New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. Paperback. ix, 228p., hardbound first edition in dark blue cloth boards lettered in bronze. Somewhat edgeworn with small abrasions to extremities and joint-lines, pastedown bears an unobjectionable bookplate in colors, a generally sound copy clean within. Dedicated to Charles Spencer Chaplin, yes, the silent..... More
Cat.No: 304905
London: The Cresset Press, 1948. Hardcover. xxxii414p., lengthy introduction, very good first edition thus (Starkie intro) blue buckram cloth boards in dust jacket; heavy foxing to edges and endpapers but text-block is clean, gilt-titling is bright, the price-clipped jacket is somewhat edgeworn. The Cresset Library, general editor: John Hayward. Originally..... More
Cat.No: 199698
Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001. 167p., hardcover, very good. OCLC lists two copies. Study of the Romany (gitanos) at a town in Catalonia. More
Cat.No: 131383
[Berkeley]: Berkeley Psychic Institute, no date. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure; 8.5x5.5 inches; small stain on front page, else in very good condition. An early pamphlet distributed by the Berkeley Psychic Institute at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire advertising classes on mediation, aura readings, and the elusive origins of the institute. More
Cat.No: 274824
Torino: Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 1997. Paperback. 175, [1]p., wraps. 8.25 x 5.5 in. Good. Text in Italian. On Roma refugee populations. More
Cat.No: 319117
Sebastopol: Voice of Roma, 2000. Paperback. 96p., trade paperbound, glossy pictorial 9 x 6 inch wraps, very good. Political (scene-setting or narrative) poetry. "My favorite house in Kosovo / has seven car doors / as a front fence.. If Van Gogh had painted / the scene, this Gypsy house /..... More
Cat.No: 76837
Sebastopol: Voice of Roma, 2000. 96p., foreword. first edition, trade paperbound, glossy pictorial 9 x 6 inch wrap. Inscribed and signed by the poet. Political (scene-setting or narrative) poetry. "My favorite house in Kosovo / has seven car doors / as a front fence.. If Van Gogh had painted /..... More
Cat.No: 111913
Sebastopol: Voice of Roma, 2000. 96p., foreword, newspaper offprints laid-in, inscribed and signed by the poet, first edition in pictorial wraps. Poetry on the Gypsies of Kosovo. More
Cat.No: 146123
New York: Spartacist League Central Commission for Work Among Women, 1990. 40p., stapled self-wraps, 8.25 x 10. 75 inches, evenly toned else very good condition. From the Spartacist League, critical of the mainstream feminist movement and its "stagnant reformism." Articles on the history of censorship of art, plus articles on..... More
Cat.No: 244436
Chandigarh, India: Roma Publications, 1974-75. Paperback. Two numbers of volume one, 74p. & 76p. 6x9.25 inches, articles on Roma culture, news, events, language studies, illustrated with tables & b&w photos, very good journal run in printed white semi-glossy wraps. Includes a pronunciation guide and glossary and phrases at rear in..... More
Cat.No: 184745
Berkeley: Tonatiuh-Quinto Sol International, 1976. Paperback. 173p., very good first edition trade paperback in black wraps. Novel based on New Mexico's mountain gypsies. More
Cat.No: 4997
Berkeley: Tonatiuh-Quinto Sol International, 1976. Paperback. 173p., very good first edition trade paperback in second issue pictorial white wraps. Novel based on New Mexico's mountain gypsies. More
Cat.No: 162395
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
London: Dennis Dobson Ltd., 1953. xiii, 161p., hardcover, soiled and edge-torn dj. Stain on pp. 14-15, apparently from acidic bookmark. Biography of George Borrow, the British Gypsy (Romany) writer. More
Cat.No: 120928
Dublin: The Stationery Office, 1963. Paperback. 166p., illustrated with numerous tables and scattered b&w snapshot photographs, softbound in 9.5x6 inch plain printed wraps (plain save for the ubiquitous Irish harp device), cover wraps and terminal blanks are acidic and toned, whereas textblock is alkaline and undisturbed, front cover leaf is..... More
Cat.No: 314355
Brixham: Heatherleigh, n.d. Pamphlet. 12p., staplebound booklet, 3.5x4.75 inches, light handling. Evangelical tract about a man who invites a prostitute to go into a church with him. Ernest "Gypsy" Williams was a British evangelist, who adopted this nickname because of his Romani background. More
Cat.No: 271697
