Various cities: Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1954-1963. A collection of four flyers and handbills and one dues card from the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the Black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914. The items announce social events featuring speakers and musical entertainment that were held in Philadelphia..... 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
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
[San Francisco?]: [Wajumbe Cultural Institution?], [197-?]. A flyer for a two-day “Wajumbes Celebration” in San Francisco (likely when 1839 Geary Street was still the House of Good) featuring a drum ceremony, music and dance, martial arts, films, an art exhibit, Black community achievement awards, African, soul, and vegetarian food, majumbe..... 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
Durban, South Africa: The Dolphin Press, [1972]. First edition. 8vo; wrappers, [75] pp. Light rubbing to wrappers; Sons of Liberty distribution sticker on the bottom of the title page. About Near Fine. Just over a dozen copies in WorldCat. An uncommon anti-equalitarian work, in which the authors, an Englishman and Afrikaaner..... 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
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1935. First edition. Octavo. Green cloth, silver-stamped spine; photographic endpapers. xvi, 216 pp.; 9 plates; 2 maps. First published in 1925, copies of the original two editions are scarce. It was re-published in 1969 by Negro Universities Press, which is the edition typically..... More
New York: The Africa Fund, [1976]. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Saddle-stapled blue wrappers printed in black; 45 pp.; 3 maps. A scarce pamphlet on the liberation of Angola by the MPLA. No other copies currently for sale in commerce (July 2016). Faint soiling to rear wrapper; Very Good+. 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
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[New York]: [African Studies Association], [1967]. A paper by the South African Marxist history and activist, Martin Legassick, on the “Unholy Alliance” of white regimes in southern African countries and Rhodesia to counter African nationalist guerrillas whose campaigns threaten South Africa’s relationships with neighboring African countries. Legassick begins with a...... 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
London: The African Publication Society, [1972]. Second edition. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ½”), 16 pp. Some toning to wrappers; name and date penned to rear wrapper with stamp of African Publication Society. Only four copies of this 1970s reprint found in WorldCat (with just over a dozen..... More
Brooklyn: Africana Studies Dept. 1977. The first issue of this newspaper written and published by the students and faculty of the Africana Studies dept. at Brooklyn College. Content for this issue includes a centerfold listing of course offerings for the spring semester, a report from the Third Annual Black Studies..... More
![The Blue Cowrie [Two Vols. - Complete]. Naiwu OSAHON](/pictures/thumb/01165.jpg?v=1509131601)
Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria: Obobo Books, 1994. First edition. 20, [2]; 19 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled illustrated cardboard wrappers. A Near Fine set with only some slight rubbing; clean throughout. Scarce. No copies of either volume found in commerce, and although OCLC has a listing, no libraries claim to have holdings. As..... 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