New York: The East Village Other, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Ishmael Reed, John Wilcock, Walter Bowart, Tom McNamara, Ralph Metzner, Simon Watson-Taylor, Hillary Harris, Jerry Benjamin, and others. With a full-page photomontage by Peter Max, and a full-page of comics/poems/thoughts by Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Ron..... More
New York: The East Village Other, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Irving Shushick, Walter Bowart, Don McNeill, Gretchen Berg, Tom McNamara, Allan and Don Katzman, John Wilcock, Lil Picard, Jerry Benjamin, and a full-page of comic strips by Kenward Elmslie ("Memories of a Catholic Girlhood" and "Waffles")..... More
New York: The East Village Other, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Al Hansen, Derek Taylor, Tom McNamara, Lil Picard, Alan Jules Weberman, and others. Includes comix, an article on the arrest of Timothy and Nancy Leary in Millbrook, NY, and an interview between Bob Simmons and Sheriff..... More
[Napoli]: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, [1969]. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white decorative dust jacket; 549pp. Light shelf wear and dust soil, else Very Good or better. L'Acropoli Nuova Serie no. 8. History of mid-19th century Italian politics, text entirely in Italian. More
Firenze: Commissione per la Pubblicazione dei Documenti Italiani sull'Armenia, 1999-2000. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo (ca. 24cm.); publisher's wrappers in pictorial dust jackets; color folding map in third volume. A hint of wear, else a Fine set. Text entirely in Italian. The first three volumes of the series, covering the..... More
[Mexico]: Ediciones Era, [1973]. First Mexican Edition. Spanish translation of collected articles first published in the newspaper "Il Manifesto," founded and edited by Rossana Rossanda, a leading member of the Italian Communist Party, though her criticism of the Soviet Union led to her expulsion from the Party shortly thereafter. Octavo..... More
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[Tralee, County Kerry]: Anvil Books, [1967]. First Thus. Prison memoirs of a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, first published in 1874 in the United States following his release and exile from Ireland. 12mo (ca. 18cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 240pp. General shelf wear to wrapper extremities, red portion..... More
[Firenze]: Centro Editoriale Toscano, [1998]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's wrappers in tan printed dust jacket; xii,312pp. Light wrinkling to jacket, else Near Fine. Autograph letter signed in the year of publication on Università degli Studi di Firenze letterhead laid in. Both text and letter entirely in Italian. Politica e...... More
Sydney: Friends of the Earth, 1980. Second edition (revised). Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 120pp. Fine, unmarked copy. On global environmental law with respect to the Antarctic continent. More
Berlin: Verlag Tribune, 1962. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed thick paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Small chip to rear wrapper at base of spine, else Very Good. More
New York: Foreign Policy Association / Headline Books, 1938. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers, 96pp. Fine. On the formation of the League of Nations. Illustrations by Delos Blackmar. Journalist Varian Fry (1907-1967) is best remembered for helping more than 2,000 Jewish refugees out of Vichy France during the..... More
London: The Liberal Publication Department, 1898. First Edition. 12mo. Sewn pamphlet; original printed paper wrappers; 16pp. Slight chipping to wrapper edges; Very Good. A speech on foreign trade by a leading exponent of Gladstonian liberalism. More
Tokyo: Subterraneans Books, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 15pp. Inscribed on title page: "For my great friend Harry Smith / Menke," dated 1967 and with a small doodle of some flowers. Small scuff and a bit of dusting to wrappers, else Near Fine. Twelve short pieces by..... More
Baltimore: J.H. Murphy, 1894. First Edition. Account of the Convention presided over by Rev. W.R. Arnold, J.H. Murphy, and J. Wesley Jackson. Scarce, with no holdings in OCLC relating to the Hagerstown P.E. District Sunday School Union as of January, 2016. Octavo (21.5cm.); original blue decorative staplebound wrappers; 30pp. Quite..... More
[Philadelphia: Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, 1977]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original red photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; [4],104pp.; illus., mimeographed text. About Fine. Collection of quotes and cartoons critiquing the then-mayor of Philadelphia Frank Rizzo. More
Nashville: Acuff-Rose Publications, [1948]. First Edition. Quarto (ca. 31cm.); publisher's green photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 47pp.; chiefly musical scores, occasional photographic illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit rubbed and dust-soiled, some small papers flaws to rear cover slightly affecting text without loss of sense, else Very Good and sound. More
N.p. n.d., but 1920. First Edition. Campaign flyer issued during Governor James M. Cox's unsuccessful bid for president on the Democratic Party ticket against Warren G. Harding. Text chiefly concerned with the newly-formed League of Nations, the rear panel reading "Shall We Go In? Cox - 'Yes!' Harding - 'No'...A...... More
[New York: New York State Committee, Communist Party, 1938]. First Edition. Campaign flyer promoting Israel Amter, a founding member of the CPUSA who thrice ran for Governor of New York on the Communist Party ticket. Wisconsin Historical only in OCLC as of March, 2020. Octavo photo-illustrated bifolium; faint dampstaining at..... More
[Salem, MA: by the Author, 1863]. The author, a medically-furloughed Captain in the Salem Volunteer Infantry, defends himself against accusations of disloyalty brought by Salem citizens who had overheard him maligning the Emancipation Proclamation during an argument in a dry-goods store. In his text, which is comprised of transcripts of..... More
Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1895. First American Edition. 12mo. Green flexible cloth boards; paper title label; 100,[6]pp. Straight, tight, Very Good or better copy. Account of progress and aims of the Backworth Classical Novel-Reading Union, a working-class literary society founded in Northumberland in 1890. Includes the Union's reading-list (twenty-five..... More
Moskau: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1932. First German Language Edition. The author, an old guard Bolshevik, served as People's Commissar of Enlightenment, stating during the Great Purge that enemies of the Soviet Union should be "squashed like vile vermin" only to be himself arrested and executed in 1937..... More
Nampula, Mozambique: Livraria Domus, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 21cm.); publisher's cream staplebound printed card wrappers; 17pp.; illus. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled, textblock toned and a few leaves dog-eared; Very Good overall. Essay on patriotism by a young Portuguese Mozambican, text entirely in Portuguese. U. Florida only in OCLC as..... More
[Columbia, SC]: Southern Educational Communications Association, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; [2],17pp.; illus., text printed in double columns. Light dust-soil to upper cover, a hint of wear to extremities, else Very Good or better. Transcript of an episode of "Firing Line" featuring an interview with Congressman..... More
[Torino]: Giulio Einaudi Editore, [1998]. First Italian Edition. Thick octavo (ca. 22cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxxii,[3]-482,[2],viii,[485]-1060pp.; 35 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear, pp. [xx]/xxi creased, else Near Fine. More
Boston: Frank P. Hill, 1887. First Edition. 12mo. Stapled wrappers, removed; cover wrappers lacking; 76pp. A firm, textually complete copy. The defense's closing argument in a trial for a particularly gruesome axe-murder of an 89-year-old landlady in Massachusetts. McDADE 61. More
