![The Atheist – 4A Bulletin [Broken Run of 18 Issues]. FREETHOUGHT, ATHEISM](/images/noimage.png)
New York, then San Diego: American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, 1948 - 1951; 1978. First Edition. Eighteen of the first twenty-five issues of this rather eccentric freethought newsletter, founded and edited by Woolsey Teller (first cousin of Charles Lee Smith, editor of the venerable freethought newspaper The Truth... More about The Atheist – 4A Bulletin [Broken Run of 18 Issues
Corfu, NY: C.E. Curtiss Mail Order Press, N.d. The first part is a translation of Jean Nicolas' Verge du Jacob (Lyon: 1693). The second part presents the translator's modern observations on the art of dowsing, here called "Bletonism," including trance dowsing and according to one bibliographer "one of the earliest..... More about Jacob's Rod. A Translation from the French of a rare and Curious Work, A.D. 1693, on the Art of...
San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1866. First Edition. Privately-printed collection of poems by Sarah Carmichael, a Mormon pioneer author who contributed so prolifically to the Deseret News in her youth that she came to be known as "The Sappho of Salt Lake City." According the the "Mormon Literature & Creative... More about Poems. A Brief Selection, Published by Permission of the Authoress, for Private Circulation
New York: J.C. Riker, 1851. First Edition. Rogers, a British emigrant to the United States, here offers an extended patriotic ode in three parts, interspersed with lengthy prose passages of explication. Among these is included the text of the author's "Address to the People of the United States...Delivered at the..... More about My Adopted Country: a Poem. Part I: Freedom's Bower. Part II: The Emigrant. Part III: Life in the...
New York: S. Booth, 1872. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); publisher's pink pictorial wrappers; viii,[9]-144pp.; frontis., illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities rather chipped and worn with several shallow losses along extremities, slightly touching image though never text, upper cover a bit faded with small faint damp spot, textblock uniformly toned due..... More about Gen. Tom Thumb's Three Years' Tour Around the World, Accompanied by His Wife - Lavinia Warren...
Buffalo: by the Author, 1894. First Edition. Materia medica of American herbs, with receipts for remedies and instructions for healthy living. Includes a chapter on "Occult Medicine," by which the author means healing through spirit medium. Matteson (d. 1913) was a German-born "occult" physician and clairvoyant, purveyor of quack medicines... More about The Occult Family Physician; and Botanic Guide to Health: Comprising a Description of Many...
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Publisher's gilt-pictorial green cloth; front cover design stamped in blind on rear cover; 107pp; 14 inserted leaves of plates. Cloth a bit rubbed and stained; hinges (internal) pulled, but sound; rear endpaper with two small losses at gutter; a.... More about The Mule. A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses, to which He May Be Put
[London: Soviet News, 1956]. First Thus. 12mo (18.5cm.); decorative staplebound self-wrappers; 70pp. Light wear and toning, else Very Good and sound. Soviet News Booklet No. 21. More about Suez, the Soviet View: N.A. Bulganin Replies to Questions / Statements by the Soviet Government...
[London]: Trades Union Congress, 1950. Second Edition. Small 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's grey staplebound card wrappers; 40pp. Light dustiness to rear cover, else Fine. More about Trades Councils Guide: A T.U.C. Handbook for Officers and Delegates of Trades Councils and...
New York: John S. Taylor, 1839. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Publisher's brown ribbed cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt on front and rear covers, title in gilt to spine; engraved portrait frontispiece and extra-title; xix, [20]-160pp. Mild rubbing to boards and joints; scattered foxing within; still a bright, Very Good copy... More about Transplanted Flowers, or Memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, Daughter of John Jacob Astor Esq. and the...
![Pictorial Broadside] Low Moor Iron. Of great strength, soundness, and uniform quality. A full...](/pictures/medium/45422.jpg?v=1565734217)
Bufford: W. Bailey Lang, n.d., ca. 1860s. First Edition. Advertising broadside issued by the only North American agent of the Low Moor Iron Works of Bradford, Yorkshire, one of the largest in that county. Adorned with a view of the ironworks, countless smoke stacks blending in with the puffy white..... More about Pictorial Broadside] Low Moor Iron. Of great strength, soundness, and uniform quality. A full...
Mobile, AL: Aug. 10, 1840. Letter from Jesse Bemis (1808-1843), a Mobile transplant, to his brother David of Spencer, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, where Jesse was born. The author thanks his brother for some fly nets sent him, "I have sold about half of them at some profit," later noting that... More about Autograph Letter, Signed, to Brother David Bemis
New Brunswick: John Terhune, 1856. Biblical defense of slavery by a prominent Reformed Church minister, trustee of Rutgers College and former President (1830-32) of Dickinson College. The first edition, a pamphlet of 32 pages, appeared in 1855. Neither edition common in commerce, though both appear to be adequately represented in... More about Slaveholding not Sinful. Slavery, the Punishment of Man's Sin, its Remedy, the Gospel of Christ....
![Socialism & Religion [Drop title: Socialism and Religion]. SOCIALIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN](/pictures/medium/45415.jpg?v=1565648576)
London: Socialist Party of Great Britain, 1911. Second Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's grey staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 48pp. Brief splitting at spine ends, small ink spot to upper cover and occasional contemporary ink marginalia, else Good or better. At head of title: "S.P.G.B. Library" no. 6. More about Socialism & Religion [Drop title: Socialism and Religion
![Drop title] Guyanese Government Panics. Walter RODNEY, COMMITTEE OF CONCERNED WEST INDIANS](/pictures/medium/45412.jpg?v=1565907403)
[London: Committee of Concerned West Indians, n.d., ca. 1974]. First Edition. Small octavo bifolium (21cm.); photo-illustrated. Fore-edges rather rumpled, else Very Good. Circular issued by the Committee urging reader to "Reinstate Walter Rodney Now!" Text consists of fourteen bullet points on the life and works of Rodney, the "revolutionary thinker... More about Drop title] Guyanese Government Panics
Nottingham: Russell Press Ltd., n.d., 1972? First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's green and white pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 88pp. Some wear from handling, else Very Good. Double issue of the Marxist-Leninist journal, featuring articles "British Imperialism's Bloody Hands in Africa," "Analysis of a Rural Village in Tanzania," and "World-Wide Federation... More about African Red Family, Vol. 1, nos. 3/4
[Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office], 1959. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; ix,[1],201pp.; maps in text. Some minor wear from handling, faint ring stain to upper cover, else Very Good and sound. More about One Nation Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All. An abridgment of The Report...
Oakland: Black Scholar, 2002. First Edition. Octavo (25cm); publisher's glossy black and white staplebound card wrappers; 64pp. Very occasional ballpoint pen marginalia, postally used on rear wrapper, else Very Good to Near Fine. Special issue devoted to "Black America: After 9/11." More about The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research, Vol. 32, no. 2, Summer, 2002
Atlanta: Gammon Theological Seminary, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in purple; 18pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light dust-soil, else Fine. Quarterly magazine issued by the historically African-American Gammon Theological Seminary. Opening article by L. Harold DeWolf on "The Ethics of Criminal Justice." More about The Foundation, Vol. LXXVIII, no. 7, Spring, 1973
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1948. First English Language Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's white staplebound card wrappers printed in blue; 58pp. Recent typescript label mounted to upper cover, wrappers a bit worn and dust-soiled, else Very Good or better. More about Falsifiers of History (Historical Survey
New York: International Publishers, [1954]. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's yellow card wrappers lettered in red; vii,[3],99pp. Wrappers slightly worn and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Account of "the struggle for freedom throughout British colonial Africa in the face of terrible repressions." More about Africa, Africa! A Continent Rises to Its Feet
Geneva: Programme to Combat Racism / World Council of Churches, [1981]. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; xiv,118pp.; photographic illus. throughout, text in double column. Some wear from handling, chiefly minor curling at corners, else Very Good to Near Fine. More about Working for Freedom: Black Trade Union Development in South Africa Throughout the 1970s
Wien: F.G. Speidel'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, [1929]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's decorative black gilt-stamped cloth, spine stamped in brown and gilt, red topstain; 169pp. Light foxing to textblock, else Very Good or better. Austrian anthology of African-American poetry, including poems by Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKAy, W.E.B. Du Bois..... More about Afrika Singt: Eine Auslese Neuer Afro-Amerikanischer Lyrik
New Orleans: First Quarter Publishing Company, [1987]. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; vi,[1],102pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear, old price sticker to rear wrapper, else Very Good or better. "The work presents a view of the Seventh Ward, also known as The Créole Section" (title..... More about Créoles of New Orleans: Gens de Couleur (People of Color
London: Bookmarks, [1993]. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's black photo-illustrated card wrappers; 86pp. Some surface scratches to wrappers, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. More about Race and Class
