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rif. 92820Very Good. Evvelope postmarked Sept. 2 1955. Cover letter issued under the name of Vivian C. Mason National President of the National Council of Negro Woman asks members of the organization for a special "anniversary gift" of ten cents for every years of the organization's existence meaning a gift of $2.00 for 20 years. Local councils reporting 100% participation would get a trophy. Return envelope and a smaller envelope to hold a donation present the small envelope is partially glued to the flap on the return envelope. Single sheet folded twice to create a narrow 6-page brochure 22 cm. outlining 1955 events planned to celebrate their 20th anniversary and to promote gifts. And finally" a printed double-columned fundraising letter dictated by Mary McLeod Bethune on April 11 1955 which says in part: "In your expenditures for every day living where you may use a cheaper cut of meat put that in a bank for the National Council of Negro Women. If you know widowed women who need instructions for placing their funds where they might do good for the great masses of our people think sometimes of the National Council of Negro Women. Some of us could take out a little insurance policy of twenty-five cents a month which upon our death could go the the National Council of Negro Women. unknown books
1962rif. 220401962. African American Comics Negro Americans: The Early Years Classics Illustrated No. 169. New York: Gilberton Company Inc. 1962. Staplebound with color-illustrated wrappers. A standalone issue of Classics Illustrated devoted entirely to the contributions of Black Americans from the colonial period through the 20th century. Published in 1962 during the height of the Civil Rights Movement this comic-format educational work-unusual in the Classics Illustrated series for focusing on real historical figures rather than literary fiction-was part of a broader mid-century effort to integrate African American history into mainstream curricula. As the cover proclaims the issue was intended to spotlight "the early years" of Black American achievement and in doing so it offers one of the earliest accessible visual histories of Black leaders for a youth audience. Historical figures covered in this issue include Crispus Attucks the first American killed in the Revolutionary War Benjamin Banneker mathematician and surveyor of Washington D.C. James Beckwourth a pioneering scout of the American West Harriet Tubman Frederick Douglass Daniel Hale Williams the first successful heart surgeon Booker T. Washington educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute George Washington Carver agricultural scientist and Matthew Henson co-discoverer of the North Pole. The comic also addresses Black contributions to the American Revolutionary War and Civil War with attention to the roles of enslaved people Black regiments and wartime espionage. Notably the "Inventors" section highlights Elijah McCoy lubrication systems Garrett Morgan gas mask and traffic light and Granville T. Woods rail signaling foregrounding underacknowledged Black innovation in American industrial history. Illustrated in full color throughout with strong sequential art emphasizing dignity resilience and ingenuity. Though the terminology "Negro Americans" reflects mid-century nomenclature the tone is respectful and didactic aimed at broad public education. These visual histories played an important role in the representation of African American figures in postwar American youth culture.Light wear and creasing consistent with age and small pen marks to cover but internally clean and complete. A remarkable and visually compelling early effort to narrate African American history to a popular audience. unknown
1962rif. 220401962. African American Comics Negro Americans: The Early Years Classics Illustrated No. 169. New York: Gilberton Company Inc. 1962. Staplebound with color-illustrated wrappers. A standalone issue of Classics Illustrated devoted entirely to the contributions of Black Americans from the colonial period through the 20th century. Published in 1962 during the height of the Civil Rights Movement this comic-format educational work-unusual in the Classics Illustrated series for focusing on real historical figures rather than literary fiction-was part of a broader mid-century effort to integrate African American history into mainstream curricula. As the cover proclaims the issue was intended to spotlight "the early years" of Black American achievement and in doing so it offers one of the earliest accessible visual histories of Black leaders for a youth audience. Historical figures covered in this issue include Crispus Attucks the first American killed in the Revolutionary War Benjamin Banneker mathematician and surveyor of Washington D.C. James Beckwourth a pioneering scout of the American West Harriet Tubman Frederick Douglass Daniel Hale Williams the first successful heart surgeon Booker T. Washington educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute George Washington Carver agricultural scientist and Matthew Henson co-discoverer of the North Pole. The comic also addresses Black contributions to the American Revolutionary War and Civil War with attention to the roles of enslaved people Black regiments and wartime espionage. Notably the "Inventors" section highlights Elijah McCoy lubrication systems Garrett Morgan gas mask and traffic light and Granville T. Woods rail signaling foregrounding underacknowledged Black innovation in American industrial history. Illustrated in full color throughout with strong sequential art emphasizing dignity resilience and ingenuity. Though the terminology "Negro Americans" reflects mid-century nomenclature the tone is respectful and didactic aimed at broad public education. These visual histories played an important role in the representation of African American figures in postwar American youth culture.Light wear and creasing consistent with age and small pen marks to cover but internally clean and complete. A remarkable and visually compelling early effort to narrate African American history to a popular audience. unknown books
1829rif. 225831829. African AmericanReligionCarribean New Testament in the Negro Tongue. In The Eclectic Review Vol. XLIII No. LXXXVI. London: 1829. Excerpt: pp. 553-564. Disbound 12pp. A rare excerpt reviewing a missionaries' translation of the New Testament into "Negro-English" also called talkee-talkee the Creole language spoken by enslaved and free Black populations in Demerara and Surinam. The British and Foreign Bible Society issued the translation in 1829 for missionary use representing one of the earliest attempts to render the Christian scriptures into an Afro-diasporic Creole tongue of the Caribbean basin. This review in The Eclectic Review a leading 19th-century dissenting religious periodical gives a lengthy discussion of the translation providing contemporary reactions that ranged from grudging acknowledgment to outright racist dismissal. The review juxtaposes biblical passages rendered into Creole with commentary often mocking the "mixed speech" as "ridiculously offensively and incurably base." Yet despite its dismissive tone the piece captures critical evidence of how missionaries and colonial observers grappled with African- and Creole-derived linguistic traditions including debates over whether vernacular scripture empowered conversion or threatened white control. The review references Moravian missionary John Latrobe's efforts in Suriname as well as comparisons to African Dutch and Portuguese linguistic influences. Particularly striking are verbatim transcriptions of gospel passages in Creole offering researchers a rare contemporaneous witness to early printed Afro-Caribbean language. Light toning disbound with clean margins preserved; pages complete and supple. A rare document of the intersection of race religion and language in the British Caribbean revealing both the efforts made by missionaries to connect through Creole scripture and the entrenched racism of the colonial intellectual establishment. unknown
1829rif. 225831829. African AmericanReligionCarribean New Testament in the Negro Tongue. In The Eclectic Review Vol. XLIII No. LXXXVI. London: 1829. Excerpt: pp. 553-564. Disbound 12pp. A rare excerpt reviewing a missionaries' translation of the New Testament into "Negro-English" also called talkee-talkee the Creole language spoken by enslaved and free Black populations in Demerara and Surinam. The British and Foreign Bible Society issued the translation in 1829 for missionary use representing one of the earliest attempts to render the Christian scriptures into an Afro-diasporic Creole tongue of the Caribbean basin. This review in The Eclectic Review a leading 19th-century dissenting religious periodical gives a lengthy discussion of the translation providing contemporary reactions that ranged from grudging acknowledgment to outright racist dismissal. The review juxtaposes biblical passages rendered into Creole with commentary often mocking the "mixed speech" as "ridiculously offensively and incurably base." Yet despite its dismissive tone the piece captures critical evidence of how missionaries and colonial observers grappled with African- and Creole-derived linguistic traditions including debates over whether vernacular scripture empowered conversion or threatened white control. The review references Moravian missionary John Latrobe's efforts in Suriname as well as comparisons to African Dutch and Portuguese linguistic influences. Particularly striking are verbatim transcriptions of gospel passages in Creole offering researchers a rare contemporaneous witness to early printed Afro-Caribbean language. Light toning disbound with clean margins preserved; pages complete and supple. A rare document of the intersection of race religion and language in the British Caribbean revealing both the efforts made by missionaries to connect through Creole scripture and the entrenched racism of the colonial intellectual establishment. unknown books
2016New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 22 cm). Edition in English. 343 p., b/w and color ills. Two coasts one sea III: Sections from Turkish-Russian common history. Translated by Natalia Kizilkaya. Two geographies both on Asia and Europe on the coasts of the Black Sea basin, Turkey and Russia. These two countries that are among the most important and strongest figures of the world area have strengthened their relations with rooted cultural, economic and social sharing besides the same lands in the past centuries. They shared the same fate and history of nearly 500 years in Eurasia that has housed several civilizations. Starting from Kiev Russia and Seljuk era, the history of these two geographies have reflected each other on the journey of each turning into strong empires such as Moscow Russia and the Ottoman Beylik and state structures respectively. Russia and Turkey weaved their similar fate of their joint past sometimes with war and sometimes with peace, alliance, aid and friendship... They underwent 12 great wars in depth but showed extraordinary solidarity as if to inspire the proverb "a neighbor is in need of another"; just like the in the war of Independence. The book "Two coasts and One Sea" gives the opportunity to analyze developments in culture, literature, arts and economy in the wide spectrum of history besides acting a unique historian that brings a perspective to our lives shaped in the same geographies. In other words, it accompanies the journey of Turkish-Russian relations from the Ottoman era to the Republic. This is third and the last volume.
1924Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original Ottoman illustrated journal. 40x27 cm. In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 8 p., richly ills. Taken from a volume. Foxing on pages, slightly chipped on hinges. Overall a very good copy. Extremely rare early issue of an Ottoman illustrated journal depicting a lynching of colored American citizens in Florida by white Americans, published one year after the proclamation of the Republic in Turkey. The first studies bearing social criticism on issues like slavery and abolition were made in the early years of the young Turkish Republic, which had refused the legacy of its imperial predecessor. In this period, several classics of American anti-slavery literature and contemporary works were translated for the first time, and texts on slavery and abolition in America were translated and published in Turkey. The term "Lynch's Law" apparently originated during the American Revolution when Patriot Charles Lynch (1736-1796), a Virginia justice of the peace, ordered extralegal punishment of the Loyalists. Variations of the term, such as "lynch law," "judge lynch," and "lynching", were standard entries in American and British English dictionaries by the 1850s. In 1811, a man named Captain William Lynch claimed that the phrase, already famous, actually came from a 1780 compact signed between him and his neighbors in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to uphold their own brand of law independent of legal authority. In the pre-Civil War South, members of the abolitionist movement and other people opposing slavery were sometimes targets of lynch mob violence. (Source: Wikipedia).
2015rif. x-1848217544Iste/Hermes Science Pub 2015. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 92 pages. 9.20x6.10x0.20 inches. Iste/Hermes Science Pub paperback
2022rif. x-0231203705Columbia Univ Pr 2022. Hardcover. New. 265 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Columbia Univ Pr hardcover
rif. SONG0822357372Used: Good unknown
1929rif. 25973Praha, Odeon, 1929. Kl. 8°. 15 S. Text, 34 Fototafeln. 1 Bl., Typographie von Karel Teige. Halb-Pergamentband. - Burian (1904 in Pilsen - 1959 in Prag), Komponist, Dichter und Dramaturg. Seine Werke sind von Dadaismus, Futurismus und Poetismus beeinflusst. Er war Mitglied der tschechischen Künstlergruppe "Devetsil" und Begründer eines Dada-Theaters und des avantgardistischen Theaters "D 34". Zwischen 1940 und 1945 war er in den Konzentrationslagern Theresienstadt, Dachau und Neuengamme inhaftiert. 1945 konnte er sich unter dramatischen Umständen nach dem Luftangriff der Royal Air Force aus dem Schiff Cap Arcona retten. Einband etwas berieben. Tafeln im weißen Rand schwach wellig.
2016rif. x-1137553561Palgrave Macmillan 2016. Hardcover. New. 359 pages. 8.50x6.25x1.00 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
1963rif. 4880Philadelphia 1963. Very good. Broadside 9 x 6 inches. Overall even tanning minor wear. A striking handbill advertising the appearance of Mrs. Gladys Dickson "wife of the former Minister of Defense and now Chairman of Ghana Government Supply Commission" at a "benefit dinner and literary program" presented to "the Negro Public of North Philadelphia." The event was sponsored by the Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA and included other guests name on the present broadside including Joseph A. Bailey Assistant Attorney general of New York and several musicians who performed at the event. The broadside also names four officials of the United Negro Improvement Association -- A.L. Crawford Assistant President General Miss Alma Golden Secretary General "Mrs. Coleburn" Secretary and Mr. Thomas Harvey President. The Ghana Division of the UNIA was formed the year the present broadside was printed. According to a letter from the group's secretary to W.E.B. Du Bois held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst the organization was formed "with the sole aim of establishing good relationships with honest and sincere Negroes in the United States of America." The UNIA was first formed in 1914 in Jamaica by Marcus Garvey in order to encourage Pan-Africanism. OCLC notes three institutional holdings for the present work at Temple Penn and Texas A&M. unknown
1963rif. 4880Philadelphia 1963. Very good. Broadside 9 x 6 inches. Overall even tanning minor wear. A striking handbill advertising the appearance of Mrs. Gladys Dickson "wife of the former Minister of Defense and now Chairman of Ghana Government Supply Commission" at a "benefit dinner and literary program" presented to "the Negro Public of North Philadelphia." The event was sponsored by the Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA and included other guests name on the present broadside including Joseph A. Bailey Assistant Attorney general of New York and several musicians who performed at the event. The broadside also names four officials of the United Negro Improvement Association -- A.L. Crawford Assistant President General Miss Alma Golden Secretary General "Mrs. Coleburn" Secretary and Mr. Thomas Harvey President. The Ghana Division of the UNIA was formed the year the present broadside was printed. According to a letter from the group's secretary to W.E.B. Du Bois held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst the organization was formed "with the sole aim of establishing good relationships with honest and sincere Negroes in the United States of America." The UNIA was first formed in 1914 in Jamaica by Marcus Garvey in order to encourage Pan-Africanism. OCLC notes three institutional holdings for the present work at Temple Penn and Texas A&M. unknown books
1785rif. 77397Hartford:: Barlow & Babcock 1785. This is probably the first edition of Part III. old boards with a later old leather backstrip. 18th c. ink ownership signature; genealogical notes to blank areas of two leaves of text; some dampstaining and age-toning to text; short horizontal tears to a few leaves no loss of text; boards chipped and worn. . 12mo. Part III contains "The necessary Rules of reading and speaking and a Variety of Essays Dialogues and declamatory Pieces moral political and entertaining; divided into Lessons for the Use of Children. Barlow & Babcock, hardcover
1971rif. 258231971. Original wraps. Very Good. The 1971 stated first --and almost certainly only-- edition of this undoubtedly scarce racial polemic INSCRIBED BY "NIGGER CHRIST" on the front pastedown. We have no printed information on the who or where of publishing but we do have the pseudonymous names of the father-and-son authors "American Prince" and "Nigger Christ". Presumably the name "Nigger Christ" referes to Langston Hughes' famous use of it in his 1931 poem "Christ in Alabama" which was written in response to the infamous Scottsboro Boys trial. The quarto paperback is solifd and VG in its pictorial wrappers with light staining and scuffing --and just a bit of ink scribbling-- along the panels. Internally very clean with few markings beyond the author's inscription. An incendiary reckoning of where things are at racially at this writing 1971 in The United States. Even by today's standards provocative and scorching. unknown
1971rif. 258231971. Original wraps. Very Good. The 1971 stated first --and almost certainly only-- edition of this undoubtedly scarce racial polemic INSCRIBED BY "NIGGER CHRIST" on the front pastedown. We have no printed information on the who or where of publishing but we do have the pseudonymous names of the father-and-son authors "American Prince" and "Nigger Christ". Presumably the name "Nigger Christ" referes to Langston Hughes' famous use of it in his 1931 poem "Christ in Alabama" which was written in response to the infamous Scottsboro Boys trial. The quarto paperback is solifd and VG in its pictorial wrappers with light staining and scuffing --and just a bit of ink scribbling-- along the panels. Internally very clean with few markings beyond the author's inscription. An incendiary reckoning of where things are at racially at this writing 1971 in The United States. Even by today's standards provocative and scorching. unknown books
2021rif. x-0128211806Academic Press 2021. Paperback. New. 327 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. Academic Press paperback
1969This is an about very good hardcover copy, without dust jacket, as issued, with light wear. Very clean outside and inside. Previously owned by a collector of African American art from the Harlem Renaissance period, with his name on the front endpaper dated 1988. Also occasional faint pencil marks or underlinings, now barely visible. A few paperclip indentations to pages as well. Illustrated in black & white. An increasingly difficult book to find in decent condition. This is the Arno Press hardcover reprint of the 1943 original edition, now rare. 9" high X 6" wide, 272 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
rif. 014903Paris Directeur-Rédacteur: René Delange 0 En feuilles
1920rif. 001767Paris Editions de La Banderole 1920
rif. 40626Editions de La Banderole.1920.Petit in-8 cartonné.143 p.Ex.n°320 sur papier Lafuma.Illustrations en couleurs de Chas Laborde.Couv.conservées. TBE.
2012rif. x-8847025796Springer Verlag 2012. Hardcover. New. 2013 edition. 250 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.55 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
1968rif. SKU-0665AG02004195Microcard Editions 1968. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good; Hardcover; Very light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are bright and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format Quatro 9.75" - 10.75" tall; 1.2 lbs; Gray cloth covers with title in black lettering; 1968 Microcard Editions; 160 pages; "Unwritten History of Slavery Autobiographical Accounts of Negro Ex-Slaves" by Negro Ex Slaves. Microcard Editions hardcover
1946100 pages. Features: Attractive one-page color ad for Dodge Trucks features bright yellow moving van; Seattle's worst earthquake in history; Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin wins Atlanta's Negro vote; Color ad for General Tire features well-dressed lady with lots of luggage being helped by black porter; Classy color ad for the Farnsworth Television and radio Corporation; Two-page poem commemorates the first anniversary of the Iwo Jima battle; Canadian exposure of spy ring turns doubting eyes on Russia - major article with photo; Nice one-page ad for the Banff Springs Hotel; Attractive color ad for Ford cars features ski scene; Young UNO closes first session with hope, suspicion, and a veto; Photos of Francisco Franco; Field Marshal von Paulus; Sir Sholto Douglas; Photo of Mohammed Ali Jinnah; The bravest padre - Maj. John Weir Foote, Presbyterian chaplain of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry is awarded the VC; Brief obituaries for Dr. William Allan Neilson, Cornelius Johnson and Adolph Lorenz; Army posters to help soldiers adapt to civilian life; Tuberculosis germ killer; Photo and article of artist Alberto Vargas; Nice color-photo ad for the Boeing Stratocruiser; American Cyanamid color ad shows smiling coal delivery man iun bomber jacket; Dr. Henry A. Jones experiments with onions; Uneasy Swedes wonder what future holds; Photos of the lightweight Bobbi car; Aerial photo of downtown Chicago promotes the area for industrial development; Hotel New Yorker ad features photo of John H. Sienold, Banquet Manager; Photos of American Cardinals; The Secret of "Huff-Duff" (radio direction finder) can be told - as part of ITT ad; Picasso of the Camera - Edward Weston; ad for Dr. Grabow pipes; and more. Covers holding by one staple. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
