Unrepentant Leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 346pp; illus. Clean, unmarked copy bright dustwrapper; Near Fine. More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 346pp; illus. Clean, unmarked copy bright dustwrapper; Near Fine. More
Salt Lake City, UT: 1896. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original white printed wrappers; 139pp. Binding staples heavily oxidized, short closed tear to bottom edge of upper wrapper not affecting text, title page a bit dampstained. Still, a Very Good, still bright copy. Upper cover dated Dec. 22nd, 1896; title page..... More
London: Africa Bureau, 1955. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in black and magenta; 12pp. Near Fine. Anti-apartheid address delivered by the Bishop of Johannesburg at a meeting of Church Action and the Africa Bureau in Westminster. More
San Francisco: 1937. Two-paged typed letter on San Francisco Bay Area A.F. of L. Committee for the Freedom of Mooney and Billings letterhead, signed in facsimile by Resner, Committee Secretary. Fine condition. Presumably issued to members of the Committee as no individual recipient is addressed. Refers to an accompanying copy..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in cream decorative dust jacket printed in dark orange, black topstain; xii,[1],201pp.; photographic frontispiece. Tiny soil spot to upper jacket panel, printed portion of spine a hint faded, else Just About Fine. An examination of justice in a...... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940. First Edition. Octavo. Staple bound pamphlet; 48pp; includes black and white plate of the French communist deputies before the Third Military Tribunal in Paris. Clean, crisp copy in about fine or better condition. More
East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1906. Square octavo (21cm). Suede-backed, printed paper-covered boards; 59,[1][1]pp. Hand-colored decorated title leaf, tail piece, and chapter headings. Suede has begun to fade, frayed at head of spine; mild wear and soil to boards. Internally fresh, with the hand-coloring still clean and vivid, with a few..... More
Washington DC: Resource Center on Sex Roles in Education, National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, [1977]. First Edition. Quarto (26.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers; vi,45pp.; illus. throughout. Fine condition. Published for the Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1940. First Edition. Octavo. Printed paper wrappers; 22pp. Slight external handling and wear, still Very Good or better in the original wrappers. In the publisher's booklet series "British Life and Thought." Samuel (1870-1963) the first practicing Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister (Home Secretary..... More
Manchester, VT: Journal Book and Job Office, 1873. First Edition. First full account of the first American example of wrongful conviction, authored nearly fifty years after the fact by the defendants' junior trial counsel Leonard Sargeant (1793-1880). Russell Colvin, brother-in-law of the Boorn brothers, disappeared from Manchester in 1812 and..... More
Ithaca: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1964. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial glossy card wrappers; 37pp. Near Fine. Issued as Bulletin no. 36 of the series; this edition with content revised for 1964. More
Philadelphia: Vallee and Lampas, 1852. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); removed; 147pp. Light soil, faint verticle folds, else Very Good and sound. Extensive and vitriolic statement by one of the longest serving dragoon officers, many times court martialed, who, a year following the publication of this tract, shot and seriously wounded..... More
Seattle: Seattle Radical Women, [1969]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); 10 leaves printed from typescript; upper left-hand corner stapled. Original ink manuscript price to upper wrapper, light toning, else About Fine. An early publication of the still extant Seattle Radical Women group, whose Preamble reads: "WE BELIEVE THAT THE OPPRESSION OF..... More
New York: Pioneer Publishers, [1936]. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Slim octavo (20.25cm.); original tan pictorial wrappers printed in maroon; [2],142pp. Long shallow loss at top of upper cover only just affecting image, tiny chip to spine crown, rear cover a bit soiled, else Near Very Good. Exposé of the first..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Tom Mooney Reception Committee, 1939. Broadside (28.5x22cm.); printed on Committee letterhead and signed in facsimile by Shanks, Committee Executive Secretary. Previous mail fold, else Near Fine. Letter announcing the Tom Mooney rally to be held in Philadelphia, June 9, 1939. More
New York: Civil Rights Congress, [1946]. First printing. Octavo; original tape-backed printed paper wrappers; 56pp. Mild soil and toning to wrappers, else a Near Fine copy. The defendants had been indicted for violation of the Smith Act, accused, by dint of their association with the Communist Party, of advocating the..... More
N.p., n.d. (1949). Anonymously authored, untitled report. Folio; 60pp, mimeographed from typescript on legal-size sheeets (14" x 8-1/2"); ca. 15,000 words; stab-bound into plain card wrappers. Issued without imprint or attribution. Final ca. 30pp extensively highlighted in blue and red pencil; pencil annotation at bottom margin of p.30 suggests that..... More
Washington DC: Office of the Printer to the Senate, 1849. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); disbound; 181pp. Title page (also serving as upper self-wrapper) a bit browned and lightly foxed, else Very Good and sound. Two Supreme Court cases, also known as the Passenger Cases, in which it was adjudged that..... More
New-York: John A. Gray, 1855. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 23cm.); publisher's green wrappers printed within double rule; 32pp. Light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, small dampspot at top edge of upper cover, some foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound. Collected correspondence between abolitionist Gerrit Smith and the New..... More
Exeter: Samuel T. Moses, 1823. First Edition. The author William Smith (1799-1830) would have been only twenty-three or -four years old when this pamphlet was published, critizing "some of the provisions of the act on the ground that every person should be forced to contribute to the support of some..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Fourth Edition. Attractive copy of Darrow's fictionalized memoir of his Ohio boyhood, first published by McClurg in 1904. Though it went throught seven editions, the book was never a commercial success, which pained Darrow, who felt it was his finest book. The present copy..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1904. First Edition. Darrow's fictionalized memoir of his Ohio boyhood, considered by him to be his finest work. An unusually fresh copy. 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..... More
Amsterdam: ca. 1980. Original pictorial poster (42.75x61cm.) printed offset in black on white stock. Wrinkling from handling, as well as some old tape repairs to verso not showing through to image, else About Very Good. Squatters movement protest poster issued in response to the newly passed vacancy law ("leegstandswet"), which..... More
Amsterdam? ca. 1980s. Original pictorial poster (61x43cm.) printed offset in black and pink on white stock. Extremities quite wrinkled with a number of small closed tears along edges, none approaching text, else About Very Good. Protest poster issued in response to the newly passed "vacancy laws" (leegstandwet), allowing home owners..... More
Amsterdam: Amsterdamse Kraakgroepen, ca. 1980. Original pictorial poster (42x59.5cm.) printed silkscreen in green and orange on pale green stock. Light wrinkling from handling, else Near Fine. Squatters movement protest poster issued in response to the newly passed vacancy law ("leegstandswet"), which allowed home owners to rent their homes while simultaneously..... More