Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1983. 98pp. One of 249 copies. An alphabetical investigation into the paraphenalia of Baker Street. Bound in maroon gilt-stamped cloth. Fine. (2 7/8 by 2; 72x50mm). More
Skokie: Black Cat Press, (1976). (46)pp. One of 249 copies. The last two pages are a typefounder's variation from an 1882 specimen book which is a delightful ABC. Slightest rubbing to exterior and expected wear along spine, else fine in brown leather with gilt title and decoration. (2 9/16 by..... More
Skokie: Black Cat Press, (1976). (46)pp. One of 249 copies. The last two pages are a typefounder's variation from an 1882 specimen book which is a delightful ABC. Slightest rubbing to exterior and expected wear along spine, else fine in brown leather with gilt title and decoration. (2 9/16 by..... More
Skokie: Black Cat Press, (1976). (46)pp. One of 249 copies. The last two pages are a typefounder's variation from an 1882 specimen book which is a delightful ABC. Faint staining to lower back cover and mild rubbing to corners, else near fine in brown leather with gilt title and decoration..... More
Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, 1972. 40pp. One of 249 copies. Frontispiece woodcut of the scene in question. Notes and checklist of various editions and reprints, compiled by Irvin Haas. Bound in red leatherette with gilt-stamping to upper cover and spine. Faint rubbing to lower cover, else fine. Previous owner's..... More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1966). 76pp. One of 250 copies with photographic illustrations throughout. Born out of Norman Forgue's interest in trains, both small and large, and written by his daughter's father-in-law, this was the only miniature book on railroading at the time of its publication. Very fine in full..... More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1966). 76pp. One of 250 copies with photographic illustrations throughout. Born out of Norman Forgue's interest in trains, both small and large, and written by his daughter's father-in-law, this was the only miniature book on railroading at the time of its publication. Sunning to spine, mild..... More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1962. xiv, 53pp. One of 300 copies. A lecture delivered by Whitman on the anniversary of Lincoln's death. With several full-page color illustrations and a number of smaller black and white illustrations, by Ralph Frederick. Typography by Norman Forgue. Bound in full black leather with illustration..... More
(Evanston, IL): Black Cat Press, 1981. One of 249 copies. Near fine in gilt-decorated green leatherette. (2 1/2 by 1 15/16; 64x49mm). More
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, (1979). 33pp. One of 249 copies. Two single-panel comics add a New Yorker-esque visuality to Zara's reflections. Bound in brown paper over boards, gilt-stamped to upper cover and spine. Fine. (2 1/4 by 1 3/4; 55x41mm). More
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1982. 43, (3)pp. One of 249 copies. Three-color head- and tail-pieces by Forgue. Bound in white paper over boards, gilt-stamped. Fine. (2 1/4 by 1 7/8; 58x46mm). More
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, (1951). 46pp. One of 249 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece in black & red. Trace exterior rubbing, else near fine in gilt-stamped red cloth. (2 3/8 by 1 3/4; 63x47mm). More
Chicago: Gráfica Studios, Charisma Chain, Inc., 1970. Four-color poster. Dynamically printed with a semi-silhouetted portrait of a Black man, the poster weaves together the threads of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s to the struggle for acknowledgement and implemented equality in the 1970s. "I Am Somebody" was..... More
André Carrilho, 2020. Silkscreen print. One of twenty copies, signed and numbered by the artist, André Carrilho. Part collage, part cartoon, Carrilho’s illustration highlights the particular position of Black athletes in the fight against police brutality. Black athletes have a long history of using their platform to bring awareness to..... More
(Havana, Cuba: OSPAAAL, 1967). Two-color poster. An OSPAAAL poster, among the few concerned with issues of injustice in the United States, here attending to the Civil Rights movement and police brutality. The Organization of Solidarity with Asia, Africa, and Latin America was founded in 1965 with an agenda of "total..... More
Gordo, AL: Kennedy Prints, (c. 2005). Multi-colored poster. Signed by Kennedy. From Kennedy's series of African proverbs. Against an impressive registration of orange-to purple-to orange gradient is an image of an Anansi-like spider, and above that this Ethiopian proverb in black. A powerful example of Kennedy's skill with color printing..... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1994). Folio. (14)ff. One of 400 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Angelou requested that, for this first edition, her poem be illustrated by her favorite artist, John T. Biggers. Biggers' images are totemic, enshrining ancestral traditions in iconographic and dynamic drawings. Like Angelou's poetry..... More
NY: Dial Press, 1963. Uncorrected long galley proof copy. Baldwin's seminal non-fiction text on race in America, here in a rare pre-publication format. The book contains two essays, "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from..... More
(N.p. Kennedy Prints, c. 2005). Multi-colored poster. Signed by Kennedy. Kennedy has here printed in bold, black letters Douglass's bold statement on Black literacy, first articulated in the latter's 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Kennedy's characteristic layering of type attends to the very nature of reading, the..... More
(N.p. Kennedy Prints, c. 2007). Mulit-colored letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Each installment in this series highlights Parks’s determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering..... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1996). Folio. (24)ff. One of 300 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Illustrated with five paintings by Lois Mailou Jones, including a frontispiece portrait of Senghor. Born in then-French West Africa, Léopold Senghor devoted his life to activism and poetry; in 1960 he was elected..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, (2001). Oblong folio. 73pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with four aquatints by Wilson, printed at the Center Street Studio in Milton, Massachusetts by Jim Stroud. Typography and letterpress printing by David Wolfe of Portland, Maine. The restrained color palettes of John..... More
Los Angeles: 1993. 26pp. One of 90 copies issued as a keepsake for the Zamorano Club. A touching memorial to renowned miniature-binder Bela Blau upon his death. Published privately by his wife Mariana, who also bound the book and wrote the dedication. Eulogies by Francis Weber, Glen Dawson, and others..... More
Los Angeles: Mariana Blau, 1993. 26pp. One of 90 copies issued as a keepsake for the Zamorano Club. A touching memorial to renowned miniature-binder Bela Blau upon his death. Published privately by his wife Mariana, who also bound the book and wrote the dedication. Eulogies by Francis Weber, Glen Dawson..... More
Los Angeles: Mariana Blau, 1993. 26pp. One of 90 copies issued as a keepsake for the Zamorano Club. A touching memorial to renowned miniature-binder Bela Blau upon his death. Published privately by his wife Mariana, who also bound the book and wrote the dedication. Eulogies by Francis Weber, Glen Dawson..... More
