Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1857. First Edition. Prospectus for a Society in Boston that the author proposed would supplement the foundations of the Smithsonian Institute and the diffusion of human knowledge. Contents include introductory remarks and four essays, all signed "Franklin" at the end, generally drawing on classical and..... More

Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; xxi,[1],312pp. Tiny soil spot to textblock fore-edge, else Fine. Works by the Chicano attorney and political activist. More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue card wrappers printed within heavy funereal rule; 47pp. Tiny chip at spine foot, extremities a bit toned and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Address delivered by the Boston politician and diplomat on the life and..... More

New York: PAC, 1977. First Edition. Contents include an interview with the Congress's Theo Bidi and two official documents--the policy and programme, and "Principles of a United Front in People's War." The Congress was first founded in 1959 "To forge, foster and consolidate the bonds of African nationhood..." (p. [1])..... More

[New York: American Committee on Africa], 1959. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp.; illus. Some minor toning and dust-soil else Very Good. Includes an article on the newly elected first President of Guinea Sékou Touré, during whose 26-year régime approximatley 50,000 people would be killed. More

[San Francisco]: Amnesty International, 1984. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's spiral-bound photo-illustrated card wrappers; [2],75pp.; illus. Slightly ex-library with manuscript label to upper cover and a few internal markings, minor soil and shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Includes section V, a series of maps of torture. More

San Francisco: Free Society Library, 1900. Scarce early American edition of the first half of "God and the State" (the second half only posthumously published in 1908), reprinted from the London Anarchist Groups edition of 1893, which was itself reprinted from Benjamin Tucker's edition of that same year, and including..... More

New-York: R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden, 1815. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); removed; 72pp. Stock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Anonymous polemical against the "London Quarterly Review" and the English people in general, covering that country's labor, educational, and moral conditions. For example, "The general system of English..... More

New-York: A.H. Inskeep, 1815. First Edition. Attack on Great Britain written in response to a series of unflattering articles written by Charles Jared Ingersoll following a trip to the United States. In turn Paulding portrays Great Britain "as a degenerate, despotic kingdom, burdened by parasitical aristocracy, and jealous of America's..... More

Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust jacket; x, 341pp. Gift inscription to ffep. Text in Italian. Trivial sunning to top edge of boards, margins of textblock mildly age-toned, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Jacket showing minor external wear. Near Fine in Very..... 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

[Washington? Government Printing Office?], 1850. First Edition. Report submitted regarding "the credentials of Almon W. Babbitt, esq., and his memorial praying to be admitted to a seat in the House of Representatives." The text opens with a description of the provisional General Assembly of the State of Deseret at which..... More

[Hartford? n.d. but 1819]. First Edition. Attributed to old-guard Connecticut Federalist Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851) whose fortunes had taken a turn the previous year when, after a decade as judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, the position was taken from him by the opposition government. SABIN 17539; SHAW &..... More