Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1937. Hardcover. 277pp., hardcover, very good first edition in illustrated dustjacket, the dustjacket with a couple of very small edge chips. WWI spy novel climaxing with the gassing at Ypres. More
Cat.No: 50164
Washington, D. C: GPO, 1919. [99]p., staplebound textblock in plain printed buff wraps, illustrated with diagrams and tables. A severe crease affects all lower corner, and a small torn-out corner area affects the last dozen leaves, mainly by obliterating page numbers. Otherwise, leaves are browned and fragile. United States Department..... More
Cat.No: 90778
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. Hardcover. 197p., very good condition in a slightly shelf worn dj. More
Cat.No: 224817
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. hardcover. ix, 436p., illus., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 41415
![Cat.No: 238608 I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier [sheet music]. Alfred Bryan, Al...](/pictures/thumb/238608.jpg?v=1559182840)
New York: Leo Feist, 1915. 4p., sheet music, rather worn, with some edge tears, interior tape reinforcement, penned ownership signature; a reference or display copy only. "Ed. Morton's sensational anti-war song hit." "Ten million soldiers to the war have gone, Who may never return again. Ten million mothers' hearts must break, For the..... More
Cat.No: 238608
![Cat.No: 265077 Victory without peace [Inscribed to Edgar G. Sisson]. Roger Burlingame,...](/pictures/thumb/265077.jpg?v=1619060617)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. 335p., hardcover in edgeworn dustjacket, front hinge starting, inscribed by Burlingame "For Edgar Sisson, Pleasant memories and cordial greetings," with an additional typed and signed latter laid in thanking Sisson for his response to the book. Sisson, a former magazine editor (most recently..... More
Cat.No: 265077
New York: National Institute Of Social Sciences, 1918. Hardcover. 242p., hardcover with badly sun-faded spine and boards, edgewear with some minute fraying, fore-edge foxed. Single dedicated issue of the journal. Includes post-war proposals by Thorstein Veblen, Samuel Dutton and others; notes on the IWW in Arizona and the northwest by..... More
Cat.No: 134436
Thessaloniki, Greece: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1985. 257p., wraps, illus. with black and white photos, wraps soiled with a few small stains, ex-library with ownership stamp on front blank else good condition. More
Cat.No: 250428
New York: Vantage Press, 1963. 266p., first edition in cloth, gilt and unclipped dj. Book itself has a white smudge at the tail of spine panel and dj a lightly-sunned spine; otherwise sound. clean and unmarked. Personal inscription signed by the self-published Italian American immigrant author, based in San Francisco..... More
Cat.No: 147642
San Francisco: Daniels & Wilson Incorporated, Music Publishers, 1918. Pamphlet. 3p., 13.5x10.5 inch decorated wraps (blue and yellow Europeans, he in uniform, she in leis and grass skirt), quite edgeworn with several short closed tears. The Wasteland, filtered through American demobilization and Pacific paradise, Sweeney, where are you. Lyric warns..... More
Cat.No: 167526
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1940. Hardcover. x, 239p., very good condition. No dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 300480
San Francisco: the author, 1916. Pamphlet. 62p. staplebound pamphlet, minor foxing and handling wear to the covers and first pages; ownership inscription in English of Tara Singh (presumably not the famous Sikh leader in the Punjab), stating that it was taken from Harry Singh. Laid in is a folded sheet..... More
Cat.No: 295658
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991. Hardcover. 387p., illus., dj. As new in publisher's shrinkwrap. More
Cat.No: 36656
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. Hardcover. xxii, 223p., first edition cloth boards in dj; jacket somewhat worn, else very good. Modern middle east series no. 10. More
Cat.No: 52756
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1941. Hardcover. 61p. including illus., first edition, slightly edgeworn dust jacket, otherwise very good. One of Cobb's dialect stories, himself as "Irvin," based on a reunion of black veterans of World War One. Jacket illustration shows a comically "proper" white soldier standing at attention with three..... More
Cat.No: 57724
Paris: Le Mot at Societe General, 1915. Newspaper. [6p] 17.5x11 inches, text in French, illustrations, one gigantic leaf tri-fold to create a broadside/magazine, one fold-line is split halfway down, the other is at risk. Cover illustration (a generic medal labeled 'la cicatrice')) and back cover cartoon (Iribe) printed in monochrome..... More
Cat.No: 222951
New York: American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, [1917?]. Pamphlet. [6p.], wraps, 3.25x5.75 inches, wraps soiled else very good condition. Pro-war, on how much better working people are doing. More
Cat.No: 165662
New York: American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, [1917?]. Pamphlet. 7p., wraps, 3.25x5.75 inches, very good condition. Samuel Gompers headed the Alliance, includes polemics against the Socialists and supporting the AF of L. More
Cat.No: 165663
New York: Workers Library Publisher, 1941. 64p., paperback, 5.25x7.5 inches; sun faded spine, else in good condition. More
Cat.No: 270928
[Cleveland, OH]: the author? [1918]. Small poem sheet, 3.5x6.25 inches a bit browned with some chipping of the margins, printed on one side only. Poem about Eugene Debs trial for his Canton, Ohio speech. Doggerel but worthwhile. "Who out-mans you as a Man?" - line in the poem. Author's statement..... More
Cat.No: 200819
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. Hardcover. 443p., very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dust jacket. The African American writer's first novel, set in the Harlem Renaissance, containing gay themes. More
Cat.No: 36046
Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1985. Hardcover. 111p., frontis, preface, foreword, genealogy, photos, very good first edition in pictorial boards as issued. Signed by the author. Autobiography of San Francisco bibliographer of Californiana, with material on WWI. I had no idea he was going to look so tired! More
Cat.No: 156975
London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. x, 276p., first UK edition (US presswork) of these previously uncollected essays. Hardbound, 8.5x5.5 inch brown papered boards titled in silverfoil. Lacks the jacket, else quite good: clean, sound and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 244122
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. xv, 478p., hardcover in tattered dustjacket; a well-worn review copy that was sent to Edgar Sisson. Laid in is a carbon copy of his review, with cover letter, as well as a folded copy of the review as it appeared in The Saturday Review..... More
Cat.No: 265078
