New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. First Edition. Future war fantasy in which, "...the American Navy intervenes on the British side, Russian revolutionaries capture the Tsar, the Indian Army storms across Persia to attack Russia, and the new Thomson Electric Rifle gives the British troops a devastating secret weapon" (Clarke... More
New York: Macmillan, 1904. First edition. Unusually nice copy of an early Sinclair novel, intended as the first volume of a Civil War trilogy (the subsequent volumes were never completed). While Manassas is historical in subject, Sinclair explores techniques which would reappear much later in his "Lanny Budd" series, and... More
Waldport, OR: The Untide Press, [1946]. First trade edition. Octavo. Black wrappers with white title label affixed; (35p). Bit of soil visible to white portion of covers; corners rounded; still a clean, Near Fine copy. This is the second impression, created when all but about 30 copies of the first... More
Vichy: A. Wallon, 1875. First edition. Small octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed wrappers; 104p. Spine partially perished; covers lightly soiled; internally clean and unmarked. Marketing piece, digesting the observations of a number of learned researchers to extol the virtues of Vichy waters. Consults works by Willemin, Bouquet, Durand-Fardel, Dufrenois, others. Rear... More
Paris: Chez J.-B. Baillere, 1842. First edition. 12mo. Sewn pamphlet; 32pp. Removed; lacking cover wrappers; half-title present. Mild foxing to first and final few leaves; faint marginal dampstain to upper corner of final 10 leaves; else text quite good and paper strong. The author was physician-in-residence at the mineral hot... More
New York: Rough and Brown Press, [1926]. First Thus. Octavo (21cm.); original blue blind-ruled cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; 64pp.; illus., including many photographs. Extremiteis rubbed with some old ink flecking to upper cover, corners bumped, spine gilt nearly effaced; About Very Good overall, though internally sound... More
Cologne: Taschen, 2015. First Edition. Quarto (34.5cm x 27cm). Pictorial paper boards (hardcover); 312pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Collection of photographs exploring late Soviet buildings found throughout the former Soviet Union and an accompanying essay by Frédéric Chaubin. Hundreds of full..... More
San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery / Chronicle Books, 2003. First Edition. Quarto (29cm x 24.5cm). Forest green paper wrappers (softcover); pictorial dustjacket; 116pp; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Fine dustwrapper, appears new. Richard Diebenkorn's collected and previously unpublished figurative drawings and paintings on paper from the mid-1950s to the late... More
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 24.5cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in white on cover and spine; dustjacket; [94]pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to extremites, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; shelf wear to extremities; two small tears to upper... More
Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark, 1986. Second Printing. Quarto (31cm x 26cm). Maroon cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; [6], 202pp; photographic illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to bottom corners; else new. Very Good dustwrapper; small tear to top front panel; light... More
Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d., but after 1917. Reprint. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's pictorial self-wrappers printed in black; 9pp. Minor toning, else Near Fine. Cover illustration signed by Posada in image. Forms part of the series Galeria Infantil de Teatro. Presumed reprint, the rear cover advertisements for the estate of Vanegas... More
New York: Abrams, 2000. First Edition. Quarto (25.5cm x 27cm). Blue cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 156pp; illus. Inscribed on title page in ink; dated 2001. Fine copy; free of markings or wear; appears new. Selection of artist's pastels accompanied by texts discussing technique, landscapes, and aesthetics. More
New York: Transport Workers Union, [1938]. Well before Uber and Lyft, the New York City Transport Workers Union had troubles with non-union hacks stealing their rides. This broadside warns the public of the potentially dire consequences of hitching a ride on a non-union cab: "...There is a sight for you...this... More
Lagos: Wuraola Press, 1969. First Edition. A late but extremely scarce addition to the genre of Nigerian market literature. Odunlaye here presents the results of "...many years research with late Pa Olagumorioye an occulist [sic] a great elephant and other wild animal hunter in Owo Division...as he was my cousin... More
Scranton: [Samuel C. Logan], 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original decorative tan cloth embossed in gilt, floral endpapers; viii,355pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece inscribed and signed in facsimile, 9 leaves of photographic illustrations, maps in text. Very slightly ex-Lacka. Historical Society with their ownership rubberstamp to front flyleaf and tiny paper... More
![[1942 Wall Calendar] Russian War Relief [cover title]. Rockwell KENT, RUSSIAN WAR RELIEF.](/pictures/medium/41756.jpg?v=1546641446)
[New York]: Russian War Relief, 1941 but 1942?]. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers comb-bound at top edge; [12] leaves printed in black and blue on rectos only; chiefly illus. throughout. Light wear, small loss of one comb, else Very Good and sound. Quite an attractive fundraising wall... More
![Howl and Other Poems [Inscribed]. Allen GINSBERG.](/pictures/medium/41631.jpg?v=1546641446)
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1962. Attractive copy of this seminal Beat Generation text. There were 65,000 copies in print at the time of this printing. MORGAN A3.a1.11. Eleventh printing. Slim octavo (15.75cm); black and white card wrappers, stapled; 44,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Betty... More
Oakland: [Cultural and Ethnic Affairs Guild of the Oakland Museum Association], 1975. First Edition. Slim square quarto (21.5cm.); publisher's gilt pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated; photographic portraits throughout. Light dustiness, else Near Fine. Short biographical pieces of twenty-one honorees, including Lorraine Hansberry, Duke Ellington, and Sidney Poitier. More
Los Angeles: Liberation Union, [ca.1970]. Flyer produced by the Los Angeles-based Liberation Union, drawing attention to the plight of Chairman Bobby Seale, who was on trial in 1970 for charges of conspiracy and inciting riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Prominently displayed are illustrations of a bound and gagged... More
[N.p. United States Army, 1943]. Well-preserved application for the Women's Army Corps, an auxiliary unit of the United States Army created on 15 May, 1942. Inner wrapper prints a letter to applicants from Oveta Culp Hobby, the WAC's first Director. The laid-in leaves consist of a letter of instruction for... More
![The Civil Rights Congress Tells the Story...[Signed]. AFRICAN AMERICANS, William PATTERSON, CIVIL RIGHTS.](/pictures/medium/41362.jpg?v=1546641445)
[Los Angeles]: Civil Rights Congress, [1951]. First Edition. Volume produced by the Los Angeles chapter of the Civil Rights Congress, a national organization founded in 1946 dedicated to the defense of racial injustice. Contents include coverage of the CRC's involvement in cases related to police brutality, anti-semitism, and extradition, with... More
Atlanta: Georgia Commission on Education, [1957]. First Edition. A tabloid intended to warn citizens about the seditious intentions of the board and faculty of the Highlander Folk School, founded by Don West and Myles Horton in 1953 as a training facility for southern civil rights workers. This poster-sized brochure is... More
Barcelona: CNT - AIT Comité Nacional / Sección Información y Propaganda, 1937. First Edition. Transcript of an address made by Federica Montseny at a March, 1937 conference of the CNT in Valencia. Montseny has been called "the one true intellectual" among the Spanish anarchists who collaborated with the Republican government;..... More
![Noh [Issued as Linesheet no. 1]. Ted BERRIGAN, Ron Padgett.](/pictures/medium/40660.jpg?v=1546641445)
N.p. [NY: Lines Press, ca 1965]. First, Limited Edition. Copy 33 of fifty hand-numbered copies, signed in ink by both poets. Broadside, 33cm x 20.5cm. Printed in red on cream laid-paper stock. Faint crease at upper left corner; light soil to extremities; Very Good Plus. FISCHER [Ted Berrigan: an Annotated... More
[Washington, D.C. Office of War Information, ca.1942]. First Edition. Scarce anti-German propaganda pamphlet issued by the U.S. Office of War Information, presumably for distribution among English-speaking Axis soldiers. The contents juxtapose Hitler's public promises of peace against images of Nazi atrocities, documenting with words and images the Reich's continued aggressions..... More
