[AFRICAN AMERICANS] [SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR] CASHIN, Herschel V; Alexander, Charles; et al.
Under Fire with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry. Being a Brief, Comprehensive Review of the Negro's Participation in the Wars of the United States [Etc...]
Chicago: American Publishing House, 1902. Second Edition. Original pictorial cloth (hardcover); 361pp; illus. Rear cover stained and soiled, else just light wear to board edges; some pencil scribblings to endpapers. Text remains fresh and unmarked, joints & hinges tight; Good or better overall. WORK p.401 (notes only this edition). Uncommon...

[ANARCHISM] [BENJAMIN TUCKER] BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen
The Wind and the Whirlwind
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1884. First thus. Small quarto. Original japan vellum over cardstock wrappers; 30pp. Unopened. Slight browning to edges, else a neat, unworn copy. Scarce printing (possibly unauthorized) of Blunt's anti-Imperialist polemic, attacking British policy in the Sudan. Though Tucker generally limited his publishing ventures to projects that...

[CRIME & UNDERWORLD] [PROSTITUTION] [EUGENICS] KEMP, Tage
Prostitution. An investigation of its causes, especially with regard to hereditary factors
Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1936. First edition. Quarto. Original printed wrappers; 253pp. Minor external wear; internally Fine. A socio-genetic survey of Danish prostitutes, with extensive and detailed individual case studies. Tage Kemp (1896-1964), was a eugenicist and the founding director of the International Institute of Human Genetics in Copenhaven. Though...

[FREETHOUGHT] [ANARCHISM] [ITALY]
Il Miracolo di San Gennaro (Riprodotto la sera del 23 febbraio 1907, al Teatro Salvini, a beneficio della Casa del Popolo di Firenze)
Firenze: Libreria Rafanelli Polli, 1907. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm). Sewn pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 24pp. Moderate soil to covers; brief splits at spine-fold; slight marginal toning to text; Good. An attack on the Church's continued teaching of miracles, with special reference to the legend of San Gennaro (St. Januarius), the...

[LABOR UNIONS] [RAILROADS] O'DOWD, M. (ed)
Foremen's Advance Advocate. Vol. II, no. 2 (February, 1893)
St. Louis: Brotherhood of Railway Track Foremen, 1893. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Original pictorial wrappers; pp. 66-128. Minor wear and dust-soil; Very Good. The official organ of the International Brotherhood of Railway Track Foremen of America, an early predecessor of the Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way Employees. A scarce individual issue. The...

[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] [NEW YORK] CAHAN, A. [Abraham]
Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto
New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1896. First edition. 12mo. Publisher's illustrated wheat cloth; 190pp + 10pp publisher's ads. Cloth boards somewhat foxed, with a faint splash-stain to front cover; moderate to heavy foxing to endpapers and scattered foxing to text throughout. Still a tight, not unattractive copy, about Very...

[RADICAL LITERATURE] [BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT] [BROADSIDE PRESS] RANDALL, Dudley (ed)
Collection of 23 Scarce Broadsides from Dudley Randall's Broadside Press
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1966-69. First Edition. Twenty-three printed broadsides. Most on a single side of a single sheet, but one double-sided and one other folded to make 4pp. One signed (see below). Occasional mild marginal wear or soiling; all are in Very Good condition or better. Various dates, as listed...

[RURAL LABOR] [I.W.W.] [GOATS] [ECZEMA] ETTIEN, James
Farmers' Industrial Union
Gering, NE: by the Author, n.d. First Edition. Ca. 1910 (dated from text). 12mo (19cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 21, [3]pp. Light wear and soil; Very Good. Very uncommon piece of home-grown rural radicalism. Ettien, a Nebraska goat farmer, describes his plan for a union of rural laborers based on...

[SOCIAL FICTION] [COAL] WHALEN, Will W
The Lily of the Coal Fields
Boston: Mayhew, 1910. Second Edition. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards; [8], 208 p; frontis. Covers lightly soiled and spotted; gilt on spine and front cover dulled; internally fine - a tight, VG copy. A romance of the Pennsylvania anthracite fields, including realistic depictions of a mine disaster. The author was...

[SOCIAL FICTION] [NATIVE AMERICANS] (MILLER, George Frederick)
A Wild Indian. By the Author of Letters from a Hard-Boiled Teacher to His Half-Baked Son
Washington, D.C. The Daylion Company, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 704pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in original gold foil dustjacket, minutely chipped and rubbed at extremities and with a few minor surface scratches; Very Good. A very nicely preserved copy. Uncommon novel of contemporary life on a....

[SOCIAL FICTION] [UPPER CLASSES] FREEMAN, William Neely
Saint Mammon: a Literary Blue Book of American Society. By a Member Of It
New York: The Broadway Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Original pictorial cloth boards; 440pp; illus. INSCRIBED: "Alice Merritt / from/ William Neely Freeman" on front endpaper. Spine slightly darkened; brief rubbing to covers and joints; thin split at base of rear hinge (internal); Very Good. A somewhat disjointed satire of the...