Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1974. First English Language Edition. Slim oblong octavo (14x20cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [80]pp.; chiefly illus. Wrappers a bit wrinkled and curled at fore-edges, else Very Good, internally fine. Pictorial history of the Soviet Union adorned with illustrations from a myriad of (unattributed) source..... More

London: Faber and Faber, [1934]. New Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue printed price-clipped dust jacket; xvii,[1],554pp. Jacket extremities rather toned, tiny chips including loss at spine crown affecting a couple of letters without loss of meaning; overall Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Text divided into three sections..... More

[San Francisco: Blacklist Group, n.d., ca. 1980]. Small quarto (21.5cm.); publisher's cream pictorial staplebound card wrappers; [6],40pp.; color photo-graphic centerfold, half-tone illus. throughout. Light wear to wrapper extremities, top fore-edge corner of upper wrapper slightly dog-eared, else Very Good and sound. Several iterations of this directory appear to have been..... More

Paris: Librairie Socialiste Internationale, n.d., ca. 1890. First Edition. Call for a new Commune, opening with the statement "La Republique bourgeoise? Qu'on la vomisse!" Authored by the Communard proletarian typographer, poet, bookseller, and publisher Achille Le Roy, perhaps most significant for writing the song "Le Chant des Prolétaires" (1879) and..... More

Paris: Librairie Socialiste Internationale / Achille Le Roy, 1887. First Edition. Quite uncommon proto-anarchist treatise on Free Love ("Qu'est-ce encore? De la pornographie?") and its relation to socialism. Authored by the Communard proletarian typographer, poet, bookseller, and publisher Achille Le Roy, perhaps most significant for writing the song "Le Chant..... More

[Berkeley: Spartacist League, 1974]. First Edition. Endorsement issued by the Spartacist League and its youth section the Revolutionary Communist Youth for an upcoming demonstration organized by the Committee to Defend the Endangered Chilean Militants, to be held at the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco. Demands made by the Committee and..... More

Berkeley: Berkeley Community Health Project, 1979. First Edition. Quite rare promotional poster for the still-extant Berkeley Free Clinic, the center of the sheet adorned with a large and rather unsettling image of a creature one can only describe as part clown, part lion, and part leopard, caged in a line..... More

[Moskva: Izdatel'stvo "Sovetskii Khudozhnik" 1985]. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [208]pp.; chiefly color illus. Jacket extremities rather worn with ragged closed tear along bottom margin of upper panel, crudely tape repaired; Fine in Good or better jacket. Catalog of Socialist realist art and poetry..... More

Leningrad: "Khudozhnik RSFSR" 1987. First Edition. Folio (32cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 290pp.; illus. throughout, chiefly in color. Jacket rather worn with long cloed tear at top edge of upper panel with subsequent chipping, spine panel sunned; overall Fine in Good or better jacket. Catalog of Socialist realist..... More

[Frankfurt a.M.]: Insel-Verlag, 1961. First German Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper labels affixed to upper cover and spine; 157pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, spine label rather toned, else Very Good or better. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate..... More

New York: George Braziller, [1964]. First Edition. Collection of three lengthy short stories, each based on recent current events involving voyages in isolation. The author worked at the Office of War Information during World War II, presumably where he would have first made the acquaintance of the artist Ben Shahn..... More

New York: The Floating Bear, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original orange pictorial staplebound upper wrapper illustrated by Ray Johnson; [22]pp. Near Fine condition, possibly an undistributed copy since the journal was only distributed by mailing list. Accompanied with a mimeographed broadside announcing the trimming of the mailing list down..... More

New York: The Floating Bear, 1967. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original grey pictorial staplebound card upper wrapper illustrated by Michael Bowen; [24]pp. Previous mail fold else Near Fine. Includes contributions by Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and the transcript of a press conference held by the Newark Black Survival Committee, July..... More