New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Second printing. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 554pp. Tight, clean VG+ copy in a slightly rubbed and edgeworn dustwrapper, Very Good. Detailed and sympathetic first-hand account of life and culture in the Soviet Union, based upon first-hand experience of the October Revolution and the..... More
New York: Didier Publishers, 1945. First Edition. Memoir of the author's detention at Sachsenhausen, the first and most notorious of the Nazi extermination camps, where techniques of large-scale execution (especially in gas chambers) were perfected. The presentation bookplate from the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, a Jewish women's organization, states..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First Edition. A major work in the Mills canon, the result of a twelve-year collaboration with Mills' frequent collaborator Hans Gerth to synthesize social-psychological and sociological thought, heavily influenced by the work of Freud, Marx, Max Weber, and George Mead. Much reprinted, but..... More
![Who Pays Tax in Kenya? [Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Research Report no. 11]. John...](/pictures/medium/50469.jpg?v=1595908024)
Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute for African Studies, 1972. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrated thick paper wrappers (softcover); 22,[1]pp. Clean, tight and unmarked - Near Fine. Nellis was a Research Fellow at the. Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi. Text in English. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers (softcover); xv,462pp. Mild spotting to top edge of text block, else tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; xvi,320pp. Tight, unworn copy in crisp dustwrappers; a near-new copy, apparently unread. More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1939. First Edition. Special issue on schools, the second in the magazine's "Calling America" series. Contents include contributions by Beulah Amidon, Eduard Lindemaan, John Chamberlain, Helen Post, Alvin Johnson, Farnsworth Crowder, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[561]-656; illus. Shelfworn, oxidation to staples, with..... More
Chicago: Jas. J. Langdon, 1850. First Edition. Address by the American minister in the first year of his tenure as pastor of the First Congregational Church in Rockford, Illinois. Goodwin describes the power of suggestion as an educational tool which can result in "the dull scholar [becoming] the brightest of..... More
Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, 1854. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 50pp. Ex-Massachusetts State Library with their small pressure stamp to title page and faint Withdrawn rubberstamp to upper cover, wrapers rather chipped along extremities; a Good copy, internally clean and sound. Report especially recommends..... More
Boston: Charles Stimpson, 1846. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 58pp. Errata slip tipped to title page (serving as upper cover), slip somewhat creased, contemporary pencil ownership signature of a G.W. Grandey; Very Good or better. Attributed to Bishop of Central Pennsylvania Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe (1809-1895) by OCLC no..... More
![The Prize Book, No. 1. Of the Publick Latin School in Boston [Inscribed and Signed]. BOSTON LATIN...](/pictures/medium/49959.jpg?v=1595691845)
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard / Hilliard & Metcalf, printers, 1820. First Edition. One of five annual numbers issued, including an essay on juvenile education and the list of prizes presented for that year, followed by the winners' entries. SABIN 6757. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's tan wrappers printed within double rule; 63pp..... More
Boston: Thomas B. Wait & Co., 1809. First American Edition. Collection of sermons by the Swiss-German Enlightenment theologian George Joachim Zollikofer (1730-1788). Of young pupils the author advises: "Guard them from being hasty in forming conclusions, and avail yourself of all opportunities for leading them, by observations, to circumspection and..... More
![Days of Fear [Two Editions] [WITH] Autograph Note Signed. IRELAND, Frank GALLAGHER](/pictures/medium/47629.jpg?v=1595908024)
V.p. v.d. First Edition. The first U.K. and first American editions of Gallagher's diary kept while imprisoned in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, in 1920 for his involvement with the militant Irish Volunteers (later the Irish Republican Army). The diary provides a near hour-by-hour account of Gallagher's participation in the Dublin Hunger..... More
Belmont, MA: American Opinion, [1968]. Offprint. Attack on the Black Power movement by the then-prominent racist anticommunist commentator. Allen contrasts the work of Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panthers, and other "hate crazed Black Nationalists" with statements by such conservative African-American voices as Dr. J.H. Jackson and..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1957. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 44pp. Bit of external soil and wear; text paper mildly age-toned, but still a tight, Very Good copy. Article prepared by the editorial department of the People's Daily, where it originally appeared December, 1956. Presumably this is not the first issue of..... More
San Francisco: Proletarian Publishers, [n.d. ca 1970s]. Reprint. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 160pp. An undated (but mid-70s) reprint of the 1935 first edition. Brief closed tear at base of front wrapper, else Very Good. A standard anti-Trotsky tract by a long-time CPUSA apparatchik. More
Columbus: Industrial Commission of Ohio, 1914. Octavo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; 74pp. Includes information on recently-enacted regulations on workers' compensation and language of the act establishing the Industrial Commission, which was formed under the governorship of Archibald Cox to oversee the placement of laborers in essential wartime defense industries. More
New York: Rand School Press, 1933. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 16pp. Mild external toning and wear, else Very Good or better. By the prominent New York socialist and long-time instructor at the Rand School of Social Science. More
New York: The Bund Club of New York, 1934. First Edition. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 62pp. Toning and soil to wrappers; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. More
New York: International Publishers, 1934. First American Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 31pp. Mild toning and soil to wrappers; internally clean, tight and unmarked - Very Good or better. More
New York: Workers Library, 1938. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Thorez, Secretary General of the French Communist Party, attempts to link the ultimate aims of Communism and the Catholic faith. More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. 12mo. Pictorial paper wrappers; 74pp. Fine and unmarked. On the teaching of Marxist-Maoist philosophy in peasant schools. More
New York: The Militant Publishing Association, 1970. First Edition. Well-preserved copy of this newspaper affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party, with contents dealing with the New York Panther trial, Student Mobilization Committee parley, Black student unions backing the Socialist Workers Party, liberation struggle in Peru, Cuba's School of Arts, etc...... More
New York: The Militant Publishing Association, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved copy of this newspaper affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party, with contents dealing with the San Francisco GI's peace march, Panther leaders attacked by police in Seattle court, Oakland Panthers in court, victimization of NY Panthers by a mob of..... More
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New York: Patriot Party, 1970. First Edition. Third issue of this very short-lived publication produced by the Patriot Party, a national organization of anti-racist working-class white people, whose publishing organ (for the first two issues) was called The Patriot. The group had its origins in uptown Chicago, as a splinter..... More
