New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First, Limited Edition. Well-preserved copy of the left-wing cartoonist's colorful autobiography, in a somewhat incongruous bibliophile edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies, this being copy no.704. Octavo (25cm); black paper-covered boards and vellum backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine and decorative elements in... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1947]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue price-clipped dust jacket lettered in white; 242pp. Chips and tears with subsequent creasing to jacket extremities, none approaching text, shallow loss at spine crown, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, corners bumped, ownership signature to front... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1941. Quatrième Édition. Thick octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black; xi,[1],576pp. Wrappers quite dust-soiled, extremities chipped and worn, spine ends starting to peel, some occasional shallow chipping along textblock fore-edge; Good. History of pre-Revolutionary labor guilds first published in 1897..... More
Boulder: Westview Press, [1989]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket; ix,[1],230pp. Light edge wear to jacket extremities, spine a shade sunned, else Near Fine. Forms part of the John M. Olin Critical Issues Series. More
New York: Riegel Corporation of New York, [1928]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; 147pp.; facsimiles in text. Boards rubbed, spine a bit browned, else Near Very Good. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper of a Bob Stuart of the Toledo department store LaSalle & Koch Co, previously... More
Paris: Editions Albin Michel, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in black and red; 327pp. Extremities toned, especially spine and spine edges, general wear from handling, brief soil to upper cover, else Near Very Good, internally fine. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with... More
New York: Century Co., [1923]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's terracotta cloth lettered in black; [10],287pp. Spine ends gently bumped, else a Near Fine copy, albeit lacking jacket. More
Boston: Keileivio Spauda ir Lesomis, 1914. First Thus. A near-future war dystopia, predicting with uncanny accuracy the unprecedented carnage and suffering of the First World War. Lamszus (1881-1965) was a progressive educator, pacifist and socialist; Menschenschlachthaus, his first separately-published work, became a publishing sensation and established Lamszus' reputation, but it... More
New York: International Publishers, [1965]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 96pp.; full-page illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit toned, spine crown bumped, else Very Good or better. Collection of sketches made during the artist's travels through the Soviet Union, Romania, East Germany, and Bulgaria. More
N.p. [Morocco]: Bureau de Documentation et d'Information, [1951]. Edition Française. Issued by the conservative, monarchist Istiqlal Party of Morocco, a detailed documentation of the history of the French Protectorate of Morocco from its formation in 1912 to the present (1951), though the Protectorate would not dissolve for another five years... More
Kyïv: Mistetstvo, 1979. First Edition. Slim quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's limp leatherette boards in pictorial dust jacket; 98pp.; chiefly illus. Boards very slightly bowed, light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Trilingual text in Russian, Ukrainian, and English. Catalog of works by the Soviet painter, best known for his military..... More
New York: Random House, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; ix,[3],584pp. Possible author inscription to front free endpaper: "To Helen & Jack / At long last / Dave." Account of the collapse of the New York City public school system. More
New York: John Day Company, [1934]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pale yellow pictorial dust jacket, yellow topstain; x,394pp. Jacket rather toned, especially along spine, spine crown chipped, verso reinforced with contemporary brown kraft tape, cloth spine gilt starting to fleck, else Near Fine in an About Very... More
Urbana: University of Illinois, 1923. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); publisher's blue printed wrappers; 144; 145-325pp. Wrappers a bit worn and toned with a number of tiny chips, else a Very Good, sound set. More
New York: Grune & Stratton, [1951]. Third (1961) Printing. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's red printed leatherette boards; xi,[3],161pp. Light shelf wear, brief soil to textblock, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Case study conducted by the Swiss psychotherapist. More
New York: New Directions, 1965. The Beat poet's fourth book, and first full-length volume of verse, an assemblage set in the world of jazz and social protest, covering a ten year period. Third Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; [vi],87,[3]pp ads. Some trivial wear to extremities and left edge of... More
[Frankfurt]: Propyläen, [1977]. First Edition. Thick octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth in purple dust jacket; ix,[1],897pp.; 19 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, map in rear. Jacket extremities rather chipped and worn with bubbling to lamination; a Fine copy in About Very Good jacket. First of three volumes on..... More
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. Quarto (31.5cm x 23.5cm). Maroon cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spinel pictorial dustjacket; 352 pp; illus. Near Fine; slightest shelf wear to extremities, else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf... More
New York: Gotham House, [1932]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pale yellow illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; [12],ii,iv,243pp. Jacket extremities chipped and toned with a few tiny losses, corners gently bumped, else Very Good and sound. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in yellow photo-illustrated dust jacket; xix,[3],305pp.; double-paged map. Light shelf wear, jacket spine faded, else Very Good or better. More
Milwaukee: Josephe E. Meyer, 1911. Illustrated, Revised Sixth Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's unadorned black card wrappers; 123pp.; illus. and facsimiles throughout. Some wear to wrappers from handling, light soil to textblock, else Very Good and sound. "A treatise and guide for the protection of players of games of chance... More
Dublin: Browne and Nolan Ltd, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in blue-grey illustrated dust jacket; xxvi,201pp.; four leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos, map endpapers. General shelf wear to jacket extremities, tiny chip at bottom fore-edge corner of upper panel, else Very Good and sound... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. Second Impression. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket, red topstain; ix,[3],242pp. Brief chipping at jacket spine ends and top edge of rear panel, else a Very Good or better, unfaded copy, nicer than usually encountered. "The story of the systematized methods of..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989. First English Language Edition. Large Quarto (33.5cm x 26.5cm). Blue cloth boards (harcover) with gold embossed illustration embossed on cover and titling on spine; pictorial dustjacket; slipcover; 182pp; illus. Fine copy, appears new. Fine dustwrapper, appears new. Near Fine cardboard slipcover. An examination... More
[Taftsville VT: Countryman Press, 1977]. Broadside poem, printed in black on cream-colored sheet, 44cm x 28cm. Faint crease at upper margin, else Near Fine. Reprints "Sonnet" from Sherwin's 1977 collection The Town Scold: Poems (Waste Trilogy I). Broadside issued without imprint, but presumably from Countryman Press, who published the collection... More
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