Cambridge: Bread and Roses, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 20pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear from handling else Near Fine. Four-part essay by a leading member of the Women's Liberation movement. More
Oakland: Amazon Press, 1973. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in red; 72pp.; illus. Extremities toned, light soil to wrappers, loss at bottom fore-edge corner of pp. 29/30 affecting text with loss of meaning, else Very Good and sound. More
West Somerville, MA: Amazon Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pink pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 72pp.; illus. throughout. Extremities a bit toned, faint ringstain to upper cover, else Very Good, internally fine. Contents feature visual artwork, fiction, and poetry, including Judy Grahn's "Plainsong." More
![Amazon Quarterly, Vol. 3, no. 2, March, 1975 [Special Issue: Sexuality]. Gina COVINA, eds Laurel...](/pictures/medium/45920.jpg?v=1570054979)
West Somerville, MA: Amazon Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's staplebound photo-illustrated card wrappers; 72pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Includes poetry by Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Miriam Dyak. More
New York: Arco Publishing Company, [1965]. First Edition. Quarto (26.5cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 144pp.; illus. Small loss (ca 1/4") to jacket spine crown, additional minor rubbing, else Fine in Very Good or better dust jacket. Documentary history of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi, told through... More
![The Short Line War [Inscribed and Signed by Merwin]. RAILROAD FICTION, pseud. Samuel Merwin,...](/pictures/medium/46027.jpg?v=1571090345)
New York: Macmillan Company, 1899. First Edition. One of two novels produced by the Merwin-Webster collaboration, this on the railway industry which had a notable effect on Frank Norris's own novel "The Octopus," published two years later. WRIGHT III 3708. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in red, yellow... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1969. Slim oblong quarto (21x23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [36]pp.; chiefly color illus. Light shelf wear to extremities, tiny closed tear at bottom edge of upper jacket panel, else Very Good to Near Fine. Caldecott Medal runner-up, a picture book about Peter and... More
New York: Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1912. Livingstone Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's grey printed cloth; xviii,313pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 16 plates including one double-page map, additional maps in text. Light shelf wear, spine cloth a bit toned, neat contemporary pencil markings throughout text, else Very... More
[Nairobi]: East African Publishing House, [1972]. First Thus. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's green pictorial card wrappers; 254pp.; frontispiece. Wrappers a bit worn and textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good overall. "First combined cheap edition" of p'Bitek's two long poems. More
New York: Paul S. Eriksson, [1964]. First Thus. Large, thick octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 591pp.; 8 leaves of full-page plates printed in rectos and versos. Shallow chips and closed tears along jacket extremities, spine a bit toned, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket... More
Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, Jun. 1802. First American Edition. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's full sheep, red gilt-lettered spine label; viii,[13]-154,[2](ads)pp.; decorative head- and tail-pieces. Leather a bit rubbed along extremities, joints starting to crack with some subsequent loss of leather, toning to endpapers, small coin-sized loss at bottom edge of front..... More
New York: Signet Books / New American Library, 1968. First Paperback Edition. Selection of writings by Ho Chi Minh, including speeches, essays, poems, public messages, interviews, and letters written over a 46 year period. First Printing. Octavo; illustrated card wrappers; red edge-staining; xx,21-349,[3]pp ads. Light shelfwear, a few faint creases... More
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1973. First Edition. "This pamphlet grew out of a visit to the Middle East amd Cyprus during the summer of 1972, during which time Bloice represented the CPUSA's Central Committee at the Seventeenth Congress of the Communist Party of Israel (RAKAH) in Tel Aviv, June... More
![Observations in the North: Eight Months in Prison and on Parole [Joseph Harrison Jun.'s copy]....](/pictures/medium/46017.jpg?v=1571090345)
Richmond: E.W. Ayres, 1865. The Confederate journalist's diary of his time in captivity following his capture while running a blockade aboard the steamer Grayhound. Pollard was first brought to New York and then up to Boston where he was confined at Fort Warren. Prior to being exchanged in January, 1865... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1966. First Edition. Chinese propaganda in text and photos, in support of the people of Vietnam's struggle against the United States. Part of a four-part series of periodicals. Quarto (25.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; unpaged; chiefly illus. Light wear and handling to wrappers, else Near Fine. More
Peking: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1965. First Edition. Chinese propaganda in text and photos, in support of the people of Vietnam's struggle against the United States. Part of a four-part series of periodicals. Quarto (25.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; unpaged; chiefly illus. Light wear to extremities, faint crease to lower corner... More
Chicago: Negro Digest Publishing Co., 1948. First Edition. Contents include contributions by A. Philip Randolph, Grant Richards, Arna Bontemps, Mark Harris, Dorothea Kahn, and others. Octavo; illustrated wrappers, stapled; 98pp; illus. Faint rubber-stamp to lower margin of front wrapper, faint dampstain to lower margins, with ex-library card pocket for the... More
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1833. First American Edition. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and promotion of Christian Unitarianism, this specifically addressed to members of the Catholic Church. Martineau, raised in a Unitarian household, began her career... More
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1833. First American Edition. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and promotion of Christian Unitarianism, this specifically addressed to "Mohammedans" and written in the form of a dialogue between friends Havilah, a Muslim... More
Chicago: Chicago-Bladets, [1878]. First American Edition. Somewhat uncommon volume of meditations on the 25th Psalm by the Swedish Pietist minister and founder of the Swedish Mission Covenant. Waldenström published a memoir of his travels in North America (Genom Norra Amerikas Förenta Stater. Reseskildringar, Stockholm: 1890), in which he describes at..... More
Coburg, Germany: n.d., ca. 1946. First Edition. Small, slim quarto (23.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial card wrappers; 79pp.; folding map plate, text illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities toned and a bit dust-soiled, textblock uniformly toned, ownership signature of Sgt. Norman L. Smith, a member of Co. I of the Regiment, else Very... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901. Second Edition. Volume containing biographical sketches of prominent 19th century women, including Marcia Burns, the Caton Sisters, Cora Livingston, Octavia Walton, Fanny Taylor, Sallie Ward, Harriet Lane, and others. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover;... More
New York: Padell, 1946. First edition. Octavo. Plain cream-colored wrappers; pictorial dustjacket printed in black and red; 32p. Mild marginal toning, else Fine. MORGAN A14. Uncommon variant version of the dustjacket, with the image printed in black, not red, and the lettering in red rather than gray. More
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Los Angeles: Committee in Solidarity with Solidarity, N.d. [ca 1980]. Broadside, 14" x 8.5", printed recto only. Horizontal fold; mild toning; Very Good. 22 lines of text above blank portions (unused) for signatures. Petition calling on Polish officials to immediately release all imprisoned Solidarity leaders; an end to martial law... More
Princeton: American Workers & Artists for Solidarity, [1980]. Announcement of a New York fundraising event to support Solidarity, ca 1980. Featured participants included Joseph Brodsky, E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, Nat Henthoff, Susan Sontag, Kurt Vonnegut and a host of others, with musical performances by Pete Seeger and the "Solidarnosc singers,"... More
