State of New-York, Executive Department” letterhead signed by 11th New York Governor William L. Marcy as “W.L. Marcy” near bottom right. Carefully tipped into oblong cream-colored paper sheet measuring 7.25” x 10.75”. In near fine condition with isolated spot toning recto and minor ink ghost impression verso along with torn away top left corner of sheet that document is tipped to. The official document is 6.625" x 6.875". New York Governor William L. Marcy issued this document from the state capital of Albany to “his Excellency, The Governor of Mississipp...
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Leaven for Doughfaces; or Threescore and Ten Parables Touching Slavery

By: A Former Resident of the South (Darius Lyman)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Bangs and Company: 1856

Seller ID: 16403

Binding: Hardcover

Blindstamped, brown cloth with gilt illustration on front and faded gilt titles on spine. The book has edge, corner and surface wear with corner rubbed to boards and evidence (fading) of an old dampstain on the bottom corners, front and rear. Please see scan. There is no evidence of this dampstain in the interior. Overall the book is square and securely bound, a solid, presentable copy about VG. This work was an attack on slavery, especially those in the North who allowed Southern ideas on slavery to stand. "Doughface" was a term coined to describe these politicians, whose politics wer...
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The Survival of Domination: Inferiorization and Everyday Life

By: Adam, Barry D.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Elsevier: 1978

Seller ID: 15682

ISBN: 044499047X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket have only very light shelf or surface wear. This book is a study of the ways everyday life causes inferiorization or subordination for Jews, African-Americans and Homosexuals. Written in 1978, the book seems to deal with problems that remain in contemporary society. Very attractive copy. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 179 pages
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The American Negro

By: Allen, J. S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, International Pamphlets: 1932

Seller ID: 16051

Binding: Softcover

Stapled, deep blue wraps with white titles (rear wraps is white.) Much wear with loss on corners on front along with shot, closed tears and some small scuffs. Two staple holes near mid-spine where pamphlet was possibly staled when front wrap detached. Except for problems with front wrap, this copy would be VG+; as is, it is G+ to VG-. International Pamphlets seems to have been a Marxist-oriented publisher. This pamphlet was No. 18 of a series that the company published on social issues of the day. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 31 pages
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American Travelers' Guide to Negro History

By: American Oil Company

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, American Oil Company: (1965)

Seller ID: 16099

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Stapled, pictorial blue wraps with white titles. Some soiling/toning on edges; otherwise, a square and secure copy with very nice interior. An automobile traveler's guide to African-American related sites in most states. Introduction states that this is the third edition. The booklet is not dated so I am guessing that it comes from the mid-1960's with 1965 being the most likely. Of some interest is the fact that important Civil Rights sites in the South are not included. No entries for Arkansas or Mississippi for example. Those omissions are further evidence that this came out in the 1960's.;...
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This Was Harlem, A Cultural Portrait 1900-1950

By: Anderson, Jervis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 1982

Seller ID: 15597

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

This copy has some light edge, corner and surface wear with light diagonal creasing at front corners and two light reading creases on spine. Book is still square and securely bound, a nuice copy of the first softcover edition. This is solid, interesting history of Harlem in its heyday. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 390 pages
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Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: Baldwin, James

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1953

Seller ID: 15944

Binding: Hardcover

This is a nice first edition copy of James Baldwin's first book, Go Tell It on the Mountain in a facsimile dust jacket.The book has almost no edge, corner or surface wear but does have a small stain on the bottom edge and a 4" long triangle cut from the top right corner of the ffep. Former owner's name on small sticker on font pastedown. Book is VG+ to NF with noted problems. Jacket is a very attractive facsimile that is so labelled. This is a solid copy of Go Tell It on the Mountain that will look nice on the shelf. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages
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The Sidney Poet Heroical

By: Baraka, Amiri

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, I. Reed Books: 1979

Seller ID: 16503

ISBN: 0918408121

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Very light edge and corner wear with some minor loss of color on covers. Square and securely bound. Appears to be unread. Signed by Baraka on the title page. ; Cover Art; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 106 pages; Signed by Author
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Kawaida Studies: The New Nationalism

By: Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Third World Press: 1972

Seller ID: 16040

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Signed boldly by Baraka on half title page and dated "87." Stapled, yellow wraps with black titles. This copy would be near fine except for light wear at corners and some minor soiling/aging on wraps. This is a collection of six essays by Baraka explaining the philosophy and religion of Kawaida. Essay topics include: technology, women, pan-Africanism, nationalism and values.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 55 pages; Signed by Author
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Witnesses for Freedom: Negro Americans in Autobiography

By: Barton, Rebecca Chalmers

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1948

Seller ID: 16722

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Deep green paper over boards with faded gilt titles on spine. Some edge and corner wear along with areas of paper chipping at spine ends and edges. Some lightening on front and back covers along with an old call number sticker at base of spine. I find no other evidence of this being a library book. Expected aging. Book is still square and securely bound. This collection of biographical essays of famous African-Americans is quite well-done and features an Introduction by Alain Locke. This is a stated First Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pages
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Lyrics of the Under World

By: Beadle, S. A.

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Jackson, W. A. Scott, Publisher: 1912

Seller ID: 16120

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Deep green cloth with black titles. It appears to me that the endpapers have been professionally replaced. The book has edge, corner and surface wear with minor wear at spine ends. Some light aging though interior pages on slick stock are still bright. The spine has a very slight roll. The 16 B&W photographs by Richard H. Beadle, the author's son, are all present and are quite well-done. Book is securely bound, a solid VG- to VG. This book is rather uncommon, WorldCat locates, at most, sixteen copies in institutions. The book is of special interest because of the nature of Beadle's poetry. Sa...
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Ten Commandments on Race Relations

By: Bellamy, Guy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Home Mission Board Southern Baptist Convention: ca. 1955

Seller ID: 16123

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Singlefold pamphlet with four pages on slick stock with B&W photograph. Some light wear and light aging, still an attractive copy. This tall, thin pamphlet lists ten ways that Southern Baptists responded to race relations in the 1950's. Among the commandments are statements encouraging civil behavior, thinking of "the Negro as a person," protesting against injustice, and other similar ideas. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 4 pages
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Tamango, Movie Poster

By: Berry, John (dir.)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Brussells, Maurice Panneels: 1958

Seller ID: 16015

Binding: Hardcover

15 x 22" poster for the film Tamango. 1958. Linen backed, full sheet 17 x 23 3/4". Dutch painted letters at top indicate when movie is playing. Some tears and chips, visible in photos. Overall the poster is still VG-.The movie starred Dorothy Dandridge and Curd (later Curt) Jurgens. Because of racial events in this French film, it was never shown in the United States or the French colonies. (There is interracial romance, and a violent slave revolt. This was one of Dorothy Dandridge's films that is little-known in this country. This poster came from: A Cinema Apart, or the Beverly and Larry Ri...
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Tom, The Blind Negro Boy Pianist, Only 10 Years Old, "Oliver's Gallop"

By: Bethune, Thomas (Blind Tom)

Price: $2,000.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Waters: 1860

Seller ID: 17059

Binding: Sheet Music

Condition: Very Good

This quite uncommon sheet music was the first published by the well-known "Blind Tom" Bethune. Bethune had been born blind and a slave near Columbus, Georgia. His unusual ability to play the piano and recall speech was discovered at an early age so that before he was ten he was touring the country and making vast sums of money for his owner, General James Neil Bethune and his manager, Perry Oliver, for whom "Oliver's Galop" is named. After the Civil War, Bethune was declared non compos mentis (more recent diagnoses have settled on autism) and put under the care of Gen. Bethune who continued to...
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Voices for Freedom: A New Look at the Hyers Sisters' Dream, Change, and Legacy

By: Bibbs, C. Susheel, PhD.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sacremento, M. E. P. Publications?DKC, Inc. with The Living Heritage Foundation: 2016

Seller ID: 16786

ISBN: 1535017449

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

White, perfect-bound booklet with black titles and B&W illustration. This copy is as new and unread. This essay on the Hyers Sisters was first published in The Proceedings, a volume of essays from The Hawaii Conference on the Social Sciences in 1912. I cannot tell if this is the first separate edition or not. However, it is one of the few scholarly works on the Hyers Sisters and is, for that reason, of considerable interest. The Hyers Sisters were very early African-American opera stars who formed companies, featuring African-American performers, in roles that challenged the steriotyping in th...
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"Damn Rare" The Memoirs of an African-American Bibliophile

By: Blockson, Charles

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Tracy CA, Quantum Leap Publisher, Inc.: 1998

Seller ID: 7144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

This copy has had water damage at the bottom of the spine that affect smost interior pages for about two inches horizontally (both ways) and an inch or so vertically. The dustjacket has light wear and a tear on the top right front corner. ; B & W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pages; Biography and reminiscence of famed African-American book collector. Blockson has donated his collection of over 20,000 African-American related items to Temple University. Signed and inscribed on ffep. ; Signed by Author
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Insurgent, Volume 1, Number 1, March-April 1965

By: Bloice, Carl (ed.)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: San Francisco, W. E. B. DuBois Clubs of America: 1965

Seller ID: 16101

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stapled, pictorial B&W wraps. Very light general wear and aging; a very attractive copy of the first issue of this magazine published by The W. E. B DuBois Clubs of America. (President Nixon objected to the DuBois Club, calling it a Communist organization that people confused with The Boys Club.) This issue has articles on:The Beatles: Those Lucky Lads from Liverpool; The Blood of Our Brothers, Report from Mozambique; FSM, A New Era; When Negroes Served for the South. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 27 pages
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Insurgent, Volume 1, Number 3, July-August 1965

By: Bloice, Carl (ed.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Francisco, W. E. B. DuBois Clubs of America: 1965

Seller ID: 16104

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Stapled, B&W pictorial wraps with black titles. Some light soiling on front along with small bit of partially erased writing. Overall light aging. G to VG+. This magazine was published by The W. E. B DuBois Clubs of America. (President Nixon objected to the DuBois Club, calling it a Communist organization that people confused with The Boys Club.) Articles on: Vietnam, Staughton Lynd, Pop Art, Negro Cowboys and several others. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 31 pages
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Image for Paul Robeson : korrespondierendes Mitglied der Akademie der Kunste der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Grundungsmitglied des Weltfriedensrates, Lenin-Friedenspreis trager

Paul Robeson : korrespondierendes Mitglied der Akademie der Kunste der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Grundungsmitglied des Weltfriedensrates, Lenin-Friedenspreis trager

By: Bogelsack, Brigitte (compiler)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Berlin, Akademie der Kunste der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Paul Robeson Komitee der DDR: 1975

Seller ID: 16445

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good+

Stapled, toned newsprint wraps with a number of B&W photographs. Except for the toning, particularly along the spine and top edge, this copy would be near fine. It has very little wear. This is an East German imprint (in German) that seems to be a compilation of articles on, and in some cases, by Paul Robeson. Some of them seem to be about visits he made to East Germany while others are about his work for Civil Rights in general. My German is very limited. This booklet seems to be uncommon. This is difficult to look up on WorldCat but there seems to be a minimum of four and no more than ten co...
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Typed Letter, Signed by Julian Bond, to Hy Gardner, Concerning Presidential Campaign, 1975

By: Bond, Julian

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Julian Bond: 1975

Seller ID: 15878

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Typed letter, signed by Civil Rights Leader, Julian Bond. Bond was a co-founder of the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee, President of the NAACP and President of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He also served twenty years in the Georgia Legislature. This letter, addressed to radio and TV personality, Hy Gardner, discusses Bond's possible run for President in 1975-76. Intriguing content. The letter shows almost no wear or aging. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 1 pages
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Category: African - American