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Octavo (19cm); light brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece; 315,[1],[4]pp ads. This copy originally owned by American radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist George Ephraim Sokolsky (1893-1962), with his pictorial bookplate mounted to front pastedown, and his holograph signature ("George E. Sokolsky /.....
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, 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.....
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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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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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.....
One of only 25 hand-bound hardcover copies signed by Henderson, from a total edition of 2000. Square octavo (21cm x 17cm); brown bookcloth, titled in gilt on front cover; [48]pp. Fine – an as-new copy. Henderson's first commercially-published collection, and a landmark work of the Black Arts Movement, for which.....
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First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); burgundy cloth boards, with titling and decorations stamped in white and black on spine and front cover; black topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-389,[3]pp. Some offsetting to endpapers, else internally fresh, and very Near Fine. Dustjacket is evenly machine-clipped, with $2.50 price at lower rear flap, and.....
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First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); beige buckram, with printed title label applied to spine; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; [10],210pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with light wear to extremities, some faint creasing along front panel edges, and a sharp vertical fold slightly.....
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.....
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......
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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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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;.....
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 impression. Small, slim octavo (19cm); printed card wrappers, 59.[5]pp. Slight external wear; ink ownership signature to front endpaper, Very Good. From the collection of Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor Roberto Marquez. Text entirely in Spanish. Issued as no.67 in the publisher's series "El Bardo," edited by José Battló.....
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 impression. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 56pp. Touch of toning to text margins, else Fine. Glynn, born in Jamaica in 1957, was an active participant in London's dub poetry scene of the Eighties, performing as "Dr. G" alongside such dub luminaries as Abdul Malik de Coteau and Benjamin Zephaniah. In.....
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.....
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 (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.....
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. 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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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.....
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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; 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 (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.....
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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black and yellow on spine and front cover; green topstain; [xii],[3],4-270,[6]pp. Minimal sunning to spine; touch of softening to spine ends, topstain dulled, with some offsetting from an old cellophane cover onto endpapers, two tiny ink marks.....
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. Octavo (21cm). Green cloth hardcover, spine titles stamped in gilt and black; dustjacket; 114pp. Tight, straight copy, very slightly rubbed at bottom board edges, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (with correct price of $3.50 on front flap), slightly rubbed and worn, chip at upper front.....
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. 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 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 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;.....
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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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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.....
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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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.....
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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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.....
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......
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