San Francisco: Black Panther Party, 1971. First Edition. Contents include a lengthy statement by Huey Newton, a feature on the social programs of the Illinois chapter of the Panthers, trial news and incidents of police brutality, and an article by George Jackson ("Comrade George Jackson on Withdrawal"). Cover and illustrated..... More
Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, N.d. [1921]. First Edition. 16mo (12.5cm x 9cm). Printed, staple-bound blue wrappers; 64pp. Mild toning to covers, else Near Fine. People's Pocket Series no.157. GIBBS 157a, variant, ads beginning with "Sex Life in Ancient Greece" and ending with "Fairy Tales" (see Gibbs, Bibliography of the..... More
Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, N.d. [1921]. First Edition. 16mo (12.5cm x 9cm). Printed, staple-bound yellow wrappers; 64pp. Mild toning to covers, else Near Fine. People's Pocket Series no.182. GIBBS 182a, first edition, with ad for Whittier's "Snowbound" inside front wrapper (see Gibbs, Bibliography of the Pocket Books; on-line resource)..... More
Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, N.d. [1920]. First Edition. 16mo (12.5cm x 9cm). Printed, staple-bound gray wrappers; 64pp.Small nick to rear cover, else Near Fine. People's Pocket Series no.149. GIBBS 149a, First edition, with ad for "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" inside front wrapper (see Gibbs, Bibliography of the..... More
Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, N.d. [1920]. First Edition. 16mo (12.5cm x 9cm). Printed, staple-bound red wrappers; 64pp. Mild cover fading and soil; text slightly aged; Very Good. People's Pocket Series no.53. GIBBS 53a, First edition, with ads beginning with "Maxims of La Rochefoucauld" and ending with "Pelleas and Melisande."..... More
Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, N.d. [1922]. 16mo (12.5cm x 9cm). Printed, staple-bound wrappers; 64pp. Mild cover fading and soil; text slightly aged; Very Good. People's Pocket Series no.30. GIBBS 30c, Ten Cent Pocket Series variant, issued ca 1922-23 (see Gibbs, Bibliography of the Pocket Books; on-line resource). More
Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, N.d. [1920]. First Edition. 16mo (12.5cm x 9cm). Printed, staple-bound wrappers; 64pp. Mild cover fading; text slightly aged; Very Good. People's Pocket Series no.5 GIBBS 5c, variant, with ads beginning with "Karl Marx & the Civil War" and ending with "Balzac's Short Stories" (Gibbs, Bibliography..... More
Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, N.d. [1920]. First Edition. 16mo (12.5cm x 9cm). Printed, staple-bound wrappers; 64pp. Mild cover fading; text slightly aged; Very Good. People's Pocket Series no.16. GIBBS 16b, second variant, with ads beginning with "Poe's Tales" and ending with "How to Live 100 Years" (Gibbs, Bibliography of..... More
Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, N.d. [ca 1919]. 16mo (12.5cm x 9cm). Printed, staple-bound wrappers; 64pp. Cover soil; text slightly aged; closed tear to first text leaf (no loss of text); Very Good. People's Pocket Series no.23. GIBBS 23a, second variant, with ads for "The Labor Movement" and "How I...... More
Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, N.d. [ca 1922]. 16mo (12.5cm x 9cm). Printed, staple-bound wrappers; 64pp. Cover soil; text slightly aged; Very Good. People's Pocket Series no.141. GIBBS 141a, "Ten Cent Pocket Series" variant (issued between 1922-23 per Gibbs, Bibliography of the Pocket Books). More
Cincinnati: A.B. Volney, 1858. First Edition. A volume of fictional vignettes including, besides the title story, five others: "The way the world goes"; "The wheel of fortune; or, The ups and downs of life"; "Autobiography of Ben Boaz"; "The fallen angel"; andl "Light from heaven; or, The great revival of..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1947. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 49pp. Covers a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Special Anniversary Issue of this standard Soviet-American propaganda monthly. Includes contributions by Vassili Machalov, Maj. Joseph Kryvelev, Nadezhda Aralovets, others. More
Washington DC: Information Bulletin, Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1946. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; 56pp; illus. Mild edgewear to wrappers, else Near Fine. Detailed outline for the fourth Five-Year Plan, emphasizing war recovery and the growth of heavy industries, especially in the Ukraine..... More
Toronto: McLeod & Allen, 1903. First Canadian Edition. Octavo; decorated publisher's cloth with applied oval photo-pictorial vignette to front cover; [1]-459,(2)pp. Boards a trifle rubbed; endpapers slightly darkened; still a fresh, tight, Very Good or better copy. The quite uncommon first Canadian edition of McCutcheon's first book (originally published Chicago..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1924]. First Edition. Octavo. Original green textured cloth boards, lettered in black; 392pp. Mild external wear; spine a shade darkened (still perfectly legible); ownership signature inside front cover; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Edition and printing not stated but BLEILER (1979) p.145, calls for no date on title..... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1899. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial cloth boards; 163pp; illus. Covers spotted and lightly soiled; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Good to Very Good reading copy. An oriental romance with some fantasy elements. Roche, a leading Irish-American intellectual, was the long-time editor of the Pilot, Boston's..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Pictorial orange cloth boards; 264pp; illus. Minimal external wear and soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked - a Near Fine copy, but lacking the dustwrapper. Juvenile adventure set in the deserts of North Africa. More
Lakemont, GA: CSA Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Science fiction novel by the one-time Scientologist, parapsychologist, and UFOlogist E. Blanche Pritchett. Pritchett claimed her book was the identical text to that supposedly "psychically transferred" to Scientology leader L. Ron Hubbard for his legendary but never published work of the same title..... More
Burnaby, BC: Blackfish Press, 1973. First Edition. Edition of 375 copies in the regular issue. Octavo; blue pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated. Minimal edge-rubbing to wrappers, else Fine. More
Cleveland: World Syndicate Publishing Co., [1930]. Edition and printing not stated. Octavo. Cloth boards with pictorial front-cover paste-on; 245pp. Spine sunned (but perfectly legible); mild external rubbing and wear; front endpaper corner-clipped; text fresh and tight -- Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. The fourth book in the "Flying Buddies"..... More
New York: The Simons Press, 1934. First Edition. Uncommon lost-race fantasy with a Judaic theme and utopian elements. BLEILER (1979) p.11. Inscribed on verso of frontispiece: "To - Lenard and Elliot M. Baritz. May life be to them a glorious adventure! Sincerely, Uncle Ben Aronin," undated but apparently contemporary with..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. First printing. Cloth-backed pictorial boards; 320pp. Board edges rubbed (rubbed through at corners), else just mild external wear, with text fresh and tight. A Good or better reading copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Oriental romance, described in the author's Preface as "...an attempt..... More
London: Hutchinson, N.d. [1946]. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18.5cm); original blue cloth boards with pictorial dustjacket; 124pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in a slightly dulled and edgeworn dustwraper with a shallow loss at crown of spine panel, just affecting title text; Very Good. According to Tuck (Encyclopedia of Science..... More
Boston: L.C. Page, 1905. Second impression. Octavo; pictorial cloth boards; pictorial frontispiece; 327,[5]pp. Covers a bit dull, but contents fresh and tight; a Very Good copy. The third published novel by the extraordinarily prolific Canadian author of adventure tales and romances, this one set in 17th-c. Newfoundland and involving European..... More
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's decorated gray cloth boards; navy blue coated endpapers; [iv],347pp; pictorial frontispiece. Expected tanning to text block, else a straight, tight, and attractive copy, Very Good or better. Neat ownership stamp to verso of frontispiece. An adventure for boys by the prolific..... More
