[Alpine, MI: Chas. W. Bergman, 1910]. 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 (OCLC gives 4 locations) and that this appears to be the only publication ever to have appeared..... 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
New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1898. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed orange paper wrappers; 46pp. Wrappers lightly chipped at extremities, with old clear tape reinforcement at bound edge; text firm, not fragile, with scattered ink and pencil marginalia; Good or better. Transcript of Tucker's speech at the Cooper..... More
New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1893. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; blind-stamped decorative borders to front board; red edge-stain; frontispiece portrait; x,[1]-512,[1]pp. A tight, fresh copy, lightly rubbed at joints and extremities and with a brief marginal tissue repair to pp.249/250 (not approaching..... 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: Richard G. Badger, 1913. First Edition. Collection of five scholarly lectures by the Scots-American classicist and historian of ideas, long-time head of the Department of Philosophy at The University of Michigan. Of the five works included, only the title essay – on the classical origins of modern Anarchist thought..... 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
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New York: V.L. Richman, 1963. Six representative issues, including the scarce inaugural number, of this individualist anarchist semi-monthly, which ran to a total of 23 issues, ceasing publication in 1965. An eccentric and ephemeral publication, described on the mast-head thus: "An independent and assertedly individual journal of commentary news and..... More
![Prospectus for] Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist. A Sociological Study. ANARCHISM,...](/pictures/medium/33268.jpg?v=1554414995)
[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
[See Sharp Press], [1993?]. First Edition. Technical and logistical guide to underground broadcasting, with quotes from Bakunin. Bufe is the founder of the anarchist See Sharp Press. Revised and reissued in 1998 with the See Sharp imprint; this first printing appears relatively uncommon. [Published without imprint]. Staple-bound pamphlet; illustrated covers..... 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: Soulié, n.d., ca. 1925. 1. Grandada [pseud.] "Sacco et Vanzetti" [Drop title: "Le Martyr de Sacco [et] Vanzetti"]. Bifolium (26.5cm.); outer panels printed in red, interior printed in black. Near Fine. Internal panels provide the lyrics only to the song "Le Martyr de Sacco Vanzetti," to be sung to..... 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
Tuscon, AZ: The Match! n.d. but ca.1970's. Vietnam-era poetry broadside, printing the second and third stanza's of Charles W. Wood's much-anthologized anti-war poem "I Guess I Won't Enlist," which first appeared in the June, 1916 issue of The Masses. Printed by Fred Woodworth, long-time editor of the Anarchist journal The..... More
New York: Why? 1946. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers; 16pp; illus. Minimal wear; Very Good or better. Single issue in original wrappers; includes a substantial extract from B. Traven's The Death Ship, "Kurt from Memmel." Uncommon anarchist periodical. More
New York: Why? 1947. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers; 16pp; illus. Minimal wear; Very Good or better. Single issue in original wrappers; articles on political prisoners in UK, Anarchism in Germany, "The Housewife as Proletarian," etc; most articles unsigned or signed with initials only. Uncommon anarchist periodical. More
New York: Why? 1947. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers; 16pp; illus. Minimal wear; Very Good or better. Single issue in original wrappers; cover article on the burning of draft cards following WW2; other contributions by Paul Goodman ("Kafka's Community"), extended analysis of post-war nuclear peril (signed "DTW"); Frank Lanham on..... More
[Newark]: Edizione Curata da Vecchi Lettori di Cronaca Sovversiva, 1925. First Edition. Lengthy essay in response to the former anarchist author and attorney Francesco Saverio Merlino after his conversion to socialism and his statement in an interview titled "La Fine dell'Anarchismo" in the Italian daily La Stampa that anarchism was..... More
New York: Morrison I. Swift Press, 1906. First edition. A headlong and somewhat disjointed attack on capitalism, particularly on its baneful influence on women and moral institutions, especially marriage. Swift uses "race" in the most generic sense, and generally argues that all modern races have been equally degraded. He advocates..... More
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1884. First thus. Scarce printing (possibly unauthorized) of Blunt's anti-Imperialist polemic, attacking British policy in the Sudan. Though Tucker generally limited his publishing ventures to projects that explicity furthered his individualist anarchist views, he occasionally found time for projects such as this; finely printed in two..... More
New York? 1927? Quarto (28cm.); original mimeographed side-stapled document; [10]ll. printed on rectos only. Light wear and chipping at extremities, occasional manuscript corrections in a contemporary hand (not Millay's), else Very Good or better. At bottom of title page: "Reprinted from 'The Outlook' of November 9th, 1927, and circulated with..... More
![Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy, & Function [Together With] Original Cover Artwork. ANARCHISTS,...](/pictures/medium/32077.jpg?v=1554414994)
[Chicago: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, n.d. but 1913]. Reprint (1917). Quite possibly the earliest iteration of Ralph Chaplin's now-ubiquitous "Sabo-Tabby," the I.W.W.'s black cat symbol for sabotage. The present work shows the black cat with its claws fully extended while it arches its back on top of a bag of money..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945. First Edition. Detailed survey of the German Working Class movement, spanning the years 1875-1945, by a British subject of German background who was herself a member of the German labor movement. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); dark blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine;..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Cloth boards, lettered in silver on spine; dustjacket; 406pp. Fine, unmarked copy in barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper, Near Fine. Narrative of the St. John (Virgin Islands) Slave Rebellion of 1733. More
