Friends and Colleagues,

It is difficult to underestimate the impact of the media on the Civil Rights movement – television, magazines, and newspapers.  A primary voice in the African-American community was the weekly newspaper The Pittsburgh Courier.  It was founded in in 1907 and became one of the leading black newspapers in the country.

We are pleased to offer three bound years of The Courier issued in the early 1960’s, critical years for Civil Rights in the United States.  I was but a lad at the time, but I was well aware of the movement, marches, Martin Luther King, and related figures.

These first hand accounts are of great importance, highlighting advances as well as the significant challenges faced by African-American citizens and their supporters – riots, the efforts of the KKK, police brutality – all related to efforts to desegregate this country.  Schools of course were at the center, but so were restaurants, transportation, and virtually every other aspect of American society.

They remind us starkly not to take any of our freedoms for granted.

Cheers,

NIck

P.L. Prattis [Editor]. [AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] THE PITTSBURGH COURIER, 3 VOL. Price: $1,500.00	Samuel Medary. [CIVIL WAR] [PRESS FREEDOM] THE CRISIS NEWSPAPER. Price: $1,400.00

[Karl Klingspor]. [SPECIAL PRESS] DAS SCHONE. KARL KLINGSPOR ZUM 28. JULI 1942. Price: $200.00	John De Pol. [SPECIAL PRESS] FROM DARK TO LIGHT. WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE STONE HOUSE PRESS. Price: $200.00
Theodore Bachaus. [SPECIAL PRESS] PRIVATE PRESSES OF SAN SERIFFE [WITH PROSPECTUS]. Price: $45.00	George W. Johnson. [GARDENING] THE BRITISH FERNS ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS OF EVERY SPECIES. FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY AS REGARDS THEIR CHARACTERISTICS, PECULIARITIES, NATURAL PLACES OF GROWTH, AND THE MOST SUCCESSFUL METHODS OF CULTIVATING THEM. Price: $50.00
Douglas Southall Freeman | [Robert K. Krick]. [CIVIL WAR] LEE’S LIEUTENANTS, A STUDY IN COMMAND. VOL. I: MANASSAS TO MALVERN HILL. VOL. II: CEDAR MOUNTAIN TO CHANCELLORSVILLE. VOL. III: GETTYSBURG TO APPOMATTOX. (THREE VOLUMES). Price: $200.00	[R. W. Jones]. [CIVIL WAR] PAROLED PRISONER’S PASS. APPOMATTOX. APRIL 10, 1865. Price: $4,000.00
F. X. [Francis Xavier] Lasance; Francis Augustine Walsh (Editor); William R. Kelly. [FINE BINDING] [RELIGION] THE NEW ROMAN MISSAL IN LATIN AND ENGLISH. Price: $150.00	Mary Jane Vaden. [GENEALOGY] A WARD FAMILY HISTORY.DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM A. WARD AND MARY C. WILLARD OF LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 1808-1989[ [AUTHORS’S PERSONAL COPY FOR CORRECTIONS]. Price: $65.00
Larry Woidwode. [LITERATURE] BEYOND THE BEDROOM WALL. Price: $125.00	Plutarch | Thomas North [Translator]. [SPECIAL PRESS] THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANES, COMPARED TOGETHER BY THAT GRAVE LEARNED PHILOSOPHER & HIS HISTORIOGRAPHER, PLUTARKE OF CHAERONEA [8 VOLUMES]. Price: $1,750.00
Phillip Lopate [Editor] | [Gary Gallagher]. [REVIEW COPY] [FILM] AMERICAN MOVIE CRITICS. AN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE SILENTS UNTIL NOW. Price: $50.00	Joan Hassall; Brian North Lee [Editor] | [Rosalind Lorber] [Simon Lawrence]. [SPECIAL PRESS] DEAREST SYDNEY. JOAN HASSALL’S LETTERS TO SYDNEY COCKERELL FROM ITALY & FRANCE, APRIL - MAY 1950. Price: $95.00
Bettie Keyes Chambers. [SOUTHERN] [POETRY] IDYLLS OF THE SOUTH. Price: $100.00	Robert E. Lee | Clifford Dowdey; Louis Manarin (Editors). [REVIEW COPY] [CIVIL WAR] THE WARTIME PAPERS OF ROBERT E. LEE. Price: $75.00
Charles Henry Hamilton. [SIGNED] [AMERICANA] PETER FRANCISCO: SOLDIER EXTRAORDINARY. Price: $50.00	Frances Moorman Walker. [VIRGINIA] THE EARLY EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE AMHERST-NELSON AREA: ALSO SHORT SKETCHES OF THE EARLY BAPTIST, METHODIST AND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES. Price: $95.00
Mitchell S. Buck [Compiler; Translator]. [POETRY] {EROTICA] THE PRIAPEIA. AN ATHOLOGY OF PEOMS ON PRIAPUS. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN INTO ENGLISH VERSE. Price: $75.00	General Assembly of Virginia. [LAW] THE CODE OF VIRGINIA. Price: $75.00
Geoffrey Ward. [SIGNED] THE DUKE OF DECEPTION. MEMORIES OF MY FATHER. Price: $75.00	Craig L. Symonds | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] LINCOLN AND HIS ADMIRALS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE U.S. NAVY, AND THE CIVIL WAR. Price: $50.00
William Avery Baker~. [AMERICANA] A MARITIME HISTORY OF BATH, MAINE AND THE KENNEBEC REGION [2 VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE]. Price: $95.00	Daniel W. Crofts | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [AMERICANA] [SLAVERY] LINCOLN AND THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY. THE OTHER THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT AND THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE THE UNION. Price: $65.00
Whittington Press. [SPECIAL PRESS] A MISCELLANY OF TYPE. Price: $950.00	Garry Wills | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] [AMERICANA] LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG. THE WORDS THAT REMADE AMERICA. Price: $60.00
[Sophocles]; Translated by Thomas Evans | Illustrated by Mary Grabhorn. [SPECIAL PRESS] OEDIPUS. THREE CANTOES. WHEREIN IS CONTAINED: 1. HIS UNFORTUNATE INFANCY 2. HIS EXECRABLE ACTIONS 3. HIS LAMENTABLE END. Price: $100.00	Joseph L. Harsh | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] SOUNDING THE SHALLOWS: A CONFEDERATE COMPANION FOR THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OF 1862. Price: $100.00
Friedrich Schiller | Karl Klingspor | Peter Behrens. [SPECIAL PRESS] UEBER DAS ERHABENE. Price: $200.00	David L. Shores. [VIRGINIA] TANGIER ISLAND: PLACE, PEOPLE, AND TALK. Price: $95.00
David Kindersley. [SPECIAL PRESS] GRAPHIC SAYINGS [DELUXE COPY]. Price: $200.00	Frederick H. Dyer | Bell Irvin Wiley [Introduction] | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [SIGNED] [CIVIL WAR] A COMPENDIUM OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION (3 VOLUMES; SLIPCASE). Price: $750.00
Idries Shah | Cornelia von Mengerhausen. [SPECIAL PRESS] TALE OF THE SANDS. Price: $650.00	Calder Willingham. [LITERATURE] RAMBLING ROSE. Price: $100.00
Iftikhar Azmi (Translator) | Illustrated by Richard Kennedy. [SPECIAL PRESS] THE GARDEN OF THE NIGHT. Price: $275.00	John Rolfe Gardiner. [SIGNED] [LITERATURE] GOING ON LIKE THIS. Price: $50.00
Alan Bennett. [SIGNED] [LIMITED] THE UNCOMMON READER. Price: $200.00	H. Clark Brown [Tokaniya]. [AMERICANA] THIS IS A GOODLY PLACE TO CALL ONE’S HOME (A CENTENNIAL SALUTE TO CHARLES CITY, IOWA.) 1854-1954. Price: $45.00
Frank Alweis. [SPECIAL PRESS] BLUE. THREE POEMS IN AN ENGLISH AND A FRENCH VERSION & THREE DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR. Price: $200.00	Max Caflisch. [GRAPHIC DESIGN] KLEINES SPIEL MET ORNAMENTEN. Price: $100.00
Mark Arman. [SPECIAL PRESS] SEVENTEEN 18th AND 19th CENTURY BOXWOOD BLOCKS. AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR HISTORY. Price: $200.00	Edward Falco. [SIGNED] [LITERATURE] WINTER IN FLORIDA. Price: $100.00
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John Ruskin. [FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] [PRIZE BINDINGS] MODERN PAINTERS (2 Volumes; Set). Price: $950.00   William Garnett | [John Mercer Brooke]. [CONFEDERATE] [VMI] LETTER TO JOHN MERCER BROOKE. Price: $250.00