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First printing. Inscribed and signed by the author "for Renée / a fellow-voyager to far ports," undated but apparently contemporaneous with publication. Clean, tight and unmarked in a mildly edge-rubbed jacket, lightly soiled on white portions; Very Good. Attractive copy of Bourjaily's critically acclaimed first book, a war novel based.....
Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 303pp. Minor wear; text slightly toned; Very Good, retaining the scarce illustrated dustwrapper which is nearly Fine with just trivial dusting and a tiny chip at bottom edge.
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.....
Octavo. Pictorial cloth; 277pp; teg. Ink ownership signature to front endpaper, else a nearly pristine copy, very Near Fine with only trivial evidence of use.
12mo bifolium (19.5cm.); faint uneven toning to upper panel, else Near Fine.
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 Plus.
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. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 80pp; illus. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For an old friend and ever-present inspiration - Happy Birthday!/ "Mike," dated September, 1968 (Ben Shahn's birthday month). Boards gently faded at margins; light wear to jacket; VG to Near Fine.
More info about All Here Are On Vacation. Poems from Martha's Vineyard
Large octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's pictorial wrappers, French flaps; x,857pp. Wrappers rather rubbed and fragile along folds, rear wrapper separated but present, some creasing and toning to extremities, else Good to Very Good, internally sound.
Octavo (19.75cm.); original tan decorative wrappers printed in red and black; 179pp; text printed in blackletter. Upper wrapper separated, shallow chips along wrapper edges not affecting text; interior fine. Good and sound.
octavo (20.5cm). Gray cloth boards, spine stamped in blue; dustjacket; 350pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped, Very Good to Near Fine.
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.
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); variant orange cloth, with titling and rule stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 242pp. Top edge slightly dusty, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn and spine-sunned, with several nicks, tears, and attendant creases to extremities; Very Good only.
Octavo (18.75cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [ii],99,[11]pp. With a full-page contemporary inscription from Le Prade to U.S. Attorney General A. Michell Palmer on the front endpaper: "To A. Mitchell Palmer - The poets of the world appeal to you for the liberation.....
More info about Debs and the Poets [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to A. Mitchell Palmer
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; gilt-pictorial cloth; 465pp. Text block edges mildly dusted; top-stain faded, else Fine in the scarce and fragile pictorial dustwrapper, lightly edge-worn, mildly eroded at spine-ends, but unclipped and quite handsome.
Octavo (22cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in black on spine; dustjacket; xiii, 302pp + [2]pp ads. Light foxing to endpapers, else Fine in the original printed dustwrapper, lightly toned, darkened on spine, VG.
12mo. (13.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Fine copy.
Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],303pp. Small, faint damp mark to lower left corner of front cover, else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket designed by Ernst Reichl is unclipped (priced $2.50), with a hint of sunning to spine and.....
Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; 80pp. Discoloration to board edges; ownership signature to front endpaper (Mary Elizabeth Raub); a Very Good copy. The prolific radical poet's rather uncommon first book, a collection of aesthetic verse displaying only glimpses of the vigorous, polemical tone of Lowenfels's later work.
39 tabloid issues (43.5cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers. A near-complete run (lacking Vol.1, No.15 only), dated from April, 1970 - February, 1973, with the sequence running as follows: Vol.1, Nos.1-14, 16-21; Vol.2, Nos.1-11; Vol.3, Nos.1-8. Occasional toning and light wear to extremities, some trivial spine wear to a handful of issues.....
More info about Liberated Guardian [run of 39 issues, 1970-73
First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); grayish-green cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; [xiv],512,[8]pp ads; photographic frontispiece portrait of the author and one photographic plate. Previous owners penciled initials to upper front pastedown, some trivial wear to spine ends, with just a hint of sunning to spine; very Near Fine.....
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.
First printing. 12mo; pictorial paper wrappers; 84pp. A tight, clean copy with a bit of foxing to wrapper edges and final text leaf; Very Good or better.
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.....
Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's unbound signatures, all edges untrimmed, laid into the casing for the trade binding [casing is only black cloth over boards, without pastedowns]; [iv],303,[5]pp. Scattered foxing to text edges, preliminary and terminal leaves; casing with splits along joints and light external wear; Very Good+.
Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 384pp. Inscribed to Ben Shahn and family on front endpaper: "On the edge of the Assinpunk [sic] 1958 - to a fellow author; Bernarda; and kids / Ben Appel." Endpapers slightly browned, light wear to board edges; Very Good or better in the original pictorial dustwrapper.....
Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 339pp. Fine, bright copy in the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, slightly faded on spine (still perfectly legible) else Near Fine. Rollins's extremely uncommon first book, a mystery story told from the point of view of a 10-year-old boy.....
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.....
More info about Sonnets of Love and Liberty (Inscribed to Bob Travis
Quarto (30.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, with diagonal crease and short tears to upper right corner; Very Good+ or better.
More info about New Masses - Vol.XXI, No.6 (November 3, 1936
Octavo (20.5cm); brown paper and black cloth-covered boards, 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. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.00), gently spine-sunned, with some light dustiness to front panel and.....
More info about May Days: An Anthology of Masses - Liberator Verse, 1912-1924
12mo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246p. Clean, tight copy in lightly dusted jacket; Very Good or better.
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.
More info about Ain't I A Woman?: A Midwest Newspaper of Women's Liberation - 15 Issues
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
First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); pale green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black and yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [ii],290,[4]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of sunning to spine, with two small labels to front pastedown and rear endpaper; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced.....
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Some toning and light wear to extremities, with a 1" tear at lower spine-fold; Very Good+ or better.
Quarto (30.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Mild wear, toning, and dustiness to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and short tears to same; Very Good+.
More info about New Masses - Vol.XXIII, No.12 (June 15, 1937
First Printing. Octavo (20cm); orange cloth, with with titles and design stamped in red and black on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 267pp. Some offsett from binders glue to pastedowns, with a barely perceptible degree of sunning to spine, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with a......
First Printing, preceded by the British edition the previous year. Octavo (21cm); gray marbled paper over quarter orange cloth, with titles stamped in black and gilt on spine; charcoal topstain; dustjacket; 271pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. A novel about a charismatic British bank clerk, who attempts "to resurrect.....
Octavo (21cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 82pp. Trivial external dusting, else a fine, unread copy.
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