Philadelphia: Groovers, 1973. A single issue of the newsletter published by the Groovers, a Philadelphia-based black power group composed of black youth “who [took] it upon themselves to project a new scenario for Revolution in this country for this time." The group was mentored by Detroit intellectuals, James and Grace..... More
New York: Eritreans for Liberation in North America, 1973. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (7” x 8 ½”), 48 pp, photographs. Some underlining in pen, staples rusty, light foxing to front wrapper, VG overall. A single issue of the journal of the Eritreans for Liberation in North America, a support group for..... More
Boston: Portuguese-American Committee on Foreign Affairs, [1961]. A graphic photographic record of the events of March 15, 1961, in which the Union of Peoples of Angola attacked trading centers, plantations, and government outposts in northern Angola. The photographs depict the wanton murder and mutilation meted out to Europeans and their..... More
Hicksville, New York: Congressional Reprint Service, [1964]. A sardonically titled 8 ½” x 11” anti-UN flyer published following the revolutionary uprising in Zanzibar led by John Okello. The only copy in WorldCat (at the Univ. of Kansas) is attributed to the right wing activist, Gen. Edwin A. Walker, although we..... More
New York: American Committee for France & Algeria, 1962. First edition. Fifteen corner-stapled leaves mimeographed on rectos only (includes cover and contents sheets). A report situating the Algerian nationalist movement within the broader Communist revolution. The American Committee for France & Algeria published a newsletter called “Integration” and argued for..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; color illustrated endpapers; xiv, 273 pp.; 26 photographic plates. A memoir of the author's life in central Africa, Tanganyika Territory, in which she hunts big game in the wilds of the African jungle..... More
Lisbon: General Overseas Agency, 1963. First edition. Stapled wrappers; 34, [1] pp. A lecture given by the Portuguese politician on the competition for Africa's resources by the world's superpowers, but more importantly the sub-development of Africa due to its harsh physical environment and complex social structures. Importation stamps to rear..... More
Hamburg: Georg Westermann, 1917. First edition. Wrappers with some toning to edges; browned spine; the front free endpaper has come loose, but still present; cheap paper browned, although clean throughout. In German. Discusses the economic life of South Africa in the context of its water power. Uncommon. More
New York: American Committee on Africa, Inc., 1965. A single issue of the journal of the American Committee on Africa, an organization founded in 1953 to support liberation struggles in Africa. Content for this issue includes, “Behind Apartheid Bars” by Harold Strachan as told to Benjamin Pogrund, “The Colonel and..... More
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New York: Bantam Books, 2000. First edition. 8vo.; faux puffy leather boards stamped in silver; illustrated endpapers; 622 pp. SIGNED by Koontz at first blank. One of a limited number of a pre-publication edition issued by the publisher. A Fine copy. More
London: Congo-Africa, 1962. First edition. Octavo. White, saddle-stitched wrappers printed in green; 24 pp.; map; black & white photographs throughout. The author, a British journalist, asserts that the uprising in Angola is the result of American missionaries and outside Communist agitators and argues for the continuance of Portuguese colonialism. Note..... More
Bloemfontein: Gedruk deuf Die Sentrale Pers, [195-]. First edition. A booklet commemorating the National Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein, South Africa, dedicated to the women who died in Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Includes a history of the monument’s conception and construction, the suffering and death of women during..... More
London: Panaf Books Limited, 1969? Two essays by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), the first President and Prime Minister of Ghana and an influential figure in the Pan-African movement. "The Myth of the 'Third World'" was first published in "Labour Monthly" in Oct. 1968 and "'African Socialism' Revisited" in "African Forum," Vol..... More
n.p. n.p., 1971. First edition. Large offset litho poster on newsprint (58 x 42 cm) created for World Solidarity Day. Also known as African Solidarity Day, the event appears to have been conceived by the pan-Africanist Student Organization for Black Unity (later the Youth Organization for Black Unity) and was..... More
[Hayward, CA]: Black Students [sic] Union of Cal State, Hayward, 1968. A single issue of the exceedingly scarce bimonthly black nationalist publication published by the Black Student Union at Cal State, Hayward. Content for this issue includes a call for submissions for the “Journal of Black Thought,” a proposed scholarly..... More
New York: Helga M. Rogers, [ca. 1961]. First edition thus. 4to; dark boards stamped in gilt; 272 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. In this book, the self-trained historian and journalist, Joel Augustus Rogers, documents the many accomplishments of Africans and African-Americans to refute the notion that blacks haven't contributed to Western..... More
[Washington, D. C.: Agency for International Development, Department of State?], [1966]. First edition. Corner-stapled, mimeographed sheets; 13 pp. In this paper prepared for the Ninth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, the author argues that the Liberian-based educator, journalist and diplomat, Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912), was the first Pan-Africanist..... More
Surrey: Foreign Affairs Publishing Co., Ltd., 1977. First edition. A pamphlet critical of the World Council of Churches and its support of militant Black Power and African terrorists. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 99 p. Apparently the author’s copy as the title page states “own copy” and the author’s name. Sunning to..... More
New York: American Committee on Africa, [ca. 1967]. A brief account of the Sharpeville massacre in S. Africa, the state repression that followed, and the various African liberation movements fighting for self-determination. Indicts the U.S. for continuing to invest economically in S. Africa and encourages readers to support the anti-colonialist..... More
Washington, D. C.: Scott-Townsend Publishers, 1993. First edition. Yellow perfect-bound wrappers (6” x 8 ½”), 146 pp. A New, sealed copy. Only six copies in WorldCat. The author, a Hungarian who immigrated to Canada after WWII, illustrates the inevitability of ethnic strife around the world when minority populations become too large..... More
[London?]: Alastar [sic] C. Geldard, [ca. 1960s]. A 5” x 7½” handbill printed in black by The Shamrock Press on newsprint. An unabashed asservation by Oswald Mosley’s post-war Union Movement (UM), which capitalized on Britain’s increasing racial tension and the growing political destabilization of white-ruled Rhodesia and South Africa. Mosley’s..... More
New York: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First edition. Twelvemo (17.5 cm); 364, [4] pp.; tissue-protected frontispiece; illus. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in red and gilt; floral endpapers. An about near fine copy with some light rubbing and dust-soiling; clean throughout. A fictional adventure story through the African continent. The finest copy..... More