[AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE] HOWARD, James H.W.
Bond and Free; a True Tale of Slave Times
Harrisburg, PA: Edwin K. Meyers, 1886. First Edition. Apparent second state, with frontispiece portrait omitted (qv Whiteman, p.14). Original green cloth boards; 280pp. A spectacular copy, just lightly dusted at upper edge of text block, else free of wear or soil; Fine. A remarkable work of fiction by a little-known...

[ANTI-CLERICALISM] [LABOR UNIONS] [MEXICO]
[Broadside] Abajo el Fanatismo!! Abajo Los Curas!! Viva La CRMDT
n.p. C.R.M.D.T. (Confederacion Revolucionaria Michoacana del Trabajo), 1932. Broadside, ca. 24" x 16", on newsprint. Old folds; marginal losses; brief ink annotation at upper right. Brief losses to text, without loss of sense, at center fold. Rare poster issued by the C.R.M.D.T., a far left party of Michoacan state that...

DAHLBERG, Edward
First editions of the Three Proletarian Novels: Bottom Dogs [both issues], Those Who Perish, From Flushing to Calvary
New York & London: Various publishers, 1929 - 1934. First editions. Together, four octavo volumes. Includes both the English and American first editions of Dahlberg's first novel, "Bottom Dogs" (1929) and the American editions of "From Flushing to Calvary" (1932) and "Those Who Perish" (1934) Chipping and edgewear to jacket...

[HOPEDALE] Ballou, Adin
History of The Hopedale Community, from Its Inception to Its Virtual Submergence in the Hopedale Parish
Lowell: Thompson & Hill - The Vox Populi Press, 1897. First Edition. Octavo. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; xvii, 415pp; engr. frontis. portr. Hint of sunning to spine; bit of ink offsetting to front pastedown from presentation inscription (see note), else a very fresh, clean copy, Near Fine...

[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] [RIDEOUT NOVELS] CAHAN, Abraham
The Rise of David Levinsky
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. First edition. Octavo; original red cloth boards. Spine leaning, covers a trifle darkened; a Good copy. Housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box. The very scarce first edition of Cahan's most enduring work, one of the great novels of the Jewish immigrant experience. A....

[SOCIAL FICTION] [CIVIL WAR] SINCLAIR, Upton
Manassas: A Novel of the War
New York: Macmillan, 1904. First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth; 412pp + 6p publisher's catalog. Light wear to board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy with blue-green top-stain just slightly faded. Unusually nice copy of an early Sinclair novel, intended as the first volume of a Civil War trilogy...

[SUFFRAGE] [CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT] J.R. (pseud Johnston Forbes-Robertson?)
The Sex Symphony or, Some Missing Political Instruments. By J.R., A Member of the Orchestra
London: Arnold Fairbairns, 1908. First edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 13p. Pencil ownership signature, to front cover, of American feminist and suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, signed with her surname only but in her highly characteristic hand. The anonymous work, in which the author identifies himself as a man, likens modern society...

[ZOAR] RANDALL, E.O.
History of the Zoar Society From its Commencement to Its Conclusion. A Sociological Study in Communism
Columbus: Press of Fred. J. Heer, 1899. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Publisher’s green cloth boards; gilt titles; 100pp; illus; folding plan. Trivial rubbing to boards; scattered faint foxing; Very Good or better. DARE 1908. The scarce first edition, essentially a bound offprint from "Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications," where the...