Chicago: Third World Press, 1977. First Edition, Second Printing. SIGNED and dated 9/24/89 by Margaret Walker on the title page. The African-American author Margaret Walker (1915-1998) recounts the birth and development of her acclaimed novel, Jubilee (1966), the story of a slave family in the Civil War. Much..... More

New York: Merit Publishers, 1969. First Merit Edition. A look at the struggle for women’s rights from a Trotskyist viewpoint. George Novack (1905-1992) argues that women cannot achieve true equality in a capitalist society. The text of this pamphlet originated in the Socialist Workers Party newspaper, The Militant..... More

Boston: New England Free Press, ca. 1968. Influential early women’s-liberation manifesto that advocates an autonomous women’s movement within the New Left. Jones and Brown were Florida activists associated with the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), which issued the original essay in 1968. New England Free Press in Boston..... More

New Orleans: Black Bayou Press, 1995. INSCRIBED by Mona Lisa Saloy on the title page in 1996. A collection of poems by Saloy, a Black poet of Creole heritage who is a former Poet Laureate of Louisiana. A helpful glossary, consisting of many French and Creole terms, appears..... More

New York: Radical Theatre Repertory, Inc., 1968-69. First Edition. Scarce booklet introducing the short-lived Radical Theatre Repertory, a New York-based cooperative booking agency for experimental theatre troupes. The group championed radical, experimental theatre as an alternative to commercial theatre. It assisted theatre groups in finding outlets for their..... More

New York: Sam Hooker Press, 1965. First Edition. A collection of 35 short stories (some only a single page) by the street poet Jack Micheline (1929-1998). This is the original first edition and should not be confused with a 2019 reprint. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7.75..... More

New York: Harvard Book Company of New York, 1964. First Edition. A collection of poems assembled by street poet Jack Micheline featuring works by John Richardson, Roberts Blossom, B.A. Uronovitz, Stephen Tropp, Neil Chassman, and Murray Brown. Preface by James T. Farrell. The book also features striking black-and-white photos of..... More

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1973. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by the acclaimed actress Uta Hagen on the front free end paper: "For Bob and Jane Emerson / with my / very / best wishes / Uta Hagen / Oct. 30th, 1974." The Emersons managed The Drama Book..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by Max Eastman on the front free end paper: "For Theo - // Who also suffers / from both art and / the life of action - / with my love - / Max. // December 1934."... More

Chicago: Third World Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. A slender collection of poems by Damali (Denise Burnett), mostly on the Black experience, revolution, and feminism. The book was published by the Third World Press of Haki R. Madhubuti (formerly Don L. Lee) and was part of the..... More

Dallas: Knees Paperback Printing Co., 1976. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of poems and aphorisms by Matanah, a Detroit-born African-American writer. More

Dallas: Matanah, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Collection of poems by the African-American poet Matanah, born Dorothy June Watkins in Chicago. This is her second book, following "Bits and Pieces," published in 1973. Foreword by Delores F. Ridge, who writes: "In Love Bones, Matanah deals with love from..... More

London: Pluto Press Ltd., 1977. A book of poems and ballads by Wolf Biermann (b. 1936), who was stripped of his East German citizenship while performing in West Germany in 1976. The poems and ballads are in both German and English (translated from the German by Steve Gooch)..... More