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Quarto. Original illustrated boards; 288pp; illus. Fine, unread copy. Richly detailed bibliography of Soviet avant-garde propaganda photo books of the post-Revolutionary period. Text entirely in Russian (Cyrillic).
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Slim octavo (19.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 20pp. Touch of oxidation to staples, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. De Cleyre (1866 - 1912) was the leading figure of radical anarchist feminism prior to Emma Goldman. This title was originally issued by Goldman's Mother Earth Press in 1909; the.....
Quarto (36cm); mimeographed sheets (recto and verso), with text printed in black on sage green stock, measuring 8 5/8" x 14 1/8", stapled at upper left corner; [1],2-9,[10]pp. Horizontal fold smoothed out at center, some very subtle toning to text edges, ink check mark to upper margin of preliminary leaf.....
Slim quarto (29.75cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16pp; illus. Very mild wear and handling, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Lengthy interview given by James to Al Richardson, Clarence Chrysostom, and Anna Grimshaw on June 8th and November 16th, 1986, in South London. 87218.
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Fourth edition (first published 1950). 12mo. Printed orange card wrappers; 72pp. Spine and wrapper edges slightly sunned, else a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. Text entirely in French. Early printing of Césaire's most important work – a foundational work of postcolonial literature that has remained in print continuously.....
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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); olive green cloth, with titling and cornstalk device stamped in black on spine and front cover; [vi],[2],3-302,[4]pp. Spine gently sunned, moderate wear to extremities, foxing to text edges, with a few spots of white paint spatter to rear cover; contemporary ownership signature of Elizabeth Prestopino on.....
First Printing. Octavo (21cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],395,[4]pp. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "For Sue Tanner McKenzie, whom I remember so much better than my actions allow. Willie Snow Ethridge". Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with foxing to covers.....
First Printing, with (1) following final paragraph. Octavo (22cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in dark purple on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-503,[1]pp. Tiny indentation to upper front board edge, some trivial dustiness to pastedowns, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly edgeworn.....
12mo (17cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 10pp. Shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, the whole a bit toned and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Publisher's advertisements printed on pp. [11] and [14] (rear wrapper).
First printing (American issue; published simultaneously in Great Britain by John Lane). 12mo (18cm). Decorated green cloth; 208pp + 4pp publisher's ads; cover and title page decorations by Aubrey Beardsley (who designed all the books in this series). Cloth on spine is darkened, with gilt dulled but legible; text is.....
First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); beige buckram, with printed title label applied to spine; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; [10],210pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with light wear to extremities, some faint creasing along front panel edges, and a sharp vertical fold slightly.....
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); rough blue cloth with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket and printed wraparound advertising band; [viii],244,[4]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, else a fresh, Fine copy in a bright, Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.00), with the wraparound publicity band Fine intact. A......
First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; orange topstain; [6],7-376pp. Touch of sofening to spine ends, gentle sunning to spine, with light wear to extremities and some faint foxing to text edges; a Very Good, sound copy, lacking the.....
First printing. Thick octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; liii,1086,(6)pp. Unobtrusive spot of soil to fore-edge of text block, else a tight, Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper. Third volume only of the critical edition of Shelley's poems. The series is now at four volumes, and is projected to expand to eight.....
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First printing. 12mo. Yellow cloth, titled in maroon on spine with color pictorial vignette to front cover; dark green topstain; 121pp. Light soiling to cloth, else a straight, tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 on front flap), lightly soiled but generally bright and unfaded.....
First printing. Quarto (28cm). Printed buff wrappers; 116pp; illus. Wrappers toned at spine and edges, with stray black wax pencil mark to lower quadrant of front wrapper and small loss to rear wrapper at fore edge; bit of thumb-soil to title page, else internally complete, clean and textually unmarked. A......
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No. 876 of 999 hand-numbered copies. Author's inscription to front endpaper: "To Mr. Alfred Wiehl with compliments," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo. Green cloth, titled in gilt; 231pp; frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of plates. A tight, Near Fine copy, with just a trace of rubbing to.....
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12mo (15cm). Contemporary deep brown cloth over green cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; 385pp; half-title present. A tight, straight, and attractive copy, firmly Very Good, in a plain but attractive contemporary binding. Contemporary ownership signature of an F. Gommere (sp?). Text entirely in French. Hugo's satirical attack on.....
First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); coarse dark grey cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine; red topstain; viii,[2],3-383,[1]pp. Sunning to spine and upper board edges, some wear and softening to spine ends, else clean throughout; Very Good or better, lacking the dustjacket. Seaver's elusive third book and second novel, a......
First printing. Octavo. Gray cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 445pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, stained at upper portion of spine panel with overall light rubbing and wear; just VG. The first full-scale biography of Reed, written by the prominent Marxist literary historian and critic Granville.....
First printing. Octavo. Beige linen over boards, titles stamped in brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; charcoal top-stain; decorated endpapers; 295pp; fore- and bottom text block edges untrimmed. Gentle toning to cloth at margins, still a tight, Near Fine copy. In the scarce original dustwrapper, clilpped by publisher on.....
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Slim octavo (21.5cm); pictorial mimeographed wraps; [iii],6,[3]pp. Light wear and handling, else very Near Fine. McLucas (1945-2016), one of the New Haven 9, was convicted of conspiracy in the torture-murder of Alex Rackley, who at the time of his death in 1969, was suspected by several members of the Black.....
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First printing of the Thunder's Mouth reissue. Signed by Hayden in ink, on half-title. Octavo; printed card wrappers (only format issued); 171pp. A fine copy. Contains the full text of the 1962 edition, here reissued with a substantial new introduction by Hayden.
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First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige cloth with titling and rule in blue; dustjacket; 371pp. Mild soil and toning to board edges, else very Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper; all four corners clipped by publisher (as always), with $2.50 price intact on front flap; slightly dust-soiled, with two old clear.....
Octavo (21cm). Linen-backed pictorial boards; 104pp; illus. Quite decent copy: board edges a bit rubbed and darkened, but internally sound, clean and unmarked; Very Good. Ownership signature of a Margaret B. Nicholas to front endpaper, undated. Collection of sentimental poems and aphorisms by a prison poet, published (according to the.....
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First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; viii,[2],3-340,[4]pp. Rubbing to crown, light wear to lower board edges, else clean internally; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95), measuring just slightly shorter than the book, as with nearly every copy we have seen; gently.....
First Printing. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "For Evelyn Scott whose reaction to my little book I most sincerely appreciate," signed in full, datemarked aboard the S.S. Bremen, Mar 28, 1933. Octavo (20.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and rule stamped in black on spine and front panel; green topstain; dustjacket;.....
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Softcover. Octavo (24cm); beige paper wrappers; upper and lower edges untrimmed; 317pp; black-and-white illustrations. Some pages of text unopened. Modest shelf-wear, with soil to wrappers and edges of textblock, and trace peeling to spine titling; Very Good. Fiction work examines social history of the Mezquital Valley region in Mexico. [88790].....
First impression. Two octavo volumes. In later bindings with Robert O. Ballou slug at base of spine. Gree cloth hardcovers; [1]-464; [465]-892pp; frontispiece and 32 unnumbered leaves of plates; two maps (one folding) at end of text. A sound, Very Good set with some sun-fading to spines and slight chipping.....
First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); burgundy cloth boards, with titling and decorations stamped in white and black on spine and front cover; black topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-389,[3]pp. Some offsetting to endpapers, else internally fresh, and very Near Fine. Dustjacket is evenly machine-clipped, with $2.50 price at lower rear flap, and.....
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Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 429pp. Bright, Near Fine copy, with yellow top stain unsoiled and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, crisp and unworn; all four corners clipped by publisher (as always), with $2.50 price intact on both front and rear flaps; just lightly soiled on lighter portions of rear panel;.....
Octavo. Original unprinted wrappers with integral dustjacket. Mild fading to jacket at bound edge, else a Fine copy. Later in life Auden would disown his Spanish Civil War propaganda, calling it "trash" he was "sorry to have written." At the time of its publication however this long poem, a rousing.....
First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); grayish-green cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; [xiv],512 + [8]pp ads, with black & white photographic frontispiece portrait of the author, and black & white illustrations and facsimiles. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the frontispiece: "Fraternally / Alexander Berkman / Tombs.....
16mo (14cm.); publisher's hand-stitched marbled wrappers; 52pp; text printed in dark purple on double leaves. Light wear with slight chipping at spine and corners, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good or better. At head of title page: "The Labadie Booklets."
First printing. Octavo (20cm); pictorial card wrappers, 126pp; illus. Mild soild and age-darkening to covers, with diagonal crease to rear wrapper, else a tight, Very Good copy. Ink ex-libris of Pittsburgh writer and activist J. Ernest Wright (see note), who has also made a few inobtrusive marks in the text.....
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First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); russet cloth, blocked and titled in black on spine; brown topstain; [x],322,[4]pp. Warmly inscribed on the title page to Ken McCollum, Algren's bibliographer, with a drawing of a cat, dated 1972: "With best wishes to Ken McCollum / from Nelson Algren (Whose private opinion it is.....
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Inscribed inside front cover: "For Gert / with love / Leo," dated August, 1942. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers; [8]pp; illus. Near Fine. Cover illustration signed in block, "Carlo." An organizing pamphlet for the National Maritime Union, issued as NMU "Educational Pamphlet" no. 1. Highlights the accomplishments of the Union in raising.....
First printed edition. Deluxe issue; no.23 of 30 signed and numbered copies, from a total edition of 975. Octavo; bound in full polished sheep, marbled endpapers, [38]pp, with illustrations by Kemper Nomland, Jr. A fine copy. This chapbook, one of Everson's earliest published works, was printed at Camp Angel, the.....
First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; photo-illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; [xvi],[2],3-330,[6]pp. Crown gently bumped, with a tiny nick to cloth at upper edge of front board; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with a lower ink price written beneath the printed $5.95.....
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First printing. Warmly inscribed to the American economist and author Leo Huberman, who was responsible for introducing the work to a North American audience: "A Leo Huberman, exponente del verdado pensamiento del pueblo Americano, esto que quiere ser un cantico guerrero a este lado del Río Bravo, con un revolucionario.....
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