San Francisco: N.J. Stone Company, 1899. First Edition. Large octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's dark maroon pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, marbled endpapers; vi,7-662pp. Light shelf wear, spine cloth a shade sunned, textblock slightly toned, else a Very Good or better, quite brilliant copy overall. A businessman's manual for the..... More

Albany: Joel Munsell, 1846. Offprint. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's yellow wrappers printed within double rule; 63pp.; engraved frontispiece with key and errata slip bound after title page. Wrappers a bit worn and soiled, tidemark affecting entire textblock; still, overall Very Good. Inscribed at head of upper cover: "Dr. E. Holmes..... More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; ix,[1],220pp.; photographic frontispiece, 19 leaves of photograhic plates. Upper cover quite unevenly faded, as is spine cloth, spine a bit cocked, else Very Good, internally fine. Tipped in 3pp. autograph letter, signed..... More

New York: N. Tibbals & Sons, [1886]. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on front pastedown: "To My Esteemed Friend Isaac D. Barton / With the compliments of Author Bloodgood H. Cutter. 1887." Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in black, gilt-lettered spine; [2],iv,5-499pp; engraved portrait frontispiece..... More

[Indianapolis: Farmer-Labor Party of Indiana, 1920]. Bifolium, ca. 9" x 6"; 4pp. Vertical and horizontal folds; general light wear and soil; complete and Good. Preamble and 31-point platform of the Indiana Farmer-Labor Party, issued for the 1920 national elections. LIkely one of the earliest F-L documents published in the state..... More

Keene, CA: ETG, 1989. Original lithographed poster, printed in colors on coated white stock, measuring 45.5cm x 64.5cm (18" x 25.5"). Faint crease at upper center, with some mild scattered foxing on verso; Near Fine. A striking portrait of the president of the United Farm Workers union by Mexican surrealist..... More

Chicago: Willett, Clark & Co., 1936. First Edition. Billed by the publisher as the "Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Co-operative movement in America;" set in a Missouri farming community during the Depression. HANNA 1912. Octavo (20.25cm); light greenish-tan cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine; dustjacket; 257pp. Small..... More

Chicago: WCFL Radio Magazine Co., 1930. First Edition. Quarto. Printed wrappers; 34pp. External rubbing and wear; withdrawn duplicate from the Bancroft Library, with small ink hand-stamp to front wrapper; Very Good. Quarterly journal devoted, oddly, to equal parts technical aspects of radio broadcasting and farmer-labor politics. Current issue contains several..... More

Worcester: Manning and Trumbull, 1819. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 30pp. Some shallow chipping and curling along extremities, title page (serving as upper cover) rather foxed and a bit soiled, coin-sized loss to pp. 29/30 and final leaf (blank) not approaching text; still, overall Very Good and sound. Contents..... More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1932]. First Edition. Limited issue. Number 66 of 250 copies, signed by the author on limitation page. Octavo (20.5cm.). Pebbled red cloth in original acetate dustjacket; 348pp. Fine copy in clean acetate with a small chip at base of spine. No slipcase present, nor have we ever..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Caldwell's first novel and second book produced by a commercial publisher, a searing fictional depiction of poor white life in the deep South. "The story of a [Georgia] sharecropper shelved by the plantation owner, allowed to live in a tumble-down shack but..... More

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, [1936]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, brown topstain; 350pp. Chipped and general wear to jacket extremities, including shallow loss at spine ends, corners slightly bumped, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Rather..... More

[Tblisi: NKVD, 1938]. A magnificent, grand-format presentation album, ca 35cm x 42cm, bound in full calf with heavy gilt titling to front cover; containing 113 original photographs, including 90 large-format gelatin-silver prints, most about 22cm x 29cm (ca 8-1/2" x 11-1/2"), a few slightly larger or smaller; four folding panoramas..... More