Il Pensiero di Galleani. No. 1
by [ANARCHISM] [ITALIAN-AMERICANS] GALLEANI, Luigi
Ancona: Gruppo Editore "L'Antistato, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound, printed buff wrappers; 40pp. Text bound upside down in wrappers, else Very Good, with minor creasing and some toning to text margins. The first publication issued from this important post-war anarchist press, a compendium of short pieces by Galleani. The "Antistato" Group was founded in 1949 by Pio... Read More
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![Anarchy and Anarchists. A history of the Red Terror and the social revolution in America and Europe - communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed - the Chicago Haymarket conspiracy and the detection and trial of the conspirators [...] with numerous illustrations from authentic photographs, and from original drawings](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/551/152/1638152551.0.m.jpg)
Anarchy and Anarchists. A history of the Red Terror and the social revolution in America and Europe - communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed - the Chicago Haymarket conspiracy and the detection and trial of the conspirators [...] with numerous illustrations from authentic photographs, and from original drawings
by [ANARCHISM] SCHAACK, Michael J.
Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1889. First Edition. Quarto (25.5cm); brown cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt, black, and red on spine and front cover; floral-patterned endpapers; xv,16-698pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author and numerous illustrations throughout. As usual, pp.689-90 lacking from pagination. Spine ends pushed and a bit worn, corners bumped, with minute board... Read More
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God and the State [Free Society Library, No. 4, March, 1900]
by [ANARCHISM] BAKUNIN, Michael
San Francisco: Free Society Library, 1900. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pink printed wrappers; 40pp. Wrappers slightly toned at extremities, brief chipping to spine, crease to rear cover, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good or better copy. Scarce early American edition of the first half of "God and the State" (the second half only posthumously published in 1908), reprinted from... Read More
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Correspondance de Michel Bakounine: Lettres a Herzen et a Ogareff (1860-1874)
by [ANARCHISM] BAKUNIN, Mikhail; Marie Stromberg, transl; Michel Dragomanov, editor
Paris: Perrin, 1896. First Edition. First impression. Small octavo (19cm). Printed blue paper wrappers; 383pp. Scattered marginal foxing, else straight and sound; Very Good or better in a later glassine dustwrapper. Neat ink ownership signature to half-title (illegible), dated 1947. Text entirely in French, translated from the Russian originals by Marie Stromberg. A well-preserved copy.
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Vicarious Philanthropy
by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] SWIFT, Morrison I.
N.p., N.d., but ca. 1890. Small octavo (19.5cm.); sewn pamphlet; printed self-wraps; 24pp. Front cover soiled, with faint institutional hand-stamp; text clean and unmarked. An early work by the prominent Anarchist, utopian novelist, and eugenicist; a criticism of top-down social reform measures, encouraging would-be philanthropists to "repent of their crimes against the toilers...withdraw from corrupting alliances with caste and... Read More
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![Etika. Tom 1. Proiskhozhdenie i razvitie nravsvennosti [Ethics. Volume 1. The Origin and Development of Morality]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/164/519/884519164.0.m.jpg)
Etika. Tom 1. Proiskhozhdenie i razvitie nravsvennosti [Ethics. Volume 1. The Origin and Development of Morality]
by [ANARCHISM] KROPOTKIN, P.A. [Pyotr Alexeyevich]
Niu Iork [New York]: Izdatelskoi Komissii pri Rabochem Soiuze "Samoobrazovanie"], 1923. First American Edition. Second edition in Russian, and first American Edition. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; [5], 6-259, [2], iv, + [8]pp publisher's ads. Minimal external wear; internally clean and unmarked; a Near Fine copy. "Tom I" all published. First American edition... Read More
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Sacco and Vanzetti; The Anarchist Background
by [ANARCHISM] AVRICH, Paul
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xi]; 265pp. Minor wear and scuffing to board edges and apine ends, a little residue or soiling to the cloth in places, internally clean with some light staining, in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket. A very good copy. An... Read More
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La Ciudad Anarquista Americana. Obra de construccion revolucionaria. Con el plano de la Ciudad libertaria
by [ANARCHISM] [UTOPIAN FICTION] QUIROULE, Pierre [pseud Joaquín Alejo Falconnet]
Buenos Aires: La Protesta, 1914. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Printed card wrappers; 283,(1)pp; one folding plan inserted at p.72. A sound, Very Good copy in the original wrappers; old adhesive stain (possibly from bindery) to verso of rear wrapper; the plan with small punctures at folds; text fresh and unopened. Text in Spanish. A rare and... Read More
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Césarisme et Christianisme (de l'An 45 Avant J.-C. a l'An 476 Aprés)
by [ANARCHISM] PROUDHON, P.-J.; J.-A. Langlois, préf
Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion Éditeurs, 1883. First Edition. Two volumes; 12mo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines in five compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled; xxiv,273; 312pp. Boards a bit scuffed especially to leather, leather rather dried with some shallow chipping at spine ends, spine gilt almost entirely effaced, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership signatures... Read More
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The State
by [ANARCHISM] BOURNE, Randolph
New York: The Resistance Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 42pp. Mild external wear and soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked - a solid, Very Good copy. Cover illustration after Henri Rousseau; introductory matter by John Dos Passos and Michael Grieg. Twenty five hundred copies printed. Bourne's major theoretical work, on governmental usurpation of social... Read More
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The Anarchist Ideal and Other Essays
by [ANARCHISM] WENLEY, R.M. [Robert Mark]
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1913. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 274pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in a crisp, clean dustwrapper, Near Fine but for a spot of erosion at crown of spine panel. Collection of five scholarly lectures by the Scots-American classicist and historian of ideas, long-time head of... Read More
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![Der arme Teufel [The Poor Devil]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/514/927/858927514.0.m.jpg)
Der arme Teufel [The Poor Devil]
by [ANARCHISM] REITZEL, Robert
Detroit: Robert Reitzel, 1895-1897. 22 tabloid issues (ca.36cm); printed newsprinted wrappers; 8pp per issue. Publication sequence runs as follows: Vol.XI, Nos.565-567; Vol.XII, Nos.595, 597, 599-603; Vol.XIII, Nos.631-640, 642-643. Edgeworn, with occasional creasing and short tears; quite tender at folds, with splits starting; mailing label of previous owner to front wrappers of nearly all issues (Felick Jelineck); Good or better... Read More
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L'oeuvre littéraire de John Henry Mackay. Texte français et notes de E. Armand
by [ANARCHISM - MACKAY] RILEY, Thomas A[uraldo]
Paris: Amis d'E. Armand], 1950. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Pictorial paper wrappers consisting of folded sheets, unstapled as issued; 24pp. Cover portrait of Mackay by F. Cotard. Tight, clean copy; minute chips to extremities, else about Fine in original wrappers. One thousand copies printed, "edition réservée aux 'Amis d'E. Armand.'" This appears to be a loose translation... Read More
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Lo Sciopero dei Risaiuoli. Dramma Rivoluzionario in 4 Atti Con Prologo D'Introduzione. 2e Edizione
by [ANARCHIST LITERATURE - ITALY] CONCORDIA, Tomaso
Genova: Edizione de "La Comune" / Tipografia Ligure, 1920. Second edition. Octavo (23cm x 17cm). Pictorial paper wrappers; 117,[8]pp. Slight raggedness and small losses to paper on spine, partially obscuring title, else a fresh, Very Good or better copy. With a Preface by Gino Piastra and an "Introductory Monologue" by "Right" (pseud?). Text entirely in Italian. Extremely uncommon... Read More
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The Kreutzer Sonata
by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] TOLSTOÏ, Leo [alt. spelling Tolstoy]; Benj. R. Tucker, trans
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1890. First American Edition. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's orange decorative card wrappers; 143pp. Some wear to wrapper extremities including shallow chips at spine ends, faint dampstain to top edge of upper cover not bleeding into textblock, else a Very Good, tight and unfaded copy. Though Tolstoy never considered himself an anarchist, he was among the American... Read More
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My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel
by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] TILLIER, Claude; Benj. R. Tucker, trans.; Ludwig Pfau, sketch of the author's life
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1890. First English Language Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 312,[3](ads)pp.; added color lithographic title page. Light shelf wear, miniscule damp spot to upper cover, spine a shade darkened, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and bookplate to front pastedown, late 20th-century bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good or better. Though... Read More
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![The Brownstone [Six Issues, Mar-Nov 1963]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/803/425/1042425803.0.m.jpg)
The Brownstone [Six Issues, Mar-Nov 1963]
by [ANARCHISM] [ANARCHIST PERIODICALS] RICHMAN, V.L.
New York: V.L. Richman, 1963. Six issues. Quarto (14" x 8-1/2"). Original corner-stapled sheets; mimeographed; each issue 6pp. Horizontal folds for mailing, else Very Good to Fine. Six representative issues, including the scarce inaugural number, of this individualist anarchist semi-monthly, which ran to a total of 23 issues, ceasing publication in 1965. An eccentric and ephemeral publication, described on... Read More
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There Is Justice. A Summary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
by [ANARCHISM - SACCO-VANZETTI] [FLOYD, William]
New York: Sacco-Vanzetti National League, [1927]. First Edition. Only printing. Octavo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 21pp. Near Fine. Post-mortem examination of the Sacco-Vanzetti case by a mainstream left-wing commentator, citing evidentiary gaps, questionable witnesses, and the ultimate injustice of the imposed death penalty.
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![[Prospectus for] Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist. A Sociological Study](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/379/745/1028745379.0.m.jpg)
[Prospectus for] Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist. A Sociological Study
by [ANARCHISM] [BAILIE, William]
[Boston: Small, Maynard and Co, 1906]. Small octavo bifolium (19.25cm.); just a hint of toning to extremities, else Fine. Prospectus provides a brief description of Josiah Warren, founder of Philosophical Anarchism in America. "It will be brought out as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers have sent in their names to the editor of 'Liberty.'" Though no publication... Read More
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The Wind and the Whirlwind
by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] [BENJAMIN TUCKER] BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1884. First thus. Small square quarto (17cm.); original japan vellum over cardstock wrappers; 30pp. Unopened. Slight browning to edges, else a neat, unworn copy. Scarce printing (possibly unauthorized) of Blunt's anti-Imperialist polemic, attacking British policy in the Sudan. Though Tucker generally limited his publishing ventures to projects that explicity furthered his individualist anarchist views, he... Read More
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Why? An Anarchist Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. 7 (December, 1946)
by [ANARCHIST PERIODICALS] YOUNG, William
New York: Why, 1946. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers; 16pp; illus. Minimal wear; Very Good or better. Single issue in original wrappers; includes a substantial extract from B. Traven's The Death Ship, "Kurt from Memmel." Uncommon anarchist periodical.
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Zia Summer [Review Copy]
by ANAYA, Rudolfo
New York: Warner Books, 1995. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's promotional letter laid in. Octavo; gold and green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in tomato red on spine; dustjacket; 386pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Anaya's first mystery novel featuring Chicano detective Sonny Baca.
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Rio Grande Fall
by Anaya, Rudolfo
New York: Warner Books, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black and yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red foil on spine; dustjacket; 359pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. The second Sonny Baca mystery.
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![Tortuga [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/045/241/1133241045.0.m.jpg)
Tortuga [Inscribed]
by ANAYA, Rudolfo
Berkeley: Editorial Justa Publications, Inc, 1979. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo; illustrated card wrappers; iv,197,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page, shortly after publication: "To: Harlan Umansky - To a healthful life for us all - Rudolfo Anaya / 11-3-79." Light wear and faint foxing to wrappers, with some scattered foxing to text edges; Near... Read More
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Heart of Aztlan
by ANAYA, Rudolfo
Berkeley: Editorial Justa Publications, Inc, 1979. Second Printing of the wrappered issue. Octavo (22.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; [vi],209,[1]pp. Touch of waviness to wrappers, light wear to extremities; Near Fine. "A novel that further probes into the spiritual identity of Aztlán and expands its meaning through multiple dimensions. Harsh barrio realities coexist with superstition, legend, myth, dreams and unexplained phenomena"... Read More
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