Panthers from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Atria Books, 2007. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28cm); original glossy pictorial card wrappers; xxiv,152pp; illus.; with supplementary DVD housed in a plastic sleeve, mounted to the inner rear wrapper. Some trivial surface wear, else Fine. Richly illustrated volume by a founding member and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, issued to mark the… Read more about this item

New York: Peace and Freedom Party, [1968]. Original broadside, with text and photograph offset printed in black on white bond, measuring 21.5cm x 29cm (8.5" x 11"). Mild handling, two old folds smoothed out, with a few tiny tears and creases, and two small spots of soil on verso; Very Good+. Broadside issued during Cleaver's 1968 campaign for president… Read more about this item

[N.p.: S.i., ca.1970]. First Edition. Original poster, with text and illustration offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 44.5cm x 57cm (17.5" x 22.5"). Trivial handling and some very subtle toning to extremities; unbacked; very Near Fine. Poster featuring a crude and uncredited illustration of Bobby Seale, with his arms raised, breaking his shackles. Beneath the portrait appears… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture Foundation, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (26.75cm); photo-illustrated boards; [7],8-151,[1]pp; illus. Trivial dustiness to rear cover, base of spine and upper rear board corner a bit nudged; Near Fine. An extensive collection of previously-unpublished photographs by Stephen Shames, whose involvement with the Black Panther Party began while he was a student at UC Berkeley and… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm). Paperback in purple wrappers; 281,[7]pp; black and white illustrations throughout. Sound but rubbed at edges with creasing to spine and lower front corner: just Very Good. "Here is the best underground-press writing and over 200 graphics on the events and feelings that have shaped a whole… Read more about this item

New York: The East Village Other, Inc, 1971. First Edition. Tabloid (43.5cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. Trivial wear and dustiness to wrappers, else Fine, unfolded and without postal markings. Contents include contributions by Jaakov Kohn, Bobby Seale, Tuli Kupferberg, Jackie Friedrich, Coca Crystal, Ray Schultz, D.A. Latimer, R. Meltzer, Lil Picard, Nina Paull, Charlie Frick, and others, with… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, December 13, 1968. First Edition. Photo-illustrated broadsheet wanted flyer (40.5x26.5cm.); previous mail folds as issued, postally used on verso, addressed to the Superintendent of the Preston School of industry at Ione, California; a Very Good, fresh example. Issued on December 13, 1968, and signed in facsimile by J. Edgar Hoover, three days after… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books, [1992]. First Edition. First Printing. Large octavo (24cm.); original cloth-backed boards in black and white pictorial dust jacket; xi,[1],452pp.; 8 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. Jacket a bit shelf-worn with short closed tear at top of upper flap fold, textblock fore-edge rather dust-soiled, else About Very Good. Early memoirs of the Black… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Peace and Freedom Party, 1968. Original lithographed poster, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 43cm x 56cm (17" x 22"). Mild wear along upper right edge and lower left corner, with some faint, scattered foxing to verso; Near Fine / A-. Campaign poster urging the public to Cleaver/Terry for the 1968 Presidential election. The duo… Read more about this item

[Los Angeles: Peace and Freedom Party, 1968]. First Edition. Mimeographed broadsheet memo (28cm.); printed on green stock. Extremities a bit toned, mild cockling due to damp, else About Very Good. Activities allotted to four weekend units in Los Angeles and its environs in relation to Eldridge Cleaver's presidential campaign.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Second Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in green and white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 210, [1]pp. Mild wear to spine ends and extremities, with a touch of dustiness to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95), lightly shelfworn, with a small tear at upper corner of front… Read more about this item

[Omaha, NE?]: Gazette Collective, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 36pp. Light edgewear, with scattered foxing to upper edge of text; Near Fine. Rice's first book of poetry, written from prison in Omaha, NE. Rice, along with Ed Poindexter, were both both leaders in the Omaha chapter of the Black Panthers' National Committee to Combat… Read more about this item