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Detroit: Michigan District Unemployed Councils, 1930. Printed handbill with text to recto only. Folded vertically to middle; some short tears at , perimeter not affecting text; toned and creased; some penciled calculations (seemingly a budget of some sort being worked out) to verso. Very good.. 1930 handbill illustrating the plight of the unemployed in the onset of the Great Depression and urging for organization and attendance of all unemployed workers for the National Unemployment Convention to be held that July in Chicago. The bottom section holds a blank form for labor organizations to send notice regarding their delegation size, after calling on "all workers, organized and unorganized, in unemployed councils, trade unions, shop locals and committees, local industrial leagues and groups to send MASS DELEGATIONS TO THE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT CONVENTION AT CHICAGO JULY 4th AND 5th! In preparation, send three (3) delegates to the MICHIGAN DISTRICT UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, at 7:30…
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NATIONAL "WORK OR WAGES" CONVENTION JULY 4th & 5th, AT CHICAGO, ILL
by Michigan District Unemployed Councils
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NEWSPOEMS
by Kupferberg, Tuli
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New York: Free Ranger Tribe / Birth Press, 1971. First Edition. 4to, side-stapled newsprint self wraps, 63 pp. Very Good, some toning, chipping to roughly cut newsprint edges. Collaged news clippings and various other images and text pair with Tuli's poetic provocations, with every curation earmarked by his constant irreverence, intellect, and humor.
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The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
by Robert Beck
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Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Coimpany, 1971. First printing. Softcover, mass market, illustrated wraps, 248 pp. Very good, rubbing to spine lettering, minor spine creasing, wear at head and tail; lightly creased around joints of wraps, lightly worn and rubbed around edges with additional minor creasing to corners, lightly toned and soiled edges. Cover illustration by Earnie Kollar; design by A. Marshall Licht.
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Nancy Eats Food (Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy #1)
by Ernie Bushmiller
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Kitchen Sink Pr, 1989. No Binding. Near Fine. Light edge wear, otherwise this copy is in near fine condition with tight binding and clean, bright pages free of marking or spotting. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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The Natural History of the Musical Bow: A Chapter in the Developmental History of Stringed Instruments of Music
by Henry Balfour
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London: Clarendon Press, 1899. Hardcover, 6 5/8" x 9 7/8", maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 87 pp. Good, ex-library copy, wear to cloth boards all around, with withdrawn stamp to title page and circulation stamp to rear end paper, soiling to free end papers. Global history of the musical bow as instrument and tool by British composer, teacher and musician, Henry Balfour Gardiner.
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Nature displayed in her mode of teaching Language to Man; being a new and infallible Method of acquiring Languages with unparalleled rapidity; deduced from the analysis of the human mind, and consequently suited to every capacity: adapted to the French: To which is prefixed a development of the author's plan of tuition, differing entirely from every other; so powerful in its operation, and so very economical, that a liberal education can be afforded even to the poorest of mankind; By which is obtained th
by N.G. Dufief [Nicolas Gouin]
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Philadelphia: Printed for and sold by the author, 1821. The Fourth Edition, "Considerably Improved and Enlarged. Leather bound octavo (8-1/2 in): contemporary tree calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt leather label. 416 [2] 92 pp. Very Good, remarkably square binding, calf rubbed at extremities, pushed bottom corners, front board bowed, pp 267-272 dog eared, foxed throughout, soiled text block, else a handsome and well-preserved copy, especially strong for its age.. Gorgeous tree calf binding on this copy (Volume 1 only) of Dufief's groundbreaking tome for a new system of teaching the French language to English pupils. Dufief (1776-1834) was a French National who emigrated to England and then America, where he became an educator, bookseller, author, and correspondent with many notable people of the time such as Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Priestley.
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Navlipi: A New, Universal, Script ("Alphabet") Accommodating the Phonemic Idiosyncrasies of All the World's Languages. Volume I, Another Look at Phonic and Phonemic Classification: Navlipi
by Prasanna Chandrasekhar
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- 9780828322157 / 0828322155
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Boston: Branden Books, 2012. Pre-Publication edition. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 4to, 576 pp. Very good, written on cover wrap in sharpie, 'Pre-Pub. Edition'.. This book presents a universal script, Navlipi, designed to express all the world's languages.
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Negro Mecca: A History of the Negro in New York City, 1865-1920
by Seth M. Scheiner
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New York: New York University Press, 1965. 8vo, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine in pictorial jacket, 246 pp. Very Good, slight cock to spine, light fraying to tail corners, some shelving and handling wear./Fair jacket, significant amount of chipping, including one large 2" chip at tail of spine and onto front and rear jacket panels, chipping and tearing along front panel and front flap, long tear with some chips missing through entirety of jacket spine, soiling, held together in protective mylar jacket,.
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The Negro Politician: His Success and Failure
by Edward T. Clayton
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Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1964. Hardcover green cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 213 pp. Very good, light wear to cloth/Very good, lightly faded and soiled spine with chipped ends, chipped and worn edges with some soiling and displaced sections on back. Jacket design by Herbert Temple. The Negro Politician was one of three books authored by Ed Clayton in 1964 along with
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The Negro and the Democratic Front
by James W. Ford
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New York: International Publishers, 1938. 8vo, green cloth boards with black lettering on spine, 222 pp. Good, ex-library with resultant stamps and lending card affixed to rear pastedown, significant amount of wear and rubbing to edges and corners of boards with a good amount of fraying, separation at hinge between rear board and spine, fading to edges of boards, otherwise text is clean and unmarked./No jacket..
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The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and the Negro Theme in Art
by Locke, Alain
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Washington D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. Library Edition - First Printing. 4to. Green cloth with gilt-stamped lettering. 224 pp. Good, sound binding slightly cocked, some fray to corners and spine, rubbing to spine, gilt lettering slightly faded, toned leaves, previous owner inscription to front free endpaper.. Stated First Printing of this early treatise on Black artists and Black representation in visual art by the groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance scholar on the subject.
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Neo-African Literature: A History of Black Writing
by Janheinz Jahn
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New York: Grove Press, 1969. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], yellow cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 301 pp. Very good book, front free endpaper owner-inscribed, about 40 pages of text block annotated and under-lined by literary critic and translator Roberto Marquez; dust jacket very good, spine ends worn, edges chipped and creased with close tears, flaps creased. Cover design by Kuhlman.
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Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975
by Benjam H.D. Buchloh
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Cambridge, Massachussetts: The MIT Press, 2003. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 4to, 592 pp. Near fine.
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A Nest of Lesbians
by Dallas Mayo
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New York: Midwood Enterprises, 1972. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 176 pp. Very good condition, wraps soiled, toned text block.
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The Neutral
by Roland Barthes
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- 9780231134040 / 0231134045
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New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover, brown paper boards with silver lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 4to, 280 pp. Very good/Very good jacket. Jacket photography Thomas Hollier.
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Never Die Alone
by Donald Goines
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New York: Holloway House Publishing Coimpany, 1974. First printing. Softcover, mass market, in illustrated wraps, 216 pp. Very good, light shelf wear, bruised head of spine. Donald Goines 1974 novel, first printing by Holloway House.
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The New Black Poetry
by Clarence Major, Ed
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New York: International Publishers, 1970. Third printing. Signature-bound, [octavo], in illustrated paper wraps, 156 pp. Very good. Editor photograph by Kathie Bauch. Contributions from Ed Bullins, Stanley Crouch, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Calvin C. Hernton, LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], Bob Kaufman, Etheridge Knight, Don L. Lee [Haki Madhubuti], Audre Lorde, N.H. Pritchard, Sonia Sanchez, and contributions from authors that are equally as great as the above.
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New Day
by V.S. Reid
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- Second impression by Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann in 19
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- 9780435987459 / 0435987453
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Kingston, Jamaica; London: Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann, 1970. Second impression by Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann in 1970; first published by Knopf in 1949. Hardcover, octavo, slate cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 344 pp. Very good, front free endpaper owner-inscribed, up to 50 pages in text block under-lined with annotations from literary critic and translator Roberto Marquez; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, covers rubbed, edges and corners worn and rubbed, edges creased/Very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends with. Cover design by Joint Graphics. Considered to be an early work in introducing patois to a new, younger generation by way of a manuscript written entirely in Creole, hardly facilitating its publication. In his introductory note to this 1970 printing, V.S. Reid recounts a brief history of Jamaica leading up to the opening of his first novel. It's October 1865, the beginning of the Morant Bay Rebellion in St. Thomas Parish, the…
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New Day
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Kingston, Jamaica; London: Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann, 1970. Second impression by Sangster's Book Stores with Heinemann in 1970; first published by Knopf in 1949. Hardcover, octavo, slate cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 344 pp. Very good, some gently shelf wear and toning to paper edges/Very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends with some rubbed sections and discoloration, rubbed covers with mild edge wear, chipping and some creases; seams of flaps worn and creased with chipped corners. Cover design by Joint Graphics. Considered to be an early work in introducing patois to a new, younger generation by way of a manuscript written entirely in Creole, hardly facilitating its publication. In his introductory note to this 1970 printing, V.S. Reid recounts a brief history of Jamaica leading up to the opening of his first novel. It's October 1865, the beginning of the Morant Bay Rebellion in St. Thomas Parish, the subject of commemoration in his work, In the wake of a 3…
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New I.D. in America
by [Anonymous]
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Los Angeles: Stealth Publications, 1982. Velo-bound [quarto] in blue printed card stock wrappers. 122 pp. Very Good, with some toning and soiling.. Comprehensive guide to establishing fake identity documentation and practice, clandestinely circulated and printed, often advertised in the back of "Soldier of Fortune" magazine.
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