New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. First edition. Signed by Amartya Sen on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. Near Fine with light wear in Fine dust jacket. An excellent copy. The Nobel Prize-winning economist and philosopher's examination of the causal link between identity and violence..... More
London and New York: ICA / Verso, 1989. First edition. 96 pp. Publisher's wraps coated with sandpaper. Near Fine with typical rubbing to sandpaper along top edge. A book to accompany the ICA exhibition On the Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Period of Time, covering the avant-garde..... More
[Various Places]: [Various], [Late 1960s-1990s]. A Portland, Oregon activist's collection of 90 pamphlets, zines, and periodicals exploring the aftermath and influence of the Paris-based group The Situationist International. That influence was profound on anarchism, even though the group's political orientation was explicitly and sometimes dogmatically Marxist. All manner of Situationist-inspired..... 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
London: The Olympia Press, 1971. First British edition. xxxvi, [2], 52 pp. Illustrated wraps. Very Good with wear along edges, faint stains to front wrap. A radical feminist manifesto. Its author became famous when she nonfatally shot Pop artist Andy Warhol in 1968. More
London: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., 1964. First edition. xiv, 373 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with metallic blue spine lettering. Near Fine with faint foxing to edges, former owner's name on front free endpaper in light pencil, in a Near Fine dust jacket, lightly worn. Two clipped articles about..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1945. First British edition. 305 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with former owner's name written on and faint crease to front free endpaper, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with toning to spine panel, a few water spots there as..... More
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1975-1979. First edition. Complete four volume set. As issued Vol. I is bound in red leather, all other volumes bound in various colors of cloth, lettered in gilt. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket with some light soiling, foxing, and wear to jackets, back..... More
New York: Summit Books, 1979. First edition. [2], 602 pp. Publisher's black cloth with white lettering. Very Good with light wear and staining, a little waviness to terminals, in a toned Very Good+ dust jacket. Pieces from the '70s by the gonzo journalist. 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: Simon & Schuster, 1964. First edition, cloth issue. 123 pp. Publisher's black boards with white cloth backstrip, lettered in black. Near Fine with slightly bumped bottom corners, publisher's "H" stamp on paste down and tiny bookstore label, in a Very Good dust jacket chipped at head and bottom..... More