Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975. Advance reading copy, issued before publication of the first edition. 352 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow printed wraps, map endpapers. Very Good, wraps and edges a little soiled, toned, and foxed. Abbey's best-known novel, chronicling the adventures of a gang of..... More
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
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. First British edition, wrappered issue. (Apparently issued simultaneously with the much more common cloth issue.) 280, (4, ads) pp. Wraps. Very Good condition for a paperback of this era despite wear: loss at head and tail, some soiling, chips and creasing to fragile wraps, and..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for Hall and Sellers; J. Crukshank; and Young and McCulloch, 1787. First American edition of John Adams' influential treatise on government. Association copy owned by John Beckley, his signature and that of Mary Anne Beckley to title page. xx, [3] - 390 pp., laid paper, collated complete. Duodecimo..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first printing. Signed by Saul Alinsky on the front free endpaper and inscribed" To Francine Goldberg. With gratitude: Saul Alinsky." xxvi, 196 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, red lettering on front board. Near Fine with slight lean to..... More
Washington, DC: A-APRP, 1986. First edition a scarce pro-Palestinian pamphlet by an international socialist organization founded in the African nation of Ghana. [5], 17, [2] pp. including wraps. Bound in publisher's side-stapled printed wraps. Very Good with moderate creasing, light toning, trivial soiling and faint droplet staining to covers; small..... More
Washington, DC: American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), 1954. First edition of a rare Quaker pamphlet on the desegregation of Washington, DC schools following the epic Brown v. Board of Education decision. Answers questions and addresses concerns of parents and teachers of all races. [16] pp. Staplebound wraps. Near Fine, faint..... 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
[UK]: [Unknown], [1980]. Two vintage anarcho-punk/ peace punk armbands from the United Kingdom, manufactured circa 1980. Machine sewn white cotton linen with black elastic bands at verso. Screen printed red anarchist designs. Each are 6.5 x 3.5". Near Fine with light fading and minor abrasions at edges. Scarce, in-your-face political..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1964. First edition, first printing. Signed by Harry Anslinger on the front free endpaper and warmly inscribed to the recipient. xii, 244 pp. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards over oatmeal spine cloth stamped in black and red. Very Good with light rubbing and..... 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, 1969. Second printing of revised paperback edition. Association copy signed by Hannah Arendt on the first page; Hans Morgenthau's copy from his family estate, although unmarked. [x], 306 pp. Bound in publisher's purple wraps. Very Good+ with moderate wear to covers, light soiling to textblock..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1951. First British edition. (Published in the United States as The Origins of Totalitarianism the same year.) xvi, 477 pp. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with tiny tear to crown, a little wear and a few tiny stains..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hannah Arendt on the title page. [viii], 343 pp. Bound in publisher's bi-color blocked cloth stamped in red and black; black topstain. Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial wear at spine ends. One of 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
Washington, D.C. The Patrick Henry Congress, [1954]. First edition. Pamphlet urging war against the Soviet Union and promoting the short-lived Patrick Henry Congress. [6] pp. Staple bound in publisher's self-wraps. Traces of rust from staples, else Fine. Pencil inscription to front cover notes that the pamphlet was received September 15..... More
Culver City, CA: Self Published, 1975. First printing, limited issue of 150 copies. 281, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's white wraps printed in black. Near Fine with light toning and soiling to covers, small chip at head of spine, and scattering of tiny stains to upper edge of textblock. Contents..... More
[New York & Dallas]: Associated Press, Dow Jones & Company Inc., UPI, 1963. Six teletype scrolls from November 22, 1963, printed with financial news from Dow Jones intermingled with breaking news of the Kennedy assassination and its immediate aftermath from the Associated Press & UPI. Printed in blue ink, all..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1906. First edition. xl, 135 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with lean to binding, spine slightly sunned, minor soiling to cloth; contents lightly toned at edges. Scarce. The biography of Josiah Warren, founder of Philosophical Anarchism in the United..... 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
New York: Funk & Wagnalls / Sabra Books, 1971. First edition, limited issue, copy #1780 of 2000 signed by David Ben-Gurion. Bound in publisher's padded dark blue leather stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, pale blue watered silk endpapers. Near Fine with light soiling to covers, foxing to textblock edges..... 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