The Family of Max Desir: a novel
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983. Hardcover. 244p., very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 14821
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983. Hardcover. 244p., very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 14821
New York: Red Ozier Press, 1983. [8p] 5.5x9.5 inches, rubricated titlepage, letterpress throughout, 150 copies handmade and signed in a folded, printed wrapper. "Coming to this Place," "Italy, 1978," "On the death of Aldo Moro." More
Cat.No: 142831
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Hardcover. 318p., 8p. glossy b&w photos, very good first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. Memoir by the onetime New Yorker staff writer, journalist, novelist, and translator of plays by Pirandello, about his Italian mother's long affair with the Hoosier lesbian..... More
Cat.No: 265857
New York: Nicoletti Bros. Press, 1911. 31p., staplebound booklet, contents complete, but small fragment of colored paper under the staple indicates that there was an additional cover that is now missing. Pamphlet by a Hoboken-based Italian immigrant promoting the Modern School. More
Cat.No: 260155
New York: Nicoletti Bros. Press, 1911. 31p., staplebound booklet, mild toning and handling soil to cover, very good. Pamphlet by a Hoboken-based Italian immigrant promoting the Modern School. More
Cat.No: 260658
New York: Culture Corps, 2003. Paperback. 94p., text in Italian, 5 playscripts, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Fratti's play "Six Passionate Women," loosely based on Fellini's 8 1/2, was the source for "Nine," the award-winning Maury Yeston / Arthur Kopit musical. More
Cat.No: 190456
New York: Culture Corps, 2003. Paperback. 94p., text in Italian, 5 playscripts, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Inscribed by Fratti with his address label applied to title page. Fratti's play "Six Passionate Women," loosely based on Fellini's 8 1/2, was the source for "Nine," the award-winning..... More
Cat.No: 303134
Boston: npub, 1927. 8, 20p., stapled wraps, 5.75x9 inches, staples rusted else very good condition. Contains Gov. Fuller's eight page letter and the twenty page Lowell report to Gov. Fuller by Robert Grant, A. Lawrence Lowell and S. W. Stratton. More
Cat.No: 69674
[no city, Croatia]: Elephant Editions / Active Distribution, 2023. Paperback. 108p., wraps, very good condition. Galleani's work was first published in Italian in 1925. More
Cat.No: 318089
Newark, NJ: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1935. Paperback. 363, [4]p., wraps, 6x9 inches, worn with a few small stains and silverfishing along edges, a few small stains throughout textblock, last few pages silverfished along edges else good condition. Text in Italian. Collection of columns by Galleani originally published in..... More
Cat.No: 260622
Newark, NJ: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [1930s]. Hardcover. 232, [3]p., cloth bound, lacking original wraps, very good condition. Collection of biographical profiles, mostly of anarchists, but also including Woodrow Wilson and V.I. Lenin. Galleani, a leading Italian American anarchist (Sacco & Vanzetti were in his group), was deported from..... More
Cat.No: 260588
Italy: Biblioteca de L' Adunata dei Refrattari, 1972. Paperback. 320p., wraps, 5.75x8.25 inches, wraps worn and soiled else very good condition. Text in Italian. Galleani, a leading Italian American anarchist (Sacco & Vanzetti were in his group), was deported from the US in 1919. His group was one of the..... More
Cat.No: 62617
Italy: Biblioteca de L' Adunata dei Refrattari, 1972. Paperback. 320p., wraps, 5.75x8.25 inches, wraps worn and soiled, small tear at tail of spine else very good condition. Text in Italian. Galleani, a leading Italian American anarchist (Sacco & Vanzetti were in his group), was deported from the US in 1919..... More
Cat.No: 260623
Ancona, Italy: Gruppo Editore L'Antistato, 1950. 39p., staplebound wraps, pages lightly toned else very good. Text in Italian. Dal numero speciale del periodico l'Adunata dei refrattari di Newark (New Jersey) vol. XXVIII ... del 5 novembre 1949 dedicato alla memoria di Luigi Galleani, no. 1. Galleani, a leading Italian American..... More
Cat.No: 98653
Santa Barbara: Spirium Press, 1998. 6p., 5.5x8.5 inches, signed by the poet, fine first edition chapbook in stapled gray pictorial wraps. Published upon the death of the poet Octavio Paz. Excerpt from Paz's "The Labyrinth of Solitude" below a photo of Paz on rear cover. Gallo's father was from Nicaragua..... More
Cat.No: 240791
n.p. Self-published by the author ? [1976?]. Pamphlet. [20p]9.5x12 inches, text in French, b&w full-page photos of the sculptures, brief CV at rear, personal inscription to Piri Thomas signed by the sculptor, very good monograph/catalog in stapled glossy pictorial wraps. Inscribed to Puerto Rican American author Piri Thomas and his..... More
Cat.No: 206602
New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1962. Hardcover. xvi, 367p., original cloth boards, second printing, in dustjacket; corners lightly bumped, dj slightly edgeworn, small closed tear along front top-edge of dj. More
Cat.No: 53435
New York: International Publishers, 1976. Paperback. 215p., paperback, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 53211
New York: International Publishers, 1976. Hardcover. 215p., first edition, very good condition in a shelf worn dj. More
Cat.No: 69094
New York: International Publishers, 1976. Hardcover. 215p., first edition, ownership signature of Simon Gerson's daughter Deborah Gerson; lacking dust jacket, faint shelfwear, some pen scribble on rear pasted endpaper with page numbers... as usual, there is corresponding ink, albeit minimal, to each of the noted pages. More
Cat.No: 5338
Mexico: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1966. Paperback. 71p., wraps slightly worn else very good condition, first edition, frontispiece. Text in English and Spanish. Coleccion acuario, vol. 7. Italian immigrant, Giovannitti was a leader of the Lawrence Textile strike of 1912 and a long time radical activist. More
Cat.No: 34791
npl: Corvus Distribution, nd. Pamphlet. [8]p., including covers, stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine-style reprint. Giovannitti was an IWW member and a leader in the 1912 Lawrence textile strike. He was imprisoned for inciting a riot following the death of a striker, even though he was three miles from..... More
Cat.No: 290238
New York: TAG - Treatment Action Group, 2000. 39p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction, references, illustrated with tables and figures, first distribution, very good report/booklet in stapled printed wraps. Gregg Gonsalves is an HIV/AIDS activist and advocate. He began working with ACT UP in 1990. He found out he was HIV+ in..... More
Cat.No: 184508
East Boston, MA: Gruppo Autonomo, [191-?]. 15p., staplebound pamphlet, covers neatly detached and split at the spine but present. Italian translation of the French anarchist's anti-electoral essay, published by the Galleanist group. "If I were to speak to the voters, this is what I'd tell them." More
Cat.No: 260015
University Park, PA: Department of Labor Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 1985. Pamphlet. iv, 48p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, illus., rust stain and paperclip dent on front wrap, phone number penciled on verso of rear wrap, else very good condition. Divided by ethnicity, with chapters on English, Black, Irish, Scandinavian..... More
Cat.No: 290057