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
![Report by Mr. Julius Carlebach [...] The Future of Youth Aliyah. ANGLO-ISRAEL ASSOCIATION, Julius...](/pictures/medium/45997.jpg?v=1569881113)
London: Anglo-Israel Association, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 32pp. Faint crease to front cover, else a clean, unmarked, Near fine copy. More
London: Anglo-Israel Association, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 20pp. Clean and unmarked, Near Fine, with Association newsletter for June 26, 1964 laid in. More
New York: W.A. Townsend & Company, 1860. First American Edition. Highly uncommon American edition of this anonymously-published novel of the Victorian underworld, describing the descent and eventual redemption of a young woman who falls from grace, beginning as a respectable lady's maid, seduced, impregnated and abandoned by an Oxford student..... More
New York: Pollard & Moss, 1889. Reprint. Novel of two sisters from a prosperous rural British family and the struggles they face when their fortunes change. First serialized in The Cornhill Magazine, edited by William Makepeace Thackeray. Quite scarce in any edition: OCLC lists Iowa's copy only of this imprint;..... More
[Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1943]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 55pp. Rather dust-soiled, small stain to rear wrapper, else a Very Good, partially unopened copy. Comparison of the British population after years of war-time propaganda and the behavior of the Black-Headed sea gull. OCLC locates 5 copies in the..... More
N.p. [London: ca 1976]: C.A.C.T.L. [Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law]`. Large, vivid poster promoting the rights of squatters, tenants, and gypsies. Unattributed, but possibly from the Paddington Printshop in London, a peoples' printmaking workshop where a great many squatters' rights materials were produced. This poster advertises the Campaign Against..... More
N.p. [London, ca 1985?]. Universal calendar points to 1985 being the most likely date of creation for this vivid and graphically inspired poster, advertising a meeting of American radicals at the famed Conway Hall, long-time meeting place for radicals and intellectual center of the Conway Hall Ethical Society, thought to..... More
London: William Kidd, 1831. First Edition. Satirical verses inspired by Germany's annual Valpurgis night, first published in the London paper "Intelligence," with illustrations by Robert Seymour, best known for his contributions to the works of Dickens. BIBLIOTHECA DIABOLICA 1831, catalogued under the pseudonym "Facetiae," noting an 1833 edition illustrated by..... More
London: Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; [53]-66pp. Dust-soiling, edge wear from handling with very shallow separation at spine crown; about Very Good. More
Buffalo: Black Academy Press, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; viii,148pp. Mild dust-soiling, else Very Good and sound. Nigerian doctor's psychological study of a group of African students in Britain. More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in grey decorative dust jacket printed in blue, blue topstain; xv,[3],120pp.; title page printed in red and black within typographically decorative border; color frontispiece, 6 plates with printed tissue guards. A few very short closed tears to..... More
London: Ernest Benn, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers, yapp edges; 32pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled and lightly worn from handling, glue residue in title page gutter, a few unobtrusive pencil check marks in margins, else Near Very Good and sound. Lecture on the life and career..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1864. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original brown cloth ruled and lettered in gilt, unadorned spine; 122,[6](ads)pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, small loss at spine crown, joints cracked but holding, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown; About Very Good. More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket, grey topstain; 451pp.; color portrait frontispiece, 8 leaves of black and white photographs, one graph in text. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Third volume of..... More
Lanham: University Press of America, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover); 265pp. Lengthy authorial inscription inside front cover to "Jim," undated. Mild external fading and wear; text tight, clean and unmarked. There was no clothbound edition. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First American Edition. Octavo. Linen backed pictorial boards, with photographic portrait inset device; dustjacket; xxv, 15-338pp; illustrated endpapers and jacket design by Ethel C. Taylor. Contemporary ownership signature to verso of half-title, bit of flecking to upper edge of text block, else a...... More
New York: Carleton, 1863. Later printing. Octavo (18cm); light brown cloth, with blind-stamped pattern and borderwork, gilt lettering on spine; 435+8pp. Spine sunned and cocked; moderate wear, soiling and rubbing to boards, with material loss to some extremities; interiors comprehensively foxed, with dampstaining and offsetting throughout; some pages pulled, with..... More
London: Published by the Author at the Stock Exchange, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original plum cloth, upper cover double ruled in black, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers; vi,183pp.; double frontispiece, one additional plate, text illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed with shallow losses at spine ends, spine a bit sunned..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. First Edition. Quarto. Red cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 376pp; illus. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper; near-new. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Bard Graduate Center, 2005-2006. More
London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 232pp. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in lightly spine-sunned but otherwise Near Fine dustwrapper. A tight, attractive copy. Adulatory biography written by a Gill friend and disciple; focuses on Gill's aesthetic and political tendencies, omitting most of the unsavory aspects..... More
London: Athloe Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[3],252pp.; portrait frontispiece. Tiny chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, light toning and dust-soil, brief fraying at bottom corner of upper board, else Very Good and sound. Posthumously-published biography of John Thurloe (1616-1668), one..... More
![Francis Bacon: Paintings 1945-1982 [Text in Japanese and English]. Francis BACON, Sir Lawrence...](/pictures/medium/46617.jpg?v=1573255219)
Tokyo: Tokyo Shinbun, 1983. Edition not stated. Quarto (27cm); color illustrated paper wrappers; 109pp, 45 colorplates. Mild soiling and handing/thumb wear; toning to wrappers and page margins; front wrapper panel creased along lower leading corner. Very Good or better overall. This is an exhibition book showcasing the art of English expressionist..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1905. Fourteenth Revised Edition. Octavo (16cm); red cloth boards, flexible, stamped in gilt and blind; x,471+44pp, 28 maps. Spine soiled, chipped at crown; boards somewhat worn, rubbed and bumped at extremities. All edges marbled; interiors show minor handling wear and toning; marginalia/underlining throughout; first fold-out map has..... More
Melbourne: William Heinemann Ltd, [1951]. Reprint. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Cecil Beaton; [4],328pp. Light shelf wear, jacket spine toned, corners very slightly bumped, else Very Good in a quite fresh copy of the jacket. Novel of a society beauty's progression into middle age. More
