London: Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1965, 1966. Two issues of the staplebound journal, lightly worn wraps. Issues present are No. 4 (Autumn 1965) and No 5 (Winter 1966). Topics discussed include censorship of theater, China's information control system, and much more. In 1966 it was revealed that the sponsoring organization..... More

Cat.No: 226036

Roma: Arnaldo Forni, 1918. Five issues of the weekly newspaper run by the socialist Gaetano Salvemini; all are folded and toned, with address labels of the diplomat Tommaso Bertele (sometimes misspelled Romasso). Four to eight pages per issue. Numbers present are vol. 7 no. 37/38, 41, 42, 48, and 49..... More

Cat.No: 250195

London: No Conscription Fellowship, 1916. 23p., wraps with minor edge wear, stain (coffee cup ring) on front wrap. Bertrand Russell was on trial for a pro-conscientious objector pamphlet that he had written. More

Cat.No: 155956

n.p. [1956]. Single page, typescript handbill mimeographed on thin paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, printed on one side. Anonymous exhortation to California voters to press their assemblymen to support the "senate book bill" (SB 1671). This bill would remove from school libraries any works that did not "impress upon the..... More

Cat.No: 123647

Xi'an: Tai bai wen yi chu ban she, 2006. 301p., paperback, very good. Text in Chinese. Zhongguo gu dai jin hui yan qing xiao shuo, vol. 7. Part of a series reprinting erotic works that had previously been banned. These three novels date to the Qing dynasty. More

Cat.No: 237005

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000. Hardcover. 303p., cd with 78 minutes of the African American journalist's banned radio commentaries and readings by literary figures and activists supporting Mumia inserted in a sleeve pasted to the f.e.p., first printing, a fine copy. More

Cat.No: 197830

Indianapolis: American Trust Publications, no date, circa 1980. Paperback. xii, 355p., trade-sized paperbound in 8.5x6 inch decorated wraps; mildly edgeworn with some thumb-soil to foredge, clean and unmarked within, a good copy. More

Cat.No: 227304

Shanghai: Shanghai wenhua chubanshe, 1994. 715p., lightly shelfworn wraps; black and white illustrations. Overview of book banning in Chinese imperial history, including a list of 3,000 banned titles and their authors. More

Cat.No: 184558

New York: Viking, 1987. Hardcover. 206p., very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Cuban American novelist. This was his first novel, meant to be the beginning of a semi-autobiographical series of 5 books of which "Farewell to the Sea" was the third book but the first..... More

Cat.No: 16223

Cincinnati: Circuit Riders, Inc., [196-]. Four-panel leaflet, unfolded to 11x8.5 inches, paperclip mark at top. One side has the text of pages 23 and 24 of the novel, featuring an explicit interracial sex scene between Rufus and Leona (a reader has penned in red ink "Dirtiest thing I ever read")..... More

Cat.No: 254976

New York: Horace Liverwright, 1928. Hardcover. 323p., illustrations, one of 3,000 copies, very good first US edition(expurgated) in blue cloth boards with red and gilt titles and triangle design in poor, heavily-chipped and torn price-clipped dj, large section missing from upper-front panel and head of spine. The US edition was..... More

Cat.No: 216634

London: Pluto Press, 1982. xvi, 218p., first edition softbound, 8x5 inch decorated wraps. An intense small brown stain affects lower tip of last 25 leaves, paperstock is mildly toned, a sound and otherwise clean copy. More

Cat.No: 177965

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. 292p., very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. More

Cat.No: 42255