Davis, California: [Black Student Union, circa 1976-7]. Unbound. Illustrated broadside. The word“Ujima” is printed next to a drawing of a family (Ujima means “collective work and responsibility”). Measuring 11" x 17". Offset printed in green, orange, and black on stiff paper. Spotting on the unprinted verso, slightly affecting border of..... More

[No place: no photographer, circa 1865]. Unbound. Albumen photograph. Approximately 2¼" x 3¼" on a slightly larger card mount, verso is pink coated paper over card. Very slight fading on the image, overall near fine. A slightly startled baby stares with bemusement and awe towards the camera. Evidence of a...... More

(Richmond: Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, 1998). Hardcover. First edition. Thin quarto. 72pp. Heavily photographically illustrated. Blue cloth decorated in embossed gilt. A few small spots on the boards and a little foxing on the endpapers, near fine. Yearbook for the 53rd Biennial Moveable Conference. Program with photographs of..... More

Million Dollar Pictures, [1939 or 1944]. Poster. Measuring 27" x 40". With the original title covered by an affixed 24" x 4" sheet with red lettering. Several tears along the folds, short tears at the edges, light tidemark on the back, good. This film with an all-Black cast was a...... More

[Circa 1860]. Unbound. Ninth plate (?) tin type. Measuring 2½" x 3½". Two corners of the plate modestly snipped to fit into an album, small ink spot below the child's chin, else near fine. Unidentified chubby-cheeked Black toddler wearing an elaborate white christening or baptismal dress seated on a chair..... More

Palatka, Fla. Neck's Studio, [circa 1925]. Unbound. Gelatin silver photograph. Measuring 2½" x 4¼". Fine. Image of an elderly Black woman smoking a corn cob pipe wearing a long dress and a turban, seated on wooden steps of a building. Photographer's stamp of ("Neck's Studio") on the verso. An excellently..... More

London / Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, (1963). Hardcover. Reprint of the African Writers Series edition. Illustrated by Bruce Onobrakpeya. Small octavo. Bound with wrappers into two-tone cloth with the title and author inked on the spine. Binding with some edgewear and page edges a bit spotted, wrappers tanned, and..... More

[Circa 1940's]. An original unpublished typescript of a mid-20th Century minstrelsy, together with six mimeographed copies of the typescript. The original typescript consists of 12 quarto pages typed in orange on rectos only, paginated in ink by hand, and a one-page List of Characters. In fine condition. The six mimeographed..... More

New York: Warner Books, 1988. Hardcover. First edition. Three volumes. Fine in fine dust jackets with slightest of rubbing. Each volume is Inscribed by Arthur Ashe in the year of publication to the same recipients. Exhaustive scholarly history of the Black athlete from 1619 to 1988 by the late tennis..... More

San Francisco: Society for the Amalgamation of the Races / Pilot Publishing Company, (1929). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 64, [1]pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original card printed blue wrappers, bound in contemporary dark green cloth gilt. Old cloth tape mend on the gutter of one leaf, front wrap has an old closed..... More