- Joe Hill's "Workers of the World Awaken" sheet music. One folded page with a vibrantly illustrated cover. 1970s reprint, published by Glad Day Press. - Illustrated gummed paper label by Glad Day Press of Ithaca, NY reading "Join the IWW for a New Dawn: 4-Hour Day" (c1970). - Teddy..... More
[1978]. First edition. Paperback. Slim octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled brown and black printed wraps. Near fine condition. Among the Friends of Malvina Reynolds are Pete Seeger, Rosalie Sorrels, Janet Smith, Country Joe McDonald, and Ray Bierl. More
London: Freedom Press, 1992. Paperback. 112pp. Octavo [21 cm] Orange, brown, black and and white illustrated wraps. Very good. There are small nicks in the paper near the ends of the spine. Subjects include The gardens of Cocagne, Coming back to Earth, Green Anarchism, Nature conservation as a land use..... More
Hanoi, Democratic Republic of Vietnam: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1965. Saddle stitch. 57 pp. Trigesimo-segundo. [13 cm]. Yellow illustrated wraps. Previous owner's sticker on verso of front wrap. Some scuffing to top and bottom fore edges of wraps. Pages toned. With political cartoons satirizing U.S. military and political activity during..... More
Shoemaker & Company, 2022. First edition. Paperback. 513pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. Wendell Berry demands "a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others." He writes, "To deal with so great a problem..... More
United States of America: AK Press, 2020. Reprint. Paperback. 123pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Black cover with colored gradient back cover. From the publisher: In this bold and expansive treatise, Marquis Bey seeks to define the shape of a Black anarchism—not, he says, by listing “all the Black people who are..... More
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2023. First edition. Paperback. 282pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Compiles interviews with dozens of people who worked together during the waning decades of the twentieth century to reveal an inspiring collaboration between groups of immigrants, civil rights activists, militant youth, and queer organizers. This oral history..... More
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022. First edition. Paperback. 147pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Spans a wide range of topics including journalism, science, religion, the racist foundations of American society, education as indoctrination, issues of class and resistance, colonialism, imperialism, and much more." More
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022. First edition. Paperback. 439pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Reading Chomsky is about understanding how society works, how people relate to society and social trends, and, beyond the specifics, how to approach events, relations, occurrences, and patterns in a way that reveals their inner meanings and..... More
Frankfurt: Verlag Roter Stern, 1970. Perfect bound pamphlet. 31 pp pamphlet. Octavo. [24 cm]. Green paper wraps. Some staining to wraps, corners curled and rubbed. Very mild toning and tearing to edges. "A Class Analysis of the Black Panther Party". German edition of Eldridge Cleaver's pamphlet with information covering the..... More
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2021. Second edition. Paperback. 323pp. Octavo [23 cm] Yellow, green and black printed wraps. In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis..... More
New York: Center for United Labor Action, 1973. First edition. Saddle stitch. 33 pp. Octavo. [21 cm]. Red pictorial wraps. Some minor toning to spine. Extremely light wear to extremities. Vincent Copeland's importance in the workers movement of mid century New York cannot be understated. He was a founding member..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Olympus Publishing, 1977. Hardcover. 264pp. Octavo. Price sticker on rear board. More
New York: Seven Stories Press. 21st printing. Softcover. 127 pp. Duodecimo. [18 cm]. Pictorial wraps. "ith her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life..... More
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016. Later printing. Paperback. 158pp Duodecimo [19 cm] Red wraps with black and white text. In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, May, 1953. First edition. Paperback. 48pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Pamphlet bound in green, white and black printed wraps. Very good condition, with a previous owner's name and brief numerical notation at the head of the title page. Summation Speech to the Jury in the Second..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, November, 1941. First edition. Paperback. 30pp. Slim sextodecimo [19 cm] Stapled tan and black printed wraps. Good. The covers are nearly completely detached, the left fore edge corners of the covers and pages are chipped with loss, and the pages are darkened. Gurley's pamphlet discussing..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, July, 1961. First edition. Paperback. 22pp. Skinny duodecimo [19.5 cm] Stapled black and white printed wraps. Very good condition. From the publisher- "This pamphlet is a call to struggle against this infamous decision upholding the Smith Act membership clause and the accompanying decision upholding the..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, March, 1949. First edition. Paperback. 48pp. Thin sextodecimo [18.5 cm] Stapled blue and white printed wraps. Very good plus condition. Flynn wrote this tract when Bill Foster was under arrest with eleven other members of the National Committee of the Communist Party. They were accused..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1948. First edition. Paperback. 22pp. Slim sextodecimo [18.5 cm] Stapled black and white printed wraps. Very good condition. A pamphlet written by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the first woman to head the American Communist Party, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, and an IWW..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. 127pp. Quarto. Pictorial wraps. NEW. From the back cover: "The famous Wobbly poet, songwriter and organizer was executed in Salt Lake City on November 19, 1915. Many felt that he was not guilty of the murder he was charged with, that he did..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. 333pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Blue wraps with white text. From the publisher: Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the..... More
Brooklyn: Melville House, 2016. Later printing. Paperback. 261pp. [20.75 cm] Pink and white wraps with black text. From the publisher: Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really..... More
Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1964. Hardcover. 310pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth covered boards with red ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Good. Ex-library. There are roughly 6 tape stains on the covers. The spine has evidence of a once-present library label. "Withdrawn" stamp on the..... More
Circa 1962. First edition. Paperback. 19pp. Tall skinny octavo [22 cm] Stapled white and black printed wraps. Very good condition. From the Foreword- "The Gus Hall- Benjamin J. Davis Defense Committee is responsible for the legal defense of all organizations or persons attacked under the Communist-action provisions of the Subversive..... More