Washington DC: Resettlement Administration, [ca. 1935]. Highly dramatic and uncommon Resettlement Administraion poster by the WPA muralist William H. Jansen. A bleak portrayal of dustbowl-era farm life, depicting a farmer standing in the door of his delapidated cabin, amidst a nightmare landscape of leafless trees, rusting automobiles, and decaying farm..... More

Salem, OH: Homestead Print, n.d., ca. 1850. First Edition. Unused handbill announcing anti-slavery meetings held by the Western Anti-Slavery Society, a splinter group from the Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society. This branch was led by the abolitionist Adam Brooke, a member of the utopian community the Marlboro Association; and, to a...... More

Bubbling Waters [Wixom, MI]: Labadie Shop, 1922. First Edition. Labadie, noted labor organizer and collector of anarchist ephemera, opened his tramp printing concern outside Detroit "principally for love," prices of the works depending on what the customer could pay. Consequently Labadie expanded his enterprise to include job printing in order..... More

New York: International Publishers, 1926. First Edition. Attractive copy of this first-hand account by the Russian-American foreign correspondent, written after revisiting his birthplace in the Soviet Union, and dealing with "the peasant, his daily life, his wife and children, the village school, the Church, the Soviet, the political and social..... More

Paris: Binet, 1848? First Edition. The movement to overthrow the July Monarchy burst on the scene following the highly unpopular outlawing of political campaign banquets, a tradition used by middle class oppositionists to circumvent the laws banning political meetings and public demonstrations. When all political banquets were banned in February..... More

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, [1970]. First Thus. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, decorative dust jacket; [12],176pp. Rear jacket panel a bit unevenly toned, else Near Fine condition. Forms part of the New Library of French Classics. "A key document of the surrealist movement in literature" (upper jacket flap)..... More

New York: Patriot Party, 1970. First Edition. A short-lived publication produced by the Patriot Party, a national organization of anti-racist working-class white people. The group had its origins in uptown Chicago, as a splinter group of the Young Patriots Organization, and while most of its membership where white, the Patriot..... More

London: The Fabian Society, 1884-1905. Thick octavo. Publisher's brown buckram, gilt; variously paginated, with individual titles ranging from 2pp to 50pp. Tight and straight, with scattered foxing to contents; Very Good. The Society issued bound collections of its tracts more or less annually, compiling whichever titles were still in-print or..... More

New York: Thomas Seltzer, Inc., 1926. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 259pp. Straight, tight, Near Fine copy in the uncommon original Politzer-designed dustwrapper. Her first novel, following two volumes of verse; written when Crane was just thirteen years old. Nathalia Crane, "The Brooklyn Bard," wrote her..... More

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1899. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; top edge gilt; xvi,320pp. Pencil ownership signature; bit of negligible rubbing to boards; a fresh, tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or significant wear. More

[London? New International Pub. Co.], 1913. First Edition. First issue of the later iteration of Marsden's radical feminist and anarchist weekly, which first appeared as "The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review" in 1911, originally founded as a vehicle "to expand feminism beyond the dominating issue of the vote, and render..... More

New York: John Day Company, [1932]. First Trade Edition. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "For Mrs. Oppenheim / Pearl S. Buck." Addtionally laid in are several pieces of ephemera and correspondence from the office of Laurent Oppenheim, including two sheet of pencil notes on Plaza Hotel notepaper, beginning with..... More

[Barcelona: Antonio Bosch / Imp. de Ramirez, 1871]. First Edition. Uncommon newsheet recounting in highly critical terms the recent destruction following the assault on the Paris Commune, the recto woodcut depicting a scene of pillaging and destruction at the hands of both the army and the Communards, the city in..... More