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S.J Holmes, The Negro's Struggle for Survival, A Study in Human Ecology. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1937. First edition. Original brown boards with dust jacket. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 296 pages including an index with a list of tables and illustrated with graphs and charts. The text is a study based on data including death rates, infant mortality, immunity and susceptibility to disease, the causes and biological effects of migration, and results of race mixture. Holmes was an American zoologist and eugenicist on faculty at the University of California who studied the impacts of race relations. "Being a biologist," he writes in the preface, "I have treated my theme from the viewpoint of one who observes the competition of two rival species inhabiting the same territory...It is not impossible that in the near future the Negroes may be increasing more rapidly than the whites." No group was more impacted by the Great Depression than African Americans whose progress was blocked both by poverty… Read More

[Chicano Poetry] [Radical Activism] SANCHEZ, Ricardo. Canto y Grito Mi Liberación (y lloro mis desmadrazgos.) Míctla Publications, El Paso, Texas. 1971. Illustrated by Manuel Acosta. Folio, 159pp. Original brown cloth binding with gilt font. No dust jacket. Signed by the author on cover page, it reads "12/Jan/84 San Auto Para Arthur Muñoz- con en fuente saluda and a joyous song of self-realization-- Ricardo S Ph.D." Title page has a taped newspaper clipping of his obituary. His first book, Canto y Grito Mi Liberación established Ricardo Sánchez as one of the leading voices in the Chicano poetry movement. Sánchez spent most of the 1960s in prison where he earned his GED and began writing. He later went on to receive a doctorate, teaching creative writing and Chicano studies at Washington State University. Sánchez became one of the leading figures in Chicano poetry, embracing Chicano cultural identity and challenging the assimilation of Chicano Americans. Lomelí and Urioste call this book "An… Read More

THE SCORPION KING USED BATTLE SWORD. Plastic Sword with handle. Sword handle is separated from blade, maybe used in a battle scene as such. Comes with a signed Certificate from Universal Pictures.

[African American] [Lincoln] LILLY, William. SET MY PEOPLE FREE: A Negro's Life of Lincoln. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1932. First Edition. Subtitled; "This is the first life of Lincoln ever written by a Negro, and throws new light on him from the point of view of the race he liberated." Author and Tennessee native William E. Lilly, a graduate of Howard University, was involved in politics in southern Illinois and was a noted Chicago lawyer. Original black cloth covers with gilt title on spine. 269 pp. Overall very good condition.

HIRST, Damien. Damien Hirst: No Love Lost. London: Other Criteria, 2010. First Edition SIGNED. Quarto in original color printer boards. 66 leaves, 30 expert reproduction of Hirst's paintings, and 3 gatefolds. Includes interview between Hirst and acclaimed British painter John Hoyland. Published on the occasion of Hirst's exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London, in October 2009, this piece catalogs Hirst's ghostly Blue Skull and flower paintings. Hirst is one of the most celebrated living artists in the world. In 1988 he curated the now-renowned London exhibition, "Freeze" and in 1991, he had his first solo exhibition, also in London, "In and Out of Love." In 1992 he was a major part of the groundbreaking "Young British Artists" exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. Hirst was awarded the prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize in 1995. His work has been shown in many important group and solo shows throughout the world and is in major international museum collections.

Lucas, George; Foster, Alan Dean [ghostwriter]. STAR WARS: FROM THE ADVENTURES OF LUKE SKYWALKER. Del Rey Ballantine Books, New York, 1976. First Edition. 183 pages. Original navy blue pictorial front cover with white lettering; The first edition was issued as a book club edition, so "BOOK CLUB EDITION" stated. This book was a novelization of the 1977 film released six months prior to the first Star War movie's release. Very good condition with just a bit of shelf wear to dust jacket.

Sadaichi Miyamoto and Carl L.A. Schmidt. The Conductivities of Aspartic Acid and of Glutamic Acid and Certain of their Salts and the Influence of Temperature Thereon. University of California Publications in Physiology, Volume 8, No. 2, pp. 9-20. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1932. Includes data tables in appendix. At this time in the United States, there was strong anti-Asian discrimination in which almost all Japanese immigration was banned and foreign-born Asians were ineligible to be naturalized as US citizens. Despite these hardships, people of Japanese descent persevered and made important contributions to all sectors of American life, including work as research scientists. This report details findings from a Japanese American scientist working in the Biochemistry Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Very good condition.

J.D. Salinger Short Story "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" in its Original First Publications format in the New Yorker July 14, 1951. This story was printed 2 years later in 1953, in book form as part of the collection "Nine Stories"by Little Brown. Although not completely explicit, the reader is left to infer that Joanie is the young girl with Lee as well as Arthur's spouse that's being searched for. This theme is even stretched to Salinger's own personal life, English Professor Dr. Brett Weaver argues, "Joanie is based on Salinger's one-time girlfriend Oona O'Neill who threw him over for Charlie Chaplin, and that 'Pretty' is Salinger's revenge for his broken heart." All three characters also display one of Salinger's main recurring themes: They are portrayed as phony throughout the story. Lee is having a phone conversation with his "friend" Arthur about his missing wife, when in reality she is with Lee. Arthur's wife is listening in and pretending not to know the situation. Arthur himself is being… Read More

1938 appointment diary owned and used by Frances "Terry" Glassmoyer, who attended Ursinus College with J.D. Salinger in the fall of 1938. Terry and Jerry forged a lasting, strong bond in the one semester that Salinger attended Ursinus, and kept in frequent contact over the years until her death on 9 January 2010, only 17 days before Salinger's. In fact, Thierolf was the inspiration for Salinger's literary character Franny Glass in "Franny & Zooey." Terry fills in the identification portion of her diary as "Frances Thierolf / 42 Roslyn Ave. / Glenside, PA" along with her telephone number. She enters her height as 5'7" and weight as 126 lbs. The diary begins on New Year's Eve 1937 with plans to see "Stand-In" starring Humphrey Bogart. The first part of 1938 is filled with her classes, lunch and dinner dates with various suitors, sorority meetings, etc., typical of a 19 year old girl. The fall semester at Ursinus, when she would meet Salinger, begins in late September of 1938 and Salinger makes the first… Read More

J. D. Salinger. Signed Junior High Yearbook . Possibly the most important J.D. Salinger piece ever to come to market, as it is Salinger's only yearbook from the same age as Holden ever recorded as coming to market. It contains the only known handwriting of Salinger at the age of Holden, and the only known photo of Salinger at the age of Holden. "The Catcher in the Rye" is the story of Holden Caulfield, a troubled youth in his junior year of boarding school, closely biographically related to the adolescent years of its famous author. No copy of this Junior yearbook has ever come on market. The Crossed Sabres, Valley Forge Military Academy. Wayne, PA: 1935. Signed "Jerome Salinger", pg. 139. He is named pictured at least 4 more times throughout the book; most clearly on pgs. 170-171 as a member of the drama club. J.D. Salinger became famous for The Catcher in the Rye's sublime expression of adolescence. The crisis of Salinger's young protagonist, Holden, occurs in his Junior boarding school year, when… Read More

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space . Sally Ride High School Yearbook: 1967 Westlake School for Girls - Vox Puellarum Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA), 1967 Ride attended private Westlake School in Los Angeles on a scholarship.[3] In addition to being interested in science, she was a nationally ranked tennis player. Ride later entered Stanford University as a junior, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English and physics. At Stanford, she earned a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD in physics in 1978. Ride was one of only 5 women selected for NASA's class of '78. Ride was one of five crewmembers aboard the space shuttle Challenger STS-7. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space, and the youngest American in space. Not only is Ride the first American woman in space, she is also the first acknowledged gay astronaut. She passed away on July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

An original 19th century albumen photograph depicting Sant Francisco houses and the bay from up on a hill. Wording on bottom reads "B 865 San Francisco Bay. Tabers Photo., San Francisco." Mounted on a card. 5"x8

The Picture Story of the San Francisco Earthquake, C.C. Pierce and Co. Los Angeles: Geo Rice and Sons, 1906. Soft cover pamphlet of 30 black and white photographs showing the devastation in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake. 10.25" x 6.75" inches. 16 pages. Front cover illustrated with drawing of a city street with the buildings collapsing and fires burning everywhere. Book begins with a written prologue to the photos, excerpted "Even as the first rays of the morning sun tipped the Golden Gate hills their ears were starteld by an unusual sound--a low rumble, chilling in its ominous tone, that seemed to come from the bowels of the earth. Instantly following the ground rose and fell and swayed and shivered with awful emotion, and hell was loosened." Photographs within match the description with images of buildings tipping into streets, streets split into gaping gulfs, and a mass grave in the city square. Textblock is detached from staple to soft covers. Some light foxing… Read More

Good Times, San Francisco: April 9, 1971. Volume IV No. 27. Bold cover image shows group of women partially colored by a red star. Larger image above them of woman in pith helmet, one hand on hip and the other extending a long barrel pistol with outstretched arm. Stories inside are advertised on front as, "George Jackson Murder, Alternative Schools, Mexican Mushrooms, Revolutionary Yoga." 16" x 11" inches. 26 pages. Back page a full spread photograph of George Jackson in red, the text below reading "George Jackson Sept 23, 1941 - Aug 21, 1971." The Good Times Newspaper Collective was the primary underground newspaper of San Francisco throughout the late sixties and early seventies, a hub for the anti-war movement, the trials of political prisoners like Angela Davis, political corruption in the city and shared community information. Its volunteer staff put out the paper until its last issue in 1972. Of the publication, one volunteer wrote "We had to fight for the right to sell our papers in the… Read More

Faulkner, William. Sanctuary. New York: Signet Books 1949. Contains 188 pages, measures about 4" x 7." Vibrant, attractive cover bears classic pulp art of a lovely woman in an emerald green dress beside a man in a porkpie hat. Sanctuary a 1931 novel about the rape and abduction of an upper-class Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. The novel was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough, but was controversial. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely for profit. This brightly-colored pulp art cover aligns with Faulkner's claim and increased the novel's sales; Collectable and in very good condition.

[LGBTQ] De Acosta, Mercedes. Sandro Botticelli. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company 1923. Measures 8.5" x 5.5," contains 49 pages. A play about Botticelli and Simonetta by the renowned lesbian author. De Acosta lived openly as a lesbian throughout her entire life, engaging in numerous high-profile relationships with Hollywood stars such as Isadora Duncan, Greta Garbo,and Marlene Dietrich. Her controversial tell-all memoir, Here Lies the Heart, is a classic in the LGBT literary canon. Chips missing from spine of the dust jacket. Otherwise, book is in very good condition, in very good jacket.

ALGEO, Sara. "The Story of a Sub-Pioneer." Providence: Stone & Farnham Co., 1925. First Edition inscribed in 1938 by the author to another suffragist regarding their work on the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Original green covers with no dust jacket, and minor fading to the edges of cover and spine. Pages clean and tight. Overall very good condition. Autobiography of feminist activist Sara Algeo, who represented the National American Woman Suffrage Association delegation in the 1920 Geneva International Suffrage Alliance Congress. Inscribed to a fellow activist as she initiated work on the Equal Rights Amendment in 1938, Algeo writes "From one pioneer to another, for I think we can say truly that in working for the Equal Rights Amendment, we have graduated to the Pioneer Class.

Sarah Josepha Hale. Woman's Record; or, Sketches of all distinguished women from Creation to A.D. 1854. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855. Second Edition. Original hardcover with gilt title and details on spine. 10 x 7 in. Illustrated by 239 portraits engraved on wood by Lossing and Barritt, including frontispiece portrait of the author. 900-page reference book titled Woman's Record; or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women from "the Beginning" till A.D. 1850. Originaly Published in 1853 and updated in this second edition of 1855, this biographical dictionary included entries on more than a thousand women. -she explained that "My object was to prepare a comprehensive and accurate record of what women have accomplished, in spite of the disadvantages of their position, and to illustrate the great truth that woman's mission is to educate and ameliorate humanity." Encyclopedic volume of 229 notable women throughout history from one of the most influential women's voices at the time. Hale was… Read More

The Woman's News, Indianapolis, Indiana. January 9th, 1889. Issue number 13. Very scarce. 8 pages. 20" x 13" inches. Consisted of short news stories on developments in women's rights across the globe. Covers the state of political womanhood in France, the rejection of a qualified Belgian woman's application to the legal profession bar, a critical presentation by Ida Harper on the poor wages paid to women that also called for their organization into trade unions, among other interesting stories. There are some small tears along edges and hole punched marks along one margin but this newspaper is overall in very good condition.

Scarce 1910 French girls' education medal for excellence in Geography. Bronze, with diameter of 1.75". The front of the medal depicts Terpsichore, the Greek muse of education, seated beside a pedestal of laurel wreaths; in her outstretched right hand is a laurel wreath prepared as a reward for excellence. On the back of the medal is engraved in part: "Association Pour L'Ensegnement Secondaire des Jeunes Filles a la Sorbonne...Geographie...1910" [in English: Association For The Secondary Education of Young Women at the Sorbonne...Georgraphy...1910] This medal, awarded for excellence in the study of geometry, is quite scarce. While our research located medals from later years from other schools, we were unable to locate a similar early medal for the celebration of young women's academic excellence.