N.p, n.d. [London: All London Squatters, ca 1974?]. Poster calling attention to the plight of those evicted from the Camden Street Squat, formerly located at 220 Camden High Street. The owner of the building, Joseph Levy (1906-1990), was a wealthy London property developer whose company Stock Conversion helped rebuild the..... More

London: The Curiously Strong, 1971. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets with printed card covers; [15]pp, printed recto-only. Mild corner-creasing; still a clean, Very Good or better copy in the original wrappers. A generic bookplate hand-signed by Ackroyd has been loosely laid-in by a previous collector. Ackroyd's..... More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1927]. A novel set in 1931, where London is on the verge of a general strike. The story involves the daughter of England's biggest press magnate, and the three men who fall in love with her - a gentleman, a labor leader, and a revivalist. The British..... More

Boston: Four Seas Company, 1924. First American Edition. Limited to 200 copies. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's boards, yellow printed label mounted to upper cover, white dust jacket lettered in light green; 61pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled and toned along extremities, some general edge wear including tiny closed tears and one..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 411pp. Straight and tight, with some darkening to endpapers and foxing to text block edges; Very Good. In the original pictorial dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.00), slightly worn and soiled with..... More

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1967]. First Thus. Thick octavo (23cm.); original cloth in blue and white decorative dust jacket, black topstain; xii,404pp.; portrait frontispiece. Light wear to top edge of jacket with a couple short closed tears and mild creasing, else Very Good and sound. Diary of the Victorian..... More

London: Freedom Press Defence Committee, [1945]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound printed paper wrappers; 14pp. Near Fine. Two lectures in defense of Vernon Richards, John Hewetson and Philip Sansom, three anarchists imprisoned in 1945 for publishing anti-war articles in War Commentary. More

Baltimore: Privately Published, 1899. First Edition. Octavo. Printed buff wrappers; 119pp; portraits. Generally clean, but with a faint diagonal crease to lower 1/3 of text block throughout; mild external soil and small paper losses at spine ends, still about Very Good. Anti-British propaganda issued on behalf of the Orange Free..... More

New York: Pollard & Moss, 1889. Reprint. Novel of two sisters from a prosperous rural British family and the struggles they face when their fortunes change. First serialized in The Cornhill Magazine, edited by William Makepeace Thackeray. Quite scarce in any edition: OCLC lists Iowa's copy only of this imprint;..... 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

London: William Kidd, 1831. First Edition. Satirical verses inspired by Germany's annual Valpurgis night, first published in the London paper "Intelligence," with illustrations by Robert Seymour, best known for his contributions to the works of Dickens. BIBLIOTHECA DIABOLICA 1831, catalogued under the pseudonym "Facetiae," noting an 1833 edition illustrated by..... More

New York: Wm. Cobbett, 1800. First American Edition. 18mo, 155mm x 100mm. Contemporary paper-covered boards; vi,[1]-68pp. Boards worn, with losses to paper at spine ends; slight darkening to text, with faint tide-mark visible on rear endpapers; text complete and fresh. A Good, sound copy. A virulent anti-Jacobin, antifeminist tract that..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First American Edition. First printing. Published the same year in London (Constable). Octavo; red cloth hardcover; xix,308pp. Spine darkened, with mild soil to covers; endpapers toned from old jacket offsetting; text generally clean and unmarked; just a VG copy, lacking the dustwrapper. A low-point (which is..... More