New York: Vanguard Press, [1927]. Study of the USSR based on two trips, in 1920 and 1926, made by Brailsford, a left-wing British journalist and editor of the British socialist newspaper the New Leader from 1922 to 1926. Second (1928) printing. 12mo (18cm.); original yellow pictorial cloth; xv,[1],169pp.; pictorial endpapers..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. First Edition. Thick octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, top edge gilt; xxiv,490pp.; folding color map frontispiece, additional engraved frontispiece and title page, 19 leaves of two-toned (pale yellow and black) plates, additional text illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed along extremities, spine gilt..... More
New York: Council on Social Work Education, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; ix,[1],83pp. Pencil scribble to upper wrapper, else Fine. Annotated bibliography. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1962]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in grey-black decorative dust jacket; 285pp.; 4 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. Jacket extremities chipped and worn, corners slightly bumped else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Biography of the British women's and..... More
London: Hogarth Press, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original boards in pale green decorative price-clipped dust jacket; 285pp. Jacket spine a bit faded, corners lightly bumped, top textblock edge a bit foxed, else Very Good or better. Biography of the British women's and reproductive rights activist. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1911]. First Thus. Slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's red blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],115,[1],[8](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, mostly at spine ends; near-contemporary (1927) ownership inscription to front free endpaper and top textblock edge, else Very Good or better. Three essays originally published in the author's larger collection..... More
![Blueprint for Conflict [cover title]. Daniel T. BRIGHAM](/pictures/medium/28380.jpg?v=1555174548)
[New York]: American-African Affairs Association, [1969]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; [2],34pp.; illus. Fine. Short overview of conflict and race relations in southern Africa, including Zambia, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Tanzania, and Mozambique. More
[New York: British Information Services, 1946]. Revised Edition. Oblong octavo (15.75x21cm.); original brown photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; unpaged; chiefly photographic illus. Fine. Photographic record of the progress made under British rule in Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), and Nigeria. More
Washington: El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, 1942. A brilliant design, clearly incorporating the surrealist influences that appeared in Brodovitch's work beginning in the late Thirties. This is one of a series of posters commissioned by the Office of Inter-American Affairs in the early years of World War Two, created specifically..... More
![Lithograph: "The City" [Limited Edition, Signed]. Harry BRODSKY](/pictures/medium/27861.jpg?v=1546561308)
n.d., ca. 1940s. First Edition. One of Brodsky's realist pieces depicting a man in a spartan room, looking out the window at a cityscape. In the fore-ground is a table with a newspaper and pencil--presumably the man in the image is unemployed and seeking work, given that the artist is..... More
[Johannesburg?]: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1953. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's blue card wrappers; [4],43pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Wrappers a bit worn from handling, rear cover rather dampstained, else About Very Good. Short biography of Jones, the first director of the Institute for Race Relations, published on..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1932. First Edition. Essays on the economic future of the United States and the Soviet Union, gathered and unpdated "in this day of world-wide industrial depression...in the hope that the experience of a long life...may contribute something of value to their discussion." Surprisingly uncommon in the trade..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in teal pictorial dust jacket; xiv,253pp.; illus. Just About Fine. More
Providence: Booke Shop, [1938]. First Edition. Collection of essays by the Brown University professor on state-controlled theaters across Europe with special emphasis on those in the Soviet Union. This a superlative copy. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in orange printed dust jacket; [10],105pp. Jacket spine a bit sunned, light spotting to..... More
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1940. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; 157pp. Ink stamp to bottom edge of text block, else Near Fine, in original unprinted glassine. More
![The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945 [Review Copy]. Michael BROWN](/pictures/medium/53700.jpg?v=1621487072)
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's publicity letter laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-396,[4]pp. Spine lean, else a clean, Near Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Detailed study of six..... More
![Inauguration Day, San Francisco, California, 8 January 1996 [Argonaut, Vol. 141, no. 4218]....](/pictures/medium/45287.jpg?v=1564697652)
San Francisco: Argonaut, 1996. First Edition. Single leaf folded into 8-panelled brochure; illus. Fine condition. Supplemental issue of the local San Francisco newspaper featuring special events on the occasion of the inauguration of the city's first African-American mayor, Willie L. Brown, Jr., who was in office from 1996 to 2004..... More
London: John Murray, 1965. First U.K. Edition. Autobiography of an Englishman who worked first as an A.D.C. and later as a D.C. in Nyasaland, Tanganyika and Somaliland. Octavo; green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 152pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced 18s net). More
New York: Holmes & Meier, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 276pp. Tight, unmarked and apparently unread copy, Fine. No dustwrapper (as issued?). More
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. First Edition. The exiled Tennessee publisher and minister's history of the secession, composed during a speaking tour through the Northern states following his imprisonment for condemning the Confederacy. SABIN 8705. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown triple-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 458,[8](ads)pp.; steel engraved portrait frontispiece. Corners bumped..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1942]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in decorative dust jacket, maroon topstain; xiv,318pp. Jacket extremities rather chipped and rubbed, shallow crease to front jacket flap, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Upper jacket text uses the words "woman" and "girl" interchangeably. More
![Navajo Taboos [Signed by Contributors]. Ernie BULOW, Tony HILLERMAN, Ernest FRANKLIN, text,...](/pictures/medium/33630.jpg?v=1529353736)
Gallup, NM: Buffalo Medicine Books, 1991. First Edition. Volume of carefully detailed Navajo taboos compiled by Bulow, with an introduction by best-selling mystery author Tony Hillerman and illustrations throughout by Ernest Franklin. First Printing. Octavo; rust-colored cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket;..... More
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1996). First Edition. Inscribed on title page: "Best wishes as you study those Danish and English ancestors," signed and dated in year of publication. First printing (not issued in cloth). Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 251,(2)pp; illus. Faint crease to front endpaper, else Fine..... More
London: Christian Action, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 34pp. Fine. "A Southern Africa Education Fund pamphlet." Description of Bantu education, described as one of the "main foundations" of apartheid policy in the introductory note by Bishop Ambrose Reeves. More
Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 115pp. Fine copy in dustjacket, small nick to top of jacket spine, else Fine. More
