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

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1954. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 15pp. Ex-Yakima Valley Junior College with their usual markings, extremities a bit worn, upper cover toned to grey; Good to Very Good overall. Transcript of an NBC radio discussion on the history..... 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

London: Fabian Society, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original pale blue-grey staplebound wrappers; 30pp.; text in double columns. Fine. Young Fabian Pamphlet no. 18. Society membership form laid in. More

Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 155pp. Mild bumps to corners, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extremities, VG to NF. Lighthearted portrayal of a German-American civil servant during WW2, illustrated with humorous drawings by Fitts. Not in..... More

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1930. First Edition. Corley's second published book and only novel, a loosely-gathered series of anecdotes concerning a family of Russian emigre shoemakers in New York's Lower East Side. The jacket art is by Corley himself, who was perhaps better-known as an illustrator than an author..... 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

London: Pall Mall Press, 1965. First Edition. Collection of case studies issued under the auspices of the Institute of Race Relations, exploring "the effects of the issues of colour and immigration in the General Election..." (from front flap). Focus of the case studies is on Brixton, Southall, Sparkbrook, Smethwick, Deptford..... More

Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1906. First Edition. Octavo (20cm); dark green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, in glassine dustwrapper; 62pp. Boards show minor wear and scuffs; two small gouges on front, corresponding damage to glassine; glassine chipped and toned, torn on front fore edge. Top edge gilt; mild foxing..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in metallic red on spine; dustjacket; xviii,270pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some very mild external wear. Dowty, a professor of science at Notre Dame, traces how different countries throughout..... More

Steinbach, Manitoba: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, n.d., ca. 1940s. First Edition. Short novella by the Russian-born Mennonite author who emigrated from present-day Ukraine to Manitoba in the 1920s, working as a newspaperman and author of numerous short novels, the first examples of published works in the Mennonite Plautdietsch dialect. 12mo (ca..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. First Edition. Thick quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; mixed paginations; 8 original photographs mounted in text, additional graphs and facsimiles throughout, text printed from typescript. Some minor shelf wear to cloth extremities, one photograph separated but present, else Very Good or better. Original..... More

[Superior, WI?]: Finnish Federation, 1936. First Edition. Finnish language anthology of American proletarian short fiction, including pieces by William Rollins, Jr., Michael Gold, James T. Farrell, Jack Conroy, Erskine Caldwell, and John Dos Passos. OCLC locates two copies in the United States as of March, 2020, at U. Minnesota and..... More