![A Collection of Yiddish Proverbs [Limited Edition, Signed]. Malachi McCORMICK](/images/noimage.png)
[New York: Stone Street Press], 1982. First Edition. Limited to 750 copies of which this is no. 356. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue card wrappers, decorative paper label printed in yellow mounted to upper cover; v,[3],47pp.; illus. Slight spine lean, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. Designed... More about A Collection of Yiddish Proverbs [Limited Edition, Signed
Berlin: Malik-Verlag, [1929]. First Edition. Novel of the nationalistic fervor of German youth just a few years before the rise of the Third Reich. The author, himself a communist, later fled Nazi Germany for the Soviet Union only to be a victim of the Great Purge, perishing in the Gulag... More about Ruhe und Ordnung: Roman aus dem Leben der Nationalgesinnten Jugend
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1910. First American Editions. Handsome set of this lengthy biographical work on the life and literary career of Leo Tolstoy. First Printings. Two octavo volumes (23.25cm); dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spines; xii,464; xii,688pp, with frontispieces and 14 plates. Tiny... More about The Life of Tolstoy: First Fifty Years & The Later Years [Two Volume Set
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1877. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan card wrappers printed within double rule; 44pp. Some soil to wrappers, rear wrapper starting to separate, small author obituary newsclipping (1900) tipped to title page with subsequent offsetting inside upper cover, else Very Good, internally sound. Essay... More about Russian Literature
Buffalo: George H. Derby and Co., 1851. First Edition? Conservative Buffalo clergyman's Thanksgiving Day sermon, stating that "Government is a divine constitution" (p. 11) and that the citizens of the free states are therefore bound to adhere to the Fugitive Slave Law. Indeed, one of the other publishers to print... More about "The Higher Law" in Its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the Duties...
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First American Edition. A Beat Generation cornerstone, and basis for David Cronenberg's bizarre 1991 film starring Peter Weller. MAYNARD & MILES A2.b; YOUNG 361. First Printing, one of 3500 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); black paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine;... More about Naked Lunch
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Isherwood's final novel, recounting the final day in the life of a 58-year old British-born English teacher living in LA, struggling to copy with life after the death of his long-time boyfriend. GUNN (Gay American Novels, 1870-1970), p.94; YOUNG 1338. Second Printing. Octavo (20.25cm);... More about A Single Man
New York: American Female Guardian Society, 1859. Second edition. Octavo (19cm). Publisher's gilt-decorated boards; all edges gilt; 338,(10)pp; "Aims of the Female Guardian Society" and publisher's catalog bound in at rear. A bright, straight, Very Good or better copy, the gilt crisp and un-rubbed on bot spine and front cover... More about Home Whispers. to Husbands and Wives
New York: J.C. Derby, 1855. First Edition. First edition of this nativist-themed gift annual which was re-issued in 1856 both under the same title and as "The American gift-book, a perpetual souvenir." Per Thompson: "Contains well-known poems by Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, and others, speeches by Webster, stories of George... More about The Wide-Awake Gift: a Know-Nothing Token for 1855
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1850. First Edition. Contrived piece of Catholic theater recounting the last years of Mohammed's life, a not terribly veiled metaphor for the career of Joseph Smith (see J. Spencer Fluhman, "A Peculiar People" (2012), p. 34). Though awarded Edwin Forrest's $1000 prize for the best... More about Mohammed, the Arabian Prophet. A Tragedy, in Five Acts [Inscribed and Signed
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919. First Edition. Two octavo volumes. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spines; lii,313; lxiii,480pp; portraits & illustrations. Moderate aging, rubbing and soil to cloth; slight aging to text; Very Good. With later printed bookplate of Jerome Bruce Weiner to each volume. More about History of Zionism 1600-1918 (2 vols
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859. First Edition. Collection of the rabblerousing merchant's early speeches. Train was later jailed numerous times, including on charges of obscenity after publishing passages of the Bible in order to demonstrate Victoria Woodhull's own innocence of obscenity charges. His legal counsel, against his will, successfully... More about Spread-Eagleism
Philadelphia: Leon Hyneman, 1857. First Edition. A useful directory to 19th-c. Masonry, listing members in thirty-five states and territories. Though the individual member registry is limited to subscribers and thus far from complete (New Hampshire, for example, has only a single entry), the listing of lodges by name, city and... More about The Universal Masonic Record: or, Links in the Golden Chain of Brotherhood. Containing the Name,...
New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1853. First Edition. Expansionist novel and sequel to the land speculator's 1851 camel corps novel "The Camel Hunt." The present title set in Panama in the wake of the Mexican-American War. SABIN 23590; WRIGHT II 881. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth... More about A Story of Life on the Isthmus
![Tom Torrey's Tariff Talks [Signed Label Laid in]. POLITICAL FICTION - TARIFFS, Edward E. HALE](/pictures/medium/45504.jpg?v=1565992600)
Boston: J. Stillman Smith & Company, 1888. First Edition. Collection of fictional pieces explaining tariffs from a protectionist point of view, originally serialized in "The Weekly Press." Not in Wright. Slim octavo (19cm.); publisher's tan pictorial wrappers; [4],58pp. Two long, shallow losses to front wrapper fore-edge slightly touching text and... More about Tom Torrey's Tariff Talks [Signed Label Laid in
Boston: Adonis Howard, 1829. Reed was a leading exponent of Swedenborgianism in the United States, and an important early influence upon the Transcendentalists and especially Ralph Waldo Emerson. Geldard (God in Concord; NY: 1999) in fact refers to Reed as "...the John the Baptist of Transcendentalism, and his Observations his... More about Observations on the Growth of the Mind [Second Edition
![Drop title] Statement on Fascism by the National Planning Committe of AVC, Quarterly Meeting,...](/pictures/medium/45499.jpg?v=1565992600)
New York: American Vet Committee, 1946. First Edition. Issued nearly a year after the end of World War II, the members of the AVC "deeply disturbed by the present seeming apathy of many Americans toward the resurgence of the hate-mongering elements of our country," concluding "We oppose the entrance into... More about Drop title] Statement on Fascism by the National Planning Committe of AVC, Quarterly Meeting,...
New-York: White, Gallaher, and White, 1827. First Edition. Historical novel set in 17th century Massachusetts during the Pequod War. The novel, an early example of "female storytelling," argues that the surrounding "wilderness gives rise not to antisocial individualism but to strong female communities enjoyed by the readers of characters in... More about Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
New York: Socialist Forum, 1977. First Edition. Folio newsletter (35.5cm.); side-stapled self-wrappers; 5pp.; illus. Previous horizontal mail fold, light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Issue consisting of a single article on the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, "The Evolution of Industrial Unionism. Italy in 1919-1920: Gramsci and the... More about Perspective: "For the Unity of Industrial Action and Socialist Politics!" Vol. II, no....
Helsinki: [Information Centre of the World Peace Movement], 1979. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 36pp. Light wear, else Very Good. Description of the Conference held in Helsinki, March 6-8, 1979, at the tail end of the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict. More about Hands Off Vietnam!
Honduras: Instituto de la Vivienda, [1969]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (21x27cm.); publisher's grey decorative spiral-bound card wrappers; [12],35ll. & 11 plates; illus. throughout, text printed on rectos only. Wrappers a bit worn and dust-soiled, very minor biopredation to front free endpaper fore-edge, else Very Good, internally fine. Text entirely in... More about Informe del Desarrollo de una Vivienda Experimental para el Proyecto de Colonizacion del Valle...
[Berlin]: Bruno Gmünder, [1985]. Second Edition. Large slim, square quarto (32.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated; photographic illus. througout. Wrapper extremities quite yellowed, some minor shelf wear, light soil, else Very Good and sound. Collection of photographs, many of the male nude. More about Schwarz
Moskva: Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo, [1994]. Second Edition. Slim square quarto (28cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; unpaginated; color illus. throughout. Some minor shelf wear, jacket rather wrinkled, boards slightly bowed, else Very Good and sound. Catalog of artwork of Socialist realist works from World War II. More about Text in Russian] Velikaia Otechestvennaia: Zhivopis' / Grafika / Skul'ptura
![Text in Russian] Velikaia Otechestvennaia Voina v Proizvedeniiakh Sovetskikh Khudozhnikov. A. A....](/pictures/medium/45493.jpg?v=1565992600)
Moskva: "Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo" 1985. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's pictorial boards; 151pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, red spine lettering a bit faded, boards very slightly bowed, else Very Good or better. Catalog of works of Socialist realism from World War II. Text chiefly in Russian, with summaries... More about Text in Russian] Velikaia Otechestvennaia Voina v Proizvedeniiakh Sovetskikh Khudozhnikov
![Text in Russian] Velikaia Utopiia: Russkii i Sovetskii Avangard 1915-1932. AVANT-GARDE - SOVIET...](/pictures/medium/45492.jpg?v=1565992600)
[Bern: Izdatel'stvo "Bentelli" 1993]. First Thus. Large quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's pictorial glossy card wrappers; 831pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, textblock a hint toned, else Very Good or better. Massive Russian-language catalog for a travelling exhibition of Soviet avant-garde art work. Text entirely in Russian. More about Text in Russian] Velikaia Utopiia: Russkii i Sovetskii Avangard 1915-1932
