San Francisco: Carl E. Jordan, 1972. 11½” x 8”. Newsprint. pp. 15. Very good plus with a hint of toning at extremities. This is an issue of the short-lived San Francisco Forum which touted itself as “The Independent Community Newspaper” for San Francisco. Its premier issue contained a short..... More
![Item #1736 [Blueprint for Invention of Street-Car Trolley Guard.]. Robert Clark Dickenson](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1736finished.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680460142)
[Xenia, Ohio?]: [circa 1918]. 6¼” x 28”. Blueprint. Very good with some creases and chips; rolled. This is a blueprint for a trolley guard that was invented and patented by Robert Dickenson, an African American from Ohio. While his wife raised their nine children in Xenia, he was..... More
[London, England]: United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration European Regional Office, 1944. 6 3/8” x 4”. Stapled thin card wrappers. Pp. iv, 85. Very good plus: minimal wear, lightly toned, prior owner penciled name to front wrap. This is a handbook created by the Displaced Persons Division No. 3..... More
![Item #7342 [Three Pictorial Maps of Los Angeles]. Cathy Pavia](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7342.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680291762)
Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Times, 1980. Three posters, each measuring 18” x 23”. Very good: one tiny tear to edge of one map, light foxing in the margin of another; else minimal wear and light creasing to edges. This is a set of three pictorial maps commissioned for..... More
![Item #7316 [Three Group Photographs of Students at Meharry Medical College]. George H. Anderson](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7316.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680291762)
Nashville, Tennessee: Geo. H. Anderson, 1923. Three black and white photographs, each measuring 8” x 10” on card mounts measuring 11 ½” x 13 ½”. Photos very good with a few minor surface abrasions and one small stain in the background of one photo; mounts good with moderate wear, chipping..... More
![Item #7263 [Autograph Album Compiled by a Young African American Woman.]. Allyne Ernest Bradshaw...](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7263.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680291760)
Taylor and Austin, Texas: 1934-1936. 4½” x 6”. String-tied commercial autograph book with 112 pages, 35 of which contain handwritten text. Good plus: wrappers moderately soiled and worn; scattered small stains to most pages. This is an autograph book compiled by a young woman attending Blackshear High School (BHS)..... More
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Detroit, Michigan: National Alliance of Postal Employees, 1946-1947. 12” x 9”. Stapled self-wrappers. Four issues pp. 24, one pp. 32. Publication sequence: Vol. XXXIII, Nos. 8 (Aug 1946), 10 (Oct 1946), 12 (Dec 1946); Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 4 (Apr 1947), 5 (May 1947). Generally good plus with light corner and..... More
[Pine Bluff, Arkansas]: [Supreme Union of Ethiopia], [1917]. 6¼” x 4 5/8”. Stapled wrappers. Pp. 23 + cipher card laid in. Good: light vertical crease to wrappers and all leaves, some internal soil spots; owner notation to title page; offsetting to pages where card laid in. This is an..... More
Pine Bluff, Arkansas: McGehee Realty & Lumber Co., [circa 1930s]. Two double-sided handbills measuring 8” x 4¾”. Good: small burn or rust mark resulting in small hole to each handbill and loss to a few characters of text; lightly soiled and creased. This is a pair of handbills distributed..... More
New York, New York: Ne*ro Youth [Magazine], [circa 1941]. 8½” x 5½”. Single sheet, folded, printed all four sides. Pp. [4]. Very good: tiny staple hole; moderate vertical crease; edges lightly toned. This is an illustrated promotional flyer issued by the publisher of a rare Black periodical. The..... More
![Item #7116 [Unused Ticket for] Epic of a Race](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7116.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680291758)
Chicago, Illinois: [1933]. 2¼” x 5½”. Admission ticket printed on card stock, recto only. Near fine with a bit of edge wear. This is a ticket to the first of two annual events targeted to African Americans at Soldier Field as part of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair..... More
New York, N.Y. William K. Bell Publications, 1956. 8 1/8” x 5 3/8”. Bound, orange thin card wrappers. Pp. xi, 147. Very good: wrappers lightly worn with some dust soiling; faint evidence of water exposure to upper outer corner of around one third of the leaves. Inscribed by the author..... More
Cincinnati, O: Jennings & Pye, [1896]. Second edition stated. 7½” x 5½”. Green cloth, title gilt. Pp. [author frontis], [i-ix], x-xiii, 9-330 + + 8 plates interspersed. Good: corners frayed with small losses to spine tips; vertical patch of staining at the outer edge of both boards; hinges cracked but..... More
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, & Co., [1823]. Ninth Edition. 9½” x 6¼”. Thin card wrappers. Eight double-page maps hand-colored in outline. Good: wrappers heavily soiled and separated from text block but attached to each other; three maps with chipping to edges, outside map boundaries; map of Europe with a 3” split..... More
Prescott, Arizona: 1931. 14 black and white photographs. Four measure 4¼” x 2 3/8”, the rest are 3 3/8” x 5 5/8”. Generally very good plus with minor dust soiling. This is a group of exceptional images documenting portions of the Hopi Snake Dance. According to an article on..... More
[Philadelphia, PA/Dallas, TX/Berkeley, CA]: 1958-1959. Five groups of stapled mechanically reproduced typescripts totaling 48 pages of text + six loose leaves containing nine pages of handwritten notes + three loose leaves containing four pages of mechanically reproduced Mongolian text (all measuring 11” x 8½”) + photocopy of a map. Generally..... More
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[Dearborn, Michigan]: 1969-1971. 11 5/8” x 9” commercially produced faux leather photograph album containing 70 leaves with 49 photographs, 32 items of ephemera, and news clippings, taped or pasted in. Most photos measure 5¼” x 3¼” or 8” x 10”. Album good: lacking backstrip and moderately worn and soiled. Internally..... More
Savannah, GA: The Morning News Print, 1888. 8¼” x 6”. Cloth over boards, gilt. Pp. [5], [A]-E, [6], iv-v, [blank page], 5-360. Good: lacking two leaves consisting of pp. 1-4 that appear to never have been bound in; boards moderately worn and lightly soiled, leaves lightly toned with scattered dust..... More
Savannah, GA: The Morning News Print, 1888. 8¼” x 6”. Green cloth over boards, title gilt. Pp. [5], [A]-E, [6], iv-v, [blank page], 360. Good: Ex-library with remnants of call number to spine, bookplate, due cards and embossed stamp on title page; moderately shaken, boards moderately worn with losses at..... More
Phoenix, Arizona: Ferrari Publications, [1983]. Poster measuring 24” x 30” (608 x 758mm). Good: heavily worn and creased with several mended internal tears. This is a rare marketing poster for an early edition of a gay travel guide created by a lesbian-owned publishing company, Ferrari Publications. First published in..... More
[Revere, Massachusetts]: [Temple B'nai Israel], 1943. 14” x 8½”. Corner stapled, eight mimeographed leaves, printed rectos only. Pp. 8. Good: folded twice, bottom edge heavily worn with dogears and affecting a few characters of text. This is a mimeographed newsletter created by a Jewish congregation in Massachusetts that was..... More
Mostly Richmond, Virginia and the South Pacific: late 1930s-late 1940s. Two albums measuring 10” x 13½” and 11” x 14½” respectively. Together they contain 71 leaves with 324 black and white and 14 color photographs; 134 are hinge mounted, the rest are inserted into corner mounts. Most photos measure from..... More
Berkeley/Sonoma, CA: Ladies Against Women/National Rutabaga Co. (printers), [circa 1980-1985]. 21½” x 21½”. Cotton banner. Very good with creases at folds and a few soil spots. This is a humorous, tongue-in-cheek banner or bandanna printed on cotton by Ladies Against Women (LAW), a satirical performance group from Berkeley, California..... More
![Item #3087 National Ne*ro Health Week. Twenty-First Annual Observance . . . [Cover title]. Rivers...](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3087.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680291744)
Austin, Texas: Texas Tuberculosis Association, 1935. 12¼” x 9¼”. Bifolium, printed all four sides. Pp. [4]. Very good: folded as issued; moderate vertical crease throughout; faintly toned. This is a promotional urging the observance of National Ne*ro Health Week (NNHW) that was produced by the Texas Tuberculosis Association (TTA)..... More
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Washington DC: Fourth of July Hemp Coalition, 2003. 14” x 8½”. Small poster illustrated recto, text on verso. Very good plus: light edge and corner wear and just a hint of waviness. This quirky poster advertising the 2003 Fourth of July smoke-in at Lafayette Park in Washington DC was..... More