The Great Strike: The Miners' Strike of 1984-5 and Its Lessons
[London]: Socialist Worker Publication, [1985]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's red photo-illustrated card wrappers; 256pp.; photographic illus. throughout. More
[London]: Socialist Worker Publication, [1985]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's red photo-illustrated card wrappers; 256pp.; photographic illus. throughout. More
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Small quarto; publisher's boards in matching photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [6],148pp.; color photographic plate, additional half-tone photographs and drawings by Brock throughout; original recorded introduction mounted to rear pastedown. Jacket heavily worn and rather soiled with a number..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt; xviii,287pp. Light shelf wear, spine very slightly cocked, rear hinge cracked but holding, else Very Good and sound overall. Plaintively inscribed and signed by the author on front free..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Berrigan loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 123 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Blue and black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with a chip to crown and some general rubbing. Boards show shelfwear..... More
New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1992. First Edition. Octavo. 235 pp. Black and white photographs. Printed dust jacket; black and yellow boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed with some creasing along edges. Boards rubbed along edges and top of spine slightly crushed. Mild spotting to front..... More
Los Angeles: Censorship Today, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 58 pp. Black and white illustrations. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers show light edgewear and some creasing to edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers, 1875. First Edition. Octavo. 165 pp. + 21 pp., including Constitutions and Officers of the Order of the Sovereigns of Industry. Lacking front fly leaf. Burnt umber boards stamped in gilt; brown endpapers. Boards edgeworn with some general spotting and scuffing. Binding is..... More
Rindge, NH: Richard R. Smith Publisher, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 95 pp. Printed dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Red boards stamped in white. Dust jacket with some chipping at spine ends and along top edge of rear panel. Heavy fading, especially along spine, and some general..... More
London: Pluto Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 172 pp. + advertisements. Photographic wraps. Covers edgeworn, spine faded, bit of creasing towards edges with sticker to rear. Wraps curl slightly towards edges. Binding is sound. Black marker to fore-edge, stamp and black marker marks to half to half title..... More
London: Labour Publishing Company Limited, 1926. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's decorative tan staple bound wrappers; vii,[1],18pp. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. The author's first book, a short play inspired by the ongoing miners' strikes in the country. As the introduction warns, "This is admittedly a...... More
New York: National Wallace For President Committee, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. [12 pp.] Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated wraps. Light edgewear to wraps with dampstaining along bottom quarter affecting covers and all pages, though text still legible throughout. An address by Wallace before the National Convention of Alpha..... More
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being number 61. Octavo. 31 pages. Drab gray-green dust jacket. Gray boards with white spine and paper spine label. Cardboard corner protector appears contemporaneous. A posthumously published essay on forcible resistance. Employs military metaphors to draw out..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. First Edition, stated. Signed by the author on half title with to Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee Secretary Helen Bryan with inscription "For the greatest anti-fascist I have ever known, my dearly [?] Helen Bryan, With Love, Howard / Oct. 17, 48." Octavo; [viii]..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1957. Bookplate signed by author Howard Fast laid in. First Edition. Octavo; 197 pp. Pictorial dust jacket with $3.50 price. Black cloth binding with title and author in gilt. Dust jacket has light rubbing and edge wear, with a small closed tear on upper back..... More
London: Mills & Boon, [1905 but ca. 1918]. 12mo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 217pp. General shelf wear to jacket and board extremities, including a number of small chips and closed tears to the former with old tape repair to verso, uniformly dust-soiled, boards foxed along upper margins..... More
London: Collins, 1939. First Edition. Large octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; 640pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped with a number of short closed tear along margins occasionally touching text without loss of meaning, some foxing to flap folds, corners bumped, topstain quite faded, else Very..... More
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Signed by Farmer on title page dated 1966. Additional gift inscription from Lorna D. Smith to a W.T. Keys at title page. Octavo. 197 pp. Printed dust jacket with $6.95 price intact. Light and dark blue boards stamped in silver and blue. Red..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1969. First Edition, stated. Signed by Robert Friedman and Jerry L. Avorn with brief inscription from Friedman to contributor and Columbia University vice-provost Herbert A. Deane on half title. Octavo; [x], 37pp. Printed dust jacket with $6.50 price intact; book in blindstamped green cloth with gilt lettering..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company / A Harvest Book, 1999. Later printing. Signed by John Lewis without inscription on half title page. Octavo. 526 pp. Black and white photographs. Photographic wraps. Washington Informer sticker to inside of front cover and promotional palm card for "A Conversation with Civil Rights..... More
[N.p.]: National Council of the National Front of the German Democratic Republic, 1972. First Edition in English. Slim octavo. 93 pp. Black and white photographs. Photographic paper wraps. Covers worn and rubbed along edges, with some superficial scuffing to surface, a black erasure mark to front, and old..... More
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Pamphlet to a 2007 National Archives event laid in at front and signed by Bennett with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 227 pp. + appendices. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket with "$4.95" price intact. Gray boards stamped in black..... More
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., Inc., 1965. First Edition. Quarto. 178 pp. Illustrated stapled wraps. Black and white and color illustrations, many advertisements, throughout. Wraps worn, spine curled and worn with a chip at base; pencil marks to front. Binding holding soundly. Pages toned but unmarked. Includes "The Un-Christian..... More
Clayton, GA: South Today, 1943. First Edition, reprinted from Winter Edition of South Today 1942-1943. Octavo. 12 pages. Side-stapled wraps. Covers show light toning and wear along edges. Secure in binding. Pages clean and unmarked. Smith was a critic of the Southern United States on racial and..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Council National Negro Congress, [1940]. First Edition. 12mo. 28 pp. Printed wraps. Light edgewear to edges of wraps. Binding is sound. Toned throughout but overall clean and unmarked. Uncommon pamphlet detailing the struggles of black workers in finding employment in the aircraft..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1922]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, gilt-lettered spine; vi,220pp. Spine a hint cocked and cloth quite toned, else Very Good, internally fine. The author's first book, signed on title page. Additionally, laid in autograph card signed "M" on..... More