Press Agents of the Pentagon
by SWOMLEY, John M., Jr.
Washington DC: National Council Against Conscription, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in blue and tan; 60pp.; illus., text in double columns. Wrappers a bit foxed, rear cover dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. "A study of the publicity methods of the department of defense" - upper wrapper.
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![The Case for Disarmament [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/286/895/855895286.0.m.jpg)
The Case for Disarmament [cover title]
by SWOMLEY, John, Jr.
[Philadelphia: Reprinted...for the Program on Disarmament by Peace Education Program, American Friends Service Committee, 1960]. Reprint. Octavo (21.25cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 6pp.; illus., printed on grey stock. Extremities a bit toned, else About Very Good. Reprinted from The Progressive, April, 1960. OCLC locates 4 copies as of November, 2015, at Central Florida, Ohio, U. Texas, and Wisconsin.
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International Information Bulletin. June, 1949
by [SWP - SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY] STALIN, Joseph (others)
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1949. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Staple-bound, mimeographed sheets; 35pp. Final leaf partially detached; minor browning to text, else Very Good. Official organ of the Socialist Workers Party, the Trotskyist offshoot of the American Socialist Party. This issue reprints Political Resolutions of the Seventh Plenum of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth... Read More
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![Postmarks from Paradise: The Philatelic & Numismatic History of West Indies Cricket [Inscribed to Geoffrey Holder]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/721/584/1681584721.0.m.jpg)
Postmarks from Paradise: The Philatelic & Numismatic History of West Indies Cricket [Inscribed to Geoffrey Holder]
by SYDNEY, Albert WB; Patrick Eagar (photographs); George Maxwell Richards, Daniel Williams, (et al) (contributors)
Republic of Trinidad & Tobago: Albert WB Sydney / Sydney House, 2008. First Edition. Quarto (29cm); navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 316pp; illus. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For Geoffrey Holder, It is a tremendous pleasure for me to present you with a copy of this work, which I hope... Read More
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![A.J.A. Symons to Wyndham Lewis: Twenty-Four Letters with Comments by Julian Symons [Printer's Corrected Proofs]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/068/289/898289068.0.m.jpg)
A.J.A. Symons to Wyndham Lewis: Twenty-Four Letters with Comments by Julian Symons [Printer's Corrected Proofs]
by SYMONS, A.J.A.
Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1982. Small slim quarto (23.5cm.); original card wrappers in marbled dust jacket, printed paper label mounted to upper panel, disbound as issued; 21 leaves; portrait plate. Fine, with the printer Alan Anderson's manuscript corrections in red ink throughout.
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Studies in Seven Arts
by SYMONS, Arthur
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1925]. Octavo (21.25cm); original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 324pp. Spine ends a bit rubbed with closed horizontal crack about one inch from spine foot, else Very Good or better. Later edition, this collection of essays on art history, theater, and music first published in 1906.
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The Escorial. A Prize Poem, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 20, 1860
by SYMONDS, J.A.
Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, 1860. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's cream decorative side-stitched wrappers, housed in later custom cloth chemise and matching half-morroco slipcase; 15pp. Light dust-soil to wrappers else Fine. Slipcase unevenly sunned, half of top edge perished. The English poet and critic John Addington Symond's first book, pubished when he was just twenty years old and... Read More
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Youth Liberation Program and Services
by CHIPS [Cooperative High School Independent Press Syndicate]
Ann Arbor: CHIPS, [1971]. Mimeograph. 22cm; yellow stock, illustrated in red and blue, titled in black; 12pp. including covers; illustrated, Near Fine copy. 15 point program explaining the wants of the organization. Includes full page order sheet for Youth Liberation materials such as pamphlets, buttons, posters back issues and t-shirts, ect. "The purpose of CHIPS is... Read More
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Reflections on Violence
by [SYNDICALISM] SOREL, Georges; T.E. Hulme, transl
New York: B.W. Huebsch, [1915]. First American Edition. First edition in English, from the Third French Edition. Bound from British sheets, but American publication preceded the U.K. edition by some months (see below). Octavo; green cloth with gilt spine-title; x,299pp. Spine gilt dulled; rubbing to board edges, with spots of board exposure at corners; text slightly toned – still... Read More
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In Wicklow, West Kerry, The Congested Districts, Under Ether
by SYNGE, J. M.
Boston: John C. Winston, 1912. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); tan spine over gray paper-covered boards, with titling, decorations, and blocking stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; 215pp. Light tanning to spine and edges of textblock, and occasional wear to text, else Near Fine. Lacking tissue dustjacket. Published posthumously, Synge's works... Read More
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Mimi, Aucti et Correcti Ex Codice Ms. Frisingensi; Cum Notis Viri Docti, et Variis Lectionibus
by PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Patavii [Passau]: Josephus Cominus, 1740. Octavo (19cm). Undyed cartonnage with brief manuscript title to spine; 80pp; title page vignette, printer's device to colophon. Untrimmed. 8vo: A-E8. Minor external rubbing and wear, with splits and losses to paper over spine, internally clean and bright: Very Good. The sayings of Roman playwright Publilius Syrus; though his mimes were popular,... Read More
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Volunteers for the Gallows: Anatomy of a Show-Trial
by SZÁSZ, Béla; Kathleen Szász, transl
London: Chatto and Windus, 1971. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; viii,244pp. Fine, tight, unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £2.50 net at base of front flap), crisp and unworn, Fine. An uncommonly bright copy of this classic first-hand memoir of the 1949 Stalinist show trials in Hungary, during which Szász, who... Read More
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The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
by SZASZ, Thomas S., ed
New York: Jason Aronson, [1974]. First Thus. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket, red topstain; xv,[1],372pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. A spirited and common sense based attack on the idea of mental health treatment as something that should be forced upon people suffering from psychological disorders. A pivot away from accepted medical... Read More
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![The Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/088/905/1035905088.0.m.jpg)
The Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events [Review Copy]
by SZASZ, Thomas
Buffalo: Prometheus Books, [1984]. First Thus. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; 360pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip laid in.
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Ceremonial Chemistry; The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers
by SZASZ, Thomas
New York: Anchor Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's beige cloth spine over blue cloth boards, titled in black to spine and with publisher's emblem embossed to front board. Dustjacket. 243pp. Bright sharp and clean in a very nice example of the Edward Gorey illustrated dustjacket with some minor edgewear and purely superficial scuffing. A very good copy... Read More
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AN ENGLISH APOCALYPSE
by Szirtes, George
Highgreen: Bloodaxe, 2001. First Edition. Trade paperback original 142 pp. Inscribed by Szirtes to an American poet (and his wife) associated with New Formalism. Szirtes was born in Hungary and came to Great Britain as a child in 1956 after the Hungarian Uprising. Known for his translations from the Hungarian and for his use of form. Fine copy. ... Read More
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BRIDGE PASSAGES
by Szirtes, George
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. First Edition. Trade paperback original 63 pp. Inscribed by Szirtes to an American poet (and his wife) associated with New Formalism. Szirtes was born in Hungary and came to Great Britain as a child in 1956 after the Hungarian Uprising. Known for his translations from the Hungarian and for his use of form. Fine... Read More
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SELECTED POEMS 1976-1996
by Szirtes, George
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Trade paperback original 117 pp. Inscribed by Szirtes to an American poet (and his wife) associated with New Formalism. Szirtes was born in Hungary and came to Great Britain as a child in 1956 after the Hungarian Uprising. Known for his translations from the Hungarian and for his use of form. Fine... Read More
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PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER IN AN ENGLISH LANDSCAPE
by Szirtes, George
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Trade paperback original 53 pp. Inscribed by Szirtes to an American poet associated with New Formalism. Szirtes was born in Hungary and came to Great Britain as a child in 1956 after the Hungarian Uprising. Known for his translations from the Hungarian and for his use of form. Back cover bruised, easily... Read More
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Brothers: The Origins of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library
by SZLADITS, Lola L.
New York: New York Public Library, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt; 60pp; black and white and two-color illustrations. Lightly rubbed, else Fine.
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The Struggle for Power in Medieval Italy: Structures of Political Rule (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
by TABACCO, Giovanni
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; vi,353pp. No dust jacket issued. Minor rubbing to bottom edge and spine of boards, light superficial 3" scratch to back cover board. Slight toning to margins of text block, otherwise a clean, tight, and unmarked copy. Review copy, with publisher's... Read More
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![Father Tabb: His Life and Work. A Memorial by his Neice [sic] Jennie Masters Tabb](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/519/422/1523422519.0.m.jpg)
Father Tabb: His Life and Work. A Memorial by his Neice [sic] Jennie Masters Tabb
by TABB, Jennie Masters; Charles Alphonso Smith, introd
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1922. Second edition. Small octavo. Red cloth gilt; xi,174pp; plates. Front endpaper excised, moderate wear and fading to cloth; Good only, but a sound and complete reading copy. Somewhat uncommon memoir of John B. Tabb (1845-1909) aka Father Tabb, the widely-published "Poet-Priest" of Virginia.
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A Selection from the Verses of John B. Tabb, Made by Alice Meynell
by TABB, John B. (Alice Meynell, ed)
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1907. First American Edition. 12mo. Russet linen boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xi (i.e., ix), 120pp. Originally published London, 1906, by Burns & Oates. A small number of copies were issued in America with a cancel title page bearing the Longmans, Green imprint. The American issue is a rarity,... Read More
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John Bannister Tabb on Emily Dickinson
by Tabb, John Bannister (Emily Dickinson)
New York: Seven Gables Bookshop, 1950. First edition. Gray printed, stapled wrappers; 4to. 4 pp. Foreword by Thomas H. Johnson. Consists of a two-page facsimile of a holograph letter from Tabb discussing his work and Dickinson's. Created as a Christmas card for 1950. 500 copies printed at the Spiral Press. Reportedly suppressed because it was feared that some readers... Read More
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John Bannister Tabb on Emily Dickinson
by Tabb, John Bannister (Emily Dickinson)
New York: Seven Gables Bookshop, 1950. First edition. Gray printed, stapled wrappers; 4to. 4 pp. Foreword by Thomas H. Johnson. Consists of a two-page facsimile of a holograph letter from Tabb discussing his work and Dickinson's. Created as a Christmas card for 1950. 500 copies printed at the Spiral Press. Reportedly suppressed because it was feared that some readers... Read More
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