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Black Motorcycle Culture and First Black Motorcycle Police Officers in America, 1960s-1970s by Black Bikers

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Seller: Max Rambod Inc.

Title: Black Motorcycle Culture and First Black Motorcycle Police Officers in America, 1960s-1970s
Author: Black Bikers
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1960. Black motorcycle photo archive documenting African American riders, police motor officers, and the motorcycle community in the postwar United States, primarily during the 1960s and 1970s. Motorcycles became important symbols of freedom, visibility, masculinity, and fellowship during this period, particularly as Black riders formed clubs, organized rides, and claimed public space within a largely segregated leisure culture. The archive places Black riders inside several overlapping worlds at once: civilian biker culture, dealership promotion, stunt riding, and law enforcement motor patrol. Photo archive of 8 photographs, various sizes, ranging from 3.5" x 3.5" to 7.5" x 8.5", United States, circa 1960s-1970s. A large group portrait gathered outside a Triumph motorcycle dealership includes Black and white riders posed around a Triumph motorcycle beneath banners reading "Sales Triumph Service Motorcycles." Several images show Black men seated on motorcycles in casual outdoor settings, including one rider wearing sunglasses and an afro hairstyle astride a street bike and another lifting a motorcycle into a wheelie down a residential street. Additional photographs depict Black police motor officers in uniform and white helmets, including one identified on the verso as "San Diego 1964 1st Black Officer." A small group of riders appears lined along a rough roadside, while another snapshot bears the inscription "Uncle Wesley 1968," preserving the personal and familial context of ownership. The Archive records a period when motorcycles became central to a broader American biker subculture shaped by club affiliation, mechanical skill, fashion, speed, and public performance. African American riders often established their own motorcycle associations and riding communities at a moment when mainstream motorcycle culture and many national clubs remained overwhelmingly white. The inclusion of Black police motor officers is especially notable, linking motorcycles to Black advancement within municipal authority structures during the civil rights era while also reflecting the visibility and prestige attached to motor patrol divisions. Light handling wear, scattered creasing, minor silvering, and occasional edge wear consistent with vernacular snapshot use. Overall in good condition.

Letters Home from an American Professor Working in the Ottoman Empire in the Aftermath of World War I. by [World War I – Ottoman Empire – Turkish War of Independence] “H.C.”

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Title: Letters Home from an American Professor Working in the Ottoman Empire in the Aftermath of World War I.
Author: [World War I – Ottoman Empire – Turkish War of Independence] “H.C.”
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Folded, else fine.
Description: Constantinople, New York City, and others, 1922. Four letters totaling seven pages. Folded, else fine.. A small collection of letters from “H.C.”, who seems to have been an American university professor in Constantinople, to his “Darling Clementine” back home. H.C. may have taught at Robert College, a Christian college founded in 1863, now a prestigious private highschool. It is not clear when H.C. first arrived in Constantinople, but he had been there for several years already by the time the letters begin, and was certainly there at a critical point in its history. He writes in 1918 shortly after the arrival of occupying forces: “conditions are still very bad in town + I long to see the suffering diminished. Some say it will be months yet. Sometimes, now, there is no coal, no electric light, no bread, no water. Can you imagine the state of an Oriental city under such conditions? We have had + are still having trouble about light + water-supply, but we have steam heat + plenty of food of a plain kind. We all keep well. [...] I hear that an American Red Cross boat will arrive next week + I am eager to see its passengers. We may have a chance to leave on it but I can not see my way clear to skip because our faculty is depleted ever since the exodus at the time of the panic long ago, when Miss Lyon left. [...] We have a good college now – boarders about 90 in the College-department – and many day scholars, but lately the Spanish fever + the lack of tram-car service has kept many students away. As soon as our cousins supply coal, we hope for improvement. The Ententists are spreading over the city thoroughly + quietly – like oil. It is a delight to see so many manly looking officers after the ones we have had here for years. There is a spiritual look in the eyes of the present occupants + a look of bull-dog determination.” (December 6, 1918) H.C. enjoys a “real yachting cruise” on his way back to Constantinople from the States in 1921, tells Clementine about his plans for his commencement speech in 1922, and describes a college reception in New York City which “General Custer’s wife”, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, attended (undated letter). Meanwhile, Turkey was engaged in its brutal war for independence. At some point, H.C. befriended Electra—probably a Greek woman—whom he sent along to visit Clementine, in part to help Electra cope with her traumatic experiences during the war: “As you will recall, my young friend’s father was executed – tho innocent – with about 70 others. At first E. bore this with wonderful fortitude but after Xmas a reaction set in, naturally enough. She developed morbidness + a hyper sensitive attitude toward all of my looks + words – probably a condition due to shock. I am confident that travel + new scenes + interests will bring her back to her old self + your wholesome household will chase all gloom away. A doctor told her lately that she has hysteria + that she must think of cheerful things, only. I tell you this, thinking that you might keep her from talking about the nation that does cruel things. The truth is that cruelty is pretty generally distributed + a judicial mind finds it difficult to pick + choose. Some nations get the public ear + so the pot can call the kettle black!” (June 6, 1922) Indeed, both sides of the Greco-Turkish war—part of the larger Turkish campaign for independence—massacred each other. However, only the Turkish contingent’s actions have been argued by historians to constitute ethnic cleansing or genocide. Of interest to historians of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey post-World War I, especially Americans’ experience thereof.

The celestial omnibus and other stories by FORSTER, E.M.

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Title: The celestial omnibus and other stories
Author: FORSTER, E.M.
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. FIRST EDITION. Original brown cloth, front cover with gilt design (lightly faded), top edges gilt, backstrip with minor wear; illustrated endpapers after Roger Fry. From the library of C.E.L. Tottenham with his armorial bookplate. First edition, first printing, one of one thousand copies. Forster’s fifth book with a collection of short stories, primarily fantasies and fables, written during the prewar years. Includes the story, The other side of the hedge, which tells the famous tale of the “modern day” person all too concerned with tracking progress while traveling the road to perceived success. Forster (1879-1970) was a 16-time Nobel Prize nominated novelist, essayist, and librettist. His works most often examine class difference and hypocrisy in early twentieth century England, which speaks to the heart of his humanistic undertakings. He is known for his attachment to mysticism and ardent use of symbolism.

NURSERY COMICS by Anonymous

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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

Title: NURSERY COMICS
Author: Anonymous
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: NURSERY COMICS, Whitman, 1940, first edition, vg+ in full color pictorial wraps with a 14 page interior likewise in full color and in comic format consisting of THE UGLY DUCKLING, THREE LITTLE PIGS, THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE, THE THREE BEARS, THREE BLIND MICE, TOM THUMB, LITTLE BLACK SAMBO, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, THE LION AND THE MOUSE, JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, HANSEL AND GRETEL, THE GINGERBREAD BOY, LITTLE R ED HEN & THE THREE LITTLE KITTENS. Uncommon to be sure. Product #903.

Ralph Schraivogel [World Graphic Design 93] by SHRAIVOGEL, Ralph

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Title: Ralph Schraivogel [World Graphic Design 93]
Author: SHRAIVOGEL, Ralph
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9784887523180
Description: Tokyo: Ginza Graphic Gallery, 2010. 18.3 cm. 64 pages. Color reproductions. Original hardcover boards, with the printed wraparound band. Text in Japanese and English. A fine monograph on the Swiss graphic designer's posters.

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Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma In The Era Of The Recovered Memory Debate by Alpert, Judith L., editor

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Title: Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma In The Era Of The Recovered Memory Debate
Author: Alpert, Judith L., editor
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9781568213637
Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
Description: Northvale: Jason Aronson, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.

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