London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [circa 1940s]. Reprint. Small octavo (16.5cm); glazed pictorial paper over boards, quarterbound in green cloth; 52pp. Comprehensive toning and foxing; boards and dustwrapper soiled; dustwrapper extremities and hinges chapped, with some chips to top edges; inner wrapper price-clipped with ownership signature; sticker on ffep; else Very..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d., ca. 1931. Slim quarto (24.75cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial boards; 24pp.; color illus. throughout, sheet music printed in brown. Boards rubbed with a few small dings to extremities, the whole rather dust-soiled, textblock a hint shaken and lightly foxed throughout. About Very Good only..... More
London: Heinemann, [1959]. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); original cloth in green price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and black; [8],77pp. Jacket spine faded, a few shallow chips along top edge, else Very Good or better. More
London: Heinemann, [1958]. First Edition. Slim 12mo (19cm.); original cloth in olive dust jacket (minor soil spots); [8],76pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few short closed tears; Fine in About Very Good dust jacket. More
Woodbridge: Wood Lea Press, 1998. First Edition. Standard issue, limited to 450 copies. Folio (35.5cm.); original pictorial linen embossed in red, matching board slipcase with linen edges; 145pp.; photographs and color plates mounted in text. Fine. Catalog of woodcuts and linocuts by artists associated with the Omega Workshops and the..... More
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Washington DC: Wm. W. Morrison, 1841. First Edition. Ralph Randolph Gurley, secretary of the ACS, had travelled to England the previous year in order to garner support for the Society's project of sending emancipated African Americans to Liberia as an alternative to abolition. It would be on this trip that..... More
London: Printed for the Society, 1845. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's grey printed wrappers; 60pp. Light wear to wrapper extremities, some spotting to upper cover, small loss to rear wrapper bottom corner, else Very Good, internally fine. Covers the slave trade and presence of slavery in Hong Kong, where..... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1857. Fifteenth Thousand. Octavo (20.25cm.); publisher's reddish-pink blind-tooled cloth, gilt spine, brown glazed printed endpapers; [8],162,3pp. Cloth spine faded, crown pulled, minor foxing to preliminaries, textblock slightly shaken, else a Good or better reading copy. Additional publisher's advertisements printed on pastedowns. Scottish presbyterian sermons by..... More
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1873. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers; 264pp. Light shelf wear, small loss of cloth mid-spine edge of upper cover, else Very Good or better. Scottish Presbyterian sermons by the founder of the Ragged School system, which provided free education..... More
Location not stated: Publisher not stated, 1885. Edition not stated. Small octavo (19cm); dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt; 24pp. Mild bumps and handling wear to boards, with slight rubbing. Most pages unopened; preliminaries toned; minor smudges and creasing, very small tears to edges. Very Good or Better. A rather mysterious..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. First Edition. Thick octavo (19.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, black glazed endpapers; [10],463,[1],[4](ads)pp.; frontispiece, 15 plates. Minor shelf wear, corners lightly bumped, spine a shade darkened, endpapers somewhat brittle with hinges starting to crack but holding. Near Very Good overall, albeit with a slightly..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902. First Edition. 2 volumes; large, thick octavos (22.5cm.); original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines, black glazed endpapers; xxv,[1],584,40(ads);viii,[2],623pp.; photographic frontispieces, 54 plates & 23 color folding maps. Spines sunned, some light foxing throughout textblocks, else a Very Good or better set. More
London: Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 24cm.); printed staplebound self-wrappers; [8]pp. Wrappers rather dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Address by the British peer and former administrator in British India and missionary in Africa. More
[London]: Fore Publications Ltd., ca. 1939? A brief overview of the importance of scientific research in regards to cultural progress, with chapters on agriculture, bad air, food, body building, and vitamins A-D. Haldane, best known for his works of popular science, was also for much of his career a socialist..... More
![The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism [Ben Shahn's Copy]. Elie HALÉVY, trans Mary Morris,...](/pictures/medium/47521.jpg?v=1581379627)
London: Faber and Faber, [1934]. New Edition. 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..... More
Chicago: St. James Press, 1968. First American Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original boards in dark blue gilt-lettered dust jacket; xii,40pp.; color portrait frontispiece, 6 leaves of plates, including photographs and facsimiles. Sunning to upper jacket panel and spine with jacket spine gilt rather dulled, light edge wear, minor bump to..... More
London: Boriswood, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; 128pp. Mild fading to cloth at board edges; text block edges faintly foxed; still a Near Fine copy in a lovely example of the striking dustwrapper. Short story collection including "Aria and Finale", "The Last Voyage", and "Stoker Haslett" More
London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. First, Limited Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, with gilt decorative device to center of rear board; dustjacket; unpaged. Number 120 of 250 hand-numbered and signed copies in the "Grayson Books" series of limited editions. Prelims foxed; jacket..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white decorative dust jacket; [6],76pp.; frontispiece by the author. Jacket cover illustrated wtih facsimile of the author's manuscript title page. Jacket extremities chipped and worn with a few tiny losses, none affecting text, extremities and spine toned..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1978. First American Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xxxiv+1002pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in bright, unclipped dustwrapper with a couple of tiny closed nicks along upper edge, Near Fine. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. New Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original dark teal gilt-embossed cloth; viii,[2],473pp.; frontispiece and map plate in rear. Upper cover a bit dampstained affecting hinge gutter, spine a hint cocked, else Very Good and sound. A later edition of Hardy's first (1871) novel with a new..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1935]. First American Edition. Thick octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in the yellow second issue dust jacket printed in red and black; [2],877pp. Jacket rather dust-soiled with a few tiny chips to extremities, else Very Good and sound overall. Second issue dust jacket with the extensive blurb by..... More
London: Socialist Workers Party, 1983. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 22pp. Covers a bit rubbed; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good. By long-time SWP Central Committee member & editor of International Socialism. More
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967. Reprint. Green cloth (hardcover); 476+156pp. Top edge dusty, else clean & unmarked, near to fine. First American printing, from the UK sheets. Reprint in one volume of Harney's influential radical journal; these two volumes all published. Harrison & Thompson, "Bibliography of the Chartist Movement,"..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966. Facsimile Reprint. Facsimile reprints of these two influential Chartist journals, published between 1850-51 and edited by Julian Harney. A nicely preserved set. Two quarto volumes. Cloth-backed boards; dustjackets; xv, 190; 282pp. Facsimile reprints of the original newspaper issues. Tight, Near Fine copies in the..... More
