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16mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 64pp. A tight, clean, well-preserved copy, Near Fine. A collection of pedagogical fictional vignettes, presenting the virtues of Socialism through the follies of "Pop" Weasel, so-called for his adherence to the Populist Party. Phifer was Associate Editor of Appeal to Reason and the.....
!["Skinny's Turkey Dinner" [in] The International Socialist Review, Vol. X, No. 5 (November, 1909](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/17424.jpg?v=1559773404)
Octavo (23cm). Original pictorial wrappers; pp 385-472. Slight cover wear and soil; light wear to spine; occasional creasing; Very Good.
12mo. Original red cloth boards; gilt titles; 64pp. Slight flaking to cover gilt; contemporary gift inscription; Very Good.
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.....
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.....
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.
Edition and printing not stated. 4-pp leaflet (single folded sheet); text on all four pages. Mild age-toning to paper, still Very Good. Ephemeral recruiting brochure, with invitation and instructions for joining the Socialist Party, likely distributed at Russell's speaking engagements during his U.S. Senate campaign of 1913-14. A popular muckracking.....
Limited to 650 copies of which this is no. 10 of 100 illustrated with original lithographs by George Biddle. Folio (31cm.); original red maroon-backed papier-peint boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; unpaged; mounted frontispiece and four leaves of plates; 5 additional half-page plates mounted to leaves of text.....
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Octavo (21.5cm). Original tan cloth, red topstain, 558pp; dustjacket. Slight lean to spine, trivial spotting to foredge, else binding tight and pages clean. Dustjacket is unclipped but front panel is separated at spine fold, chipped with several closed tears. Good or better.
Original cloth; 188pp. Tasteful custom bookplate of "Thelma and Bob" inside front cover, spine lightly sunned; a tight, clean, solid copy, Very Good or better, lacking the scarce jacket.
Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 124pp. Tight, straight copy, about Fine in the uncommon dustjacket, lightly rubbed and soiled but still attractive and free of losses, VG or better.
First Printing. Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black and white on spine and front cover; [4],316pp. Slight forward lean, wear to cloth at base of spine, some light foxing to text edges and rough erasure to previous owners name at upper front.....
12mo. Printed card wrappers; 147pp. Mild external wear, with some pinpoint rubbing at wrapper edges; Near Fine.
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 30pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, with short tear to lower spine-fold; internally fresh - Very Good+ or better.
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's first issue green cloth in white, green, and brown dust jacket, brown topstain; [4],285pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a few tiny chips, bottom fore-edge corner of rear cover bumped with last few leaves showing subsequent faint creasing, else Very Good in Near Very Good.....
Octavo (21cm). Linen-backed pictorial boards; 104pp; illus. Quite decent copy: board edges a bit rubbed and darkened, but internally sound, clean and unmarked; Very Good. Ownership stamp of attorney Stiles Hopkins, Atlanta (son of Isaac Stiles Hopkins, founder of the Georgia School of Technology, later Georgia Tech).
More info about The Chrysalis. A Book of Poems by Logan P. Martin, Federal Prisoner, Atlanta, Ga
Octavo; cloth boards; 314pp. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid down on front endpaper. Bright, straight copy of the very uncommon first edition. Lacking the jacket; touch of soil to spine ends, spine slightly darkened, else Very Good+.
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.....
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![Original typescript, signed] A Letter To Ché Guevara](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/25930.jpg?v=1554414986)
Hand-typed manuscript on two 11" x 8-1/2" sheets of onionskin typewriter paper. Poem of 88 lines, dated in type "10-11 October 1967," inscribed in black ink in margin: "for Israel Young / from Will Inman," dated 23 November 1967. Old fold lines; marginal stain to first leaf; Very Good.
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Octavo (21.75cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 30,27,[1],[3]-40,31pp. Apparently removed from larger volume (remnants of grey spine paper); wrappers chipped and a bit worn with uniform dusting, else About Very Good. Five lectures, each separatey paginated: "The German Idea: 'Deutschland ueber Alles'"; "The British Idea: 'Britannia Rules the Waves'"; "The American Idea: Phrases.....
Cloth-backed boards; acetate dustjacket. One of 200 Special copies, bound in boards by Earle Gray. Fine copy in original acetate dustjacket.
Small octavo. Rust cloth (hardcover); 63pp. Limited to 1,000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted, spotted dustjacket, about VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Inscribed on front endpaper: "This advance copy for Mike / who knows I have never lost confidence in her and I hope.....
Octavo. Originial red cloth with laid on cover and spine titles; 29pp; inscribed to Richard and Margot Archer on first free endpaper. One of 400 copies. Sunning to cloth of spine, else fine with no markings throughout.
12mo (18.75cm.); publisher's salmon cloth, black paper wrap-around band lettered in silver, black topstain; 211pp. Spine a bit cocked and faded, corners bumped, minor soiling to textblock, else Near Very Good and sound, lacking the acetate jacket. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "To Nina and Hale / with love.....
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.....
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."
Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in white and dark green to spine and front cover; [4], 315, [1]pp. Slight forward lean, rough erasure to previous owners name and price at upper front endpaper, with some mild external wear and pinpoint rubbing to spine.....
Broadsheet (22.75x20.25cm.) intended to be folded into a bifolium; printed on red stock. Fine. Promotional flyer reproducing three labor poems, including Irish Wobbly poet Dublin Dan's "Dan McGann," J.P. Thompson's "Union Poem," and "Labor Speaks," by "Unknown Worker." University of Victoria (British Columbia) only in OCLC as of September, 2015.....
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. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 167pp. Bit of foxing to endpapers, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, foxed on verso and flap-folds but otherwise quite clean and crisp.
Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Mild wear and toning to wrapper extremities, with a few short splits along spine-fold; Very Good+.
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.
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Octavo (19cm.); publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in tan, green, and blue, gilt-lettered spine; [6],ii,[7]-268pp.; frontispiece. Cloth extremities a bit rubbed, some spotting and minor discoloration, spine rather toned, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else contents near fine. About Very Good overall. Sinclair's fifth published novel, forming part.....
More info about A Strange Cruise; or, Clif Faraday's Yacht Chase
First printing. Staple-bound pamphlet, 21cm x 12.5cm. Printed blue paper wrappers; 66pp. Covers and margins foxed, text age-darkened and lightly soiled; wrappers ill-fitting (as usual); a Good, complete copy. Though called the "Revised" edition, this is in fact the first American printing of Eine Reise Nach Freiland, the sequel to.....
Small octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Small adhesive label to front free endpaper; faint scratches to foredge of text block, else a tight, straight copy in the original dustwrapper. Jacket is complete but worn; price-clipped, with closed tears at front flap-fold and shallow losses at head and heel.....
Octavo. Original publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth; 412pp + 6p publisher's catalog. Light wear to board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy with blue-green top-stain just slightly faded.
First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Small, vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown, with some offsetting to same from binders glue, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-sunned and edgeworn, with several small nicks to spine ends and corners.....
Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers, cord-bound with bailing twine; [66pp]. Wrapper edges slightly bumped, else clean and unmarked; contents Fine.
More info about A Women's Poetry Reading. All Women Are Welcome To Read Their Poetry
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in Art Deco dust jacket designed by Calman, printed in yellow, hot pink, and dark blue, black toptain; vii,[8]-330pp. Jacket extremities quite chipped and worn with a number of closed tears and small losses, none approaching text, the whole quite dust-soiled, cloth boards a bit darkened.....
Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, and green; [4],ii,[7]-250,vpp.; frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped, some light soiling, spine cloth a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound. Slightly later (1928) gift inscription to front free endpaper.
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