Socialist Platform [leaflet]
Galesburg, IL: Socialist Party, USA, n.d. 4x9 inch leaflet, chip at upper left corner. Attributed to Galesburg by the text. More
Cat.No: 253822
Illinois
The Vigilante: Vol. 1 No. 4, September 16, 1933
Chicago: n.pub. 1933. 4p., wraps, 9.25x11.25 inches, minor handling wear else very good condition. Includes a list of 356 alleged Communist/Socialist/atheist groups, a report on an alleged communist Hungarian professor & a plot for an armed uprising lead by Communist 'gun-men' of Wisconsin farmer. More
Cat.No: 109955
The Vigilante: Vol. 1 No. 4, September 16, 1933
Chicago: n.pub. 1933. 4p., wraps, 9.25x11.25 inches, edgeworn, marker notation on front wrap else very good condition. Includes a list of 356 alleged Communist/Socialist/atheist groups, a report on an alleged communist Hungarian professor & a plot for an armed uprising lead by Communist 'gun-men' of Wisconsin farmer. More
Cat.No: 264188
" To take a copy from the Nazis..
Chicago: American Civil Liberties Union, [1949]. 31p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x5.5 inches, very good copy. Critique of the Seditious Activities Investigation Commission, aka Broyles Commission, which recommended extreme measures of harassment of CP members, ''to treat them as the mongrel class of citizenry" (from document quoted on p.13) thus censoring "personnel"..... More
Cat.No: 149473
Why not make a little unity instead of just talking about it
Chicago: CMDJ, [1965]. Two pages, mimeographed from typsecript, stapled at upper left, 8.5x14 inches, very good but for horizontal fold crease. On the civil rights movement in Chicago, asking civil rights activists to get on board with labor activists. Proposes a meeting at the Greyhound station. More
Cat.No: 174509
Pilsen and the West Side. A tour guide to ethnic neighborhoods, architecture, restaurants, wall murals, and labor history with special emphasis on events connected with the Great Upheaval of 1877.
[Chicago]: [Illinois Labor History Society], [1977]. Paperback. 85, [vi]p., wraps toned else very good condition, bound with a plastic binding strip as issued, map on verso of rear wrap, Pages printed on one side only as issued, 8.5x11 inches. First edition. More
Cat.No: 254703
Report to the Board of Education, city of Chicago
Chicago: the Committee, 1964. Pamphlet. 86p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrated with tables, figures, plans, wraps lightly worn and soiled, staples rusted otherwise a very good first edition booklet in stapled cream printed wraps. Laid in is "A Guide to the Study of the Report ..." prepared by members of the staff..... More
Cat.No: 131815
Irene, Or, The Life and Fortunes of a Yankee Girl, a tale in eight cantos.
Joliet IL: Signal Printing Office, for the author, 1878. Hardcover. xii, 167p., hardbound in 7x4.5 inch green cloth boards cover-titled gilt and panelling in blind. Casing is faintly dust-soiled with a few touches of silverfishing, else near-immaculate; the matte brown endsheets unmarred, the textblock completely sound. The superb condition is..... More
Cat.No: 232663
The clothing workers of Chicago, 1910-1922
Chicago: Chicago Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1922. 424p., front., illus., original cloth binding with spine gilt lettering. More
Cat.No: 225
A place on the corner
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Hardcover. x, 237p., first printing, dj. On a corner bar in a Chicago black neighborhood. More
Cat.No: 61127
Wives, Mothers and other women: poems about women and their issues
Springfield: Marriage and Family Life Education Center, 1988. Paperback. 48p., introduction, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Self-published book by the African American marriage counselor living in Springfield, Illinois. She was born, raised and practiced in Mississippi. More
Cat.No: 223556
Wives, Mothers and other women: poems about women and their issues
Springfield: Marriage and Family Life Education Center, 1988. Paperback. 48p., introduction, gift inscription otherwise a very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Self-published book by the African American marriage counselor living in Springfield, Illinois. She was born, raised and practiced in Mississippi. More
Cat.No: 223560
Chicago GayLife: the Midwest gay newsleader; vol. 4, #48, Friday, May 18, 1979
Chicago: YourStyle Pub. 1979. Newspaper. 28p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, columns, news, ads, services, very good on newsprint. Chicago LGBT weekly, previously bi-weekly and titled "Blazing Star" aka Gay Life and Chicago Gay Life. More
Cat.No: 212137
Staley, the fight for a new American labor movement
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Paperback. 358p., wraps, very good condition. The working class in American history. More
Cat.No: 253255
Commemorating the centenary of the Chicago events
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1986. Paperback. 96p., wraps shelfworn else good condition, 4x6.5 inches. *Glenn 1492. Rubberstamp of American-Soviet Friendship Society on title page. More
Cat.No: 72959
Commemorating the centenary of the Chicago events
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1986. 96p., wraps slightly shelfworn, 4x6.5 inches. *Glenn 1492. More
Cat.No: 187478
Communist power in U.S. industry: the threat of the fifth column brought to the management's doorstep
Chicago, IL: Chicago Journal of Commerce, Inc., 1947. Pamphlet. 61p., wraps worn and toned, minor penciing on front wrap else good condition, 5x8 inches. Collected columns by Avery from the Chicago Journal of Commerce. More
Cat.No: 140157
Memoir of John Mason Peck forty years of pioneer life
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965. Hardcover. lxxviii, 360p., lxxxi-xciv, hardbound, first issue of this critical edition, cloth boards in dust jacket; dj is irregularly sunned, otherwise everything's clean and sound, a very good copy. Perspectives in Sociology. More
Cat.No: 60641
Don't drive up a dirt road; a novel
New York: The Lion Press, 1970. Hardcover. 157p., dj. Odd novel of a young black southerner who moves north. Chicago-born European-American author. More
Cat.No: 44000
Eagle forgotten, the life of John Peter Altgeld
Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. 496p., very good condition, slightly edge worn dj. Reprint of 1938 edition. Altgeld when governor of Illinois pardoned the two remaining Haymarket defendants and attacked the trial as a miscarriage of justice. More
Cat.No: 42160
The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Djuna Barnes; vol. 13, #3, Fall 1993
Normal, IL: RCF/Illinois State University, 1993. Paperback. 253p., introduction, appreciation's and critiques, illustrations, updated bibliography, ads, resources, reviews, lightly-used and bumped trade paperback literary journal in pictorial b&w wraps. More
Cat.No: 216640
Working class unity; the role of Communists in the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1919-1923
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1975. Pamphlet. 31p., staplebound pamphlet, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 38878
Working class unity; the role of Communists in the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1919-1923
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1975. Pamphlet. 31p., wraps, minor handling wear, CP school stamp on front wrap else good condition, 5.5x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 108923
Working class unity; the role of Communists in the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1919-1923
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1975. 31p., wraps, very good condition. An ad-hoc cover has been added for the occasion of the 21st national convention of the CPUSA in Chicago, this has a Haymarket-themed illustration and different titling ("Chicago, city of Haymarket, welcomes 21st national convention CPUSA. June 26-29, 1975")..... More
Cat.No: 134074
Working class unity; the role of Communists in the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1919-1923
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1975. 31p., wraps, date penned on front wrap else very good condition. An ad-hoc cover has been added for the occasion of the 21st national convention of the CPUSA in Chicago, this has a Haymarket-themed illustration and different titling ("Chicago, city of Haymarket, welcomes 21st..... More
Cat.No: 259637