London: P.S. King & Son, 1911. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's green printed staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. A hint of wear else Near Fine. Argument by the rationalist M.P. for Tyneside in favor of Irish Home Rule, published a year prior to the Third Home Rule Bill of 1912. OCLC..... More
Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, ca. 1910s. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's peach pictorial wrappers printed in blue; 32pp. Wrappers a bit worn and soiled, else Very Good and sound. More
N.p. Travelers Insurance Company, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 71pp.; insert order blank bound in. Extremities a bit rubbed, rear cover slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. OCLC locates three copies as of November, 2019, at Cornell, Georgia State, and Appalachian State. More
Berkeley: S.i., 1971. First Edition. Final issue of the newspaper formerly titled It Ain't Me Babe, published by the militant Berkeley Women's Liberation. Contents include articles on rape, population control, separatism, a meeting of lesbians in Limerick, PA, dealing with aggression, clitoral identity, and police handling of emotional disturbed people..... More
Oakland: Vocations for Social Change, 1973. First Edition. Counterculture magazine centered around sharing "information about how people can gain control over their work situations and their own lives," about worker/community control over the means of production. Contents include articles on the Gray Panthers, nursing homes in Minnesota, organizing older women..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. An SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper, with contents featuring an interview with Jerry Rubin, articles on Huey Newton, protests at Columbia University, Bob Dylan, Conspiracy 7, George Wallace, et al. Front wrapper features Frank Cieciorka's iconic illustration of a raised fist. Tabloid (44.5cm);..... More
Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836. First Edition. Influential study of the domestic slave trade in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, authorized by the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race, formed the year prior. The letters date chiefly from Baltimore, as well as Washington..... More
London: E.W. Allen, 1897. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Fifth volume of a series on Anglo-American mystic Thomas Lake Harris and his utopian free love community the Brotherhood of the New Life whose third iteration, located on Lake Erie in New York, was funded and financially supported by Laurence Oliphant..... More
New Haven: S. Babcock, 1836. First Edition. Religious tract by Yale-educated lawyer Phineas B. Wilcox, who practiced law in Columbus, Ohio, through the 1850s. Little legal content, though the author's central conceit is to compare Judgement Day to the proceedings of a Supreme Court tribunal, and one's preparation for entering..... More
Philadelphia: Friends' Book-Store, 1858. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); disbound; 48pp. Wrappers rather finger-soiled, else Very Good, internally sound. An appeal "prepared by the Meeting for Sufferings" and read aloud at the yearly meeting of the Friends of Pennsylvania. More
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N.p. n.d., ca. 1840s. First Edition. Short essay providing various arguments in favor of the growing abolitionist movement in the Northern states, concluding that "The District of Columbia belows to the people of the United States. To the Congress, then, belongs the right of abolishing slavery in the ten miles..... More
New York: Socialist Labor Party of America, 1937. First Edition. Quarto (29cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 62pp.; text in double columns. Extremities a bit chipped and toned, else Very Good and sound. Divided into three sections titled "Class Struggle," "Capital--Capitalism and the Capitalist Class," and "The Working Class." More
Washington DC: Young Americans for Freedom, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 40pp. Light wear, wrapper extremities a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. "Excerpts from testimony before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations for 1968," published by the conservative youth organization Young Americans for Freedom. More
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, [1948]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's green printed staplebound card wrappers; 32pp. Wrapper extremities toned, else Ner Fine. Big Blue Book no. B-699. From the introduction: "Middle age is not heralded by an increasing waistline, a few gray hairs, a double chin, a spot of baldness..... More
New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1849. First Separate Edition. Extremely scarce first-hand account of slave conditions in North Carolina as described by Nehemiah Caulkins, first published in the 1839 compilation "American Slavery, As It Is," edited by Theodore Dwight Weld and Angelina and Sarah Grimké for the Society..... More
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860. First Edition. Collection of correspondence and articles by various authors and sources documenting the state of the slave-holding south, much of the contents covering the explusion of citizens from Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, and Arkansas "for the crime of believing slavery to be a...... More
New-York: James V. Seaman, 1825. First American Edition. Attributed to the EnglishQuaker and abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick, a pamphlet first published in London the previous year and harshly criticizing the "gradualist" abolitionists who had quite erroneously argued that if the slave trade was abolished, as it was in England in 1808..... More
London: Friends of the Spanish Republic, N.d. [1937?]. English version of the Anthem of the Spanish Republic ("Song to Liberty"), published "in support of the people in Spain in their fight for a free democracy and against Fascism." OCLC notes a single holding (UC San Diego). Bifolium (28.5cm); single sheet..... More
Boston: Sam'l Chism, 1857. First Edition. Collection of abolitionist poetry inscribed to former member of the Massachusetts State Senate Henry W. Cushman (1805-1863). Written the same year as the Dred Scott decision, Hebbard's lengthy poem refers to the Missouri Territory, to which Scott had tried to escape: "On such an..... More
London: William Oliver, n.d., ca. 1865. First Edition. Quite uncommon album of social caricatures, the subjects nearly all young women varying in social position from domestic angel to prostitute, farm girl to ballerina, philanthropist to drunk. Gray appears to have been especially concerned with the lives of women in the..... More
Richmond: J.W. Randolph & English, 1890. First Edition. Houston (d.1924) was a successful housing contractor in Richmond and a long-time resident of Henrico, Virginia. This is his only work of fiction, a social exploration of the "one-drop" rule. Scarce, with only the present copy noted in commerce since the very..... More
Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1853. Reprint. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's grey blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 354pp. Corners and spine ends a bit bumped and rubbed with brief exposure, gilt spine almost entirely effaced, old pencil notes to front free endpapers, prliminaries rather soiled, long horizontal tear across rear free endpaper. Good or..... More
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Moscow? 1959. First English Language Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's laminated pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 15pp.; photographic illus. throughout, some in color. Laid in bifolium reprinting the address of Khrushchov, "Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the Opening of the Soviet Exhibition in New York." Light toning..... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1928. First Trade Edition. "In This Book-Collecting Game there are discussions of bindings, of the earmarks of editions, of auctions, of the "knock-out," of all the rewards and perils of the collector's life" (from front flap). First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue paper and..... More
New York: National Council / Department of Christian Social Service, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers printed within double rule; 14pp. Some light wear from handling, occasional pencil check marks to margins, minor toning to extremities, else Very Good. Topics discussed heavily reflect the early days of the Great..... More
