Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies 1680-1780
New York: Guilford Press, 1998. Paperback. xi + 340p., trade paperback, slight edgewear to wraps, else very good. Mappings: Society/Theory/Space. More
Cat.No: 247422
New Arrivals
Damming the flood; Haiti, Aristide, and the politics of containment
London & NY: Verso, 2010. Paperback. xxxvii, 474p., trade paperback, with new 2010 afterword by the author. More
Cat.No: 247417
Prick Up Your Ears: the biography of Joe Orton
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Hardcover. xiii, 302p., notes, chronology of plays and films, published works, index, b&w photos, previous owner bookplate otherwise a very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 247416
![The Closets Are Empty...the Dining Room's Full; an autobiographical legacy [signed]. Ace Lundon](/pictures/thumb/247415.jpg?v=1579139951)
The Closets Are Empty...the Dining Room's Full; an autobiographical legacy [signed]
Reno: Ponderosa Publishing House, 1993. Hardcover. x, 339p., preface, foreword, introduction, afterword, photos, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Generic inscription signed by the author. South Dakota farmboy becomes a major player in the public relations arena repping such names as mahalia Jackson, Jayne Mansfield et al...... More
Cat.No: 247415
![Labor's Heritage: Quarterly of the George Meany Memorial Archives [4 issues]. Stuart B. Kaufman](/pictures/thumb/247414.jpg?v=1579139950)
Labor's Heritage: Quarterly of the George Meany Memorial Archives [4 issues]
Silver Spring, MD: George Meany Center for Labor Studies, 1990-1996. Magazine. Four issues of the quarterly magazine, spanning the period from January 1990 to Fall 1996. Issues present are Vol. 2 No. 1, Vol. 3 No. 4, Vol. 7 No. 2, and Vol. 8 No. 2. 79p. each, 8.5 x...... More
Cat.No: 247414
![A Day After the Fair: a collection of plays and short stories [signed/limited]. James Purdy](/pictures/thumb/247413.jpg?v=1579139949)
A Day After the Fair: a collection of plays and short stories [signed/limited]
New York: printed at Five Trees Press in San Francisco for Note of Hand Publishers, 1977. Hardcover. 169p., out of a run limited to a thousand copies this is one of 50 signed by Purdy on the colophon but unnumbered, very good limited first edition in cloth and unclipped dj..... More
Cat.No: 247413
![Perspectivas: Publicacion Trimestral de Isis Internacional [3 issues]. Ana Maria Portugal, Director](/pictures/thumb/247412.jpg?v=1579139949)
Perspectivas: Publicacion Trimestral de Isis Internacional [3 issues]
Santiago, Chile: Isis International, 1996-2000. Magazine. Three issues of the Spanish-language feminist magazine, Nos. 4 (1996), 6 (Abril-Junio 1997), and 19 (Julio-Septiembre 2000), 23, 23, and 24p. respectively, 8.25 x 10. 5 inches, front wrap of No. 6 unevenly toned else very good in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 247412
Anvil and student partisan, vol. 7, no. 4, Winter, 1957. Whole no. 15
New York: 1957. 31p., 9x12 inches, wraps worn and unevenly toned, pen scribble on front wrap, staples beginning to rust, small stain on rear wrap, a reading copy only. Articles by Michael Harrington, Harvey Swados and others. Editorial board included Sam Bottone, Michael Harrington, Tim Wohlforth, Shane Mage and others..... More
Cat.No: 247410
Anvil, a student socialist magazine and student partisan. Vol. 8, no. 1 (Whole Number 16), Fall 1957
New York: New York Student Federation Against War, Socialist Club of Roosevelt College, Politics Club of University of Chicago, 1957. 31p., 8.5 x 11 inches, wraps worn, front wrap heavily foxed along edges, wraps and first page rust stained from paperclip (now removed), date written in pen on front wrap..... More
Cat.No: 247409
Leaves of Grass comprising all the poems written by Walt Whitman following the arrangement of the edition of 1891-2 illustrated with woodcuts by Valenti Angelo, complete in one volume
New York: Modern Library, [1950s?]. Hardcover. 423p., illustrated with simple woodcuts, very good reprint in green cloth boards and gilt, G5 binding, topstain black and unclipped, worn dj. Modern Library Giant #G50. From reduced photyographic plates of the original Grabhorn Press edition. More
Cat.No: 247408
Fanon: a novel
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Hardcover. 229p., near-fine first edition stated in boards and bright unclipped dj. Novel about an African American writer working on a life of Frantz Fanon. More
Cat.No: 247407
On Reading
New York: Macmillan, 1971. Hardcover. ix, 85p., introduction, texts in French & English on facing pages, extensive notes, very good first printing stated in quarter-cloth over striped paper boards, gilt spine titles and slipcase with paper title label, stain on rear of case. Red markerslash/dot to top page edges (remainder?)..... More
Cat.No: 247406
Orpheus Emerged a new work by Jack Kerouac
New York: iBooks Inc., 2000. Hardcover. 176p., foreword, introduction, novella, excerpts from Kerouac's journals, the Beat Movement, brief biography, introduction to Lonesome Traveler, selected bibliographies, CD-Rom in pocket at rear, remainder mark bottom edge otherwise near-fine first edition and printing stated in boards and bright unclipped dj. The CD-Rom is..... More
Cat.No: 247405
Here are set forth The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus; that men's actions may not in time be forgotten nor things great and wonderful, accomplished whether by Greeks or barbarians, go without report, nor, especially, the cause of the wars between one and the other. Translated Harry Carter, Illustrated and decorated by Edward Bawden [a two-volume set, complete]
New York: The Heritage Press, 1958. Hardcover. Respectively xxviii, 298, 303-615p., a well-designed text illustrated with marvellous double-spreads having color borders for the two titlepages and for each "book" or major chapter, plus other doublespreads; illustrated also with line maps bound in (one folded) and endpaper maps (two different areas)..... More
Cat.No: 247402
To: Raygun, The President of the United States. Subject: A rejection of your invitation to join a Military Club
N.pl. Calypso Joe & Miracle Films, 1981. Leaflet, 8.5x11 inches, printed on one side only, very good condition. Anti- Reagan, anti-military leaflet by one of the more colorful oddballs that the 1960s and the antiwar movement produced, leaflets laid in a crazy quilt cut and paste style. His name was..... More
Cat.No: 247401
The Lower Depths: a play
New York: Viking Press/a Richard Seaver Books, 1973. Hardcover. xviii, 90p., chronology, introduction, preface, original RSC cast, lyric and notation of song sung in play, very good first US edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. ```. More
Cat.No: 247397
28 Barbary Lane: a Tales of the City omnibus Tales of the City, More Tales of the City & Further Tales of the City
New York: HarperCollins, 1990. Hardcover. 754p., introduction, near-fine first US edition of this collection in cloth boards, gilt and bright unclipped dj. Originally published in the UK in this format. The first three novels of the series. More
Cat.No: 247389
Radical psychiatry: the second decade
San Francisco: Beth Roy, 1988. iii, 237p., copyshop binding with plastic cover, mildly worn, 8.5x11 inches. Described as a "work-in-progress," the manuscript for a forthcoming book. The contributors had been involved in the Bay Area Radical Psychiatry Collective. More
Cat.No: 247386
Korean karate: the art of Tae Kwon Do
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1968. 312p., very good hardcover in worn dustjacket; 14th printing. More
Cat.No: 247385
Journals: early fifties, early sixties
New York: Grove Press, 1977. Hardcover. xxx, 302p., introduction, photos, very good first edition, first printing stated in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 247380
Seobe Srba nekad i sad
Beograd: Institut za medunarodnu politiku i privredu: Matica Srba i iseljenika Srbije, 1990. 360 pages, paperback, mild handling wear. On Serb migration. More
Cat.No: 247378
Christopher Isherwood: his era, his gang, and the legacy of the truly srong man
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 2001. Hardcover. xxiii, 288p., introduction, notes, bibliography, index, photos, near-fine first edition in cloth boards and unclipped bright dj. Critical study and biography focusing much on the author's Vedantic studies. More
Cat.No: 247377
W poszukiwaniu czlowieka pierwotnego
Lublin: Red. Wydawnictw Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1994. 182 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates; paperback, light shelfwear. Looks at the people of the Amazon and Papua New Guinea; text in Polish. More
Cat.No: 247376
Hrvatska u ratu i revoluciji 1941-1945
Zagreb: Skolska knjiga, 1978. 303 pages, paperback, mild handling wear. On Croatia during WWII. Text in Croatian. More
Cat.No: 247375