New York: The New York Times Company, 1919. Elephant folio-size (16.25" x 11"), stapled wrappers; [24] pp. (includes covers); illustrated. This issue of the "New York Times'" Mid-Week Pictorial focused on Bolshevik Russia with photographs showing the damaged Kremlin, Bolshevik troops, Trotsky addressing a crowd, street celebrations following the revolution... More
n.p., [1944]. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (4 ¾” x 6 ½”), [2], 10 pp. Wear, horizontal crease from folding; tissue repair along the bottom edge with tape repair reinforcing staple, a Good copy of a fragile and scarce item. Five copies in WorldCat (Princeton, Yale, Univ. of Michigan, Michigan State, and... More
[Elmira, N. Y.]: The Summary Press, 1927. Octavo (23.5 cm); 92 pp of text; 80 pp. of plates; large fold-out plate of New York State Reformatory Inmate Military Organization measuring approximately 48 x 18.5". Red, gilt-stamped cloth; corners bumped and a trifle worn. Previous owner's name stamped to bottom edge... More
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1930. First edition. Octavo. Stapled, plain wrappers with North Carolina map to front cover; 14 pp. A scarce and important report on the violence perpetrated against organized workers in Gastonia and Marion, NC. The information is organized in the form of a timeline for... More
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937. First edition. Tall octavo (23.5 cm). Black cloth with gilt spine; xvii, 297 pp.; dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the ffep. With a foreword by Horace Taylor. From the front panel: "In this interesting and timely book the author... More
Venice, Calif.: Midnight Special, 1970. First edition. 4to.; brown, stapled wrappers with Palestinian militant raising a gun; 12 pp.; illustrations, photographs. A bibliography of pamphlets on the many issues plaguing the Middle East in 1970. Divided into six sections: I. "On the Jewish Question" II. "Zionism and Israel" III. Peaceful... More
Surrey: Candour Publishing Company, 1954. First edition. Three uniform booklets in grey, yellow and green textured wrappers printed in black; 20; 21; 22 pp. A collection of articles by Chesterton addressing the precariousness of the British Empire, Communism etc., as well as introducing his readers to the newly-formed League of... More
New York: Gotham Press, 1908. First edition. Octavo (20.5 cm); iv, [8], 392, viii pp.; illus. Blue ribbed cloth stamped in gilt; gilt to spine slightly dulled. Very minor rubbing; rear corner has a crease. Bookplate appears to have been removed from the pastedown; "Springfield Hobby Center" written in ink... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. Octavo (20.5 cm); green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black over beveled boards; iv, 326 pp., [6] pp., adverts. First published in 1877, de Amicis' evocative account of Constantinople remains one of the most popular depictions of the city and was republished... More
New York: The Alliance, Inc., 1958. First printing. Stapled wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ½”), 76 pp.; photostat excerpted articles. Some very light wear and shallow creasing to wrappers; rear wrapper browning, VG or better. Uncommon in the trade. The author contends that race hatred in the U.S. is fomented... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942. First edition. Octavo (21 cm); xxi, 337 pp.; photographic frontispiece of Haushofer; maps. Red cloth boards stamped in black to front board and spine. A Very Good copy lacking the dust jacket. Some minor scuffing and rubbing to cloth. The working copy of... More
Stockton: The Pilot Connection, 1991. First edition. 4to; wrappers, 24 pp. A single issue of “The Connector,” the newsletter of the tax protest group, The Pilot Connection Society. This issue introduces the group’s new program, New Nation USA (NNUSA), to which readers are urged to pledge allegiance to by sending..... More
[København]: Gyldendal, 1945. First edition. Octavo. Light blue wrappers; 160 pp.; photographic plates. In this Danish language account, roughly translated to "How We Cheated the Gestapo," physician, Jørgen Gersfelt, relays the harrowing episodes ferrying Jews around Nazi-occupied Denmark using his special doctor's license which allowed him to travel at night..... More
New York: Robert Carter & Brother, 1879? First American edition. Octavo. Brown cloth ornately stamped in black and gilt; vi, [3], 2-342 pp., [1] adverts. Although there is no date printed anywhere in the book, a contemporary ownership signature dated 1879 leads us to believe that the Robert Carter edition... More
Philadelphia: Elijah Weaver, 1834. First edition. Octavo. Contemporary 3/4 paper over cloth boards; viii, 279 pp. Lacking paper spine label; paper to board edges chipped; heavy foxing throughout, which is typical for this title. A Good, but complete and tight copy. Famous legal case of internecine Quaker squabbling. More
New York: American Defense Society, 1919. First edition. Stapled yellow wrappers printed in black; 48 pp. A scarce pamphlet by the noted hunter, taxidermist, zoologist and conservationist, William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937), who expounds on the growing threat of Bolshevism in the U.S. and what must be done to “strangle the... More
Washington, D.C.: Hubbard Association of Scientologists, Int. 1953. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Perfect-bound paperback; iii, 123 pp.; illus. A scarce first edition of How To Live Though an Executive with the requisite statement: "The manuscript of this book was prepared by Richard deMille [sic] who helped in the development... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. First edition. Octavo; cloth boards with red titling to spine; 214 pp.; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with glue darkening under endpapers in a Near Fine dust jacket, which is lightly worn with a few tiny nicks to the edges. Koestler's harrowing philosophical... More
Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1981. First edition. Tall 4to.; grey cloth boards; 96 pp. The author has performed a thankless task in assembling the names of 3,872 Confederate Northern Virginia soldiers killed at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, which he estimates is approximately 85% complete. Tables at the front tabulate by... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. First printing. Octavo. Perfectbound paperback; ix, 94 pp.; black & white photographs. Stated 'First Printing' of Lyon's seminal photojournalistic documentation of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, of which he was a member from 1963-67. The first half of the book is photographs (one per... More
Brooklyn: Ansaaru Allah Publications, 1988. First edition. Stapled card wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ½”), 36, [11] pp, illus. Vertical crease down the center, some soiling, VG. WorldCat shows one copy of a revised edition at San Diego State, none of this first edition. The black cult leader and convicted child... More
London: E. Lahr, 1931. 12mo; stapled, newsprint wrappers, 12 pp. This edition limited to 2,247,365 copies with each copy signed by the Author with a rubber stamp. O’Flaherty’s short, playful attack on capitalism, whereby the unemployed would be substituted for pets of the upper class. The publisher’s notice on the..... 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
Oscawana-On-Hudson, NY: Upland Farms Alliance, ©1901 [ca. 1903]. 8vo; green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, t.e.g., 216 pp. In this classic New Thought work, the author examines the way man can achieve dominion and power over his soul, or what he calls “the kingdom of God.” He also expounds on..... More
New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1879. First edition. 12mo. Red cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black; blue endpapers. xii, 303, [10, adverts]; frontispiece; illus. A Very Good copy with only a hint of rubbing to cloth; some slight mottling to rear board. Some scattered foxing throughout... More
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