If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music
Oakland: PM Press, 2020. First Edition. First printing. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 258pp. New, unread copy. More
Oakland: PM Press, 2020. First Edition. First printing. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 258pp. New, unread copy. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930. First Edition. Banned from the Soviet Union until 1988, Cynics was Imaginist poet Marienhoff's second novel, an account of two Russian intellectuals during the Russian Revolution and the subsequent War communism. Scarce in such a nicely preserved dust jacket. Small octavo (19.25cm.); original..... More
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Procyon, 1959. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo; printed paper wrappers (softcover); 219,(3)pp. Mild fading to wrappers; text tight, clean, and mostly unopened; Near Fine. First printing of these essays by the important Cuban Marxist intellectual Juan Marinello Vidaurreta (1898-1977). A Cuban edition did not appear until..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with pictorial device to front board; 114pp. Spine gilt dulled, a little shaken, still a Very Good, unmarked copy, signed by the prominent socialist poet on front endpaper. Lacking jacket. More
Fresno: Al Kitab Sudan Publication, 1968. First Edition. Brief parable by Marvin X, poet, publisher, and an influential founder of the Black Arts Movement. A cautionary tale about race and servitude, intended for juvenile audiences. OCLC notes 18 holdings. Illustrated broadside, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 21.25cm..... More
Astoria, OR: Lahjaski "Toverittarelta" N.d. (ca 1920s). First Edition. Volume of proletarian poetry by Helmi Mattson, among the more prominent Finnish-American women leftists of the interwar period. Born in Finland, Mattson emigrated to International Falls, Minnesota, married, then relocated to Astoria, Oregon where she edited the important Finnish women's periodical..... More
Denver: Swallow Press, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 188pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $8.00 on front flap), lightly rubbed and with some sun-fading to spine panel; just VG. Selections from the North Dakota poet's first nine books..... More
New York: Cameron Associates, 1956. First edition. First printing. 12mo. Pale tan cloth (hardcover); dustjacket; three preliminary leaves; [32]pp. Mild toning to cloth on spine, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), lightly rubbed and toned, VG+. Publisher's review materials laid in, including a...... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1974. First Edition. First book by the native Berkeley poet. "The poems that make-up my first volume...are the articulation of my vision, the illumination of my experiences they are that part of my survival kit I'm willing to reveal and share. I try to write poems that..... More
New York: Oak Publications, 1966. First Edition. First printing. Small folio (28cm). Red pictorial paper wrappers; 96pp; black and white illustrations throughout. Rubbing to edges, crease to upper front corner, else Very Good. A collection of subversive folk and original songs by noted folksinger and guitar teacher Jerry Silverman, published..... More
London: TNT Press, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm). Side-stapled sheets; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 18pp (printed recto-only). Mild external soil and some aging to text; Very Good or better. Uncommon work by the prolific Anglo-American musician/producer/illustrator/author, long-time radio host at KPFA, the Oakland, California affiliate of Pacifica Radio, and proprietor..... More
Mays Landing, NJ: Open Road Press, Inc., 1944. First Edition. "UNITED WORLD deals with the most vital and the most controversial issue of the day: world organization. The book is neither dogmatic nor partisan. It presents the question of a world community in the light of history and of contemporary..... More
Montreal: Progressive Books & Periodicals, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 102pp. Fine. Single issue of this Canadian journal of Marxist art & literary theory. Contributions by P. Kogan, Eric Scheper, Caroline Borden, Armand Barotti, Mary Ellen Brooks, others. More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Edition of 6000 copies. Octavo; printed card wrappers; 110pp. Slight external rubbing and wear; ownership signature to front endpaper of Roberto Márquez, noted American scholar, editor, and author. Very Good or better in the original wrappers. Text entirely in Spanish. The..... More
Chicago: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1900. First Edition. An introduction to the Christian-pacifist-anarchist philosophy of Tolstoi, written and published by Chicago physician and sexual hygienist Alice Bunker Stockham. Stockham (1833-1912) graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati and was the fifth woman to be accredited as a medical..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920. First Edition. The first volume of Nexo's Ditte trilogy, a major work by Nexo, who was the leading exponent of the proletarian genre in Danish. Ditte: Girl Alive tells the story of an illegitimate child of Danish laborers, and her struggle to rise..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. First Edition. The concluding volume of Nexo's major work, a Danish proletarian novel chronicling the life and career of a great modern labor leader. Basis for the 1987 Billie August film starring Max Von Sydow, which won both an Oscar for Best Foreign..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. First Edition. Third and final novel in Nexo's Ditte trilogy, portraying the working life a young Danish girl from her peasant roots to middle-class working girl. Nexo, a Socialist, was the first significant Danish author to depict the working class in his writings..... More
Managua: Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, 1986. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 85pp. Near Fine. FSLN-era poetry by the Managua-born poet; the collection was a finalist for the 1986 Rubén Dario Prize. Text entirely in Spanish. More
[Toronto]: Norman Bethune Institute, 1976. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers;144pp; text illus. Mild external rubbing, else complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. International anthology of Marxist poetry, fiction, and essays. More
New York: Dialogue [Dialog] Publications, 1966. Staple-bound bi-montly periodical. Single quarto issue; pictorial glossy paper wrappers; 39pp; illus. Mild external spotting and soil, still Very Good. CPUSA-sponsored magazine of radical art and literature, edited by Joseph North, long-time CPUSA apparatchik and Daily Worker editor. Walter Lowenfels was the Associate Editor..... More
New York: Dialog Publications, 1966. Staple-bound bi-monthly periodical. Single quarto issue; pictorial glossy paper wrappers; 39pp; illus. Clean, tight copy, Near Fine. CPUSA-sponsored magazine of radical art and literature, edited by Joseph North, long-time CPUSA apparatchik and Daily Worker editor. Walter Lowenfels was the Associate Editor, responsible for most of..... More
Newtownabbey: Island Publications, 1993. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial card wrappers; 32pp; illus. Clean, Near Fine copy. Photographic text illustrations (halftones). More
[Habana: Gente Nueva, 1981]. 12mo (17.5cm.,); publisher's wrappers in white dust jacket printed in red and black; 148pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers and dust jacket a bit rubbed and worn and rather dust-soiled, else Very Good. Signed by the author on series page. Account of the life and works of the..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1931. First American Edition. A political novel in which a wealthy American business man attempts to take control of the world financial markets by amassing large concerns in gold, oil, mines, machinery, and wheat. Uncommon, especially so in the scarce art-deco dustjacket. BLEILER (1972) p.215;..... More