A collection of nearly 60 flyers and handbills for tributes and readings by poets associated with the San Francisco Beat scene. Most are from 2007-2017, and many of the events took place at San Francisco's legendary City Lights Books. Eight are signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, including one for a 1985..... More
Place of publication not identified: The Committee for Public Justice; The American Civil Liberties Union; The Center for National Security Studies, ca. 1977. 8vo (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 227 x 150 mm), 35, [1] pages in stapled wrappers. Legislation proposed by three civil-liberties organizations to prohibit political surveillance and..... More
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1949 (?). No Edition Stated. A four-page promotional leaflet and membership application for the Civil Rights Congress, a front group of the Communist Party USA. The CRC sought to raise money to defend 12 leaders of the Communist Party who had been indicted on charges..... More
London: Ferry Press, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (10 x 8 inches; 251 x 202 mm), [28] pages in stapled glossy wrappers. INSCRIBED by Tom Clark on the title page: "For Bill Beckman / Love Tom / NYC 1967." (? 1967) Clark's first book of poetry, inscribed to..... 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
New York and Philadelphia: Telegraph Books, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 120 mm), 48 pages, in wrappers featuring a cover photo by Rudy Burckhardt. SIGNED on the title page by Ron Padgett and Aram Saroyan. Some poetic musings about a trip to Boston, with..... More
Chicago: Self-published, 1936. Small 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 192 x 125 mm), 33,[1] pages, in stapled wrappers. A defense of the Roosevelt administration by Chicago businessman William E. Clow Jr. He points to the administration's efforts to put people back to work and to a strengthening of..... More
New York: American Association for International Conciliation, June, 1912. No Edition Stated. Small 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 197 x 133 mm), 13, [3] pages, in stapled wrappers. A warning against war by the rector of St. John's, Syracuse, two years before the outbreak of World War I...... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1962. First Edition, First Printing. An important collection of seven cutting-edge plays of the late 1950s, with an insightful introduction by drama critic and director Harold Clurman. The works featured here are: Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," Brendan Behan's "The Quare Fellow," Shelagh Delaney's "A..... More
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo, 5 x 7 1/2 inches (130 x 192 mm), [6], 3-203, [3] and errata leaf in pink wrappers covered with an old tissue guard. Offsetting to flyleaf and to pages 26-27 from a bookmark. Spine a bit darkened and with..... More
Paris: Librairie Jeannette Monnier, 1933. First Edition. Small Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 195 x 145 mm), 15 [1] pages in the publisher's original sewn wrappers. INSCRIBED on the front free end paper: "Paris 10.4.33 / For Miss Sonya Schulberg / Sympathiquement / Brian Coffey." One of..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1947. First Edition. Duodecimo, 1,144 pages. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Some foxing and soiling on top edge, ownership signature on front free end paper. Dust jacket soiled and has a few chips, especially at bottom of spine and on back panel. Don't be..... More
Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by all three contributors on the title page: Jack Beckham Combs (photographs), Jennifer L. McCoy (foreword), and Julie E. Sweig (essay). Fine in a Fine dust jacket and housed in a Fine slipcase that shows a bit of..... More
Washington, D.C. Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, 1949. First Edition. An investigation into the Congress of American Women by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The committee maintained that the CAW was a Communist front organization; its report attacked various members and attempted to tie them to..... 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
San Francisco: Communist Party of California, 1942. No Edition Stated. Presumed First Edition. Seven-page mimeographed document, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm), stapled in top left-hand corner. Moderate toning to cover page, less toning to subsequent pages, pencil notation at upper left corner of cover page. Horizontal..... More
San Francisco: California State Committee, Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No edition stated. Presumed First Edition. Single bifolium of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x280 mm). Evenly toned, a couple of small edge tears, pencil notation to upper left corner of first..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No Edition Stated. Presumed First Edition. Broadside, single leaf, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm), evenly toned, folded for mailing, neat pencil notations. A Very Good copy. Communist Party flyer issued in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No edition stated. Presumed First Edition. Single bifolium of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (211 x 266 mm). Evenly toned, pencil notation at top left corner of cover page, couple small closed..... More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1924. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 128 mm), 119, [1] pages, in publisher's red cloth, titles to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket. The final collaboration between Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Hueffer (later Ford Madox Ford). The..... More
Boston: The Boston Eagle, 1974. First Edition. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches / 28 280 x 215 mm), unpaginated, printed on rectos only, in stapled wrappers. The second issue of a short-lived poetry magazine. Contributions from John Wieners, Fanny Howe, Lewis Warsh, Lee Harwood, Michael Palmer, William Corbett, Jonathan Cott..... More
Paris: Laplace, Sanchez et Cie. 1882. First Edition Thus. Twelvemo, pp. (4), xx, 462, (2). Illustrated with four color plates, each with a tissue guard. Gilt decorated red morocco over pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. Tasteful bookplate on front free endpaper. Endpapers toned. Otherwise, Fine. An attractive copy. More
Baltimore: Sacco Publishers, [1962]. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 215 x 135 mm), [48] mimeographed pages in stapled pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED to Izzy Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in New York, with Young's ownership note on the last page. Scarce first book..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, Publication Date Not Stated. Later printing. 16mo (4 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches / 124 x 159 mm), 105,[7] pages in wrappers. A Fine copy. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page as "Ferlinghetti, editor." A collection of poems by Beat poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001)..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, No Publication Date Stated. Later printing. 16mo (4 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches / 124 x 159 mm), 105 pages in pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page as "Ferlinghetti, editor." A collection of poems by Beat poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001). Originally published..... More