Ann Arbor and Detroit, MI: Free Mumia Coalition; Emergency Committee Against the Racist Execution, 1995-1998. Together 12 items (see below). Small collection documenting the nascent “Free Mumia” movement of the mid-1990s, which expressed outrage against the "racist" fraudulent conviction, and demanded a new trial for Abu-Jamal who was at that..... More

s.l. (Pittsburgh?): 1940s (?). 7 glossy black and white prints on paper (3 3/16 x 4 1/2 inches), on versos the paper numbered M001, M220, and M349. Some general wear (creasing from handling, soiling on versos, one small tear). ODD, CLAUSTROPHOBIC INNER-CITY VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1940s. Depicted here are..... More

New York: Star Distributors, 1979. First Edition. 8vo. 179, [1] pp. + 12 pp. advertisements. Cheap paperback, creased and used, front cover with ugly adhesive residue which formerly covered the face of the protagonist; three other stickers affixed. Worn. You don't have to buy this cheaply printed sleaze paperback, which..... More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1863. First Edition. [3] pp. (final page blank). Extracted from a larger volume (the two leaves are separating). Little-known report to Congress, referencing the estimated 450 Negro Egyptians who were rounded up off the streets, beaten, and forced onto a French ship bound for Mexico..... More

New York: NAACP, 1957. 8vo. [2], 325-333, [1] pp. Original self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Some toning around the edges but the paper stock is strong and crisp. Written 65 years ago, this little-known article is just as thought-provoking today, as Americans respond to the Black Lives Matter movement and related..... More

Washington DC: Associated Publishers, 1928. First Edition. 8vo. [2], vi, 362 pp. Faint tide-line along extreme outer fore-edge margins in the first half of the book, most pronounced in first 100 pages or so (SEE IMAGES), but the paper stock is strong and crisp. Original publisher's binding of light brown..... More