New York: Workers Bookshop [Communist Party USA], 1955. [12]p. 7 x 8.5 inch peach-colored catalogue; the word “Communist” is neatly written in upper left corner and the year 1955 is penciled in at bottom right, else very good. Books for sale include Marxist books and pamphlets, African American literature, History..... More
![Item #201255 [Civil Rights] Erotic Service Providers Union / Sex Workers Organized for Labor,...](https://tombergrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/201255.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724072781)
San Francisco: ESPU / SWOLHCR, [20-]. 8.5 x 11 inch handbill, printed on both sides, each introducing one organization. Minor wear and stains. Undated but Maine Doogan founded ESPU in 2004. SWOLHCR appears to have already been active for some time by that date. Very good. None in trade or..... More
![Item #201254 [Prison Newsletters] A Collection of Joint Venture: Insider Listing Newsletters](https://tombergrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/201254.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1728741231)
Joint Venture, 1985-1987. newsletter. [134p] 8.5x11 inches, 67 loose sheets printed both sides with names, numbers of prison inmates seeking male or female correspondents, some photos, warnings and a list of inmates to be wary of. Very good. The page numbering and dates are confusing (page 50 is May..... More
7 x 10 inches with stapled tan card covers with brown and red lettering. 41 pages. Tiny, small closed tear to top middle edge with imprint of a former paperclip. A few small stains to front cover, clean throughout. Very good. Contents include an Introduction, a List of Issues and..... More
Detroit, Michigan, 1962-1986. 35 programs distributed at the funerals of Black men and women in between 1962 and 1986. The programs all show general wear from handling, but are otherwise in very good condition. The majority (24) are for services held at the New Mt. Zion Missionary Church, located at..... More
First edition. 8 1/ 2 x 11 inches. Double stapled with mild soiling to yellow covers and minor fold at top left cover, else very good. Limited edition of 500 copies. Center contained a wide range of fiction and other prose, including considerable avant-garde dance and art criticism..... More
6 x 9” original flyer. Black text on cream paper with illustrations. Flyer encouraging women to start their own manufacturing business, offering six “big dollar-making opportunities.” Also advertises three course beauty formulas, stating Beauty is Power. “Every woman recognizes it. Man bows before its shrine.” Most likely from the ‘50s..... More
Original 8 1/2 x 11” conference folder, illustrated covers. Individual papers/notes on what will be covered during the conference group sessions. Groups include: Theology and Sexuality, Language and Imagery, Singleness/Community, Political Theology. Last page is a typed list of all the participants. Mild sunning to cover edges, else near fine..... More
![Item #201247 [AMERICANA] PROMOTIONAL BROADSIDE: COME SEE THE AMERICAN COW MILKER - Patented March...](https://tombergrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/201247.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1489255878)
New York City: American Cow Milking Machine Co., [circa 1866]. Broadside: 8 x 9 1/2," single sheet, printed on both sides in black on newsprint. Illus. Mild toning to extremeties with a light water stain at top center; a bright, clean example. Very good +. Promotional broadside for The American..... More
[New York]: Np, 1975. 8 x 11," black and white AP Wire-photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono arriving for the Grammy Awards Dinner. Date and notes on front and back. Moderate wear with minor creasing at edges, else very good. Lennon and Ono walking into New York's American Hotel..... More
![Item #201242 JANIS JOPLIN [Press Photograph by Tucker Ranson] All-out Effort: Exhausted after...](https://tombergrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/201242.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1489254072)
Black and white photo, 3 1/2 x 10 inches, with handwritten production notes on back. Ranson was a photographer for Time and Life Woodstock Issue. With very little need to introduce Joplin, she is considered the premier female blues vocalist of the Sixties. Her raw, powerful singing style, combined with..... More
New York: American Theatre for Poets, 1965. 7 items, all 8 1/2 x 11 inches with one 4 1/2 x 11 inches. Three volumes are double side-stapled (rusted), with 3-4 pages. Included: "The American Theatre for Poets, Inc. presents The Theatre of Eternal Music," featuring La Monte Young; Lecture Demonstrations..... More
[New York]: No publisher/printer, [1951]. 16 pp., plus wrappers. [1951]. Water stain to top cover, not affecting text. Double side stapled, with one of staples missing. Considering the cheap paper that was used, this copy is in very good condition. Original prospectus/program for the inaugural season of The Living Theatre..... More
Gayle Young was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater for twenty-one years. He partnered with leading ballerinas, such as Margot Fonteyn, Sallie Wilson, Marcia Haydee, Lynn Seymour and Cynthia Gregory. Young danced lead roles in "Giselle," "Swan Lake," "Coppelia" and the "The Nutcracker." Young studied dance with Dorothy..... More
![Item #201235 [HARRIS, Margaret]. C.B. Croques presents Margaret Harris, pianist. World's...](https://tombergrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/201235.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1489253130)
Oakland, CA: Famous Cathedral Choir of the Greater Cooper Zion AME Church for Music Scholarship, 1949. Four-panel program brochure, small portrait of the smiling pianist posing at the keys; mildly worn with several short closed edge tears. An obituary for Harris stated, "The first black woman to conduct the symphony..... More
![Item #201234 [CIVIL RIGHTS-SIT INS] Leb's Restaurants were the location of sit-ins during the...](https://tombergrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/201234.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1489252980)
LEB'S W. ADAMS ST/JULIA ST [MENU] Atlanta: [N.p.], [1960s]. 9.5 x 16.5" menu with white cardstock covers and pink, blue and grey illustrations by Allen Palmer. Staples to the top cover, attaching specials to the inside of menu. Numerous pin holes at top edge, where menu assumed to be pinned..... More
A collection of 380 club flyers; most are 4x6" in very good or better condition. The club flyer is your passport to another world, the land of a thousand dances. There is a mine of information, everything you need to know about your forthcoming adventure weekend. Artistically, the realms of..... More
![Item #201231 Americana - 20th Century] [Photography] [Sports History - Cycling/Skating] [Merchant...](https://tombergrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/201231.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1489252366)
The collection follows the youth and adult careers of Clifford Hoffman and his sister Eleanor Hoffman in cycling and speed skating on Long Island and elsewhere; Eleanor was also a stage singer and entertainer and subsequently married a merchant marine, Glen Willis. His papers from the same time period and..... More
![Item #1977 [Medicine] [Women] OWEN, Marie Bankhead/National Civic Federation; Ellen Wilson Chair...](https://tombergrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
[Montgomery, Alabama]: National Civic Federation; Peabody College, N.D. [Ca. 1915]. 6 x 9.5î, 4 pages. Tanning and mild soiling to edges. Two miniscule tears in center fold, not affecting text. Tiny tears and small chip to bottom edge, else near fine. Black and while portrait of Mrs. Wilson on front..... More
Annandale-on Hudson, New York: Np, 1930. Album 13 x 15 1/2.î Burgundy boards with black tape reinforcing the spine; gilt lettering. Wear and scratches to boards with right top corner loss (approx .5 x 1î), else very good. 40 laves with 83 black & white photos, ranging in size from..... More
Np:The Cola Clan, (1975). Quarto. Soft Cover. Approximately 90 issues of The Cola Call, a journal put out by the members of The Cola Clan, an organization of collectors and dealers of Coca-Cola memorabilia. An almost complete lot starting with issues 2 to 6 of Volume I (1975) through two..... More
San Salvador, El Salvador: Asociacion Cafetalera de El Salvador, 1973. 117pp. Single-sided. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4ì. Small stains and overall tanning on both sides of softcover, cream; multiple seminar documents and photographs of participants. Illustration of coffee beans and a steaming cup in brown, red and green on cover..... More
Oakland: Soul Student Advisory Council, 1969. 8.5x11 inch four-panel brochure with a registration form laid in, small rust stains around the word ìWorkî on the cover, otherwise very good. Not in OCLC. Announcement of a conference sponsored by the Soul Student Advisory Council at Merritt College, calling for a "Black..... More
Oakland: the Theater, 1974. Pamphlet. 4p. Brochure with cover illustration of an African woman in loincloth only. Wraps toned along top edges, else very good condition. Schedule and description of the workshop. Not in OCLC. The group was formed to perpetuate and encourage the knowledge and appreciation of African oriented..... More
New York: The Elite Society, 1976. Offset. 7 x 9 in. Very good; edge wear, fold lines, and blue ink holograph edit. Not in OCLC (5/11/21). Flyer advertising awards show and dinner party presented by Nelson Dawes and Bob Rodriguez of the Elite Society, celebrating prominent Latin women working in show..... More
