New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1937. Paperback. xvi, 199p., wraps, 5.5 x 7.5 inches, wraps worn and soiled, two previous owners' names penned on front blank else good condition. Lacks dust jacket. Includes letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. More
Cat.No: 115702
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. Hardcover. xx, 604p. + 8p. b&w glossy photos, foreword, chronology, Arabic glossary, biographical glossary, notes, index, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 29282
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Hardcover. ix, 382p., two portrait photos, hardcover with dj. Front free endsheet bears a small dried patch of paint, offset to dj flap, jacket mildly rubbed, an otherwise very good copy. More
Cat.No: 179514
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. Hardcover. 397p. + 12p. photographs, very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 14084
Hong Kong: 1977. Hardcover. viii, 56, 4p., hardcover, front cover crushed with ugly tears in the paper, interior textblock very good; a reference copy. Facsimile reproductions of calligraphy by Ming-era scholars. Cheng was a professor at the University of Iowa. More
Cat.No: 165472
Pasadena, CA: Mary Craig Sinclair, [1930?]. Hardcover. 130p, cloth covered boards, light general soiling, fading and browning to spine, pages lightly toned, else very good condition. No dj. "...the sixth volume of the letters of protest of Mrs. Gartz." "Gartz delighted in describing herself as the first 'parlor Bolshevik.' The..... More
Cat.No: 210071
no place: Esoterika Biblion Society, 1938. unpaginated, 6x9 inches, very good in original blue wraps with some foxing on cover edges. Mild scatology. The other "curious" items, are reprints of love letters between persons, mostly Frenchmen and Germans, famous in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. More
Cat.No: 107490
![Cat.No: 150493 In Place of Wark: or, man of art, a sequence in thirty pairts [signed]....](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/150493.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1521430605)
Preston: Akros Publications, 1977. 28p., 4.75x8 inches, personal inscription signed "to Robert [Wells] from Duncan" with, laid in, a holograph letter on Glen's own Akros letterhead proposing that Wells review some books, Wells' pencilled notes will be found throughout the chapbook and on the cover letter, very good limited first..... More
Cat.No: 150493
![Cat.No: 150501 Traivellin man, a sequence o poems [signed letter laid-in]. Duncan Glen,...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/150501.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1521430606)
Preston: Harris Press, 1977. 27p., 4.5x10 inches, frontis, very good chapbook in stapled pictorial wraps. Nice copy. Laid in is a signed holograph note on Akros Press letterhead from Duncan Glen to poet Robert Wells discussing publication. Scottish poet, printer, educator and editor of Akros Magazine. He died in 2008..... More
Cat.No: 150501
Madison, WI: Wisconsin Draft Resistance Union, [196-]. 32p, 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound pamphlet; minor toning to back cover, otherwise in very good condition. Translation and reprint of Guevara’s letter explaining the objectives of the Cuban Revolution, which first appeared in the Uruguayan leftist journal Marcha. This edition was published by the..... More
Cat.No: 346663
New York: Macmillan, 1903. Hardcover. [iv] 256p. [iii] set up and electrotyped May 1903, first edition, first printing in decorated gray-blue cloth with white titles on cover, gilt on spine, mild shelf wear, top edge gilt, previous owner's book plate, inscribed by Jack London's daughter "It is a pleasure to..... More
Cat.No: 191558
Colombo, Ceylon: Lanka Sama Samaja Publication, 1950. Pamphlet. 7p., paper browned, staples removed leaving mild rust stain, slightly rubbed wraps, publishers stamp on back wrap, else very good. Farewell letter to Trotsky before the author's suicide. More
Cat.No: 122330
![Cat.No: 150242 [Postcard from Donna and Red Kelly to John Wittwer]. Red Kelly, John...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/150242.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1519614249)
Bloomington, IL: 1951. Postcard. 5.5x3.25 inches, plain cardstock postcard with handwriting of D.M. Kelly (Donna Kelly) to friend jazz pianist John Wittwer in SF with cancelled 3 cent stamp. Donna writes about her travels with husband Seattle-based jazz bassist Thomas "Red " Kelly on a tour with Claude Thornhill. The..... More
Cat.No: 150242
Tokyo: the author, 1988. [150p.], very good in red cloth. OCLC lists one holding as of January 2023. Color reproductions of 150 decorative letters featuring Kunisada's calligraphy. More
Cat.No: 159260
Genève: Pierre Cailler, 1949. 169p., preface, illustrations, a few underlined passages, #664/1500 copies, text in French, in original cream wraps with extremely faded red spine titling. More
Cat.No: 129602
Lancaster, CA: the author, 1951. Three 8.5x11 inch sheets, folded for mailing, several partial splits at folds on edges, signed in pen with pen corrections in text. Letter from a women who grew up near Cartersville, inspired to write by hearing of Harber's political views from a sister still residing..... More
Cat.No: 144579
San Francisco: James D. Phelan, 1928. 1 page printed letter with Phelan's letterhead and facsimile signature, folded twice for mass-mailing, yellowed with edgewear. Five paragraphs and final admonition "Be not deceived!" In support of Democratic candidate Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. On verso find pencil shopping list including..... More
Cat.No: 123485
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1983. Hardcover. xxv, 376p., very good first edition stated in cloth boards and slightly worn unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 13599
San Francisco: Over Easy/KQED, 1981. 515p., 8.5x11 inches, summary, introduction, methodology, notes and references, policy, bibliography, tabbed chapters, very good in original wraps. Listener responses to the Public Radio Station's program on aging in America. Divided into sections such as Isolation, Managing, Older Women, Aging Process etc. One respondent says..... More
Cat.No: 128292
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Hardcover. 460p., first edition, previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, else very good condition in an unclipped and shelf worn dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 82649
Berkeley: Shameless Hussy Press, 1981. Paperback. 71p., preface, letters, photos, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The poems concern the relationship/struggle between a Bay Area poet and his Jewish father from Arkansas who was a publicist, performer and playwright (he typed for O'Neill and assisted Sinclair Lewis..... More
Cat.No: 132968
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Paperback. x, 260p. + 16p. photographs, very good first edition, first printing stated trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Steward, a.k.a. Phil Andros - poet, bohemian, tattoo artist, and the author of considerable gay erotica - here assembled a half-century of correspondence with two of..... More
Cat.No: 307004
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Hardcover. x, 260p. + 16p. photographs, top edge of textblock lightly foxed, else very good first edition, first printing stated in cloth and slightly worn dust jacket. Steward, a.k.a. Phil Andros - poet, bohemian, tattoo artist, and the author of considerable gay erotica - here..... More
Cat.No: 26125
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. 310p., illus., dark grey boards with silver lettering, ex-library with ownership rubberstamp on free front endpaper, else very good first American edition. No dj. Prison writings of the German communist poet. More
Cat.No: 142892
Kanzawa: Hokkoku Shinbunsha 北國新聞社, 2009. Hardcover. 181p. Illustrated. Text in Japanese and English. Fine. Inscribed and signed by Yvonne Nimnicht Beckman (daughter of the author and photographer). "An excerpt from a collection of letters" written from the author while she was in Noto Japan to her parents (living in Berkeley..... More
Cat.No: 207005
