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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.
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. 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. 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 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 impression. Small, slim octavo; red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 72pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, front flap clipped by publisher with printed price label (£1.25) affixed; lightly rubbed at edges, bit of toning to spine panel, still Very Good or better. Posthumous collection by the.....
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 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 (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.....
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.....
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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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. 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. 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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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. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Mild external wear, with a bit of sunning at bound edge; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Very Good or better overall. Scarce Socialist three-act drama based written in response to the Potlach Riot of 1913, when a mob of nativist citizens attacked the Seattle headquarters of.....
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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.....
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.....
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. 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 (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.....
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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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 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.....
Three Volumes. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spines. 869pp.; 618pp.; 1048pp. Some light wear and shallow fraying to heads of spines, gilt bright, bindings strong with some mild scuffing in places; internally clean and fresh, although not printed on the best paper stock, the stand out.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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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 (21.25cm); 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......
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 Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; [viii],[2],3-316,[4]pp. Text mildly tanned as usual, else a straight, attractive copy, Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustjacket. Rather uncommon proletarian novel of the Twenties, set among striking workers at a New.....
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. 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.....
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 (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.....
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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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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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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.....
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