Berkeley: Point-Blank! 1972. First edition. An as-yet unstapled, unfolded copy of the first issue of the 1970s Bay Area post-Situationist group Point-Blank's journal. 100 pp. Loose 8.5" x 11" sheets. Very Good with staining to what would be back wrap if folded, light stains to table of contents. Illustrated with..... More
Palo Alto, CA: Point-Blank! 1972. First edition. [16] pp. Unbound folded sheets. Very Good with slight foxing, brown paint stain on rear wrap "Psychogeographic Map" of Stanford University. A rare critique of higher education-- Stanford University in particular-- by the Bay Area post-Situationist group Point-Blank! More
San Diego: Atticus Press, 1983. First edition. Review copy with stamp on front wrap. 163 pp. Plain wraps. A Fine copy, unread. A dictionary of Mexican American slang spanning from the mid 20th century to the beginnings of cholo culture in the '80s. More
1933. Precht, Fred A. (1863-1942). Portrait of Daniel De Leon. Oil on canvas measuring roughly 23" x 19" in simple, vintage wooden frame; signed "Precht 1933" at the top right corner, with the logo for the Socialist Labor party painted in the top left corner. Noted on the back side..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles stamped in orange, map endpapers. Very Good, with light shelf lean. Light rubbing at tips, ding to spine affecting author's name. Cloth lightly soiled. Previous owner name and address to recto of frontis..... More
Los Angeles: Freedom Press, 1977. Second Revised Edition. iv, 66, 58 [reproducing 18 tiny pages per sheet] pp. Oblong wraps. Text in English and German. Very Good+ with small tear near foot, a little foxing to back wrap. An uncommon counterculture edition of radical Freudian psychologist, writer, and inventor Wilhelm..... More
New York: Orgone Institute Press Inc., 1946. First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) xxiv, 344 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering.A few faint smudges to cloth, else Fine. In a beautiful example of the extremely thin, cheaply-made, fragile dust jacket, Fine, unclipped..... More
Berkeley: Resurrection City, [c. 1976]. Rare pamphlet from a nondenominational ministry catering to the UCLA Berkeley campus called Resurrection City, positing conservative President Richard Nixon and SLA-kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst as the Left and Right wing destructors of the '60s wave of activism in Berkeley. Rare wrap advertises "Night of..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Margaret Sanger on the first blank sheet; with ownership stamps of United States Congressman Fred Schwengel to front paste down and top and bottom textblock edge. Very Good with cloth lightly worn at tips..... More
London: Aldgate Press / Chronos, 1983. First British edition. (First edition in the English language as well.) 101 pp. Wraps. Wraps sunned on spine and front cover, light wear, else fine. An Italian Situationist's expose of the political manipulation of terrorism in Western Europe during the Cold War, as leftwing..... More
Hanover, Germany: Paul Steegemann, Verlag, 1920. First edition. 16 pp. with seven lithographs printed on rectos only, plus the cover design. Cream wove paper bound in publisher's brown stapled wrappers, which are printed on both sides. Very Good, wraps a bit faded with age, front wrap has a few small..... More
Boston: American Humane Education Society / George T. Angell, [1890]. First American edition. (First printing with Angell's preface). [2], iv, [5]-245, [15] pp. Bound in publisher's buff boards. Very Good+ with light rubbing and foxing to boards, a few small cracks along head and tail, slight lean to spine, toning..... More
Northampton, MA: Department of History of Smith College, 1935. First edition. Signed by Vera Shlakman on front free endpaper, association copy inscribed to Smith College colleague Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, "To K.D.L. - (a) with thanks, and (b) in memory of the preface that could never be written [initialed] V.S."..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First edition, Doubleday, Page & Company issue, first issue with unbattered type on the copyright page. Signed by Upton Sinclair and inscribed on the front free endpaper to writer and poet Vernon Patterson, with Patterson's bookplate to the front pastedown. A pencil notation..... More
Berkeley: Point-Blank! [1970s]. First thus. 27, [3] pp. Folded sheets, unbound. Wraps lightly foxed, else Near Fine. The classic May '68 text by the Paris-centered group Situationist International, reprinted by Bay Area post-Situationist group Point-Blank! More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. Signed by Tommie Smith on the title page with inscription headlined "1968," the year of his famous raised fist at the Olympics. [viii], 268 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and boards with gilt spine lettering. Second printing of the first edition. Fine in Fine..... More
European Publishing Company, 1898. First edition, first printing. Association copy signed in the year of publication by Elizabeth Cady Stanton with a lengthy inscription on the dedication page to renowned first-wave Portland feminist Abigail Scott Dunaway. Dunaway was a women's rights advocate, newspaper editor and writer, whose efforts were instrumental..... More
New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First American edition. iv, 236, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's dark brown cloth, with gilt lettering and decorative border in gilt, stamped in black as well, original dark brown endpapers. Very Good+ with rubbing to cloth, top edge a bit dust-soiled and stained, hinges sound..... More
London: Martin Lawrence, 1934. First edition. 84 pp. Wraps. Very Good with slightly toned and stained wraps, nice shape overall. A rare collection of five short stories from '30s working-class London full of striking workers, fascist blackshirts, communists, and clashes in the streets. The author was quite prolific, publishing 113..... More
New York: Published for the Author, 1853. [Boston: Published for the Author, 1854]. Second edition, early issue with title page dated 1853 with a New York imprint, and front wrapper resetting title page within an ornamental border dated 1854 and with a Boston imprint. BAL 19381 describes an 1853 dated..... More
[?]: Np, ca. 1950? Three original 10" x 8" black-and-white photos of an IWW bookstore and meeting space, location and date unknown. Very Good. A little curling to photos, corner crease, some silvering to one photo. Photos show the bookshelves packed with dark hardcover volumes, two older men..... More
Washington, DC: Off Our Backs Collective, 1970-1979. Vol. 1 Nos. 1-5, [8] -24; Vol. II, Nos. 1-4, 6, 8-10; Vol. III 1-4, 6-12; Vol. IV Nos 1-12; Vol. V 1-4, 6-11 (includes misnumbered "Vol. IV No. 3" which is actually third number of this volume); Vol. VI Nos. 1-10; Vol..... More
Port Glasgow: Bratach Dubh Publications, 1978. First edition. (Publication date of February 1978 on bottom of last page, second volume in Bratach Dubh series listed as "in preparation" on back cover.) 28 pp. Stapled red wraps. Very Good+. Original price of 30 p on front cover with sticker shadow. Pages..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: White Panther information Service, 1970-1971. Complete run in three issues. With illustrations from photographs, drawings and comix including a cameo appearance of Mr. Natural by Robert Crumb. Tabloid newspaper format. Very Good with some toning to leaves, minor creasing, chips and tears to edges; a few marginal..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First edition. (vi), 509 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with sunned spine and a little foxing to edges in Good price-clipped dust jacket with some small chips missing from edges, dampstaining, and dulling to spine panel. Internally free of..... More