MILLER, Kelly
The Negro In The New Reconstruction
Washington: Howard University, [1919]. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (21cm). Tan printed wrappers; 24pp. A fine copy. Rear wrapper advertises books and pamphlets for sale by Kelly Miller and Francis Grimke. Presumed first issue, with no mention of "New Edition" in advertisement for Race Adjustment on inside rear wrapper. On...

CARO, Brigido
Plutarco Elias Calles: Dictador Bolsheviqui de Mexico. Episodios de la Revolucion Mexicana desde 1910 hasta 1924. Edicion Ilustrada
Los Angeles: El Heraldo de Mexico, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (19cm). Pictorial paper wrappers; xvii, 287pp; illus. Covers rubbed, creased and worn but complete; occasional corner-creasing to text; a sound, Good copy in the original wrappers. An expose and condemnation of Bolshevik influences in the Mexican Revolution, clearly published in...

TROTZKY, Leon [Trotsky]
Von Oktober bis nach Brest-Litovsk. Die Geschichte der bolschevistischen November-Revolution (Sozialistische Arbeiter-Biliothek, No. 12)
Chicago: Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States, 1919. First American Edition. 12mo (18cm). Printed card wrappers; 127pp. Very mild external wear; faint spotting to a few pages of text; Near Fine in the original wrappers. Probable first printing in America of Trotsky's account of the October revolution...

ANTHONY, Joseph
The Gang
Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [ca.1924]. Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 276pp. Some trivial soil to rear gutter and upper edge of text, with purple rubber stamp of "A. George Volck Incorporated" to pastedowns and endpapers; Near Fine, but for the...

THOMPSON, Jim
Pop.1280
Greenwich: Gold Medal, 1964. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo (18cm); glossy wrappers, with cover art by Robert McGinnis; yellow edgestaining; 143pp. A Fine, unread copy. Easily among the best of Thompson's novels, set in 1910 and telling the story of a corrupt, small-town sheriff in the American South...

WILLEFORD, Charles
Cockfighter
Chicago: Chicago Paperback House, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original preceding the hardcover edition by ten years. Octavo (16cm); illustrated wrappers; 286pp. Near Fine and unread, with a few pinpoint rubs at the extremities, and some shallow erosion near the upper left corner of the front wrapper. Basis...

STEINBECK, John
Tortilla Flat
New York: Covici Friede, 1935. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 4,000 copies published in hardcover. Octavo (19.5cm); tan cloth with titling and rule stamped in blue on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 317pp. Small booksellers label at lower rear pastedown, topstain very slightly faded, with some...

COOK, Ezra A [Asher]
Ku Klux Klan Secrets Exposed: Attitude Toward Jews, Catholics, Foreigners and Masons. Fraudulent Methods Used. Atrocities Committed in Name of Order
Chicago: Ezra A. Cook, (1922). First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 70pp. Moderate creasing and cover wear; occasional creasing and soiling to text; Very Good. First edition (posthumous) of this expose of the southern Klan. Cook, a strident anti-Mason, devotes an entire chapter to drawing comparisons between the Klan...

LONDON, Jack
"The Dream of Debs" [in] The International Socialist Review, Vol. IX, No. 7 (January, 1909)
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1909. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Original pictorial wrappers; pp 481-560. Moderate cover wear and soil; spine lettering rubbed away; a few text pages corner-creased; Good or better. Includes the first half of London's "The Dream of Debs" -- the first appearance in print of this utopian...

CONROY, Jack and Ralph Cheyney (eds)
Unrest 1931
New York: Henry Harrison, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 112pp. Glue repair to rear hinge, else a tight, clean copy in the original Hugo Gellert illustrated dustwrapper, spine-sunned with brief splits to paper along spine folds and with...

LEE, George L.
Dreams Come True! Picture Stories of Famous People - How To Tell What Dreams Mean
New York & Memphis: Black and White Company, [1948]. 12mo (17cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 30pp; illus. Covers pulled away from staples (but present and complete); general wear, with ownership markings to front cover; Good. A particularly interesting example of African American gambling ephemera. "Dream Books," which keyed winning...

Citizens Information Committee
Broadside: America Wants No Third Term! Americans Stand Guard - Our Freedom Is At Stake
Moline, IL: Citizens Information Committee, [1940]. Broadide, 30cm x 20.5cm (12" x 8"). Text in one column below headline. Printed recto-only on uncoated paper. Single horizontal fold; mild toning at margins; Very Good. Broadside decrying FDR's pursuit of a third Presidential term and advancing the candidacy of Republican Wendell Willkie...