The City is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present
Oakland: PM Press, 2014. Paperback. xix+313p., 6x9 inches, pictorial wraps, illus., New. More
Cat.No: 212551
New Arrivals
Under the influence of Mae
New York: Inwood Press, 1979. Paperback. 95p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Debut novel by a widowed African American custodian for the Post Office. Set in a Long Island rooming-house. He won a Pushcart Prize for his story "Column Beda." Scary stuff, without being modernist or..... More
Cat.No: 207677
Before the Birth of the Moon
New York: Fireside / Simon & Schuster, 1989. Hardcover. 203p. Originally published out of France as Le Bel Immonde in 1976, this first US printing is very good. Novel set in Zaire by the Congolese writer. More
Cat.No: 207648
Healy "reconstructs" the Fourth International; documents and comments by participants in a fiasco, with a preface by Joseph Hansen
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1966. Pamphlet. 40p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps worn and soiled, small stain on front wrap, front wrap lightly toned along outer edge else good condition. Reprints letters from Healy, Harry Turner, James Robertson and others, plus various comments. Preface is titled "Sectarianism and tinpot despotism..... More
Cat.No: 207178
Sacred Seduction
np: XLibris, 2000. Paperback. 144p., very good first edition trade paperback in tan wraps. Novel by Nigerian author. More
Cat.No: 205144
Communal luxury, the Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
London: Verso, 2015. Hardcover. vlll, 148p., introduction, index, footnotes, very good reprint in boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 204036
Fireflames
Pietermaritzburg & Westport: Shuter & Shooter / Lawrence Hill & Co., 1980. Paperback. 63p., 6x10.5 inches, illustrated with woodcuts by various African artists, very good first edition trade paperback in tall, tan wraps with decorative orange titles. A cancel label affixed to original publisher's name on title page has come..... More
Cat.No: 203571
Song of a prisoner
New York: The Third Press, 1971. Hardcover. 120p., introduction, illustrations, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped, lightly-worn dj. Final volume in the trilogy following "Song of Lawino" "Song of Ocol" More
Cat.No: 203564
Outlaw Marriages: the hidden histories of fifteen extraordinary same-sex couples
Boston: Beacon Press, 2012. Hardcover. xi, 212p., notes, photos, fine first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 201267
The Class, the Party and the Leadership
London: Workers International Review, [1956?]. Pamphlet. 11p., staplebound wraps, edge wear, partially split along the spine, corners creased. Undated, but preface re-situates this essay, originally about Spain, in the context of the Hungarian uprising. Workers International Review Pamphlet no. 2. More
Cat.No: 200138
Through what stage are we passing? Speech at the 5th All-Union Congress of Medical and Veterinary Workers, June 21, 1924
London: New Park Publications, 1965. Pamphlet. 42p., wraps, paper slightly toned else very good condition, 4.75x7.25 inches. More
Cat.No: 200135
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
New York: New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. 148p., ownership name in ink on ffep, light wear and semi-circle cup ring and crease on front cover, light stain on fore edge, fair first edition in black cloth boards and gilt, bright but edgeworn and price-clipped dj. More
Cat.No: 199865
The Big Sell out by the Communist Party of South Africa and the African National Congress: recent developments in South Africa and the eclipse of the revolutionary perspective
London: Nakong Ya Rena, 1994. Paperback. 140p., wraps, very good condition. The Trotskyist author was a leader of the 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott. More
Cat.No: 198407
Sexism in Education. Third revised edition
Minneapolis: Emma Willard Task Force on Education, 1973. 87p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches; errata slip laid in. More
Cat.No: 198157
Sounds of a cowhide drum Poems
New York: The Third Press / Joseph Okpaku Publishing, 1972. Hardcover. xv,79p. First printing. Light soiling. Slight ben to corners. Dust jacket a bit bornwed with minimal wear to edges. More
Cat.No: 197870
Middle passage
New York: Atheneum, 1990. Hardcover. 209p., first edition, very good condition in dj with slight edgewear, crease along length of spine. A National Book Award winner from the Evanston, Illinois born African American writer. More
Cat.No: 197620
She sews in a sweatshop still dreaming of Gold Mountains / reliving her past through holiday rituals / patiently waiting for her house in the suburbs. / Helplessly I watch the years roll by / on the horizon no houses in sight, just mountains made of brass and sweat [screen print poster]
San Francisco: [Japantown Art & Media Workshop], 1980. 22.75x17 inch screen print poster depicting an older woman working at a sewing machine, a much younger version of herself standing with her mother in the background. Artwork by Lowe to accompany a poem by Hom that was originally published in 1977..... More
Cat.No: 196947
The fall into Eden; landscape and imagination in Califofrnia
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Paperback. xviii, 280p., illustrations, first paperback printing after a second hardcover printing, a very good copy of the trade paperback in green pictorial wraps. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture series. Editor: Albert Gelpi. Literary assessments, John Muir to Frank Norris to Raymond Chandler..... More
Cat.No: 195450
Blade Among the Boys
London: Hutchinson, 1962. Hardcover. 192p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped, lightly worn dj. Second novel by the Nigerian writer and editor of Nigeria Magazine concerns a young African faced with the crisis of accepting a new religion, Christianity, which denies him everything that his people believe makes..... More
Cat.No: 193211
RFD: a country journal for gay men; #22, Winter Solstice, 1979
Elfland, NC: RFD, 1979. Magazine. 96p., 8x11 inches, photos, art, poetry, fiction, editorials, paper toned, covers toned and lightly worn, magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. More
Cat.No: 191840
RFD: a country journal for gay men; #11, Spring, 1977, Spring Solstice/Mechanics Issue
Wolf Creek: RFD, 1977. Magazine. 48p., 7.25x10 inches, poetry, editorials, photos, art, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. More
Cat.No: 191836
Voting for democracy: a study of electoral politics in Zimbabwe
Harare: University of Zimbabwe, 1992. Paperback. xii, 244p., appendices, bibliography, summaries, tables, very good first edition trade paperback in worn wraps. More
Cat.No: 191784
Sounds of a cowhide drum: poems. Foreword by Nadine Gordimer
Johannesberg: Renoster, 1971. Paperback. vii, 68p., mildly sloped spine, first paperback printing in original wraps; gift inscription on front endpaper. More
Cat.No: 190729
Journal of the new African literature; a biannual publication; the 1st, spring 1966
Stanford: Journal of the new African literature, 1966. 79p., poetry, plays, fiction, literature by African students studying in the US, very good trade paperback journal in green pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 190050