New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. First Edition. 12mo (18.75cm.); original tan decorative cloth embossed in red, black, and gilt; [4],203pp. Spine a bit toned and very slightly cocked, corners just a hint bumped, blank bookplate to front pastedown, else a Very Good or better copy. One of the... More
London: Michael Joseph, [1948]. First Edition. Second issue, lacking period at end of p. 210. Small octavo (18.75cm.); original cloth in green price-clipped dust jacket lettered in orange and yellow, red topstain; 219pp. Minor wear to jacket extremities, spine crown a hint frayed else Very Good or better. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. [Second Edition]. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed gilt-lettered boards; 75pp.; photographic frontispiece. Corners bumped, spine gilt quite dulled, some foxing along gutter edge of frontispiece leaf, rather heavy erasure of previous ownership inscription, else Very Good and sound. CLYMER & GREEN, p. 32. More
[Hopewell, NJ]: Ecco Press, [1996]. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); original cloth in pale grey decorative dust jacket; x,93pp. Fine. Screenplay of an episode of "Visions" which originally aired in 1977. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972. First Edition. Collection of essays on a variety of important Harlem Renaissance figures, including Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, Jessie Fauset, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston, et al. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 310pp;... More
[San Francisco]: Straight Arrow Books, [1973]. Second Printing. Octavo (21.25cm.); original leatherette in black pictorial dust jacket (second state with price $7.95 and lacking white border to rear panel); 506pp.; illus. Several closed tears to jacket extremities with subsequent creasing. Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Gonzo reportage of... More
Paris: Olympia Press, 1961. First Edition. Well-preserved copy of the Beat poet's only novel, inspired by his days in Europe, anxiously waiting for royalty checks and advances that were slow in coming. Issued as No.85 in Maurice Giordias's "The Traveler's Companion Series," and never reprinted. First Issue, w/15 N.F. price... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],278pp. Jacket spine and extremities toned, light edge wear, else Very Good or better. Jacket price of $3.00 printed in green, varying from that described by Fenwick ($3.95 printed in blue). FENWICK A7c. More
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New York: Abondocani Press, 1983. First Edition. Limited to 426 copies of which this is no. 132. Small oblong 12mo (12.5x15cm.); original brown pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; illus. Very Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. Postcard prospectus laid in. Wordless short story. TOLEDANO A88b. More
Moscow: Novostii Press Agency Publishing House, 1974. First Edition. Narrative of a 1971 tour of the Soviet Union by an interracial delegation of American intellectuals and business leaders. The author, a 1929 graduate of Dickinson College (where he was the only African-American student at the time), was a long-time editor... More
Houston: Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1971. First Edition. Exhibition catalog for a 1971 traveling exhibition of works by Larry Rivers, Ellsworth Ausby, Peter Bradley, William Williams and others, all on themes of African-American history, slavery, and civil rights. Introductory text by Charles Childs. 49 works pictured, with catalog... More
Atlanta: Sojourner Truth Press, 1972. Second (Revised) Edition. Parable, with utopian aspects, of lesbian awakening. Revised (though the nature of the "revisions" is unclear) from the first edition of a year earlier. Gabriner (b.1942) was active in the civil rights movement and Freedom Summer; later joined the Weather Underground and... More
Chicago: Negro Story Magazine, 1945. First Edition. Nicely preserved single issue of this important war-time magazine of African-American fiction. This issue with an early contribution by Chester Himes - "Make With The Shape" - preceding the publication of his first novel; and a brief Langston Hughes sketch, "Two At The... More
New York: David McKay, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 231pp. Top edge of text block dusty, else Fine in jacket. Analysis of the militant black power movement from a white liberal perspective. Schanche, a freelance journalist, was a former editor of the Saturday Evening Post and Sports Illustrated. More
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, [n.d., not before 1912]. First Edition. London's utopian vision of a socialist society, based on the writings of Eugene Debs. Scarce, earliest issue, preceded only by publication in The International Socialist Review, and rarely found in attractive condition. BAL 11941; LEWIS p.113. Earliest issue (Blanck's printing... More
Enugu, Nigeria: Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co. Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Important, critical study of Nigerian market literature, a popular literature form that flourished in West African market stalls in the 1960's and 70's, most of it characterized by sensational (and even slightly prurient) content, rustic production values, and a disarmingly naive... More
Westminster: Mouldwarp, 1983. First Edition. An article about the killing of Watts resident Leonard Deadwyler, originally printed in the New York Times Magazine. Slim octavo; red wrappers printed in black, stapled; 12pp; illus. A Fine copy. More
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1951. First, Limited Edition. Text of a lecture delivered before the Practising Law Institute, February 17, 1951. The remarkable R. Gordon Wasson (1898-1986) was Vice-President of J.P. Morgan; a scholar of ancient Vedic manuscripts; and an amateur ethnomycologist who contributed important original research to the study... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1932. Brief history of the Zerno Publishing House, the most prolific of the Bolshevik publishing enterprises in pre-Revolutionary Russia. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; illustrated wrappers; 39pp. Mild dusting; Near Fine. More
New York: International Labor Defense, 1935. First Edition. SEIDMAN C239: "An account of the 'frame-up' murder prosecution of union leaders of the Gallup-American Coal Company as a means of smashing the United Mine Workers..." Colman was the author of one of the better Depression-era proletarian novels: Lumber (Boston: 1931). 12mo... More
Tokyo: Meiji-Shobo, 1959. First Edition. In addition to being an internationally recognized William Blake scholar, Jugaku was among the first Japanese academics to investigate the social history of traditional Japanese craftspeople. He helped to lead the post-war Japanese folk-craft revival movement, and became a leading authority on traditional paper-making techniques... More
New York: Combo Press, 1939. First Edition. Novel of Depression-era Jewish ghetto life in Chicago, by the Yiddish poet Noah Steinberg (b. 1889). A member in the teens and twenties of the "Die Junge" school of Yiddish poets and playwrights who consciously avoided the social themes of their "Sweatshop Poet"... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Second printing. The first unexpurgated edition of this early Dos Passos novel, originally published in London in 1920. Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 179p; illus. Near fine in lightly rubbed and soiled, unclipped jacket. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1953. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 303p. Clean, tight copy in the original pictorial dustjacket which is mildly edgeworn with a mild abrasion to the spine. Sensational novel of women in prison; this copy in the earlier pictorial jacket showing a woman prisoner looking... More
New York: Jonathan Cape and Robert Ballou, 1932. First American edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards; dustjacket; 397pp. Clean, bright copy, about Fine, in the fragile dustwrapper, unclipped, lightly foxed and soiled, slightly moreso to rear panel. Hall's final novel, published four years after her notorious and controversial "The Well of Loneliness." More
