Chicago & New York: Ad Hoc Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Party, USA, 1970-1971. Three issues: Vol. 8 Nos. 2 & 3, Vol. 9 No. 1. Bound in publisher's corner stapled sheets. 11; 11; 14 pp. respectively. Very Good, sheets folded in the middle, light toning, creased corners to the issues..... 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
[np]: [Detroit?], [1967?]. Single color screenprint, entirely unmarked, measuring 31" x 11.5" Originally purchased from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania estate that had many posters from the Haight-Ashbury scene of the 1960s and '70s. Presumably made by a graphic artist in connection with the 1967 Ford strike, but entirely without attribution. Very..... 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
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
Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1875. First edition. [iv], 136 pp. Bound in publisher's limp paper wraps, stab-sewn. Good only with detached front wrap, edge-chipping to spine and front wrap, crease to front wrap as well, bumped corners. Scarce. A recent OCLC search showed a single institutional copy of the physical..... 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
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1873. First printing of this translation. viii, 235, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind with gilt spine lettering, brown coated endpapers. Very Good, corners bumped, front hinge cracked but holding, a few penciled marginal notes and brackets A rare early English language..... 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
Oakland & San Francisco: The Black Panther Party, 1967-1980. An extensive collection of 236 numbers in 233 issues (Volume 2, Numbers 15-17 are printed in a single volume and Volume 6, Numbers 13 and 14 are as well). Intermittent run spanning from the first volume to the final volume (the..... More
San Francisco: Guerilla, 1968. Two-sided broadsheet, 22 1/2" x 16 1/4". Very Good with two mailing folds, light toning, minimal wear, pencil on verso. Volume 2, issue 3 of the radical periodical Guerrilla. Stored folded-up. More
New York: Harmony Books, 2008. First edition. Signed by Abraham Bolden on the half title with a warm, lengthy inscription to the former owner, dated April 26, 2010. [x], 306 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth and boards, spine lettered in silver. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The autobiography of the..... 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