(Saugerties, New York): Atlantis Publishing Company, 1968. First Edition. Founded by Ayn Rand accolyte Werner Stiefel in early 1968, Operation Atlantis began as an intentional community of right-wing libertarians in a roadside motel near Saugerties, New York. The group's intention was to build a ferro-concrete vessel in their back yard... More
Newllano, LA: The Llano Publications, N.d. [1920]. Rare prospectus for the New Llano Cooperative Colony, a secular socialist utopia which flourished in the western highlands of Louisiana from around 1918 to 1938. The community was originally established near Los Angeles, as the Llano del Rio Company, around 1914; after near-failure... More
Detroit: Black Graphics International, 1975. First Edition. A later issue of this Detroit-based Black Arts journal, founded in 1969 by artist and poet Aaron Pori Pitts. This issue features an editorial on "Fascism in the Media," essays, news, and artwork by regulars in the Detroit arts and literary scene. Issues... More
San Francisco: Nopal Press, 1995. First Edition. First full-length book of poetry by the Native American author, giving voice "to her experience as an indigenous woman in the native lands north and south of the Rio Grande. From North Dakota to Nicaragua, Canada to California, these poems unravel oppression, rejoice... More
Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1995. First Edition. An "exploration of a young woman's search for love and self in Manhattan. Set in the late 1950s, Adrianne, a young girl from Texas, wanders the city and has sex indiscriminately with strangers. Her relationship with a Cuban-American artist, Alfredo, leads to further... More
Bloomington, IN: Third Woman Press, 1987. First Edition. Early collection of verse by the Puerto Rican poet, educator, and human rights activist, with introductory words by Julia Alvarez, Carlos Rodriguez, and Roger Platizky. Slim octavo; stapled wrappers; 39,[1]pp; text is in English and in Spanish. Mild wear to wrappers, else... More
Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1987. First Edition. The Puerto Rican author's first full-length book of poetry, preceded by her 1986 chapbook Peregrina. Slim octavo; illustrated card wrappers; 64pp. Some trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. More
Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1989. First Edition. Native Oakland author's novel about a young woman entering UC Berkeley, against the backdrop of the anti-war and civil rights conflicts that consumed campus life during the 1970's. Octavo; illustrated card wrappers; 191pp. Some pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine and unread. More
Miami, FL: LS Press, Inc., 1997. First Edition. Cuban exile poetry by the Miami, Florida poet, editor, and publisher. OCLC notes fewer than 20 copies for the first edition. Slim octavo; photo-illustrated wrappers; [xii],48,[2]pp; illus. Small price-sticker to lower rear wrapper, else Fine. More
Austin: Red Salmon Press, 1995. First Edition. Third volume of verse by the Texas-born Chicano poet, political activist, and owner of Resistencia Bookstore/Casa de Red Salmon Press, a center for aspiring writers. First Printing, one of 2000 copies. Octavo; photo-illustrated card wrappers; x,109,[3]pp; illus. Gentle bump to crown, else Near... More
St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2001. First Edition. Quarto (32.5cm x 26cm). Pictorial paper boards (hardcover); pictorial dustjacket; pictorial slipcase; 382pp [vol. 1], 432pp [vol. 2]; compact disk recording; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Fine dustwrapper; appears new. Near Fine slipcase; bumped bottom panel; chipping to top edge back cover, else... More
Mainz: Verlag von Franz Kirchheim, 1869. Zweite Auflage. Slim octavo (24cm.); contemporary cream cloth; 24pp. Cloth toned and a bit soiled, a few tiny chips along spine, else About Very Good. Albert Shaw's copy with his ownership signature to front free endpaper. Shaw (1857-1947) was an American journalist best known... More
Boston: E. Lauriat, 1931. First Edition. Quarto. Publisher's blue cloth over boards with gilt titles; 322pp; frontispiece + 16 inserted leaves of plates (mostly photographic); map endpapers after design by William MacDowell. Mild external soil and cloth a trifle rubbed at spine ends, still an attractive, sound, Very Good copy... More
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 242pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed, especially at spine crown, corners bumped, gilt rather dulled, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally fine. The organic chemist's account of experiments conducted... More
Evansville, IN: Whipporwill Publishers, 1988. Reprint. Quarto (ca 11" x 9"). Gilt-tamped brown cloth boards (hardcover); 219pp; illus. Fine copy. Complete reprint of the hard-to-find 1949 first edition, which was written and published by the Woman's Club of Mercersburg. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue buckram, upper cover lettered and double-ruled in black, gilt-lettered spine; [10],369pp.; photographic frontispiece, 7 leaves of plates. Two faint white marks across upper cover, light soil to textblock extremities, else Very Good or better. More
Orwigsburg, PA: Bacon and Freeman, 1987. First, Limited Edition. Signed by Chandler on front endpaper. No. 137 of 600 copies. Quarto (ca 11" x 9"). Gilt-stamped black cloth boards (hardcover); 123pp. Extensively illustrated from photographs. A fine copy. More
St. Mary's City, MD: Iron Brigade Armory, 1992. First, Limited Edition. No. 181 of 800 copies. This is additionally a Presentation Edition, one of 900 Perry County books "randomly selected by the authors for...collectors of Perry County, PA." Printed signature of both authors on title page. Quarto (ca 11" x.... More
Deer Lake, PA: Bacon & Freeman, 1995. First Edition. Signed by Chandler on front endpaper. Quarto (ca 11" x 9"). Gilt-stamped black cloth boards (hardcover); 208pp. The thirtieth and final title in the author's extensive "Perry County" series. A fine copy. More
Deer Lake, PA: Bacon & Freeman, 1978. First, Limited Edition. Stated "Limited Edition," though limitation is not specified. Quarto (ca 11" x 9"). Gilt-stamped black cloth boards (hardcover); 236pp. An early title in the author's extensive "Perry County" series. A fine copy. More
New York: John Day Company, [1946]. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in tan dust jacket printed in red and black; ix,[3],297pp. A few chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, none quite touching text, spine very slighty toned, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good overall... More
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [2],185pp.; color photographic frontispiece, 52 plates, four in color. Boards a bit rubbed at extremities, jacket has a few shallow losses not approaching illustration or text, and has been recently mounted to... More
St. Louis: B. Herder Book Co., 1919. Second Edition. Octavo (18cm.); publisher's green cloth lettered and ruled in black; xviii,[6],328pp. A hint of shelf wear, spine slightly toned, contemporary pencil ownership signature to front pastedown, else Very Good or better. Kentucky lawyer on socialism. Not in Egbert. More
London: T. Vernor, [1787]. First Edition. Detailed history of Portuguese social customs, written by the author, "late a Captain of the Irish Brigade in the service of Spain," in a series of letters to his brother in London. Two octavo volumes (21.25cm); 20th c. tan calf, with titles stamped in... More
New York: Modern Age Books, 1939. First Edition. Reproductions of Quintanilla's subtle pencil sketches of scenes from the Spanish Civil War; this was probably the most popular of the many such sketchbooks that appeared in the wak of the conflict. With an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. There was a simultaneous... More
