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Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 289, [5]pp. Old damp-stain to rear wrapper; text paper age-toned, with pulp endpapers somewhat fragile; just Very Good. The first Mexican and first Spanish-language edition of Traven's epic novel, first published in German in 1927. This translation is significant, given that Traven spent most of his.....
Large octavo (25cm). Linen-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; original unprinted glassine dustwrapper; 93pp; illus. A tiny nick at base of front board, else a fresh, Fine copy in the original folded glassine, slightly age-darkened and soiled, Very Good. Cover design and four full-page plates after wood engravings by Polia Chentoff, in.....
More info about The Voice of Fire. Engravings by Polia Chentoff
12mo (18cm). Publisher's red cloth boards, lettered in white on spine and front cover; 428,(2)pp. Lettering mostly rubbed away on spine; front endpaper neatly removed, else a tight, Very Good copy.
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Octavo (24.5cm); twelve monthly issues bound into rust-colored pictorial cloth boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black; 336,[4]pp. Preliminary leaf has two neat rubber-stamps at upper and lower margins, holograph notation in pencil along left margin ("Gift - National Woman's Party 3-29-46"), and discreet blindstamp of the University.....
More info about Herland [In] The Forerunner - Vol.VI, Nos.1-12 (January-December, 1915
16mo. Printed wrappers; 75p. Faint soil and creasing; text clean and unmarked. Text entirely in French. Scarce work. Not found via OCLC.
More info about La Poesie Populaire Bulgare. Avant-propos de Nicolai Dontchev
First Printing, one of 20,000 copies. Octavo (20.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [vi],458pp. Spine ends gently nudged, some trivial wear and sunning to crown, with mild offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers; Near Fine, with the gilt.....
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.....
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.
Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 124pp. Tight, straight copy, about Fine in the uncommon dustjacket, lightly rubbed and soiled but still attractive and free of losses, VG or better.
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
Octavo (20cm). Aqua cloth, stamped in white, gold and black on spine and front cover; [i]-[viii], 1-257, [5]pp. Frontispiece illus. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges; scattered foxing to title page and prelims; Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of seven stories, including the socialist utopian romance "The Dream of.....
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.....
Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth limb cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt; viii,200pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed with brief cloth peeling, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally sound. Printer's slug at bottom of title page: Elmira, NY: Gazette Company.
More info about Reminiscences of an Octogenarian in the Fields of Industrial and Social Reform
Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in green and yellow; 160pp. Extremities a bit toned and dusty, a few leaves dog-eared, else Very Good or better.
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.
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.....
Octavo (24.25cm.); original black morocco-backed pictorial boards in paper-covered slipcase; xliv,341pp.; woodcuts throughout. Slipcase a bit rubbed and discolored from dust-soil, ownership signature to front free endpaper else Near Fine in Very Good slipcase. Posthumously published writings of the Communist journalist and author Mike Quin (1906-1947) who also wrote pulp.....
More info about On the Drumhead: A Selection of the Writing of Mike Quin. A memorial volume
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.
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.
Seven octavo volumes. Original linen boards; dustjackets. Slight spine toning; light external soil (to jackets); else a fine set, internally clean, tight and unmarked. Texts entirely in German.
Octavo (21cm). Original orange cloth boards, lettered in black on spine; dustjacket; 109pp. Slight toning to margins of text, still a sharp, Near Fine copy in a bright, unworn and unclipped dustwrapper with just a hint of dusting to lighter portions.
Octavo (20cm). Plain card wrappers in pictorial dustwrapper; 203, [2]pp; frontispiece portrait. Warmly inscribed and signed inside front wrapper to American communists Bertram D. Wolfe and his wife Ella in year of publication: "For my dear comrades and friends Ella and Bert W. hoping that 1944 will be less cruel.....
Vol.1: newspaper; 38pp.; (40cm x 29cm) Vol. 2: Twenty-four letterpress broadside poems, each 16cm x 11cm (5-1/2" x 4-1/4") or the reverse. Loose, as issued, with no enclosing envelope. Printed in different color inks on various cardstocks; each with imprint on verso. Together comprising Issues No. 1 & 2 of.....
More info about Merlyn Gorky volume 1 / . Numbers 1 & 2: "newspaper" and "24 poemcards" [many signed
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.....
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Some wear and toning to wrappers, oxidation to staples, with numerous tiny nicks and tears along spine-fold, and a short tear along lower margin of text; Very 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
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.
Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in white on spine; dustjacket; 233pp. Light wear and fading to board extremities; jacket faded and with small losses at edges; Very Good.
Edition and printing not stated. 4-pp leaflet (single folded sheet); text on all four pages. Mild age-toning to paper, small chips; still Very Good. Organizational guide for local branches; includes a catalog of "Socialist Party Supplies" including celluloid buttons, lapel pins, dues cards, and, compellingly, the "moving picture film 'Opening.....
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 (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
Brief 1-pp TLS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson letterhead, addressed to a "Mr. Simon", dated November 14, 1941. Single holograph correction in Eastman's hand. Mailing folds; slightly toned at margins; Very Good.
More info about Typed Letter, signed. 1pp, to "Mr. Simon", dated November 15, 1941
Octavo (21cm). Original tan cloth boards, lettered in red on cover and spine; price-clipped dustjacket; 632pp. A few small losses to jacket extremities with some subsequent creasing, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket just about free of toning.
More info about The Road: A Romance of the Proletarian Revolution
Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 141pp. Mild wear, still Near Fine in the original printed dustjacket with remainder price stamped on front panel; small losses at extremities, spine slightly darkened; Very Good.
Stated second American edition. 12mo (18.5cm). In original cream paper-covered boards, backed in light green muslin, with original printed paper label to spine, largely intact; plain endpapers; viii [9] 10-120pp. Ink ownership inscription of H. A. Fletcher to title page. Temoin on final leaf of text. Straight, tight, and clean.....
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.....
Octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in black on front cover and spine; red top-stain; dustjacket; 317pp. Clean, tight copy, Very Good to Near Fine, in Very Good example of the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper, with a few tiny losses at extremities and soil to lighter portions of rear panel.
Holograph manuscript, composed in dark blue ink on 152 numbered leaves (rectos), and housed in a bespoke chemise and slipcase by Barrieri. With presentation inscription from Cobb to MGM film produced and screenwriter Samuel Marx (in pencil) at upper right corner of title leaf: "Original manuscript copy for Sam Marx.....
Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 14pp. Covers slightly worn; front cover stamped "With compliments of American Ethnological Press." Very Good.
First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and rule stamped in black on spine and front panel; green topstain; dustjacket; 293pp. Tiny contemporary date to front endpaper, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, lightly edgeworn, with toning to spine and flap folds, light dust-soil, and a few tiny.....
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