Bologna: Edizioni di "Volontà" 1922. First Edition. A series of fictional conversations and debates between a student, a "borghese," an anarchist-socialist, a judge, and a merchant. Divided into chapters, the "characters" discuss a socialist constitution, economics, communism, government, laws and communist anarchism. The first ten conversations were written in 1897..... More

Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1913. First Edition. Collection of five scholarly lectures by the Scots-American classicist and historian of ideas, long-time head of the Department of Philosophy at The University of Michigan. Of the five works included, only the title essay – on the classical origins of modern Anarchist thought..... More

Croton-on-Hudson: 1941. Brief 1-pp TNS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson notepaper, addressed to a "Miss Mendham", dated March 30, 1938. Old folds; holograph additions in Eastman's hand; Very Good. "I shall be delighted to have you use some of my poems in your Verse Speaking Festival...perhaps the poem called "Battle Fields"..... More

New York: Federal Book Company, 1902. First Edition. Ahouse: "The medieval romance, The Winning of Sarenne, comes out of Sinclair's 'potboiler' experience, which overlapped with his serious writing career by several years." This binding not described by Ahouse, who calls for either light blue or red cloth (no priority given)..... More

Paris: A la Librairie Sociétaire, 1846 [but 1848]. Second Edition. French dyer's proposal of Fourierist principles of organization for the working class, making the argument that certain points could be adopted by contemporary employers. Briancourt's publication could be considered one of a number of unsuccessful attempts to inspire the founding..... More

New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); cream cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in red and gilt on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; [xii],[2],3-399,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, with finger-soil to covers, and small stain to back cover; contents clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket unclipped..... More

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895. First Edition. First printing (American issue; published simultaneously in Great Britain by John Lane). 12mo (18cm). Decorated green cloth; 208pp + 4pp publisher's ads; cover and title page decorations by Aubrey Beardsley (who designed all the books in this series). Cloth on spine is darkened, with..... More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1906. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards, blocked in black and gilt on spine and front cover; 400pp; 10 inserted leaves of plates by Hermann C. Wall. Gentle overall wear, with the spine showing a touch of sunning with spine gilt slightly dulled; slight soil to text block..... More

Pullman, WA: By the Author, 1907. The first volume of a two-part work (published separately) that included also The Trumpet Voice From the Throne (1907). We find reference to the author as the proprietor of a small farmstead in Washtucna, WA in 1912, the same year in which he sold..... More

Nimes: Bureaux de "L'Emancipation" 1896. First Edition. Octavo (25cm). Printed paper wrappers; 136pp. Mild wear, with age-darkening to text; pages unopened; Very Good. Study of the social projects of Robert Owen, including his utopian communities in the U.S. and his industrial experiments at New Lanark. Fabre (1839-1922) was a prominent..... More

New York: Rand School Press, 1949. First Edition. The author's "statement against dictatorship of or over the proletariat, and offering a democratic change for social progress." Delivered as a speech at the Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne, April 30, 1949, on the occasion of the "International Day of Resistance to..... More

[Superior, WI: Tyomies Societyn Kirjapainossa, 1926]. 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 Toveritar. She later..... More

New York: New International Publishing Company, 1948. Bound volume for 1948. Quarto (32cm), publisher's red cloth-covere boards. Contains nine issues (no issues were published for May, June, or December); formats vary, with issues after March 1948 in smaller quarto format (27cm). Binding partially separated from contents, but all issues present..... More