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Octavo (21cm). Cloth-backed boards; paper spine label; dustjacket; 73pp; illus. One of 250 signed copies, signed by the author on limitation page. Very fine in bright, unworn dustjacket.
Small, slim 12mo (16cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers, yapp edges; [2],38pp.; printed on stiff tan handmade stock. Light edge wear, faint dampstaining along spine edge of upper and rear cover (not bleeding into textblock); Very Good overall, internally fine and unopened. "Driftwood Chapbook No. 2."
More info about Banners of Brotherhood: An Anthology of Social Vision Verse
Octavo (20.5cm.); contemporary blue cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers; 145,[4]pp. typed on rectos only. Cloth very slightly worn, spine a hint sunned, shallow loss to front free endpaper fore-edge, shallow creasing to three leaves, else Very Good or better. Occasional autograph corrections in the author's hand throughout.....
More info about Siebzig Gedichte [Typescript, with author's corrections
12mo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 23pp. One of 500 hand-numbered copies. Mild crease to front wrapper; sticker residue on rear cover; Very Good Plus. Posthumously (?) published novella by the Los Angeles punk musician and music journalist, who died of AIDS in 1991. This chapbook edited by his friends and.....
12mo (17cm.); ten volumes bound as one, in contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. Ten pamphlets printed between 1908 and ca. 1920. Slight fading to cloth spine; boards rubbed; private paper label at base of backstrip. Internally Very Good, with variable ageing to text pages; one pamphlet trimmed, with loss of imprint.....
More info about Sammelband of 10 Russian-American and Ukrainian-American Revolutionary Imprints
Octavo (19.75cm.); original tan decorative wrappers printed in red and black; 179pp; text printed in blackletter. Upper wrapper separated, shallow chips along wrapper edges not affecting text; interior fine. Good and sound.
12mo. Original flexible paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 96pp. Publisher's trade list (4pp) laid in. Mild wear to spine and covers; printed bookplate of noted folklorist Mellinger E. Henry to front pastedown; offsetting to endpapers from laid-in items. Very Good or better in the fragile dustjacket, which has small loss at base.....
Small, slim octavo (ca. 19cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; 93pp. Light shelf wear and a bit of toning and dust-soil to boards, mid-20th century ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound. This copy belonged to the Proletarian Library of the San Francisco Labor College with their contemporary.....
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.
"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. 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.....
Limited Issue, consisting of 520 copies for sale by private subscription and preceding the American edition published the following year. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; top edge gilt; 285pp. Some very faint foxing to preliminary and terminal pages, else Near Fine.....
Octavo (19.5cm). Pictorial paper wrappers; 139pp. Bilingual text, with Spanish-language portion translated by Sergio Mondragón. One thousand copies printed. Inscribed on half-title: "For Sid Finkelstein who knows how to read as well as write," signed, dated 1965. Covers sligthly rubbed; spine a shade sunned; text gently tanned; Very Good. Poems.....
More info about Land of Roseberries / Tierra de Moras. Drawings by David Alfaro Siqueiros
Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket signed in image by Robert Graves, maroon topstain; [10],308pp. A few shallow losses to top jacket extremities, most notably at spine crown, minor toning to cloth spine edges and pastedowns, else a Very Good, straight and sound copy.
Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's grey-green decorative cloth embossed in darker green, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover; 343pp.; frontispiece, two plates. Boards a bit rubbed, front hinge just starting, else a Very Good and sound copy, much better than usually seen.
Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher's pink pictorial wrappers; 24pp. Evidence of having been removed from larger volume, upper wrapper nearly separated, small loss at bottom fore-edge corner not approaching text, some toning along extremities, else Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on upper cover verso: "Au citoyen Clément.....
More info about La Commune de l'Avenir: Amour & Pensée Libres [Inscribed & Signed
Publisher's advance, with the textblock glued into the finished dustjacket. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 662pp. Gentle sunning to spine, with some light rubbing to joints; Near Fine, and very scarce in this format.
Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; 80pp. Discoloration to board edges; ownership signature to front endpaper (Mary Elizabeth Raub); a Very Good copy. The prolific radical poet's rather uncommon first book, a collection of aesthetic verse displaying only glimpses of the vigorous, polemical tone of Lowenfels's later work.
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 253pp.; photographic frontispiece Light edge wear to jacket extremities, including tiny close tear at top edge of upper panel, spine just a hint faded, tiny dampspot to upper panel, top textblock edge foxed.....
Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket lettered in reddish-brown; [8],293pp. Minor bumping to spine ends; very occasional and mild foxing to preliminaries, contemporary bookseller rubberstamp to rear free endpaper; else about fine, with gilt bright on spine and no internal soiling or wear, in solid dustjacket with mild.....
![Original typescript, signed] A Letter To Ché Guevara](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/25930.jpg?v=1554414986)
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.
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Quarto. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 64pp. Covers rubbed, with small losses to extremities (not affecting text); text clean and unmarked; Very Good.
More info about Labor and Nation Vol. VI, No. 3 (Summer 1950
Octavo (19.5cm). Red cloth boards, gilt-lettered on spine, blocked in black ink on front cover; dustjacket; xi + 209,(3)pp. Hint of darkening to endpaper gutters, else a fine, fresh copy in the the scarce and fragile printed dustwrapper, lightly dusted but still crisp and Near Fine.
More info about The Journal of Arthur Stirling - "The Valley of the Shadow"
Demi octavo (18cm). Original olive-green cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 231pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates by Arthur William Brown. Bit of dusting to upper edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, lightly nicked at spine.....
Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 82pp. Light shelf wear to boards and jacket extremities, shallow crease to rear flap, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title: "For Cristoph / 'Open my face' / Ishmael Reed."
Octavo (20cm.); printed blue stitched wrappers; 24pp. Just mild external wear to wrappers, else Fine. Reprinted from the "Fortnightly Review."
More info about A Politician in Sight of Haven. Being a Protest Against the Government of Man by Man
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. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 263pp. A brilliant copy, fully Fine in a nearly flawless dustjacket. Rarely seen thus.
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
24mo. Bifolium (single sheet folded to make 4pp). Near Fine. Prints the text of Roberts' poem, composed in Columbus, dated 1909. A scarce Labadie item. Not separately catalogued in OCLC under author or title (2020).
More info about What Think Ye of Christ? (Was he an anarchist?
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); dark blue cloth, blocked and titled in burgundy and gilt on spine and front cover; viii, 448, [8]pp ads. Neat, contemporary owner's name and date to front endpaper (a "Dr. L.W. Truman"). Mild external wear, with light rubbing to corners and spine ends; hinges very lightly.....
![Text in Yiddish] Heldn Fun Unzer Zeit [alt. spelling: Heldn Fun Undzer Tsayt](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34095.jpg?v=1529353753)
Octavo (22cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth; 127pp.; frontispiece and one photographic plate. Corners bumped and extremities a bit rubbed, else Very Good or better. Collection of short stories in Yiddish.
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First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [1],11-254pp, with photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Vintage rubber-stamp of a New Orleans book store on front endpaper, lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with some faint, scattered foxing to.....
Two volumes; octavos (21.5cm.); contemporary straight-grained morocco, rebacked at a later date (ca. 19th century) in tan calf, black gilt spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; lvi,436;ix,[1],554pp. Boards a bit rubbed along extremities, some clean peeling to upper cover leather of Vol. I, spine leather slightly cracked but not.....
More info about Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence of Morals and Happiness
First Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x,439,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author to his American publisher, Evelyn Shrifte, on the front endpaper: "To Evelyn / With love / Jim." Upper and lower rear boar corners gently tapped (though still.....
More info about Fellow Countrymen: Collected Stories [Inscribed to Evelyn Shrifte
Octavo (22cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in black on spine; dustjacket; xiii, 302pp + [2]pp ads. Light foxing to endpapers, else Fine in the original printed dustwrapper, lightly toned, darkened on spine, VG.
Small octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket, blue top- and fore-edge stain; 237pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny shallow losses at corners; light spotting to jacket spine; Fine in About Very Good jacket.
Original pictorial poster (43x30.5cm.) printed offset in red and black on white stock; Near Fine. Poster encourages the reader to steal from large chainstores when wages and standards of living are greatly reduced.
Octavo (22.75cm); yellow and black printed wrappers, stapled; 120pp; illus. Starting oxidation to staples, with faint dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine.
Octavo (20.75cm); blue-gray buckram, with titling and decorations stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; maroon topstain; dustjacket; [12], 211, [3]pp; illus. Signed on tipped in leaf preceding the half-title page, dated 22 days prior to publication: "John Fante / Sept.1, 1940." Decorative bookplate to front pastedown, slight forward.....
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