New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1967. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (9 x 6 1/4 inches; 227 x 158 mm), xxiii, [1], 296 pages, in black cloth, titles to spine in pink and red, pink topstain, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010) in black marker..... More
New York: Student League for Industrial Democracy, n.d. [1934]. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 150 mm), 11, [1] pages, in illustrated stapled wrappers. An account of nationwide antiwar strikes on university campuses on April 13, 1934, with black-and-white photographs of the strike..... More
n.p. Maya, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches; 253 x 190 mm), [6] leaves sewn into green-brown wrappers, paper title to upper wrapper. A short poem by revolutionary San Francisco poet Jack Hirschman. One of 250 copies printed on Curtis papers by Clifford Burke at..... More
n.pl [Folsom, Calif.?]: Grande Ronde Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches; 215 x 137 mm), [20] pages, in stapled green wrappers. INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page: "To / Nathan / From / A.D. Winans / 5-23-88." A collection of poems by..... More
Hardwicke, [Massachusetts]: The Four Zoas Press, n.d. [ca. 1976]. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm), 28 pages, letterpress-printed on ivory paper stitched into sage-green wrappers. SIGNED by Gerard Malanga on the title page and colophon page. A collection of poems..... More
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New York: Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis, [1949]. Single page folded once to create a [4]-page brochure measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 215 mm) when folded. Illustrated brochure featuring an autobiographical statement by Benjamin J. Davis, a black Communist who was running..... More
New York: Civil Rights Defense Committee, 1943. Six mimeographed typed pages, double-spaced, rectos only, stapled at top left and measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 215 mm). Folded twice for mailing. Press release criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court for refusing to hear the appeal of 18 leftists in..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1917. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 214 x 140 mm), 15, [1] pages, in stapled green wrappers. Text of an address by the Belgian poet and playwright Émile Cammaerts about the awfulness of the German occupation of Belgium during World..... More
New York: National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1918. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 24 pages, in stapled wrappers. A pamphlet detailing a staggering array of violations of American civil liberties from April 1, 1917, to May 1, 1918. For instance..... More
Paris: Editions Présence africaine, 1957. 12mo (7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 113 mm), 15, [1] pages in stapled green-gray wrappers, with errata slip pasted to recto of lower wrapper. A letter from the Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire to Maurice Thorez, secretary general of the French..... More
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Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Dalhousie Review, 1941. Small 4to (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 260 x 165 mm), 16 pages, in grayish-white wrappers. Offprint of an article by Czechoslovakia's president condemning Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia. Reprinted from the October 1941 issue of The Dalhousie Review of Halifax, Nova Scotia. "It..... More
West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. 24mo (5 1/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 130 x 124 mm), [14] pages, sewn into handmade Bengal wrappers. SIGNED by Tom Clark on the colophon, one of 500 copies signed and numbered by the author from a total edition of..... More
London: Soviet News, 1953. 16mo (6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 176 x 120 mm), 40, [1] pages in red and white stapled wrappers. Speech by Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov to the Supreme Soviet in August 1953, just months after Stalin's death. He calls for more money for housing, attacks..... More
San Francisco: Deep Forest, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 138 mm), [20] pages, in gray stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Jack Hirschman on the front free end paper to the late Seattle bookseller Louis Collins: "For Louis / and your gypsy /..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart and Gallery, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Single sheet printed on cream-colored paper and folded 4 times to create a [4]-page broadside measuring 9 x 5 3/4 inches (229 x 146 mm) when folded. SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg on the final page. This is one of..... More
Land o' Lakes, Wisconsin: Self-published, 1940. Small 4to (9 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 252 x 166 mm), 16 pages, in stapled gray wrappers. Extended rant by Wisconsin businessman Martin J. Gillen, who assails "useless government employees," who, somehow, are responsible for a drop in church income and expenditures. That drop..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 235 x 150 mm), 151, [1] pages in blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. Joseph Brodsky's second major collection of poems published in English; this collection..... More
New York: October House Inc., 1966. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 217 x 140 mm), xxvii, [1], 292 pages, in original brown boards, gilt titles to spine and upper board, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. SIGNED by George Reavey on the title page. An..... More
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Warsaw: PWZG, [1948?]. Oblong sheet folded to create [6] panels measuring 8 x 5 3/4 inches (200 x 145 mm) when folded. Program for Ostatni etap (The Last Stage), a film directed by Auschwitz survivor Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998). This pioneering work was the first to portray the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and..... More
![Norimberk zlo in a soud [Nuremberg Crime and Trial]. World War II, Vladimir Rýpar](/pictures/thumb/2114.jpg?v=1574218325)
Prague: Sv ta obrazech, s.s.r.o., vydavatelstva ministerstva informací, 1946. 8vo (8 5/8 x 8 inches; 220 x 200 mm), [64] pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by photographer Karel Hájek on the title page. A photographic documentation of the Nuremberg war trials showing various Nazi criminals in the dock, such as..... More
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. 4to (12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches; 320 x 240 mm), [8] pages in stapled rust-colored wrappers, with a woodcut laid in. Catalogue of an exhibition of works by Jan Cox, with a woodcut laid in (signed in pencil). The exhibition..... More
Baltimore: Liberation House, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 210 x 135 mm), 32 pages, in stapled illustrated orange wrappers. The first book of poems by Melvin E. Brown, an African-American writer born 1950 in Baltimore. Brown has been the poetry editor of Chicory..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 210 x 140 mm), x, 197, [1] pages in black cloth, gilt title to upper board and spine, in an unclipped dust jacket. A book of poems by one of the major figures..... More
New York: Brentanos, 1922. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 183 x 130 mm), 91, [1] pages in illustrated wrappers. The first in Oliver M. Sayler's Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays, published in English under the sponsorship of theatrical producer Morris Gest. English translation by Jenny Covan. There..... More
Moscow: Kinopechat, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. 24mo (5 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 150 x 110 mm), 14, [2] pages in photo-illustrated stapled wrappers. An illustrated booklet on comic actor Igor Ilyinsky (1901-1987) in the Kinopechat series. Ilyinsky was associated with the Meyerhold Theatre, most notably as Bruno in..... More