Gillingham, Dorset: The Blackmore Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto (28.5 cm); 199 pp.; illustrations; photographs; maps; dust jacket. Foam green cloth with gilt stamping to front board and spine. A near fine copy with just a hint of sunning to board edges. Scarce original dust jacket is very good with..... More
[Philadelphia]: [National Conference of Black Social Workers], 1969. One 8 ½” x 11” sheet (pre-registration form) and two 8 ½” x 14” sheets, one landscape all mimeographed on rectos only. The pre-registration form is blank and has a small piece missing from the bottom left corner with scribbled notes to..... More
An 8 ½” x 11” flyer for a United Klans of America rally held in Suffolk, VA. The “White Public” was invited to hear special guest speaker, Robert M. Shelton (UKA Imperial Wizard), Robert H. Hudgins (Grand Dragon), Lewy Williams (Grand Klaliff), Calvin B. Williams (Grand Klarogo) and Robert Williams..... More
New York: American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, [1961]. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ½”), 15 pp, two illustrations and three photographs. A Fine copy. Eight copies located in WorldCat institutions. An uncommon pamphlet published by the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, an..... More
Bowling Green, Ohio: Anarcho-Media Collective, 1972. 8vo; stapled, wrappers (7” x 8 ½”), 17 pp, illus. The first (?) of only two issues published of this countercultural anarchist journal by students at Bowling Green State Univ. in 1972. Most of the content is reprinted from LNS and includes stories on..... More
New York: National Renaissance Party, [196-?]. An 8½” x 11” sheet printed on recto only. Reprints a satiric article published in "The Citizen," the journal of the Citizens' Council, in which a liberal journalist tries to interview Martin Luther King, Jr. while continually being pelted by rocks from "peaceful" black..... More
![Dragon, No. 10 [final issue]. Bay Area Research Collective](/pictures/thumb/06761.jpg?v=1563632217)
Berkeley: Bay Area Research Collective, 1976. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (7” x 8 ½”), 57 pp, illus. A Fine copy. The final issue of this Bay Area Research Collective publication, which served as an aboveground mouthpiece for a variety of leftist terrorist groups including the Symbionese Liberation Army, New World..... More
Berkeley: Bay Area Research Collective, [1976]. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (7” x 8 ½”), 41 pp printed on different colored stock, illus. A Fine copy. One of 1250 copies printed of this issue. A single issue of this Bay Area Research Collective publication, which served as an aboveground mouthpiece for..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1923. First edition. Octavo; brown cloth, illustrated endpapers; 256 pp.; 15 photographs, 4 watercolor reproductions and 4 pencil sketches done by the author on the spot. The author, an English artist, traveller, author and lecturer, recounts her 600 mile journey through Kashmir..... More
New York: F. M. Lupton, 1893. Reprint. 8vo; original printed wrappers; 64 pp. The abridged reprint of the early American detective title, "Leaves From the Note-Book of a New York Detective: The Private Record of J.B" published by Dick & Fitzgerald in 1865. Purported to be the memoirs of a...... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, ©1970. Second printing. 8vo.; blue cloth pictorially embossed, spine lettered in silver, red topstain, 201 pp, dust jacket. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. An autobiographical novel about the author’s drug addiction set in Manhattan during the summer of the Newark riots (1967). When..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First edition. Twelvemo. Red cloth boards with gilt spine; 104 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. An about Near Fine copy with some dust-soiling to cloth and page edges in a Very Good dust jacket, which is rubbed and dust-soiled with some minor chipping to..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. Original side-stapled wrappers; 81 pp. A series of statements by religious figures and (mostly female) temperance advocates in favor of banning the sale of alcohol at Army canteens. Some dissenting statements by military figures who argue that its easier to control the quantity their men..... More
Chicago: General Defense Committee, [1932]. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (5 ¾” x 8 ¾”), 27 pp., four photographs. Some browning to wrappers, but a surprisingly well-preserved copy. Scarce in commerce, with no other copies currently available (July, 2019). Less than two dozen copies in OCLC. A sympathetic account of the..... More
Milwaukee, WI: Published by the author, 1920. Third edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers; 64 pp. In this uncommon patriotic publication, Milwaukee history teacher, Winfred Howe, provides "an exposure of the Hearst-inspirited [sic] Sinn Fein-German-Bolshevist propaganda, "The Poison in America's Cup," which was published in 1919 by a notable Hearst journalist, Philip..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 12mo. (18.5 cm); burgundy ribbed cloth with gilt spine; 382 pp., [2] pp., adverts; one plate - NYC Poverty Map prepared by Mr. Lawrence Veiller for the Tenement House Commission of 1900. The author attempts to "define poverty and to estimate its extent at..... More
Istanbul: Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakf, 1996. First edition. Quarto-size (28 cm). Yellow paper-covered boards; xv, 446 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. A massive tome of the urban history of Instanbul, Byzantium and Constantinople with many illustrations and photographs. In Turkish. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket..... More
[New York: Marxist-Leninist Party], 1971. First edition. Three corner-stapled 8 ½” x 14” mimeographed sheets folded, 6 pp. Some offsetting to rear sheet, else VG+. No record for this document found in WorldCat. The first draft of the MLP’s program was initially published in the inaugural issue of its organ, “The..... More
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1895. First edition. Octavo. Brown cloth stamped in gilt; floral endpapers; 136 pp. An about Fine copy with some faint stains to rear board. The author graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was an ordained minister before abandoning traditional Christian theism "to look no..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers. Reprint. 8vo; blue cloth printed in red, blue topstain, viii, 299 pp, [3] pp, adverts.; dust jacket. From the jacket: "Derek Bentley, some time of Cambridge University, more recently of Chung Kee's grogshop on a small East Indian island, takes a job on a...... More
![Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves…Manifesto [cover title]. Adrian PEACOCK](/pictures/thumb/06993.jpg?v=1570389843)
London: Reknaw/Repetitive Fame Injury Press, ©1999. First edition. Tall 4to., stapled wrappers (8 ¼” x 11 ¾”), 52 pp. Rubbing to wrappers, sticker remnant to front & rear wrappers, about Near Fine. A revised, expanded edition was published in 2001 by Ellipsis in London and remains readily available, but this..... More
4to (28 x 21.5 cm); wrappers; 45 pp.; illus. The inaugural issue of this journal published by the National Black Liberation Commission of the Communist Party. The theme for this first issue was national liberation in Southern Africa and Angola. Content includes a 1946 speech by Paul Robeson, "Anti-Imperialists Must..... More
![These Are the Guilty [with] The Road to Reversal [two items]. Carleton PUTNAM](/pictures/thumb/06264.jpg?v=1555775563)
New York and Washington, D.C.: National Putnam Letters Committee, 1963-63. First edition. Plain, stapled wrappers, 27; 26 pp. Light edgewear to Road, else both Near Fine. Two addresses given by the businessman and segregationist, Carleton Putnam, in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., respectively. In both addresses, Putnam expounds on the..... More
![Washington May Go [cover title]. Red Engine Collective](/pictures/thumb/02941.jpg?v=1541864945)
Washington, D.C.: Red Engine Collective, [1971]. First edition. Tabloid format printed in many colors on both newsprint and paper; 8 pp.; illustrated. One of the more graphically striking underground publications we've seen, this item was apparently placed in Washington DC's underground paper, the "Quicksilver Times," in the lead up to..... More
Huntington, W. VA: West Virginia Anti-Communist League, Inc., [195-]. First edition. Stapled wrappers (6” x 9”), 8 pp, illus. Light edge wear, but Near Fine. Two copies in OCLC (Michigan State & National Library of Israel). Scarce. An anti-Semitic pamphlet from the West Virginia Anti-Communist League, in which its director, Forrest..... More