The Political Economy of Zimbabwe; a SAIS study on Africa
New York: Praeger, 1984. x, 278p., line map, first edition red cloth boards gilt, faintly edgeworn casing but clean and sound, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 176382
New York: Praeger, 1984. x, 278p., line map, first edition red cloth boards gilt, faintly edgeworn casing but clean and sound, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 176382
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936. Hardcover. x, 378p., small stain on front board else very good condition. No dust jacket. Social Service Monographs No. 28. More
Cat.No: 300448
San Francisco: Fair Play Press, 2005. 59p., illustrations and photos, very good reprint personally inscribed and signed by the poet in original pictorial wraps. Sort of a Jack Hirschman guy, poetry as activism; in Sharpe's case more like doggerel as activism. San Francisco poet and Viet Nam Vet. More
Cat.No: 132213
Vancouver: Kalayaan Publications, 1996. Pamphlet. 41p., softbound in 8.5x7 inch wraps, photocopied zine format, saddle-stitched. Author Sharpe says of himself that he "has been a pupil of the Philippines since 1983". The book in hand is the gay Canadian poet on another experience in the Philippines, here the story of..... More
Cat.No: 294050
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Hardcover. 223p., hardbound in 10x6.5 inch black boards titled silverfoil and glossy photographic dust jacket; pretty book, with a great dj photoportrait. First half of text is pencilled with brackets, shaky underlines and even marginal notes, and the same portion of textblock has a top-corner-tip bump..... More
Cat.No: 250311
Athens GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1994. Hardcover. Revised and expanded from the abbreviated 1981 issue: xxix, 247p., illustrated with a photo section on coated inserted stock and hardbound in tan cloth boards titled black and enclosed in photographic dust jacket. The sole intrusion of previous ownership is an..... More
Cat.No: 21875
Tucson: Etherton Gallery, 1988. Paperback. Unpaginated, 43 plates lovingly reproduced and shown with each fullpage picture facing four vignettes. Softbound, 11x8.5 inch glossy decorated wraps (cover bears a large repro of one shown small inside); rear cover has a couple tiny smudges, faint general edgewear, a very good clean unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 237416
Blurb Books for Elfenworks Foundation, 2007. 71p., 10x8 inches oblong, foreword, introduction, appendixes, notes, profusely illustrated with color photos, very good first edition in black cloth and unclipped dj. Self-published book by the organization whose goal is to end poverty in the Americas, ultimately, and first off to end the..... More
Cat.No: 144562
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. Hardcover. xxviii, 235p., illustrated boards, in very good condition. SUNY series in American labor history. More
Cat.No: 47756
Lanham MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2005. Paperback. xiv, 186p., illustrated with scattered portrait and site photos, a softbound original in 5x9.5 inch glossy decorated wraps. Perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy. Author relates the excitement, the "transcendence", of illegal stuff, to contrast with pedestrian reality..... More
Cat.No: 290282
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. Hardcover. xii, 197p., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 35512
New York: Clarion Books, 1996. Hardcover. 33p. children's book, beautifully illus. with oil sketches reproduced in color by the African American artist, first printing, very good condition in mildly edgeworn dj. Set on Galveston Island, TX. More
Cat.No: 89479
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Hardcover. 149p., nicely designed hardbound book with an upper stretch of white cloth lettered black, over a much deeper brown stretch lettered white (top edge tinted same brown), enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is absolutely sound, clean and unmarked, while the..... More
Cat.No: 1902
New York: Random House, 2008. Hardcover. xxviii, 689p., numerous b&w photoillustrations, hardbound first edition black boards titled silverfoil in dust jacket, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 253412
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Hardcover. xi, 178p., titling tipped-in spine and front board; color frontispiece, b&w plates, spine sunned, lacking dust jacket, corners a bit bumped, otherwise very good. "Art? No. A great book? No. Yet a very exceptional one. And but for a lack of poetry, a...... More
Cat.No: 311094
Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1971. Hardcover. xix, 220p., first book appearance of these journal-published papers, hard bound in 8.5x5.5 inch maroon cloth boards titled gilt. Item is jacketless and may not have been issued with one. Nice condition, bottom margins of casing bear a few flakes of offset white..... More
Cat.No: 317081
Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific, 1991. Paperback. 204p., brief glossary appended very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. The playwright was born in Fiji, left to get a Communications degree in Australia, returned to Fiji. His plays are set in the darker side of the..... More
Cat.No: 273958
Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific, 1991. Paperback. 204p., brief glossary appended very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps, inscribed and signed by the author to Thomas [Farber], Bay Area novelist and professor. The playwright was born in Fiji, left to get a Communications degree in..... More
Cat.No: 191400
Washington, D. C. GPO, 1973. iv, 283p., plain printed self-wraps with exposed staples as issued, mild signs of handling. More
Cat.No: 165893
College Station: Texas A&M University, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1966. Paperback. iv, 55p. (printed verso only), 8.5x11 inches, later printing, stapled wraps. Departmental information report number 66-2. More
Cat.No: 54332
[Havana]: Office of the Prime Minister of Cuba, [1959]. Pamphlet. 32p., one photographic reproduction (soupkitchen: "This is why Cuba needs the land reform"), 8.5 x 5.5 inches, wraps of substantial white paperstock decorated with the Cuban coat-of-arms rendered in 3 colors, staplebound. wraps mildly soiled, minor handling wear. Dated from..... More
Cat.No: 93985
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. Hardcover. xiii, 215p., pictorial boards,corners lightly bumped, else in very good condition. No dj, as issued. More
Cat.No: 290214
Culiacan [?]: Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, 1993. Paperback. 105p., paperbound, 8x5 inches, clean and sound, a very good copy. Gift inscription on front blank in an illegible, classically medical hand. More
Cat.No: 217190
New York: The Critic and Guide Company, 1910. Hardcover. 132p., publisher's ads, rubricated title page, first edition ribbed maroon cloth gilt. Endsheets and textblock edges show scattered foxing, else bright and clean, a very good copy. No direct mention of homosexuality, at all. Author is identified on the title page..... More
Cat.No: 165285
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. xii, 290p., first wraps printing, 9x6 inches. A very good copy. Border ethnography. More
Cat.No: 166817