ADAMS, Herbert
Comrade Jill
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1927]. Octavo (19.5cm); brown cloth with titles stamped in red on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 248pp. Light foxing to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly rubbed, with a few shallow chips and tears, and light soil to rear panel; Very Good+. A novel set...

(PADILLA, Ezequiel)
The People vs. Leon Toral, Murderer of Obregon
Mexico City: s.n. 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 24pp. Wrappers slightly soiled and worn; text tanned and rather brittle, but without any major losses; Good only. Reprints the closing statement of Attorney General Ezequiel Padilla in the trial of Jose de Leon Toral, a Cristero militant who...

5°[Quinto] Cuerpo de Ejercito: Estampas de la Guerra
Zaragoza: Junta Recaudatoria Civil de Zaragoza, (1937). First Edition. Small, square octavo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; original photo-pictorial cover wrappers; [48pp]. Chiefly illustrations. Trivial rubbing to wrapper edges; a Fine, unworn copy. Album of pro-Fascist propaganda photographs from the Spanish Civil War, many claiming to document Communist atrocities against women and...

DU BOIS, W.E.B. and August Grandville Dill
The Common School and the Negro American: A Social Study made by Atlanta University, under the patronage of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund
Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1911. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm). Dark gray wrappers; 140pp. Two page gatherings bound upside-down. Wrappers soiled and worn, with losses at corners and along spine; dark marginal stain to lower corner of text throughout, with occasional chipping to page edges (no loss to text); just Good...

HADLEY, Edwin Marshall
Sinister Shadows
Chicago: The Tower Press, Inc, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); rough brown cloth, with titling and panels stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 385pp. Inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front endpaper. Some light page edge soil, else very Near Fine...

MARIGHELLA, Carlos
Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla
[Np:Nd:Si]: [ca 1974]. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound pamphlet, photostatically printed; pictorial wrappers; 45pp. Minor wear and dusting to cover wraps, else Fine. Anonymous reprint of Marighella's classic manual of underground insurgency, a favorite of Sixties radicals everywhere and a highly influential work among such domestic terrorist groups as the Weather Underground...

MOYNIHAN, A.W.
Jack Winthrop of Old 15. A Story of School-Life in a New-York City Public School
New York: by the Author, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (18cm). Printed blue wrappers; 58pp. Wrappers chipped and soiled (no loss to text); marginal discoloration to title page, else a sound, Good copy. A story of 19th-century New York public school life, with several (lighthearted) accounts of juvenile gang activity. The...

ALEXANDER, Jessie A.
The Story of Jane Norton
Los Angeles: J.A. Alles Company, 1945. First Edition. 16mo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on front cover; 42pp. Mild fading to board edges, else fine. Prospectus and appeal, in the form of an instructional short-story, for the "Nurse Scouts Foundation Fund," a project (apparently never fully realized) to establish...

Dos Passos, John
Facing The Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen
New York: Sacco & Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1927. First printing. Printed wrappers; 127pp. Faint stains to rear wrapper, else an especially fresh, unworn copy, Near Fine. SANDERS A27. One of a number of works by prominent American authors commissioned by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, sold to raise funds for their ongoing...

OLERICH, Henry
A Cityless and Countryless World
Holstein, IA: Gilmore & Olerich, 1893. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Original red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 447pp; illus; one folding plate. Minor soiling to page edges, brief old repair to front hinge (internal), else a fine, crisp copy with gilt bright and unrubbed. An...

WALLACE, G.L.
If I Had A Hammer
[Milwaukee]: People's Theatre, 1966. First Edition. Quarto (26cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 58pp. Minor cover wear and soil; Very Good. Substantial oratorio for three readers and musicians, based on the author's experiences in the Civil Rights movement in Chicago and Mississippi. Includes a 2-pp afterword providing the origin and context for the...

HEPNER, Adolph
Gambling Communities. Authority of Law and Law Authorities Under the Charm of "Nickel Slots" In Saloons. A Socialistic Treatise by Adolph Hepner, Editor of the St. Louis "Tageblatt"
St. Louis: Adolph Hepner, 1894. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pampnhlet. Printed yellow wrappers; 27pp. Mild cover soil; internally fresh and unmarked; Very Good, in the original wrappers. The author, who was editor of St. Louis's principal socialist newspaper, inveighs against the proliferation of slot machines in saloons, cigar-shops and...

MILLER, Kelly
The Disgrace of Democracy. Open Letter to President Woodrow Wilson
Washington: by the Author, 1917. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (21cm). Gray printed wrappers; [15]pp. Holes punched for binding at bulked edge, costing a few characters in text (but no loss of sense); covers slightly stained and pulled away from staples, but present and complete; Good or better. A strident...