Detroit: Trans-Love Energies, Inc., [1967]. Rare 4-page promotional piece advertising the notorious Belle Isle Love-In on April 30, 1967 – an event that has widely come to be regarded as a precursor to the violent riots that shook downtown Detroit later that year. The Love-In began more or less as..... More
[New York]: Johnson Publishing Co. Representative run of these quite uncommon African-American "pin-up" calendars, issued to subscribers of Jet beginning at least as early as 1965 and continuing through the 2000's. John H. Johnson, publisher of Jet, was among the first American publishers to perceive a market for African-American erotica..... More
Lowell, MA: James P. Walker, 1853. Second edition of a work originally published in 1850 as An Essay on the Opium Trade... Allen's foreword states his reasons for issuing a new edition, including renewed interest in the opium question spurred by "the recent discoveries of immense quantities of gold in..... More
Paris: P.-V. Stock, 1902. First Edition. Eugenicist utopian treatise by a leader of the French Socialist party and law professor at the Collège des Sciences Sociales. Based in part on Paolo Mantegazza's "L'Anno 3000" (1897), Tarbouriech's proposal included the sterilization of degenerates, mandatory reporting of pregnancy, and state support in..... More
[New York]: Universe, [1998]. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 142pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some rubbing to board extremities with brief exposure, corners slightly bumped, else Very Good overall. Features portraits of Tupac Shakur and Coolio by David LaChapelle; Chris Rock by Norman Jean Roy and..... More
[Washington, DC: Quaker Press, 1981]. Second Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's red and black decorative paper-covered boards; [8],160pp.; photographic illus. throughout, many in color. Boards lightly rubbed and corners bumped, slight spine lean, old tape remnants to pastedowns from previously affixed mylar dust jacket, else Very Good, internally fine. More
New York: Russells' American Steam Printing House, 1869. First Edition. Slim octavo (18cm); brick red cloth, pebble grain, stamped in gilt; 35pp, frontis., four plates. Spine and upper board margins tanned; soiling and surface wear; leading corners lightly rubbed, spine heel and crown chipped; gilt rubbed. Tearing to front gutter..... More
New York: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications, [1955]. First Edition. Pseudonymously published account of the "twilight world of the sexes" (from Dr. Richard H. Hoffmann's blurb on rear cover), by the author of the early pulp lesbian novel "Spring Fire" (published under the name "Vin Packer"). 12mo (18cm.); publisher's..... More
London: Quartet Books, 1985-6]. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo (22cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's simulated cloth and pictorial dust jackets; illus. Long closed tear to pp. 62/3 of the first volume without loss of meaning, third volume textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good or better collection. Complete set of..... More
Tiranë, Albania: Shtëpia Botuese, 1976. First Edition. Large, slim octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 100pp.; chiefly color cartoons throughout. Light wear to wrapper extremities, the whole a bit dust-soiled else Very Good, internally fine. Bilingual collection of political cartoons in Albanian and English. Institutionally scarce, no copies in..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in decorative dust jacket; 261pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, corners bumped, top textblock edge dusty, else Very Good and sound. "A novel of the Spanish Civil War" - upper jacket panel. The author escaped..... More
New York: AMS, n.d., ca. 1980s. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's teal blind-ruled cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; [2],367pp.; frontispiece. Fine condition. Facsimile reprint of the original 1890 edition of this classic anti-capitalist utopian novel, forming part of the "Communal Societies in America" reprint series. More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue and white printed card wrappers; [8],140pp. A hint of soil to wrappers and title page, else Very Good or better. More
Enugu, Nigeria: Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co., [1971]. First Edition. 12mo (19.5cm); publisher's textured boards in red pictorial dust jacket; [6],137pp. Some general shelf wear to jacket extremities, jacket a bit dust-soiled, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Bilingual poetry anthology, text in Igbo and English. More
London: Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in brown price-clipped dust jacket lettered in grey and green; [10],250pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities and flap folds, tiny closed tear at top edge of upper panel, two lines on upper jacket flap neatly..... More
[Port of Spain, Trinidad]: Inprint Publication, [1979]. 12mo (19.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xiii,[1],185pp.; illus. throughout, including maps. Light shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Signed by the author on title page. Social history of Trinidad first published in 1977. More
Paris: Hatier, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's orange pictorial boards; 128pp; illus. A hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Primary-school French reader for colonial subjects. Illustrated throughout with simple drawings keyed to the text, all illustrating the daily life of Camerounian natives. More
Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie. [1872-1875]. First French Edition. First appearance in French of Marx's "Das Kapital," the translation the only such to have been executed with the collaboration of the author, whose letter to Lachatre appears in facsimile on p. [7]: "J'applaudis à votre idée de publier la traduction..... More
New York: Howell, Soskin, Publishers, [1941]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket, grey topstain; viii,296pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities and flap folds, the whole rather dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Includes contributions by Malcolm Cowley, Eugene Lyons, Bertram D. Wolfe, and others. More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,243pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Some rubbing to jacket extremities and flap folds, else Very Good and sound. Rather uncompromisingly laudatory biography of the pacifist eugenicist and founding President of Stanford University. As to Jordan's cover-up..... More
Roma: Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's card wrappers in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxi,[3],202pp. Light shelf wear, jacket extremities rather toned, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Published as the Institute's Biblioteca Scientficia, Serie II, Vol. XLIII..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1982]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in cream printed dust jacket; xvi,477pp.; full-page maps throughout. Spine cocked, old glue offsetting to jacket flaps and free endpapers from previously removed plastic jacket protector, else Very Good and sound. Presumed review copy with autograph letter signed by..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1982]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in cream printed dust jacket; xvi,477pp.; full-page maps throughout. Light dust-soil to jacket, front hinge very slightly starting, faint foxing to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good or better. More
Moskva: Sovetskii Khudozhnik, 1959. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's linen in white pictorial dust jacket; 86pp.; halftone and color illus. throughout. Jacket extremiteis chipped and rubbed with a few tiny losses including at spine foot, none touching text, corners bumped, else Very Good in Good or better jacket. Catalog..... More
Moskva: "Sovetskii Khudozhnik" 1987. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; approx. 250pp.; chiefly color illus. Jacket extremities chipped and rubbed with some old tape repair to verso, corners gently bumped, else Very Good overall, internally fine. Catalog of Socialist realist work from the 1920s to..... More
