Radical & Proletarian Literature
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 4: The Novels: Not Without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 325pp. Unobtrusive private ink stamp (in the shape of a star) to front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked in a fresh, fine dustwrapper. More
A President Is Born
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original half cloth over decorative boards in orange dust jacket; [10],484pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit darkened with very shallow losses to ends, else a Very Good to Near Fine, vibrant copy. Novel of the..... More
What Are You Going to Do About It? The Case for Constructive Peace
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; yellow printed wrappers; 35pp. Mild cover soil, but still a fresh, Very Good or better example. BROMER A40.1.1. More
The Villagers / Huasipungo: A Novel
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xv,223pp. Copy of prominent latino scholar, author and educator Roberto Márquez, with his ownership signature on half-title. Tight, Near Fine, unmarked copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), mildly spine-sunned, lightly..... More
Days of Fear [Two Editions] [WITH] Autograph Note Signed
V.p. v.d. First Edition. The first U.K. and first American editions of Gallagher's diary kept while imprisoned in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, in 1920 for his involvement with the militant Irish Volunteers (later the Irish Republican Army). The diary provides a near hour-by-hour account of Gallagher's participation in the Dublin Hunger..... More
Prince of the Ghetto
New York: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1948. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 294pp. Tight, clean copy, Very Good or better in the original dustwrapper, slightly chipped at edges, Very Good. "Retellings" by Samuel of the Yiddish folk tales of Isaac Loeb Peretz; includes a biographical sketch and..... More
Jack London Centennial Calendar 1876-1976
Oakland: Friends of the Oakland Public Library, 1975. First Edition. Quarto. Comb-binding over paper wrappers. Complete calendar for 1976, each month with accompanying photographic illustrations relating to the life and career of Oakland's favorite son. About fine, with no evidence of use. More
Fresh Furrow
Chicago: Willett, Clark & Co., 1936. First Edition. Billed by the publisher as the "Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Co-operative movement in America;" set in a Missouri farming community during the Depression. HANNA 1912. Octavo (20.25cm); light greenish-tan cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine; dustjacket; 257pp. Small..... More
A Lantern For Jeremy: A Novel
New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1952. First Trade Edition. Autobiographical novel with a Polish setting, by the prominent American Marxist essayist and critic; a sequel was published posthumously in 1966. RIDEOUT p.300. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); grayish-green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 288pp. Gentle sunning to..... More
What Think Ye of Christ? (Was he an anarchist?)
Detroit: The Labadie Shop, 1933. First Edition. 24mo. Bifolium (single sheet folded to make 4pp). Near Fine. Prints the text of Roberts' poem, composed in Columbus, dated 1909. A scarce Labadie item. Not separately catalogued in OCLC under author or title (2020). More
The Price of Dirt
Los Angeles: Accent Publishers, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 70pp. Minimal external dusting; no other signs of use, a crisp, Near Fine copy. Stories of African-American life in the South, described in the author's foreword as "...the collected stories of a people's reactions to a fantastic world..... More
Peace Is Where The Tempests Blow
Philadelphia: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. First American edition. Uncommon edition of Kataev's third translated novel, concerning the aborted 1905 Revolution. Octavo. Green cloth; dustjacket; 341pp. Bright, Near Fine copy with deep blue topstain. In the scarce dustwrapper, lightly worn at extremities, a bit faded on spine (still perfectly legible); easily..... More
Time, Forward!
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1933. First Edition. A classic of Soviet realism, a novel set among youth in factories and plants, brimming with optimism for the Five-Year Plan. In the scarce, illustrated dustjacket (artwork uncredited), featuring a large arm moving the hand of a clock forward, with an..... More
Zapata Rose in 1992 and Other Tales
Tempe: Maize Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 304pp. Review copy, with publisher's promotional materials laid in. Fine. No hardcover edition was issued. More
Critical Theory, Marxism and Modernity
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 270pp. Fine, unmarked copy in lightly worn dustwrapper. More
Through the Ceiling
London: Paul Breman, 1975. First Edition. First book of poetry by Kendrick, a native of Washington D.C., Professor Emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy and named Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia (1999). Issued as volume 24 in the Heritage Series produced by Paul Bremen. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm);..... More
Urban Nocturne
San Francisco: La Raza Silkscreen Center, 1978. First Edition. Trade issue, one of 400 copies (issued simultaneously with 40 signed copies). 12mo. Staple-bound card wrappers; [24]pp. Fine, unworn and probably unread copy. A brief collection of poems organized around the theme of "escape from the ghetto" (from the author's introduction)..... More
Urban Nocturne [Signed, Limited]
San Francisco: La Raza Silkscreen Center, 1978. First Edition. Limited issue, no. 4 of 40 signed copies; this copy inscribed to poet Edgar Bowers: "For Edgar Bowers / from a clumsy admirer," signed, undated. 12mo. Staple-bound card wrappers; [24]pp. Fine, unworn copy. A brief collection of poems organized around the..... More
Labor and Nation Vol. VI, No. 3 (Summer 1950)
New York: Inter-Union Institute, Inc., 1950. First Edition. An anticommunist but pro-socialist labor periodical which drew articles and influences from across the left-right spectrum of the post-war labor movement. This issue includes what appears to be the first (and possibly only) appearance in English of Russian playwright Lev Luntz's dystopian..... More
Epigrams in Hai-Kai
New York: Culture Press, 1929. First, Limited Edition. One of 200 copies, signed; this copy additionally inscribed "To Walter Russell / with the compliments and regards of Bob Lafferty," dated 1930. Tight, Near Fine copy. More
Rains in the Jungle (Lao Short Stories)
N.p. [Hanoi?]: Neo Lao Haksat Publications, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Plain unprinted thick-paper wrappers in pictorial dustjacket; 62pp. Clean and bright in the uncommon dustwrapper which is slightly foxed on rear panel. Revolutionary short-stories in support of the movement for Laotian independence. More
Poemas
San Salvador: Editorial Universitaria de El Salvador, 1968. First Edition. First printing (1968 publication date; 1967 copyright date; printing was completed in late December 1967). 12mo (18cm). Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 181,(7)pp. Mild external rubbing and wear; slight discoloration to spine; still tight, clean, Very Good or better and quite..... More
Miguel Mármol [Inscribed to Kendra Alexander]
New York: Curbstone Press, 1987. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xviii,19-503pp. Inscribed on front flyleaf: "Para la camarada Kendra Alexander y adelante con la lucha solidaria con el pueblo Salvadoreño y Centroamerica," signed by Miguel Mármol, dated 1988. Mild bumps to board corners, a...... More
A Free Woman Can Live Only in a Free Society: Reprinted from "Albania Today," No. 2
New York: League for Proletarian Revolution, [1976]. First Thus. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's pale green pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in brown and black; [1],27pp. Just About Fine. OCLC locates two copies as of February, 2018, at Kansas and Duke. More