![Item #85345] The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. Lance HILL](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 364pp; illus. Fine in fine jacket; a new-appearing copy. First full-length account of the Deacons of Justice, an armed self-defense group formed by African-American citizens of Jonesboro, Louisiana in 1964. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xvi,424pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine, in a lightly worn, Near Fine dustwrapper with some price-sticker residue on rear panel. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston / The Viking Press, [1981-1987]. First Edition. Trilogy set, First Printings. Three octavo volumes (23.5cm); variously colored paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt, copper, and black on spines; patterned endpapers; dustjackets; xviii,332; [xii],[2],3-306; [x],258pp. Cities of the Red Night (Volume One)..... More
Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1965. Facsimile reprint of the 1820 New York edition, with an added introduction by J.O. Bailey. Inscribed by Bailey to Julian Mason, "with gratitude for many favors," undated. Octavo; blue cloth hardcover, vi,248pp. A key source-work for Edgar Alan Poe, and the first American..... More
Berlin, Germany: Bongout & Natacha Merritt, 2012. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards. 236pp. + [2]. Slight wear to the bottom front corner, a little rubbing and scuffing of the glossy boards; internally clean and fresh; a very good copy indeed. A lavish and beautifully produced exploration..... More
[Auckland: Sagittarius Press, 1980]. First, Limited Edition. No. 851 of 1000 signed copies. Small quarto; die-cut, decorated paper over boards (hardcover); 64pp. Fine. An inventively designed book, combining Millett's text – a melange of poetry and prose pieces against nuclear proliferation – with illustrations by Sylvia Siddell, Denys Watkins, Dennis..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto (25.5cm); glossy pictorial card wrappers; [7],8-158,[2]pp; illus. A few tiny tears to crown, neat 1.5" split to lower front joint, with a small, faint stain to upper right corner of front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+. Thompson's raucous tale..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); yellow cloth spine over yellow paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in metallic red on spine, and author's initials stamped in black on front cover; dustjacket; 404pp. Signed by author on title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper..... More
New York: Random House, (1954). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; salmon top-stain; 242pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; very Near Fine, with top-stain even and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, but otherwise quite crisp and clean, with just a hint of toning to spine panel; Very..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and decoration blind embossed to front cover; purple endpapers; dustjacket; 149pp; colorful illustrations. Signed by author on title page. Faint sunning to lower board edges, with nudge to..... More
Madras, India: J. Higginbotham, 1863. Stated Fifth Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Later bright red buckram with a black leather title label. [lxxi]; 427pp. Some light bumping and scuffing to extremities, a little cosmetic staining and discoloration of the cloth in places, tight and strong; internally clean with lavishly hand-colored full page..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in metallic blue on spine and author's initials stamped in black on front cover; dustjacket; 259pp; illus. Signed by author on title page. A Fine copy..... More
Santa barbera: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Paperback Trade Edition. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publisher's beige card wraps titled to spine and front cover. 417pp.; [1]; [1]. A touch toned to the spine panel, with some minor thumbing and soiling to the pale wraps, strong and tight; internally clean, red endpapers, some..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); maroon cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 334pp. Signed by author with 10.22.2012 date inked to title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Chip Kidd, unclipped..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 358pp. Light sunning to lower board margins, else Fine. Dustwrapper, designed by Eric Fuentecilla, unclipped (priced $27.00), with small surface scratch to rear panel, else..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. First American Edition. Octavo (24.5cm); red paper spine over black paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 683pp; illus. Signed by author on title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Chip Kidd, unclipped (priced $34.00), with trivial surface..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black cloth spine over red paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 425pp. Signed by author on title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Chip Kidd, unclipped (priced $26.00), with light..... More
Los Angeles, CA & Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987. First Editions. Trade Issue. Five octavo volumes (24.5cm); orange, red, and brown cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spines; xxiv,404,[4]; xvi,395,[5]; xvi,376; xiv,380,[6]; xvi,395,[5]pp. A Fine set, without dustjackets, as issued. Posthumously published complete set of the noted science fiction..... More
London: Banksy/Weapons of Mass Distraction, 2001-2004. Mixed Impressions. Three volumes. 12mo. 14.5cm. Publisher's black stiff card covers. Unpaginated. Clean and strong; slight scratching to the laminate of "Cut It Out", price stickers to the rear panels of two vols; internally clean and fresh; A bright, strong, near fine set. A...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); purple and dark orange paper-covered boards, titled in black and pink on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[3]-210,[6]pp. Hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $23.00), with a tiny..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.25cm); glossy pictorial card wrappers; [vi],[2]-436,[6]pp. Some trivial surface wear, else very Near Fine. The Japanese author's eighth novel published in the U.S., winner of the World Fantasy Award for 2006. 85317. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); burnt orange and black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in copper foil on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[4]-241,[7]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, upper rear board corner tapped (though still sharp), with a small remainder dot to lower edge of..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1927. First Thus. Quarto. 25.5cm. Publisher's blue buckram cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xv]; 640pp. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners, some sunning of the cloth at the head of the spine, impact dent to rear board; internally clean and..... More
Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited, 1990. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's original printed glossy card wraps. 131pp. + 2pp. ads to rear. Light wear to edges, perhaps a little scuffing of the laminate in places, clean and strong; internally clean, illustrated throughout; a very good, clean copy. A mischievous bit..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 6,000 copies. Octavo (24.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; green topstain; dustjacket; [vi],[3],4-628,[2]pp. Small and very faint moisture stain to lower right edge of front cover, topstain slightly dulled; Near Fine. Dustjacket is..... More
