[Chicago]: [Revolutionary Student Brigade], [1974]. First edition. A publication by members of the Revolutionary Student Brigade, some of the indicted Attica participants, and their supporters on the Attica rebellion as part of a legacy of prison struggles and anti-imperialist, anti-racist activities. Includes the background to the Attica riot with statements..... More
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New York / Buffalo: National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression / Attica Defense Committee, [1973]. Two items issued by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression and the Attica Defense Committee on behalf of the Attica Brothers. Attica: Two Years Later includes background on the Attica rebellion, state..... More
San Francisco: Connections, 1971. A single issue of this prisoner support newsletter mimeographed on “prison green paper” and issued the month after George Jackson was killed under dubious circumstances while trying to escape San Quentin. Included are an editorial and numerous letters from unidentified prisoners regarding Jackson’s death, information on..... More
New York and Wilmington, DE: Prisoners Solidarity Committee, 1970s. A collection of flyers, petitions, press releases, support appeals, periodicals, and publications disseminated by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee (PSC) in support of various anti-racism and prisoners rights campaigns. The PSC was founded in 1971 by members of Youth Against War &..... More
San Francisco: Connections, 1971. Three items published by Connections, an organization founded in San Francisco in 1969 “by and for prisoners and their families.” A 1970 profile of the organization in the “San Francisco Examiner” provides the best history of the short-lived group and its staff of mostly “prison widows”..... More
Baltimore: Baltimore Defense Commitee, [197-]. A support appeal for two Baltimore White activists, Ray Ceci and Mike Pione, who were “victims of a police frame-up” for defending themselves from a “right wing thug” while they were posting up flyers for a meeting entitled “The Rich Get Richer While the Poor..... More
[Elmira, N. Y.]: The Summary Press, 1927. Octavo (23.5 cm); 92 pp of text; 80 pp. of plates; large fold-out plate of New York State Reformatory Inmate Military Organization measuring approximately 48 x 18.5". Red, gilt-stamped cloth; corners bumped and a trifle worn. Previous owner's name stamped to bottom edge..... More
Bronx: Irish Northern Aid, 1978. First American edition. 8vo; stapled, illustrated wrappers, [2], 17, [1] pp, illustrations. A description of the history and conditions of Irish political prisoners in Long Kesh/H-Block, the notorious prison outside Belfast. Includes illustrations of the squalid conditions and inhumane treatment Republican prisoners are forced to..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First edition. A collection of true crime stories featuring real-life villains, the Terror of Marseilles, Red Lopez and Jack Harley, the Bandit of Corsica, Dimiran the Monster, the Outlaws of the Black Forest, and others. 8vo., mustard yellow cloth board stamped in..... More
Buffalo: Attica Brothers Legal Defense, [1974?]. A detailed chronology of events pertaining to the Attica rebellion beginning with the uprising at NY State’s Auburn Prison in August, 1970, and ending with the April 1, 1974 indictment against Nelson Rockefeller by Attica Defense for “various crimes, including murder, against the people..... More
Buffalo: Attica News, 1975. A single issue of the support newspaper for the Attica Brothers, which ran from 1972-75. This issue calls for a “March on Albany” on April 28, 1975, to demand amnesty and features a large centerfold poster for the march. Other content includes articles on the legal..... More
Berkeley: Bay Print Shop, [ca. 1973]. A first-hand account of Ruchell “Cinque” Magee’s experiences inside the California criminal justice system beginning in 1963. After receiving a lengthy sentence for a minor street altercation, Magee took part in the Marin County Courthouse incident (or as he calls it, the “Courthouse Slave..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1890. First American edition. 12mo. Khaki cloth boards decoratively stamped in silver and burgundy; 199 pp.; five illustrations. A morality tale about the evils of gambling. A better-than-average copy with some soiling to cloth and gift inscription to ffep; VG+. More
Chicago: Salsedo Press, ©1976. First edition. An expose of the Control Unit in Marion Prison, the controversial behavior modification cells opened in 1972 following a protest over the beating of a Chicano prisoner. Provides a history of events in the Unit, which included numerous prisoner suicides and violent mental breakdowns..... More
New York: Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, [1971]. First edition. A support appeal for an imprisoned Davis following her alleged role in the Marin Co. Courthouse debacle. The pamphlet includes an introduction from actorvist, Ossie Davis, who helped found Davis’ Legal Defense Fund, followed by Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s “I Bring..... More
New York City: Sacco-Vanzetti National League, [1928?]. First edition. Octavo (23 cm). Yellow saddle-stapled wrappers; 21 pp. Issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti National League in the wake of the men's execution on Aug. 23, 1927. "This pamphlet presents a brief summary of the facts surrounding the Sacco-Vanzetti case from which a...... More
Nampa, Idaho: Golden Rule Press, 1931. First edition. Stapled, yellow wrappers (5” x 7 ½”), 16 pp., photograph. Light wear and dust-soiling to wrappers, bottom corner creased, VG. None others in commerce (March, 2019) and only one copy located in WorldCat at Northwest Nazarene Univ. in Nampa, Idaho. Scarce. From..... More
San Francisco: Patrick Arguello Press, 1980. An important underground publication addressed to both prisoners and leftists activists by queer prison activist, Ed Mead, following his incarceration for his role in a failed bank robbery on behalf of the George Jackson Brigade in Seattle. The article was first written by Mead..... More
n.p., 1963. First edition. Quarto (25.5 cm). Side-stapled, mustard yellow wrappers; 481-525 pp. An offprint from "Kansas Law Review, Vol. 11, No. 4, May, 1963 of Pennsylvania Justice, Michael A. Musmanno's article, "The Sacco-Vanzetti Case, with Critical Analysis of the Book 'Tragedy in Dedham' by Francis Russell." Stamped 'For Sacco-Vanzetti..... More
Plainfield, New Jersey: Plainfield Joint Defense Committee, [ca. 1969]. A support appeal for the three remaining members of the Plainfield 12, a group of Blacks residents charged with the beating death of patrolman John V. Gleason. Gleason, “well known in the ghetto for his racism,” was pursued by an angry..... More
[Marshall, Michigan], 1891. Various sizes (5 ¾” x 5”, 5 ½” x 10 ½”, 5 ½” x 10”), one featuring an illustration, one a photograph. Penciled numbers to the top, some harmless grubbiness and wear with the smallest piece having two small holes. Three wanted circulars issued by Marshall, Michigan, Sheriff..... More
Concord, N. H.: D. L. Guernsey, 1873. First edition. Octavo. Brown cloth with gilt-titled spine; vi, [1], 8-198 pp. Rev. Quinby's experiences as chaplain of the New Hampshire State Prison from 1869 until his dismissal in 1871. Although he accepted the position reluctantly, he quickly became deeply involved in his..... More
[Memphis, Tenn.]: [Southern Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners], [ca. 1971]. First edition. Illustrated, unbound wrappers (7” x 8 ½”), [12 pp. - including covers], photographs, illustrations. A Fine copy. Seven copies in WorldCat institutions. An uncommon item. Profiles the cases of the prominent black prisoners mentioned..... More
Belmont, Massachusetts: Support Your Local Police Committees, [1968?]. First edition. One sheet folded to make 4 pp. A support appeal from the Support Your Local Police Committees organization, a front group for the John Birch Society. Argues that police are the recipients of brutality and that a war on police..... More
Amherst: The Emergency Defense Committee, 1971. First edition. A one-off publication by a Univ. of Mass. student group called 'The Committee on Poverty' for the Emergency Defense Committee at the Black Cultural Center. The authors contend that poor people of color are the overlooked "political prisoners" due to the systemic..... More