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Broadside, 44cm x 57cm. Printed offset in black on white uncoated lithograhic paper; text in two columns beneath headline in Gothic type. Minor wrinkling at margins, else Fine.
Small octavo (19cm.); original cloth in red decorative dust jacket; 304pp. Some short clean splitting at jacket folds, minor wear to spine crown, rear panel a bit dust-soiled. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Historical novel set in the slave-labor mahogany camps of tropical Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Four 12mo volumes (18cm), in uniform pictorial buff wrappers printed in black ink. Wrappers toned, lightly soiled; one with a small (1/4") closed chip near upper spine; Very Good. Lacking wrap-around outer jacket as described in Ahouse (never seen by us).
More info about The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education
Large quarto (35cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 34pp; illus. Light toning and handling to wrappers, oxidation to lower staple, with upper staple lacking; Very Good+.
![Original Dustjacket Artwork for The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg [Together with] The. artwork, design, GRAPHICS, ILLUSTRATION - ORIGINAL ARTWORK, Rockwell KENT, WEXLEY.](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/52336.jpg?v=1668645094)
Original illustration, composed in ink, gouache, and drybrush on art paper, measuring 30.5cm x 31.5cm (12" x 12.5"); titled by Kent in pencil along the lower margin ("Jacket design for The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, by James Wexley"), and signed by him (in pencil) at lower right corner.....
First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in orange and black on spine and front cover; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],292,[2]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, rough erasure to upper front endpaper, with a few faint scuffs to cloth; contents clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced.....
Octavo (19.5cm); purple cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamed in pale metallic green on spine and front cover; 248pp. Forward lean, small stain to lower left corner of front board, with a hint of sunning to spine; clean throughout; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn and.....
Octavo. Printed wrappers; 32p. Covers slightly worn and soiled; text tanned at margins; Very Good. Boschi (1871-1956) was a militant anarchist and close associate of Malatesta. We find only three institutional holdings for this uncommon Anarchist fable; the first edition was published in 1933 and is held only by the.....
Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 250pp. Warmly inscribed by editor Rigney to David Meltzer (contributor to the work) and his wife: "To David & Tina Meltzer with my deep appreciation for their very real help in producing this book - Francis Rigney." Undated, but clearly.....
Green cloth boards; dustjacket. One of an unspecified number of publisher's presentation copies, with tipped-on label bearing author's signature to front pastedown. Remainder issue, in Grosset & Dunlap dustjacket but with correct publisher's slug to spine, title page, and copyright page (jacket not supplied; as issued). Endpapers a little grubby.....
Octavo (24cm.); cloth boards; dustjacket; 603pp; illus. Clean, Very Good copy of the first edition, in lightly worn, unclipped dustjacket, Very Good or better.
Cloth boards; dusjtacket; 318pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in unclipped dustjacket, slightly soiled and edgeworn, Very Good or better.
First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); orange cloth, with title label mounted at upper spine, and publisher's logo embossed on front cover; orange topstain (first issue, per Ahearn); dustjacket; xiv,347,[5]pp. A few small patches of paper adhesed to crown and base of spine, hint of offsetting to pastedowns, else cloth and contents.....
More info about Horses and Men: Tales, long and short, from our American life
12mo (15cm.); publisher's blue printed staplebound card wrappers; 84pp. Wrappers a bit toned, else Very Good or better.
Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth limb cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt; viii,200pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed with brief cloth peeling, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally sound. Printer's slug at bottom of title page: Elmira, NY: Gazette Company.
More info about Reminiscences of an Octogenarian in the Fields of Industrial and Social Reform
Reissue; first edition under this title. Octavo (21.5cm). Cloth-backed, cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 381pp. Tight, fine copy in original dustwrapper, corner-clipped on front flap but with $6.95 price still present; spine sunned but legible, and a few brief nicks and marginal tears, Very.....
More info about Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel. First Published as The Preacher and the Slave
Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue printed price-clipped dust jacket; xvii,[1],554pp. Jacket extremities rather toned, tiny chips including loss at spine crown affecting a couple of letters without loss of meaning; overall Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Text divided into three sections: "The Youth of Bentham (1776-1789)"; "The Evolution.....
More info about The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism [Ben Shahn's Copy
Octavo (19.5cm). Red cloth boards, gilt-lettered on spine, blocked in black ink on front cover; dustjacket; xi + 209,(3)pp. Hint of darkening to endpaper gutters, else a fine, fresh copy in the the scarce and fragile printed dustwrapper, lightly dusted but still crisp and Near Fine.
More info about The Journal of Arthur Stirling - "The Valley of the Shadow"
First printing. Small, slim octavo (20cm). Publisher's green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 88pp. Cloth mildly sunned at upper board edges; jacket price-clipped; ownership signature to front endpaper (Latin American translator and editor Roberto Márquez); Very Good or better in a Very Good dustwrapper. Bilingual.....
Original red cloth boards, lettered in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 329pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in slightly soiled dustwrapper stating "Third Edition" at base of front panel. Dates on title page and copyright match (1909), however, jacket states "Third Edition."
Octavo (21cm.); cloth-backed printed boards; iv,5-80pp. Discoloration to board edges, these rather rubbed with some exposure, spine ends a bit fraye;, Good or better, internally sound. The prolific radical poet's first book, a collection of aesthetic verse displaying only glimpses of the vigorous, polemical tone of Lowenfels's later work.
Octavo; pp. [6],264pp.; [*]4 A-Q8 R4; woodcut title page vignette, head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary red imitation morocco, double ruled in gilt, flat spine decorated in gilt. Extremities rubbed with boards occasionally exposed, contemporary blue ribbon marker detached but present. A Very Good, attractive copy.
One of 275 signed copies, signed by Benet on limitation page. Octavo (22cm.); full burgundy morocco; later custom cloth chemise and slipcase; 80pp; illus. Fine in original glassine; slipcase lightly sunned on spine, VG or better.
Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's red cloth, decorative spine stamped in black and gilt, red topstain; [6],365pp. Cloth rather discolored from damp and soil, most heavily so to rear cover, spine cocked, brief and shallow loss of cloth and board at top edge of rear cover. Good to Very Good only. Inscribed.....
Octavo (22cm). Publisher's gray cloth boards, decorated and lettered in black on front cover with pictorial paste-on; 57pp; frontispiece and two inserted leaves of plates with tissue guards. Light bumps to corners, light wear; Near Fine, with stamped ownership signature of John G. Hughes to front endpaper.
Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine; dustjacket; 383pp. Paper-clip indent to first few leaves of text, else a tight, straight and unmarked copy, VG or better, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and soiled with a few small nicks at extremities. A Very Good, quite handsome.....
Second Impression of Vol.1, No.1, with all others being the First Impression. Seven quarto issues (28cm); original wrappers, stapled; ii,74; 82; 88; 82; 82; 72; 76pp; illus. Modest wear and toning to extremities, some oxidation to staples, with postal label to rear wrapper on Vol.1, No.2, and a few scattered.....
More info about Universities & Left Review – Vol.1, Nos.1-7 [Complete Run
First Printing. Octavo. Quarter maroon cloth over yellow textured boards; dustjacket; maroon top-stain, 215pp. Fine condition. African-American author's third book, covering "poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots..." (upper jacket flap).
Cloth boards; paper spine label; dustjacket; 141pp. Fine, tight copy in bright, Near Fine dustwrapper. Uncommon thus.
Single quarto issue in original woodcut wrappers; 20pp. Overall light soil and wear; internally complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good.
First printing. Octavo. Publisher's deep red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; xvii+278pp; 3pp ads. Bit of sunning and wear to cloth backstrip, slight soil to upper edge of text block, else a tight, VG or better copy. Small bookseller label (W.B. Clarke, Boston) at base of front pastedown.....
First printing. Edition of 6000 copies. Octavo; printed card wrappers; 110pp. Slight external rubbing and wear; ownership signature to front endpaper of Roberto Márquez, noted American scholar, editor, and author. Very Good or better in the original wrappers. Text entirely in Spanish. The fourth of eight posthumous collections to appear.....
First Printing. Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],614pp. Fine in a crisp, attractive dustjacket, unclipped (priced $20.00), with a few spots of rubbing, slight sunning to spine and extremities, and a few tiny nicks and tears - VG+.
Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial silver foil dust jacket printed in black; [6],285pp. Some general shelf wear to jacket extremities, a few tiny chips and closed tears, some minor scratching to rear panel, else Near Fine in a Very Good example of the uncommon dust jacket. Publication date on.....
4-pp leaflet, 14cm x 9cm. Printed in black on cream wove stock. Fragile wrappers well-preserved, with just mild toning at margins; Very Good. Prints the text of Labadie's poem "What Shall We Do?," which originally appeared in the Detroit News for Oct 22, 1902. Concludes with a brief agitational paragraph.....
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 (21.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [10],309pp. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, cloth foxed, else Very Good or better.
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. Publisher's orange pictorial cloth; floral endpapers; [4],[i]-v,[5]-317pp; inserted portrait frontispiece. Mild rubbing to cloth at spine ends; few small spots where cloth is lifting on front and rear boards, still a nice, bright copy with firm joints and hinges, quite fresh internally.
More info about The Rag-Picker of Paris. Translated from the French by Benj. R. Tucker
Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket lettered in reddish-brown; [8],293pp. Minor bumping to spine ends; very occasional and mild foxing to preliminaries, contemporary bookseller rubberstamp to rear free endpaper; else about fine, with gilt bright on spine and no internal soiling or wear, in solid dustjacket with mild.....
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