Philadelphia: William Smith, [1844]. A poignant image, depicting the first casualty of the 1844 Philadelphia Anti-Catholic riots, which roiled the city in both May and July of that year leaving dozens dead and hundreds wounded. As was the case in many other large cities on the Eastern seaboard, Anti-Catholic sentiment..... More

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. First Edition. Octavo (26cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],165,[3]; black-and-white illustrations. Signed by Bowden on title page. ISBN sticker to lower rear cover, with pencilled notes to front endpaper; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $40.00), spine-faded; Very..... More

[Chicago: Stern Printing Company / In. Arbeter Ordn, 1936]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth; 127pp.; frontispiece and one photographic plate. Corners bumped and extremities a bit rubbed, else Very Good or better. Collection of short stories in Yiddish. More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Third Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket printed in green and black; vi,[2],329pp. Jacket uniformly dust-soiled, extremities a bit rubbed and worn, spine darkened, ownership rubberstamp of an Albert E. King to bottom textblock edge, else Near Fine in..... More

Seattle: By the author, 1937. Third edition (revised). Quarto (28cm). Pictorial pulp-paper wrappers; 116pp; illus. Text in two columns. Aging to the fragile wrappers, with some creasing at corners, wear but little loss to paper on spine; text toned but not brittle. Very Good overall, and uncommon thus. Title page..... 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

Chicago: Izdala Jugoslavenska Radnicka Knijižara, 1918. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers; 64pp. Mild external wear, still a fresh, well-preserved copy, Very Good or better. Text entirely in Slovak. Pseudonymously authored freethought tract, published by the radical Chicago publishing house Jugoslavenska Radnicka. According to the preface, the work is a...... More

Salem, MA: Higginson Book Company, [1996]. Four quarto volumes. Cloth-backed printed wrappers (softcovers); v.I, Part 1: pp 1-360; v.I, Part 2: pp.361-739; v.II, Part 1: pp.740-1103; also containing "Our Prudhon Family," pp.1-32; v.II, Part 2 [continuation of "Our Prudhon Family"], pp.33-64; subsequent chapters individually paginated. All volumes illustrated with photostatic..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original half cloth over decorative boards in orange dust jacket; [10],484pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit darkened with very shallow losses to ends, else a Very Good to Near Fine, vibrant copy. Novel of the..... More

Hancock, MI: Suomalais-Luteerilaisen Kustannusliikkeen Kirjapaino, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's blue cloth, upper cover stamped in black and red; 118pp.; four leaves of plates. Spine a shade sunned, a hint of soil to upper cover, else Near Fine. History of the earliest Finnish settlers on the Delaware River. Text..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1945]. First Edition. Typescript notes tipped to front free endpaper and pastedown, the former reading "This is an advance copy of A NATION OF NATIONS. / With the compliments of Louis Adamic"; the latter reads "To Americans of FRISIAN Origin or Descent: The chapter..... More

Chikago: Izdanie i pechat na Industrialite Rabotnitsi na Sveta, 1924. First Thus. 12mo (19cm.); original blue staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Very mild toning along wrapper extremities, else Fine. Bulgarian edition of the organizing pamphlet What Is the I.W.W.? (See MILES 4669.) This edition unlocated in OCLC as of September, 2015. More

Boston: Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, [1961]. The observance included performances by Cantor Gregor Shelkan and the Children's Chorus of the Y.L. Peretz School. Signed in type by the event's sponsors, which included the Bessarabian Society of Boston, the Jewish Labor Committee, the United Shepetovker of Boston, and the..... More