Panthers from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 4,000 copies. Quarto (31cm); black cloth, with titles embossed on spine; dustjacket; [144]pp; illus. Signed by Kathleen Cleaver on the title page, dated July 30, 2010. Base of spine gently nudged, crown gently bumped, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket.

Oakland: PM Press, 2009. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-217,[7]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "4/1/10 - To: Louise...Robert H. King." Crown gently nudged, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $24.95), with some trivial wear to extremities. Memoir by King… Read more about this item

New York: Atria Books, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); black and cream paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,302,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication along the lower margin of the frontispiece: "8/4/06 - To Carl Reddy / Will you die with me? / Flores A. Forbes." Spine ends… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1991. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); original glossy pictorial card wrappers; [2],xii,429,[3]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Eli / Bobby Seale." Light surface wear, tiny indentation to upper spine, with a faint diagonal crease to upper left corner of rear wrapper; contents fresh; Near Fine. Reissue of the first… Read more about this item

New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, [1970]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); pictorial mimeographed wraps; [iii],6,[3]pp. Light wear and handling, else very Near Fine. Informational pamphlet shedding light on the plight of Lonnie McLucas (1945-2016), one of the New Haven 9, who in 1970 was convicted of conspiracy in the torture-murder of Alex Rackley, who at the… Read more about this item

New Haven: Panther Trial News Committee, 1970. First Edition. Newsletter, with text offset printed in black in two columns (recto and verso) on white stock, measuring 21.75cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). A Fine copy. An early number of this newsletter from the New Haven 9 trial, titled "What's Really Happening at the Trial of Lonnie McLucas." Contents are… Read more about this item

New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21 / The Conspiracy / December 4th Movement, [1970]. Broadside, with text and illustration offset printed in black on light yellow stock, measuring 21.75cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Mild handling, with a faint vertical bend at center; Near Fine. Broadside announcing a mass march in support of the Panther 21, on… Read more about this item

[New Haven: Panther Defense Office, 1970]. Original offset printed flyer, with a photographic portrait of Genet and text printed in two columns on recto and verso (measuring 8.5" x 11 1/8"). Mild finger-soil to extremities, some trivial foxing along the upper margin, with a 1cm tear to left margin; Near Fine. A flyer reprinting excerpts from a collection of… Read more about this item

New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, [ca.1970-71]. Original poster, with text and illustrations offset printed in red and black on white stock, measuring 43.5cm x 28cm (17" x 11"). Some light toning and seven small tears to extremities, with a small loss to lower right corner; Very Good+. Poster produced by the New York Committee to Defend… Read more about this item

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: 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

Sausalito, CA: The Black World Foundation, 1972. First Edition. Small quarto (26cm); illustrated card wrappers, stapled; 64pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, touch of dustiness to wrappers, with date rubber-stamp to front wrapper, and address label to rear wrapper; Very Good+. Contents include contributions by Eldridge Cleaver, Dr. C.J. Munford, John Hudgins, Wilson Moses, James Boggs, and Charles Allen.… 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

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.

[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

Nashville: Peoples College, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); bright red pictorial staplebound wrappers; [2],28pp.; illus. Fine. Text of a speech presented at a conference of the African Liberation Support Committee. Published by the Peoples College, a black nationalist "think tank" founded by the author in the early '70s.

Boston: Beacon Press, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; [10],246pp. A few short chips and closed tears along jacket extremities, top textblock edge slightly dusty; Very Good and sound. History of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which would eventually evolve into the Black Panther movement.