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Large quarto (35cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 34pp; illus. Light toning and handling to wrappers, oxidation to lower staple, with upper staple lacking; Very Good+.
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning, some faint, shallow staining along right margin, with several nicks and small tears to same; Very Good.
More info about New Masses - Vol.XXVIII, No.10 (August 30, 1938
Tabloid (42cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. Light wear and subtle toning to wrappers, else Fine, unfolded and without postal markings.
More info about Quicksilver Times - Vol.III, No.16 (August 28-September 11, 1971
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.....
Two octavo volumes (18.75cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [ii],99,[11]pp. The first copy is inscribed by Eugene Debs to American film actress, screenwriter, and editor Helen Louise Gardner on the front endpaper: "To Helen L. Gardner / With love and greetings, and with.....
First printing. Octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 250,[4]pp. Straight, tight, and clean with a brief (ca 3/4") split to inner front hinge at gutter; Very Good or better. Gilman's first full-length novel, originally published serially in her magazine The Forerunner from 1909.......
Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the editor, this being copy no.38. Octavo (24cm); beige buckram, with gilt-stamped leather title labels mounted to spine and front cover; maroon topstain; dustjacket; publisher's original slipcase; xx,662,[2]pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, price-clipped, with some.....
First printing. Octavo; published gilt-titled brown cloth; 321pp. A tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in original cloth, lacking the dustwrapper. Historical survey and critical analysis of Utopian thought, from Plato's Republic through Hertzka's Freeland.
Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's grey card wrappers; 58,[2](ads)pp. Several chips to wrapper extremities, none approaching text, textblock starting to separate from binding, else Good, internally fine. Single issue of the individualist anarchist bimonthly magazine. Contents feature Tucker's recurring column "On Picket Duty" and the recurring column of freethinker Benjamin De.....
Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, and green; [6],ii,[7],281,[1],[32](ads)pp.; frontispiece. Extremities a bit rubbed and worn, general dust-soil, spine rather dulled with some fraying at ends, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. OCLC locates 7 copies as of November.....
More info about The Cruise of the Training Ship; or, Clif Faraday's Pluck
16mo (13.5cm). Printed card wrappers; 14pp. Fine, unread copy. Reprints an article originally published by Tucker in 1903; adds a 1-pp introduction by Labadie, concluding: "...it is with the expectation of stimulating interest in this remarkable libertarian's principle work [sic], Instead of a Book...that this modest pamphlet is printed."...
More info about The Attitude of Anarchism Toward Industrial Combinations
12mo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246p. Clean, tight copy in lightly dusted jacket; Very Good or better.
Quarto (27.5cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled, with text printed on newsprint, and 50¢ price at lower right corner of front wrapper; 40pp; illus. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few faint creases to same, and subtle tanning to text edges; Very Good+.
More info about Firearms & Self-Defense: A Handbook for Radicals, Revolutionaries and Easy Riders
Cloth boards; paper spine label; dustjacket; 141pp. Fine, tight copy in bright, Near Fine dustwrapper. Uncommon thus.
Octavo (21cm); lime green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 542pp. Cloth lightly faded at spine and along the edges (as in all copies we have seen), gilt slightly dulled, with minor fraying at the base of the spine; Near Fine. The Rockwell Kent-designed dustjacket is.....
Oblong 16mo (ca. 7x13cm.); original red staplebound card wrappers taped into cloth tape-backed sharp aluminum boards, decorative element mounted to upper cover; [61]ll. printed mimeographed on white and red paper. Old ballpoint manuscript spine title, boards a bit tarnished, else Very Good or better, contents fresh and fine. Rubberstamp to.....
Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 309pp. Tight, fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, Very Good or better.
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning to wrappers, a few nicks, tears, and attendant creases, and a small loss toward lower right corner of front wrapper; Very Good+.
More info about New Masses - Vol.XLIII, No.11 (June 16, 1942
Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 264pp. Erasure to gift inscription on half-title, else Near Fine in the uncommon pictorial jacket, unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly worn, soiled on lighter portions, with a few brief, closed tears and bruises at head and heel of spine panel; Very Good. Dreiser's generally laudatory review of.......
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); olive green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; brown topstain; dustjacket; 372pp. Some hand-soil and light wear to covers, thin split to gutter at half-title; a solid, Very Good+ copy, with the pages unopened. Dustjacket is lightly soiled, with a few.....
Octavo (18cm). Printed buff wrappers; 891pp + ads. Covers and text mildly toned; still a tight, lightly worn copy of the unusual wrappered edition. Simultaneously reprinted in cloth by Sinclair; initially published by John C. Winston & Co. in 1915.
More info about The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest
Octavo (19cm.); publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in tan, green, and blue, gilt-lettered spine; [6],ii,[7]-268pp.; frontispiece. Cloth extremities a bit rubbed, some spotting and minor discoloration, spine rather toned, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else contents near fine. About Very Good overall. Sinclair's fifth published novel, forming part.....
More info about A Strange Cruise; or, Clif Faraday's Yacht Chase
Octavo (22.5cm). Red cloth boards, stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 177pp. Warmly inscribed by Patchen on front free endpaper: "for Charles M. McKenna / with every good wish," signed and dated 1950. Also laid in is an autograph note to McKenna from Miriam Patchen.....
More info about Patchen's First Will & Testament [Inscribed Copy
Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 30pp. Negliglble external dusting, else a bright, tight apparently unread copy in the original printed wrappers; Near Fine.
A nearly complete run of weekly issues from the first two years of publication; sequence as follows: Vol. I, no. 10 (Mar 12, 1868) - 20; 22-26. Vol. II: no. 1 (July 9, 1868) - 19; 22-26. Vol. III: no. 1 (Jan. 7, 1869) - 9; 11,12,14-17,19-26. Vol. IV: no.......
More info about The Revolution [Run of 102 original weekly issues, 1868-1870
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
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).
Octavo (21cm). Green cloth boards; dustjacket; 572pp. Purple top-stain slightly faded, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped and with minor spots of rubbing at flap-folds and spine ends; Very Good.
Octavo. Publisher's blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; blind-stamped decorative borders to front board; red edge-stain; frontispiece portrait; x,[1]-512,[1]pp. A tight, fresh copy, lightly rubbed at joints and extremities and with a brief marginal tissue repair to pp.249/250 (not approaching text); Very Good or better, with the publisher's.....
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 (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
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. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 167pp. Bit of foxing to endpapers, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, foxed on verso and flap-folds but otherwise quite clean and crisp.
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
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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.
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
Small octavo (19cm.); original cloth in red decorative dust jacket; 304pp. Some short clean splitting at jacket folds, minor wear to spine crown, rear panel a bit dust-soiled. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Historical novel set in the slave-labor mahogany camps of tropical Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Edition and printing not stated. 4-pp leaflet (single folded sheet); text on all four pages. Mild age-toning to paper, still Very Good. Ephemeral recruiting brochure, with invitation and instructions for joining the Socialist Party, likely distributed at Russell's speaking engagements during his U.S. Senate campaign of 1913-14. A popular muckracking.....
12mo (18.75cm.); publisher's salmon cloth, black paper wrap-around band lettered in silver, black topstain; 211pp. Spine a bit cocked and faded, corners bumped, minor soiling to textblock, else Near Very Good and sound, lacking the acetate jacket. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "To Nina and Hale / with love.....
Two issues of this monthly socialist-pacifist newsletter, together with a mimeographed prospectus in English. Includes issue nos. 37 (Fall 1958) and 38 (Winter 1958-9). Each issue on a single sheet of newsprint, 44cm x 32cm, folded to make eight pages. Prospectus on a single sheet, 36cm x 27cm, printed recto-only.....
More info about MADO - A Discussion Monthly. Two Issues, with Prospectus in English
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