Chicago: G. Bertelli, 1918. Single quarto issue in tan paper wrappers; 16pp; illus. Wrappers present but tattered, with chips to margins; contents complete and fresh. A sound, Good copy. Apparently unrecorded Italian-language journal of naturopathy, published in Chicago under the editorship of Nicandro A. Ferri, who also published a few..... More

Niu Iork [New York]: Izdatelskoi Komissii pri Rabochem Soiuze "Samoobrazovanie"], 1923. First American Edition. Second edition in Russian, and first American Edition. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; [5], 6-259, [2], iv, + [8]pp publisher's ads. Minimal external wear; internally clean and unmarked; a Near Fine..... More

New York: Libreria Rossa, N.d. (ca 1920s). No statement of edition, but apparently the sole printing. 12mo; staple-bound wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to text; trivial toning to wrapper edges; Very Good or better. An anticlerical tract, written in the form of a letter to Judas Iscariot. Issued by the small..... More

Paris: Estepa Editions, 2011. First, Limited Edition. Octavo. 20cm. No. 26 from a signed limitation of 80 copies. Publisher's bright red card wraps titled and decorated in black to front cover. Publisher's glassine. Clean and bright; internally fresh, inscribed by the author to the half title in addition to being..... More

New York: Libreria Rossa, N.d. [ca 1919?]. First Edition. Communist tract, issued shortly after the Russian revolution, calling for an immediate proletarian revolution in Italy, with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders (to prevent the flight of the bourgeoisie); and the "management of the new society through a...... More

[Brooklyn: Solomon Davidman / Vest-Bruklin Olgin Leyen-Krayz], 1954. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.25cm.); publisher's orange card wrappers; 46pp.; photographic illus. Wrappers a bit darkened at extremities, small chip at spine foot, else Very Good and sound. Stories commemorating the Russian-born Jewish-American journalist and founding member of the Workers Party Moissaye..... More

Astoria, OR: Western Workmen's Publishing Society, n.d., ca. 1920s. First Edition. Proletarian novel by Helmi Mattson, among the more prominent Finnish-American women leftists of the interwar period. Born in Finland, Mattson emigrated to International Falls, Minnesota, married, then relocated to Astoria, Oregon, where she edited the important Finnish women's periodical..... More

Superior, WI: Työmies Society Print, 1949. First Edition. A socialist novel of Finnish-American immigrant life -- the title translates literally as "Twisted Paul" -- by one of the leading Finnish-language left-wing literary voices in the United States. Helmi Dagmar Mattson (1890-1974) emigrated to Manitoba around 1910, later settling successively in..... More

Chicago: Tiskem a Nákladem Aug. Geringera, 1899? First Edition. Czech-American literary almanac, including a daily calendar, cartoons, poetry, jokes, short stories, and articles on major events of the year, in this case the ongoing Dreyfus Affair and the Philippine-American War. Short stories includes tales set among the early Czech settlers..... More

Cleveland: Lauer & Mattill, 1888. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's blue-green decorative cloth stamped in black; [4],492pp.; frontispiece, pictorial ads bound in at front and end of textblock. Boards rather rubbed and worn, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paperstock, childish pencil scribbles to preliminaries, frontispiece starting to separate. Overall..... More

Calcutta: Metropolitan Printing & Publishing House, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's decorated beige cloth, titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. 55pp.; [1]. Bumping to corners and spine ends, strong and tight, with some thumbing and soiling to the cloth in places; internally clean and fresh..... More

Shanghai: Nishimura Company, 1939. Edition not stated. This is a privately-issued, commemorative, yearbook-type photo album (shashin-cho) published on behalf of the Imperial Japanese Army medical forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Specifically it was produced for those who served under military physician captains/commanding officers Nobuo Isa and Tetsuo Fukaya..... More

Tokyo: Nihon Sekijuji-sha, 1958. Later printing. Editions of this book were published throughout the 1950's by the Japanese Red Cross Society (Nihon Sekijuji), in hopes of promoting the organization and a better understanding of its purpose in the new postwar, non-Imperial Japan. Mainly it is a memorial album, packed with..... More