New York: Printed for the Author, 1832. First edition, all published. Original pictorial front wrapper, renewed and laid down on later wrappers, 104 pages. Illus., music. “The unprincipled and the profligate make common cause against those who expose their vices. When their vices are exposed, they will assume even the..... More

Carthage, Illinois: Published by the Author, 1912. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 16 pages. “The object of this Booklet is to show in outline that the fundamental objections of Jesus to the social order of His day are those now urged by the Socialists against Capitalism. . .... More

Ann Arbor: A Voice of the Godhead and People’s Center - Artist’s Workshop, April, 1972. Unbound sheets, folds out to approx. 36 x 23 inches, with pages of various sizes and formats. Illus. Uncommon fold-out community paper, with hints on pottery (and making a dope pipe), photography, poems, etc. Several..... More

(New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940). First edition. 8vo, original self wrappers, 30, [2] pages. Illus. From the era of the Soviet-Nazi non-aggression pact, Communist Party agruments against U.S. entanglement in the European war and minimization of Soviet aggression in the Baltics and Poland. More

New-York: C. Shepard; Providence: Shepard, Tingley & Co., 1837. First edition. 12mo, original ribbon-embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering, 151, [1] pages. “What! must I always hear, nor e’er reply, / And shall John Bull for ever rend the sky? / Shall Owen, in a voice as thunder loud, / Shout..... More

London: Longman and Co., Hatchard and Sons, and Ridgway, 1840. First edition. 12mo, original printed brown wrappers, viii, 66, [1] pages. From the Liberal M.P. (and ornithologist) Slaney, a detailed account of urban industrial poverty in Britain. Ink ownership signature on the front blank; later pertinent penciled annotations and underlining..... More

New-York: John A. Gray, Printer, 1860. First edition. 16mo, original printed self-wrappers, 29 pages. In the wake of John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid, long-time abolitionist Gerrit Smith (who had been one of the covert backers of the raid--the "Secret Six") was evidently so horrified once he realized the scope of..... More

(Brooklyn: PLP Publications), [1967]. First edition. 16mo, original pictorial self-wrappers, [32] pages. The text of a Progressive Labor Party forum held in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1967, under the title, "Kennedyism: The Liberal Offensive against the Anti-War Movement," with the expected attacks on such figures as Bobby Kennedy, Galbraith..... More

Impresa en Filadelfia y reimpresa en México: Mariano Ontiveros, 1822. Second edition; first Mexican edition. 16mo, 19th century black sheep spine, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 150 pages. “Ya es tiempo de que hagamos nuestra entrada solemne en el universo, de que México obtenga el lugar distinguido que corresponde al pais..... More

Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1894. First edition. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. With Trumbull’s pseudonym “Wheelbarrow” at the head of the title. Arguments on questions of national economics from the man who had worked as a railroad laborer before becoming a lawyer and state legislator: “While aspiring..... More

(New York: Workers Library Publishers Inc., 1937.). First edition. 8vo, original printed self-wrappers, 45, [3] pages. On the success of the Flint Sit-Down Strike against GM and the emergence of the UAW (and incidentally the role of the Communist party in the strike's success) from the Secretary of the Michigan..... More