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
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
[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
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
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Washington, D.C. The National Woman Suffrage Association, 1888. A handbill for the Fortieth Anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Moment, International Council of Women Assembled by the National Woman Suffrage Association. Signed by Susan B. Anthony on the bottom margin. Single sheet measuring 5 3/4" x 4 5/8", printed on recto..... 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
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: 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
New York: De Witt and Davenport, Publishers, 1856. First edition. 384 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dark blue coated endpapers. Very Good with worn tips exposing boards, rubbing, a little foxing to endpapers, mostly erased former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper, hinges..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition. Signed by author Kwame Ture (formerly known as Stokely Carmichael) on the front paste down, "To My Brother James, Afrika is our Home [signed] Kwame Ture." xxxii, 229 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with blindstamped front board, spine lettered in brown. Fine..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing stated. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth stamped in gilt, with yellow topstain. Near Fine with slight rubbing to corners and spine ends, bookseller ticket to rear paste down. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light..... 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: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1962. First edition, first printing of the autobiography of the woman Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dubbed as the "Mother of the Movement," whose civil rights activism focused on voter registration, citizen education, and women’s rights. While teaching in the Sea Islands off..... 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
Xenia, OH: The Aldine Printing House, 1892. Signed. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy from "The Mother of Black Feminism," inscribed by Anna Julia Cooper on the title page, "Harvey Ray, Kind regards of the Author. June 10 1910." [6],304 pp. with frontispiece of the author. Bound in publisher's..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed by Angela Davis on the title page, and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering.Very Good with tape stains to boards, stain and residue to front endsheet, binding pulled with some tenderness to..... 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
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. First edition. Signed by Dorothy Day on the front free endpaper in blue ink, inscribed, "St. Benedict's Day '64 / For Lois - with love - Dorothy Day." viii, 216 pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with small..... More
New York: Catholic Worker Books, 1948. First edition. 175 pp. Original stiff wraps. Very Good+ with toning to wraps, former owner's name on front free endpaper, light wear and slightly concave spine. An uncommon early memoir by the radical Catholic writer and activist, published four years before her autobiographical After..... More