Norwich, CT: George W. Kies, Dealer in all kinds of Boots and Shoes, and Rubbers, [nd but later half of 1800s]. Printed illustrated handbill (142 x 217 mm), printed recto and verso on thin paper stock resulting in ghosting from recto to verso and reverse. Fine. An advertising handbill for.....

[New York]: Commission on the Church and Race Relations [etc], [ca. 1925]. vii,[1],192pp. Large octavo (24.5 x 16 cm). Sewn, untrimmed, largely unopened signatures. Some tanning at edges of outer leaves, a few small nicks and minuscule chips at extremities, but very good. First edition of this substantial gathering of.....

Savannah, GA. Published by Wilson & Havens, [ca. 1870]. Stereopticon photograph, mounted on card, with printed label on verso. Small early ink name on verso of card, else very nice. An example of the blizzard of racially stereotypical stereographs produced and sold in the South (and North, for that matter).....

New York. August 1964. 48pp. Pictorial wrapper. Illustrated. Photographs. Near fine. An issue of PLAYBILL for the Actors Studio Theatre production of James Baldwin's play, under the direction of Burgess Meredith, at the ANTA Theatre. The production is "Dedicated to the memory of Medgar Evers, and his widow and his.....

[Np]: Gene Perrson Enterprises / Continental Distributing Co., 1967. Original folio one sheet (41 x 27 inches; 104 x 69 cm). Folded, as issued. Printed in black, white and grayscale. Usual filing stamps on blank verso, along with pencil and ballpoint dates for showings, multiple staple holes in corners from.....

[New York]. [13 April 1959]. Original borderless gelatin silver print, 25.5 x 18 cm (10 x 7 1/8 inches). Matted. Old mat mounting tape on verso, otherwise about fine. A striking and characteristic portrait by Van Vechten of the Danish author, most widely known for her 1937 memoir, OUT OF.....

New York: Dick Campbell Concerts, [nd. but ca 1952]. Glossy paper single sheet, printed recto and verso. Portrait. 10.5 x 7". Pencil notation on recto, top center. Very good, or better. Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) was an African- American composer and concert pianist. She enjoyed partnerships with Langston Hughes and soprano.....

Victoria, BC. [nd]. 6pp. on rectos of six quarto leaves. Stapled at upper left corner. Pencil editorial and typesetter’s annotations throughout. Very good. A general introduction to the life and work of pioneering African American Pacific coast painter and lithographer, Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-198). Captioned in the upper margin: "Printed.....

Boston: Press of Samuel Usher, 1890. 29pp. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Wrapper lightly soiled, with chipping along spine, offset from wrapper to facing text pages, but a good copy. First edition, with the Club's compliments slip tipped in front, as usual. Collected the same year, in revised form, in THE.....

[New York: New York Theatre Program Corp. 1931]. 40pp. Quarto. Pictorial wrapper. Illustrations, Two ink notes on rear wrapper, otherwise very good. A substantial program for the Mansfield Theatre production of Marc Connelly's 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play. Lawrence Rivers served as producer, "play staged by the author," and Hall.....

New York: William Morrow, 1967. Narrow, thick quarto. Loose sheets, punched at top and string tied into plain wrappers. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs of the first edition of this substantial study. Modest corner creases and small nicks, else a very good or better copy.

Boulder: Black Ice / Normal, [1994]. Gilt cloth. Fine in dust jacket. First edition, clothbound issue, of Delaney's controversial, often violently pornographic novel, published under the auspices of Fiction Collective Two.

Atlanta, GA: Conference on Education and Race Relations, [1939]. 24pp. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Wrappers somewhat soiled and marked, small nick in fore-edge of upper wrapper, else good and sound. The fifth edition, bringing to 45,000 the total number of copies printed since this introductory selection was first published in.....