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

[n.p.]: Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co., 1890. First edition. Oblong (28 x 17.5 cm); unpaginated [24] pp.; chromolithographs. Cord-tied illustrated covers. This scarce album was offered by Arbuckles Notion Department as a premium and contains illustrations of all 50 cards in the zoological series, arranged four to a page with the... More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. Fourth printing. Octavo. Blue buckram boards pictorially printed in red; x, 244 pp.; photographs. An About Fine copy with some very slight rubbing to extremities. The scarce dust jacket is unclipped ($1.00 stamped in black) and is easily Very Good. Some slight rubbing and... More

London: The Pioneer Press, 1946. Third edition. Twelvemo (18.5 mm x 12.5 mm). Blue marbled wrappers ruled and lettered in black; 132 pp. [4 pp., adverts]. This publication initiated by the Secular Society, an organization formed by the author in 1898 to espouse his secularist or freethought worldview. Cohen (1868-1954)... More

Boston: O. S. Fowler, 1869. First edition. Large octavo (24 cm); vi, 236, [12] pp (bound in); illus. Brown pebbled cloth, blind-ruling to both boards, title gilt-stamped to front board. Very light wear to boards; spine a little sunned; owner's name to front endpaper. Fowler was a famous phrenologist and... More

London: Britons Publishing Society, 1961. First printing. 12mo; stapled wrappers, 47 pp. This booklet combines a lecture given by George at Dartmouth College in 1956 (Human Progress and the Race Problem) and his pamphlet, “Race, Heredity and Civilization.” The publisher’s forward addresses a British audience and the “major colour problem... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First edition. 12mo. Green cloth stamped in gilt; xi, [6], 70 pp.; photographic plates; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy. Light flaking of gilt; dust-soiling to top edge; browning to endpapers from jacket flaps; plates are a trifle foxed. A card has been tipped... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 57, [5] pp. In this contribution to the Key to Culture series, freethinker, Joseph McCabe, explores: I. Reading the Riddle of Nature II. Wonders of the Microscope III. The Bacteria IV. How the Plant Feeds V. The Leafy Canopy VI. The Evolution... More

London: The Fuller Engineering Company, 1920? 24.5 x 18.5 cm; 24 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled booklet, staples oxidized and bleeding a little. Some general rubbing with a few marks of soiling to rear cover, but overall a Very Good copy. This article was originally printed in "The Textile Recorder" and seems... More

San Francisco: Liberty & Property, [196-?]. Fourth printing. Tall, stapled wrappers (23 x 10 cm), 17, [1] pp. Anti-miscegenation pamphlet from Dr. Bela Hubbard, who argues that voluntary segregation is the only practical solution to prevent race-mixing, which leads to the degeneration of both races. Published by Property & Liberty... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Fifth edition. Pink and grey-stamped copse with gilt lettering to front board; heavy octavo. xxiii, 533, [7] (adverts), pp. With 178 illustrations from photographs and with 162 illustrations from drawings. Bookplate of Southern High School, Philadelphia, to front pastedown; red stamp to two pages... More

London: John Van Voorst, 1852. First English language edition. Octavo; viii, 158, [2] pp.; one illustrative plate and numerous woodcuts. Publisher's blind-ruled, green, pebbled cloth; gilt titling to spine. Top corners are chipped and rounded with some chipping to crown (slight loss, not affecting title); dust-soiled top edge; owner's name... More

Parry, New Jersey: John R. Parry, 1897. First edition. 19 x 14 cm; 157, [1], pp.; ill. Stapled, perfect-bound black wrappers with dulled lettering to front wrapper and dulled design to rear. Wrappers rubbed with some white flecking and chipping to top edge; dampstaining throughout with a small chunk missing... More