London: Allison & Busby, 1985. First U.K. Edition. Wideman's moving memoir of he and his brother Robert's upbringing in the poor Black neighborhood of Homewood in Pittsburgh, PA, and the divergent paths they took. John Edgar went to university, became and Ivy League basketball player, and was one of the..... More

New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, [1970]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); pictorial mimeographed wraps; [iii],6,[3]pp. Light wear and handling, else very Near Fine. McLucas (1945-2016), one of the New Haven 9, was convicted of conspiracy in the torture-murder of Alex Rackley, who at the time of his..... More

Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1924. [Second Edition - see note below]. Octavo (23cm). Staple-bound, printed wrappers; 24pp; frontispiece portrait. Partial split to wrappers at bound edge; light soil, with expected toning to text; Very Good. Vanzetti's brief autobiographical statement, penned while imprisoned at Charlestown State Prison following his conviction, with..... More

N.p., s.i., [1971]. Original offset lithograph, 17" x 11", printed in reddish-brown ink on off-white, uncoated poster stock. Photographic portrait vignette at center of sheet within a thick plain border; one line of text at bottom margin below border. Slight soil and creasing to extremities, and a single short, closed..... More

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Harry P. Martin / who qualifies on two counts - one, the fraternity of the book; two a friend of E.L. Deitch who gives this volume, with the aproval of / Louis Blake Duff," dated..... More

N.p. by the Author, 1895. First and only edition. Octavo (20.5cm). Original pictorial cloth-covered boards; 128pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; thin cracks to endpapers at gutters; Very Good. An exceedingly odd and correspondingly uncommon work. OCLC cataloguing identifies the author, certainly incorrectly, as the 19th French-Canadian journalist and..... More

London: Torchstream Books, 1954. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's royal blue cloth titled in gilt and blind to the spine and front board. 288pp. + 1pp ads to rear. Light bumping to spine ends, some light sunning to front board, and a small spot of what is probably white paint..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 308pp, [1]. Vintage bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, upper board edges slightly darkened, with a slight bump to upper right corner of front..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, April 1840-November 1841. First Edition. First Printing. Large Octavo. 27cm. Complete in 88 parts in original wraps housed in a tailor-made leather Solinger box and bookcloth chemise. Prefaces and preliminary matter present in Parts 26, 52, and 88. The vast majority in very good condition with..... More

New York: International Publishers, 1965. First Edition. First printing, cloth issue. Small octavo. Russet linen; dustjacket; 127pp; illus. A few pencil notes in margins (see note below); some offsetting to front endpapers from laid-in clipping, else a tight, Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap)..... More

N.d., n.p. [Roanoke, VA: ca 1955]: By the author. First-person narrative of drug-addict, habitual gambler and small-time chiseler Fred Garland, concluding with his salvation by grace in the Tombs of New York City. A wholesome tale of redemption, but filled of course with salacious tidbits to boost sales; illustrated with..... More

New York: The Crime Club, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in dark red to spine and front board. Lacking dustjacket. 334pp. Light wear to extremities, bumping to head and tail of spine, and some slight discoloration of the spine panel. Tight and trong, with..... More

V.p. v.d. First Edition. The first U.K. and first American editions of Gallagher's diary kept while imprisoned in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, in 1920 for his involvement with the militant Irish Volunteers (later the Irish Republican Army). The diary provides a near hour-by-hour account of Gallagher's participation in the Dublin Hunger..... More