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New York City: Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, 1990. Very good. Audio cassette with around 30 minutes of playing time. Cassette is very good with light dust soiling, tape plays clearly. This is a promotional for GLAAD narrated by Harvey Fierstein and filled with recordings from radio and television that are exceedingly awful. At the start of the tape, Fierstein explained, "many of these statements may offend and disturb you but it's important that we listen to them together, just as it's important that we do something about them." He also said that "no minority is subjected to media sanctioned defamation than gay men and lesbians," and that the tape's purpose was to learn why "this hateful talk is so dangerous and learn what it is you can do about it." That's followed by short segments from unidentified voices played over foreboding background music and saying such things as "[homosexuality is the] worst possible sin or socially disruptive act that a person can commit." A radio call… Read More

Boston/New York/Cincinnati: Gould and Lincoln/Sheldon and Company/Geo. S. Blanchard, 1863. First edition. 8" x 5¼". Brown cloth. Pp. 303 frontis + folding map + 8 pp. Boston publisher's ads. Good: Uneven fading to boards and spine which is also cocked; loss of cloth to corner and spine tips; hinges cracked but holding. leaves toned with scattered light staining; faint gift inscription in the year of publication on on FFEP. This is a compilation of the writings and observations of the first single woman to work as a missionary in Iran, Fidelia Fisk. With a large folding map, illustrations and dramatic descriptions of the region and its inhabitants, the book gives particular attention to the lives of Iranian women. Fidelia Fisk (also spelled Fiske) was born in Massachusetts in 1816. She graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in 1842 and was promptly appointed to the faculty there. One year later she was recruited by Presbyterian missionary Justin Perkins, who was… Read More

N.P.: Hertel, Jenkins & Co, 1905. Good. 8 1/8" x 5¼". Quarter leather over boards. Pp. 326. About good: backstrip perished; covers detached, worn and spotted; scattered small stains, light spotting and a few small tears. This is a heavily illustrated book of stories and moral lessons for children written by an important African American author, pastor and educator, Silas X. Floyd. Silas Xavier Floyd was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1869. By the age of 22 he was editor of the Augusta Sentinel newspaper and in 1892 he co-founded the Ne*ro Press Association of Georgia. He was also a schoolteacher, pastor at Augusta's Tabernacle Baptist Church and a prominent field worker with the International Sunday School Convention. He served as editor of The Voice of the Ne*ro, the early Atlanta African American periodical that served as a vehicle for W.E.B. DuBois in the beginnings of the Niagara movement. In 1915, Floyd was the corresponding secretary and the chairman of the publicity committee of the… Read More