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
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
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First edition. [x], 246 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering, black stamping. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn. Six essays by the German-American political theorist and philosopher. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First edition. [viii], 343 pp. Bound in publisher's blue and tan cloth stamped in red and black. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly shelf-worn, faint crease and hint of sunning to spine panel. An attractive copy. An examination of revolution centered on the..... 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
Detroit & Chicago: Black & Red; Solidarity, 1974. First English-language edition, first printing. 284 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps. Very Good, slightly foxed, rubbed, and a little musty. A history of the Ukrainian resistance to the Russian Revolution, led by anarchist Nestor Makhno (1888-1934). Co-published by anarcho-Situationist Fredy Perlman's..... 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
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
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
Oakland & San Francisco: The Black Panther Party, 1967-1976. First editions. 51 tabloid issues. Newsprint in tabloid format. Publication sequence as follows: Vol. 1 No. 6; Vol.2, Nos. 5, 18, 20; Vol.3, Nos.1-3, 6, 12, 16, 21-22, 26, 27, 29, 32; Vol.4, Nos. 3-8 (both issues), 9, 12, 14, 18..... 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
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. First US edition. xxiv, 175 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering on spine. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped jacket with spine panel darkened and edge-wear heaviest at head and tail. Former owner's bookplate on paste down. A rare double work of nonfiction by..... More
New York / Boston: Charles S. Francis and Company. / James Munroe & Co., 1843. First Edition. Signed by Lydia Maria Child and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original brown ribbed cloth, with new cloth spine preserving just the gilt title of the original which is laid..... More