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Broadside: One Big Union: Industrial Workers of the World
Recruiting circular, 17" x 14" (ca 43cm x 36cm). Printed both sides of a single sheet, with recto reproducing a modified version of Thomas Hagerty's "Wheel of Fortune," a graphic representation of the structure of the I.W.W. Industrial System. Old folds for mailing; splits and soil to extremities; small de-accession...
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MOYNIHAN, A.W.
Jack Winthrop of Old 15. A Story of School-Life in a New-York City Public School
Octavo (18cm). Printed blue wrappers; 58pp. Wrappers chipped and soiled (no loss to text); marginal discoloration to title page, else a sound, Good copy.
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CATHER, Willa
The Professor's House
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); red-orange boards quarterbound in purple, stamped in gilt on the spine with red-orange topstain; dustjacket; 284pp. Spine gilt is slightly dulled (as is nearly always the case), minor soiling to the topstain and some faint spotting to the front board, with mild foxing to the rear...
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STEINBECK, John
Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); bound in oatmeal buckram, with titles and decoration stamped in black and brown on spine and front panel; gray topstain; dustjacket; 172pp. Some trivial offset to gutters from binders glue, topstain slightly dulled, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned, with a few tiny nicks...
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STEINBECK, John
To A God Unknown
First Issue. Octavo (19.5cm); bound in light green cloth stamped in gilt on the spine, all edges trimmed, with a black topstain; dustjacket; 325pp. Front right corners lightly tapped but still sharp, upper foreedges slightly sunned, with some minor offset from jacket onto the spine; a tight, Near Fine copy...
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ROSSKAM, Edwin
The Alien. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed to Ben & Bernarda Shahn
Octavo (23cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in blue, gray and red; original Seymour Chwast dustjacket; 209pp. The dedication copy, inscribed on dedication page, below the printed dedication to Ben and Bernarda, "with all my friendship / Ed." A fine copy in slightly worn and spine-darkened jacket.
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SHAHN, Ben
Haggadah for Passover - Copied and Illustrated by Ben Shahn. With Translation, Introduction and Historical...
Quarto (30cm). Tan linen boards, stamped in gilt; original acetate dustjacket (unprinted); xx, 130pp; illus. Ben Shahn's own file copy, unsigned but with estate label tipped on to front pastedown. Two brief nicks to the acetate protector, bit of browning to margins of text; still an attractive, Near Fine copy.
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[FREETHOUGHT] [SOCIALISM] SONNANSTINE, E.E., Publisher & Editor
The Pink Iconoclast. No. 49 (Nov. 14, 1903)
Single issue. Tabloid (20" x 13"); 4pp, printed on pink paper. Slightly browned at old folds, with a few brief splits; small archival repair to tear at upper margin; Good. A well-preserved individual issue of this delightfully quirky, and very rare, newspaper devoted to freethought and radical politics. The editor...
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GROPPER, William
Original Painting: "Man With A Cane."
Oil on Masonite board. 16-1/4" x 12"; signed lower left. In original hand-made frame.
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KEPPLER, Victor
Wanted For Murder - Her Careless Talk Costs Lives!
Large poster, 99cm x 73cm (ca. 40" x 29"). Archivally backed on linen. Old folds; small, brief repairs to splits at margins; still a bright, Near Fine example; grade A-/B+.
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[UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPER] LEVY, William (ed)
Fanatic no. 2: Special Low Mindedness Issue
Folio (40cm). Original stapled, illustrated wrappers; 12pp (incl. wrappers). Light soil and rubbing to margins; Very Good.
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MELVILLE, Herman
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Octavo (19cm); Blanck's first binding of slate A cloth with embossed circular publisher's device to front and rear boards; [i-xxiv], [1]-[635] + 6pp. publisher's ads. Original orange-coated endpapers. A good, unrestored copy. Spine has faded to tan, with consequent dulling to gilt; small losses to cloth at spine ends, joints...
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MOOR, Dmitri [et al]
Bezbozhnik u Stanka ["The Godless in the Workplace"]. 1925, no. 6
Quarto. Illustrated wrappers; 20pp. Single issue of this outspoken Soviet freethought newspaper, published from 1922 to 1931. A surprisingly bright, unworn copy, Near Fine and without the usual toning and chipping to the external wrappers. A little raggedness along the bound edge, suggesting that this issue may have been removed...
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[NATIVE AMERICANS] [MEDICINE] MADDOX, John Lee (A.G. Keller fwd)
The Medicine Man: a Sociological Study of the Character and Evolution of Shamanism
Maroon cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xv, 330pp; bibliog; index; errata. A very well-preserved copy, clean and unmarked with scattered tanning to a few pages (apparently from use of sub-standard paper in a few signatures); still quite fresh overall and in the very scarce dustjacket, corner-clipped by the publisher with stamped...
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NORRIS, Frank
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
Octavo (20cm); red "T" cloth, stamped in white on spine and front cover; [i-vi], 442, [4]pp. First printing (per Blanck), with "moment" the final word on p. 106; McElrath's third state, with plates properly imposed and pagination of 25th signature correct. Spine slightly sunned, very minor rubbing and wear to...
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HUGHES, Langston (story); DECARAVA, Roy (photographs)
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
First Printing. Small octavo (19cm); black paper over boards, quarterbound in white cloth with titles stamped in black on the spine; dustjacket; 98pp; illus. Fading to upper board edges, mild offset from jacket title onto front panel, with a touch of darkening in the front gutter; Very Good+. The unclipped...
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Anon.
"Trash?" [Anonymous manuscript poem of 149 lines (5pp) in the voice of a Depression-era refugee]
Original typescript, 5pp on ruled bond. Typed rectos-only. Light soil; single horizontal fold; Very Good.
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[ANARCHISM] [ITALIAN-AMERICAN IMPRINTS] "MENTANA" (pseud Luigi Galleani)
Madri d'Italia! per Augusto Masetti
Narrow octavo (21cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 24pp. Mild creasing and toning to cover wraps, else clean and complete; Very Good.
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[COLD MOUNTAIN PRESS] NERUDA, Pablo; LEVERTOV, Denise; STAFFORD, William (others)
Pablo Neruda 1904-1973. Album of 10 Signed Poetry Post Cards
12mo. Folding sleeve holding ten signed broadside poems (5" x 6-1/2"), loose as issued, comprising the entire "First Series" of the Cold Mountain Press Poetry Post Cards. One of fifty sets, with each contribution signed by the author. Fine condition.
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GIBRAN, Kahlil
The Madman: His Parables and Poems
First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black paper covered boards over quarter navy blue cloth, with titling in gilt on the spine and front cover; 71pp. Two tiny bumps to the upper edge of the front board, paper worn with some minor board exposure at the corner tips, with the spine gilt...
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FAULKNER, William
Requiem For A Nun
Limited Issue, one of 750 numbered copies signed by the author. Octavo (21cm); marbled paper over black clothbound boards, with titling and rule stamped in gilt on spine; 286pp. Some trivial soil to text edges and preliminary pages, with a touch of rubbing to paper at lower board edges; Near...
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O'CONNOR, Flannery
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
First State of the text, with "tyring" for "trying" on page 125. Octavo (21cm.); black textured boards with titles stamped in pink and orange on the spine; dustjacket; 251pp. Near Fine, but for a few pinpoint rubs along the edges. The First Issue dustjacket is unclipped, displaying the usual fading...
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[COMMUNISM - ITALY - PARTITO COMMUNISTA ITALIANO] PRATI, Luciano
Original lithographed poster: Venti anni di lotta per abbattere la dittatura - Bandiere rosse contro...
Lithographed poster (offset) in three colors; 100cm x 70cm (ca 40" x 28"); on heavy paper. Minor toning; light creases at margins; Near Fine - Grade A/A-.
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[FABIANS] SHAW, George Bernard
Fabianism and the Empire: A Manifesto by The Fabian Society
12mo (18cm). Original blue printed wrappers; 101pp. Small, neat repair to front wrapper at hinge, else a clean, attractive copy with just minor rubbing and wear to extremities.
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