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Octavo (19.5cm); grey paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards, with printed title label mounted to upper spine; xxii,95,[3]pp. Light wear to spine ends and extremities, with faint foxing to upper edge of textblock and endpapers, and some light rubbing to title label; Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustjacket. McKay's first.....
Trade issue (after 50 copies on Alfa). 12mo. Original printed wrappers; 127,(1)pp; illus, frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of plates. Slight toning to spine, else a tight, Near Fine copy; the text is completely unopened (i.e., pages are uncut), clean and supple with practically no toning to the margins. Prospectus.....
More info about Le Soleil Noir - Positions no. 1, "La Revolte en Question"
First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); bluish-grey paper-covered boards and turquoise cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and authors initials embossed onto front cover; light blue topstain; dustjacket; [4],xvi,198,[6]pp. Inscribed by Carmichael on the front pastedown: "To my Brother James / Afrika will be free / unified + socialist.....
More info about Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America [Inscribed by Both Authors
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); mauve cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [8],9-350,[2]pp. Though the title page credits it to C.D. Williams, the frontispiece and four black & white plates of illustrations are signed by John Sloan. Gentle sunning and some light dust-soil to spine, neat.....
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.....
More info about La Guerra de Guerrillas [Inscribed to His American Publisher
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......
More info about Soviet Art in Wartime. Information Bulletin - Special Supplement
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.....
More info about The Hobo's Hornbook: a Repertory for a Gutter Jongleur
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine and front cover; [10],11-148,[4]pp. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "To Ted Cook in deepest appreciation for permission to use that gem of literature, 'The Unfolding of the Rose' Rena M. Vale Chicago 5-24-54". Modest shelf-wear.....
Octavo (20.5cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; photographic frontispiece,891,[5]pp; illus. Spine ends nudged, light wear to corners and lower board edges, internally clean and tight; a Very Good copy.With printed bookplate of Ruth Jarvis Hall to front pastedown. Important early anthology of radical.....
More info about The Cry For Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest
First impression; wrappered issue (simultaneously issued in cloth). Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 106pp. Mild external rubbing and wear, with a few spots of foxing visible on the lighter portions of the wrappers; internally tight and clean, with minimal toning to text margins; Very Good. Future war novel set in South.....
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.....
More info about Discours sur le Colonialisme (Quatrième édition
First Printing. Small octavo (15cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-84,[4]pp; illus. Signed by Ericka Huggins on the title page. Pinpoint wear to extremities, tiny stress creases to upper left corner of rear wrapper, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Scarce collection of poems co-authored by Newton and Huggins, chronicling.....
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.....
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;.....
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.....
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.
More info about The Port Huron Statement: the Visionary Call of the 1960s Revolution [Signed Copy
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.....
Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 167pp. Bit of foxing to endpapers, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, with $1.50 price intact on both front and rear flaps; all four corners clipped by publisher. Jacket lightly rubbed on rear panel, mildly sunned on spine, but otherwise quite clean and crisp.....
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. 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;.....
More info about From Flushing to Calvary [Presentation Copy to Evelyn Scott
Octavo (19cm); light gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [5],6-277,[8]pp ads; tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. Signed by Goldman in pencil on the front endpaper, dated 2/13/16. Hint of sunning and some faint finger-soil to spine, subtle darkening to upper board edges, with some offsetting to.....
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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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).
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.....
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.....
More info about Echoes of Myself. Romantic Studies of the Human Soul
First Printing. Octavo (19cm); publisher's blue cloth, with titles in gilt on spine and front cover; 367pp. Slight wear to cloth at spine ends, subtle darkening to spine, with gilt a trifle dull; still a very well-preserved Very Good or better copy, extremely uncommon thus. With the ownership stamp of.....
More info about Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
First Impression, one of 1,500 copies, bound from American sheets. Octavo (22.25cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-252,[4]pp. Faint foxing to text edges, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 30s net), with light wear to extremities, and some toning and faint foxing to.....
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.....
More info about The Chrysalis. A Book of Poems by Logan P. Martin, Federal Prisoner, Atlanta, Ga
First printing. Octavo; red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 158pp. A fine, unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $8.75 on front flap), slightly edgeworn, with the usual fading to spine panel; Very Good. The first retrospective of Grahn's poems, after three published collections.
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.....
More info about Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Marc / 'in the name of all tears, no tears' / from Jed Taggard. [I send Collected Poems, also, so that you may see pgs 11,12,13]." Octavo. Navy cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 113pp. Tight, square copy with a touch of foxing to endpapers and.....
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. 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.....
Second Printing, published 2 months after the first. Octavo (19.5cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; eagle-patterned endpapers; black topstain; [xiv],[2],3-269,[5]pp. Upper corners bumped, gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with a touch of softening to spine ends; hinges sound; Very Good or better, lacking the.....
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.....
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......
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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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 (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.....
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