New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1916. First Edition. Autobiographical work chronicling Howells's youth. BAL 9841. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); vertically-ribbed blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and red on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; [vi],238,[2]pp. Contemporary (1917) ink gift inscription to front endpaper, hint of sunning... More about Years Of My Youth
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1887. First American Edition. Novel in which the title character leaves his country home for this city, to find his fortune; once there, he finds it difficult to assimilate with the Boston elite. BAL 9627; WRIGHT III, 2822. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); Blanck's binding 1, with... More about The Minister's Charge, or the Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1845. First Edition. "One of the most important manifestations of anarchism in antebellum reform was come-outerism, a type of religious hostility to the organized churches" (Lewis Perry, "Radical Abolitionism" (1995), p. [92]). The movement was heavily encouraged by William Lloyd Garrison in his abolitionist newspaper... More about Come-Outerism. The Duty of Secession from a Corrupt Church
New York: Howe & Bates, 1834. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); disbound; 45pp. Small dampstain at top fore-edge corner of textblock, the whole rather foxed, else Very Good and sound. Critical review of the American Anti-Slavery Society's first annual report, the author accusing the Society of being too radical. Reese was... More about A Brief Review of the "First Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society, with the...
New York: N. Tibbals & Sons, [1886]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in black, gilt-lettered spine; [2],iv,5-499pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, plates throughout. Light shelf wear, textblock exceedingly toned and brittle due to poor paper quality, title page separated but present. Illustrations include a portrait of Mark..... More about The Long Island Farmer's Poems. Lines Written on the "Quaker City" Excursion to...
New York: Educational Department, New York State Communist Party, 1950. First Edition. Unommon promotional brochure for Negro History Week from the New York Communist Party, intended as both an organizational tool, coaching local communist clubs on how to commemorate the event, and a recruiting tool in African-American communities. Includes substantial... More about Negro History Week - 1950
[Boulder: Women Studies Program - University of Colorado, 1977]. Second (1978) Printing. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's orange pictorial card wrappers; v,[1],133pp. Wrappers unevenly faded and a bit worn with curling at corners, else Very Good and sound. Special issue devoted to women's oral history. More about Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. II, no. 2, Summer, 1977
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San Francisco: Argonaut, 1996. First Edition. Single leaf folded into 8-panelled brochure; illus. Fine condition. Supplemental issue of the local San Francisco newspaper featuring special events on the occasion of the inauguration of the city's first African-American mayor, Willie L. Brown, Jr., who was in office from 1996 to 2004... More about Inauguration Day, San Francisco, California, 8 January 1996 [Argonaut, Vol. 141, no. 4218
New York: National Civic Federation, [1924]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 63pp. Tearing at staples with some minor oxidation, else Good or better. Collected letters written in response to Federation President Alton B. Parker's inquiry to various academic and religious leaders regarding their opinion of a "pledge against participation... More about Church and College Denounce Pacifist Pledge
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[Pacoima, CA: Pan African Union, 1970]. First Edition. Organ of the Pan-African Union, a revolutionary Black Nationalist group in Southern California associated with Mamadou Lumumba (aka Kenneth Freeman) and Shango Umoja, both exiles from Guyana who became active in the American Black Power movement. Much pan-Africanist content, including a lengthy... More about This Is The Black World. Vol 1, no. 2 (Nov 1970). [Alternate Title: The Black World
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South Pasadena, CA: Infact, n.d. but 1986. First Edition. Broadsheet flyer (28cm.); printed offset in black on yellow stock. Uneven toning and some spotting, minor wrinkling from handling, else Very Good and sound. Issued by the "national grassroots organization of concerned people organizing effective campaigns to stop the life-threatening abuses... More about Broadsheet] Help Stop Nuclear Weapons / Don't Buy GE Products!
[New York]: Spartacist, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 16pp.; illus. Textblock uniformly toned, else Fine. Single issue of the "Bimonthly Organ of Revolutionary Marxism." Headline article "For a Labor-Socialist Ticket in 1968" and covers the arrest of African-American social activist Bill Epton for "criminal anarchy." More about Spartacist, No. 11, March - April, 1968
[Washington, DC]: National Commission for the Defense of Democracy Through Education / National Education Association of the United States, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 47pp. Light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. "Report of an Investigation," requested by the Dade County Classroom... More about Miami, Florida: An Example of the Effects of the Injection of Partisan Politics into School...
[Lausanne: Bibliothèque CIRA, 1996]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's yellow decorative staplebound card wrappers; 48pp. Fine condition. Published as CIRA's Bulletin 52, Mars, 1996. Includes songs in French, English, Italian, Spanish, and German, though introductory matter in French, English, and Italian only. More about Un Siècle de Chansons / A Century of Songs / Un Siglo de Canciones
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1947. First Edition. Survey of the methods and history of artificial impregnation, including sections on legal and ethical implications, by the author of such other classics as Superfluous Hair and Its Removal (1938) and Chastity Safeguards (1947). Among the scarcer Haldeman-Julius publications; OCLC notes 8 holdings... More about Artificial Impregnation: A Study of the History, Methods, and Ethics of Conception Without...
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Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House, [1991]. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 648pp.; illus. throughout. Tiny chips to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. "Freedom Fighters are telling their own stories of battles against Nazi Germany and the Axis as it happened in Poland... More about Anthology of Armed Jewish Resistance, 1939-1945 [Volume 4
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Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House, [1985]. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's cloth in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket; 648pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of wear, else Fine. "Freedom Fighters are telling their own stories of battles against Nazi Germany and the Axis as it happened in Poland, France, Belgium, Greece, Soviet... More about Anthology of Armed Jewish Resistance, 1939-1945 [Volume 2
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Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House, [1986]. Second Revised Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's cloth in pink photo-illustrated dust jacket; 646pp.; illus. throughout. Chipping along top edges of jacket, spine rather sunned, else Very Good, internally fine. "Freedom Fighters are telling their own stories of battles against Nazi Germany and the Axis... More about Anthology of Armed Jewish Resistance, 1939-1945 [Volume 1
Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House, [1986-1991]. Second Revised Edition. Four volumes; quarto (26cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jackets; illus. throughout. Some minor wear and sunning to jacket spines, old price sticker to Vol. 1 upper panel and front flap, else a Very Good to Near Fine set. Each volume... More about Anthology of Armed Jewish Resistance, 1939-1945
Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white and green card wrappers; viii,85pp.; two leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, color maps in text. Light shelf wear, faint ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. More about Open Space for the San Francisco Bay Area: Organizing to Guide Metropolitan Growth
[Winnipeg]: Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society, [1981]. First English Language Edition. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's black card wrappers lettered in white; x,73pp. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. Documents in Manitoba Mennonite History No. 1. More about Causes and History of the Emigration of the Mennonites from Russia to America
New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1933. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's terracotta cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 497pp. Ex-library with brief contemporary markings, else Near Fine. The Handbook Series, Series IV, Volume 4. More about Selected Articles on Capitalism and Its Alternatives
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt; xi,[1],207pp. Corners gently bumped, faint dampstain to textblock fore-edge, contemporary and slightly later ownership inscription and rubberstamp to front pastedown, else Very Good or better. Forms part of the publications of the Rauschenbusch... More about Brotherhood Economics
[Boston: Merrymount Press, 1928]. First Edition. Limited to 800 copies. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue printed card wrappers; vii,[3],42pp. A Fine, unopened copy. More about A Chronological List of the Books Printed at the Kelmscott Press with illustrative material from...
Bath, NY: R. L. Underwood & Co., 1844. [Second Edition]. Account of the life of Jemima Wilkinson (1752-1819), the Rhode Island-born Quaker and Evangelist who claimed after a long illness to have died and been risen from the dead. Through her preaching she became known as the "Universal Friend," creating... More about Memoir of Jemima Wilkinson, a Preacheress of the Eighteenth Century; containing an authetic...
