Urban history
War by Candlelight: stories
New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Hardcover. 189p., near-fine first edition, first printing stated in boards and bright unclipped dj. This first book by the Peruvian American writer living in Oakland, received the 2004 Writing Writers' award. "In this exquisite collection, Alarcon tajes the reader from Third World urban centers to the..... More
Cat.No: 109927
The air down here; true tales from a South Bronx boyhood
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995. Hardcover. 134p., b&w photographs, very good first edition, first printingstated in laminated pictorial boards. The Puerto Rican author wrote the book as a 16-year-old. More
Cat.No: 74766
Assault with a deadly weapon; the autobiography of a street criminal, edited by Dianne Hall Keely and Philip Heymann, with a foreword by Hylan Lewis
New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. Hardcover. xxix, 247p., first edition, dj with long blurb by Piri Thomas. Autobiography of a Washington DC street hustler, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 88974
The Black Scholar: Volume 7, Number 3, November 1975: The Crisis of the Cities
Sausalito, CA: The Black World Foundation, 1975. Magazine. 64p., staplebound journal, 6.75x10 inches, very good condition. Includes an interview with Arthur Ashe. More
Cat.No: 292040
Sites & stations, provisional utopias; architecture and utopia in the contemporary city
New York: Lusitania Press // Autonomedia, n.d. Paperback. 255p., paperback, wraps a tad curled from handling, pages mildly toned, else very good condition. Text in both English and Korean. More
Cat.No: 298697
Migrants, Regional Identities and Latin American Cities
n.p. Society for Latin American Anthropology, 1997. Paperback. xiii, 180p., foreword, preface, references, notes, tables, figures, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Society for Latin American Anthropology Publiscation Series volume 13. More
Cat.No: 204239
A power of good: language of a midwestern childhood
Chesterfield, MO: Mira Digital Publishing, 2016. xix, 95p., paperback, 7x5 inches. New. The anthropologist couple turn their analytical reflections to the slang phrases used in midwestern communities when they were children. Most reflect general useage, not at all limited to the midwest. More
Cat.No: 216190
Sexuality, Poverty, and the Inner City
Menlo Park: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 1994. Paperback. xiv, 81p., introduction, summary, appendix, very good first edition paperback in plain white wraps. Sexuality and American Social Policy #2, edited by Jayne Garrison, Mark D. Smith & Douglas J. Besharov. More
Cat.No: 266392
Capitulo Criminologico 3. Organo del Centro de Investigaciones Criminologicas.
Maracaibo Venezuela: Universidad del Zulia, 1975. Paperback. 190p., illustrated with tables and charts, a softbound journal in 8.5 inch square designer wraps. Aside from some edgewear to the overlapping (yapp) cover margins, and faint dust & dampstain to exterior spine area, a very good copy: sound, unmarked, and otherwise clean..... More
Cat.No: 303982
Dogism; a Mark Anthony novel
Queens, NY: Trendsettaz Entertainment, 1998. Paperback. The true first edition of a much-reprinted novel, softbound item. Trade-size 8.5x5.5 inch glossy white photodecorated wraps, mild external handling wear with a little offset smudging to back cover, entirely sound and clean within, a very good copy. The happily-married narrator acknowledges futile promiscuities..... More
Cat.No: 181196
Israel and her vicinity in the Roman and Byzantine periods; notes offered to delegates, seventh international congress of Roman frontier suudies
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1967. 64p., two line maps and a page of vignette figures, plain printed 9.5x6.5 inch grey wraps, staple rust has migrated to the surface of card cover, there is some faint external dust- and handling-soil, dampstaining has lightly affected the cover and has faintly rippled..... More
Cat.No: 162288
The Arts & Crafts Home in Berkeley
Berkeley: Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, 1993. [35p] 7x8.5 inches, photo-illustrated with a doublespread line map very good booklet in stapled decorated wraps. Staples are rusting with migration, otherwise unmarked with mildest signs of handling. More
Cat.No: 186006
Berkeley Architectural Heritage Newsletter; March-April-May 1982. New BAHA Office
Berkeley: Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, 1982. Newsletter. 12p., 7x8.5 inches, illus., mailing address on back, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 308082
The Industrial Workers of the World Collection. 181 boxes. Papers, 1905-1972. Processed: 1971, 1973. Accession No. 130 - L.C. Number MS66-1519
Detroit: Wayne State University, [1973]. Spiral_bound. Pp.1-239, text reproduced from keyboard-set ms and softbound in copyshop-style wraps with a white plastic comb spine and a diecut cover leaf created in the Wayne State bindery. Inside cut is a simple typewritten label. We see no major damage; the comb, the covers..... More
Cat.No: 283416
The Dearborn Historian. Published quarterly by The Dearborn Historical Commission. Volume 17 Autumn, 1977 Number iv; Volume 18 Nos. i, ii, iii [Winter, Spring, Summer 1978]
Dearborn MI: Dearborn Historical Commission, 1977-78. Pamphlet. Four issues in matching format, 11x8.5 inch fascicles stapled at left under photo-decorated cover leaves, three in original mailing envelopes (machine-franked, no stamps). Pp.99-137; 3-36; 39-66; 69-92. Illustrations from period photography and amateur sketchwork. Sound copies (one a little bumped at a corner)..... More
Cat.No: 208906
Las mujeres de la ciudad de México 1790-1857 Traduccion de Stella Mastrangelo
Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno Editores SA, 1988. Paperback. 382p., softbound, trade-size wraps, illus., very good. Originally published by Stanford in English, 1985.. NOTE: This book was published using an ISBN that was re-used on a completely different title, Take care when ordering to be sure you are getting the title you..... More
Cat.No: 152098
Children's Carnival and Baby Parade - Asbury Park, N.J. May 27 to Sept. 4 1913 - Official Souvenir Program - Twenty-Third Annual Parade - The balmiest resort on the Atlantic Coast, Summer or Winter; 90 minutes from Broadway.
Asbury Park NJ: [Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce], 1913. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, minimally fifty pages, softbound program in 12x9 inch color wraps resembling a magazine, staple-bound. Covers are edgeworn with a few little chips, plus corner-tip and spinefold abrasion. Lots of automobile camera-fodder and a skeletal aeroplane that sneaks into artwork..... More
Cat.No: 287011
The other side of Jordan
New York: W. W, Norton & Company, 1960. Hardcover. 155p., first edition, worn, soiled and faded dj. Dj subtitle: "Negroes outside the South." The European American journalist covers such diverse subjects as the Nation of Islam and black labor. More
Cat.No: 15872
Topless Towers. A romance of Morningside Heights
New York: Macmillan Company, 1921. Hardcover. [8], 307, [3]p., boards. Bound in publisher’s blue cloth covered boards, stamped in white on the front with a scene of apartment buildings and city streets. Covers aged and worn; binding slightly cocked. Good. Two women who share an apartment in New York City..... More
Cat.No: 310877
A directory of the charitable and beneficent organizations of Boston :together with legal suggestions, laws applying to dwellings, etc. Fourth edition
Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1899. Hardcover. xvii, 475, xxxix-xlvip., preliminary and end ads toned, minor flaws and handling wear else good condition. More
Cat.No: 265609
Bushwick Nightz
New York: Catapolis LLC, 2013. Paperback. 55p., 5.5x8.5 inch pictorial wraps; mild handling on wraps, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 296485
Konceptualizations: community arts magazine volume 3, no. 1, August/September 1987
Oakland: Koncepts Cultural Gallery, 1987. Pamphlet. 8p., 8.5x7 inch staplebound wraps, slight signs of wear. The newsletter offices and plant had just moved into Jack London Square, following a financial crisis that threatened to close it down, and the material to hand in this issue is pretty thin: a couple..... More
Cat.No: 158815
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex; erweiterte und aktualisierte Ausgabe
Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 2007. Hardcover. Reprint: 688p., no illustrations whatsoever, text entirely in the German language. Hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch black boards titled red, a good 2 inches thick and enclosed in a glossy red dust jacket. A presentable copy with one flaw: pages 1 to 14 (vorwort und..... More
Cat.No: 290917
Ontario, The Model Colony; An Illustrated History
Chatsworth CA: Windsor Publications, Inc. / Ontario Chamber of Commerce, 1990. Hardcover. 176p., clay-coated alkaline paperstock throughout featuring period photography, fruitbox labels in color, a colorphoto section that shows notable buildings, a running text by local author and journalist Austen. Hardbound in 11.5x8.5 inch openweave white cloth boards, and a...... More
Cat.No: 236897