New York: Random House, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed by Angela Davis on the title page, and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering.Very Good with tape stains to boards, stain and residue to front endsheet, binding pulled with some tenderness to..... More
![Item #140945157 [Black Panther Party] James Baldwin's Statement to Angela. Angela Davis, Vinton...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140945157.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687149317)
Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Committee to Free Angela Davis / October Graphics, [1971]. Silkscreen poster measuring 29" x 22.5, in black on white. Near Fine with minimal wear. Printed by October Graphics designer Vinton Kirk, using the concluding lines of James Baldwin's "An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis"..... More
New York and London: Sheed & Ward. First edition. xxxvi, [2], 275 pp. Original grayish blue cloth lettered in black. Very Good+ with name and bookstore label on front free endpaper, light dampstaining to spine, in Very Good dust jacket with sunned and slightly dampstained spine panel, chip near foot..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. First edition. Signed by Dorothy Day on the front free endpaper in blue ink, inscribed, "St. Benedict's Day '64 / For Lois - with love - Dorothy Day." viii, 216 pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with small..... More
New York: Catholic Worker Books, 1948. First edition. 175 pp. Original stiff wraps. Very Good+ with toning to wraps, former owner's name on front free endpaper, light wear and slightly concave spine. An uncommon early memoir by the radical Catholic writer and activist, published four years before her autobiographical After..... More
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1914. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1914 and "Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1914" on copyright page.) 480 pp. with frontispiece of the author. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black spine lettering. Very Good with bumped corners, some bubbling..... More
Paris: Jacqueline de Jong, 1962. Issue #2. 64 pp. Blue stapled wraps. Text in multiple languages including English. Very Good+ with wraps sunned along edges with small stain to bottom of yapped edges, internally clean and bright. The journal of the northern contingent/schism of the Situationist International, with cutting-edge '60s..... More
Detroit: Black & Red, 1970. First American edition. (Correct first in the English-language, an unauthorized translation by Fredy Perlman among others. No additional printings indicated on copyright page; first issue price of $1 on front cover.) Near Fine condition. A bit of age-toning to wraps, light shelf wear. A handsome..... More
Paris: Buchet/Castel, 1967. First edition. 221 pp. Publisher's white wraps. Near Fine with some light rubbing to wraps, faint stain to fore edge. Internally free of marks and only a little toned with age. About half of the scarce belly band laid in, the rest gone. An attractive copy of..... More
St. Louis: Phil Wagner, 1916. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth boards lettered in darker blue. Very Good with lean to binding, light soiling to cloth with light rubbing at corners and spine ends, browning to pages. A scarce title by the American socialist, political activist, trade..... More
Pasadena: Upton Sinclair, 1920. First edition, copy #20 of a limited issue of 500 copies signed by Eugene Debs on limitation mounted on rear paste down. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with oxidation to gilt stamping with some rubbing to lettering on the spine, slight lean to binding..... More
Hartford, CT: Park Publishing Co., 1881. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1881.) xxiii, [i], 13-516 pp. with tissue-guarded frontispiece, Bound in publisher's terra cotta cloth decorated in blind, with titles in gilt on the spine. Very Good with wear and a little fraying to cloth at head..... More
Boston: [No Publisher], ca. 1879. The classic Carte-de-visite portrait of Frederick Douglass and perhaps the best-known image of him, as it was used for the frontispiece of this third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, which was published in 1881. Albumen photograph measuring 3 3/4" x 2 on original..... More
London: Women's Printing Society, 1912. [ca. 1912]. First edition of this suffragette cookbook issued to raise funds for the feminist cause. Bound in publisher's original decorated boards over dark green spine cloth. Very Good. Covers worn, abrasion to rear cover from label removal, inner hinges repaired; pages toned and endhseets..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1931. Seventeenth edition. Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on the front free endpaper, below a tipped in illustration which is perhaps obscuring evidence of a former bookplate removal. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with spine faded, lightly worn at ends..... More
New York: Grass Roots Defense Committee, [1970]. First edition. 6 pp. Folded unbound sheets. Near Fine, a little toned with age. Uncommon: two copies in OCLC. An obscure pamphlet from 1970 calling for a radical leftwing/rightwing alliance to "go underground" (presumably together) and battle The Establishment. This grouping would take..... More
New York: The Masses Publishing Company, 1917. Four issue run of the famous American revolutionary socialist magazine: April, May, June, and July issues of 1917. Vol. IX Nos. 6-9. Stapled wraps. Good+ condition overall, some issues better, light wear and a little chipping, toned with age. May and June issues..... More
![Item #140944990 [Black Panther Party] Revolution in Our Lifetime. Douglas Emory](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140944990.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684013984)
San Francisco: [Black Panther Party] Ministry of Information, [ca. 1970]. Original poster measuring 20.5" x 13.75. White heavy stock offset printed in black. Very Good with some foxing heaviest to the rear, light tanning. Douglas was the primary illustrator and revolutionary artist for the Black Panther Party, serving as its..... More
New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1887. First edition in English of the German philosopher's study of the industrial working class in Victorian England. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth over bevel-edged boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint rubbing to cloth at extremities, and a small..... More
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1965. First British edition. 255 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, top edge foxed, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, rubbed and a little worn along edges, slight creasing to top of front panel,unclipped (36 s net). A foundational work..... More
![Item #140945421 Pictures of the Gone World [First copy of the first City Lights book]. Lawrence...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140945421.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691340641)
San Francisco: The City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1955. A copy of great historical significance: the very first copy of the first book ever published by City Lights. First edition, first printing. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page, inscribed, simply, "Lawrence Ferlinghetti / August 5, 1955 / (first copy)."..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1972. Signed by Paulo Freire on the title page; provenance written on interior of front cover by former owner, an October 1981 after a lecture at the University of Michigan; owner name stamp to top and bottom of text block, interior of front cover, and..... More
Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press, 1941. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over coarse beige spine cloth. Very Good. Covers a bit soiled and worn, with occasional rubbing through at edges and small loss to bottom corner of upper board, foxing to textblock edge, repair to inner hinges..... More
Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1942. Volume I. First edition, first printing. Publisher's pale blue paper-covered boards over cloth spine. Very Good with soiling and toning to cloth, edge wear, spotting to textblock edge. Front inner hinge slightly cracked, pages toned with sporadic thumbing and foxing. With Corrigenda sheet laid in..... More
Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1942. Volume I. First edition, first printing. Publisher's grey paper-covered boards over cloth spine. Good+. Front free end paper lacking, tipped in corrigenda slip present. Insect damage to edges, as well as preliminary and terminal pages.Offsetting to paste downs, and foxing to pages. In a very..... More