Staunton: The McClure Printing Company, 1956. Second edition, revised. Quarto (30cm); embossed, pictorial cloth boards; 244pp. Signed and dated by Wayland on front free endpaper, dated 1959. With ownership markings of prominent Winchester, Virginia educator and historian Garland Quarles. A tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or significant wear..... More
[Concepción]: by the Company, 1953-4. First Edition. A graphically impressive company journal, issued by the major Chilean mining and manufacturing firm Compañia de Acero del Pacifico (CAP). Founded in 1947, CAP is still one of the largest industrial concerns in all of Latin America. Huachipato, a publication aimed toward the..... More
Fabriano: Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 112pp; illus. Guide to the Museum of Paper and Watermarks, Fabriano. Extensively illustrated. Mild wear and soil to covers; Very Good. More
Nimes: Bureaux de "L'Emancipation" 1896. First Edition. Octavo (25cm). Printed paper wrappers; 136pp. Mild wear, with age-darkening to text; pages unopened; Very Good. Study of the social projects of Robert Owen, including his utopian communities in the U.S. and his industrial experiments at New Lanark. Fabre (1839-1922) was a prominent..... More
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956. First Tuttle printing (originally published 1906). 12mo. Cloth-backed patterned boards in matching board slipcase; publisher's wrap-around advertising band; 133pp; illus. Spine just a shade darkened, else a tight, Near Fine copy, retaining the original advertising band, in the original board slipcase, also Near Fine. An..... More
Philadelphia: for the Author, N.d. [ca 1887?]. First Edition. Vignettes from the life of a dry-goods merchant, a long-time resident of both Providence (1811-1830) and Philadelphia (1830-87). In addition to many useful insights on the history of the dry-goods trade, includes a grisly eye-witness account of the celebrated murder of..... More
Buffalo, NY: Black Panther Party, [1970]. First Edition. Pamphlet issued by the Buffalo chapter of the Black Panther Party, containing an essay outlining the Party's aims ("Serve the People"), origins ("Panthers grow from ghetto oppression"), and their ten point platform. Includes snippets on the cases of Bobby Seale and the..... More
New York: New York Committee to Defend the Panther 21, [1970]. First Edition. Informative document produced and circulated by the NY Committee to Defend the Panther 21, supplying background on the defendants' arrest, charges, bail, and indictments, including details about the pre-trial hearing, the use of wire-tapping, and D.A. Hogan..... More
[Atlanta]: The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and The Student--Adult Liaison Committee, [1960]. Circular produced by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), formed in February, 1960 by a group of Atlanta University Center students who coordinated a variety of sit-ins, boycotts, and non-violent events to demand racial..... More
New York: Centre Against Apartheid, United Nations, 1983. First Edition. Richly-illustrated pamphlet, prepared by the UN Special Committee against Apartheid, giving a brief account of aggression by South Africa towards the People's Republic of Angola. "The People's Republic of Angola has been the worst victim of apartheid aggression, suffering the..... More
Sao Paolo: 1993. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 44pp. Proceedings of a 1992 Conference, "Semi-Árido Nordestino: Realidade e Perspectivas" held in Recife, 26-28 June, 1992. Text entirely in Portuguese. More
N.p. THE BP Express, 1991. Reprint. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm); pictorial card wrappers; 24pp. Mild creasing; original price to front cover in orange magic marker; Very Good. Crude photocopy reprint of Forman's 1967 SNCC pamphlet, issued under the unfamiliar (to us) imprint "The B.P. Express." More
[Boston: C.J. Foley, 1930]. Staple-bound concert program. 12mo (20cm); printed paper wrappers; 8pp. Old folds, toned and lightly soiled, with some pencil notes to program; Good. A late-career recital by the great operatic soprano and film actress, who had transitioned from opera to concert recitals in the early Twenties following..... More
New York: Education Committee, American Association for the United Nations, 1945. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm); printed card wrappers; 62pp. Slight external toning and soil; Very Good. Informational booklet for "secondary school teachers and students of the social studies," providing factual information on the origin & development of the..... More
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London: National Unionist Association, N.d. [ca 1918]. Bifolium leaflet. Octavo (21cm). Printed on thin paper; 4pp. Hole punched at upper margin; overall staining and creasing; complete and Good. Campaign leaflet for the 1918 British General Election, calling on voters to support the coalition government of Lloyd George, promising to sustain..... More
London: The Economic Research Council, (1967). First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm); printed card wrappers; 20pp. Mild external wear; wrappers slightly soiled; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A sound, VG copy. Critique of British housing policy, calling for an increase in private homebuilding and a de-emphasis on rent controls and..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1951. Third printing. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (21cm); pictorial card wrappers; 24pp. Near Fine. Examination, by a non-Catholic, of the compatibility between Roman Catholicism and democratic institutions; written, according to the foreword, as "a contribution toward better understanding between Catholics and non-Catholics...recommended to everyone regardless of creed." More
Washington DC: League of Women Voters, 1953. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (21cm). Pictorial thick paper wrappers; 30pp. Mild esternal wear; few nicks to rear wrapper; Very Good or better. Discussion pamphlet on U.S. Third-World foreign policy, including problems of development, extraction of natural resources, and the creeping threat of..... More
London: Conservative Political Centre, 1954. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm). Pictorial stiff card wrappers; 55pp. Light rubbing to covers, else clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Post-War study of British city planning from a Conservative viewpoint, emphasizing slum clearance, containing sprawl, and preserving agricultural properties. More
[Göttingen]: Wallstein Verlag, [2002]. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; 111pp.; color illus. throughout. A hint of toning to wrapper extremities, else Near Fine. Catalog of later paintings by the Czech artist, some of quotidian Jewish life, others inspired by the experiences during the Holocaust. Of the..... More
[Paris?]: Balland, [1978]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's glossy black pictorial paper-covered boards; unpaginated; chiefly half-tone photographic illus. Some rubbing at spine ends, old price sticker to upper cover, one leaf toward rear rather badly wrinkled, else Very Good and sound, internally fine. Photo-essay on late 19th-century depictions of Satan..... More
Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (30.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial paper-covered boards; 191pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Boards rather dust-soiled and a bit edge worn, corners bumped with tiny chip at bottom of rear cover; Very Good overall, internally clean and sound. Text entirely in French. More
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Moskva: Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo, 1982. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 422pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. Catalog of Socialist Realist works, text entirely in Russian. More
Lawrence: British Esperanto Association, N.d. [ca 1940]. Bifolium leaflet. Octavo (22cm); printed self-wrappers; (4pp). Mild edge-creasing; Very Good. Advocates the teaching of Esperanto from an early age, noting its pedagogical benefits including ease of acquirement, simplifying the teaching of grammar, training the logical faculty, broadening students' world outlook, etc. More
London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1928. Eighth edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm). Mild external soil and wear; ink ownership mark to front cover ("M.S.M."); notations in same hand inside rear wrapper; Very Good. Resumé of the accomplishments of the post-WW1 British Conservative government in the areas of..... More
