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: Picador, 1998. Later printing. Paperback. 355 pp. Octavo. White and red spine. In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambiguous case..... 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 "Withdrawn" stamp on the.....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
Chicago: Mrs. B. S. Heath, 1891. Fifth edition. Hardcover. 302pp. Octavo [20 cm] Light and dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles and gilt and black ink stamped embellishments on the spine and front cover. The text block edges have the publisher's red stain. Floral patterned endpapers and..... More
[Salt Lake City, UT]: Self-published. Hardcover. 473pp. Octavo [23 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. More
Salt Lake City, UT: Ammon Hennacy Publications, 1970. First edition. Paperback. 338pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Red textured wraps with white and black lettering. Minor staining and toning to the wraps and spine. 3.5 inch crease to the fore-edge tail of the front wrap. Ammon Hennacy's last book and his history..... More
[Salt Lake City, UT]: Self-published, 1966. Third printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 479pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green hardcover with bold gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Good. The edges of the spine and covers are mildly abraded and bumped. The edges of the text block are lightly soiled and..... More
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Poster. 17" x 23" poster from "Northwest Passage." Printed on the recto of the poster is Kenneth Patchen's poem. "October 1984 Northwest Passage" calendar printed on the reverse. With two intersecting fold lines, and several minor pinholes and a bookseller's ink stamp in the bottom margin. More
Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1965. Association copy. Paperback. 101pp. Slim duodecimo [19 cm] Printed wraps, with a general layer of light soiling. This copy is inscribed on the half title, in the year 1966, by the Catholic anarchist Ammon Hennacy and his wife Joan, to W. Paul Wharton and..... More
Oakland and Chicago: PM Press / Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company; Merlin, 2011. Paperback. 447 pp. [25.5 cm] Brown, grey and orange wraps with a b&w photograph on cover. New book with no flaws. Paperback. Great illustrations printed throughout. From the publisher: NO group in American labor history has exerted so..... More
New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 375 pp. Octavo. Off-white pictoral covers with gold strip. The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics- a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision..... More
New York: Vintage, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 448 pp. Mass market paperback. Off-white pictoral covers with green stripe. The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics- a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision..... More
New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 279 pp. Octavo. Pictoral covers with blue stripe. The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States is a defining moment in American history. After years of failed policies and a failed politics from Washington, this is our chance..... More
Torino: Einaudi, 1977. Paperback. 183pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. The extremities are mildly rubbed, foxed and soiled. There is a tiny stain on the bottom edge of the front cover, and there is an old price sticker on the rear wrap. Gli Struzzi 142. Mary Harris Jones..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 2011. First edition. Spiral Bound. 256 pp. [21.5 cm] Octavo. Spiral bound wrappers. This new edition contains considerable additional material. It has about four times as many songs, many new photographs, and new artwork. U. Utah (Bruce) Phillips ran away from home while..... More
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights; National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL), [1976]. First edition. Paperback. Slender octavo [23 cm] Bound in stapled brown illustrated wrappers. Very good condition, with moderate soiling on the rear wrap. A program for a concert featuring Pete Seeger and Studs Terkel, and..... More
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1993. First edition. Paperback. 152pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Orange and black illustrated wraps, with a detail of a 1921 pen and ink drawing by George Grosz. A Singlejack Book. More
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 409pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue cloth over boards. With the pictorial dust jacket. Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History. From the dust jacket- " There is little documentation of Mother Jones's life: her medium was, magnificently, the spoken word. The..... More
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, [1995]. First paperback edition. Paperback. 336pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Pictorial wraps. In the publisher's shrink-wrap. Edward M. Steel Jr., professor emeritus of history at West Virginia University, is the editor of The Correspondence of Mother Jones and The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2018. First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. 381pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Wallace Stegner’s remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his..... More
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 159pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth over boards with gilt stamping on the spine and front cover. With a dust jacket. Charles H. Kerr Labor Classics. The goal of this present volume is to make available for the first time..... More
London and Melbourne: Heinemann, 1967. First edition. 254pp. Octavo [22 cm] Navy blue paper over boards. Dinged at the spine ends and corners. The title on the jacket's spine has faded. The jacket is price-clipped, lightly soiled, and has several closed tears in the edges. A first edition of Ian..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Later printing. Paperback. 314 pp. Octavo. White covers. Powerline describes the opposition of rural MInnesotans to the building of a high voltage powerline across 430 miles of farmland from central North Dakota to the Twin Cities suburbs. Convinced that the safety of their families..... More
London: W.F.T.U. Publications Ltd, December, 1952. Second impression. Paperback. 18pp. Very slim octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled self printed wraps. Very good, with a 1/2" closed tear along the fold of the spine, at the head. The pages are darkened. Includes the following: Kenya Workers Struggle Against Oppression; Land Hunger in..... More