[AFRICAN AMERICANS] [DETROIT RACE RIOTS] LEE, Alfred McClung and Norman Daymond HUMPHREY
Race Riot
New York: The Dryden Press, 1943. First Edition. Small octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in white on spine; 143pp. Mild signs of use, still VG or better in the original photographic dustwrapper, lightly rubbed with a closed gouge into image on front panel, shallow chips to spine ends; Very...

[ANARCHISM] [RUSSIA] IAKOVLEV, I. [Iakov]
Russkii anarkhizm v velikoi russkoi revoliutsii
[New York]: Izdanie Ob’edinennykh truzhennikov Ameriki (United toilers of America), 1921. First American edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 80p. Minor external wear & soil, else Very Good. Critique of the anarchists' role in the Revolution by Iakov Iakovlev, a Red Army political administrator in Ukraine during the Civil war...

[COMMUNISM - MICHIGAN]
Broadside - Vote Communist Against Hunger, Wage Cuts, Fascism & War!
Hamtramck, MI: [Michigan Communist Party], 1934. First Edition. Broadside, 22" x 14", printed recto-only on newsprint. Slight toning; mounted on archival board, else Near Fine. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky...

[CPUSA] [EARL BROWDER]
Appeal of Earl Browder to the members of the C.P.U.S.A.!
(New York): By the Author, 1946. First Edition. Folio (30.5cm). Single sheet folded to make four pages. On newsprint. Old folds; slight darkening to paper; a few brief nicks to margins; Very Good. A personal appeal from Browder, formerly the leader of the CPUSA, to the Party membership, dated three...

[CRIME & UNDERWORLD] [NEW YORK] BRACE, Charles Loring
The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work Among Them
New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1872. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm). Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; 448pp; illus. Faint splash-stains to boards; scattered internal foxing; still a Good, sound copy. Contemporary ownership signature of Mary C. Shannon to front endpaper, dated 1873. Pictorial survey of vice and crime...

FREEMAN, Joseph
The Long Pursuit
New York: Rinehart, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 310pp. Warmly and lengthily inscribed to a young Stephen Sondheim in year of publication: "To Stephen Sondheim: novelist and musician - With all good wishes," followed by a lengthy quotation from Proust's The Past Recaptured...

[HIGH FINANCE] WINKLER, John K.
John D: A Portrait in Oils
New York: Vanguard Press, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Original rust cloth, lettered in black on front cover and spine; with an actual Mercury-head dime applied to center of front board (as issued); illustrated dustjacket; 256pp. Dusting and faint foxing to text block edges, else a clean, attractive copy in...

[MARXISM] [COMPUTER PROGRAMMING] [SEMIOTICS] SONDHEIM, Alan
Grounds for a Procedural Semiotics: Calculator Programming and an Outline of an Analysis of Marxism in Relation to The Structure of Reality
(Hartford, CT): by the Author, 1978. First Edition. Side-stapled self-wraps; printed xerographically on standard white photocopy paper; 37 leaves. Mild discoloration to margins of cover leaf, else Near Fine. Exposition of Sondheim's early explorations into computer programming, Marxist dialectics, and aesthetics, illustrated with a number of his early works produced...

[PHOTOGRAPHY] [GREAT DEPRESSION] STONG, Phil and Josephine von MIKLOS
County Fair
New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938. First Edition. Quarto (31cm). Spiral-bound pictorial card covers; unpaged (48 leaves); illus. Mild cover wear, with a small stain near base of front cover; spiral binding in a good state; easily Very Good overall. An extended photo-essay on the traditional American county fair, With accompanying...

[RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] FOSTER, William Z.
The Russian Revolution
Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1921. Second Edition. Small octavo (20cm). Original buff pictorial wrappers, printed in black; 155pp. This copy inscribed by Foster, "with fraternal greetings," to the prominent Socialist and two-time Vice Presidential candidate James H. Maurer. Mild external toning and wear; Very Good. An interesting association, dating...

[SOCIALISM] [POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS] WHARTON, C.E. (Charles Everett)
Original Campaign Poster: "Wharton Will Make Good!...All for the People and Nothing for the Interests"
[Kenton, OH: 1908]: S.i. [1908]. Original poster, ca 35cm x 28cm. Printed recto only, in black ink on stiff white poster board; photographic portrait of the candidate (halftone) at upper left. Brief closed tear at upper margin; minor toning and wear, Very Good. Attractive campaign poster, in which Wharton, a....

[SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY]
1935 SLP Wall Calendar, With Mounted Portrait of Daniel De Leon
New York: Socialist Labor Party, 1935. Wall calendar, 33cm x 15cm. Printed in blue and gold on brown cardstock, with printed calendar leaves stapled to lower quadrant and mounted portrait Daniel De Leon at upper center. Apparently unused, with detachable sheets for months all present. Small (1/4") repaired chip to...