Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1946. First edition. Signed by Saul Alinsky on front free endpaper. Former owner's name written above that with date of Feb 1946. 228 pp. Publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slightly dulled spine lettering, very slight wave to prelims..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. First edition. 228 p. 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, price intact ($2.50). Alinsky more-or-less created..... More
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Palo Alto, CA: Midpeninsula Observer, 1967. Stop the Draft Week Portfolio Photo Collection. Small folio. Original printed paper wrapper with inner sleeves holding a loose suite of twenty photographs, including three double-page, documenting protestors and police clashing at the "Stop the Draft Week" protests in Oakland on October 16-20, 1967..... More
London: Aurum Press, 1978. First edition. 96 pp. Publisher's neon pink wraps. A Near Fine copy with bright wraps, lightly shelf worn with very faint soiling. An attractive copy of a rare early book on punk music and fashion, chock full of photos and quotes from musicians and scenesters... More
Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Printers, 1871. 4 pp. Self-wrappers. First edition. Fine. An announcement by famous feminist Susan B. Anthony and five other suffragettes of the formation of a National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee, and their intent to pursue recognition of voting rights for women under the..... More
London: Printed for Thomas Northcott, 1691. Second edition. [181]-236 pp. Complete text but does not include Appendix: "Robert Barclay, His Vindication[...]" other copies were apparently bound with. Disbound with paper tape on spine. Very Good with slightly worn corners, small stains on last page and a small marginal checkmark there..... 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
Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1961. First edition, trade issue. Signed by Aime Cesaire on the half title, inscribed in French to American translator and scholar of French literature Ellen Conroy Kennedy in Dakar in 1966. Kennedy later published a book of translations of the Negritude Poets, the movement Cesaire co-founded..... More
Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1960. First edition, trade issue. Signed by Aime Cesaire on the half title, warmly inscribed in French to American translator and scholar of French literature Ellen Conroy Kennedy in Dakar in 1966. Kennedy later published a book of translations of the Negritude Poets, the movement Cesaire..... 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
New York: Delta, [1970?]. Signed by Eldridge Cleaver on half title with inscription, "For Jimmy / Do It! / [signed] Eldridge Cleaver / 4-19-98." Presumably signed in the Portland, Oregon area before Cleaver's Earth Day appearance there; he passed away not much more than a week later. xv, [1], 210..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Signed by Cleaver on front free endpaper in ink, inscribed to former owner "at SSC" [probably the Socialist Scholar's Conference], "All Power to the People," dated October 2, 1968. Former owner's name written in red pencil above that. xv, 210, (1, Note About Author) pp. Original..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine titles in white. Near Fine with a thin strip of sunning at cloth edges. Previous owner name and date to front free endpaper and some offsetting the front and rear free..... More
[Boston]: The Massachusetts Colonization Society, 1857. First American edition. (Reprinted from the London edition of 1856.) Original saddlestitched wraps. 31, [1, note] pp. Very Good with small chip at head, light tidemark to upper left corner of margin, wraps a little soiled and edges slightly worn. This pamphlet is a...... 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
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
Rochester, NY: Press of C. W. Hebard, 1859. 23 pp. Bound in publisher's original grey printed wraps. Near Fine, with light wear and toning to wraps. Originally a Quaker group, the 1859 board members included abolitionists and Women's Rights activists such as Frederick Douglass, who served on the Business Committee..... 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: 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
New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First American edition. 186 pp. White cloth with black lettering on spine. Near Fine with light softening at spine ends, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning, light edge wear and light chipping; faint stain at foot of spine panel. The..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First American edition. 186 pp. White cloth with black lettering on spine. Former owner's name and bookplate on paste down, else Fine, in a bright unfaded dust jacket with tiny chips to extremities, unclipped ($5.95). The first appearance in the English language of a...... More
New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1973. First American edition. 313 pp. Original pale brown cloth with black lettering. Very Good+ with light wear along bottom edge, bumped corners, previous owner's bookplate, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed, spine shows a hint of sunning, two small closed..... 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