New York: Technocracy, Inc., 1947. First Edition. First printing. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 28pp. Clean, Near Fine copy, free of markings or significant wear. Distribution stamp to rear wrapper for the Los Angeles branch of Technocracy, Inc. Post-WW2 proposal for a science- and technology-based allocation of world resources. More about Continentalism: the Mandate of Survival
[New York: The American Peace Award, 1923]. Prospectus and invitation for submissions for Edward Bok's landmark "American Peace Award," which promised the phenomenal sum of $100,000 to the author of the best practicable plan for world peace. Judges included Judge Learned Hand, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry L. Stimson, Melville Stone, and... More about The American Peace Award, Created by Edward W. Bok. Offering One Hundred Thousand Dollars...
Washington DC: CIO Political Action Committee, 1948. Bifolium, ca. 9" x 6"; 4pp with handbill loosely laid in. Old folds; slight aging and wear; Very Good. Instructional flyer for CIO PAC blockworkers on how to drive voter turnout for the 1948 elections. Encourages blockworkers to "help elect a Congress in... More about How We Win: Ringing Doorbells. Political Action Techniques for Victory in '48
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1895. First Trade Edition. Collection of poetry on social themes. BAL 9697. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; unpaged, with frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Howard Pyle. Vintage booksellers... More about Stops of Various Quills
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856. First Edition. The American historian and ethnographer's only novel, recounting the life and times of Vassall Morton, an American who finds himself imprisoned in Austria, "charged with inciting revolution" (WRIGHT II 1844). BAL 15451. Octavo (19cm.); contemporary black morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; 414,[6](ads)pp... More about Vassall Morton. A Novel
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914. First Edition. Fantasy novel in the form of a travelogue, in which an American tourist follows the Shakespeare trail, with the narrative covering many of the disputed aspects of Shakespeare's life. BAL 9829; BLEILER (1979 ed.), p.104. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); grass green... More about The Seen and Unseen at Stratford-On-Avon: A Fantasy
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First Edition. Handsome copy of Howell's record of his boyhood years in Hamilton, Ohio, written while he served on the editoria; staff of Harper's Magazine. BAL 9654; COYLE, p.322. First Printing, with all points per BAL. Octavo (19.25cm); blue-green cloth, with titling and decorations... More about A Boy's Town, Described for "Harper's Young People"
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1902. First Edition. Juvenile novel set in Ohio, centered around a little boy who attempts to run away from home, and his adventures in the process. Characters bear striking similarities to Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. BAL 9748. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); maroon cloth... More about The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story
Westport: Praeger, [1996]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in silver foil; xiv,251pp. Corners slightly bumped, else Fine. More about A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance
Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols, 1893. Superb copy of this souvenir book on Niagara Falls, with notable contributions being "Niagara, First and Last" by Howells, and "The First Authentic Mention of Niagara Falls," by Mark Twain - the first appearance of Extracts from Adam's Diary (1904). BAL 3437. Blanck's Fourth Printing... More about The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls, Containing Sketches, Stories and Essays -...
Bombay: People's Publishing House, 1947. First Thus. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed card wrappers in white and greenish-black dust jacket; [4],165pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, general light dust-soil, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Short work by the Scottish philosopher, first published in London in 1948. OCLC locates one copy... More about Social Thinking
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1834. First Edition. Publication first proposed at the annual meeting of the Middlesex County Lyceum in Watertown, Massachusetts, "adapted to the wants of the societies for the promotion of useful knowledge." Contents include "An Address to the Working-Men of the United States of America," by Robert... More about The Lyceum, or Working-Men's Library
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; ix,[1],220pp.; photographic frontispiece, 19 leaves of photograhic plates. Upper cover quite unevenly faded, as is spine cloth, spine a bit cocked, else Very Good, internally fine. Tipped in 3pp. autograph letter, signed... More about A Year in the Fields: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs [Autograph Letter, Signed,...
New York: National Association of Wool Manufacturers, 1947. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound and hole-punched card wrappers; [2],34pp.; illus. throughout, many photographic. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. More about Wool in the United States
Atlanta: African Expressions, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 43pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear, else Very Good or better. Second of just three issues published of this Revolutionary Pan-Africanist journal, contents featuring an interview with Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael's essay "Pan-Africanism - The Highest Stage of Black... More about Rhythm Magazine, Vol. 1, no. 2, Fall, 1970
Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 1834. First Edition. 24mo (15cm.); publisher's orange cloth, blue printed label mounted to upper cover; 144pp. Some minor wear and soiling, contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown and free endpaper, foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound. Includes the short story "The Forsaken, A Tale of the... More about A Collection of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse
[Victoria: Acme Press Limited, 1950]. Square octavo (ca 9" x 9"); Staple-bound pictorial wrappers; 52pp. Vertical fold as issued; minor external wear; Very Good. Extensively illustrated with maps, photographic views, and ads. An excellent vintage travel brochure highlighting the scenic beauty and sporting opportunities of the island, and the cultural... More about International Tourist Guide - 1950 Vancouver Island Edition
New York: New York Public Library, [1965]. Tri-fold brochure, folded to approx. 8" x 3-2/3". Fine. Mid-1960's promotional brochure advertising this major branch of the New York Public Library, established in 1926 around the collection of Arturo Schomburg, specializing in African-American history and literature. Small woodcut device to front cover... More about The Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History. A Branch of The New York Public LIbrary
New York: American League Against War and Fascism, 1934. Ten-point program of the CP and SP-affiliated ALAWF, established in 1933 by the Christian Socialist Rev. Harry F. Ward. The League attracted a broad coalition of working people and intellectuals alarmed by the rise of fascism in Europe and of nativist... More about Manifesto and Program of the American League Against War and Fascism. Second U.S. Congress...
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Paris: Nouvelle Editions Regards, 1937. First Edition. Single issue of this pioneering large format, pictorial news magazine, left-oriented and loosely affiliated with the French Communist Party. Cover story is Jacques Roumain's coverage of the so-called "Parsley Massacre" of October 1937, in which more than 12,000 (and by some accounts as... More about La tragédie Haïtienne [in] Regards no. 201 (18 Novembre 1937
Franklin, OH: Eldridge Entertainment House, 1913. Edition not stated. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; [4pp]. Edges and corners creased; general wear; Good and complete. A brief comic pageant for schoolchildren, with lyrics and choreography, in which boys are directed to "Dress as much like hoboes as possible, each boy carrying stick... More about Hobo Drill: A Drill For Boys
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. First Edition. A collection of political and social essays. BAL 9706. Octavo (19.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; [iv],282,[2]pp ads. Spine ends gently nudged, upper corners tapped (though still... More about Impressions and Experiences
[Nashville, TN: ca 1956-7]. Brief address, circa 500 words, by an anonymous female citizen of Nashville, defending the right-wing agitator John Kasper and attacking the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle as a "Communist training school." Kasper, a disciple of Ezra Pound, was convicted in 1957 for his role in stirring... More about The Weekly News as Seen Through a Woman's Eyes
Philadelphia: Collins, 1869. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); side-stitched self-wrappers; 64pp.; illus. Some light dust-soil, else Very Good, internally fresh. Illustrated with numerous graphs throughout. The economist Henry Charles Carey's response to David Ames Wells's "Report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue 1866-69." Wells was a strong advocate of low... More about How Protection, Increase of Public and Private Revenues, and National Independence, March Hand in...
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. First Edition. Novel set in Venice, Italy, where a Catholic priest finds himself in love with a woman named Florida. BAL 9568. Blanck's printing 1, with errors on pp.9 and 75. Octavo (19.5cm); terracotta cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and... More about A Foregone Conclusion
