New York: George Braziller, 1958. First Edition. Sizeable compilation of Hughes's work, with selections from his fiction, poetry, essays, speeches, and songs. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); red patterned paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in white and red on spine; dark blue-gray topstain; dustjacket; 501, [1]pp. Small inked... More
![Lithograph: "The City" [Limited Edition, Signed]. Harry BRODSKY.](/pictures/medium/27861.jpg?v=1546561308)
n.d., ca. 1940s. First Edition. One of Brodsky's realist pieces depicting a man in a spartan room, looking out the window at a cityscape. In the fore-ground is a table with a newspaper and pencil--presumably the man in the image is unemployed and seeking work, given that the artist is..... More
Aba: V.C. Okeanu, 1971. Third Edition. "This novel is an imaginary story which is written to prove that men and women are supposed to marry through love. Some parents, forgetting their daughters happiness, force them to marry because of money" (from the foreword). Bound together with Gabe Offiah's novelette Rosa... More
![Igbo Philosophy, Volume One (General Introduction to the Background and Philosophy of the Igbo People) [All Published?]. IGBO PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION.](/pictures/medium/27397.jpg?v=1546561308)
[Enugu, Nigeria: Igbo Philosophical Association, 1971]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in green and red; 35pp. Light toning to wrapper extremities and textblock, else Very Good or better. Introductory number of a projected journal on Igbo culture and philosophy, though we have found no evidence... More
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1966. First Edition. "...a penetrating analysis of the policy and politics of land use zoning in New York City." Octavo (23.5cm); royal blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; mauve topstain; dustjacket; 241pp. Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket, with... More
[New York: Politics, 1946]. First Thus. Octavo (21.5cm.); original pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 31pp. Wrappers unevenly toned, spine rather rubbed and starting to split; occasional pencil notes throughout; still, About Very Good. Politics Pamphlet no. 1. Posthumously published essay first written shortly after the German occupation in France in 1940; this... More
New York: Sheridan House, [1946]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by "Russin"; 308pp. Spine ends bumped, topstain faded, with scattered spotting to cloth and a white smudge at base of spine; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First American Edition. The Argentine author's ninth English language book, a collection of mysterious, passionate, and apocalyptic stories. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 lavender paper over cream cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 145pp, [7]. Light fading to upper... More
[New York]: New Century Publishers, 1952. First Separate Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original plum pictorial staplebound wrappers; 22pp.; text in double column. Upper wrapper a bit creased, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock. Still, Very Good overall. Originally published in Political Affairs, October, 1952. African American CPUSA leader's condemnation... More
![Anarchism: The Feminist Connection [cover title]. Peggy KORNEGGER.](/pictures/medium/26505.jpg?v=1546561307)
[London: Black Bear, 1977]. First Separate Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original pale grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; 16pp. Minor wear from handling, else Fine. Originally published in the Second Wave, spring, 1975, issue. More
New York: International Publishers, [1934]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original printed staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp. Faint foxing to upper wrapper fore-edge, else Very Good. International Pamphlets no. 40. More
London: James J. Welsh, 1833. First Edition. Short biographical sketch of the popular German musician Charles (or Carl/Karl) Eulenstein (1802-1890), whose performances gained him celebrity in Great Britain in the late 1820s and whose preferred instrument the Jews' harp (Eulenstein also played the guitar) is described on p. [1] as... More
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original white and red card wrappers; 149pp. About Fine. Collection of essays on Lenin and Africa. Text entirely in English. More
Detroit: Broadside Press, [1972]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); original black pictorial staplebound wrappers; 16pp. Fine. The author's first book. "I [Lomax] believe that a Black Poet has a responsibility to contribute his art toward the strengthening and unifying of the Black Nation" (rear wrapper). More
Moscow: Éditions D'État Des Beaux-Arts, 1938. First Edition. French-language issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine, issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and (through various foreign-language editions) to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period... More
Moscow: Union des Éditions D'État RSFSR, 1933. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine, issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and (through various foreign-language editions) to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this... More
New York: William-Frederick Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Cloth boards, dustjacket, 117pp. Fine and unmarked in crisp but faintly foxed dustwrapper, Near Fine. Collection of short fiction by an inmate of the Lorton, Virginia penitentiary. Includes several stories of prison life. More
Detroit: Harlo Press, 1973. First Edition. The Detroit author's first (and only) book of poetry, filled with his responses to the murders and police oppression he saw in his community. Scarce; we find no copies in the trade (2014), and OCLC finds just 14 holdings in member institutions. First Printing... More
Zaria, Nigeria: Printed by Gaskiya Corporation and Published by the Northern Nigerian Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; [6],93pp.; illus. Spine a touch rubbed, else Near Fine. Simplified history of the Fulani War (1804-1808), which took place in modern-day Nigeria and Cameroon. Special emphasis... More
![The Love Talker [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Elizabeth PETERS, pseud. Barbara Mertz.](/pictures/medium/24619.jpg?v=1546561306)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1980]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; [6],266pp. Jacket extremities a bit shelf-worn, spine a hint faded, else Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Bookplate signed by the author as her other pseudonym Barbara Michaels laid in. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. First Edition. A surprisingly uncommon omnibus in the first edition. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; olive green topstain; dustjacket; 497pp, [3]. Trivial wear to lower board edges, else Fine in a Near Fine, lightly spine-sunned dustjacket (priced $4.95). More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1955. First American Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; 256pp.; photographic frontispiece, 16 leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos. General light edge wear to jacket extremities, minor foxing to flaps and preliminaries, sanded ownership inscription on front free... More
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1906 [but after 1915]. WOODBRIDGE 1043 (mistakenly identifying this Kerr edition as the first printing). However, see BAL 11897, for the following note: "...advertised in Appeal to Reason. (Girard, Kansas) Oct. 27, 1906...there were many reprints; the earliest (probably not before 1912) was issued by Charles... More
Boston: Beacon Press, [1969]. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards, dustjacket; xix, 331pp. Faint foxing to endpapers, else a tight, Near Fine copy in a lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Includes a substantial (15-pp) Introduction by Bontemps. Collects narratives of Olaudah Equiano, James Pennington, and William & Ellen Craft. More
New York: Viking Press, 1952. First Trade Edition. First issue with "bite" misprinted on p. 281 and "Printed in U.S.A." on title page verso. Thick octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in the later issue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket with reviews printed on rear panel; [4],602pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, with... More
