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EASTMAN, Max (editor); WEED, Clive (cover) The Liberator - Vol.2, No.5 (May, 1919)
New York: Liberator Publishing Co. 1919. The issue includes contributions by Carl Sandburg, John Reed, Max & Crystal Eastman, Arturo Giovannitti, et al., with illustrations by Elias Goldberg, Boardman Robinson, Art Young, William Gropper and others. With a striking cover portrait of Eugene Debs by Clive Weed. Quarto (27.5cm); illustrated...
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EASTMAN, Max (editor) The Liberator - Vol.2, No.6 (June, 1919)
New York: Liberator Publishing Co. 1919. Contains contributions by Maxim Gorky, John Kenneth Turner, Viola Paradise, and others. Illustrations throughout by Art Young, William Gropper, Maurice Becker, Elias Goldberg, J.J. Lankes, Boardman Robinson, and others. Octavo (28cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 58pp; illus. Some very mild tanning to text edges, wrappers...
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EASTMAN, Max (editor); GELLERT, Hugo (cover) The Liberator - Vol.1, No.5 (July, 1918)
New York: Liberator Publishing Co. 1918. Early issue of this socialist journal, with contributions by Max Eastman, Morris Hillquit, Arturo Giovanitti, John Reed, and Inez Haynes Irwin, et al. Cover art designed by Hugo Gellert. Quarto (27.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 34pp; illus. Some tanning to text edges, with a few...
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LIGHTNIN' ROD [aka Jalal Mansur Nuriddin] Hustlers Convention
New York: Harmony Books, 1973. First Edition. Nearly pristine copy of this absolutely seminal work, a book-length jive masterpiece chronicling street-life in Harlem from the Fifties through the Seventies, glorifying the violent lives of crap-shooters, pimps, drug dealers and gang-bangers. Nuriddin recorded the work (also under the nom-de-guerre "Lightnin' Rod")...
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[CRIME & UNDERWORLD - JUVENILE DELINQUENCY] BURT, Cyril The Young Delinquent
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1929. Very nice copy of this classic of juvenile criminal psychology. Burt achieved great eminence during his lifetime, in 1946 becoming the first British psychologist to be knighted as a reward for his research. Burt's methodologies came into question after his death, however, and...
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[ECONOMICS - FINANCE] NEIFELD, M.R. The Personal Finance Business
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. Second Printing. The earliest such history of the personal finance business, authored by a statistician for the Beneficial Management Corporation, a company which supervised and audited the largest group of personal finance companies in the country. Neifeld would go on to write a....
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TODRIN, Boris The Plundered Heart
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; 318pp. Some light wear to jacket extremities, including a number of tiny chips, none approaching text, else Very Good and sound. Novel of a young widowed newspaperman and his struggle...
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WATSON, Thomas E. [Edward] Prose Miscellanies. Fourth (and final) Edition.
Thomson, GA: The Tom Watson Book Company, 1927. Watson (1856-1922) was a populist Georgia politician and newspaperman, perhaps best remembered for his inflammatory role in the Leo Frank lynching case. Though Watson began his political career on the progressive Populist ticket, even running for Vice President beside William Jennings Bryan...
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WATSON, Thomas E. Prose Miscellanies. Second Edition.
Thomson, GA: Jeffersonian Publishing Co, 1913. Watson (1856-1922) was a populist Georgia politician and newspaperman, perhaps best remembered for his inflammatory role in the Leo Frank lynching case. Though Watson began his political career on the progressive Populist ticket, even running for Vice President beside William Jennings Bryan in 1896...
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MAILER, Norman Ancient Evenings [Limited Edition, Signed]
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1983]. First Edition. Limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 217. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, spine lettered in metallic red and gilt, reddish-brown cloth slipcase, printed paper label mounted to upper panel; pictorial endpapers. Fine copy. Signed by the author on colophon.
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BRAND, Max [pseud. Frederick Schiller Faust] Dr. Kildare's Crisis
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vi,[2],206pp. General wear to jacket extremities, including tiny chips, crease to upper panel, red spine portion quite faded, tape repair to jacket extremities verso not showing through to exterior, else Near...
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WALLACE, Edgar The Feathered Serpent
Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],325pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn, bottom right-hand quarter of upper jacket panel torn and crudely reattached with old tape repair to verso and still suffering...
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ALLINGHAM, Margery The Mind Readers
London: Chatto and Windus, 1965. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 255pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, red portion of spine a hint faded, else Near Fine. Eighteenth novel in the author's Albert Campion mystery series. HUBIN, p. 6.
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[COLONIALISM - MIDDLE EAST] MALEK, Yusuf The British Betrayal of the Assyrians
Chicago: The Assyrian National League of America, 1935. First Edition. Polemic on the British colonial government's abandonment of ethnic minorities following the independence of Iraq in 1933, which led to the death of thousands of ethnic Assyrians by the Iraqi army during the Simele Massacre of 1933. The Massacre was...
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