Paris: Librairie Socialiste Internationale, n.d., ca. 1890. First Edition. Call for a new Commune, opening with the statement "La Republique bourgeoise? Qu'on la vomisse!" Authored by the Communard proletarian typographer, poet, bookseller, and publisher Achille Le Roy, perhaps most significant for writing the song "Le Chant des Prolétaires" (1879) and..... More

Sykesville, MD: Francis B. Livesey, [ca 1905]. Eccentric broadside from the apparently indefatigable pamphleteer and libertarian rabble-rouser of Sykesville, Maryland, who reputedly authored, over the course of his long career, more than 20,000 letters to the editor on subjects as diverse as Women's Clubs, the Negro problem, Socialism, unemployment, political..... More

Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion Éditeurs, 1883. First Edition. Posthumously published work compiled of notes taken in the 1850s during Napoleon's reign as Monarch of France. Proudhon, known as the father of anarchism, had already spent three years in prison, from 1849 to 1852, for insulting Napoleon (at the..... More

London: Freedom Press Defence Committee, [1945]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound printed paper wrappers; 14pp. Near Fine. Two lectures in defense of Vernon Richards, John Hewetson and Philip Sansom, three anarchists imprisoned in 1945 for publishing anti-war articles in War Commentary. More

Berlin [but London?]: Patriotische Verlagsanstalt, 1907. First Edition. Anti-militarist Tarnschrift attributed to the German anarchist Arnold Roller, brother of Max Nomad, with whom Roller edited the militant periodical "Der Weckruf" from 1903 to 1907. Decoy wrappers give the pamphlet the appearance of being a soldier's handbook ("Fünfte Auflage) adorned with..... More

[Alpine, MI: Chas. W. Bergman, 1910]. Octavo (19.5cm); staplebound self-wrappers; [16]pp. A hint of wear and toning to wrapper extremities, else Near Fine. Tucker's oft-reprinted essay, first published in the anarchist journal Liberty in 1888. Of this odd little reprint, we can say little other than that it is scarce..... More

Detroit: Laurance Labadie, 1933. Reprint. 16mo (13.5cm). Printed card wrappers; 14pp. Fine, unread copy. Reprints an article originally published by Tucker in 1903; adds a 1-pp introduction by Labadie, concluding: "...it is with the expectation of stimulating interest in this remarkable libertarian's principle work [sic], Instead of a Book...that this..... More

New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1897. Second Edition. Perhaps the clearest exposition ever published of individualist anarchism, written by the movement's foremost exponent in America. The work is comprised of selections from Tucker's voluminous, incisive, often acidic articles in his long-running journal Liberty. These are arranged thematically, in chapters such..... More

Boston: Bela Marsh, 1849. First Edition. Part autobiography, part personal philosophy by the important American proto-anarchist, feminist and abolitionist Herny Clarke Wright, published by the Boston radical publisher Bela Marsh, known for disseminating works by fellow abolitionists and freethinkers throughout the mid-19th century. Octavo (18.5cm); original green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered..... More

[Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1906]. Small octavo bifolium (19.25cm.); just a hint of toning to extremities, else Fine. Prospectus provides a brief description of Josiah Warren, founder of Philosophical Anarchism in America. "It will be brought out as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers have sent in their..... More

Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1890. First Separate Edition. A statement of Herbert's libertarian philosophy. A somewhat uncommon Tucker imprint in quite nice condition. Octavo (20cm.); printed blue stitched wrappers; 24pp. Just mild external wear to wrappers, else Fine. Reprinted from the "Fortnightly Review." More

N.p. [Washington DC]: Metropolitan Police Dept, 1905. Relic of the briefly celebrated case of Gessler Rosseau, an ultra-patriotic domestic terrorist who, for a period of a few years around the turn of the century, made it his mission to "rid the country...of foreign things." At the time of release of..... More

Paris: Noir et Rouge, 1963. Text entirely in French. Presents, without commentary, a French translation of the article on "Anarchism" in the 1958 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Noir & Rouge Brochure was the periodical organ of Noir & Rouge, the platformist anarchist group founded in 1955 after a split..... More