New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First edition. Twelvemo. Blue cloth with gilt spine; red and black-printed title page; 266 pp. A Near Fine copy with negligibly sun-kissed spine; bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Lacking the dust jacket. More

Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 2002. Limited Edition. Beverly Allen's short memoir about her fleeting relationship with novelist Richard Brautigan told through her prose, letters, and photographs. Allen was the model for Brautigan's book Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt and also appeared on the cover of a later edition of A...... More

New York: International Publishers, 1935. An autobiographical novel by the German sociologist Paul Massing on his imprisonment by the Nazis in an internment camp in Germany due to his membership in the German Communist Party. Fatherland, which was partly serialized in the New Masses, became one of the first accounts..... More

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1890. First American edition. 12mo. Khaki cloth boards decoratively stamped in silver and burgundy; 199 pp.; five illustrations. A morality tale about the evils of gambling. A better-than-average copy with some soiling to cloth and gift inscription to ffep; VG+. More

Amherst: Drum, 1978. A single issue of this long-running, irregularly published black literary magazine published by students UMass-Amherst from 1969-1988. Content for this issue includes fiction by Jenée Gaskin, interviews with Dr. Carol Carter on sexism, playwright Larry Neal on aesthetics and culture. Dr. Femi Richards on design, pianist Oscar..... More

Shreveport, LA: Citizens' Councils, [196-?]. A composite of two lengthy excerpts from Thomas Dixon's novels The Clansman and The Leopard's Spots on the bestial nature of blacks and their threat to white supremacy during the Reconstruction era. Originally published in the Citizens' Councils' newspaper, "The Councilor," and issued by that..... More

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. First trade edition. Twelvemo. Blue, gilt-stamped cloth; yellow topstain; 371 pp.; dust jacket. A Fine copy with tiny bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. In a Very Good+, slightly rubbed and browning dust jacket, which is unclipped ($2.50); some very light chipping to..... More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929. First edition. 12mo. (19 cm). 1/2 leather, 1/2 textured paper with gilt-stamped spine and five raised bands; top edge gilt; xv, [1], [2], 3-342 pp. INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page to John Haynes Holmes who provides the introduction..... 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

New York: George H. Doran, 1927. 12mo. (19.5 cm); orange cloth stamped in black; viii, 314 pp. Lost-race novel from the Anglo-Indian soldier and writer, Martin Louis Gompertz. Adventure, prophecy, and the repeatedly articulated theory that Aryans and Mongoloids are natural enemies with Aryans superior (Bleiler, 836). Cloth slightly worn..... More

New York: National Publishing Company, 1892. 12mo.; original printed wrappers; [4], 284, [5], 2-25, [3] pp. A novel from the British military officer, prison administrator and author, Major Arthur Griffiths, in which the “Wrong Road” leads to jail and the scaffold. A surprisingly well-preserved copy of a fragile and cheaply..... More

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

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1926. Third printing. New and Cheaper edition. Octavo. Orange cloth stamped in red; blue topstain; xxiii, 296 pp.; frontispiece; dust jacket. A Very Good copy with some errant scuffing; clean internally. The scarce dust jacket is price-clipped, rubbed and browned to spine with..... More