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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philadelphia: David McKay, N.d. (ca 1920s). Reprint. Small octavo (19cm). Attractively rebound (20th c.) in quarter maroon morocco over hand-marbled boards; 385pp, seven inserted leaves of color plates (including frontispiece). Fine. Pretty copy of this celebrated first-person account of life on a 19th-century whaler. Originally published in 1898, the work..... 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

New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw Hill, 1936. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 269pp. Very Good, unmarked copy; lacking the dustwrapper. Burns (1900-1984) was a British economist and professor of Social Work at Columbia University. More

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1946. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [4],252pp. Some minor dustiness to jacket and textblock edges, light shelf wear, else Very Good or better. More