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12mo. (17.5cm); beige and black printed wrappers, stapled; [20]pp; illus. A Fine copy.
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.....
Quarto (30cm). Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 in clean, unmarked condition, Very Good or better. Issue for 1923 worn, with wrappers darkened and stained, contents slightly age-toned, with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; complete and just Good. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union.
More info about First of May Magazine. A Journal of Constructive Revolution [2 Annual Issues
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.
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 312,[3](ads)pp.; added color lithographic title page. Light shelf wear, miniscule damp spot to upper cover, spine a shade darkened, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and bookplate to front pastedown, late 20th-century bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good or better.
More info about My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel
Quarto (29.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp; illus. Mild wear and toning to extremities, else Near Fine.
Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's olive green pictorial cloth boards, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; [iv], [1]-415 + 2pp ads. Color frontispiece by Arthur W. Brown. Rubbing and wear to joints and extremities, a few faint stains scattered to boards, and both hinges starting, mended with clear tape; a......
More info about The Grapple: A Story of the Illinois Coal Region [&c
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 222pp. Hint of sunning to spine, top edge slightly dusty; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), spine-sunned and somewhat dusty overall; flap folds foxed; Very Good+.
Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 86, [4]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.95), with light, scattered foxing to flap folds and edges.
Quarto (28cm); variously-colored sheets, mimeographed in black and red, printed recto and verso; side-stapled; 34pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, oxidation to staples with resulting bleed-through, with lower staple partially broken; Very Good+.
Octavo (22.75cm); yellow and black printed wrappers, stapled; 120pp; illus. Starting oxidation to staples, with faint dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine.
Quarto (28cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; [16]pp; illus. Toning to extremities, with a few short tears along right margins; Very Good+.
More info about Counter-Attack: Organizing Self-Defense Groups
Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 32pp. Publisher's catalog inside rear cover. Wrap-around cover illustration by Frans Masereel. Small chip to front wrapper at upper corner; bit of damp-rippling to text block foredge; about Very Good. Scarce volume of anti-Fascist essays by German writers-in-exile including Ludwig Renn, Willi Bredel, Franz.....
First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; gray-green topstain; dustjacket; 345pp. Some trivial wear to board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities and a few short tears tape-mended on verso; Very Good+.....
Octavo (21.25cm); hunter green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 115pp; photographic frontispiece + 25 plates of illustrations. Shallow bump to rear cover, mild wear to spine ends, with biopredation resulting to some scattered loss of color on cloth; binding firm, contents.....
More info about Unfrequented Paths: Songs of Nature, Labor and Men
Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 14pp. Covers slightly worn; front cover stamped "With compliments of American Ethnological Press." Very Good.
Octavo (18.75cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [ii],99,[11]pp. With a full-page contemporary inscription from Le Prade to U.S. Attorney General A. Michell Palmer on the front endpaper: "To A. Mitchell Palmer - The poets of the world appeal to you for the liberation.....
More info about Debs and the Poets [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to A. Mitchell Palmer
Octavo (21cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 70pp. Minimal external dusting; no other signs of use, a crisp, Near Fine copy. Stories of African-American life in the South, described in the author's foreword as "...the collected stories of a people's reactions to a fantastic world designed to exclude them and their reality.".....
Broadside, 44cm x 57cm. Printed offset in black on white uncoated lithograhic paper; text in two columns beneath headline in Gothic type. Minor wrinkling at margins, else Fine.
Two volumes; octavos (18.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white photo-montaged dust jackets printed in red and black, dark blue topstains, in original card slipcase; 311, 319pp. Light shelf wear at top jacket extremities, else a Near Fine, exceptionally fresh set.
![Svobodnaia Piesn': Sbornik Revoliutsionnykh Piesn; i Stikhotvorenii [=] Russian Songs of Freedom](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/21365.jpg?v=1554245956)
First edition, 12mo (18.25cm.); contemporary black cloth, private paper spine label printed in manuscript; 159pp.; hinges weak, textblock shaken, page edges soiled, old crude tape repair to index page; Good.
One of 200 copies, signed; this copy additionally inscribed "To Walter Russell / with the compliments and regards of Bob Lafferty," dated 1930. Tight, Near Fine copy.
First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 64pp. Mild wear to extremities, hint of sunning to spine-fold, Very Good+.
First printing. Staple-bound pamphlet, 21cm x 12.5cm. Printed blue paper wrappers; 66pp. Covers and margins foxed, text age-darkened and lightly soiled; wrappers ill-fitting (as usual); a Good, complete copy. Though called the "Revised" edition, this is in fact the first American printing of Eine Reise Nach Freiland, the sequel to.....
Octavo (20.5cm); 3/4 brown paper over black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [xiv],306pp; text illustrations after woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Wear to lower board edges and upper right corner of front board, resulting in some occasional exposure; brief penciled.....
Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in red and black dust jacket; [8],260pp. A few losses to jacket extremities, including to lower edge of upper panel affecting the "W" of "Howard W. Roper," and 2-inch loss to spine crown affecting all words of spine title except "Hell." Some additional uneven fading to.....
Quarto (30.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 30pp; illus. Mild toning and wear to extremities, with a few very shallow chips to wrappers; Very Good+.
More info about New Masses - Vol.XXII, No.2 (January 5, 1937
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Small octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards, decorative paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine, black topstain, white dust jacket printed in green; [6],198pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled with some minor chipping, short closed tear to top edge of upper jacket panel not approaching text, tiny piece of tape repair.....
More info about Two Plays: Juno and the Paycock [and] The Shadow of a Gunman
First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue denim paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 460pp. Inscribed by the author on the second blank page, inside an original drawing of a wine goblet with a caricature inside: "For David + Carol / Whose cup of kindness hath cheered me.....
More info about Icepick: A Novel about Life and Death in a Maximum Security Prison [Inscribed
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 30pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, with short tear to lower spine-fold; internally fresh - Very Good+ or better.
Octavo (19.5cm); red boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 294pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Spine gently sunned, with a small patch of rubbing at the left edge of the front panel; Near Fine. The unclipped dustjacket is lightly chipped at the crown.....
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); pale green and gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 286,[2]pp. Hint of a forward lean, else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn, sunned at spine and panels, with several losses to spine ends and.....
Small octavo (19.5cm.); cloth boards and white printed dustjacket; 215pp. Dusting to upper edge of text block, else Fine. In scarce dustjacket, rubbed and slightly soiled, Very Good.
More info about Crucible Island: A Romance, an Adventure and an Experiment
Octavo (21cm). Red linen boards, titled in black on spine and front cover; yellow top-stain; 213pp. Bit of soiling to upper edge of text-block, with consequent dulling to top-stain; very minor thumb-soil within; in all a tight, straight copy, VG+ to Near Fine. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper.
"First Edition of 1,000 Printed in September, 1915," octavo (19.25cm.); original brown cloth double ruled and printed in dark brown; [10],240,[4](ads)pp. Fine. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author and his wife Jessie to noted Americana collector Dr. William C. Braislin, with author's own photographically illustrated bookplate on front.....
First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black and brown on spine; dustjacket; 166, [2]pp. Top edge slightly dusty, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.95), with light shelfwear, sunning to spine, and bubbling to the laminate on the front panel (as is.....
More info about The Duplex: A Black Love Fable in Four Movements
One of 1,200 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); dark blue-green buckram, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; teal topstain; dustjacket; 271; 90pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.95), with some light wear to spine ends and extremities, and touch of dustiness to front panel on Jefferson's Birthday.....
Quarto (30.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, tiny nick to upper spine-fold, with a few short tears; Very Good+.
More info about New Masses - Vol.XXIII, No.13 (June 22, 1937
Quarto. Loose sheets in printed envelope, as issued. Small abrasion and pin-hole to envelope's upper extremity, else Fine. This is Willeford's first appearance in print, preceding his first book by more than a year. ('Entrance To An Era'; In Time of This'; 'I Passed Over the River'; 'Basement Pastoral' &.....
More info about The Outcast Poets. Number 8 of the Outcast Series of Chapbooks
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.....
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