Willimantic: Enterprise Print, [1876]. An early 5” x 8 ½” handbill printed on newsprint announcing a two-day meeting of the anti-Masonic Connecticut Christian Association Opposed to Secret Societies, a chapter of the National Christian Association (NCA). According to the handbill, the first day involved a “half hour devoted to Prayer... More about The Connecticut Christian Association Opposed to Secret Societies, Will Meet at Franklin Hall,...

Bordentown, N. J.: Bordentown Manual Training School, 1927. One sheet folded, 4 pp. A scarce program from the Organization of Teachers of Colored Children in the State of New Jersey, a professional association of black teachers who were not admitted to organizations such as the National Education Association. Lists the... More about Program of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Organization of Teachers of Colored Children in...

Chicago: Third World Press, 1972. First edition. Stapled wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ½”), 55 pp. Rubbing to wrappers; vertical crease down the front wrapper and evident on a few early pages, VG. Collects six essays (7 Principles of US Maulana Karenga & The Need for a Black Value System... More about Kawaida Studies: The New Nationalism

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912. First edition. Octavo (20 cm). Grey pictorial cloth; 224 pp.; photographic frontispiece of a Mountain Schoolhouse. A scarce piece of Kentucky regional fiction. A Very Good+ copy with some light speckling to top edge and two marks of soiling to fore-edge. More about Goose Creek Folks: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1934. First edition. Octavo (22 cm); 304 pp.; frontispiece + 4 plates; dust jacket. Grey cloth boards stamped in black to front board and spine; illustrated endpapers. A Near Fine copy with some very faint spotting to page edges. Beautiful owner's bookplate to front endpaper... More about City of Adventure

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. First edition. Quarto (24 cm). Blue buckram with gilt spine; xvi, 429 pp. The scarce first edition of Edwards' seminal work on finance, or security, capitalism. He traces its evolution in England, Germany and France before turning to its application in the U.S., which... More about The Evolution of Finance Capitalism

[New York]: [New Day Publishing Co.], 1939. First edition. Quarto. Saddle-stapled wrappers with photomontage to front cover; 116 pp.; illus. A single issue of Father Divine's magazine, which largely served to publish his sermons and to raise money through advertising. This was the second Peace Mission organ began by Divine's... More about The New Day, Vol. III, No. 23, Thursday, June 8th, 1939

London and Glasgow: Art and Educational Publishers Ltd., 1948. First edition. 12mo. Green cloth, silver-stamped spine. The last novel written by East End chronicler and Jewish proletariat writer, Willy Goldman (1910-2009), best known for his autobiographical East End My Cradle. This copy owned by Morris Schappes (1907-2004), one-time Communist Party... More about The Forgotten Word [Jewish Currents editor Morris Schappes' copy

New York: Duffield & Company, 1924. First edition. Octavo. Blue ribbed, gilt-stamped cloth with ornate blind-stamping to front board; [10], 3-263 pp.; plates; dust jacket. An excitingly well-preserved copy of this exceedingly scarce Coolidge biography, one of several written in 1924. A Fine copy with gilt as bright as the... More about The Life of Calvin Coolidge

Montclair, New Jersey: The Kumquat Press, 1968. Limited ed. Square 18mo (6.5" x 6.5"); stapled, letterpressed wrappers, unpaginated. Hand-numbered 509/1,000 copies.A scarce chapbook of 11 poems by the reclusive, indigent, outsider poet, Alfred Starr Hamilton (1914-2005), published by Geof Hewitt’s small Kumquat Press in Hamilton’s home of Montclair, NJ. Although... More about Sphinx: Poems

München: Ludendorffs Verlag, 1936. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (6” x 8 ¾”), 47, [3] pp (adverts), centerfold chart. Wrappers slightly edgeworn, but VG+. In German. None others in commerce (April, 2019). A work by the enigmatic Harry Dörfel, writing under the pseudonym S. Ipares (an anagram of the Graeco-Egyptian... More about Geheime Weltmächte: Eine Abhandlung über die "Innere Regierung" der Welt

Guildford: Arnold Leese, 1949. Fifth edition [Revised]. 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm); stapled wrappers printed in black and blue; 8 pp.; pen-and-ink illus. of monstrous Jewish baby shocking his English aristocratic father while his bed-ridden, unattractive Jewish wife looks on. In this short pamphlet, Leese compiles lists of the English... More about Our Jewish Aristocracy: A Revelation

Jackson, Miss.: The Kudzu, 1969. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint; 8 pp.; illus. A single issue of this counterculture paper founded by members of the Southern Student Organizing Committee. It was issued sporadically from 1968-1972 and issues remain scarce in commerce. Standard 60s reportage on Black university struggles... More about The Kudzu, Volume 1, Number 10, March 18, 1969