The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education

The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education

Four 12mo volumes (18cm), in uniform pictorial buff wrappers printed in black ink. Wrappers toned, lightly soiled; one with a small (1/4") closed chip near upper spine; Very Good. Lacking wrap-around outer jacket as described in Ahouse (never seen by us).

A President Is Born

A President Is Born

Octavo (19.5cm.); original half cloth over decorative boards in orange dust jacket; [10],484pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit darkened with very shallow losses to ends, else a Very Good to Near Fine, vibrant copy. Novel of the son of Austrian immigrants who grows up to a....

Tears

Tears

Octavo (22cm). Red, velvet-flocked stiff card wrappers, stamped in gilt on front cover; red and black-printed dustjacket; 160pp. Inscribed and signed by Balabanoff on rear endpaper, dated New Year 1944/45. Brief staining at endpaper gutters, else Very Good in the original printed dustwrapper, rubbed and damp-stained at margins; Good. Text...

Liberated Guardian [run of 36 issues, 1970-73]

Liberated Guardian [run of 36 issues, 1970-73]

Tabloid (43.5cm). A cohesive run of 36 issues, dated from April 1970 - February 1973, with the sequence running as follows: Vol.1, Nos.1-3, 6-9, 11-14, 16-21; Vol.2, Nos.1-11; Vol.3, Nos.1-8. Newsprint, with illustrated covers in black, white, and color; illus. Old fold, mailing label, and bulk rate slug to Vol.1...

Man's Last Jungle Struggle. Atavistic Darkness Before Dawn. The Advent of the World's "Spirit of Truth." Volume One

Man's Last Jungle Struggle. Atavistic Darkness Before Dawn. The Advent of the World's "Spirit of...

12mo (15cm). Staple-bound printed card wrappers; 65pp. Mild cover crease; hand-stamp of the Labor Research Department, Rand School; small accession label remnant; internally clean, tight and unmarked.

The Old Man's Place

The Old Man's Place

Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 263pp. A very good copy, darkened on spine; in a crisp, bright jacket with a small (1/8") chip at crown. Inscribed and signed by Sanford on front endpaper: "For Max Lamb / Sincerely / John Sanford," dated 1961.

I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

Octavo (21cm); light gray cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 257pp. Contemporary owner's name and date to front endpaper, light foxing to right edge of textblock, with some light offsetting to endpapers and a few faint splash marks to topstain;...

The Battle

The Battle

Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 303pp. Minor wear; text slightly toned; Very Good, retaining the scarce illustrated dustwrapper which is nearly Fine with just trivial dusting and a tiny chip at bottom edge.

Ex-Racketeer

Ex-Racketeer

Octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 83pp. Tight, straight copy, VG or better, in the very scarce pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped, lightly worn at extremities with a faint ink smudge at center of rear panel; Very Good.

Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later. Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by his Son

Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later. Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by...

Octavo. Original deep red cloth with gilt titles; xi, 338, (1)pp. Slight external wear; endpapers darkened as usual, else a tight, Very Good to Near Fine copy with gilt bright on spine and front cover. Lacking errata slip noted in Lewis. The sequel to Butler's famous utopia, issued uniformly with...

The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

Octavo, red cloth; 517pp. Very Good. An undistinguished reprint, except that this copy bears a taped-in accession slip from the Danbury [CT] Federal Correctional Institution: "This item has been approved for quarters for the following inmate only [completed in type]: Name: Marzani. No. 7333-Ct. Date: January 15, 1950." Signed in...

Soviet River

Soviet River

Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine; dustjacket; 383pp. Paper-clip indent to first few leaves of text, else a tight, straight and unmarked copy, VG or better, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and soiled with a few small nicks at extremities. A Very Good, quite handsome...

New Masses - Vol.XXIX, No.10 (November 29, 1938)

New Masses - Vol.XXIX, No.10 (November 29, 1938)

Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Toned, lightly edgeworn, with a few short tears to extremities, and a faint stain at mid spine-fold; Very Good, complete copy.

El Indio

El Indio

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); tan cloth with titles and design stamped in brown and red on spine and front panel; brick red topstain; dustjacket; 256pp; illus. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, lightly rubbed overall, with some minor soil and a few edge tears.

Giants in the Earth; A Saga of the Prairie

Giants in the Earth; A Saga of the Prairie

Octavo; gilt-pictorial cloth; 465pp. Text block edges mildly dusted; top-stain faded, else Fine in the scarce and fragile pictorial dustwrapper, lightly edge-worn, mildly eroded at spine-ends, but unclipped and quite handsome.

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 223, [1]pp. Mild rubbing to upper and lower board edges, with a tiny sunned spot at crown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.50), edgeworn and spine-sunned, with small nicks to crown...

Murderer's Holiday

Murderer's Holiday

Octavo (20cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 304pp. Lightly worn copy, VG or better, in the original pictorial dustjacket which is lightly rubbed with a few small edge-chips, still on the better side of Very Good.

Men Working (ARC)

Men Working (ARC)

Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers; 300pp. Advance copy for reviewers, with publisher's complimentary slip tipped in at title page. Touch of soil to text block edges; brief rubbing to cover wraps; still a Fine, tight copy.

[Original typescript, signed] A Letter To Ché Guevara

[Original typescript, signed] A Letter To Ché Guevara

Hand-typed manuscript on two 11" x 8-1/2" sheets of onionskin typewriter paper. Poem of 88 lines, dated in type "10-11 October 1967," inscribed in black ink in margin: "for Israel Young / from Will Inman," dated 23 November 1967. Old fold lines; marginal stain to first leaf; Very Good.

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America

Small octavo (19cm.); original green printed staplebound wrappers; [2],119pp.; text in double column. Spine cocked, wrapper rectos fading and extremities foxed and a bit worn; contemporary ownership signature at head of title page. About Very Good. Fictional account of the rise of Henry Ford. AHOUSE A62a; HANNA 3232 (erroneously stating...

The Alibi

The Alibi

Green cloth boards stamped in white; 363pp; frontis. Light wear to tips of corners and spine ends; brief splits to front hinge (internal); bit of offsetting to title page from color frontispiece. A solidly Very Good copy. HANNA 1096: "...young bank employee, falsely convicted of embezzlement, spends two years in...

No More Peace! A Thoughtful Comedy

No More Peace! A Thoughtful Comedy

First Printing. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red and black pictorial price-clipped dust jacket signed in image by "Suba," black topstain; [10],166pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities, including small loss at spine crown not approaching text, some minor dust-soil, corners gently bumped, else Very Good or better in...

Runaway

Runaway

Octavo. Green cloth; dustjacket; 304pp. First trade edition. Clean, tight copy, Near Fine, in lightly dusted jacket. Very handsome copy of Dell's fifth novel, a chronicle of a failed marriage and the relationship between an unconventional father (perhaps based on the real-life figure of George Cram Cook) and his daughter.

The Cassava Ghost (A Play in Three Acts)

The Cassava Ghost (A Play in Three Acts)

12mo. Printed card wrappers; 147pp. Mild external wear, with some pinpoint rubbing at wrapper edges; Near Fine.

The Twelve [Limited Edition, Signed by the Illustrator]

The Twelve [Limited Edition, Signed by the Illustrator]

Limited to 650 copies of which this is no. 10 of 100 illustrated with original lithographs by George Biddle. Folio (31cm.); original red maroon-backed papier-peint boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; unpaged; mounted frontispiece and four leaves of plates; 5 additional half-page plates mounted to leaves of text...

The Fields of Paradise

The Fields of Paradise

Octavo (8"x6"). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 382p. Red top-stain. Tight, clean copy, Near Fine, in lightly rubbed and dusted jacket, unclipped, easily Very Good to Near Fine.

Men Vs. The Man: A Correspondence Between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist, and H.L. Mencken, Individualist.

Men Vs. The Man: A Correspondence Between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist, and H.L. Mencken...

First Issue (per Ahearn), one of approximately 613 copies. Octavo; vertical-ribbed maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; 252pp, [10] ads. Some trivial rubbing to extremities, with light spotting to upper edge of text; Near Fine.

Farmington [Inscribed to Burgess Johnson]

Farmington [Inscribed to Burgess Johnson]

Third Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); gray paper and taupe cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; vi, [7]-255pp. Inscribed by Darrow on the front endpaper: "To Mr & Mrs Burgess Johnson / As a testimonial to their / good cheer and...

Men Working

Men Working

Cloth boards; dustjacket; 300pp. Light soil; small ownership signature; endpapers toned; still a tight, Near Fine copy in a nice example of the original dustjacket, lightly rubbed at extremities and with a brief loss at crown of spine.

Battle Hymn: A Play in Three Acts, Prologues and an Epilogue

Battle Hymn: A Play in Three Acts, Prologues and an Epilogue

Small octavo (19cm). Printed thick paper wrappers; 108, (12)pp. Mild wear and soil to wrappers; Very Good.

The International Socialist Review - Vol.XIV, No.5 (November, 1913)

The International Socialist Review - Vol.XIV, No.5 (November, 1913)

Small quarto (24cm); illustrated wrappers; pp.257-320; illus. Touch of dustiness to wrappers, with a few tiny stains; Very Good+ to Near Fine.

Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts

Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); bound in oatmeal buckram, with titles and decoration stamped in black and brown on spine and front panel; gray topstain; dustjacket; 172pp. Some trivial offset to gutters from binders glue, topstain slightly dulled, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned, with a few tiny nicks...

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