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Quarto (28cm.); publisher's red photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; [6],145pp.; photographic illus. Wrappers and textblock a bit cockled from exposure to damp, else Very Good and sound. History of El Teatro Campesino, theater troupe founded in the 1960s by members of the United Farm Workers.
Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 86, [4]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.95), with light, scattered foxing to flap folds and edges.
First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); slate gray cloth, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; [16], 367pp. Some light wear to spine ends and upper board edges, with the word "docks" neatly rubber-stamped to second blank page; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.75), with mild wear, a few shallow...
![Svobodnaia Piesn': Sbornik Revoliutsionnykh Piesn; i Stikhotvorenii [=] Russian Songs of Freedom](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/21365.jpg?v=1554245956)
First edition, 12mo (18.25cm.); contemporary black cloth, private paper spine label printed in manuscript; 159pp.; hinges weak, textblock shaken, page edges soiled, old crude tape repair to index page; Good.
Nineteen consecutive quarto issues in original wrappers. Staple-bound self-wraps; 24pp per issue. Mild toning and soil to outer pages on some issues; occasional mild creasing, but no serious wear – generally Very Good or better overall.
Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 112pp. Light external wear, still Near Fine in a lightly worn jacket. The prolific author/filmmaker's fictional documentation of the Indian communist youth movement of the Seventies and Eighties; the basis for Abbas's 1980 award-winning Bollywood film of the same name. Uncommon in the trade.
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 (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 82pp. Light shelf wear to boards and jacket extremities, shallow crease to rear flap, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title: "For Cristoph / 'Open my face' / Ishmael Reed."
First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 336pp. Forward lean, gentle sunning to spine, with light wear to extremities, a bump to upper right board corners, and faint foxing to text edges, preliminary and terminal leaves; Very Good.
Demi octavo (18cm). Original olive-green cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 231pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates by Arthur William Brown. Bit of dusting to upper edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, lightly nicked at spine...
Quarto (30cm). Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 ; slightly worn, with wrappers darkened and stained, contents slightly age-toned, with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; Just Good. Hand-stamp of the SLP / Detroit to front cover. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union.
More info about First of May Magazine. A Journal of Constructive Revolution [1919
12mo (18cm). Original decorated wrappers; 289,(9),23pp. Covers rubbed and acidic text paper tanned, as usual; still a complete, tightly-bound copy, Good.
More info about President John Smith: The Story of A Peaceful Revolution (Written in 1920
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.
Staple-bound wrappers; 50pp. Staples rusted, with wrappers detached but intact and present. Contents clean and sound. A continuation of Smith's North Georgia Review, begun in 1936. A tiny but influential southern literary magazine, founded and edited by Smith. Noteworthy for publishing early work by southern Black writers. The current issue...
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.
Bifoilum (21.5cm); single sheet of 8.5" x 11" white stock, offset printed in black and folded vertically to create a 4pp pamphlet; BPP logo with Emery Branch P.O. Box printed at lower margin of p.4. Fine.
Octavo (20cm). Printed wrappers; 447pp; illus; one folding plate. Text tanned and slightly brittle; wrappers complete, slightly faded at margins; Very Good. We have never previously encountered this fragile issue in wraps, presumably issued simultaneously with the cloth-bound issue, probably as a "budget" edition as the text is printed on...
More info about A Cityless and Countryless World: An Outline of Practical Co-Operative Individualism
Octavo (19cm). Green textured cloth boards; 255pp. An especially clean, tight copy, Near Fine but for some pinpoint rubbing to spine ends and board corners.
More info about The Six. Translated from the German by Ray E. Chase. Drawings by Doris Whitman Chase
Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; illustrated card wrappers; 23pp. Presentation copy, inscribed by Edith Segal in October, 1953: "To Lil, Moishe, & Paul, warmest regards and heads up - Edith." Moderate cover wear; mild soiling within; 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. Pictorial cloth; 277pp; teg. Ink ownership signature to front endpaper, else a nearly pristine copy, very Near Fine with only trivial evidence of use.
Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's grey cloth; viii,206pp. Boards rather rubbed and worn at extremities, corners bumped, spine darkened, three-inch crack at top of rear hinge, else About Very Good. Prospectus flyer tipped to front pastedown. MILES 197: "Probes the problem of how far a radical may go."
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...
Green cloth boards stamped in white; 363pp; frontis. Light wear to tips of corners and spine ends; brief splits to front hinge (internal); bit of offsetting to title page from color frontispiece. A solidly Very Good copy. HANNA 1096: "...young bank employee, falsely convicted of embezzlement, spends two years in...
Quarto (30.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Mild wear and toning to extremities, a few tiny nicks to front wrapper, with a small stain to upper rear wrapper; Very Good+.
More info about New Masses - Vol.XXII, No.13 (March 23, 1937
Octavo (22.5cm). Red cloth boards, stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 177pp. Warmly inscribed by Patchen on front free endpaper: "for Charles M. McKenna / with every good wish," signed and dated 1950. Also laid in is an autograph note to McKenna from Miriam Patchen...
More info about Patchen's First Will & Testament [Inscribed Copy
Octavo (20.25cm); light greenish-tan cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine; dustjacket; 257pp. Small, stray ink mark to lower edge of textblock, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn, with several tears and attendant creases, a few shallow nicks, and a small stain to rear panel; Very Good.
Cloth boards; paper spine label; dustjacket; 73pp; illus. INSCRIBED by the author on front endpaper: "For Bobby & Alex / from a Kimmel who never will be an Admiral, for he cannot live on water / Stanley." Slight offsetting to endpapers, two pages near rear roughly opened, with loss to...
Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 454pp. Attractive, bright copy in unclipped and but lightly worn jacket; Near Fine. A particularly nice copy of Warner's first novel, a radical dystopian fantasy in which a tyrannical government is overthrown in a heroic revolution.
Quarto (31cm); turquoise cloth, with black and yellow printed title labels applied to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 82,[2]pp; illus. Moderate offsetting to front pastedown from binders glue, faint discoloration to cloth along upper and lower edges, with a gentle bump to upper front board corner and a paper-clip impression...
Second issue jacket. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 74p. Remarkable copy, fully Fine in brilliant jacket with minimal evidence of use; just a small closed nick at upper corner of rear panel, couple of small dust-smudges, else Fine. The jacket spine, which is very prone to darkening on this title, is...
More info about Three Plays: Awake and Sing! Waiting for Lefty. Till the Day I Die
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...
12mo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246p. Clean, tight copy in lightly dusted jacket; Very Good or better.
Quarto (30.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Some wear and toning to wrappers and text edges, with several tiny nicks and short tears to same; Very Good.
![Typed Note, signed, to "Joesphine" [Herbst?], dated November 25, 1945](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28254.jpg?v=1529353576)
Brief TNS on Eastman's personal W. 13th St. letterhead, addressed to "Josephine", dated November 25, 1945. Old folds, else Fine, with bright, clear autograph: "Dear Josephine: Thanks so much for the news -- sad as it all was -- in your letter. It was nice to hear from you. I....
More info about Typed Note, signed, to "Joesphine" [Herbst?], dated November 25, 1945
Second state with broken "1" on copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in black and white; [8],413pp. Corners rather badly bumped, white spine lettering nearly effaced, tiny worm-hole slightly affecting fore-edge of first few leaves without approaching text, else an About Very Good but still quite sturdy copy.
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.
Small octavo (19cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 94pp. Covers somewhat worn, with a few spots of discoloration; gift label inside front cover; text complete, clean and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy, about Very Good.
First printing. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 76pp. Inscribed by Algarín on half-title, to Mark: "To listen is to reveal what words intend, to read is to lift off the page what words sound and how they hit emotions," signed, undated. Covers slightly rubbed, with corners of wrappers rounded and.......
Small folio (35cm); full maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's plain card slipcase; xx,381,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine (unclipped) dustjacket and slipcase.
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