Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BLACK PANTHERS.) Group of twenty-four Panther newspapers. Uniform small folio, pictorial covers, designed by Emory Douglas; creases where folded in the center, a short closed tear here and there, condition generally very good, pulp paper toned, but fresh and flexible. Should be seen. San Francisco, 1969-71

Additional Details

a broken run of this important official arm of the black panther party, many issues contain striking poster centerfolds and rear covers by Minister of Culture Emory Douglas. Beginning with Volume III, No.10, June 28, 1969; Volume IV, Nos 8 , 9, 14 (2 copies), 15, 16, 18 (2 copies, one dated April 6, the other April 11) 20, 21, 22, 24, 25-26 (2 copies of a double issue) and 28; Volume V, No 1 (2 copies: one July 4, the other July 11), 4, 6, 7, 12, 16, 17; and Volume VI, No 11. (April 10, 1971).