Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. First edition. 228 pp. Publisher's cloth. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Pages toned with age. Small ding in front board, else fine. Jacket missing chips in top of front panel, spine panel sunned, staining and wear to back panel, a few archival mends..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], [1970]. 4.25" x 5.5", single-sided handbill flyer. Good, horizontally creased, missing triangular chips at corners, wrinkled, toned. No other copies located in commerce or in institutional collections such as University of Washington's Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection. A scarce piece of propaganda from the American anti-Vietnam..... More
Portland, OR: Indymedia, [2002]. Two 11" x 17" vintage black-and-white flyers protesting then-VP Dick Cheney's 2002 visit to Portland, Oregon. Staple holes, light wear. Popular Left/antiglobalization site Indymedia's web address written in marker on the bottom margin of one poster; highlighting to text of the other with dates corrected in..... More
San Francisco: Spinsters / Aunt Lute Book Company, 1987. Signed by Gloria Anzaldua on the verso of the front wrap, "Para Judy, Ojale que te guste mi librito. Contigo, Gloria E. Anzaldua / 2 Febrero 89." [xvi], 203, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Second printing of the first edition..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1937. First edition. 320 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with crimson lettering. Very Good, offsetting and foxing to cloth and endpapers, faint paperclip impresion to prelims, in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, flaps foxed, unclipped ($2.50). Red, white and blue dust jacket..... More
London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1951. First British edition, first printing. (Published in the United States as The Origins of Totalitarianism the same year.) xvi, 477 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light soiling to edges, worn tips, in a Fair dust jacket, chipped..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969. Collector's edition. vi, 333 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards, housed in matching slipcase. Fifth impression of the first edition with a dramatically redesigned binding and matching slipcase not present in prior or later printings. Near Fine with slightly toned spine, in Near..... More
London: T. Payne, B. White, and T. Cadell, 1776. First English edition and the first edition in the English language; translated by William Ellis directly from the Greek. Fireside poet James Russell Lowell's copy, inscribed to him by his friend, American transcendentalist writer and artist C.P. Cranch. Quarto. 8.75 x...... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1963. First edition, first printing. 122, [3] pp. Publisher's gray and black cloth variant binding, lettered in red, red topstain. Near Fine with offsetting and a little foxing to ednappers, in Very Good dust jacket, a little edgeworn and rubbed, slightly scuffed, price-clipped. The author's..... More
Brighton: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968. First edition, first printing. Publisher's white stapled wraps silkscreened in red and blue. One of 250 copies in the first printing, this copy unnumbered. Very Good, with wear and toning to wraps. Splits started at spine fold, though binding is solid. A short work written in..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S.A., 1951. First Spanish language edition, complete in three volumes. All three volumes signed by Arturo Barea on their front free endpapers, dated 1952. The first volume has a brief inscription in Spanish to the former owner. Bound in publishers' wraps with dust jackets. Near Fine..... More
New York: American Free Trade League, 1870. First thus. xvi, 398 pp. Bound in publisher's gray wraps. Very Good or better, given the fragility of the wraps. Rear wrap torn near head with curling along top edge, rectangular chip to bottom edge, some soiling and curling to terminals as well..... More
Tournai, Belgium: Casterman, 1973. First edition. Signed by Jean Baudrillard on the front free endpaper, inscribed to J.P. Mayer (1903-1992) Professor Emeritus at Reading University, "Pour Peter Mayer, tres cordialement, J. Baudrillard. 148 pp. Wraps. In French. Near Fine with light reading wear. The French postmodern philosopher's critique of Karl..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls / Sabra Books, 1971. First edition, copy #249 of 2000 signed by Ben-Gurion underneath his frontis photo. Bound in publisher's padded blue leather decorated in gilt with gilt topstain, housed in plain blue cloth slipcase. A Near Fine copy with faint rubbing at tips, slight..... More
London: New English Library, 1972. First NEL hardcover edition. Signed by David Ben-Gurion on the title page. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear, former owner name to front free endpaper, offsetting to free endsheets and light tanning to pages. In a...... More
New York: Simulations Publications, Inc., 1977. First edition. [vi], 186 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver, brown endpapers. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with spine panel red lettering mostly gone, wear at extremities, rubbed. A rare history and explanation of wargaming published by the magazine Strategy & Tactics..... More
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1912. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alexander Berkman with a full-page inscription to the previous owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original cloth with spine lettered in black. Good. Cloth mottled, edge-worn, toned at the spine and edges, and with..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1969. Inscribed by Brown on half title in the early '70s: "See it's no between: you're either free or you are a slave." It is the signature phrase of Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, currently serving a life sentence. Also..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885. First edition. [ii], x, 645 pp. with frontispiece and illustrations. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth lettered in gilt, blue endpapers. Near Fine, cloth slightly mottled, bookplate on rear paste down. A very clean, attractive copy in uncommonly nice shape despite its age. A laudatory, detailed biography-in-letters..... More
London: Macmillan & Company, Limited, 1912. First edition. [viii], 211, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with two small wear spots to spine, two dings to boards along top edge, edges a little foxed, offsetting to endpapers, vintage Paris bookseller's ticket to paste..... More
Yonkers: Gazette Press, 1910. First edition. 103 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good, cloth worn and a little frayed at extremities with exposed tips. Distinguished African American sociologist Adelaide Hill's copy with her signature (under her maiden name) on the front free endpaper. A...... More
New York: Dorrance and Company, 1927. First edition. Signed by Smedley D. Butler on half-title, inscribed to former owner, a Lt. Raymond A. Price (whose impressions are on the prelims), and dated January 30, 1935. 238 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with red lettering. A Very Good copy with..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. (xii), 241, (1) pp. Original gray cloth with navy lettering. Near Fine with slightly pilled cloth, a little dust-soiling. Lacks dust jacket. The crime author's first book, a series of fictional characters' dialogues on the nature of the American government. More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. First British edition. 495 pp. w/ author's note tipped in. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with gift inscription on front free endpaper, slughtly bumped corners, in a Near Fine dust jacket, toned with age, small tear near head, rubbing to..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First American edition. 495 pp. Original black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Light foxing along edges, else Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with some sunning (especially to the spine panel) and edge-rubbing. A classic, highly poetic examination of the crowd dynamic..... More