New-York: Leavitt & Alden, 1844. First Edition. Collection of abolitionist songs, hymns, and poems, including "Slave Girl Mourning Her Father" and "The Slave and Her Babe"; "The Negro's Appeal"; "Negro Boy Sold for a Watch"; and "The Quadroon Maiden," with words by Longfellow. DUMOND, p. 39, giving publisher name "Benedict";..... More
New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1907. First Edition. Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's grey card wrappers; 58,[2](ads)pp. Several chips to wrapper extremities, none approaching text, textblock starting to separate from binding, else Good, internally fine. Single issue of the individualist anarchist bimonthly magazine. Contents feature Tucker's recurring column "On Picket Duty"..... More
New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1907. First Edition. Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's grey card wrappers; 55,[9](ads)pp. Just About Fine. Single issue of the individualist anarchist bimonthly magazine. Contents cover the Roosevelt presidency, including the article "Roosevelt and Diocletian" by Steven T. Byington; and the events at the International Socialist Congress..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, [1907]. First Edition. Collection of four lectures on the topic of "Christian Sociology" delivered at the Philadelphia Divinity School, the first two by Washington, the latter by Du Bois, on their divergent opinions of black leadership and economic progress. Whereas Washington held a lifelong..... More
Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1882. First Thus. Folio (31.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards; 215pp.; sheet music throughout. Boards rather rubbed with some loss at corners and margins, boards lightly toned and a bit dust-soiled, front hinge cracked, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Good and sound overall. Collected..... More
[New York: L.M. Birkhead, Friends of Democracy, 1940]. First Edition. Small leaflet reproducing the correspondence between Birkhead, Director of the Friends of Democracy, and John Steinbeck in regards to the latter's 1939 novel "The Grapes of Wrath." The first letter, from Birkhead, is originally dated May 2, 1940, and opens..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in red and maroon; [12],241pp.; illus. Old ring stain to upper cover, additional dust-soil to cloth, extremities a bit rubbed, slight spine lean, very occasional pencil underlining, else Very Good. The author's influential second work on..... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1815. First American Edition. Translated from the Fourth French Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's full contemporary sheep, reddish-brown gilt spine label; viii,539pp. Boards a bit scuffed with shallow chipping at spine crown, leather rather dried, some foxing throughout, contemporary ownership signature to title page, else a Very Good..... More
New-York: American Temperance Union, 1841. First Edition. Hymn book by the temperance reformer John Marsh (1788-1868), whose own first experiences of intoxication took place as a young child while drinking "flip" to keep warm during the frigid days in the Connecticut meeting house ("Well do I remember...crying in meeting from..... More
New York: 1858-1873. First Edition. 1."An Appeal to the Public on Spiritualism." [Drop title: "Judge Edmonds on Spiritualism."] 1858. 15pp. Signed and dated in print on final leaf "New York, August 1, 1853." Describes Edmonds's experience "Preparatory to meeting a circle, I have sat down alone in my room and..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1917. "Old Glory Edition" Reissue of Edward Everett Hale's allegorical short story "The Man Without a Country," recounting the hardships of an American army lieutenant who renounces his country during a trial for treason. Set during the early years of the 19th-century, the story reflected..... More
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1849. First Edition. Part autobiography, part personal philosophy by the highly controversial abolitionist, feminist, and anarchist author Herny Clarke Wright, published by Bela Marsh, known for disseminating works of fellow-abolitionists and freethinkers throughout the mid-19th century. Octavo (18.5cm); original green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 414pp.; engraved portrait..... More
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1849. First Edition. Part autobiography, part personal philosophy by the highly controversial abolitionist, feminist, and anarchist author Herny Clarke Wright, published by Bela Marsh, known for disseminating works of fellow-abolitionists and freethinkers throughout the mid-19th century. Octavo (18.5cm); original green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 414pp.; engraved portrait..... More
V.p. all ca. 1995. AMERICAN SENTINEL. "The American Sentinel Presents Citizen's Guide to the Worst G.O.P. Liberals in the United States House of Representatives." Charlotte: American Sentinel, n.d., ca. 1995. Unpaginated. Not in OCLC as of November, 2019. COST, Scott E. "The American Sentinel Presents Voter's Guide to the Top G.O.P...... More
[New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1944]. First American Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp. Light toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Translation of Stalin's report delivered at a meeting of the Moscow Soviet Deputies of the Working People, November 6, 1944. More
[Helsinki: Information Centre of the World Peace Council, 1979]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 44pp. Tiny bump at bottom fore-edge corner, spine a shade toned, else Near Fine. More
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[Milwaukee: MBP, 1993]. First Edition. Small quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers illustrated by Ed Wade; 64pp.; illus. throughout. A few leaves dog-eared, else Near Fine. Biennial directory of minority-owned businesses in Milwaukee, published throughout the 1990s. More
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[Johannesburg: South Africa Department of Information, n.d., ca. 1960s]. First Thus. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's grey pictorial wrappers; 140pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities rather worn and dog-eared with chip at spine crown, rear cover a bit dampstained, else Good or better. Originally issued as a series of five pamphlets covering..... More
London: P.S. King & Son, 1911. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's green printed staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. A hint of wear else Near Fine. Argument by the rationalist M.P. for Tyneside in favor of Irish Home Rule, published a year prior to the Third Home Rule Bill of 1912. OCLC..... More
Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, ca. 1910s. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's peach pictorial wrappers printed in blue; 32pp. Wrappers a bit worn and soiled, else Very Good and sound. More
N.p. Travelers Insurance Company, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 71pp.; insert order blank bound in. Extremities a bit rubbed, rear cover slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. OCLC locates three copies as of November, 2019, at Cornell, Georgia State, and Appalachian State. More
Berkeley: S.i., 1971. First Edition. Final issue of the newspaper formerly titled It Ain't Me Babe, published by the militant Berkeley Women's Liberation. Contents include articles on rape, population control, separatism, a meeting of lesbians in Limerick, PA, dealing with aggression, clitoral identity, and police handling of emotional disturbed people..... More
Oakland: Vocations for Social Change, 1973. First Edition. Counterculture magazine centered around sharing "information about how people can gain control over their work situations and their own lives," about worker/community control over the means of production. Contents include articles on the Gray Panthers, nursing homes in Minnesota, organizing older women..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1967. First Edition. An SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper, with contents featuring a lengthy interview with community organizer Fannie Lou Hamer, articles on organizing "liberal" Minneapolis, Native Americans against the war, theater troupes in Chicago, a Vietnam War centerfold, the Tennessee Freedom Labor Union, and putting..... More
