The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America
by [ANTHOLOGY] JONES, Leroi (aka Amiri Baraka, ed.)
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1965. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black paper over boards, in cream dust jacket; [i]-xvi [17]-351,[1]pp; publisher's ads to rear jacket panel. Tapped at head and tail, bumped at lower front edge, internally fresh: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced 30s), patchily but faintly discolored, with minor creases at head and tail and slight dustsoil to... Read More
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Death and The Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America
by [ANTHROPOLOGY][ESOTERICA] BENSON, Elizabeth
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 25cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Glassine Dustjacket. 196pp. Strong and bright; internally clean, from the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist, bearing his bookplate; in a clear glassine dustjacket with some toning and some light wear and... Read More
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Emblem and State in The Classic Maya Lowlands; An Epigraphical Approach to Territorial Organization
by [ANTHROPOLOGY] MARCUS, Joyce
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. [xvii]; [1]; 203pp. Very light bumping and scuffing to spine ends and corners, strong and bright; internally clean and fresh, errata slip laid in at the front, from the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist, bearing... Read More
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Yuman Tribes of The Gila River
by [ANTHROPOLOGY][AMETICANA] SPIER, Leslie
Chicago, ILL: University of Chicago Press, 1933. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's deep maroon cloth titled in gilt to spine. Lacking dustjacket. [xviii]; 433pp. Light wear to spine ends, clean and bright; internally clean and fresh, with bookplate of Nathaniel Tarn to front pastedown and Spier's signature to the front flyleaf, booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A near... Read More
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Levi-Strauss
by [ANTHROPOLOGY] [Ed: IZARD, Michel]
Paris: Editions L'Herne, 2004. First French Edition. Quarto. 27cm. Publisher's white card wraps titled in blue and orange to spine and front cover. 482pp. Light wear to corners and spine ends, some very light soiling in places; internally clean and fresh. A near fine copy. A critical analysis of the writings and career of fabled anthropologist and thinker,... Read More
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The Northern and Central Nootkan Tribes
by [ANTHROPOLOGY] DRUCKER, Philip
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1951. First American Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's drab grey card wraps titled in black to spine and front cover. [ix]; 480pp. Clean and strong, some light wear to corners, a little bumping to the tail of the spine, and a little toning of the spine panel; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to... Read More
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An Address to the Freemen of Massachusetts
by [ANTI-MASONRY] "A FREEMAN" [George Allen, attr.]
Worcester: M. Spooner and Co, 1832. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 16pp. Light spotting and toning to extremities, top spine-edge corner of pamphlet slightly creased, else Very Good and sound. Rather vitriolic attack on the Masons in response to their "Declaration." "To any who enquire 'why so zealous in opposing Masonry?'" the author responds "Masonry has ever scorned... Read More
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What About the Children? The Threat of Nuclear War and Our Responsibility to Preserve the Planet for Future Generations
by [ANTI-NUCLEAR] HAWKES, Glenn W.
Moretown, VT: Parents and Teachers for Social Responsibility, 1985. Fifth printing. Small square quarto;16pp; illus. Mild external wear; text clean and unmarked; Very Good. Earlier editions were titled "Wave A Small Flag." Anti-nuclear primer directed to parents of children.
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![[Lithograph] Death of George Shifler - Born Jan 24 1825 - Murdered May 6 1844 - In Kensington](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/001/098/1474098001.0.m.jpg)
[Lithograph] Death of George Shifler - Born Jan 24 1825 - Murdered May 6 1844 - In Kensington
by [ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS - PHILADELPHIA] MAGEE, J.L. (lithographer)
Philadelphia: William Smith, [1844]. Original hand-colored lithograph, 14.5" x 11.5" (sheet); printed area ca 12.5" x 8" including caption. Trimmed at upper and lower margins, two or three short tears at edges, with general minor toning: Very Good or better. Image foreground depicts a fallen Shifler, bleeding from a wound to the chest, surrounded by three comrades as he... Read More
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Report of the Twenty-Fourth National Anti-Slavery Festival
by [ANTI-SLAVERY] ADAMS, John Quincy, Maria Weston Chapman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, et al. (contributions)
Boston: Printed for the Managers, 1858. First Edition. Slim octavo (17cm); original printed and hand-stitched wrappers; [1],2-32pp. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, though contents are fresh internally; Near Fine. A report on the 24th National Anti-Slavery Bazaar-Festival, held in 1857, with the goal of raising money for abolitionist causes. "The aim of this institution is at once moral,... Read More
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Organic Consumer Report vol. 54, no. 50 (Dec. 10, 1974): Fluoridation - Foiled Again! How to Beat City Hall
by [ANTI-FLUORIDATION] YIAMOUYIANNIS, John (et al)
Topanga, CA: Eden Ranch / The National Health Federation, 1974. Original mimeographed newsletter. 1pp on single letter-sized sheet. Together with a supplementary fact sheet, dated 1/6/1975, headlined "preliminary study indictes...Cancer Death Rate Highest in Fluoridated Cities." First sheet with holes punched in left margin for binding; minor edgewear and aging; Very Good. Two mailings relating to the... Read More
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The Red Conspiracy
by [ANTI-LABOR] [RED SCARE] MERETO, Joseph J.
New York: The National Historical Society, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Cloth boards; 398pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, lacking dustjacket. An encyclopedic attack on essentially everything to the left of conservative Catholicism, from trade unions to the I.W.W., with much to say on the recently-concluded Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
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The Labor Spy Racket
by [ANTI-LABOR - LA FOLETTE COMMITTEE] HUBERMAN, Leo
New York: Modern Age, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 195,[3]pp, illus. A tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the scarce original dustwrapper, priced 85¢ on front flap; slightly rubbed and soiled with small (1/2") loss at base of spine panel, costing second line of publisher's imprint; Very Good. Illustrated with photographic... Read More
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Broadside: One Last Kick! Happy Resignation Day
by [ANTI-NIXON]
San Francisco: Trinity Press, [1975]. Broadside, with text and portraits of Nixon offset printed in blue on white bond, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Subtle toning on verso, some trivial dustiness along the left margin; Near Fine. Humorous broadside circular, issued to "celebrate the first anniversary of Richard M. "Tricky Dick" Nixon's disgraceful and dishonorable resignation this... Read More
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![Poster: Stem Niet -- Kies Zelf [Don't Vote, Make Your Own Choices]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/281/636/943636281.0.m.jpg)
Poster: Stem Niet -- Kies Zelf [Don't Vote, Make Your Own Choices]
by [ANTI-PARLIAMENTARISM]
[The Netherlands, n.d., but ca. 1981]. Original photographic poster (43x32cm.) printed offset on glossy white stock; some old folds and wrinkling, else About Very Good. Anti-parliamentary Dutch poster issued the year of the nation-wide elections of 1981 according to geheugenvannederland.nl. White text against a purple background below which shows a photograph of a line of policeman over which have... Read More
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America's Answer to the Russian Challenge. In Which Electric Power, as a common denominator, is requisitioned to throw light on the Russian enigma and the challenge it presents to Western Civilization
by [ANTI-SOVIET PROPAGANDA] [ELECTRIFICATION] SIBLEY, Robert
San Francisco: Farallon Press, 1931. First, Limited Edition. Number 91 of an unspecified limitation. Hand-numbered and signed by the author on copyright page. Large octavo (25cm); original gilt-blocked cloth; dustjacket; 171pp; illus. Brief ownership inscription to front endpaper, else a tight, fine copy. In the original dustjacket, toned on spine and margins with a few short closed tears to... Read More
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Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen With Drawings by Ben Shahn
by [ANTIWAR] OWEN, Wilfred. Ben SHAHN (illus)
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1956. First, Limited Edition. Folio (33cm). Original morocco-backed paper-covered boards in publisher's slipcase; unpaged [28pp]. No. 43 of 365 hand-numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 35 copies with a signed proof). Frontispiece is a portrait of Wilfred Owen, drawn by Shahn and printed from a block by Leonard Baskin; text includes 15 lithographs... Read More
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Stalin's Satellites in Europe
by [ANTI-COMMUNIST] GLUCKSTEIN, Ygael
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1952. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 21.5m. Publisher's vivid pink cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. [x]; 333pp. + 2pp. ads to rear. Clean and bright with some light wear to the extremities of the cloth; internally clean, top edge stained pink, with ownership of John B. Crane, a Harvard Professor of Economics, to... Read More
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The Rose of Solitude
by ANTONINUS, Brother [pseud. William Everson]
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original two-toned cloth in black price-clipped dust jacket; xiv,[2],125pp. General minor shelf-wear to jacket extremities, else Fine in Very Good jacket. "A Love Poem-Sequence" - upper jacket flap.
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The Rose of Solitude
by ANTONINUS, Brother [pseud. William Everson]
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original two-toned cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],125pp. General minor shelf-wear to jacket extremities, mostly to spine ends, else Fine in Very Good jacket. "A Love Poem-Sequence" - upper jacket flap.
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African Students in Alien Cultures
by ANUMONYE, Amechi
Buffalo: Black Academy Press, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; viii,148pp. Mild dust-soiling, else Very Good and sound. Nigerian doctor's psychological study of a group of African students in Britain.
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Die Dichter und der Krieg: Deutsche Lyrik 1914-1918
by ANZ, Thomas and Joseph Vogl, eds
[München]: Carl Hanser Verlag, [1982]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; 271pp. A hint of dust-soil and shelf wear, else Near Fine. Anthology of German World War I poetry.
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South Africa: "Resettlement" - The New Violence To Africans
by [SOUTH AFRICA] [APARTHEID]
London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm); stapled wrappers; 46,[2]pp; illus. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine. Discussion of the South African government's policy of mass "resettlement," which uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and moved them to so-called "homelands." One of the pillars of apartheid.... Read More
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South Africa: Arms and Apartheid
by [SOUTH AFRICA] [APARTHEID]
London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); stapled wrappers; 18pp. Some pinpoint wear along spine-fold, else a Fine copy. "This pamphlet does not attempt to deal with all aspects of the sale of arms to South Africa. It answers two popular fallacies: (a) that trade, investment... Read More
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South Africa: The Boss Law
by [SOUTH AFRICA] [APARTHEID]
London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1971. Third printing. Slim octavo (21cm); stapled wrappers; 13,[1]pp. A Fine copy. Discussion of the South African government's BOSS (Bureau of State Security) laws.
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