Noam Chomsky: a life of dissent
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997. 237p., introduction, conclusion, notes, works consulted, index, illustrated with photos, very good first edition in dj. More
Cat.No: 98804
Biography
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Wiseasset, Maine: Margaret Fuller Womens History Research Center, 1984. 39p., very good in staplebound wraps. Second edition. Booklet celebrating the poet and early feminist activist, a Maine native. More
Cat.No: 194689
Mother Bloor, the spirit of 76
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937. Pamphlet. 31p., wraps soiled and chipped along the spine - partly 'repaired' with non-archival tape, "posted" stamped on the front wrap, small library deaccession stamp on last page else good condition. . *Sideman B71. "Barton updates her earlier publication on Mother Bloor to bring..... More
Cat.No: 1076
Mother Bloor, the spirit of 76
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937. Pamphlet. 31p., wraps, very good condition, 5x7.25 inches. *Sideman B71. "Barton updates her earlier publication on Mother Bloor to bring the interpretation in line with the party's new emphasis on 'mass organizing' among women. Instead of describing the revered Communist as 'class fighter,' Barton..... More
Cat.No: 280654
Luis Palau; evangelist to the world
Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour Publishing, 2000. Paperback. 206p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Biography of an Argentinean American evangelist. More
Cat.No: 79918
Taming the storm; the life and times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and the south's fight over civil rights
New York: Doubleday, 1993. Hardcover. viii, 512p., illustrated with period photographs, hardbound first edition in clothbacked 9.5x6 inch boards titled silver in dust jacket. The corner-tips of covers are fractionally turned, dj slightly edgeworn, else sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 70279
The Gentleman from Maryland: the conscience of a gay conservative
New York: Arbor House, 1986. Hardcover. xii, 276p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 16174
B. Traven: An Introduction
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. hardcover. xv, 184p., sun faded dustjacket, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 272888
Simon Radowitzky and the People's Justice
npl: Elephant Editions, [c1991]. Paperback. 89p., wraps, 4x5 inches, very good condition. Originally serialized in Madres de Plaza de Mayo Monthly, June to September 1991, Buenos Aires. Brief biography of the Ukrainian anarchist. Radowitzky immigrated to Argentina in 1908 and spent 21 years in prison for the assassination of Ramón..... More
Cat.No: 259319
Cotton Mather; First Significant Figure in American Medicine
Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1968. Hardcover. ix, 241p., Second printing, sea-green boards stamped in gilt with no dj if issued, rear board slightly rubbed, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 277002
All America louse; a candid biography of Drew A. Pearson
Arlington, VA: Columbia Publishing Company, 1967. 91p., ads, third printing of this staplebound booklet first issued in 1965 with slightly shorter pagination, mild handling soil, rear wrap unevenly toned else very good condition. Fresh from the nonpartisan insights of his "Guns of the Regressive Right," a shrewd JFK assassination scenario..... More
Cat.No: 112224
Going the Other Way: lessons from a life in and out of major-league baseball
New York: Marlowe & Company, 2003. Hardcover. xii, 256p. + 8p. photos, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Autobiography by an openly gay baseball player. More
Cat.No: 100870
Romare Bearden
San Francisco: Pomegranite, 2004. Hardcover. unpaginated, 9.25x11.75 inches, b&w photos of Bearden and others, fine first edition in black cloth and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 185543
The way out must lead in; life histories in the civil rights movement
Westport: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1983. Hardcover. xxviii, 193p., second (revised) edition, very good hardcover. More
Cat.No: 17637
An Underground Life: the memoirs of a gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Paperback. ix, 165p., foreword, prologue, map, photos, very good reprint trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Living Out series: Gay & Lesbian Autobiographies, Joan Larkin & David Bergman, editors. More
Cat.No: 83353
The Mission and the Man: the story of San Juan Capistrano
Pasadena: San Pasqual Press, 1939. Hardcover. 40p., bookplate, frontis, decorative chapter caps, offsetting to several pages due to newspaper clippings (removed) first edition in illustrated cloth. Simple hagiography. More
Cat.No: 32810
A memoir of Thomas McGrath
East Grand Forks, MN: Spirit Horse Press, 1993. Pamphlet. 29p., wraps soiled (printer's ink) else good condition, 6.75x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 144532
Road to purpose
Alexandria: VSP Books, 2004. x, 234p., preface, appendixes, illustrated with two sections of glossy plates from color photos, maps, very good first edition in boards and dj. Memoir of a Depression-era Wisconsin resident who came to be a successful Forbes 400 businessman and philanthropist who travels the world for his..... More
Cat.No: 127311
Felipe de Neve; first governor of California
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1971. Hardcover. 194p., introduction, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, very good first edition in gray and mustard canvas cloth boards, a handsome production designed by John Beyer. Special publication no. 49. More
Cat.No: 142165
Arne Magnusson: the manuscript collector. Translated by Robert W. Mattila
Denmark: Odense University Press, 1972. Pamphlet. 70p., plates, 8x4.5 inch printed wraps, signed by the translator on the half-title, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 61209
Violet: the story of the irrepressible Violet Hunt and her circle of friends - Ford Madox Ford, H. G. Wells, Somerset Maugham, and Henry James
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. Hardcover. 351p., fine first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 200161
Dictionary of Labour Biography. Volumes I, II, 3, 4 [a run of four from the series, each volume "self-contained"]
Clifton NJ; London: Augustus M. Kelley; Macmillan, 1972. Hardcover. Matched book design despite different publishers. Respectively xxv, 388, xxi, 454, xix, 236, xix, 236p., each volume cased into 9.5x6 inch red cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Several in the run show slight loss of sizing along..... More
Cat.No: 282983
Dictionary of Labour Biography; Volume VIII
London: MacMillan Press, 1987. Hardcover. xvii, 309p., 6.25x9.5 inches; original black cloth boards with titling in gilt, slightly rubbed, lacking dj if issued, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 280627
Stephen Vincent Benét: essays on his life and work
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. Paperback. xi, 244p., introduction, chronology, invocation, essays on his life, poetry, fiction & drama, contributors, bibliography, index, b&w illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 264273
Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo, a biography
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. Hardcover. xiii, 332p. + 12p. plates, foreword, prologue, notes, index, very good first US edition in cloth, gilt and unclipped lightly-soiled white dj. "Paranoiac, pederast, pimp and scrounger, biter of hands that fed him;" - Pamela Hansford Johnson. More
Cat.No: 13918