(Ann Arbor: Southpaw, 1986). First edition. Original printed wrappers, 11 x 8.5 inches, wire stitched, 56 pages. Original wrap-around painting to the wrappers, signed in ink on the front wrapper by Guyton. “Each cover in this issue is an original work by Detroit artist Tyree Guyton. The series, entitled ‘Urban...
Sterling, Windham County, Connecticut, May 4, 1802. Single leaf of foolscap, 13 x 7.75 inches, 2 pages. Approx. 400 words. A document dealing with law, violence, and an African American woman; one suspects at the remove ot two centuries the real possibility of self-defense being turned against a vulnerable domestic...
[Washington, D. C. n. p., 1850]. 8vo, removed, 15 pages. Benton argues against the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave bill: "No sir! no more slavery compromises. Stick to those we have in the Constitution, and they will be stuck to!" With much detail on the topography of...
San Francisco: The Movement Press, March, 1969. First edition. Tabloid newspaper, 23, [1] pages. Illus. On the Columbia strike, the Oakland 7, and an exclusive interview with Bobby Seale. Old transverse fold.
(New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1945). Stated third edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 47, [1] pages. Trotskyist arguments for racial equality and civil rights from the long-time editor and labor activist Breitman and fellow Trotskyist Burch , including extensive coverage of the Detroit riots of 1943.
(Brooklyn: Peter V. Cacchione), [1944]. First edition. 8vo, original printed self-wrappers, 23, [1] pages. The Brooklyn police officer James LeRoy Drew was accused of belonging to anti-Semitic fascist organizations and suspended; Cacchione (New York's first Communist City Council member) calls for Drew to be fired and argues for increased racial...
Covington, Ky. Printed for the Author at the Office of the "Licking Valley Register," 1846. First edition. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 480 pages. "Is it therefore unreasonable to conclude, that in former times, in that warm country where the passions are known to be strong...
Paris: Alexandre Cadot, 1856. First edition. Small 8vo, contemporary brown calf spine, boards, gilt lettering, 320 pages. One of the several works on hunting and travel in the American West from this French author who was resident in the United States for nine years (see Appletons'). Aside from the travel...
[Roanoke, Va. Copyright by William Henry Gravely, 1921. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed gray wrappers, 31 pages. In the wake of the passage of the 19th Amendment (which Virginia had rejected in 1920), the Virginia attorney and Republican-Populist politician here tries to square the Southern political circle: "The necessity...
[Roanoke, Va. Copyright by William Henry Gravely, 1921. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed gray wrappers, 31 pages. In the wake of the passage of the 19th Amendment (which Virginia had rejected in 1920), the Virginia attorney and Republican-Populist politician here tries to square the Southern political circle: "The necessity...
Springfield: Lanphier & Walker, Printers, 1847. First edition. Early added patterned-paper wrappers over card stock, 9.75 x 6 inches, 39, [1] pages. The second Illinois constitution, outlawing slavery but directing restrictions on the rights of immigration of free African Americans into the state. Includes the three leaves of the “Address,”...
Boston: New England Free Press, [1969?]. First edition. Original wrappers, 10.75 x 8.5 inches, 49-58 pages. Illus. Printed from the article that appeared in the December, 1968 issue of PL, the magazine of the Progressive Labor Party. With the ink stamp to the front wrapper of the R.I.P. Bookstore, Denver...
New York: Loyal Publication Society, 1865. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, 4 pages. At the head of the title, Loyal Publication Society, 863 Broadway. No. 79. The pioneering political scientist and Union polemicist’s essay, dated February 1, 1865, urges the junior senator from New York to support passage of the...
Kingston, Jamaica: New Dawn Press, 1945. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, [4], [iv], 213, [1] pages. Original printed dust jacket. A presentation copy, with an ink inscription signed by McFarlane and dates 21 April 1950 on the front free endpaper. A relatively early collection of essays and addresses (ranging...
Philadelphia: Printed for the Society. Merritt, Printer, 1817. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 53 pages (title page detached but present). "The citizens of Philadelphia were induced by the inclemency of the season, and the consequent distress among the poor, to assemble on the 17th February, 1817, for the purpose of...
Washington, D.C. Gibson Bros., Printers and Bookbinders, 1894. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers (wrappers detached but present), wire-stitched, 109, [3] + 1 final leaf tipped in (and since detached). "In 1853 I had charge of the 'Standard,' a paper at Charleston, S. C.--of no great importance--and fated to...
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