[African-Americana – Civil Rights Movement – John F Kennedy] American Negro Public Opinion ServiceABAA
rif. List3403United States N.d. Double-sided memorial banner measuring 12 x 18 ¼ inches featuring Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy with black felt and white and gold acrylic. Two-sided felt banner with machine-stitched binding on one side. Fine condition. The American Negro Public Opinion Service was a civil rights organization established in 1961 by Jesse J. Glass an ex-policeman in Chicago who also operated a detective agency.1 The group was active in Chicago in the 1960s supporting African American business networks and public life during the Civil Rights era. The organization printed this banner in two variants with this one showing the face of John F. Kennedy on the verso and another only showing Dr. King. This is a nice example in fine condition with some very light creasing at one side. 1 William Junea “Judge’s Tie to Detective Agency Eyed” Chicago Tribune April 7 1973 92. unknown books
1973rif. List2919New York City: George Fenmore Associates 1973. Sixteen page booklet measuring 9 x 12 inches. Some wrinkling some marginal damage overall excellent. The Negro Ensemble Company was opened in 1967 by actor and playwright Douglas Turner Ward actor and producer Robert Hooks and producer Gerald Krone with a grant from the Ford Foundation. It provided free theater training—both in acting and in behind-the-scenes work—to Black people in New York City and put on plays relevant to the community. Notable alumni of the NEC include Angela Bassett Samuel L. Jackson and Giancarlo Esposito among numerous others. Offered here is a booklet about the NEC’s production of Joseph A. Walker’s The River Niger which opened in 1972 in the small off-off-Broadway St. Marks Playhouse theater. The play was so popular that it played for weeks longer than planned at St. Marks and then opened on Broadway in 1973. Walker won a Tony for Best Play for The River Niger the first African-American to do so. The booklet includes photographs of the play and an article about it from Ebony magazine alongside photographs from the group’s many other productions. We find two copies of the booklet in OCLC both at the University of California Davis. George Fenmore Associates unknown books
1965rif. 299342Venice: Neri Pozza 1965. hardcover. near fine/good. Hundreds of black & white photographic illustrations. Tall thick 4to red cloth chipped d.w. Venice: Neri Pozza 1965. A fine copy in a good dust wrapper. Neri Pozza unknown books
1976rif. 278493Naples: Editrice Napoletana 1976. paperback. very good. Preface by mario Rotili. 51 plates some in color. 220pp. 4to printed wrappers glossy pictorial dust wrapper. Napoli: Societa' Editrice Napoletana 1976. Inernally fine a very good copy. Editrice Napoletana unknown books
1956rif. 178548Rome: Gherardo Casini 1956. First. hardcover. fine/good. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs shot between 1845 and 1900 and arranged in chronological order. 253pp with limited text in Italian. Slim folio green cloth edgeworn d.w. board slipcase. Roma: Gherardo Casini 1956. First edition. A fine copy in a good dust wrapper. Gherardo Casini unknown books
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
1861rif. 20085Paris: the Author 1861. Sepia lithographed frontispiece and 6 full-page sepia lithographed plates. Contemporary gilt black sheep-backed marbled boards. Minor foxing otherwise a very good copy in original condition. First edition of this privately published manual of freemasonry by the founder of the Rite of Memphis a Templar-based branch of the practice. Intended for use by novices the text covers the history of the Order from the initiation of King Solomon lists the Grand Lodges with their masters number of members and dates of foundation explains the symbols numbers and letters used in masonry iconography and details the 95 rites that members must exercise. The author describes the chants and responses said during rituals clothing to be worn for various levels of membership calendar of events insular legal system process for promotions religious concordances financial structure and differences in orders depending on their rites and locations. One of the final chapters outlines the five stages of initiation for women to become members. The ornate bistre plates illustrate legends and allegories of freemason foundational lore. Jacques-Etienne Marconis 1795-1868 was a French author and freemason. His father served in the Napoleonic army where he became obsessed with Egyptian religion and myth. Upon his return to France in 1815 he founded a freemasonry lodge called the Pilgrims of Memphis but the chapter was disbanded only one year later. He entrusted the archives to his son who reformed and revived the charter in 1839 but his small group of pilgrims failed to receive dispensation from the freemasonry governing body the Grand Orient of France. In 1859 Marconis applied again to the Grand Orient for masonic chapterhood and it was finally granted. This book represents the final iteration of the foundation of the Rite of Memphis a project that took over 40 years to come to fruition. OCLC locates no copies in U.S. libraries. Caillet 7116; Dorbon 689. the Author unknown books
1877rif. 52662Kinsale Ireland: printed at the 50th Regimental Press 1877. Bifolium program 8.5 x 13 cm pp. 4 the last blank; minor foxing previous fold formerly from an album the remains of a card and an engraved illustration on the final blank. Also a manuscript caption: "Programme Garrison Nigger Troupe Camden Fort Feb. 9 1877." With manuscript notes and corrections in a contemporary hand. The Negro Troupe was led by Lieutenant Yaldwyn. Provenance: Major-General Sir Francis Walter de Winton 1835-1901. printed at the 50th Regimental Press unknown books
1973rif. 337509Florence: Potere Operaio 1973. 8p. single issue of the Italian Workerist newspaper in folded tabloid style format; some slight toning along middle-fold minor foxing throughout minor edgewear else good. Wide range of content including workers struggles with the UAW in Detroit war against car factories in Italy the ongoing war against Palestinian proletariat by the Israeli government and a manifesto on the last page for student workers. Potere Operaio unknown books
1969rif. 1070728vo softcover illustrated 83 pp. Very slight wear to covers normal aging & browning; otherwise very good or better. Almost 240 items listed and described in this exhibition which covers the period of slavery through the challenges facing blacks in the early part of the last century. LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA books
1965rif. 003938S. l. San Francisco: Lawton and Alfred Kennedy 1965. First Edition. Near fine. Large brochure; 10 x 7; pp. 4 text to rectos only; vream stock printed in black in several ornamental fonts; very minor wear - in near fine condition. A beautiful memento it commemorated the services held on February 12 1965 in Napa California in honor of Mary Ellen Pleasant 1812 - 1904 - the African-American enterpreneur financier abolitionist and self-made millionaire allegedly long before Madam C. J. Walker. Known as Mammy Pleasant she would be hailed as the mother of Civil Rights in California. The program briefly outlined the events and speakers at the memorial. Lawton and Alfred Kennedy unknown books
1946rif. 10972New York: National Negro Congress 1946. Pamphlet. 16p. minor toning wraps edge worn with some creasing otherwise good condition 6x9 inches. Max Yergan who contributes a foreword was President of the Congress. National Negro Congress unknown books
1996rif. 64372Cagnes-Sur-mer: Château Musée 1996. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 84pp. Lightly rubbed and edgeworn else very good. Text in Serbian. Château Musée paperback books
2016rif. 244188San Francisco: Self-published by the author at Editorial Exitos Gnosis 2016. Paperback. 258p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Self-published by the author at Editorial Exitos Gnosis paperback books
1951rif. 215511Decatur AL: Decatur Negro High School 1951. 3.75x5 inch folded invitation card and card-holder smaller 4-panel invitation bound-in with the invitation printed in script on cover school motto roll flower and color on inner panel tiny name plate printed with the name Vendetta Jackson Marks set in die-cut fold embossed cover bound with wide blue satin ribbon very good. Decatur Negro High School unknown books
1993rif. 107446Oakland: the Council 1993. 20p. stapled wraps scattered illus. 8.5x11 inches wraps slightly worn and soiled else very good condition. Northern California chapter officeholder's rosters Bethune's last will and testament and more. the Council unknown books
2020rif. x-8833133052Viella - Liberia Editrice 2020. Paperback. New. bilingual edition. 460 pages. German language. 8.46x1.26x5.94 inches. Viella - Liberia Editrice paperback
2026rif. x-103268707XTaylor & Francis Ltd 2026. Paperback. New. 256 pages. 6.14x0.58x9.21 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
2026rif. x-3032350425Springer 2026. Paperback. New. 289 pages. 6.14x0.62x9.21 inches. Springer paperback
2021rif. x-0128211806Academic Press 2021. Paperback. New. 327 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. Academic Press paperback
2025rif. SKU1735770Manning 2025-11-18. paperback. New. 7x1x9. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Manning paperback
2025rif. SKU1739958Manning 2025-11-18. paperback. New. 7x1x9. New Book Ships with Tracking Manning paperback
2019rif. I-270-187Cadence 2019. Very Good. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. Cadence unknown
2025rif. SKU1728513Manning 2025-11-18. paperback. New. 7x1x9. New Book Ships with Tracking Manning paperback
2025rif. x-3031994175Springer Nature 2025. Hardcover. New. 354 pages. 9.25x6.10x9.21 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
