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  • UP AGAINST THE WALL: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party. by Austin, Curtis J.
    Austin, Curtis J.
    UP AGAINST THE WALL: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 2006. First edition - A book which "chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the partys early emphasis in the 1960s on self-defense, though sorely needed in black communities at the time, left it open to mischaracterization, infiltration, and devastation by local, state, and federal police forces and government agencies. . . [A book which puts] the violent history of the party in perspective and shows that the survival programs,…

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    Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 2006. First edition - A book which "chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the partys early emphasis in the 1960s on self-defense, though sorely needed in black communities at the time, left it open to mischaracterization, infiltration, and devastation by local, state, and federal police forces and government agencies. . . [A book which puts] the violent history of the party in perspective and shows that the survival programs, such as the Free Breakfast for Children program and Free Health Clinics, helped the black communities they served to recognize their own bases of power and ability to save themselves." Foreword by Elbert "Big Man" Howard; chronology of the Black Panther Party, several appendices, notes, bibliographic essay, bibliography. xxix, 438 pp.

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    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 85262
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  • A TASTE OF POWER: A Black Woman's Story by [Black Panthers] Brown, Elaine
    [Black Panthers] Brown, Elaine
    A TASTE OF POWER: A Black Woman's Story

    Edition: 4th printing.

    New York: Pantheon, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Autobiography of the woman who took over leadership of the Black Panther Party in 1974 when Huey Newton fled the country. A vivid story of the period, of one woman's struggles to survive and to define herself, and of the conflict between black men and women. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419446.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63613
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  • [Black Panthers] Cleaver, Eldridge. (Scheer, Robert, editor)
    ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: Post Prison Writings and Speeches.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Random House, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Edited and with an introduction by Robert Scheer. Includes the Playboy Interview, an open letter to Ronald Reagan, a letter describing Cleaver's first encounter with the Black Panthers and more. Laid in is a newspaper clipping dated 12/7/75 by Kathryn Cleaver on "Why Eldridge Cleaver has come home." SIGNED on the title page by editor Robert Scheer. 211 pp.

    Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (toning to endpaper from clipping, price-clipped dj.)

    Book ID: 14429
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  • [Black Panthers] Cleaver, Eldridge. (Scheer, Robert, editor)
    ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: Post Prison Writings and Speeches.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edited and with an introduction by Robert Scheer. Includes the Playboy Interview, an open letter to Ronald Reagan, a letter describing Cleaver's first encounter with the Black Panthers, essays on Stokeley Carmichael, the death of Martin Luther King and more. 211 pp

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.

    Book ID: 26638
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  • WILL YOU DIE WITH ME? My Life and the Black Panther Party. by [Black Panthers] Forbes, Flores A.; foreword by Elaine Brown.
    [Black Panthers] Forbes, Flores A.; foreword by Elaine Brown.
    WILL YOU DIE WITH ME? My Life and the Black Panther Party.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Atria Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - An inside account of the Black Panther party by one of the organization's central committee members, and a personal account of a young man, angered by the racism he saw everywhere in his native San Diego, who became a revolutionary and an activist. SIGNED on the title page by Elaine Brown, who wrote the foreword. Brown became Chairman of the Black Panthers in 1974. the first woman to hold such a position, and she remains an activist. Photographs. Chronology, index.xi, 302 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-82662.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 48896
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  • LOT of 3 pieces related to Cleaver's defense fund: 2 brochures and a business card. by Cleaver, Eldridge
    Cleaver, Eldridge
    LOT of 3 pieces related to Cleaver's defense fund: 2 brochures and a business card.

    Edition: First printing.

    San Francisco: Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund (1976.). First edition - A small lot of Eldridge Cleaver ephemera, dating from the mid 1970s and slightly later - after he returned from exile in 1975 and was defending himself against the charges of attempted murder dating from the shoot-out in Oakland. Included are 2 brochures: 1. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AT EXILE'S END by Henry Mitchell, 8 pp including the covers, stapled - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches - black and white photograph of Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver on front cover, other photographs inside covers. First separate printing of this article, published by the Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco. 2. THE FBI OPD AND ELDRIDGE CLEAVER by the Friends…

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    San Francisco: Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund (1976.). First edition - A small lot of Eldridge Cleaver ephemera, dating from the mid 1970s and slightly later - after he returned from exile in 1975 and was defending himself against the charges of attempted murder dating from the shoot-out in Oakland. Included are 2 brochures: 1. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AT EXILE'S END by Henry Mitchell, 8 pp including the covers, stapled - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches - black and white photograph of Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver on front cover, other photographs inside covers. First separate printing of this article, published by the Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco. 2. THE FBI OPD AND ELDRIDGE CLEAVER by the Friends of Eldridge Cleaver, San Francisco, 32 pp including the covers, stapled - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, red white and blue covers, blue text and photographs in the interior. Includes reprints of several newspaper articles about events surrounding the Black Panthers, as well as some matter apparently written specifically for this brochure. Includes much information on the FBI's Cointelpro "war" against the Panthers. Illustrated with many photographs. Plus a plain white business card with Eldridge Cleaver and his address.

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    Condition: All items are just about fine, new and unused -

    Book ID: 73666
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  • THE FLASHLIGHT. by Cleaver, Eldridge.
    Cleaver, Eldridge.
    THE FLASHLIGHT.

    Edition: First thus.

    Frankfurt, Germany: Verlag Moritz Diesterweg (1977). First edition - A small pamphlet with the text in English, a title in the Diesterwegs Neusprachliche Bibliothek. Includes an introduction and annotations. "File copy, Joan Daves" stamped on front cover and title page. 65 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in a blue stapled wrappers with a photograph of Cleaver on the front cover.

    Book ID: 75544
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  • LOT of 4 pieces related to Cleaver's defense fund: 3 brochures and a business card. by Cleaver, Eldridge
    Cleaver, Eldridge
    LOT of 4 pieces related to Cleaver's defense fund: 3 brochures and a business card.

    Edition: First printing.

    San Francisco: Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund (1976.). First edition - A small lot of Eldridge Cleaver ephemera, dating from the mid 1970s and slightly later - after he returned from exile in 1975 and was defending himself against the charges of attempted murder dating from the shoot-out in Oakland. Included are 3 brochures: 1. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AT EXILE'S END by Henry Mitchell, 8 pp including the covers, stapled - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches - black and white photograph of Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver on front cover, other photographs inside covers. First separate printing of this article, published by the Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco. 2. THE FBI OPD AND ELDRIDGE CLEAVER by the Friends…

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    San Francisco: Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund (1976.). First edition - A small lot of Eldridge Cleaver ephemera, dating from the mid 1970s and slightly later - after he returned from exile in 1975 and was defending himself against the charges of attempted murder dating from the shoot-out in Oakland. Included are 3 brochures: 1. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AT EXILE'S END by Henry Mitchell, 8 pp including the covers, stapled - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches - black and white photograph of Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver on front cover, other photographs inside covers. First separate printing of this article, published by the Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco. 2. THE FBI OPD AND ELDRIDGE CLEAVER by the Friends of Eldridge Cleaver, San Francisco, 32 pp including the covers, stapled - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, red white and blue covers, blue text and photographs in the interior. Includes reprints of several newspaper articles about events surrounding the Black Panthers, as well as some matter apparently written specifically for this brochure. Includes much information on the FBI's Cointelpro "war" against the Panthers. Illustrated with many photographs. 3. NOW AVAILABLE : ELDRIDGE CLEAVER. Trifold brochure promoting the 'always provocative' Cleaver as a speaker, plus a plain white business card with Eldridge Cleaver and his address.

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    Condition: All items are just about fine, new and unused -

    Book ID: 75740
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  • ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AT EXILE'S END by [Cleaver, Eldridge] Mitchell, Henry.
    [Cleaver, Eldridge] Mitchell, Henry.
    ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AT EXILE'S END

    Edition: First printing, a slim brochure.

    San Francisco: Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund (1976.). First edition - Black and white photograph of Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver on front cover, other photographs inside covers. First separate printing of this article, published by the Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco. 8 pp including the covers

    Condition: Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 73665
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  • Dellums, Ronald V. and H. Lee Halterman
    LYING DOWN WITH LIONS: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    Boston: Beacon Press, (2000.). First edition - Autobiography of the African American Congressman - one of the most radical and progressive congressman in the second half of the 20th century - who was first elected in 1971 and served until 1998 - "a book on social change and working as an outsider on the inside." 210 pp. plus photographs.

    Condition: Very near fine in printed yellow and black wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 34541
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  • SOLEDAD BROTHER: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. by Jackson, George L. [1941-1971] (introduction by Jean Genet.)
    Jackson, George L. [1941-1971] (introduction by Jean Genet.)
    SOLEDAD BROTHER: The Prison Letters of George Jackson.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Jonathan Cape, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the most influential books in the Black Power movement, a book which is a condemnation of both the racism of white America and of the injustices of the prison system. Introduction by Jean Genet, translated by Richard Howard. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-224005383.

    Condition: Very good in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (some foxing to the edges of the textblock, and a bit of creasing and wear to the bottom edge of the front cover of the dj, but overall a tight and straight copy.)

    Book ID: 80724
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  • SOLEDAD BROTHER: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. by Jackson, George L. [1941-1971] (introduction by Jean Genet.)
    Jackson, George L. [1941-1971] (introduction by Jean Genet.)
    SOLEDAD BROTHER: The Prison Letters of George Jackson.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Coward-McCann, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the most influential books in the Black Power movement, a book which is a condemnation of both the racism of white America and of the injustices of the prison system. It remains to this day essential reading; the injustices continue. Introduction by Jean Genet, translated by Richard Howard. 320 pp. Photographic endpapers.

    Condition: Very good in black cloth with silver lettering in a good dust jacket. Some edgewear to the dj, creasing to the bottom edge and at the top of the dj spine, but overall a clean, tight and sturdy copy, and a book which is becoming difficult to find in the first edition..

    Book ID: 81467
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  • WAR AT HOME. by Nelscott, Kris.
    Nelscott, Kris.
    WAR AT HOME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring African-American private investigator Smokey Dalton - it's summertime in 1969 when Dalton "heads east to look for a missing college student. Daniel Kirkland never showed up for his spring semester at Yale and seems to have disappeared without a trace. The search for Daniel takes Smokey the nation's wealthiest university to the poorest slums on the outskirts of New Haven. The harder he searches, the more he learns about the dark side of the antiwar movement, in which the idealistic young Daniel may have become involved." SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 0+312325282.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79299
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