New Milford, NJ: Maranatha Press, 1972. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 4 pp, photographs. A promotional piece announcing Jesus Joy!, a Jesus movement musical event featuring Maranatha, Rock Garden, Danny Taylor, Andrae Croch and the Disciples, and Lillian Parker. In Jeanne DeFazio's Berkeley Street Theatre: How Improvisation and Street Theater..... More
[New York: Marxist-Leninist Party], [1971]. An 8 ½” x 11” mimeographed broadside published by the ultra-orthodox Marxist-Leninist Party on the true nature of May Day. The MLP contends that the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeoisie have co-opted May Day with their “solemn ceremonies of bourgeois ‘Law Day’ carried out by the dust-covered..... More
[Le Mans]: [Joel Bellenfant], [ca. 1969]. First edition. Stapled, mimeographed wrappers (5 ¼” x 8”), [16] pp. In French. LIMITED to 150 copies. Some rubbing and light soiling to wrappers, but VG. We were unable to locate a record for this journal in WorldCat, or how many total issues were..... More
[Philadelphia: Black Panther Party], [ca. 1970]. An 8½" x 11" flyer mimeographed on yellow stock. Fine. An intentional provocation from the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party to the Philadelphia police department. Featuring a crude drawing of pig wearing a cop uniform alongside the “Definition of a PIG: A...... More
New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1906. First edition. 12mo; red, pictorial cloth, 264 pp, illus by Charles Russell, dust jacket. Bertha Muzzy Sinclair's (1871-1940) first Western novel which introduced readers to the fictional Flying U Ranch. The book was adopted to film four times. An about Near Fine copy..... More
[Brooklyn]: Butterfly Collective, 1972. Five corner-stapled leaves, 10 pp, illus. Some offsetting to front cover, else Near Fine. No record for this publication in OCLC. An independent publication by a collective at Brooklyn College. Articles critical of the Jewish Defense League, on women’s lib issues, the establishment of the “liberation library,”..... More
New York: National Renaissance Party, [1963?]. An 8½” x 11” flyer on blue stock featuring a racist article by Tennessee historian, Mary Winslow Chapman, which first appeared in the April, 1963, issue of “The Citizen,” the journal of the Citizens’ Council. In her derisive article, Chapman declares, “The Negro’s problems..... More
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Chico, CA: Chico Rising, 1971. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint; 12 pp.; 16 pp. Two consecutive issues of this underground, Berkeley Barb-style newspaper out of Chico, CA, which still exists today as the alternative Chico News & Review. Contents include standard countercultural fare, including abortion rights, legal rights..... More
![America Is In Danger! Fellow Americans: Unite to Destroy the Nazi Menace! [broadside title]....](/pictures/thumb/02780.jpg?v=1559004420)
Boston: Communist Party of Mass. [1941]. A 9 ¼” x 12 ¼” broadside printed on newsprint and featuring a crudely drawn, swastika-adorned snake. Issued by the Communist Party of Massachusetts in 1941, the Party advocates "immediate action for defense of our nation," for increased material support to the Soviet Union..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1937. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth with gilt spine; 244 pp.; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with a slightly dust-soiled, foxed top edge in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket is a trifle rubbed, spine a bit browned and a small closed..... More
n.p., n.d. Nine corner-stapled 8½” x 11” mimeographed sheets printed rectos only. An influential essay from the one-time Maoist and co-founder of Revolutionary Union, H. Bruce Franklin, which initially appeared in RU’s Red Papers 2, and later “Modern Review.” Franklin resituates the Marxian term ‘lumpenproletariat’ to describe the section of..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1910. Second printing. 8vo (19.5 cm); brown cloth with cream and blue-stamped illustration to front board & spine, viii, 382, [6] pp.; frontis, illus, maps, dust jacket. Page edges show very faint foxing, shallow grazing, about Near Fine. Very scarce dust jacket is rubbed..... More
Wyandotte, Michigan: Independent Publishers, 1953. First edition. Red card wrappers (5 ¼” x 7 ½”) with anti-Semitic illustration to cover, 111 pp., illus. Very light wear to wrappers, about Near Fine. Nine copies in WorldCat institutions. Through a series of conversations with an old Russian (with the authentic Russian name..... More
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. Limited ed. 12mo. (18.75 cm); brown paper over vellum with gilt spine; pages printed in green and black; 57 pp.; illustrated frontis by John La Farge. A poem by the American poet, writer, racehorse owner/breeder, socialite and philanthropist, Helen Julia Jay Whitney. Paper chipping..... More
![The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table [Two Vols.]. Oliver Wendell HOLMES, Howard PYLE, with](/pictures/thumb/01819.jpg?v=1543185887)
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Two octavo volumes bound in rust-colored, gilt-stamped cloth; top edgs gilt; xvi, 219, [1] pp.; vi, [221]-474 pp.; illustrations by Howard Pyle. A Near Fine set with only some age-soiling to cloth. 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
Amsterdam: International Federation of Trade Unions, 1929. First edition. Octavo; stiff wrappers with Käthe Kollwitz cover illustration; 63 pp.; photographs. An anti-war publication told primarily through a collection of horrific photographs supplied by Ernst Friedrich, Director of the Anti-War Museum in Berlin. Published by the International Federation of Trade Unions..... More
Milwaukee: The Victims of Marxian Plague, 1938. First edition. A pamphlet said to have originally been printed in German with an unidentified translator’s preface dated 1936 from Corona, CA, and then published in Milwaukee for the first time two years later under the unknown Victims of Marxian Plague imprint. Stridently..... More
Holyoke, Massachusetts: Asgard House, 1965. Tabloid format printed on high quality paper, 4 pp, illus. Horizontal fold, else Fine. Included is an 8 ½” x 11” subscriber’s form. Apparently unrecorded. No record in OCLC and an intensive internet search turned up zero results. Described as “a new publication of European heritage..... More
Macomb, Illinois: Bitter Carrot Publications, Inc., 1974. 4to; stapled, magazine format, 50 pp, illus. Light wear to wrappers; a few tiny closed tears to the bottom corner of newsprint pages, VG overall. We find less than a dozen institutions holding any issues in WorldCat. A single issue of this..... More
London: The Mazdaznan Association, 1935. First edition. Square 4to (24.5 x 19 cm); blue cloth stamped in gilt; various pagination, but most issues run 20-24 pp.; photographs, adverts. A scarce, specially bound run of the first twelve issues of the organ of the Mazdaznan Association. Edited by Capt. William Plenderleith..... More
![From the Corner of His Eye [SIGNED]. Dean KOONTZ](/pictures/thumb/05133.jpg?v=1520132205)
New York: Bantam Books, 2000. First edition. 8vo.; faux puffy leather boards stamped in silver; illustrated endpapers; 622 pp. SIGNED by Koontz at first blank. One of a limited number of a pre-publication edition issued by the publisher. A Fine copy. More
Philadelphia: The Golden Lotus Press, 1947. First edition. 4to.; side-stapled, mimeographed wrappers, 159-175 pp (printed rectos only). Chipping to wrappers, heavier to rear wrapper which is detached; darkening to wrapper edges and dampstain along spine. A Good, complete copy. Less than a dozen institutions hold scattered issues in WorldCat. A single..... More
Portland, [ME]: Published for the Society, 1853. First edition. Octavo (23 cm); xvi, [5], vi-viii, [1], 10-447 pp.; two folding maps precede the text. Original, blind-stamped and ruled brown cloth; gilt spine. Some very light chipping to board edges with the slightest of loss to spine ends; moderate foxing/toning to..... More
New York: A & C Boni, 1932. First edition. Twelvemo. Light grey cloth stamped in black and silver; dark topstain; green & black-printed title page; xii, 306 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with some sunning to board edges. The unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket is a trifle rubbed..... More