Conjure

Conjure

Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 82pp. Fine in fine, unclipped dustwrapper.

Common Ground - Vol.II, No.3 (Spring, 1942)

Common Ground - Vol.II, No.3 (Spring, 1942)

Octavo (22.75cm); yellow and black printed wrappers, stapled; 120pp; illus. Starting oxidation to staples, with faint dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine.

Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism

Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism

Small octavo (19cm). Variant binding of gray cloth, stamped in blue on spine and front cover. Backstrip slightly soiled and dingy, else a tight, clean, VG or better copy, lacking jacket.

Seven Red Sundays

Seven Red Sundays

Octavo (20cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; maroon topstain; dustjacket; 439pp. Minor rippling to spine cloth, with a small streak of topstain dye to right edge of textblock and some bleed-through from same to upper edge of endpapers; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn and...

May Days: An Anthology of Masses - Liberator Verse, 1912-1924 [Association Copy, Signed and Inscribed by 9 Contributors]

May Days: An Anthology of Masses - Liberator Verse, 1912-1924 [Association Copy, Signed and Inscribed...

Octavo (20.5cm); 3/4 brown paper over black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [xiv], 306pp; text illustrations after woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Wear to lower board edges and upper right corner of front board, resulting in some occasional exposure; brief...

Poemas Humanos / Human Poems (bilingual edition)

Poemas Humanos / Human Poems (bilingual edition)

Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; xxv, 326pp. Fine, unread copy in Near Fine, unclipped jacket. The most complete translation into English of the great Peruvian poet's work. Bilingual edition, with facing Spanish and English text; the English translations by the New York School poet Clayton Eshleman.

Poetry for my Friends [from half-title: Greens and Blues and All the Rhythms in Between]

Poetry for my Friends [from half-title: Greens and Blues and All the Rhythms in Between]

Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; [18pp]. Text continues onto rear wrapper. Early collection by the author of the acclaimed novel Danger Song (1967). Fine in original wrappers. Uncommon; OCLC gives 4 locations only.

New Theatre Presents "Press the Point" [drop title]

New Theatre Presents "Press the Point" [drop title]

Single leaf folded into 6-panelled quarto pamphlet (28.5cm.); upper panel illus. Previous mail folds, a bit toned and worn from handling, else Near Very Good and sound.

Biddy Brogan's Boy

Biddy Brogan's Boy

First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Hint of sunning to spine, with rubber-stamped 'C' on rear pastedown; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned, with light edgewear and a few tiny nicks at the crown; Very Good+.

Tomorrow's Bread

Tomorrow's Bread

Octavo (22cm); gray linen, titled and blocked in gilt and black on spine and front panel; gray topstain; dustjacket; 328pp. Mild sunning to spine, a bit of offset from binders glue to gutters at pastedowns, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is edgeworn and spine-sunned, with small chips to spine ends and...

Ain't I A Woman?: A Midwest Newspaper of Women's Liberation - 15 Issues

Ain't I A Woman?: A Midwest Newspaper of Women's Liberation - 15 Issues

15 tabloid issues (29cm); offset printed in black on newsprint; each issue 12pp; illus. Includes Vol.1, Nos.3-17. Original folds, with light toning to extremities; Near Fine overall.

Bernard Shaw & Karl Marx: A Symposium 1884-1889

Bernard Shaw & Karl Marx: A Symposium 1884-1889

Small octavo; morocco-backed sage green boards in publisher's slipcase; ix, 200pp; folding frontispiece facsimile. Number 78 of 575 hand-numbered copies printed by Richard W. Ellis at the Georgian Press. Hint of rubbing to spine ends; slipcase slightly worn; Very Good to Near Fine.

Bill Porter. A Drama of O. Henry in Prison

Bill Porter. A Drama of O. Henry in Prison

Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 58pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper, lightly soiled and with a small (ca 1/4") loss at upper front panel.

The International Socialist Review - Vol.XIV, No.5 (November, 1913)

The International Socialist Review - Vol.XIV, No.5 (November, 1913)

Small quarto (24cm); illustrated wrappers; pp.257-320; illus. Touch of dustiness to wrappers, with a few tiny stains; Very Good+ to Near Fine.

Journey to the West

Journey to the West

Octavo (20.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titling stamped in yellow; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 593pp. Trivial wear to board edges; brief gift inscription dated 1940; else Near Fine in the scarce and fragile jacket, toned at spine and lightly dusted to panels, still unclipped and better than Very Good.

Janet March

Janet March

First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel and decorations stamped in blind; red topstain; dustjacket; 457pp. Vintage booksellers ticket to rear pastedown, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with toning and spine and panels and contemporary date (in ink) to upper margin...

A Politician in Sight of Haven. Being a Protest Against the Government of Man by Man

A Politician in Sight of Haven. Being a Protest Against the Government of Man by...

Sewn pamphlet. Octavo; printed blue wrappers; 24pp. Just mild external wear to wrappers, else Fine. Reprinted from the "Fortnightly Review."

Beware, Soul Brother and Other Poems

Beware, Soul Brother and Other Poems

Preceding the Heinemann edition by one year. Slim octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 38pp. Some pinpoint rubbing along spine fold, an unobtrusive bump to spine ends; Very Good+ to Near Fine.

Biafra: Selected Speeches and Random Thoughs of C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, General of the People's Army

Biafra: Selected Speeches and Random Thoughs of C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, General of the People's Army

First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); chickpea yellow cloth, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in metallic red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xxi, [7], 226, [8]pp. Text edges lightly foxed, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.00), gently spine-sunned, with minor wear to extremities, a few short edge...

Let Me Breathe Thunder

Let Me Breathe Thunder

Pictorial cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket. Clean, tight copy, VG or better with mild darkening to endpapers, faint "J" (remainder?) stamp to jacket flap and front pastedown, and old inked price to front endpaper. In the scarce jacket, lightly rubbed and with shallow chips to spine ends, single chip to top...

No Enemy (But Himself)

No Enemy (But Himself)

Octavo (20cm). Pictorial cloth in two colors, blocked in black on front cover and gilt on spine; 283pp. Illustrated with photographic plates (halftones) by James B. McReary. Colored-pencil ownership signatures to front endpaper and second blank; slightly pulled at gutters, with rear hinge just starting; slight cover soil. Good to...

Erik Dorn

Erik Dorn

Octavo (19cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 409pp. In Johnson's first binding of plum cloth. A very tight, fresh copy with just a few small spots of discoloration to edges of text block; Near Fine. In an attractive example of the very scarce jacket, lightly dusted overall and with a few brief...

The Liberator - Vol.3, No.7 (July, 1920)

The Liberator - Vol.3, No.7 (July, 1920)

Quarto (28cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 50pp; illus. Light wear and faint spotting to extremities, with a vertical crease running along the center of the issue; just Very Good.

The Scarlet Shadow: A Story of the Great Colorado Conspiracy

The Scarlet Shadow: A Story of the Great Colorado Conspiracy

First Printing. Octavo (20cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; 416, vi, [2]pp. Slight forward lean, scattered foxing to text edges, lower corners bumped, with some rubbing to lettering (though still quite legible); Very Good, sound copy.

Sonnets of Love and Liberty (Inscribed to Bob Travis)

Sonnets of Love and Liberty (Inscribed to Bob Travis)

Octavo. Brown cloth; dustjacket; 63pp. Tiny scuff to base of front board; spine ends lightly rubbed; a tight, Near Fine copy in the original Rockwell Kent dustwrapper, toned on spine and with a few nicks to extremities; Very Good. Prospectus laid in. This copy inscribed and signed on half-title: "For...

Laugh and Lie Down

Laugh and Lie Down

Octavo (19.75cm.); original cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket (first issue), black topstain; lxxv,[1],269pp. Jacket a bit cockled and dampstained somewhat affecting cloth, spine a bit faded with tiny chips at ends, else a Very Good copy, scarce in the first issue dust jacket.

The Long Pursuit

The Long Pursuit

Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 310pp. Warmly and lengthily inscribed to a young Stephen Sondheim in year of publication: "To Stephen Sondheim: novelist and musician - With all good wishes," followed by a lengthy quotation from Proust's The Past Recaptured. Bottom board edges rubbed; abrasions along...

Souvenir Programme. Jack Kirkland and Sam H. Grisman Present Henry Hull in "Tobacco Road" by Jack Kirkland, Based on the Novel by Erskine Caldwell

Souvenir Programme. Jack Kirkland and Sam H. Grisman Present Henry Hull in "Tobacco Road" by...

Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers; (14pp). Trivial external wear; Near Fine. Rather elaborate pictorial program for the 1937 season of Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," for which Henry Hull reprised the role of Lester Jeeter which he had created three years earlier. Copiously illustrated with stills from the production, and reproducing the...

King Cobra

King Cobra

Octavo (21cm); black cloth boards; dustjacket; 275pp. Bit of toning to endpapers, else a Fine copy in the striking pictorial dustjacket, lightly edge-rubbed and with a brief (3/4") triangular chip at base of rear panel near spine.

When God Laughs and Other Stories

When God Laughs and Other Stories

First printing. Title leaf a cancel (as with all copies, per Blanck). Octavo (19cm). Original pictorial cloth boards, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; ix, 319, (4)pp; illus. Previous owner's bookplate pasted inside front board; cloth slightly rubbed at crown and heel; spine design slightly dulled; a tight...

Time, Forward!

Time, Forward!

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+.

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence of Morals and Happiness

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence of Morals and Happiness

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.....

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