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 | 252350 AARON, Daniel. WRITERS ON THE LEFT: Episodes in American Literary Communism. Avon Discus, 1969. 480 pages. Mass Market paperback. Notes. Index. $6.95. Covers Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, John Reed, Granville Hicks, Michael Gold, etc. 'A major document in American cultural history.' -Mark Schorer. | |
| 252087 ABBEY, Edward. BLACK SUN. Avon, 1982. 157 pages. 1st Avon Mass Market paperback printing/edition. ISBN: 1555662862 $6.95. A lyrical novelistic romance in the wilderness, by the anarchist and eco-curmudgeon and author of The Monkey Wrench Gang . On Abbey and his politics google our online Anarchist Encyclopedia. | |
| 236472 ACKER, Kathy. LITERAL MADNESS: MY DEATH MY LIFE by Pier Paolo Pasolini, KATHY GOES TO HAITI, & FLORIDA. NY: Grove Press, 1988. 352 pp. Uncorrected Bound Galleys. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0802100015 $20. | |
| 252470 ADAMS, Michael. BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH. Salt Lake City: Elik Press, 2003. 17 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback chapbook. $4.95. A poets musings on nature, poetry and poets (Ed Abbey, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, et al) and their relationship to the natural world. | |
| 252472 ADAMS, Michael. HARDSCRABBLE: The West Mountain Poems. Golden: Longhand Press, 1997. 27 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback chapbook. Presentation copy, 'For---, Keep the faith,' and Signed by the Author , 'Mike'; also a loose page with a printed quote from Lew Welch is laid in, with a note to the same person, in the author's hand, '---, How are you? Good to get your postcard. Be happy, keep in touch, Love, Mike.' ISBN: 094588415X $11.95. | |
| 248074 AKSYONOV, Vassily. IN SEARCH OF MELANCHOLY BABY: A Russian in America. NY: Vintage Books, 1989. 231 pages. 1st trade paperback edition. Translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim and Antonina Bouis. ISBN: 0394759923 $1.95. | |
| 242590 ALLEY, Rewi. JOURNEY TO OUTER MONGOLIA: A Diary with Poems. Christchurch, New Zealand: The Caxton Press, 1957. 72 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. Photos. Preface by H. Winston Rhodes. $14.95. By this veteran New Zealand (1897-1987) poet and Communist China sympathizer who now has a school and a park named after him. | |
| 242964 ALLISON, Dorothy. CAVEDWELLER. NY: Dutton, 1998. 434 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0525941673 $3.95. The author's second novel. Like her first, a chronicle of rage, strength, and survival. Here, however, Allison is equally concerned with the redemptive power of love and forgiveness, and a novel beginning with death ends on an unexpectedly sanguine note. | |
| 252148 ANDERSON, David R. [Rex Stout]. REX STOUT. Frederick Ungar, 1984. x+134 pages. 1st Trade paperback printing / edition. Chronology. Select Bibliography. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0804460094 $16.95. Critical look at the creator of Nero Wolfe. Stout was a founder of the radical New Masses , president of Vanguard publishers and a participant in many social causes. | |
| 251001 ANDREYEV, Leonid. THE SEVEN [7] WHO WERE HANGED. World Publishing / Illustrated Editions, 1941. 190 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Irving Politzer. Translated by Herman Bernstein. $11.95. Not to be confused with Alexander or Vladimir Andreyev. | |
| 252230 ARANCIBIA, Adrian. ATACAMA POEMS. San Diego City Works Press, 2007. 91 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Signed by the Author . ISBN: 0976580179 $7.95. By a cofounder of the Taco Shop Poets. | |
| 252231 ARANCIBIA, Adrian. ATACAMA POEMS. San Diego City Works Press, 2007. 91 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Signed by the Author . ISBN: 0976580179 $7.95. By a cofounder of the Taco Shop Poets. | |
| 250309 ARGUETA, Manlio. A PLACE CALLED MILAGRO DE LA PAZ. Curbstone Press, 2000. 206 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Translated by Michael B. Miller. ISBN: 1880684683 $6.95. Argueta wrote numerous 'social protest' novels, including the award-winning Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District , a novel of the US puppet war against the peasants in El Salvador. | |
| 249336 ARRIGONI, Enrico. [Frank Brand]. THE LUNACY OF THE SUPERMAN AND OTHER PLAYS. np: np, 1977. 600 pages (each play separately paginated). 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: B0006EQ5UY $21. Collects 10 plays by this Italian-American anarchist, including one co-written by Virgilio Gozzoli. Arrigoni (aka Frank Brand) founded 'Eresia' in 1928, an eclectic journal with a strong individualist bias, though contributors included anarchist-communists like Ugo Fedeli. He wrote regularly for Aldino Felicani's 'Controcorrente 24', and helped found 'Intesta Libertaria' in the late 30s before Carlo Tresca's group took it over. He was imprisoned during the Spanish Revolution by Franco's fascists. Abe Bluestein and Selma Cohen went to Spain in 1937 to aid the anarchists, and they, in cahoots with 'Red' Emma Goldman, helped him escape. In 1963 he worked on publishing the Libertarian Book Club's edition of Stirner's 'The Ego and His Own' (cover design was by the artist Fermin Rocker). 'He lived in the USA as an illegal immigrant. He was also an illegalist - that is, a law-breaker by conviction and principle. He used pseudonyms (Frank Branch, Harry Arrigoni, Harry Goni) and false papers to hide his past as a militant revolutionary anarchist in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and Spain...' - Peter Lamborn Wilson. As he told historian Paul Avrich before he died, 'I am probably the only individualist left among the Italian anarchists today.' He died in December of 1986, age 92, found near his bed by his old comrades Valerio Isca and Pasquale Buono. He left his books and collection of opera records to the Libertarian Book Club. Extremely scarce book, apparently self-published, distributed with anti-copyright notice. | |
| 249580 ARRIGONI, Enrico. [Frank Brand]. THE LUNACY OF THE SUPERMAN AND OTHER PLAYS. np: np, 1977. 600 pages (each play separately paginated). 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: B0006EQ5UY $30. 10 plays by this Italian-American anarchist, including one co-written by Virgilio Gozzoli. Arrigoni (aka Frank Brand) founded 'Eresia' in 1928, an eclectic journal with a strong individualist bias, though contributors included anarchist-communists like Ugo Fedeli. He wrote regularly for Aldino Felicani's 'Controcorrente 24', and helped found 'Intesta Libertaria' in the late 30s before Carlo Tresca's group took it over. He was imprisoned during the Spanish Revolution by Franco's fascists. Abe Bluestein and Selma Cohen went to Spain in 1937 to aid the anarchists, and they, in cahoots with 'Red' Emma Goldman, helped him escape. In 1963 he worked on publishing the Libertarian Book Club's edition of Stirner's 'The Ego and His Own' (cover design was by the artist Fermin Rocker). 'He lived in the USA as an illegal immigrant. He was also an illegalist - that is, a law-breaker by conviction and principle. He used pseudonyms (Frank Branch, Harry Arrigoni, Harry Goni) and false papers to hide his past as a militant revolutionary anarchist in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and Spain...' - Peter Lamborn Wilson. As he told historian Paul Avrich before he died, 'I am probably the only individualist left among the Italian anarchists today.' He died in December of 1986, age 92, found near his bed by his old comrades Valerio Isca and Pasquale Buono. He left his books and collection of opera records to the Libertarian Book Club. Extremely scarce book, apparently self-published, distributed with anti-copyright notice. | |
| 252399 AVELING, Edward and Eleanor Marx, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. SHELLEY'S SOCIALISM and POPULAR SONGS: Wholly Political, and Destined to Awaken and Direct the Imagination of the Reformers. London: Journeyman, 1979. 63 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small Trade paperback. ISBN: 0904526356 $19.95. | |
| 243263 BAILEY, George (ed.). KONTINENT 4: Contemporary Russian Writers. NY: Avon, 1982. 488 pages. 1st Avon Bard Mass Market edition. Foreword by Bailey. ISBN: 0380811820 $2.5. 23 works from the Russian dissident quarterly, 'Kontinent'. | |
| 242300 BALAKIAN, Nona and Charles Simmons, (eds.). THE CREATIVE PRESENT: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction. Doubleday, 1963. 265 pages. Hardback. ISBN: B000FMNGXG $2.95. Essays on Bellow, Styron, Mary McCarthy, Malamud, Michael Gold, Updike, Nabokov, Salinger, Welty, James Baldwin, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Mailer, Kerouac, James Jones. | |
| 232240 BALDWIN, James & Nikki Giovanni. A DIALOGUE. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973. 112 pp. First edition. Hardcover. Blue, cloth covers with white stamping on spine. ISBN: 039700916X $100. Transcript of public TV program , SOUL!, aired in 1972. | |
| 247345 BATES, Ralph. LEAN MEN. (Vol. I of two volumes). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1938. 278 pages. 1st paperback edition. Small Trade paperback. ISBN: B000C0CFNI $9.95. Novel of the Spanish Revolution by this British writer and International Brigades fighter. | |
| 242929 BEECHER, John. HEAR THE WIND BLOW! Poems of Protest and Prophecy. NY: International Publishers, 1968. 189 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Frontis. ISBN: B0006BVWQ4 $12.95. | |
| 242930 BEECHER, John. REPORT TO THE STOCKHOLDERS AND OTHER POEMS. NY: MR Press, 1962. 81 pages. 1st trade edition. Hardback. Brown cloth with publisher's author/title labels on spine and front panel. Frontis illustration. ISBN: 0917702085 $7.95. The photo offset reproduction of the original handset first edition which was limited to 300 copies. | |
| 251221 BENNETT, John. ANARCHISTIC MURMURS FROM A HIGH MOUNTAIN VALLEY. Ellensburg: Vagabond Press, 1975. 27 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback chapbook. Vagabond Chapbook #1. $16.95. | |
| 251269 BENNETT, John. HIJACK!. Ellensburg: Vagabond Press, 1982. 47 pages. 1st printing. Limited edition of 300 copies. Large stapled mimeo paperback. Vagabond Press White Paper series -- White Paper # 3. $50. | |
| 251270 BENNETT, John. IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS. Ellensburg: Vagabond Press, 1982. 38 pages. 1st printing. Limited edition of 300 copies. Large stapled mimeo paperback. Vagabond Press White Paper series -- White Paper # 1. $35. 'Eleven essays ranging in subject matter from the Literary Mafia to the new computerized game craze'. | |
| 245868 BENSON, Bernard. THE PEACE BOOK. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. 223 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISBN: 0224019899 $14.95. Hand-illustrated story of a little boy who encouraged the leaders of the world to disarm and make peace. In this book he succeeds. (Well, you know how well 'leaders' listen in 'real' life). | |
| 245217 BENTLEY, Eric. THEATRE OF WAR: Comments on 32 Occasions. NY: Viking, 1970. 428 pages. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670698075 $8.95. | |
| 247169 BERGER, John and Patricia MacDonald. ONCE IN EUROPA. NY: Bloomsbury, 2000. 120 pages. 1st US edition. Large Hardback, white cloth. Profusely illustrated. ISBN: 1582340706 $9.95. Text by Berger, photos by MacDonald. | |
| 231875 BERGER, John. TO THE WEDDING. NY: Pantheon, 1995. 205 pp. First edition (no hardback published). Trade paperback. In pictorial slip case matching cover. Signed by the author. ISBN: 0679439811 $17.95. Blurb on back cover by Michael Ondaatje. | |
| 243127 BERGER, John. ONCE IN EUROPA. NY: Pantheon, 1987. 192 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0394539923 $5.95. | |
| 251686 BERGER, John. HERE IS WHERE WE MEET. Pantheon, 2005. 237 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0375423362 $7.95. Berger won the Booker Prize for his novel G. . | |
| 251969 BERGER, John. PHOTOCOPIES: Stories. Pantheon, 1996. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679435255 $5.95. | |
| 237928 BERRIGAN, Daniel and Thomas Lewis. TRIAL POEMS: a poet, a painter - A facsimile edition of their prison art. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. Unpaginated. Large Hardback. Illustrations. ISBN: 0807066664 $200. Beautiful book. Original poems by Berrigan handwritten over drawings by Lewis. | |
| 233947 BERRIGAN, Daniel. DANIEL BERRIGAN: Poetry, Drama, Prose. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1988. xxix+352 pp. First edition. Hardcover. Bibliography. Edited with an introduction by Michael True. ISBN: 0883444445 $30. | |
| 243154 BESSIE, Alvah. ONE FOR MY BABY: A Novel. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0030538513 $3.95. Novel of comedians in 50s night clubs. This radical author was forced to work the night clubs when he was blacklisted as a member of the Hollywood 10. | |
| 243155 BESSIE, Alvah. THE SYMBOL. NY: Random House, 1966. 2nd printing. Hardback. ISBN: B0006DHOL4 $4.95. Novelization of a Hollywood starlet, paralleling Marilyn Monroe's life - which caused some stink when published. Bessie was a blacklisted member of the Hollywood 10. | |
| 248080 BIELY, Andrey. ST. PETERSBURG. NY: Evergreen / Grove Press, 1989. 310 pages. Trade paperback. Translated from Russian, with an introduction, by John Cournos. Foreword by George Reavey. ISBN: 0802131581 $2.95. | |
| 250046 BOCKRIS, Victor. [William S. Burroughs]. WITH WILLIAM BURROUGHS: A Report from the Bunker. St. Martin's Griffin, 1996. 1st printing / edition thus. Trade paperback. Photos. Index. ISBN: 0312147678 $8.95. Originally published by Seaver Books in 1981, this is the first revised edition, with a new introduction by Bockris. A fascinating compendium of Burroughs-speak compiled in the Bunker in NYC 1974-1980, along with a 1991 Burroughs interview from 'Interview' magazine. | |
| 248461 BODENHEIM, Maxwell. BRINGING JAZZ. NY: Liveright, 1930. 69 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st edition, issued the same month of publication. Small Hardback, quarter lavender cloth over illustrated beige papered boards. $33. 'These poems were written to be set to music, and a jazz-composer is earnestly invited.' A 'Rideout' author. Uncommon. | |
| 249763 BOLD, Alan (ed.). PENGUIN BOOK OF SOCIALIST VERSE. UK: Penguin, 1970. 549 pages. 1st printing / edition. Mass Market paperback original (PBO). Biographical Notes. Indexes to poem titles and first lines. $9.95. Anthology of poets from around the world. Includes Whitman, Rimbaud, Dario, Machado, Blok, Sandburg, Hsun, Leadbelly, Vallejo, Ho Chi-Minh, Toller, Mao, Eluard, Brecht, Hikmet, Holub, Grass, Diop, Enzenberger, LeRoi Jones, Soyinka, and Che Guevara, among many many others. | |
| 247353 BOLL, Heinrich. MISSING PERSONS and Other Essays. McGraw Hill, 1977. 281 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0070064245 $6.95. 29 essays by Boll, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature. | |
| 243213 BONOSKY, Phillip. DRAGON PINK ON OLD WHITE. NY: Marzani & Munsell, 1963. 224 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. $3.95. 'Chinese color symbolism differs drastically from the West, illuminating the contrasts in cultures. Here is a friendly but critical eyewitness account by an American novelist sensitive to the art, culture, and social psychology of China - areas generally neglected by other reporters.' Eyewitness account of China, by the author of 'Burning Valley,' cited in Rideout's 'The Radical Novel in the United States'. | |
| 247202 BOURJAILY, Vance (ed.). [Thomas McGrath, Muriel Rukeyser, John Clellon Holmes]. DISCOVERY NO. 2. NY: Cardinal Editions Pocket Books, 1953. 273 pages. 1st Cardinal edition, Mass Market paperback original (PBO). Cardinal No. C-115. Covers in a distinct mid-century modern style. ISBN: B000B7CG68 $9.95. Periodical 'devoted to outstanding short stories, poems and essays published here for the first time'. 20 authors this issue: Erling Larsen, Muriel Rukeyser, Alfredo Segre, John Hollander, Robert Bassing, John Clellon Holmes ('The Horn'), Gladys LaFlamme, Anatole Broyard, Pietro di Donato ('The Widow of Whadda-You-Want'), Thomas McGrath, Evan Hunter ('To Break the Wall'), James Leo Herlihy ('Laughter in the Graveyard'), Babette Deutsch, Christopher Logue, Donald Finkel, Bourjaily, Roger Shattuck, Morton Seif, Gil Orlovitz, and Mary-Carter Roberts. | |
| 248348 BOUVIER, David. RANTS RAVES AND REFEXIONS. [Reflections]. Vancouver: Petarade Press, 1991. 87 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Illustrated by Colin Upton. ISBN: 0921630077 $10.95. | |
| 242437 BOYLE, Kay. WORDS THAT MUST SOMEHOW BE SAID. North Point Press, 1985. 262 pages. Trade paperback. Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth S. Bell. ISBN: 0865471886 $3.95. Selected essays from 1927-1984. Glimpses into our past, including McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, the Attica Prison ritos as well as essays on writers and writing by the poet, novelist and activist who demonstrates that artistic integrity requires morality. | |
| 246385 BOYLE, Kay. THE CRAZY HUNTER. NY: New Directions, 1993. 139 pages. 1st edition. Small trade paperback. ISBN: 0811212335 $2.95. | |
| 242065 BRANCH, Edgar M. JAMES T. FARRELL. University of Minnesota, 1963. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. #29 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. ISBN: 0816603030 $2.95. | |
| 247404 BRANCH, Edgar M. JAMES T. FARRELL. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1963. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. #29 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. ISBN: 0816603030 $3.95. | |
| 247407 BRANCH, Edgar M. JAMES T. FARRELL. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1963. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. #29 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. ISBN: 0816603030 $3.95. | |
| 242418 BRECHT, Bertolt. VERSUCHE 1 - 12, Heft 1 -4: Der Ozeanflug; Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny; Die Dreigroschenoper; Der Dreigoschenfilm; Der Dreigroschenprozef; De Jasager und Der Neinsager. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1959. 353 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. $55. | |
| 242591 BRECHT, Bertolt. BRECHT: EIN LESEBUCH FUR UNSERE ZEIT. [fr] Berlin & Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag, 1987. 484 pages. Small Hardback. Photos. $6.95. Collects essays, poems, speeches, stories, and plays. Text in German. | |
| 251767 BRECHT, Bertolt. DIE HEILIGE JOHANNA DER SCHLACHTHOFE. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1973. 148 pages. Small trade paperback. ISBN: 3518101137 $9.95. Text in German only. | |
| 251768 BRECHT, Bertolt. DIE TAGE DER COMMUNE. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1968. 103 pages. Small trade paperback in dustjacket. ISBN: 3518101137 $5.95. Text in German only. | |
| 243673 BREYTENBACH, Breyten. THE MEMORY OF BIRDS IN TIME OF REVOLUTION: Essays on Africa. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1996. 169 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151001685 $5.95. Essays by the novelist on his homeland, as we edge into the 21st century, often searing and penetrating insights on politics, law, death, reconciliation and reform post-apartheid. Eloquent, uncompromising. | |
| 244408 BREYTENBACH, Breyten. MEMORY OF SNOW AND OF DUST. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989. 1st US edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0374207666 $1.95. A novel called 'a gripping investigation of the South African predicament and also a meditation on exile, betrayal, love and creation'. | |
| 246753 BREYTENBACH, Breyten. END PAPERS: : Essays, Letters, Articles of Faith, Workbook Notes. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986. 1st US edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0374148295 $7.95. Political writings of noted Afrikaans poet, antiapartheid activist and political prisoner/exile. | |
| 252577 BRINK, Andre. ON THE CONTRARY: A Novel; Being the Life of a Famous Rebel, Soldier, Traveller, Explorer, Reader, Builder, Scribe, Latinist, Lover and Liar. Little Brown, 1994. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316108847 $2.95. | |
| 252744 BRINK, Andre. STATES OF EMERGENCY. Little Brown, 1988. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671671553 $5.95. | |
| 252893 BRINK, Andre. A CHAIN OF VOICES. William Morrow, 1982. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0688011314 $5.95. | |
| 247500 BRODINE, Virginia Warner. SEED OF THE FIRE. NY: International Publishers, 1996. 309 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0717807215 $9.95. | |
| 243179 BROWNE, Lewis. SEE WHAT I MEAN?. NY: Random House, 1943. 245 pages. 5th printing. Hardback. ISBN: B0006AQ38M $1.95. 'A novel, based on facts, dealing with the subversive [pro-fascist] movements which menace our society'. | |
| 246509 BRUNNER, John. THE DAYS OF MARCH. London: Kerosina, 1988. 309 pages. Stated 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0948893273 $7.95. | |
| 242795 BRYANT, Dana. SONG OF THE SIREN: Tales of Rhythm and Revolution. NY: Boulevard Press, 1995. 80 pages. 1st edition. Small Trade paperback. ISBN: 1572970049 $3.95. A performing poet, African American Bryant's poetry delves deeply into the life of modern urban living, giving insight into her psyche and the collective psyche of the city. Recommended for fans of Ntozake Shange to Maggie Estep to Paul Beatty and others of the genre. | |
| 251897 BRYANT, Dorothy. CONFESSIONS OF MADAME PSYCHE. Ata Books, 1986. 376 pages. 1st trade paperback printing / edition. Photos. ISBN: 0931688140 $3.95. Semi-fictional historical saga of near-vanished life in the Frisco Bay area. | |
| 242033 BRYANT, William. (edited by Samuel Sillen). WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: Selections from His Poetry and Prose. NY: International Publishers, 1945. 94 pages. Small trade paperback. Introduction by Samuel Sillen. ISBN: B0007EWL3S $8.5. See 'Seidman S188'. | |
| 242249 BURKS, Charlie. CENTRAL AMERICA. Seattle: Now It's Up To You, 1982. Not paginated. Stapled softcover. $7.95. Small collection of poems related to the wars being waged by the US in Central America. One dedicated to Mark Vaccaro. | |
| 251825 BUSHELL, Agnes. LOCAL DEITIES. Curbstone Press, 1995. 306 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0915306824 $2.95. The drama, excitement and tension of being activists in the 60s and 70s explored in this courtroom drama. | |
| 247237 BYRON, Lord, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. THE GREAT ROMANTICS: Selected Poems. NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1993. 1,019 pages. Trade paperback. Index of titles, index of first lines. ISBN: 1122342462 $3.95. Massive collection, including the two great anti-authoritarians Shelley ('The Mask of Anarchy') and Byron. Shelley's wife Mary ('Frankenstein') was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin, considered the 'father' of anarchism. The man / Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: / Power, like a desolating pestilence, / Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, / Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, / Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, / A mechanised automaton. | |
| 247311 CAHAN, Abraham. RISE OF DAVID LEVINSKY. NY: Harper and Row, 1960. 529 pages. Reprint. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0061319120 $6.95. In print for 17 buckaroonies. | |
| 247193 CALDWELL, Erskine. TROUBLE IN JULY. Toronto: Collins/White Circle Pocket Edition, 1948. 191 pages. Apparent 1st Canadian Mass Market paperback. White Circle Pocket edition No. 335. ISBN: 0451043316 $2.95. | |
| 250757 CAMUS, Albert. THE FALL. Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. 147 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated by Justin O'Brien. $25. | |
| 244365 CANTOR, Jay. THE DEATH OF CHE GUEVARA. NY: Vintage, 1984. 1st printing of the trade paperback edition. ISBN: 0394725921 $4.95. | |
| 247410 CARDENAL, Ernesto. IN CUBA. NY: New Directions, 1974. 340 pages. 1st printing / edition. Red clothbound hardback in a black dustjacket. Chronology. Appendix. Translated By Donald D. Walsh. ISBN: 0811205371 $11.95. By the Nicaraguan poet, Marxist and Catholic priest, invited into Cuba. Classic account of life under Castro in 1971: Conversations, insights, observations, poetry by the author. | |
| 246828 CARROLL, Paul (ed.). THE YOUNG AMERICAN POETS: A Big Table Book. Chicago: Follet, 1969. 508 pages. 3rd printing. Hardback. Illustrated. Introduction by James Dickey. ISBN: B0007EUOZU $19.95. Landmark anthology of the 60's American poetry scene from the magazine made famous by it's split from of The Chicago Review, when the latter was suppressed for material that eventually formed the first issue of Big Table. Carroll was an early editor of the magazine. Includes Michael Benedikt, Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Kenward Elmslie, Kathleen Fraser, Louise Gluck, Robert Kelly, Richard Kostelanetz, John L'Heureux, Gerard Malanga, Howard McCord, Ron Padgett, John Perreault, Aram Saroyan, Charles Simic, Julia Vinograd, Diane Wakowski, among others. James Welch's first book appearance. Accompanied by photos of the poets (some of whom are also anarchists). | |
| 252120 CARRUTH, Hayden (ed.) [Michael Ondaatje, George Hitchcock, Brother Antoninus, W.S. Merwin, Kenneth Rexroth, Wendell Berry, Denise Levertov, Robinson Jeffers, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Patchen, Galway Kinnell, Theodore Roethke]. THE BIRD / POEM BOOK: Poems on the wild birds of North America. McCall, 1970. xii+51 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Review copy with publisher' promo materials laid in. ISBN: 0841500436 $9.95. All-star collection assembled by this poet and anarchist. Includes Michael Ondaatje, George Hitchcock, Brother Antoninus, W.S. Merwin, Kenneth Rexroth, Wendell Berry, Denise Levertov, Robinson Jeffers, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Patchen, Galway Kinnell, Theodore Roethke, et al. | |
| 243176 CARSON, Robert (ed.). WATERFRONT WRITERS: The Literature of Work; Short stories, Poetry, Film Script, Essays, Drawings, Photographs. NY: Harper, 1979. 198 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. ISBN: 0062501305 $8.95. | |
| 244463 CATES, David. HUNGER IN AMERICA. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0671738178 $1.95. 'A fine novel about looking for love and the broken-hearted musings of the disenfranchised.' - William Kittredge. With DJ praise also by James Welch and Robert Olmstead. | |
| 245960 CEBRIAN, Juan Luis. RED DOLL: A Novel. NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. 162 pages. 1st US edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1555841457 $3.95. | |
| 242738 CHUNG, Ly Qui (ed.). BETWEEN TWO FIRES: The Unheard Voices of Vietnam. NY: Praeger, 1970. 119 pages. 1st paperback edition. Map. Intro by Frances Fitzgerald, prefatory notes by Arthur Dommen. ISBN: 0275634108 $2.95. Nine prize winning short stories by Vietnamese citizens describing their reactions to the war. Selected from 75 stories submitted in response to a short-story contest held by a Vietnamese paper (shut down by the government shortly thereafter). | |
| 252499 CISNEROS, Sandra / Cristina Pacheco. LOS OJOS DE ZAPATA / LIMPIOS DE TODO AMOR. Mexico City: Entrelineas editores / Between the Lines, 2003. 64 + 74 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0679418210 $19.95. Two books, published back to back. Bi-Lingual edition, In English and Spanish. | |
| 245341 CLAUSEN, Jan. BOOKS AND LIFE. Ohio State University, 1987. 237 pages. Trade paperback. Bibliography. ISBN: 0814204708 $2.95. Essays. | |
| 243291 CLITANDRE, Pierre. CATHEDRAL OF THE AUGUST HEAT: A Novel of Haiti. Columbia: Readers International, 1987. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Translated by Bridget Jones. ISBN: 093052330X $2.5. Novel of history, symbols and beliefs by this Haitian author, of the great uprising in 1791 which made Haiti the world's first independent black republic and the first to abolish slavery after the French Revolution. | |
| 242275 CLOKE, Richard. JERRY THE PUT. Northridge: Kent Publications, 1978. 152 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0917458060 $4.95. Novel of guns and drugs, etc., by the poet and author of 'Liberty Boys and Belles', 'Vector Lee', 'Mister Pistol-John' and others. Probably not the same Richard Cloke as the Lincoln Brigade member, 82-year-old who died In October 1998 in Los Angeles days before the dedication of the first monument to the Lincoln Brigade, at the University of Washington campus in Seattle. | |
| 246840 COCKBURN, Alexander and James Ridgeway. SMOKE: Another Jimmy Carter Adventure. NY: Times Books, 1978. 149 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. $9.95. Political satire by these Village Voice columnists and social critics: Jimmy Carter's guys trying to come up with the right formula for his reelection bid. Scarce. | |
| 251431 COHEN, Mitchel. [Mitchell]. 1965 ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS AND A THOUSAND MILES BEHIND [I Was a Teenage Communist]. Brooklyn: the author / Red Balloon, 1995. 10 pages. Stapled paperback pamphlet. $9.95. Part of a book looking for a publisher, apparently never found. | |
| 248133 COLES, Robert. A FESTERING SWEETNESS: Poems of American People. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. 1st edition trade PB (3000 copies). Review copy, with publisher's letter and slip laid in. ISBN: 0822952904 $4.95. | |
| 249759 CONROY, Jack and Curt Johnson (eds.). WRITERS IN REVOLT: The Anvil Anthology 1933-1940. NY: Lawrence Hill, 1973. xxi+234 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Intro by Conroy, contributor biographies. ISBN: 0882080261 $6.5. Stories and poems chosen to capture the creative ferment and growing militancy of America during the 30s and early 40s. Early work of 49 authors, including Nelson Algren, James Farrell, Mike Gold, Langston Hughes, Millen Brand, Meridel LeSeuer, Erskine Caldwell, the anarchists Karl Shapiro and Kenneth Patchen, August Derleth, Frank Yerby, Thomas McGrath, William Carlos Williams, culled from 'The Anvil', 'The New Anvil' and 'The Rebel Poet' magazines. These influential little magazines, founded and edited by B.C. Hagglund, a printer, and Jack Conroy, a young 'proletarian' writer, reflected a new literary renaissance emerging in Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest through the depression years. Many of these authors were involved in the social and labor issues of the depression era and many also worked for the WPA. | |
| 250542 CONROY, Jack. THE WEED KING and Other Stories. Lawrence Hill, 1985. xxxiii+269 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Edited, with an Introduction, by Douglas C. Wixson. ISBN: 0882081861 $6.95. 30 stories about life in a coal mining town. Conroy edited Writers in Revolt: The Anvil Anthology and his first book, Disinherited (1933) is a cornerstone of proletarian fiction. 'One of the few proletarian novels written by a working-class author.' See Rideout. | |
| 246111 COOVER, Robert. THE PUBLIC BURNING. NY: Viking, 1977. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 067058200X $6.95. Novelistic treatment of the Rosenberg trial. | |
| 244669 COPPARD, Audrey and Bernard Crick (eds.). ORWELL REMEMBERED. NY: Facts on File, 1988. 287 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Index. Editors' preface; introduction by Crick. ISBN: 0871969653 $9.95. 52 critical and biographical pieces, published in conjunction with the 3-part BBC television series. Contributors include Cyril Connolly, Christopher Hollis, Arthur Koestler, V.S. Pritchett, R.G. Sharp, George Woodcock, Julian Symons, et al. | |
| 248885 CORTAZAR, Julio. UN TAL LUCAS. Mexico: Alfaguara Literaturas, 1995. 210 pages. 1st Mexican edition / Primera edicion el Mexico. Trade paperback / Rustica, (13 x 21,5 cm). ISBN: 9681902432 $35. Spanish text only / Texto en espa¤ol solamente. | |
| 242508 CRAIG, Bette and Joyce Kornbluh. I JUST WANTED SOMEONE TO KNOW. Brooklyn: Smyrna, 1981. 41 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Illustrated wraps. Intro by Barbara Wertheimer. ISBN: 0918266165 $8.95. Oral histories are the basis of this play on working women from 1910-1970. Incorporates songs by Charlotte Brody and Si Kahn. First produced in NY City in 1978, and was in District 1199 National Union of Hospital Worker's tour in 1979. Kornbluh is best known for the book 'REBEL VOICES: An IWW Anthology'. | |
| 249461 CRAIG, David (ed.). MARXISTS ON LITERATURE: An Anthology. Penguin, 1975. 527 pages. Mass Market paperback. Appendices. ISBN: 0140218092 $9.95. Articles by Caudwell, Kiernan, Kettle, Plekhanov, Marx, Trotsky, Lukacs, Brecht, Victor Serge, Lu Hsun, et al. | |
| 249590 CRAIG, David. LATEST NEWS. London: Journeyman Press, 1978. 71 pages. 1st printing / edition. Illustrated with linocuts by Ken Sprague. ISBN: 0904526399 $14.95. | |
| 232334 DAHLBERG, Edward. THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAHLBERG. NY: Braziller, 1971. Hardcover. Index. ISBN: 0807605891 $17.95. | |
| 247164 DAHLBERG, Edward. THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAHLBERG. NY: George Braziller, 1971. 312 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st edition. Hardcover, gilt stamped black cloth. Index. ISBN: 0807605891 $8.95. Autobiographical reflections. 1 of 6000 copies printed (of a total edition of 6200; 200 were limited, numbered and signed copies in slipcase). See Billings A17a. | |
| 248851 DAHLBERG, Edward. BOTTOM DOGS, FROM FLUSHING TO CALVARY, THOSE WHO PERISH AND HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED AND UNCOLLECTED WORKS. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976. 619 pages. 1st printing / edition thus. Hardback. Preface by the author, into by Harold Billings. ISBN: 0690010346 $19.95. Dahlberg's early writings plus some that were previously unpublished. Includes the first appearance of the full-length piece, 'Mimes'. Literary historian Walter Rideout used the 'Bottom Dogs' title to characterize and classify novels, like 'Somebody in Boots', about the unemployed and down-&-outers. | |
| 243843 DAVIS, Margaret Thomson. A BABY MIGHT BE CRYING. (Breadmakers Trilogy). London: Allison & Busby, 1973. 219 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0850310946 $15.95. Second volume of the acclaimed 'Breadmakers' trilogy, this about the lives and loves of a poor community in Glasgow in the 1930s and 40s. | |
| 247844 DAVIS-POYNTER, R.G. (ed.). FOR FREEDOM: Theirs and Ours; An Anthology of Russian Writing. NY: Stein and Day, 1969. 199 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. Introductory essay by Michael Foot. ISBN: B000FMOZIQ $4.95. Mixture of classic and modern Russian literature, some by famed or dead authors (Tolstoy, Babel, Pasternak, Bunin, Akhmatova, et al), others anonymous for fear of reprisal. | |
| 244035 DAY, Douglas. JOURNEY OF THE WOLF. NY: Atheneum, 1977. 245 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0689107714 $2.95. Fictional treatment of the last days in the life of Sebastian Rosales, El Lobo, a veteran of the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39. Dramatic tale of a Spanish Republican exile who returns to his native Andaluc”a in 1973. First novel by National Book Award winner (for his biography of Malcolm Lowry). Nice dustjacket blurb by Harry Crews. | |
| 246072 DAY, Douglas. JOURNEY OF THE WOLF. NY: Atheneum, 1977. 245 pages. Book Club edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0689107714 $2.95. Fictional treatment of the last days in the life of Sebastian Rosales, El Lobo, a veteran of the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39. Dramatic tale of a Spanish Republican exile who returns to his native Andaluc”a in 1973. First novel by National Book Award winner (for his biography of Malcolm Lowry). Nice dustjacket blurb by Harry Crews. | |
| 249531 DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. [Nelson Algren]. A TRANSATLANTIC LOVE AFFAIR: Letters to Nelson Algren. New Press, 1998. 559 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Photos. ISBN: 156584422X $9.95. | |
| 250299 DE LA BARRE, Adele Sophie, et al (eds.). FOLIO. Volume II, Number 2. Fall 1966. Birmingham: Adele Sophie de la Barre, 1968. 53 pages. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $7.95. Poetry and graphics. Scarce. | |
| 245527 DE LA BARRE, Adele Sophie. FOLIO. Volume IV, Number 1. March 1968. Birmingham: Adele Sophie de la Barre, 1968. 53 pages. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $7.95. Poetry, short stories, and graphics. Includes Lyn Lifshin, Margaret Randall, Russell Banks, among many others. Graphics by Robert Bonazzi. Scarce. | |
| 248753 DEBRAY, Regis. THE BORDER AND A YOUNG MAN IN THE KNOW. NY: Grove Press, 1968. 93 pages. Trade paperback. Evergreen E-477. Translated from the French by Helen R. Lane. $2.95. | |
| 248982 DEBRAY, Regis. UNDESIRABLE ALIEN. NY: Viking, 1978. 235 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Unrevised Proofs, Trade Paperback in dark grey wraps; precedes the hardback. Translated from the French by Rosemary Sheed. ISBN: 0670740667 $9.95. | |
| 243361 DELL, Floyd. RUNAWAY. NY: Doran, 1925. 1st trade edition. Hardback. Gilt-stamped spine. $11.95. See 'Smith' D-318; ' Hanna' 969. Coded 'B' verso of the title page. | |
| 243362 DELL, Floyd. RUNAWAY. NY: Doran, 1925. 304 pages. 1st trade edition. Hardback. Gilt-stamped spine. $13. See 'Smith' D-318; ' Hanna' 969. Coded 'B', verso of the title page. | |
| 243615 DELL, Floyd. AN OLD MAN'S FOLLY. NY: Doran, (1926). 1st edition. Hardback, olive green cloth with gilt-stamped spine lettering. $11.95. | |
| 244795 DELL, Floyd. SOUVENIR. NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth. ISBN: B0006DKV78 $14.95. A country girl from the Midwest turns up in New York and sets the department store business on its head. | |
| 245603 DELL, Floyd. AN OLD MAN'S FOLLY. NY: Doran, 1926. 1st edition. Hardback. Gilt stamped spine lettering. ISBN: B0006AJUC8 $16.95. | |
| 249813 DeMARCO, Gordon. ELVIS IN ASPIC. West Coast Crime, 1994. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 1883303117 $5.5. | |
| 250599 DeMARCO, Gordon. ELVIS IN ASPIC. West Coast Crime, 1994. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Presentation copy, Signed by the Author. ISBN: 1883303117 $6.5. | |
| 247498 DEMETZ, Peter. AFTER THE FIRES: Recent Writing in the Germanies, Austria and Switzerland. NY: Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1986. 444 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Bibliography. Index. $2.95. Comprehensive survey of theater, poetry and fiction in the German-speaking countries in the past 25 years. Includes the 'Group 47' and the work of those who emerged from it: Heinrich Boll, Gunter Grass, Walser, and Peter Weiss. Also includes Christa Wolf, Max Frisch, Peter Handke, Gabriele Wohmann, Thomas Bernhard. Explores recurring themes of the tyranny of the establishment, dehumanization IN industrial society, self-realization, questions of time, being, freedom, and evil, and the abuses, limits, and possibilities of language. | |
| 246118 DEMING, Barbara. WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT OUR LIVES. NY: Grossman/Viking, 1974. 191 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0670753351 $6.95. Essays and poetry by this longtime radical activist. Includes her short memorial talk on the anarchist Paul Goodman and the pacifist A.J. Muste. | |
| 249807 DEMING, Barbara. WASH US AND COMB US. Grossman, 1972. 1st edition. Hardback. Illustrated. ISBN: 0670750034 $5.5. Short stories by this Civil Rights activist and pacifist. | |
| 243706 DENNISON, George. OILERS AND SWEEPERS and Other Stories. NY: Random House, 1979. 179 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0394484169 $3.95. Dennison's first book of fiction. Highly praised by Grace Paley, the title story of maintenance men on the dark floor of the world. By the author of 'The Lives of Children'. | |
| 250371 DEVI, Mahasweta. BASHAI TUDU. Calcutta: Thema, 1990. xxi + 162 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Translated from Bengali. Appears to by Signed by the Author, with his name, address and the date of publication inked on the title page. $11.95. 'An original mix of documentary realism and revolutionary fantasy, history and fiction'. | |
| 246490 DILAS, Milovan. THE STONE AND THE VIOLETS: Short Stories by Milovan Djilas. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1972. 238 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 015185100X $3.95. | |
| 252790 DOBLIN, Alfred. A PEOPLE BETRAYED: November 1918, A German Revolution. Fromm International, 1983. 642 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Trade paperback. Translated by John E. Woods. Introduction by Gunter Grass. ISBN: 0880640081 $7.95. Massive historical novel hailed by Bertolt Brecht as a triumph in German literature. Cover praise by Franz Kafka. | |
| 246530 DOBYNS, Stephen. THE CHURCH OF DEAD GIRLS. NY: Metropolitan, 1997. 388 pages. 1st printing, 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805051031 $6.95. | |
| 243717 DONOVAN, Frank. DICKENS AND YOUTH. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1968. 238 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Illustrated. Index. ISBN: B0006BTQ94 $3.95. There were more youthful children in Dickens' books than anyone else in history. This book conjures up his world through his children, from his Sketches by Boz to David Copperfield Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and Little Dorrit. | |
| 252149 DOOLEY, Dennis. DASHIELL HAMMETT. Frederick Ungar, 1984. xv+174 pages. 1st Trade paperback printing / edition. Notes, index. ISBN: 0804461244 $9.95. Critical look at the hardboiled writer and radical and target of the rightwing witchhunters of HUAC. | |
| 244389 DORFMAN, Ariel. THE LAST SONG OF MANUEL SENDERO. NY: Viking, 1987. 1st U.S. edition. Hardback. Translated with George R. Shivers. 'Signed by the Author'. ISBN: 067080214X $32. Novel of political repression and the widows left behind by the radical Chilean novelist, supporter of Allende and author of 'How to Read Donald Duck'. DJ blurbs by Grace Paley and John Berger. | |
| 244462 DORFMAN, Ariel. MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE. London: Methuen, 1992. 1st U.K. edition. Hardback. Translated from the Spanish with George R. Shivers. ISBN: 0670820210 $5.95. Eleven short stories by the radical Chilean novelist, supporter of Allende and author of 'How to Read Donald Duck'. Salman Rushdies calls Dorfman 'One of the most important voices coming out of Latin America.' | |
| 244779 DORFMAN, Ariel. THE LAST SONG OF MANUEL SENDERO. NY: Viking, 1987. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Translated by George S. Shivers with the author. ISBN: 067080214X $2.95. The son of Manuel Sendero refuses to be born. and so begins the revolution of the fetuses. In the wombs of women everywhere, those who would be the future deny the future, because, they say, in the present there is no justice. Novel of political repression and the widows left behind. By the radical Chilean novelist, supporter of Allende and author of 'How to Read Donald Duck'. DJ blurbs by Grace Paley and John Berger. | |
| 244009 DUKE, David S. DISTANT OBLIGATIONS: Modern American Writers and Foreign Causes. NY: Oxford University, 1983. 326 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Notes, index. ISBN: 0195032217 $2.95. Wharton, Seeger, Cowley, John Reed, Louis Fischer, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Waldo Frank, Ezra Pound, et al. | |
| 251384 DUKE, David S. DISTANT OBLIGATIONS: Modern American Writers & Foreign Causes. Oxford University, 1983. 326 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Notes, index. ISBN: 0195032217 $6.95. Wharton, Seeger, Cowley, John Reed, Louis Fischer, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Waldo Frank, Ezra Pound, et al. | |
| 246725 DUNNE, Peter Finley. MR. DOOLEY IN PEACE AND WAR. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1905. Later printing. Hardback. Gilt-titled dark green cloth. ISBN: 074264281X $9.95. Author's first book. | |
| 242436 DZHAGAROV, Georgi. THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR. University of Washington, 1969. 112 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Translated from the Bulgarian by Marguerite Alexieva. Adapted by C. P. Snow and Pamela Hansford Johnson. Introduction by Snow. $3.95. A play about tensions between Stalinism and a more liberal communism, set in a Bulgarian town in the '50's. | |
| 251800 EAGLETON, Terry. LITERARY THEORY: An Introduction. University of Minnesota, 1983. 243 pages. Hardcover. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0902308920 $24.95. | |
| 242103 EASTMAN, Max. ARTISTS IN UNIFORM: A Study of Literature and Bureaucratism. NY: Octagon Books, 1972. 261 pages. Reprint of the original 1934 edition. Hardback. Gilt-stamped dark red cloth. Notes and references, index. See 'Seidman, E8'. ISBN: 0374924538 $13.95. Eastman's attack on Stalinism's application of doctrinaire Marxism to art and literature, particularly in the US. '[A] searing indictment of the Stalinists' cultural policy...' Alan M. Wald. Eastman ended up on the flipside of the coin, a bottom feeder on the Right as a Cold War Warrior. | |
| 248759 ECCARIUS, J.G. WE SHOULD HAVE KILLED THE KING. San Diego: III Publishing, 1990. 191 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small Trade paperback original (PBO). ISBN: 0962293717 $10.95. Punk-anarchist novel, a recasting of the famed Jack Straw (sentenced to death in the 1300's during a peasant revolt in England) in the USA in the latter part of the 20th century during the height of its imperial power. Consorting with radicals and outcasts, Straw ultimately becomes an anarchist (The Last Straw!??). A novel dedicated to the 'over 300 political prisoners in the American Gulag'. | |
| 245224 EDGAR, David. DICK DETERRED: A Play in Two Acts. NY: Monthly Review, 1974. 112 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0853453438 $10.95. | |
| 249235 EDITORS of Esquire. ESQUIRE: The Best of Forty Years. NY: McKay, 1973. 369 pages. 1st printing / edition. Large Hardback. ISBN: 0679504702 $18.95. Ernest Hemingway, Dos Passos, Morley Callaghan, Erskine Caldwell, Dashiell Hammett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, John Updike, William Styron, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, the anarchist Dwight Macdonald, John Steinbeck, Dorothy Parker, Leon Trotsky, Saul Bellow, Aldous Huxley, Clarence Darrow, Dalton Trumbo, Gore Vidal, Ray Bradbury, Albert Camus, Philip Roth, Vladimir Nabokov, Ralph Ellison, Georges Simenon, and many others. Includes the short story 'When Demirgian Comes Marching Home Again (Hurrah? Hurrah?)' (appears as 'Varoujan' in 'The Man-Eating Machine') by John Sack, as cited in David Willson's 'Bibliography: War in Southeast Asia'. | |
| 232951 EDWARDS, Robert. RADIO VENCEREMOS. Minneapolis: Arcady, 1990. 59 pages. 1st edition. Thin trade paperback. ISBN: 0962347000 $11.95. Cover blurbs by Thomas McGrath, Fred Whitehead & Olga Cabral. | |
| 247161 EHRENBURG, Ilya. PEOPLE AND LIFE 1891-1921. NY: Knopf, 1962. 45+xi pages. Stated 1st American edition. Hardback. Appendix, index. Translated from the Russian by Anna Bostock and Yvonne Kapp. $5.95. | |
| 250538 EHRENBURG, Ilya. THE FALL OF PARIS. Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. 529 pages. 3rd printing. Hardcover. Translated from Russian by Gerard Shelley. $5.95. Left Bank Bohemian, Bolshevik rebel, best-selling novelist, Stalinist spokesman and prophet of the thaw, modern art advocate, Ehrenburg was a controversial figure. He was the 'odd man out' among Soviet writers, an antagonist of Sholokov and everything he stood for. Nadezhda Mandelstam notes he was the only writer she maintained relations with over the years, and credits him with arousing people into reading 'samisdat'. | |
| 244129 EHRHART, W.D. EMPIRE. Richford: Samisdat, 1978. 32 pages. Stapled paperback chapbook. Issued by ' Samisdat ', Volume 17, #3, 66th release. $45. The text consists wholly of Ehrhart's poems, two being quite specific to the war in Asia ('Letter to a North Vietnamese soldier...', 'Vietnamese-Cambodian War', with others touching on those wars or war in general. 'Letter' describes his experience in Hue, during the Tet offensive in 1968, nearly getting killed by a rocket propelled grenade. I have put this poem online, which any decent search engine will locate. Very Scarce. | |
| 250460 EHRHART, W.D. JUST FOR LAUGHS. Vietnam Generation, Inc. & Burning Cities Press, 1990. 84 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0962852406 $65. | |
| 235117 ENDORE, Guy. KING OF PARIS. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1956. 504 pages. 1st edition. Red trade paperback. $11.95. | |
| 251691 ERDRICH, Louise. THE BINGO PALACE. HarperCollins, 2004. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0066209757 $6.95. | |
| 242911 ERVINE, St. John. BERNARD SHAW: His Life, Work and Friends. NY: Morrow, 1956. 628 pages. Hardback. Photos. Index. ISBN: B0006DFHTU $5.95. | |
| 244977 ERVINE, St. John. OSCAR WILDE: A Present Time Appraisal. NY: Morrow, 1952. 336 pages. Hardback. Gray cloth. $5.95. Critical assessment of Wilde's works, particularly his plays. Ervine finds his reputation to be somewhat overblown. 'This book sparkles with Ervine's delightful sense of malice and is overrun with pertinent ideas. He excels at pointing up the brilliant remarks of Shaw and other famous Irish expatriates who knew Wilde'. By the author of a similar work on Shaw. | |
| 248687 ESHLEMAN, Clayton. THE WOMAN WHO SAW THROUGH PARADISE [Tansy 2]. Lawrence: Tansy Press, 1976. Not paginated [8]p. Stapled paperback. $7.95. Poems published especially for a poetry reading by Eshleman, who is also known for his translations of Cesar Vallejo, as a founder of 'Caterpillar' magazine and a poetics engaged in the 'emancipation of self'; issued as Tansy 2, second in a series of planned occasional publications dedicated to a single author. | |
| 251773 ESPADA, Martin (ed.). POETRY LIKE BREAD: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press. Curbstone Press, 1994. 282 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Biographical Notes. ISBN: 1880684152 $6.95. Poets confront the moral crisis and desperation we witness in the gross materialism permeating our societies. Published by this long-running radical small press. | |
| 252005 ESPADA, Martin. ZAPATA'S DISCIPLE: Essays. Southend Press, 1998. 144 pages. Trade paperback. Index. ISBN: 1880684152 $2.95. | |
| 232347 EXLEY, Frederick. LAST NOTES FROM HOME. NY: Random House, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394405196 $15.95. | |
| 243721 FARRELL, James T. LITERATURE AND MORALITY. NY: Vanguard, 1947. 304 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: B0007DKWTO $9.95. Essays range from extended studies of the anarchist/novelist Leo Tolstoy and other writers to observations on the many phases of literature and morality in American culture. | |
| 247484 FARRELL, James T. STUDS LONIGAN: A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, the Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1993. 874 pages. Trade paperback. Introduction by Charles Fanning. A volume in the publisher's 'Prairie State Books' series. ISBN: 0252062825 $7.95. Radical novelist and socialist, known for his portraits of the working class Irish on the South Side of Chicago, 'Studs Lonigan' a masterpiece of American realism. He tried to show how people's destinies are shaped by the era and the environment in which they live. The trilogy was made into a film in 1960 and into a TV miniseries in the 1980s. He has been marginalized in literary history as a proletarian writer of the 1930s. | |
| 247621 FARRELL, James T. SATURDAY NIGHT AND OTHER STORIES. NY: Signet, 1952. 3rd printing. Mass Market paperback. Signet # 831. James Avati cover illustration. ISBN: B000AR9YHS $4.95. Vintage paperback collection of stories by this radical novelist. | |
| 252639 FARRELL, James T. LITERATURE AND MORALITY. NY: Vanguard, 1947. 304 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: B0007DKWTO $8.95. Essays range from extended studies of the anarchist/novelist Leo Tolstoy and other writers to observations on the many phases of literature and morality in American culture. | |
| 251770 FASSBINDER, Rainer Werner. ANTITEATER: Katzelmacher / Preparadis sorry now / Die Bettleroper (nach John Gay). Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970. 130 pages. Small trade paperback. $11.95. Text in German only. | |
| 243720 FAST, Howard. THE STORY OF LOLA GREGG. NY: Blue Heron, 1956. 219 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. $11.95. | |
| 249259 FAST, Howard. THE HILL: An Original Screenplay. Doubleday, 1964. 123 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Presentation copy, inscribed 'For Ted and Jean - Love, admiration, respect' and 'Signed by the Author'. $35. 'A modern miracle play' based on the account of Christ's passion in the Gospel of Saint Mark, the modern Calvary set in Harlem. | |
| 252627 FAST, Howard. SILAS TIMBERMAN. NY: Blue Heron, 1954. 311 pages. 3rd printing / edition. Hardcover. $7.95. | |
| 233759 FEARING, Kenneth. THE BIG CLOCK. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1946. 175 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. $65. | |
| 247626 FEARING, Kenneth. THE BIG CLOCK. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. 175 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. $60. | |
| 249825 FEARING, Kenneth. THE BIG CLOCK. Ballantine, no date (circa 1966). 144 pages. 1st Ballantine edition. Mass Market paperback. Ballantine # F606. With publisher price of 50 cents. $9.95. American radical poet and novelist Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) was a contributing editor for the 'New Masses,' a member of the John Reed Club, and an associate editor of 'Partisan Review.' Albert Halper's novel 'Union Square' includes a character modeled on Fearing. His portrait was painted by Alice Neel. Best known for this novel (filmed and released in 1948). | |
| 249826 FEARING, Kenneth. THE BIG CLOCK. Bantam, 1949. 149 pages. 1st Mass Market paperback edition. Bantam # 738. $7.5. American radical poet and novelist Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) was a contributing editor for the 'New Masses,' a member of the John Reed Club, and an associate editor of 'Partisan Review.' Albert Halper's novel 'Union Square' includes a character modeled on Fearing. His portrait was painted by Alice Neel. Best known for this novel (filmed and released in 1948). | |
| 252415 FERRINI, Vincent. (Edited by Fred Whitehead). THE WHOLE SONG: Selected Poems. University of Illinois, 2004. 208 pages. 1st printing, 1st edition. Hardcover. Index. Signed by the Author , Vincent Ferrini and also by editor Fred Whitehead. ISBN: 0252029097 $75. | |
| 243602 FERTIG, Mona. RELEASING THE SPIRIT. Vancouver: Colophon Books, 1982. Not paginated. 1st edition. Hand-sewn illustrated Paperback. Limited edition, 1/325 copies numbered and 'Signed by the Author', this being #159. Colophon Chapbook Two. ISBN: 0919223087 $9.95. Fertig was a leading member of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets. | |
| 251002 FITZGERALD, Edward. CROOKED ECLIPSE. London: Michael Joseph, 1938. 318 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small Hardcover. $30. Novel of a Jewish communist doctor living in Germany under Hitler's rule. Scarce. | |
| 252240 FONTES, Montserrat. DREAMS OF THE CENTAUR: A Novel. Norton, 1996. 349 pages. 1st printing, 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0393038475 $7.95. | |
| 242063 FOSTER, Richard. NORMAN MAILER. University of Minnesota, 1968. 46 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. #73 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. ISBN: 0816604886 $2.95. | |
| 247401 FOSTER, Richard. NORMAN MAILER. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1968. 46 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. #73 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. ISBN: 0816604886 $3.95. | |
| 249306 FRYER, Jonathan. ANDRE AND OSCAR: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde. St. Martin's, 1998. 254 pages. 1st US printing / edition. B/W illustrations. Index. ISBN: 031218039X $4.95. | |
| 249313 FRYER, Jonathan. ANDRE AND OSCAR: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde. St. Martin's, 1998. 254 pages. 1st US printing / edition. B/W illustrations. Index. ISBN: 031218039X $4.95. | |
| 245363 FUCHS, James. THE SOCIALISM OF SHAW: George Bernard Shaw. NY: Vanguard Press, 1926. 165 pages. 1st edition thus. Hardcover. $13.95. | |
| 245865 FUENTES, Carlos. MYSELF WITH OTHERS: Selected Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1988. 214 pages. 1st US edition / printing. Hardback. ISBN: 0374217505 $5.95. Essays from the noted Mexican author which he wrote in English. By the Cervantes Prize award -winner, the highest honor given to a Spanish-language writer. | |
| 245869 FUENTES, Carlos. THE CAMPAIGN. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 1991. 1st US edition. Hardback. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. ISBN: 0374118280 $6.95. Saga of revolutionary South America and a protagonist whose campaign of redemption is both public and private and reflects the struggles and contradictions that also shaped Spanish America. Noted Mexican author and Cervantes Prize award -winner, the highest honor given to a Spanish-language writer. | |
| 247956 FUGARD, Athol. A LESSON FROM ALOES. NY: Random House, 1981. 79 pages. First printing / edition. Hardback. Jacket design by Dick Adelson. ISBN: 0394518985 $7.95. | |
| 250053 GALEANO, Eduardo. VOICES OF TIME: A Life in Stories. Metropolitan Books, 2006. 341 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated by Mark Fried. ISBN: 0805077677 $11.95. 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early 20th century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, and his encounters with generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, snakes, and trees. Excerpts from some of his books online in the Stan Iverson Memorial Library and Daily Bleed Calendar. Google the terms Iverson or Bleed with Galeano. | |
| 243884 GARAUDY, Roger. LITERATURE OF THE GRAVEYARD: Sartre, Mauriac, Malraux, Koestler. NY: International Publishers, 1948. 64 pages. Trade paperback. ISBN: B0007E05WC $5.95. Communist attack by this member of the French National Assembly. | |
| 251357 GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH. Alfred Knopf, 1990. 1st printing of the 1st American edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. ISBN: 0394582586 $6.95. Novelized account of Simon Bolivar, aka the Liberator of South America, in his waning years. Garcia Marquez is a central figure in the Magical Realism movement, a term used in 1920s Germany to describe painters, whose works expressed surrealistic visions. Applied to literature by Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, who recognized the tendency of Latin-American writers to combine fantasy elements and mythology with otherwise realistic fiction. | |
| 242324 GELB, Barbara. SO SHORT A TIME: A Biography of John Reed and Louise Bryant. NY: Norton, 1973. 304 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. Index. ISBN: 0393074781 $7.95. | |
| 244670 GELB, Barbara. SO SHORT A TIME: A Biography of John Reed and Louise Bryant. NY: Norton, 1973. 304 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Photos. Index. ISBN: 0393074781 $3.95. | |
| 246184 GENET, Jean. LES NEGRES: Pour Jouer les Negres clownerie. No place: Marc Barbezat L'arbalete, 1963. 180 pages (+33 pages photos). No indication of printing or edition, presumed 1st edition thus. Trade paperback, pictorial glossy wraps. Black and white photographs, from the 1959 French production at the Thatre de Lutce, by Ernest Scheidegger. $11.95. French language text only. | |
| 249597 GEORGAKAS, Dan [Dick Lourie, Diane Di Prima, Marge Piercy, Joe McLellan, Richard Krech, Jeff Nuttall, et al]. ONLY HUMANS WITH SONGS TO SING. NY: Ikon / Smyrna Press, no date [late 1960s?]. Not paginated. Stapled paperback. Photos by Arthur Tress, Karl Bissinger and Liberation News Service (LNS). Cover design by Nancy Colin. $125. Mimeographed anthology of poems, many related to the Cuban Revolution and the Vietnam War: 'We declare for libertarian communism...we declare there are no more poets, only humans with songs to sing.' Otto Rene Castillo, Susan Sherman, Dan Georgakas, Bob Auerbach, Jerry Parrot, Frederick Engels, Dick Lourie, Walter Lowenfels, George Montgomery, Saul Gottlieb, John Oliver Simon, Margaret Randall, Diane Di Prima, Marge Piercy, Will Inman, Joe McLellan, Richard Krech, Jeff Nuttall, Haj Razavi, George Bowering, Philip Corner, Robert Sward and others. | |
| 250218 GEORGAKAS, Dan [Dick Lourie, Diane di Prima, Marge Piercy, Joe McLellan, Richard Krech, Jeff Nuttall, et al]. ONLY HUMANS WITH SONGS TO SING. NY: Ikon / Smyrna Press, no date [late 1960s?]. Not paginated. Stapled paperback pamphlet. Photos by Arthur Tress, Karl Bissinger and Liberation News Service (LNS). Cover design by Nancy Colin. $100. Mimeographed anthology of poems, many related to the Cuban Revolution and the Vietnam War: 'We declare for libertarian communism...we declare there are no more poets, only humans with songs to sing.' Otto Rene Castillo, Susan Sherman, Dan Georgakas, Bob Auerbach, Jerry Parrot, Frederick Engels, Dick Lourie, Walter Lowenfels, George Montgomery, Saul Gottlieb, John Oliver Simon, Margaret Randall, Diane di Prima, Marge Piercy, Will Inman, Joe McLellan, Richard Krech, Jeff Nuttall, Haj Razavi, George Bowering, Philip Corner, Robert Sward and others. | |
| 248442 GERSMEHL, Glen (editor). WORDS AMONG AMERICA. NY: Glen Gersmehl, 1971. 52 pages. 1st printing of the 2nd(?) edition. Stapled paperback, stiff olive green covers. Illustrated by the editor. $14.95. A smaller, 28-page edition with 37 poems was published sans any publishing information, presumably preceding this edition. 60 evocative poems, collected to demolish the stereotype of the poet in the clouds, providing a regained sense of the poet as more in touch with reality than most of us. From the anarchist Paul Goodman to Thich Nhat Hanh, William Eastlake to Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou to Caesar Chavez, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dan Berrigan, Herman Hesse, Theodore Roethke, and many others, poems that celebrate life and the need to question authority. Includes also some choice quotes, ranging from Michael Bakunin to James Russell Lowell. Published to benefit the Non-Violence Center of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. | |
| 248450 GERSMEHL, Glen (editor). WORDS AMONG AMERICA. no place [NY]: no publisher [Glen Gersmehl], no date [circa 1971]. 28 pages. 1st printing of the 1st(?) edition. Stapled paperback, stiff olive green covers. $30. 37 evocative poems. A larger illustrated edition with a preface and expanded to 60 poems was issued with publishing information, presumably following this edition. The other edition was published to benefit the Non-Violence Center of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. | |
| 244128 GILBERT, James. WRITERS AND PARTISANS: A History of Literary Radicalism in America. NY: Wiley, 1968. 303 pages. Hardback. A volume in the 'American Cultural History' series. Bibliographic essay, index. ISBN: 0231082541 $12.95. Literary radical history, focused primarily on 'Partisan Review' and its related circles. | |
| 248428 GINSBERG, Allen. MIND WRITING SLOGANS. Boise: Limberlost Press, 1994. Not paginated. 1st printing, limited edition, 1 of 100 copies, this being number 65, 'Signed by the Author', on Mohawk Letterpress paper, hand sewn into Ingres Antique end sheets and decorated Magnani Perscia covers. ISBN: 0931659205 $130. Fine press production, issued on the occasion of the special conference, 'The Beats and Other Rebel Angels,' honoring Ginsberg, at the Naropa Institute. | |
| 243424 GITLIN, Todd (ed.). CAMPFIRES OF THE RESISTANCE: Poetry from the Movement. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. 295 pages. 1st trade paperback edition. $15.95. Includes the anarchist poets Diane DiPrima, Tuli Kupferberg, Paul Goodman, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Levine, Gary Snyder, as well as many others, including Dan Georgakas, T.L. Kryss, d.a. levy, Marge Piercy, Margaret Randall, John Sinclair. A number of the poems touch on the Vietnam War along with domestic concerns. | |
| 249946 GITLIN, Todd. BUSY BEING BORN. Straight Arrow Books, 1974. 93 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0879320737 $11.95. Poems and musings by a New Lefty who became a professor and historian and critic of the 60s, American culture, mass media, etc. | |
| 236362 GLICK, Carl. DOUBLE TEN: Captain O'Banion's Story of the Chinese Revolution. London: Whittlesey, 1945. 281 pp. First edition. Hardcover. Multiple b/w photos. $19.95. | |
| 236363 GLICK, Carl. DOUBLE TEN: Captain O'Banion's Story of the Chinese Revolution. London: Whittlesey, 1945. 281 pp. First edition. Hardcover. Multiple b/w photos. $14.95. | |
| 248767 GODWIN, William. ITALIAN LETTERS or the History of the Count De St. Julian. University of Nebraska, 1965. xliv+123 pages. Small Hardback. Edited, with an introduction, by Burton R. Pollin. $14.95. The second of Godwin's nine novels, an epistolary fiction by this British novelist and philosopher who is considered the father of anarchism. This book foreshadows the doctrines expounded in his famed 'Political Justice' and elements of his later novels. With new introductory matter, reissued from the two volume 1784 edition, believed lost for 150 years. | |
| 243963 GOLD, Michael. THE MIKE GOLD READER: From the Writings of Michael Gold. NY: International Publishers, 1954. 188 pages. Trade paperback. ISBN: B0006D6L5Y $15.95. Collects from a broad range of poetry, stories, sketches, columns, reportage, and literary criticism. | |
| 231852 GOLDBERG, Harvey (ed.). AMERICAN RADICALS: Some Problems & Personalities. NY: Monthly Review, 1957. 308 pages. Hardback. Notes, bibliographical note. ISBN: B000ETG53I $9.95. 'The world will be saved, if it can be, only by the unsubmissive.' - Andre Gide. 16 biographical essays by various authors on Altgeld, Debs, Dreiser, DeLeon, Marcantonio & others. | |
| 243314 GOLDBERG, Harvey (ed.). AMERICAN RADICALS: Some Problems and Personalities. NY: Monthly Review, 1957. 308 pages. Hardback. Notes, bibliographical note. $9.95. 'The world will be saved, if it can be, only by the unsubmissive.' - Andre Gide. 16 biographical essays by various authors on Altgeld, Debs, Dreiser, DeLeon, Marcantonio and others. | |
| 249222 GOLDSMITH, Marianne and Jean Loria (eds.). FOR THE TIME BEING: Poetry and Fiction On Abortion. Brookline: Biel Press, 1978. 52 pages. 1st printing / edition. 1/2000 copies. Illustrated light brown paperback. Bibliography on abortion, contributor notes. ISBN: B000H6P9QC $12.95. | |
| 250533 GOOCH, Steve and Paul Thompson. THE MOTOR SHOW. London: Pluto Plays, 1975. 71 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0902818643 $9.95. Play documents 60 years of struggle by workers against the Ford Motor Company, using songs, a fast succession of music hall, documentary and realistic scenes to reveal the history of the Ford empire. | |
| 242602 GOODMAN, Paul. DRAWING THE LINE: A Pamphlet. NY: Random House, 1962. 111 pages. Stated 1st edition. Trade paperback original. $11.95. Combines material from his 1945, 'May Pamphlet', with new essays. These range from his views on anarchism, war, the cold War, violence, peace, American society, etc., and includes a few of his poems. | |
| 243725 GOODMAN, Paul. CREATOR SPIRIT COME: Literary Essays. NY: Dutton, 1979. 284 pages. 1st trade paperback printing / edition. Edited by Taylor Stoehr. ISBN: 0525475672 $7.95. Broad-ranging collection from this anarchist-pacifist who strongly influenced the New Left in the 60s, as well as mainstream America with books such as 'People or Personnel; Growing Up Absurd; Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals' and others. | |
| 243732 GOODMAN, Paul. CREATOR SPIRIT COME: Literary Essays. NY: Dutton, 1979. 284 pages. 1st Trade paperback printing / edition. Edited by Taylor Stoehr. ISBN: 0525475672 $6.95. Broad-ranging collection from this anarchist-pacifist who strongly influenced the New Left in the 60s, as well as mainstream America with books such as 'People or Personnel; Growing Up Absurd; Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals' and others. | |
| 247631 GOODMAN, Paul. CREATOR SPIRIT COME: Literary Essays. NY: Dutton, 1979. 284 pages. 1st Trade paperback printing / edition. Edited by Taylor Stoehr. ISBN: 0525475672 $5.95. Collection from this anarchist-pacifist who strongly influenced the New Left in the 60s. Background on Goodman, see his page at the online Anarchist Encyclopedia. | |
| 245277 GORKY, Maxim. MY CHILDHOOD. NY: Grove, 1960. 171 Pages. 1st Grove edition. Trade paperback. Translated by Isidor Schneider. $2.95. | |
| 244062 GOULD, Peter and Stephen Stearns. A PEASANT OF EL SALVADOR: A Play. Brattleboro: Whetstone Books, 1987. 78 pages. Revised edition, 3rd printing. Trade paperback. Illustrated with B&W stills from performance. ISBN: 0915731010 $3.5. One-act political play of a village in El Salvador in 1975. | |
| 248981 GOYTISOLO, Juan. JUAN THE LANDLESS. NY: Viking, 1977. 290 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Unrevised Proofs, Trade Paperback in light tan wraps; precedes the hardback. Translated form the Spanish by Helen R. Lane. ISBN: 0670410047 $9.95. Third novel in the trilogy preceded by 'Marks of Identity' and 'Count Julian'. The author lived in exile over 20 years, and his books were all banned in Spain during the Franco dictatorship. | |
| 232356 GRASS, Gunter. CAT AND MOUSE. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Translated by Ralph Manheim. $26. | |
| 243266 GRASS, Gunter. LOCAL ANAESTHETIC. NY: Harcourt Brace & World, 1970. 284 pages. 2nd US printing [B.4.70]. Hardback. Stamped mustard cloth. Translated by Ralph Manheim. ISBN: 0151529574 $7.95. 'Mockingly juggling with lost and found illusions, with the tensions between reformists and revolutionaries, middle age and youth, Grass has created a satirical portrait of social confusions...' Grass received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. | |
| 243267 GRASS, Gunter. ON WRITING AND POLITICS 1967-1983. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. 157 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Intro by Salman Rushdie. ISBN: 0151699690 $2.95. By the Nobel Prize for Literature recipient for 1999. | |
| 247569 GRASS, Gunter. MY CENTURY. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1999. 280 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. ISBN: 015100496X $7.95. 100 stories--one for each year of the 20th century--offers an interlocking history of murder, war, technological achievement, persecution, athleticism, scientific advancement, and megalomania. | |
| 248366 GRASS, Gunter. THE MEETING AT TELGTE. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. 147 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Afterword by Leonard Forster. ISBN: 0151585881 $7.95. A fictitious meeting at the end of the Thirty Years War, parallels a real meeting of German poets and writers, known as Group 47, at the end of WWII. By the Nobel Prize for Literature recipient for 1999. | |
| 250029 GRASS, Gunter. THE GUNTER GRASS READER. Harcourt, 2004. 310 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Translated by Charles Simic and others. ISBN: 0151011761 $12.95. Short fiction, essays, poems, and excerpts from major novels that represent the writings of this Nobel prize-winning German author. | |
| 252004 GRASS, Gunter. THE GUNTER GRASS READER. Harcourt, 2002. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated by by Krishna Winston. ISBN: 0151007640 $8.95. | |
| 246026 GRAVE, Kathleen De. COMPANY WOMAN: A Novel. Tucson: See Sharp Press, 1995. 235 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 1884365043 $5.95. From a small anarchist publisher. | |
| 248134 GRAVE, Kathleen De. COMPANY WOMAN: A Novel. Tucson: See Sharp Press, 1995. 235 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 1884365043 $4.95. Seven years driving a truck for a large construction company, the protagonist in this novel joins management and finds herself trapped in the dilemma of losing her ethics during a strike. From a small anarchist publisher. | |
| 250308 GRAY, Alasdair. POOR THINGS: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer. Harcourt, 1994. 1st US printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0156000687 $3.95. A novel, purportedly by McCandless and edited by the author. Gray was part of the Glasgow Workers City Group in Scotland, along with James Kelman, Robert Lynn, Alasdair Gray, Jeff Torrington. (Lynn was a militant Stirnerite and agitator, and the founder of the Glasgow Anarchist Summer School. Lynn died just before the 1996 school session was to begin and his last immortal words were: 'Oh f***, now I'll miss the summer school.'). | |
| 243605 GREGORY, Horace and Eleanor Clark (eds.). NEW LETTERS IN AMERICA. NY: Norton, 1937. 222 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Notes. $21. Bishop, Agee, Auden, Eberhardt, Rukeyser, Brinnin, Rosenberg, Zaturenska, Abel, Prokosch, Cheever, Clark, Herring, and many other contributors. Gregory said this was not an anthology, and intended it to be a periodical, a selection of new writing [this being the first issue, and with the number '1' printed on the cover] bound in covers, which was to appear twice a year. All of the materials appear here in the US for the first time. Important and relatively scare collection. | |
| 244032 GRIB, V. BALZAC: A Marxist Analysis. NY: Critics Group, 1937. 93 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Bibliography. Number 5 in the Critics Group Series edited by Angel Flores. Translated from the Russian by Samuel G. Bloomfield. $7.95. Contributors: Maxim Gorky, A. Zeitlin, A. Lunacharsky and I. Vinogradov. | |
| 245783 GROGAN, Emmett. FINAL SCORE. NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1976. 292 pages. 1st edition. Advance Reading Copy, Trade paperback. Printed yellow wraps. $14.95. The Grogan of Haight-Ashbury fame, and founder of the anarchist Diggers, writes a rollickin mystery. His first mystery/novel, second and last book. His fist book was 'Ringolevio'. whenever a Digger identifies himself as 'Emmett Grogan' it means nothing, since all Diggers call themselves Emmett Grogan'. | |
| 252475 GROVES, Maketa. RED HOT ON A SILVER NOTE. Willimantic: Curbstone Press, 1997. 67 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 1880684225 $4.95. | |
| 248066 GRUSA, Jiri. THE QUESTIONNAIRE Or Prayer For A Town and A Friend. NY: Aventura / Vintage Books, 1983. 278 pages. 1st Aventura trade paperback edition. Translated by Peter Kussi. ISBN: 0394722124 $2.95. | |
| 242819 HALPER, Albert. GOOD-BYE, UNION SQUARE. A Writer's Memoir of the Thirties. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1970. 275 pages. Hardback. ISBN: 0812901509 $6.95. Halper wrote two radical novels in the 30s and these memoirs of the period are of interest. | |
| 242820 HALPER, Albert. THE FOURTH HORSEMAN OF MIAMI BEACH. NY: Norton, 1966. 336 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: B0006BO3P6 $5.95. | |
| 242371 HALPERT, Stephen, with Richard Johns (eds.) [Kenneth Rexroth, intro]. A RETURN TO PAGANY, 1929-1932: The History, Correspondence, and Selections from a Little Magazine. Boston: Beacon, 1969. 519 pages. Hardback. Index. Intro by anarchist/poet/critic Kenneth Rexroth. ISBN: B000E1S548 $7.95. Pagany carried such luminaries as William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Burke, Robert McAlmon, Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, Parker Tyler, Edwin Seaver and many others. | |
| 244937 HAMALIAN, Linda. A LIFE OF KENNETH REXROTH. NY: Norton, 1991. 444 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. Notes, selected works by Rexroth, index. ISBN: 0393029441 $6.95. First comprehensive biography of this famous poet and anarchist (See his online page in the Anarchist Encyclopedia, which any search engine will find). Rexroth left his mark on several generations of modern poets, from the Beats to Denise Levertov, Carolyn Forche, Sam Hamill, and Jessica Hagedorn. | |
| 251278 HAMALIAN, Linda. [Kenneth Rexroth]. A LIFE OF KENNETH REXROTH. Norton, 1991. xix+444 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. Notes, selected works by Rexroth, index. ISBN: 0393029441 $7.95. First comprehensive biography of this famous poet, critic and anarchist (Google his page in the Anarchist Encyclopedia for background). Rexroth left his mark on several generations of modern poets, from the Beats to Denise Levertov, Carolyn Forche, Sam Hamill, and Jessica Hagedorn. | |
| 252461 HAMILL, Sam, Sally Anderson, et al. (editor). POETS AGAINST THE WAR. Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003. 263 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 1560255390 $2.95. Collects 150+ poems in opposition to the Bush-Cheney Regime's oil war in Iraq. | |
| 244082 HAMSIK, Dusan. WRITERS AGAINST RULERS. NY: Random House, 1971. 208 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Appendix. Notes. Index. Translated by D. Orpington. Intro by W.L. Webb. ISBN: 0394470222 $7.95. The heroic struggle of writers and intellectuals against the oppression on the eve of the Czech uprising. | |
| 242438 HANNIBAL, Edward and Robert Boris (Jimmy Hoffa). BLOOD FEUD. NY: Ballantine, 1979. 1st edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0345281004 $3.95. A 'documentary' novel, pitting Hoffa and Robert Kennedy against each other. | |
| 244087 HARP, Reed. WINTER GARDENS. Austin: Thorp Springs Press, 1989. 108 pages. Trade paperback original. ISBN: 0914476726 $5.95. | |
| 244533 HARRIS, Frank. THE BOMB. NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1909. 329 pages. First US edition. Hardcover, Red cloth-covered boards with embossed white lettering. ISBN: B0008688JQ $19.95. Novel based on the Haymarket Affair which involved the wrongful execution of suspected anarchists (Online, see the Anarchist Encyclopedia). 'Much on the oppression of labor and the corruption of the polices.' -Coan and Lillard. | |
| 244909 HARRIS, Frank. PANTOPIA. NY: Panurge Press, 1930. 229 pages. 1st printing, No. 1009 in a Limited Edition of 1250 copies. Hardcover. Blue cloth, decorative blind embossed leaf-texturing overall, with gilt -stamped decorations and lettering on spine and front cover; top edge gilt. ISBN: B00085NAF4 $31. Novel of religion and passion depicting a woman's love unbound. A story likened to Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. Art Deco title page and book design by Jules L. Small. Panurge Press published a number of titles, such as Harris's, 'intended for private circulation among adult collectors of literary curiosities'. | |
| 251709 HARRIS, Frank. [John Dos Passos, John Zerzan]. THE BOMB. Feral House, 1996. 213 pages. First printing / edition thus. Trade paperback. Introduction by John Dos Passos, Afterword by John Zerzan. ISBN: 0922915377 $5.95. Novel based on the Haymarket Affair which involved the wrongful execution of suspected anarchists (Online, Google our Anarchist Encyclopedia). 'Much on the oppression of labor and the corruption of the polices.' -Coan and Lillard. | |
| 246696 HARTOM, John and Lisa Blackburn. IMAGINE: Render: A GIFT OF PEACE. Michigan: Michigan Art Association, 1990. Unpaginated. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Illustrated with drawings. $9.95. Scarce. | |
| 244978 HELLMAN, Lillian. THE SEARCHING WIND. NY: Viking, 1944. 96 pages. 2nd printing. Hardback. $11.95. | |
| 250756 HELLMAN, Lillian. AN UNFINISHED WOMAN: A Memoir. Little, Brown, 1969. 280 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. $9.95. New Orleans. American playwright/memoirist. Lillian was a brusque and abrasive babe, and she had her haters and her admirers. Among her admirers was the cross-dresser J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI, witch-hunting congressional committees, the army, State Department and CIA who maintained files on her. Her FBI file notes that she was a sponsor of a dastardly group: <em>the League of Women Shoppers! In 1941 she attended a testimonial dinner for Theodore Dreiser. The FBI notes she is close to other folks they greatly admire and keep tabs on: Dashiell Hammett, Marc Blitzstein, Clifford Odets and Richard Wright. Hellman had a lifelong relationship with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett until his death (1961). Both were attacked during McCarthy/HUAC witchhunts. Active on the political left, Lillian attacked injustice, exploitation and selfishness in her plays. Intellectually, the Cold War began in earnest March 26, 1949, in NY City. A conference organized by, among others, Lillian Hellman brought communist cultural celebrities together to defend the USSR. Those bolting from the Stalinist-dominated conference started the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, which included liberals, democratic socialists and even anarchists... In May 1952 she advised HUAC she would not rat out her friends and acquaintances: 'I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.' | |
| 247406 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. YOUNG, Philip. ERNEST HEMINGWAY. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1966. 48 pages. 6th printing, revised edition. Stapled paperback original. #1 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. ISBN: 0816601917 $4.95. | |
| 246109 HEMLEY, Cecil. YOUNG CRANKSHAW. NY: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1963. 1st edition. Hardback. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. $5.95. Novel by the poet and founder of Noonday Press. A young idealist is exploited by a 'son of the working class,' a 'revolutionary writer' who exemplifies not the spirit of the revolution but the age of success at any price. | |
| 242018 HENDERSON, Philip. [William Morris]. WILLIAM MORRIS. Essex: Longmans, Green & Co., 1969. 44 pages. Stapled paperback pamphlet. #32 in the 'Writers and Their Work' series. ISBN: 0233978550 $3.95. | |
| 250069 HERBST, Josephine. STARCHED BLUE SKY OF SPAIN and Other Memoirs. Harper Collins, 1991. 1st edition. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Introduction by Diane Johnson. ISBN: 006016512X $9.95. 'Memoirs of the Political and Literary Scene Between the Wars by One of the Leading Women Writers of Her Time.' Covering the radical and literary themes that informed her life, from Sioux City to Spain. Herbst's journalism, appeared in The New Masses, The Nation, Partisan Review and other venues. Friends with Genevieve Taggard, Nathan Asch, Robert McAlmon and Ernest Hemingway and writers associated with The Masses and The Liberator, she was also an editorial reader for H. L. Mencken. Published posthumously, this book has been called one of her finest achievements. Cited in Walter Rideout's 'The Radical Novel in the United States'. | |
| 251485 HEUVEL, Katrina Vanden (ed.) (Intro by E.L. Doctorow; Afterword, Victor Navasky). THE NATION 1865 / 1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture. Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990. xvi+534 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1560250011 $4.95. Contributions by Albert Einstein, James Baldwin, Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Rexroth, Emma Goldman, Paul Krassner, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Pablo Neruda, I. F. Stone, Edward Said, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Nader, Katha Pollitt, Alice Walker, W. B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, Robert Duncan, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, Ben Shahn, and many others. | |
| 244483 HICKS, Granville. PART OF THE TRUTH: An Autobiography. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1965. 314 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. $8.95. By a Communist Party member during the '30's, the literary editor of the 'New Masses,' and an influential Marxist critic, later wrote for the New Republic, and wrote a biography of John Reed. | |
| 242857 HIMELSTEIN, Morgan Y. DRAMA WAS A WEAPON: The Left-Wing Theatre in New York 1929-1941. New Brunswick: Rutgers (1963). 300 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Foreword by John Gassner. $16.95. | |
| 244059 HIMELSTEIN, Morgan Y. DRAMA WAS A WEAPON: The Left-Wing Theatre in New York 1929-1941. New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1963. 300 pages. Hardback. Foreword by John Gassner. $14.95. | |
| 249967 HIMES, Chester. LONELY CRUSADE. Thunder's Mouth Press, 1997. Trade paperback. Foreword by Graham Hodges. ISBN: 1560251425 $5.95. A young black man becomes a union organizer. | |
| 249764 HO Chi Minh. THE PRISON DIARY OF HO CHI MINH. NY: Bantam, 1971. 103 pages. Paperback original, 1st US printing / edition. Translated by Aileen Palmer. Intro by Harrison Salisbury, Preface by Phan Nhuan. ISBN: B0007C8G98 $9.95. Written between August 1942 and September 1943, when Ho Chi Minh was a prisoner in more than 18 South China jails. The diary consists of 115 verses - quatrains and Tang poems in the classical Chinese style. | |
| 232759 HOFFMAN, Abbie. REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT. New York: Pocket Books, 1970. First paperback edition. $14.95. As written by Free. | |
| 243305 HOLROYD, Michael. BERNARD SHAW: A Biography. Volume II: 1898-1918, The Pursuit of Power. NY: Random House, 1989. 421 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Photos. ISBN: 0394575539 $6.95. Shaw's life and career at their peak. Here is the cozened husband and disappointed lover of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the revolutionary, making pronouncements on two wars and the sexual dalliances of his colleagues, etc. | |
| 244404 HOLROYD, Michael. BERNARD SHAW: A Biography. Volume I: 1856-1898, The Search for Love. NY: Random House, 1988. 486 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Photos. Bibliographical notes. ISBN: 0394575539 $3.95. Sympathetic look at the early years of the famed playwright socialist and critic, finding the roots of his mature personality in his lonely Dublin childhood. Shaw from birth in 1856, through a series of poignant and tantalizing love affairs, to his marriage in 1898. | |
| 251972 HOROWITZ, David D. SOMETHING NEW AND DAILY. Seattle: Urban Hiker Press, 1981. 43 pages. Stapled paperback chapbook. $7.95. Poems reflecting a radical liberatory sensibility. Seattle author's first book. | |
| 252364 HOUSTON, Robert. BISBEE '17: A Novel. London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1979. 287 pages. 1st UK printing / edition. Hardcover. $8.95. Historical labor novel, centering on the IWW's General Strike in Bisbee (Queen of the Copper Camps) in 1917 and the infamous round-up of over 1,000 strikers who were literally railroaded and shipped in cattle cars into the desert and left..... | |
| 243132 HOVEY, Tamara. JOHN REED: Witness to Revolution. LA: George Sand Books, 1982. 227 pages. 2nd Trade paperback printing. Photos. ISBN: 0942498003 $2.95. | |
| 245933 HOVEY, Tamara. JOHN REED: Witness to Revolution. LA: George Sand Books, 1982. 227 pages. 2nd Trade paperback printing. Photos. Index. ISBN: 0942498003 $2.95. | |
| 245235 HUANG, D.M., N. Ishisaka, S. Moreau. BRIDGES AND WINDOWS: People of color Speak Out, 1994. Olympia: First People's Press, 1994. 90 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Illustrated. $7.95. Poetry, photos, art and short pieces. Anthology collectively published by students of color at Evergreen State College. | |
| 238951 HUGHES, Langston. GOOD MORNING REVOLUTION: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest. NY: Independent, 1973. 145 pages. Trade paperback. First paperback edition. Edited by Faith Berry. ISBN: 0882080245 $50. | |
| 244100 HUIE, William Bradford. THE KLANSMAN. NY: Delacorte, 1967. 303 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0491004400 $5.95. Novel of post-1965, in the aftermath of the Selma March, where the Klan is revived with devastating effects on white and black citizens alike. | |
| 247832 HYMAN, Stanley Edgar. [Nathanael West]. NATHANAEL WEST. American Writers Series No. 21. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1966. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. #21 in the 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers' series. Select bibliography. ISBN: 0816602786 $2.95. | |
| 252607 IBSEN, Henrik. ROSMERSHOLM. London: Comedy Theatre, no date [1960]. Not paginated. Stapled paperback. Translated and introduced by Ann Jellicoe. $5.95. A program from the 1960 Comedy Theatre production, starring Peggy Ashcroft, Alan Dobie, Eric Porter, Mark Digman, Bee Duffell and John Blatchley. Reviewer Paul Taylor notes Freud was fascinated by this play and wrote an insightful essay. In this rarely performed transitional play, unscrupulous reactionaries identify and exploit the inner demons of the conflicted liberal idealists. The desire to grab the future by the scruff of the neck is thwarted by the revived ghosts of the past. (Sounds like contemporary America to us). | |
| 251261 IMPERATO, Ayn. CONSTRICTION. SF: Andromeda Press, 1991. 42 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. $20. No listings in OCLC. Rare. | |
| 251463 International Publishers. RED CORNER BOOK FOR CHILDREN. International Publishers, no date (circa 1930). 110 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover, illustrated boards. Illustrations and photos. $475. Rare. OCLC shows 8 copies in US libraries. Departure from the ordinary run of children's books. Includes 'Stories of Lenin', and a piece on Wat Tyler. Another group of articles, on Russia, is entitled, 'Stories of socialist construction.' Overt propaganda. | |
| 244175 JEROME, V.J. A LANTERN FOR JEREMY. NY: Masses & Mainstream, 1952. 288 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Dustjacket illustrated by Hugo Gellert. ISBN: B0006DKZRO $7.95. Novel of a boy at the beginning of the century, in pre-war Poland, facing the problems and predicament of life in a Jewish working class village. Jerome was a Communist Party organizer in Hollywood and its 'cultural commissar' (Navasky). See Rideout's 'The Radical Novel in the United States'. See also 'Seidman J60'. | |
| 251902 JIN, Ha. UNDER THE RED FLAG: Stories. Zoland Books, 1999. 207 pages. Trade paperback. ISBN: 1581950063 $2.95. Stories by this 1999 National Book Award Winner and PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author. | |
| 245941 JO-HSI, Chen. THE EXECUTION OF MAYOR LIN and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1979. 220 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Introduction by Simon Leys. ISBN: 0253202310 $3.95. | |
| 244375 JOHNSON, Diane. DASHIELL HAMMETT: A Life. NY: Random House, 1983. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. Notes, index. ISBN: 0394505018 $2.95. The first definitive biography of the hardboiled writer and radical, and the only one approved of by his longtime companion Lillian Hellman - both of whom were HUAC targets. | |
| 244629 JONES, Lewis. CWMARDY: The Story of a Welsh Mining Valley. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1986. 310 pages. Trade paperback. Introduction by David Smith. ISBN: 0853154686 $4.95. Classic novel of South Wales working class. Scarce. | |
| 242690 JORDAN, Neil. NIGHTLINES. NY: Random House, 1994. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0679444394 $3.95. Novel set on the Irish coast after the protagonist leaves prison during the Spanish Civil War. A story about sea fishing, piano music, fatherhood, betrayal and the idea of a Republic. | |
| 251569 JOZSEF, Attila. SELECTED POEMS AND TEXTS. International Writing Program / Carcanet Press, 1976. 103 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Frontis. Trade paperback, printed red covers. Translator's Note and Chronology. Translated from the Hungarian by John Batki. Edited by George Gomori and James Atlas. $16.95. | |
| 243292 KANFER, Stefan. THE EIGHTH SIN. NY: Random House, 1978. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0394414764 $1.95. Novel of a Gypsy who survives a Nazi concentration camp and sees life as a procession of the Seven Deadly Sins, each chapter exploring their effects - the 8th a final confrontation with his and his people's history. By the author of the highly regarded 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (about the witch hunts of the '50s). | |
| 243293 KANFER, Stefan. THE INTERNATIONAL GARAGE SALE. Norton, 1985. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0393019861 $2.5. Fictional sendup of the network news media and 1st, 2nd and 3rd world nations; of a demi-United Nations organization where envy reigns supreme and every nation is out to betray its neighbors. Not like real life... | |
| 248646 KAPROW, Allan. UNTITLED ESSAY and other Works. NY: Something Else Press, 1967. 15 pages. Stapled paperback, blue covers. 'A Great Bear Pamphlet.' Association copy, this belonged to author Kathy Acker, with her signature top front cover corner. $91. 'The historic statement which accompanied the text of the first published happening (1958) with a sampling of characteristic scenarios.' Sixties art rebel, inspired inventor of 'happenings.' Painter, assemblagist and a pioneer of performance art, Kaplow was part of a milieu which included Dick Higgins, John Cage, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen and other Fluxus artists. Rear cover includes a checklist of 20 Great Bear Pamphlets. | |
| 245504 KATZ, Shlomo (ed.). THE MIDSTREAM READER. NY: Thomas Yoseloff, 1960. 499 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. $8.95. Compilation of fiction, poetry, articles from Midstream: A Quarterly Jewish Review.' Includes Howard Fast, Leslie Fiedler, Herbert Gold, Isaac Rosenfeld, Isaac Bashevis Singer and others. | |
| 248427 KAUFFMAN, George. HAMLET INCORPORATED: A San Francisco Version in One Act and Four Other Plays in Verse. Berkeley: Kept Press, 1965. 80 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback. Cover art by Frank Lapo, from 'Dust' Quarterly. $16.95. By a longtime small press author, a teamster and food production worker. He was also on the editorial board of "Dust' in the mid-60s. His works have appeared in Esquire, New Directions, First Stage and Nation and The Cherotic (r)Evolutionary. He also wrote the novel 'Paper Train,' a collection of poems, 'The Other Man,' the novella 'The Loves of Dana,' among other works. The final play in this chapbook, 'The Drop' (originally written in 1947), includes as an epilogue reports of being a peace picket in Berkeley at the Atomic Energy Commission and a police confrontation in November 1962. | |
| 251824 KAUFMAN, Shirley. RIVERS OF SALT. Copper Canyon Press, 1993. 77 pages. 1st printing / edition. Notes. ISBN: 1556590555 $4.95. | |
| 250449 KELMAN, James. HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE. Norton, 1995. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0393038173 $5.95. Kelman was part of the Workers City Group, along with , Alasdair Gray, Jeff Torrington and the anarchist Robert Lynn. | |
| 244124 KENNELL, Ruth Epperson. [Theodore Dreiser]. THEODORE DREISER AND THE SOVIET UNION (1927-1945): A First-Hand Account. NY: International Publishers, 1969. 320 pages. Stated 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. ISBN: B0006CADNG $9.95. Kennell was a librarian, 'Nation' correspondent, translator and secretary and interpreter for Dreiser in the USSR. | |
| 247938 KLEIN, Maxine; Lydia Sargent, and Howard Zinn. PLAYBOOK. South End Press, 1986. 501 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISBN: 089608308X $7.95. Plays by these radical authors. Includes Daughter of Earth, Emma, The Furies of Mother Jones, Split-Shift, I Read About My Death in Vogue Magazine, New Rise of the Master Race, and Windfall. | |
| 243450 KLIMA, Ivan. MY GOLDEN TRADES. NY: Scribners, 1994. 284 pages. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Czech By Paul Wilson. ISBN: 0684197278 $7.95. Stories set in the surreal atmosphere of Prague under Communism. The Golden Trades are 'the unlikely jobs taken up by writers, artists, and intellectuals who refused to cooperate with the Czech government after the Russian invasion of 1968'. | |
| 244399 KLIMA, Ivan. MY FIRST LOVES. NY: Harper & Row, 1988. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers. ISBN: 0060158662 $3.95. Collection of stories of love in a cold war climate. | |
| 246896 KLIMA, Ivan. THE ULTIMATE INTIMACY. NY: Grove, 1998. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Czech By A.G. Brain. ISBN: 0802116256 $7.95. | |
| 244008 KOESTLER, Arthur. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE. NY: Macmillan, 1944. Later printing. Hardback. $4.95. | |
| 250739 KOHOUT, Pavel. POOR MURDERER. Viking Press, 1977. 100 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Czech by Herbert Berghof and Laurence Luckinbill. ISBN: 0670564451 $14.95. By the author of The Hangwoman and From the Diary of a Counter Revolutionary . | |
| 252581 KONWICKI, Tadeusz. THE ANTHROPOS-SPECTER-BEAST. NY: S.G. Phillips, 1977. 201 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated by George and Audrey Korwin-Rodziszewski. ISBN: 0875992188 $4.95. | |
| 244207 KRAMER, Aaron. ROLL THE FORBIDDEN DRUMS. NY: Cameron & Kahn, 1954. 64 pages. Trade paperback. Foreword by Alfred Kreymborg. $7.95. Proletarian poetry. | |
| 244208 KRAMER, Aaron. THE GOLDEN TRUMPET: Poems. NY: International Publishers, (1949). 32 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. $8.95. Proletarian poetry in the 'Poets' Series'. | |
| 243646 KRAUSE, David. SEAN O'CASEY: The Man and His Work. NY: Macmillan Publishing, 1975. 390 pages. 1st edition thus. Hardback. An Enlarged Edition. Frontis. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0025666401 $5.95. Biography of the great Irish playwright. | |
| 246600 KRAUSE, David. SEAN O'CASEY and his World. NY: Scribner's, No date. 128 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ISBN: 0684147270 $7.95. | |
| 249905 KUPER, Peter. BLEEDING HEART. Number 3. Fall 1992. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1992. 32 pages. Stapled paperback. Illustrated comix. $9.95. 'The comic that smells like coffee'. Excellent comic, socially and politically charged strips. | |
| 250560 KUPFERBERG, Tuli. NEWSPOEMS. NY: Free Ranger Tribe / Birth Press, 1971. 63 pages. 1st printing / edition. Large newsprint paperback. Profusely illustrated. $32. Poems, images and news clips in a collage-like presentation by this one-time Fug, cofounder of the Yippies ['one of the Leading Anarchist Theorists of our time' according to Reader's Digest] and anarchist songster (Coca Cola Douche, CIA Man, Paint It Red [& Black], Wide, Wide River.) 'When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge' - Tuli Kupferberg. | |
| 249357 LANDALE, Zoe (ed.) [Tom Wayman, David Conn]. SHOP TALK: An Anthology of Poetry. [from The Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union]. Vancouver: Pulp Press, 1985. 128 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0889781699 $15. Poems about work, that rarely writ about activity that consumes most of our lives. Includes Tom Wayman, David Conn, Glen Downie, Kirsten Emmott, Phil Hall, Landale and others. | |
| 243252 LARSEN, Ernest. NOT A THROUGH STREET. NY: Grove Press, 1986. 225 pages. 1st Mass Market paperback printing. ISBN: 0394622480 $1. Emma Hobart mystery. Feminist taxi driver and sleuth, here trying to solve the mystery of the disappearance of a college student just before an anti-war demonstration. Larsen was editor of the film journal 'Jump Cut' in the early 80s. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1981. | |
| 244351 LAWRENCE, Lars. [Philip Stevenson]. MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT. NY: Putnam's, 1954. 340 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. $12.95. A novel, (volume 1 of part 1) in his 'Seed Trilogy'. 'Lawrence', aka Philip Stevenson, was a blacklisted screenwriter (hence the pseudonym) during the McCarthy era. A novel of blacklisted miners, mostly Mexican-Americans, who organize with left-wingers after a riot, while adversaries seek to terrorize them. Cited in Rideout's 'The Radical Novel in the United States'. See also 'Seidman L129'. | |
| 249737 LAWSON, Henry. JOE WILSON'S MATES: 56 Stories from the Prose Works of Henry Lawson. [ Australian Classics]. South Yarra: Currey O'Neil, 1981. 456 pages. Hardback. Gilt-stamped green faux leather. Top edges gilt. Index. ISBN: 0855505885 $9.95. Lawson was an Australian sheep shearer and poet. Wrote short stories and ballad-like verse. Noted for realistic portrayals of bush life, based on his wanderings. ... So we must fly a rebel flag / As others did before us, / and we must sing a rebel song / and join in rebel chorus. / We'll make the tyrants feel the sting / O'those that they would throttle; / They needn't say the fault is ours / If blood should stain the wattle. - Henry Lawson, excerpt from his poem, 'Freedom on the Wallaby,' composed in Brisbane at the time the striking shearers were facing the troopers guns at Barcaldine. | |
| 250127 LAZOWICK, Louis. THE DEPRAVED. Philosophical Library, 1982. 202 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0802224024 $6.95. Novel composed of vignettes based on the theme of human violence that is one of the great leitmotifs of history. The central character is born and reborn in history in a dramatic struggle with man's greatest enemy - himself. | |
| 246744 Le GUIN, Ursula. A FISHERMAN OF THE INLAND SEA: Science Fiction Stories. NY: HarperPrism, 1994. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0061052000 $6.95. Short stories by this longtime anarchist and antiwar activist. | |
| 249730 LE SUEUR, Meridel. RIPENING: Selected Works, 1927-1980. Feminist Press, 1982. 291 pages. 1st edition, Trade paperback. Photos. Bibliography. Edited with an intro by Elaine Hedges. ISBN: 0912670991 $2.95. Lifelong radical agrarian socialist fiction author, poet, journalist, writer about working-class women, and a justice seeker. Her father, labor radical Art Le Sueur, addressed the first Socialist Convention held in Benson County, South Dakota. Meridel (1900-1996) died with Walt Whitman's writings at her bedside. | |
| 251379 LE SUEUR, Meridel. RIPENING: Selected Works, 1927-1980. Feminist Press, 1982. 291 pages. 1st edition, Trade paperback. Photos. Bibliography. Edited with an intro by Elaine Hedges. ISBN: 0912670991 $2.95. Lifelong radical agrarian socialist fiction author, poet, journalist, writer about working-class women, and a justice seeker. Her father, labor radical Art Le Sueur, addressed the first Socialist Convention held in Benson County, South Dakota. Meridel (1900-1996) died with Walt Whitman's writings at her bedside. | |
| 244192 LEAF, Paul. COMRADES. NY: New American Library, 1985. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0453004741 $2.75. A novel following two men and a woman, from the time they join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight fascism in Spain, through WWII and the persecutions of the '50s when subpoenaed by HUAC. | |
| 244544 LEDUC, Violette. LA BATARDE. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. 488 pages. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Translated by Derek Coltman. Foreword by Simone de Beauvoir. ISBN: 0374182329 $5.95. Autobiography, 'The Book That Scorched France!' Praised by Camus, Sartre, Cocteau, Genet, et al. | |
| 251219 Leeds Anarchist Black Cross. POETRY OF THE CLASS WAR. Leeds Anarchist Black Cross, no date. 30 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback pamphlet. $25. | |
| 248949 LESSING, Doris. UNDER MY SKIN. Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949. HarperCollins, 1994. 419 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. $9.95. | |
| 249943 LESSING, Doris. UNDER MY SKIN. Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949. HarperCollins, 1994. 419 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0060171502 $4.95. | |
| 249944 LESSING, Doris. WALKING IN THE SHADE. Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962. HarperCollins, 1997. 404 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0060182954 $9.95. | |
| 250543 LESSING, Doris. UNDER MY SKIN. Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949. HarperCollins, 1994. 419 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. REVIEW COPY with publisher's promo literature, photo and review laid in. ISBN: 0060171502 $14.95. Begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, in her suitcase. Nice for a collector. | |
| 252628 LEVI, Primo. A TRANQUIL STAR: Unpublished Stories. London: Penguin Classics, 2007. 1st UK printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli. ISBN: 0713999551 $15.95. | |
| 246524 LEVISON, Iain. SINCE THE LAYOFFS. NY: Soho Press, 2003. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 1569473358 $7.95. Author's second book and first novel. | |
| 248637 LEVY, d.a. STONE SARCOPHAGUS: Tune in Today for Tomorrow's Episode. Madison: Radical America, no date [circa 1969-1970]. 24 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $25. Poems by this hater of cops, priests, profit culture. The poem 'Berets' is Vietnam War-related. One of Levy's collages is the centerfold, prominently featuring the anarchist Michael Bakunin, and this chapbook was printed at the anarchist Black and Red Printing Coop of Fredy Perlman and company. In 1968 levy burned manuscripts of all his poetry and several original collages, gave away most of his belongings, and told people he was 'leaving Cleveland. I'm leaving the world.' On the evening of November 24 levy sat alone in his apartment, put a .22 caliber rifle between his eyes, and pulled the trigger. He was 26. | |
| 248638 LEVY, d.a. 'TO BE A DISCREPANCY IN CLEVELAND': Poems. Madison: Radical America, no date [197-?]. 46 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $30. Poems by this hater of cops, priests, profit culture. One of Levy's collages is the centerfold, prominently featuring the anarchist Michael Bakunin, and this chapbook was printed at the anarchist Black and Red Printing Coop of Fredy Perlman and company. In 1968 Levy burned manuscripts of all his poetry and several original collages, gave away most of his belongings, and toldand told people he was 'leaving Cleveland. I'm leaving the world.' On the evening of November 24 levy sat alone in his apartment, put a .22 caliber rifle between his eyes, and pulled the trigger. He was 26. | |
| 244847 LEWIS, Janet. THE GHOST OF MONSIEUR SCARRON. London: Robin Clark, 1985. (ii),378 pages. Trade paperback. British ISBN: 0860721140. ISBN: 0804001332 $4.95. | |
| 242902 LEY-PISCATOR, Maria. THE PISCATOR EXPERIMENT: The Political Theatre. NY: James H. Heineman, (1967). 336 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $14.95. The most important reference on Piscator's radical Weimar theatre and experimental work in the US by the German exile. Written by his wife with his collaboration. | |
| 231734 LI FU-CHING ISLAND MILITIA WOMEN. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1975. 296pp. Trade PB with endwraps. Illustrated with 8 woodblock prints in color. $7.95. A state sponsored novel of the triumph of the Revolution. Trite plot & wording indicative of propaganda. | |
| 251809 LITVINOFF, Emanuel. A DEATH OUT OF SEASON. London: Sphere, 1974. 267 pages. 1st UK paperback printing / edition. ISBN: 0722155557 $2.95. Novel of the Siege of Sydney Street. Occurs in 1911, when three anarchists suspected of a killing shoot it out with over a thousand troops and became the most notorious murder trial of the day. The case also drags in a callous self-promoting publicity hound, Home Secretary Winston Churchill, amidst allegations of spying and sinister implications involving the siege. According to Martin Gilbert's biography, Churchill's secretary Charles Masterman was horrified that he personally attended the siege. Afterwards, Masterman sternly accosted him: 'What have you been doing, Winston?' Churchill was still so invigorated by the excitement that he forgot his usually well-disguised lisp: 'Now Charleth, don't he croth; it wath such fun!'. | |
| 233416 LONDON, Jack. THE SEA-WOLF. NY: Macmillan, 1911. 366 pp. Later printing. Hardcover. Blue, cloth boards with blue stamping on cover & spine. $9.95. | |
| 234474 LONDON, Jack. MOON-FACE, & Other Stories. Oakland: Star Rover House, 1982. 273 pp. Reprint. Limited edition, #907 of 1000 copies. Mass Market paperback. Illustrated by Kelly Hall. $14.95. | |
| 245784 LONDON, Jack. DER MEXIKANER FELIPE RIVERA Wer schlug zuerst?. Leipzig: Verlag Philipp Reclam jun, 1966. 64 pages. Small Trade paperback. Reclam Universalbibliothek Nr. 212. $5.95. German language text (Roman) only. | |
| 249734 LONDON, Jack. THE UNABRIDGED JACK LONDON. Running Press, 1981. xiii, 1143 pages. Trade paperback. Photos. Edited By Lawrence Teacher and Richard E. Nicholas. ISBN: 0894711245 $6.95. Major novels and short stories (some never before appearing in book form), by this early 20th-century socialist, as they appeared in their original form, each preceded by a short introduction that fixes it biographically and chronologically. | |
| 250157 LONDON, Jack. THE CHINAGO and Other Stories. Leslie-Judge Co., 1911. 166 pages. 1st printing / edition thus. Hardback, brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine lettering and decorations. Frontis. $50. The title story originally appeared in the collection 'When God Laughs' published by Macmillan in 1911. Leslie-Judge was one of a number of publishers to reprint the book, but they split the book into two separate volumes. This volume is the first appearance of the book with this title, dropping the first five stories from 'When God Laughs' and in this volume using continuous pagination beginning with page 155 (the title story; the contents page says it begins with 153, which would normally reference the title page for the story - but they did not include it), and with the six following stories (with the original pagination to page 319). | |
| 252846 LOTTMAN, Herbert R. THE LEFT BANK: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War. University of Chicago, 1998. xiv+319 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Sources, index. ISBN: 0226493687 $4.95. | |
| 243827 LOURIE, Dick. LIES. No place: no publisher, no date. 17 pages. Stapled paperback. Photo of the author rear cover by Wolf von dem Busche. $7.95. 17 poems. No publishing information given. This was printed at the Detroit Print Co-op (later Black and Red), an anarchist press founded by Fredy Perlman and others. Issued early 70s, 1973?. Scarce. | |
| 246544 LOURIE, Dick. LIES. No place: no publisher, no date. Unpaginated. 1st edition. Trade paperback. $9.95. | |
| 242142 LOURIE, Richard. LETTERS TO THE FUTURE: An Approach to Sinyavsky-Tertz. Cornell University, 1975. 221 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small Hardback. Notes, select bibliography, index. ISBN: 0801408903 $2.95. Weaves biography and criticism of the Russian author, his dual existence, ending with his arrest and imprisonment. | |
| 242950 LOWENFELS, Walter (ed.). POETS OF TODAY: A New American Anthology. NY: International Publishers, 1969. 143 pages. 4th printing. Trade paperback. Biographical notes. Prologue poem by Langston Hughes. ISBN: 0717801551 $6.95. 85 poets tell 'how it felt to be alive in verse, since Hiroshima.' Includes John Beecher, Charles Bukowski, Gregory Corso, Carlos Cortez, Bob Dylan, Alvah Bessie, Allen Ginsberg, George Hitchcock, LeRoi Jones, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure, Thomas McGrath, Ishmael Reed, Gary Snyder, Dalton Trumbo and many others. | |
| 243144 LOWENFELS, Walter. [Robert Gover, ed.]. THE PORTABLE WALTER: From the Prose and Poetry of Walter Lowenfels. NY: International Publishers, 1968. 163 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Edited by Robert Gover. ISBN: B0006BV9TE $6.95. | |
| 252565 LU, Hsun. CHOSEN PAGES FROM LU HSUN: The Literary Mentor of the Chinese Liberation. [NY]: Cameron Associates, no date [circa 1957]. 315 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Feng Hseuh-Feng. $9.95. | |
| 234866 LUKACS, Georg. ESSAYS ON THOMAS MANN. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1965. 169 pp. First American edition. Hardcover. Review copy with review slip laid in. Appendices. Index. Translated from the German by Stanley Mitchell. ISBN: B0006BN6T0 $14.95. | |
| 244244 MacKENZIE, Norman and Jeanne. H.G. WELLS: A Biography. Simon & Schuster, 1973. 487 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. ISBN: 0671215205 $5.95. | |
| 247360 MAILER, Norman. THE DEER PARK. NY: Signet, 1957. 1st Mass Market paperback printing / edition, as stated. Signet # D1375, with publisher's price of 50. ISBN: 0375700404 $7.95. Novel first published in hardcover in 1955 by this then budding socialist, antiwar activist and social critic. Complete and unabridged. First appearance of this book in paperback; not to be confused by the numerous wannabee book dealers (clueless garage mechanics!?) who can't get the publisher right or tell the difference between a copyright date and the clearly stated publishing date. | |
| 241297 MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson. PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA. Or, How I Found the Goddess and What I Did To He When I Found Her. Port Townsend: Loompanics, n.d. Unpaginated. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISBN: 1559500409 $35. New edition; fifth? No date given. | |
| 244557 MALTZ, Albert. THE CITIZEN WRITER: Essays in Defense of American Culture. NY: International Publishers, 1950. 48 pages. 1st edition. Small trade paperback. ISBN: B0006DAG1Y $12.95. Seven papers on the role of the writer in American life, the fight against censorship, etc. By the noted novelist and screenwriter, a blacklisted member of the Hollywood 10. Includes his speech before HUAC in 1947. See 'Seidman M48'. | |
| 243389 MAMMERI, Mouloud. THE SLEEP OF THE JUST. Boston: Beacon Press, 1956. 228 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Translated from the French by Len Ortzen. $7.95. A young Arab flees his community, joins the French Army, then the Communist Party, then to jail in the novel of generational conflict in an Algerian Islamic community as well as conflicts between the community and the French. The first Algerian Arab author to appear in translation in the US. | |
| 249822 MANDEL, Ernest. DELIGHTFUL MURDER: A Social History of the Crime Story. University of Minnesota, 1984. vii+152 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small Trade paperback. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0816614644 $22.5. Explores the links between crime fiction and the wider social reality, and the essence of the genre is exposed: its relationship to the crisis of society is dialectical. By the well-known Marxist (and crime fiction buff). | |
| 231790 MANN, Thomas. THIS PEACE. NY; Alfred A Knopf, 1938. 41 pp. First edition hardback. Bibliography. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe Porter. $19.95. Short essay on the resolution of the Czechoslovakian crisis by the pact at Munich. | |
| 243387 MAO Tse-Tung. [Zedong]. POEMS. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1976. 53 pages. Stated 1st Trade paperback edition. Frontis. Fold-out facsimile of a poem in author's character writing. ISBN: B0006DAP7O $6.95. Poems by the communist leader of China from the 30's into the 80's. | |
| 244796 MARAN, Rene. BATOUALA. NY: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. 207 pages. 1st edition, 1st printing. Hardcover, dark green cloth, gilt titles. Translated by by Adele Szold Seltzer. ISBN: B00085FXEK $14.95. A history-making, scathing novel of French Colonial Africa. Academie Goncourt prize winner. | |
| 252624 MARCUS, Greil. THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: Prophecy and the American Voice. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 320 pages. 1st printing / edition. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0374104387 $9.95. | |
| 246625 MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia. EL GENERAL EN SU LABERINTO: Novela. Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1989. 286 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 9681302648 $11.95. Spanish text only. | |
| 249766 MARQUEZ, Robert (ed.). LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY POETRY / Poesia Revolucionaria Latinoamericana. Monthly Review, 1974. 505 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. With an intro by Marquez. ISBN: 0853453675 $11.95. A Bilingual Anthology. In Spanish and English on facing pages, from varying translators. | |
| 250177 MATTHEWS, Carleton. FLIGHT TO UTOPIA. Newtown: Mount Eyre Publishing Co., 1947. 209 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback, blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine lettering. Small promotional leaflet laid in. $19.95. Novel of a World War II pilot who continues the fight for a permanent peace and economic justice when he returns home. A 'social romance' proposing fundamental changes to the American economic system to ensure an abundant and prosperous life for all. | |
| 247425 MATTHEWS, J.H. ANDRE BRETON [Columbia Essays on Modern Writers, Number 26]. NY: Columbia University, 1967. 48 pages. 1st edition. Stapled paperback original. Bibliography. #26 in the 'Columbia Essays on Modern Writers' series. ISBN: 0231029101 $10.95. | |
| 246044 MATTHIESSEN, F.O. THEODORE DREISER. NY: William Sloane, 1951. 267 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. A volume in the American Men of Letters series. ISBN: B0006D6KVY $9.95. | |
| 245848 MAY, Henry F. THE END OF AMERICAN INNOCENCE: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time 1912-1917. NY: Knopf, 1969. 312p + xvii. 2nd printing. Hardback. Bibliographical essay, index. $11.95. A historian interprets the fascinating story of the years of ferment when American culture came of age. Much on the Bohemian enclave of Greenwich Village and the various radicals, socialists and anarchists such as Randolph Bourne, Emma Goldman, etc. | |
| 250486 McANALLY, Mary (ed.). (Meridel LeSueur). WE SING OUR STRUGGLE: A Tribute to Us All: For Meridel LeSueur. Tulsa: Cardinal Press, 1982. Not paginated. 1st printing / edition. Illustrated. Errata slip laid in. ISBN: 0943594030 $13.95. Hand-designed PoeMvelope tipped in and a grain stalk mounted. Includes tributes by Thomas McGrath, Fred Whitehead, Joy Harjo, Sharon Doubiago among the many contributors. | |
| 244826 McCARTHY, Mary. SIGHTS AND SPECTACLES, 1937-1956. NY: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, (1956). 183 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover, orange cloth. $6.95. Theatre criticism, which she indicates that 'the early reviews lisp of Marxist language'. | |
| 243460 McGRATH, Thomas. THIS COFFIN HAS NO HANDLES. NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988. 244 pages. 1st thus, trade paperback edition. ISBN: 0938410628 $4.95. Written in 1947, this novel chronicles labor battles on the post-WWII New York waterfront. | |
| 244468 MEDVEDEV, Roy (ed.). SAMIZDAT REGISTER 2: Voices of the Socialist Opposition in the Soviet Union. NY: Norton, 1981. 323 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Intro by Zhores Medvedev. ISBN: 0393014193 $6.95. Important underground materials as circulated in the clandestine Russian opposition journal, 'XXth Century.' Includes Medvedev, Yakubovich, Bogin, Pestov, Bechmetyev, Krasikov, Maksudov. | |
| 247853 MEDVEDEV, Zhores A. TEN YEARS AFTER IVAN DENISOVICH. NY: Vintage Books, 1974. 211 pages. Mass Market paperback. ISBN: 0394711122 $1.5. The story of Solzhenitsyn's struggle to survive in the Soviet Union. | |
| 252177 MENAKER, Daniel. THE OLD LEFT & Other Stories. Knopf, 1987. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394546784 $11.95. | |
| 232313 MERRIAM, Eve. MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA MONEY, MISSISSIPPI AND OTHER PLACES: A Pamphet in Poetry. NY: Cameron Associates / Liberty Book Club, 1956. Hardback. $20. | |
| 248653 METCALF, John. FREEDOM FROM CULTURE. Vancouver: Tanks, 1987. 21 pages. 1st printing of the 2nd revised and enlarged edition. Stapled paperback. Preface by William Hoffer. ISBN: 091975841X $11. Emphatic statement opposing Canadian government funding of the Arts, first published for distribution at a debate on government intervention in the arts in April of 1987. William Hoffer, publisher of the Tank imprint, was a well-known antiquarian book seller in Vancouver who specializing in Canadian literature for some 18 years, active in local small press scene and author of numerous related magazines articles. Includes a list of books by Metcalf. | |
| 240941 METZGER, Thom. THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1992. 181 pp. Paperback. Illustrated. ISBN: 0936756888 $5.95. Anarchist horror fiction; shotgun weddings of high art and low culture. "The prose equivalent of R. Crumb and S. Clay Wilson stoned on evil speed and Sterno" enthused Peter Lamborn Wilson. | |
| 247660 MEYER, Hershel D. [Howard Fast]. HISTORY AND CONSCIENCE: The Case of Howard Fast. NY: Anvil-Atlas, 1958. 63 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. See 'Seidman M258'. ISBN: B0007EJ2XU $14.95. On Fast and his break with the Communist Party. Scarce book. | |
| 246387 MILLER, Chris (ed.) [Andre Brink, Wole Soyinka, Edmund White, Gore Vidal, Nawal El Saadawi, et al]. THE DISSIDENT WORD: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1995. NY: Harper Collins, 1996. 198 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0465017258 $7.95. | |
| 250129 MILLER, Henry, Lawrence Durrell, Ross Macdonald, Ursula Le Guin, et al. THE CAPRA CHAPBOOK ANTHOLOGY. Capra Press, 1979. 348 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small Trade paperback. Bibliographical note. Foreword by Noel Young. ISBN: 0884961273 $9.95. Original stories by Henry Miller, Faye Kicknosway, Lawrence Durrell, Ross Macdonald, Ray Bradbury, Victor Perera, Colin Wilson, James Houston, William Nolan, the anarchist Ursula Le Guin, and Mark Vinz. | |
| 246110 MILLETT, Kate. SITA. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. 321 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0374265461 $1.95. Autobiographical novel, a personal, intimate story, of the slow decline and end of a love affair between the author and a woman some 10 years older. | |
| 244325 MILTON, Nancy. THE CHINA OPTION. NY: Pantheon, 1982. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0394527216 $3.95. Political thriller set in China by a former teacher in Peking, with a female journalist stumbling into events that may leave her a dead end. | |
| 246632 MILTON, Nancy. THE CHINA OPTION. London: Pluto Press, 1984. 1st British printing / edition. Small hardcover. ISBN: 0861047729 $3.95. Political thriller set in China by a former teacher in Peking, with a female journalist stumbling into events that may leave her a dead end. | |
| 248229 MINER, Marilyn. YOU ARE THE COUNTRY. Seattle: Seal Press, 1980. Not paginated. 1st printing / edition. Hand-sewn paperback, limited edition, 1 of 400 trade copies. Cover paper made by author Barbara Wilson, cover illustration by Rachel da Silva. ISBN: 0931188067 $9.95. | |
| 249396 MINER, Marilyn. YOU ARE THE COUNTRY. Seattle: Seal Press, 1980. Not paginated. 1st printing / edition. Hand-sewn paperback, limited edition, 1 of 400 trade copies. ISBN: 0931188067 $4.95. Cover paper made by author Barbara Wilson, cover illustration by Rachel da Silva. | |
| 245123 MITCHELL, Karen. THE EATING HILL. Portland: Eighth Mountain Press, 1989. 83 pages. 1st American edition, Trade paperback. ISBN: 0933377045 $3.95. First Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize winner, selected by Audre Lorde for 'its skill, passion, insight and commitment to living'. | |
| 245063 MOORCOCK, Michael. THE LIVES AND TIMES OF JERRY CORNELIUS. NY: Dale Books, 1979. 187 pages. 1st American edition. Mass Market paperback. ISBN: 0895591588 $2.95. Collects 11stories first published in the 1976 Allison and Busby edition. Anarchist/author Moorcock believes this book presents the best of his Cornelius stories. By the author of 'Stormship Trooper', an excellent critique of rightwing scifi writers (Tolkien, Heinlein, McCaffrey, etc, which is available online). | |
| 246525 MOORCOCK, Michael. THE FORTRESS OF THE PEARL: An All-New Novel of Elric. Ny: Ace Books, 1989. Stated 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0441191231 $5.95. One who has stolen the souls of many may lose his own. A volume in the Elric series by this major player in the 'New Wave' scifi movement and an active anarchist. | |
| 246405 MORAVIA, Alberto. BEATRICE CENCI. London: Secker and Warburg, 1965. 187 pages. 1st English language edition (precedes the US edition). Small Hardback. Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson. $10.95. Moravia's bloody tragedy of the Renaissance Cencis. Beatrice was a young Roman noblewoman (daughter of the vicious and violent Francesco Cenci) whose condemnation to death by Pope Clement VIII aroused public sympathy and became the subject of poems, dramas, and novels, including 'The Cenci' (1819) by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Moravia's works were censored by Mussolini's fascist government, and placed by the Vatican on the Index librorum prohibitarum (Index of Forbidden Books). Especially influenced by the thoughts of Marx and Freud, he sharply criticized our dehumanized, capitalist world. | |
| 242483 MORGAN, Al. THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING. NY: Stein & Day, 1972. 252 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Illustrated by Tim Gaydos. ISBN: 0812815033 $3.95. Novel of a news team during the 1968 protests and police riots at the Chicago Democratic National Convention. By a producer of the Today Show. | |
| 242162 MORGULAS, Jerrold. THE SIEGE. NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1972. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0030860032 $3.95. A novel of the Spanish Civil War. The story of a refugee, a young idealist and former army officer, seeking to take his family to Madrid but is caught in the Siege of Alcazar. | |
| 231669 MORRIS, Edita. THREE WHO LOVED. NY: Viking, 1945. 2nd printing before publication. Hardback. ISBN: 0517532573 $6.95. | |
| 242383 MORRIS, Edita. LOVE TO VIETNAM. NY: Monthly Review, 1968. 92 pages. Hardback. $19.95. Novel in letters between a Viet Nam napalm victim and Nagasaki victim. See 'Newman 55'. | |
| 242601 MORRIS, Edita. FLOWERS OF HIROSHIMA. NY: Marzani & Munsell, 1959. 187 pages. Trade paperback. $4.95. | |
| 243407 MORRIS, Ira. THE ROAD TO SPAIN. NY: Monthly Review, 1965. 256 pages. Hardback. ISBN: B0007JRVFG $6.95. Novel, wherein the protagonist discovers that the road to the Spain of his youth leads to the Andes 25 years later. | |
| 251979 MORRIS, William. [Selected and edited by Henry Newbolt; Intro by John Buchan]. WILLIAM MORRIS. [Selections From]. London & Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, no date [circa 1920]. xxii+420 pages. Edition not stated. Small Hardcover, printed olive-green cloth. Frontis. Intro by John Buchan. $25. 11 early poetic romances, poetry selections from 'The Life and Death of Jason,' and 3 tales from the 'Earthly Paradise,' and two prose romances. | |
| 245852 MORROW, Bradford. COME SUNDAY. NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 1555841783 $5.95. The author's first novel, a Pen Faulkner finalist, chronicles the kidnapping of a Honduran elder, 'a brilliantly written work of political and mythical grandeur...' - John Hawkes. Jacket praise also by Joseph McElroy and William S. Burroughs. | |
| 242779 MOTLEY, Willard. WE FISHED ALL NIGHT. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951. 560 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: B0006ASUQA $2.95. Novel. 'What is said here of the confusion and corruption of post-war American is true - and the truth is shocking...' African American author. This book is cited in Rideout's 'The Radical Novel in the United States'. | |
| 248677 Mueller, Marnie. The Climate of The Country. Curbstone Press, 2000. 305 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1880684586 $5.95. Novel placed in Tule Lake concentration camp for American Japanese citizens during WWII. The protagonist is a conscientious objector, working in the camp, who is sympathetic to the inmates. | |
| 243042 Mueller, Marnie. The Climate of The Country. Curbstone Press, 2000. 305 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1880684586 $4.95. Novel placed in Tule Lake concentration camp for American Japanese citizens during WWII. The protagonist is a conscientious objector, working in the camp, who is sympathetic to the inmates. | |
| 246646 MULLER, Heiner. [Mller; Sylvere Lotringer]. GERMANIA. NY: Semiotext(e), 1990. 254 pages. Small Trade paperback. A volume in the 'Foreign Agents Series'. ISBN: 0936756632 $9.95. This play, 'Germania', won the 1979 Mlheimer Dramatikerpreis. It was Muller, the German anarchist and playwright and director (1929-1995), who noted of 'post-modern' literature, 'The only postmodernist I know of is August Stram, who was a modernist and worked in a post-office'. Muller was the preeminent successor of Brecht. This collection includes essays, stories, and interviews by Sylvere Lotringer. | |
| 242482 MUNGO, Raymond. TROPICAL DETECTIVE STORY: The Flower Children Meet The Voodoo Chiefs. NY: Dutton, 1972. 185 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Black boards. DJ illustrated by Roy Kuhlman. ISBN: 0525223282 $5.95. Novel by a former Seattle bookseller, 60s activist and cofounder of Liberation News Service, who left in 1968 to live with friends on a farm commune in Vermont. | |
| 231737 MURRAY, Pauli. DARK TESTAMENT AND OTHER POEMS. Norwalk: Silvermine, 1970. 106 pp. Edition not stated. Trade PB. $8.95. Protest/political poetry by black author/activist of the mid-century. | |
| 243272 NEEDLE, Jan and Peter Thomson. BRECHT. University of Chicago, 1981. 235 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Bibliography of Brecht's work. Index. ISBN: 0226570223 $9.95. Considers Brecht's plays, theoretical writings, and performances he directed. | |
| 245021 NEIDER, Charles. MARK TWAIN AND THE RUSSIANS: An Exchange of Views. NY: Hill & Wang, (1960). 32 pages. Stapled paperback. $5.95. Critical exchange of letters between Neider and the editor of the Soviet 'Literary Gazette', Yan Bereznitsky. | |
| 245022 NEIDER, Charles. [Mark Twain]. MARK TWAIN AND THE RUSSIANS: An Exchange of Views. NY: Hill & Wang, (1960). 32 pages. Stapled paperback. $2.95. The Russians charged Neider omitted Twain's caustic observations on American social and political life in his editing of Twain's autobiography. Critical exchange between Neider and the editor of the Soviet 'Literary Gazette'. | |
| 234325 NERUDA, Pablo [Antonio Frasconi]. BESTIARY / BESTIARIO. NY: Harcourt, 1965. Unpaginated (60 approximately). First thus. Oversize hardcover, 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Profuse illustrations by Antonio Frasconi. Translated from the Spanish by Elsa Neuberger. $100. | |
| 248441 NERUDA, Pablo. FIVE DECADES: A Selection (Poems, 1925-1970). NY: Evergreen / Grove, 1974. xxii,431 pages. 1st printing / edition of the Trade Paperback. Evergreen # E-636. Edited and translated, with preface, by Ben Belitt. ISBN: 0394178696 $6.95. In Spanish and English on facing pages. | |
| 248586 NERUDA, Pablo. EXTRAVAGARIA. NY: Noonday / Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1974. 302 pages. 1st US edition, trade paperback. Translated by Alastair Reid. Noonday # 498. ISBN: 0374512388 $7.95. Bilingual text in Spanish and English on facing pages, from this Chilean poet, diplomat, Stalinist ('We are Stalinists! / There is our pride! / Stalinists! / There is the Legion of Honor of our time!'), 1971 Nobel Prize recipient. Held diplomatic posts, befriending, among others, Spanish poet Federico Garc”a Lorca. In 1943 Neruda joined the Communist Party and fled to Mexico. Before Salvador Allende's democratically-elected government was overthrown by Henry Kissinger/ITT/USA/CIA, he was Chile's ambassador to France (1970-72). | |
| 248661 NERUDA, Pablo. NEW POEMS (1968 - 1970). NY: Grove, 1972. 153 pages. 2nd printing. Trade Paperback. Edited and translated with and introduction, by Ben Belitt. ISBN: 0394177932 $5.95. Bilingual, in Spanish and English, on facing pages. | |
| 248673 NERUDA, Pablo. A NEW DECADE: Poems, 1958-1967. NY: Evergreen / Grove, 1974. xlvi,274 pages. 3rd printing, Trade Paperback. Select Bibliography. Evergreen # E-495. Edited and translated by Ben Belitt and Alastair Reid. Intro by Belitt. ISBN: 0394172752 $6.95. In Spanish and English on facing pages from this Chilean poet, diplomat, Stalinist ('We are Stalinists! / There is our pride! / Stalinists! / There is the Legion of Honor of our time!'), 1971 Nobel Prize recipient. Held diplomatic posts, befriending, among others, Spanish poet Federico Garc”a Lorca. In 1943 Neruda joined the Communist Party and fled to Mexico. Chile's ambassador to France (1970-72) until Salvador Allende's democratically-elected government was overthrown by Henry Kissinger/ITT/USA/CIA. | |
| 251207 NERUDA, Pablo. LETTER TO MIGUEL OTERO SILVA, IN CARACAS (1948)*. Willimantic: Curbstone Press, 1982. 4 pages. Paperback pamphlet, a single sheet folded. Translated from the Spanish by Robert Bly. $40. '*Written while under pursuit by the Chilean Secret Police on a political charge.' From 'Canto General,' Section 12. | |
| 242019 NEW AMERICAN REVIEW. NEW AMERICAN REVIEW # 1-4. 4 volume Box set. NY: New American Library, 1967-68. Mass Market Paperback originals. #1 and 2 are later printings, 3 and 4 are Fine 1st editions. $6.95. #1 Includes the Vietnam War-related short story 'The Room' by Victor Kolpacoff. Also includes Gass, Sexton, Paley, Roszak, Gluck, Sukenick among others. #2 has Hentoff, Doctorow, Barth, Coover, Hoagland, Grass, Hugo, Stafford, etc. #3 includes Herbst, Barthelme, Dennison, Paul West, Cassill. #4 has Coover, Banks, Richler, Ronald Steel, James Welch, etc. | |
| 242403 NICHOLS, John. ON THE MESA. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1986. 193 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Text and photos by Nichols. ISBN: 0879052201 $6.95. An autobiographical celebration of life in a fragile and marginal place, Taos Mesa, New Mexico. By the author of 'Milagro Beanfield War'. His home area is threatened by development, civilization, and natural resource exploitation. | |
| 243426 NICHOLS, John. NIRVANA BLUES. NY: Ballantine, 1984. 3rd printing. Mass Market paperback. ISBN: 0345304659 $1. Volume III of the New Mexico Trilogy. | |
| 244417 NICHOLS, John. AMERICAN BLOOD. NY: Holt, 1987. 338 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805002820 $3.95. Controversial novel about the Vietnam War and its effects on a number of men. See 'Newman 408'. | |
| 244775 NICHOLS, John. A GHOST IN THE MUSIC. NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1979. 230 pages. 1st Printing / Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 003042576X $1.95. | |
| 246311 NICHOLS, John. CONJUGAL BLISS: A Comedy of Marital Arts. NY: Henry Holt, 1994. 3rd printing of the First edition. Signed by the Author . ISBN: 080502803X $10.95. | |
| 247388 NICHOLS, John. THE LAST BEAUTIFUL DAYS OF AUTUMN. NY: Henry Holt, 1982. 158 pages. Oblong trade paperback. Beautifully illustrated with full color pictures [64 pages of plates]. ISBN: 0030592534 $6.95. | |
| 247536 NICHOLS, John. AN ELEGY FOR SEPTEMBER. NY: Henry Holt, 1992. 1st edition. Small trade paperback. 'Uncorrected Page Proofs'. Precedes the hardback. ISBN: 0805019944 $2.95. | |
| 249742 NICHOLS, John. CONJUGAL BLISS: A Comedy of Marital Arts. Henry Holt, 1994. 3rd printing of the First edition. Signed by the Author . ISBN: 080502803X $9.95. | |
| 250732 NIZAN, Paul. ADEN ARABIE. Monthly Review, 1968. 159 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. 45 page introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translation by Joan Pinkham. $35. Memoir by this French Communist who died during WWII. Struck down by violent death Nizan can speak to young people about youth - 'He can say anything to them because he is a young monster, a beautiful young monster like themselves, who shares their terror of dying and their hatred of living in the world we have made for them'. | |
| 244684 NOBILE, Philip. INTELLECTUAL SKYWRITING: Literary Politics and the New York Review of Books. NY: Charterhouse, 1974. 312 pages. Hardback. ISBN: 0883270137 $9.95. 'An illuminating and ironic chronicle of American cultural life...' Account of the embattled intelligentsia and their polarized convictions, including the Vietnam War. | |
| 248681 NORTH, Joseph (ed.). NEW MASSES: An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties. International Publishers, 1969. 318 pages. 1st trade paperback printing / edition. Illustrated. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Edited, with prologue, by North. ISBN: 0717803554 $14.95. An important collection from this 1930s Communist weekly. Drawings, poetry, stories, reportage, essays, articles. Includes Kenneth Fearing, anarchist Kenneth Patchen, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Albert Halper, Alvah Bessie, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Jack Conroy, Michael Gold, Theodore Dreiser, Josephine Herbst, Dorothy Parker, Ruth McKenney, Lawrence Clark Powell ('Who is B. Traven?'), among many others. | |
| 249093 NORTH, Joseph (ed.). NEW MASSES: An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties. International Publishers, 1969. 318 pages. 1st trade paperback printing / edition. Illustrated. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Edited, with prologue, by North. ISBN: 0717803554 $9.95. Important collection from this 1930s Communist weekly. Drawings, poetry, stories, reportage, essays, articles. Includes Kenneth Fearing, anarchist Kenneth Patchen, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Albert Halper, Alvah Bessie, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Jack Conroy, Michael Gold, Theodore Dreiser, Josephine Herbst, Dorothy Parker, Ruth McKenney, Lawrence Clark Powell ('Who is B. Traven?'), among many others. | |
| 252329 NUFER, Doug. NEGATIVELAND: A Novel. Autonomedia, 2004. 186 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 1570271593 $9.95. | |
| 244398 O'BRIEN, Conor Cruise. PASSION AND CUNNING: Essays on Nationalism, Terrorism and Revolution. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1988. 293 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Index. ISBN: 0671667246 $3.95. Essays and criticism on W. B. Yeats, South Africa, Bobby Sands, Ireland, Press Freedom, Pope John Paul II, Podhoretz, and three Zionists: Weiszmann, Ben-Gurion, Katznelson, etc. | |
| 247313 O'CASEY, Sean. SELECTED PLAYS OF SEAN O'CASEY. NY: Braziller, 1954. 800 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Selected and with a foreword by O'Casey. Intro by John Gassner. ISBN: 0807600040 $6.95. | |
| 252444 O'CONNOR, Garry. [Gary; Sean O'Casey]. SEAN O'CASEY: A Life. Atheneum, 1988. 448 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. Notes. Index. ISBN: 0689118864 $3.95. | |
| 248416 O'NEILL, Eugene. EUGENE O'NEILL AT WORK: Newly Released Ideas for Plays. Frederick Ungar, 1981. 407 pages. 1st printing / edition. Advance Review Copy (ARC), with the publisher's slip laid in. Hardback. Illustrated. Appendices. Index. Annotated and edited by Virginia Floyd. ISBN: 0804422052 $9.95. An extraordinary look at the making of a dramatist based on O'Neill's notebooks, released 25 years after his death. | |
| 250253 OLDS, Bruce. THE MOMENTS LOST: A Midwest Pilgrim's Progress. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 464 pages. 1st printing / edition, Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, precedes the hardcover. ISBN: 0374118213 $3.5. A young man gets an education in violence, sex, politics, and philosophy, and before long he is a young journalist caught at the center of a labor war that shaped modern America - a Wobbly-led 1913 copper mine strike in Michigan. | |
| 245614 OLSEN, Tillie. YONNONDIO, From the Thirties. NY: Delacorte, 1974. 2nd printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0440091969 $5.95. Superb novel of a rural family in the Great Depression who migrates to an industrial city to escape poverty. By a longtime socialist / feminist. '& when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?'. | |
| 246728 OLSEN, Tillie. SILENCES. NY: Delacorte, 1978. 306 pages. 1st edition. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Index. ISBN: 0440079004 $5.95. | |
| 245075 ORESICK, Peter. THE STORY OF GLASS. Cambridge: West End Pressbook, 1977. 32 pages. 2nd edition. Stapled Paperback. $4.95. Work poems by a glassworker: 'For the glassworkers and steelworkers of Western Pennsylvania, especially those of Slavic heritage'. | |
| 234349 ORR, Elaine Neil Orr. TILLIE OLSEN AND A FEMINIST SPIRITUAL VISION. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1987. 193 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Index. ISBN: 087805300X $14.95. | |
| 249743 ORWELL, George. ORWELL: The Lost Writings. Arbor House, 1985. 304 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. Photos. Appendices. Index. ISBN: 0877957452 $6.95. | |
| 243494 PA CHIN. COLD NIGHTS. Hong Kong / Seattle: Chinese University / University of Washington, 1978. [xxix] + 181 pages. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Selected Bibliography, illustrated with black and tan woodcuts. Translated by Nathan K Mao and Liu Ts'un-yan. ISBN: 02599567399 (incorrect, with one digit too man). ISBN: B00005VMO1 $14.95. Novel by this longtime anarchist and novelist who took his name (a pseudonym; Google the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia) from a combination of names of the famed anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin. | |
| 248647 PACOSZ, Christina V. SHIMMY UP TO THIS FINE MUD. Portland: Poets Warehouse, 1976. Not paginated [about 50 pages]. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback, olive green printed covers. Illustrated by Patricia Sexton. ISBN: 0931188172 $12.95. | |
| 247709 PAINE, Tom and Howard Fast. THE SELECTED WORKS OF TOM PAINE / Citizen Tom Paine. NY: Modern Library, 1945. 640 pages. Apparent 1st edition (no statement of printing). Hardback. Modern Library Giant # G68. ISBN: B000GU7F20 $9.95. | |
| 249394 PATCHEN, Kenneth. POEMS OF HUMOR AND PROTEST. SF: City Lights Books, 1966. 48 pages. 12th printing. Small trade paperback. Pocket Poet Series #3. ISBN: 0872860396 $8.95. Anarchist pacifist poet of words and images. | |
| 242102 PERIODICAL. PARTISAN REVIEW. Vol XLVII, #3. 1981. NY: Partisan Review, 1981. 155 pages. Trade paperback. $1.95. Lester Thurow: What's Wrong With Our Economy, Ronald Hayman on Kafka and the Mice, Conversation with Arthur Berger by Jane Coppock, poetry by Gilbert Sorrentino, Anne Waldman, fiction by Stephen O'Connor and Michael Malone. | |
| 243462 PERIODICAL. APHRA: The Feminist Literary Journal. 1971: Autumn, Vol 2, #4. Aphra, 1971. Stapled paperback. $6.96. Includes Rosellen Brown, Carol Lopate, Marilyn Hacker, Jody Aliesan. | |
| 243463 PERIODICAL. APHRA: The Feminist Literary Journal. 1972: Fall, Vol 3, #4. Aphra, 1972. Stapled paperback. $6.95. Incudes Margaret Atwood. | |
| 243547 PERIODICAL. APHRA: The Feminist Literary Journal. Volume Three, Number Three, Summer 1972. NY: Aphra, 1972. 72 pages. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $7. Contributions by Marge Piercy, Susan Griffin, Dorothy Hage, Lydia Ressner, among others. | |
| 245255 PERIODICAL. DIALECTICS: A Marxist Literary Journal. #7. NY: Critics Group Press, [no date, ca. 1939]. 31 pages. Stapled paperback. $14.95. J.B.S. Haldane, Joseph Kresh, and a bibliography of 'Literary History' by Angel Flores. | |
| 245256 PERIODICAL. DIALECTICS: A Marxist Literary Journal. #8. NY: Critics Group Press, [no date, circa 1939]. 30 pages. Stapled paperback. $14.95. Engels, Mark Rosenthal; bibliography of 'German Literature in Exile' by Angel Flores. | |
| 245270 PERIODICAL. RADICAL AMERICA, Vol. 13, No. 1. January-February 1979. Somerville: Alternative Education Project, 1979. 64 pages. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $6. Includes articles 'Looking at Pornography,' 'Auto in the Eighties,' 'Richard Wright and the Communist Party'. Kathy McAffee's article on 'City Life' has the underlining. | |
| 235264 PERIODICAL. [KUNDERA, Milan, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E.L. Doctorow, Philip Levine]. THE PARIS REVIEW: Number 92, Summer 1984. NY: Eastern News, 1984. 227 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Notes. Illustrated with drawings & pictures. ISSN #00312037. $6.95. | |
| 247038 PERIODICAL. APTHEKER, Herbert, et al (eds.) [David Alfaro Siqueiros, Kurt Tucholsky, Ho Chi Minh]. MAINSTREAM. Vol. 13, No. 12. December, 1960. NY: Masses and Mainstream, 1960. 64 pages. Stapled paperback. $12.95. 'Mexico Imprisons Its Greatest Artist' [David Alfaro Siqueiros] by Arturo Landa V. 'The World is a Comedy' by Kurt Tucholsky. Five poems by Ho Chi Minh. | |
| 247039 PERIODICAL. APTHEKER, Herbert, et al (eds.) [John Berger, Oakley C. Johnson, Rockwell Kent]. MAINSTREAM. Vol. 14, No. 4. April, 1961. NY: Masses and Mainstream, 1961. 64 pages. Stapled paperback. $11.95. The American Economy by Victor Perlo. On John Berger by Sidney Finkelstein. Story of a Woman by Oakley C. Johnson. My Gift to the U.S.S.R. by Rockwell Kent. | |
| 247040 PERIODICAL. APTHEKER, Herbert, et al (eds.) [Walter Lowenfels, Lu Hsun, Yevtushenko]. MAINSTREAM. Vol. 14, No. 11. November, 1961. NY: Masses and Mainstream, 1961. 64 pages. Stapled paperback. $11.95. Babi Yar by Yevtushenko. Poetry by Walter Lowenfels and Earle Birney. On the 'Private Eye' in Fiction by R.F. Shaw. Death by Lu Hsun. Soviet Prison Camps by Phillip Bonosky. | |
| 246559 PERIODICAL. Calyx Editorial Collective Staff. FLORILEGIA: A Retrospective of Calyx, a Journal of Art and Literature by Women, 1976-1986. [Volume 10, Numbers 2 and 3]. Corvallis: Calyx Books, 1986. 254 pages. 1st edition, Trade paperback. Illustrated. Contributor notes. ISSN 0147-1627. ISBN: 0934971064 $4.95. Retrospective work by 96 women artists and writers that weaves a tapestry with images, themes, and styles, highlighting the recurring concerns of an era while acclaiming the talents of creative women. A zeitgeist of Calyx's first decade, Florilegia presents a vision challenging, incisive, and life-affirming. | |
| 244116 PERIODICAL. CAMERON, Angus, Carl Marzani, Edward J. Fitzgerald, (eds.) THE PROMETHEAN REVIEW. Vol. 1 No. 2, March - April 1959. NY: Liberty Book Club / Prometheus Books, 1959. 35 pages. Stapled paperback. $14. Small magazine promoting a leftist critique of politics and culture during the Cold War, with the left in disarray, the Old Left anti-intellectual. Includes Raymond Williams ('Realism and the Contemporary novel'), Ella Winter, Truman Nelson, Angus Cameron, Joseph Gillman, Charles Humboldt and Carl Marzani ('Doris Lessing for the Affirmative'). | |
| 248728 PERIODICAL. CHERKOVSKI, Neeli. [George Benet, Stephen Schwartz]. CAPTAIN STALIN. [The Alarm: Number 18. Summer 1983. San Francisco: FOCUS, 1983. 20 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback, printed red covers. Preface by Cherkovski. $10.95. Bulletin of FOCUS. This issue is mostly given over to Cherkovski's epic poem 'Captain Stalin.' Partly political, partly exploration of his own Russian heritage, written after reading Neruda's outrageously pro-Stalinist poem 'Let the Rail-Splitter Awake.' Also includes 'It's Wonderful Over Here' by George Benet and 'History' by Stephen Schwartz. Inside both covers is printed a very long list of 'Martyrs of Bolshevik Fascism' which includes numerous Bolsheviks, Left Communists, POUMists, International Brigadists, anarchists, artists, poets, workers, etc. | |
| 248729 PERIODICAL. CHERKOVSKI, Neeli. [George Benet, Stephen Schwartz]. CAPTAIN STALIN. [The Alarm: Number 18. Summer 1983. San Francisco: FOCUS, 1983. 20 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback, printed red covers. Preface by Cherkovski. $21. Bulletin of FOCUS. This issue is mostly given over to Cherkovski's epic poem 'Captain Stalin.' Partly political, partly exploration of his own Russian heritage, written after reading Neruda's outrageously pro-Stalinist poem 'Let the Rail-Splitter Awake.' Also includes 'It's Wonderful Over Here' by George Benet and 'History' by Stephen Schwartz. Inside both covers is printed a very long list of 'Martyrs of Bolshevik Fascism' which includes numerous Bolsheviks, Left Communists, POUMists, International Brigadists, anarchists, artists, poets, workers, etc. | |
| 248011 PERIODICAL. CRAWFORD, John (ed.) [Denise Levertov, Paul Mariah, George Oppen, Julia Vinograd]. WEST END. Volume 1 Number 2. Spring - Summer 1972. NY: West End, 1972. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $11.95. 'A magazine of poetry and politics.' Contributors include Denise Levertov, Paul Mariah, Gary Spenser, George Oppen, Julia Vinograd, Alison Colbert, Mary Oppen, Michael Andre, A. Gardiner, Douglas Worth and Viktor Ourin. | |
| 244667 PERIODICAL. CRITICS GROUP. FLORES, Angel, (ed.) [James Joyce]. CRITICS GROUP DIALECTICS #5. NY: Critics Group, 1938. 31 pages. Stapled paperback. $12.95. Occasional Marxist literary journal. Includes a piece on James Joyce's 'Ulysses' and part one of a bibliography of Soviet Literature by Angel Flores. | |
| 244665 PERIODICAL. CRITICS GROUP. FLORES, Angel, (ed.). CRITICS GROUP DIALECTICS #2. NY: Critics Group, no date [ca 1936]. 31 pages. Stapled paperback. $9.95. Occasional Marxist literary journal. This issue includes articles on Thomas Mann and Andre Gide, by Feuchtwanger, et al. | |
| 244666 PERIODICAL. CRITICS GROUP. FLORES, Angel, (ed.). CRITICS GROUP DIALECTICS #3. NY: Critics Group, 1937. 31 pages. Stapled paperback. $12.95. Occasional Marxist literary journal. | |
| 245257 PERIODICAL. CRITICS GROUP. FLORES, Angel, (ed.). CRITICS GROUP DIALECTICS #2. NY: Critics Group, no date [ca 1936]. 31 pages. Stapled paperback. $14.95. Occasional Marxist literary journal. This issue includes articles on Thomas Mann and Andre Gide, by Feuchtwanger, et al. | |
| 245258 PERIODICAL. CRITICS GROUP. FLORES, Angel, (ed.). CRITICS GROUP DIALECTICS #3. NY: Critics Group, 1937. 31 pages. Stapled paperback. $13. Occasional Marxist literary journal. | |
| 248358 PERIODICAL. DONNELLY, Margarita (editor). CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. Vol. 15, no. 1. Winter 19993 - 1994. Corvalis: Calyx, 1993. 128 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0147-1627. $3.95. Poetry, prose, art and reviews. Includes Kathleen Crown, Silvia Curbelo, Lucille Day, Gail Tremblay, Katherine Ace, Laurie York, Viki Radden, among others. | |
| 242499 PERIODICAL. FISCHOFF, Martin, Gustav Hellthaler, et al (eds.). RIVERRUN: A Journal of the Arts. Vol. 1 No. 2. Detroit: Riverrun, 1972. 94 pages. Stapled softcover. Illustrated. $11.95. Short-lived arts magazine issued by a number of people involved with the long-running anarchist undergound paper, 'Fifth Estate'. | |
| 248230 PERIODICAL. FISCHOFF, Martin, Gustav Hellthaler, et al (eds.). RIVERRUN: A Journal of the Arts. Vol. 1 No. 1. Detroit: Riverrun, 1972[?]. 95 pages. Stapled softcover. Illustrated. $10.95. Includes selections from Michael Ondaatje's 'The collected Works of Billy the Kid.' Short-lived arts magazine issued by a number of people involved with the anarchist Fifth Estate. | |
| 250098 PERIODICAL. FRANK, Thomas (ed.) [Artie Shaw, Tom Vanderbuilt, Gary Groth, Negativland, Clayton Eshleman, David Berman]. THE BAFFLER. Number Eight [ 8 ]. The Cultural Miracle. The Baffler, 1996. 128 pages. Trade paperback, dark blue covers. Illustrated. ISSN 1059-9789. ISBN: 1888984058 $4.95. 'The journal that blunts the cutting edge'. Topical issues, fiction, poetry, art. Contributors include Artie Shaw, Tom Vanderbuilt, Daniel Harris, Chris Lehman, Gary Groth, Negativland, Clayton Eshleman, David Berman and many others. | |
| 250245 PERIODICAL. FRANK, Thomas (ed.) [Dan Kelly, Christian Parenti, Paul Buhle.]. THE BAFFLER. Number Thirteen [ 13 ]. Vox Populoid. The Baffler, 2000. 120 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 1059-9789. ISBN: 1888984023 $4.95. 'The journal that blunts the cutting edge'. Topical issues, fiction, poetry, art. Contributors include Dan Kelly, Christian Parenti (Go Wildcats, Smash State!), Paul Buhle. | |
| 250097 PERIODICAL. FRANK, Thomas (ed.) [Naomi Klein, Irvine Welsh, Joe Sacco ]. THE BAFFLER. Number Seven [ 7 ]. Twentieth Century Lite - The City in the Age of Information. The Baffler, 1995. 128 pages. Trade paperback, beige covers. Illustrated. ISSN 1059-9789. $9.95. 'The journal that blunts the cutting edge'. Topical issues, fiction, poetry, art. Contributors include Keith White, Paul Lukas, Steve Healy, Naomi Klein, Jennifer Moxley, Irvine Welsh, David Berman, Joe Sacco and many others. A quote from the social critic/anarchist sets the tone: 'To say that an American city in its design and styles represented our spiritual capacity would be almost to say that we were a nation of madmen' - Randolph Bourne, 1915. | |
| 250244 PERIODICAL. FRANK, Thomas (ed.) [Peter Rachleff, Christian Parenti, Kenneth Fearing, Edwin Rolfe, Muriel Rukeyser]. THE BAFFLER. Number Nine [ 9 ]. Workplace: An Injury to All. The Baffler, 1997. 128 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 1059-9789. ISBN: 1888984031 $4.95. 'The journal that blunts the cutting edge'. Topical issues, fiction, poetry, art. Contributors include Peter Rachleff, Christian Parenti, Jessica Abel, Tom Vanderbuilt, Daniel Harris, Chris Lehman, David Berman and many others. Poems by Kenneth Fearing, Edwin Rolfe, Muriel Rukeyser. | |
| 250246 PERIODICAL. FRANK, Thomas (ed.). THE BAFFLER. Number Seven, Eight, Nine, Thirteen [ 7, 8, 9, 13 ]. 4 issues. The Baffler, 1995-2000. 4 issues. Trade paperbacks. Illustrated. ISSN 1059-9789. $24. Nice small run to jump-start a collection or fill out a run - and save the postal charges of buying each separately. 'The journal that blunts the cutting edge'. Topical issues, fiction, poetry, art. | |
| 249209 PERIODICAL. GIBBONS, Reginald (ed.) [John Peck, Margaret Randall, Tom Wayman, John Balaban, Bruce Wiegl]. TRIQUARTERLY 72. Spring / Summer 1988. Northwestern University, 1988. 212 pages. Trade paperback. ISSN 0041-3097. $9.95. Special section: John Peck, Poetry and Prose. Contributions by Sandra McPherson, Alan Shapiro, Margaret Randall, the Wobbly-work-poet Tom Wayman, among many others. Vietnam War-related poems by John Balaban, Bruce Wiegl. | |
| 249213 PERIODICAL. GIBBONS, Reginald (ed.) [Tom Wayman, Bruce Weigl, Charles Baxter, Philip Levine, Leo Tolstoy, Sharon Olds, Frida Kahlo]. TRIQUARTERLY 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99. Winter 1993 / 94. [10 volumes]. Northwestern University, 1994-1997. 10 volumes. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $75. Contributions by Charles Baxter, Johnny Payne, Carl Philips, Joyce Carol Oates, David Ferry, Alice Fulton, Alicia Ostriker, the anarchist / poet Philip Levine, the religious anarchist novelist Leo Tolstoy, Sharon Olds, Richard Stern, Stephen Berg, Robert Pinsky, Edward Falco, Ha Jin, Stephen Dixon, Alice Fulton, Yannis Ritsos, Tracy Kidder, Frederick Busch, Michelle Cliff, Clarence Brown, David Plante, Steve Fisher. ('In the saliva / in the paper') by Frida Kahlo. Artwork by Charles Wells. #90 includes Wobbly-'work-poet' Tom Wayman, and Vietnam War-related poetry from Bruce Weigl. #91 has a special section, 'Voices from Chiapas,' with graphics from 'La Jicara', an interview and letters from 'Subcommander Marcos,' etc. '#96 includes Special section featuring '20 American poets,' with five poems by Bruce Weigl (Vietnam War-related: My Early Training; Hymn of My Republic; Hanoi, Christmas 1992). | |
| 249210 PERIODICAL. GIBBONS, Reginald (ed.) [Wole Soyinka, Carol Bly, Susan Straight, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Anania, Anna Akhmatova]. TRIQUARTERLY 73. Fall 1988. Northwestern University, 1988. 186 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $7.95. Carol Bly, Susan Straight, Anna Akhmatova, Michael Anania, and many others. Special section on Wole Soyinka, with 5 poems by him; also special Joyce Carol Oates section. | |
| 249215 PERIODICAL. GIBBONS, Reginald (ed.). TRIQUARTERLY 105. Spring / Summer 1999. Northwestern University, 1999. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $7.95. Contributions by Marilyn Hacker, Dannie Abse, David Ferry, Carl Phillips, Peter Dale Scott, and many others. Includes a poem by the Wobbly 'work-poet' Tom Wayman. | |
| 249207 PERIODICAL. GIBBONS, Reginald and Terrence Des Pres (eds). [Thomas McGrath, E.P. Thompson, Philip Levine]. TRIQUARTERLY 70. Thomas McGrath: Life and the Poem. Fall 1987. Northwestern University, 1987. 222 pages. Trade paperback. ISSN 0041-3097. $12.95. Essays on the poetry of McGrath along with interviews, poems, old and new, and more. Essays by E.P. Thompson, Des Pres, and the anarchist / poet Philip Levine. | |
| 244608 PERIODICAL. GOLDWAY, David (ed.) [Annette Rubinstein]. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY. Volume L, Number 3. Fall 1986. Special 50th Anniversary Issue. NY: Science & Society, 1986. Trade paperback. $12.95. Includes Annette Rubinstein's 'The Radical American Theatre of the Thirties'. | |
| 249218 PERIODICAL. HAHN, Susan Firestone (ed.) [John Berger, Joyce Mansour, W.S. Merwin]. TRIQUARTERLY 106. Classics and Contemporaries. Fall 1999. Northwestern University, 1999. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. ISBN: 0810159058 $9.95. Guest editor Mark Rudman. Contributors include John Berger, Joyce Mansour, W.S. Merwin, John Peck, Louis Zukovsky, Barbara Guest, and many others. | |
| 249216 PERIODICAL. HAHN, Susan Firestone (ed.). TRIQUARTERLY 107 / 108. Winter Spring Summer 2000. Northwestern University, 2000. 700 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. ISBN: 0810159066 $14.95. | |
| 251195 PERIODICAL. HICKS, Granville, et. al. (ed.). [J.H. Plenn, Harold J. Laski, Milton Meltzer, Alvah Bessie, Richard Wright and Langston Hughes, Lee Hayes, Gregorio Prestopino, William Gropper, Gardner Rea, Mischa Richter]. THE NEW MASSES. Vol. XXXII, No. 6. August 1, 1939. NY: Weekly Masses, 1939. 31 pages. Large stapled magazine. Illustrated. $25. Contributors include J.H. Plenn, Harold J. Laski, Milton Meltzer, Alvah Bessie, Richard Wright and Langston Hughes ((Red Clay Blues, a poem), Lee Hayes. Illustrators include Gregorio Prestopino, William Gropper, Gardner Rea and Mischa Richter. | |
| 247035 PERIODICAL. HOWARD, Milton (ed.) [Thomas McGrath, Meridel Le Sueur, Arthur H. Landis]. MAINSTREAM. Vol. 10, No. 10. October, 1957. NY: Masses and Mainstream, 1957. 64 pages. Stapled paperback. $15. Five poems by Thomas McGrath. 'Farewell My Wife and Child and All my Friends' by Meridel Le Sueur. The Monsters of Algiers by Henri Salem-Alleg. 'F.A.I. 1938' by Arthur H. Landis [19 page first hand account by a Lincoln Brigadist]. | |
| 247037 PERIODICAL. HUMBOLDT, Charles (ed.) [Anton Refregier, Frank Lloyd Wright]. MAINSTREAM. Vol. 12, No. 7. July, 1959. NY: Masses and Mainstream, 1959. 64 pages. Stapled paperback. $15. Illustrated with four block prints by Anton Refregier. The Bloody Courthouse by Art Shields. The Creative Thought of Frank Lloyd Wright by Sidney Finkelstein. Poems by Hershel Horn. | |
| 242804 PERIODICAL. Humboldt, Charles (ed.) [Bertolt Brecht, George Hitchcock]. MAINSTREAM. Vol. 12, No. 10. November, 1959. NY: Masses & Mainstream, 1959. 65 pages. Stapled paperback. $10. Monthly publication of the publisher Masses and Mainstream. Bertolt Brecht, Frederic Ewen, Charles Wisley, George Hitchcock. | |
| 247036 PERIODICAL. HUMBOLDT, Charles (ed.) [Thomas Mann]. MAINSTREAM. Vol. 12, No. 3. March, 1959. NY: Masses and Mainstream, 1959. 64 pages. Stapled paperback. $10. Anton Chekhov by Thomas Mann. The Men Behind the Nobel prize by John Takman. | |
| 242805 PERIODICAL. Humboldt, Charles (ed.) [Walter Lowenfels, Eve Merriam, George Hanlin]. MAINSTREAM. Vol. 11, No. 8. August, 1958. NY: Masses & Mainstream, 1958. 65 pages. Stapled paperback. $8. Monthly publication of the publisher Masses and Mainstream. This issue includes Kathleen Cronin, Walter Lowenfels, Barrows Dunham, Barbara Giles, poems by Eve Merriam and George Hanlin. | |
| 242260 PERIODICAL. Humboldt, Charles (ed.). MAINSTREAM. Vol. 12, No. 6. June, 1959. NY: Masses & Mainstream, 1959. 64 pages. Stapled paperback. $8. Monthly cultural publication of publisher Masses and Mainstream. 'The Eye of the Devil,' by Janet Arno, 'My Life in Ballet,' by Galina Ulanova, 'Charles Darwin and Karl Marx,' by Howard Selsam, with poems by John Berger and Alfredo Cardona Pena. | |
| 243555 PERIODICAL. Humboldt, Charles (ed.). MAINSTREAM. Vol. 12, No. 5. May, 1959. NY: Masses & Mainstream, 1958. 65 pages. Stapled paperback. $7. Contributors include Sean O'Casey, Barrows Dunham, Ruth Mahoney, Alvaro Cardona-Hine. Magazine published from 1948 to 1956, and a wonder it lasted that long given the atmosphere of the liberal/conservative witchhunt. | |
| 248836 PERIODICAL. JENTZ, Paul (ed.) [Thomas McGrath, Meridel Le Sueur]. SUBVERSIVE AGENT. Number 2 1989. Minneapolis: Subversive Press, 1989. 64 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 1040-614X. $14.95. Twice-yearly publication of literature of revolutionary activism, class struggle. Contributors include Thomas McGrath, Meridel Le Sueur, interview with Dale Jacobson, Olga Cabral, Robert Edwards, Otto Rene Castillo, Rudolfo Torres, and others. | |
| 242975 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. (ed.). ENCOUNTER. July 1967. Vol. XXIX No. 1. London: Encounter, 1967. 94 pages. Trade paperback. $6.95. Maurice Cranston, 'Sartre and Violence.' John Wain on Flann O'Brien. Richard Ellmann, 'The Critic as Artist'. | |
| 248462 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Anthony Thwaite (eds.). ENCOUNTER. May 1977. Vol. XLVIII No. 5. London: Encounter, 1977. 96 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. $10. George Urban interview with Lombaro Radice, Daniel Jones on Dylan Thomas, Malcolm Bradbury on 'US Images,' and much more. | |
| 242977 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Frank Kermode (eds.). ENCOUNTER. May 1967. Vol. XXVIII No. 5. London: Encounter, 1967. 94 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95. Hugh Trevor-Roper, 'Witch Craze. Part I.' Mordecai Richler, Frank Kermode, Rita Hinden, George Steiner, D.J. Enright, C. Day Lewis, Arnold Toynbee. | |
| 242972 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.). ENCOUNTER. March 1969. Vol. XXXII No. 3. London: Encounter, 1969. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $6.95. Maurice Cranston on Herbert Marcuse. Leo Labedz on Kolakowski. Anna Kavan, 'Julia and the Bazooka.' Kenneth Allsop, 'Drugs and Literature.' Karl Popper, 'The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist.' Poetry by D.M. Thomas. | |
| 242973 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.). ENCOUNTER. September 1967. Vol. XXIX No. 3. London: Encounter, 1967. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95. A Symposium, 'Intellectual and Just Causes'; Colin Wilson, Edna O'Brien, Herbert Read, John Osborne, David Daiches, James Cameron, et al. James Stern on Malcolm Lowry. Colin MacInnes, 'Old Youth and Young'. | |
| 242978 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.). ENCOUNTER. February 1969. Vol. XXXII No. 2. London: Encounter, 1969. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $3.95. Nadine Gordimer story; Iain Hamilton, Andrew Shonfield, Pavel X, et al. | |
| 242981 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.). ENCOUNTER. November 1968. Vol. XXXI No. 5. London: Encounter, 1968. 95 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95. Arnold Rockman, 'McLuhanism.' Kai Hermann, 'The Fall of Prague.' Blaise Cendrars, Clifford Taylor, Golo Mann, N.S. Willey, Michael Edwardes, D.W. Brogan. | |
| 242982 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.). ENCOUNTER. May 1968. Vol. XXX No. 5. London: Encounter, 1968. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $2.95. Muriel Spark, Michael Beloff, Daniel Cory, Philip Thody, D.W. Brogan, et al. | |
| 242984 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.). ENCOUNTER. August 1968. Vol. XXXI No. 2. London: Encounter, 1968. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95. Theodor Draper, 'A New Era?' Raymond Aron, Sidney Hook, Lasky, John Mander, Goronwy Rees on the Spring 1968 Student Uprisings, David Holbrook on R.D. Laing. | |
| 242985 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.). ENCOUNTER. June 1968. Vol. XXX No. 6. London: Encounter, 1968. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95. Arthur Miller, Gunter Grass, Graham Greene, 'Writers in Prison.' Henry Failie, 'Life and Death of Martin Luther King.' Maurice Cranston on Michel Foucault. Theo Sommer, 'The Easter Riots'. | |
| 242986 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Nigel Dennis (eds.). ENCOUNTER. July 1968. Vol. XXXI No. 1. London: Encounter, 1968. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $6.95. D.W. Brogan, Arnold Beichman, Raymond Aron, Max Beloff, Golo Mann, Nicola Chiaromonte on 'Student Revolt.' Short story by Anna Kavan. John Weightman on Underground films. Evelyn Waugh-Randolph Churchill letters. | |
| 242974 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Stephen Spender (eds.). ENCOUNTER. August 1964. Vol. XXIII No. 2. London: Encounter, 1964. 95 pages. Trade paperback. $5.95. Maurice Cranston on Sartre. Neal Ascherson on Djilas. Isaac Babel story, 'My First Fee'. | |
| 242976 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Stephen Spender (eds.). ENCOUNTER. May 1965. Vol. XXIV No. 5. London: Encounter, 1965. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $5.95. Peter Ustinov, 'Brief guide to Modern Music.' Michael Polanyi, 'On the Modern Mind.' William Sansom story, 'Cops and Robbers.' J.L Talmon, 'Who is a Jew?'. | |
| 242979 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Stephen Spender (eds.). ENCOUNTER. July 1965. Vol. XXV No. 1. London: Encounter, 1965. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95. James Baldwin, Colin MacInnes and James Mossman, Six-page discussion on Race, Hate, Sex and Colour. Also, Ted Hughes, Lionel Trilling, Isaiah Berlin, Mordecai Richler on Mailer, Thom Gunn on W.C. Williams, story by I.B. Singer, John Betjeman. | |
| 242980 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Stephen Spender (eds.). ENCOUNTER. June 1965. Vol. XXIV No. 6. London: Encounter, 1965. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $5.95. Raymond Aron, 'Sartre's Marxism.' Ian Waller, Andrew Shonfield, George Steiner, Anatole Shub, Martin Esslin, et al. | |
| 242983 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Stephen Spender (eds.). ENCOUNTER. November 1965. Vol. XXV No. 5. London: Encounter, 1965. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $5.95. Goronwy Rees, 'Churchill Reconsidered.' P.J. Honey, 'Viet Nam Argument.' Robert Craft, 'Huxley and Stravinsky.' J. Bronowski, Edmund Leach, Herbert Read, Kenneth Allsop. | |
| 242987 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Stephen Spender (eds.). ENCOUNTER. September 1964. Vol. XXIII No. 3. London: Encounter, 1964. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $7.95. Eugene Ionescu, 'The Writer and His Problem.' Julius Gould on Marcuse's Theory. Josef Brodsky and others, 'Trial of a Young Poet.' Christopher Isherwood, 'The Class on Campus.' Poem by Anne Sexton. | |
| 242988 PERIODICAL. LASKY, Melvin J. and Stephen Spender (eds.). ENCOUNTER. October 1964. Vol. XXIII No. 4. London: Encounter, 1964. 95 pages. Trade paperback. $5.95. Richard Hofstadter, Richard Rovere, David Marquand on UK and USA at the Polls. James Morris, Boris Pasternak, Iain Hamilton, William Walsh, Robert Conquest, John Gross, et al. | |
| 250999 PERIODICAL. LAUGHLIN, James (ed.) [Paul Goodman, Kenneth Patchen, Allen Ginsberg]. NEW DIRECTIONS 14. Prose and Poetry. New Directions, 1953. 408 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. $45. Contributors include John Ashbery, John Hawkes, E.E. Cummings, Edward Dahlberg, Philip Lamantia, Irving Layton, Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, and the anarchists Paul Goodman, Kenneth Patchen and Allen Ginsberg. | |
| 250429 PERIODICAL. LEWIS, John (ed.). THE MODERN QUARTERLY MISCELLANY. No. 1. London: Lawrence & Wishart, no date. 126 pages. Paperback magazine. $14.95. | |
| 245579 PERIODICAL. MACDONALD, Dwight, William Phillips and Philip Rahv, (eds.). PARTISAN REVIEW. Vol VIII, #2. March-April, 1941. NY: Partisan Review, 1941. Trade paperback. $86. 'London Letter' from Orwell; apparent first US appearance of Kafka's 'In the Penal Colony'(translated by Jolas); 'My Friend James Joyce' by Eugene Jolas. Contributions from the anarchist / poet Karl Shapiro; also Harvey Breit, Jean Garrigue, Clement Greenberg. Scarce, important issue. | |
| 245851 PERIODICAL. MAGOWAN, Robin and Walter Perrie (eds.). MARGIN. Winter 1987/1988. London: Common Margin, 1988. 94 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. $7.95. Eshleman on the poetry of the 1990s, C.P. Cavafy, Ivan Arguelles, 'Feminism as Fascism' by the anarchist critic (& some would say a woman hater) Bob Black, E.M Cioran, Lennart Bruce and others. | |
| 250888 PERIODICAL. MARK, M. (ed.). PEN AMERICA: 9 | Check Points. PEN American Center, 2008. 188 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0934638276 $10. 'A Journal for Writers and Readers.' Fiction, poems, essays and drama dealing with national boundaries, closed borders, checkpoints, etc. Authors include Chinua Achebe, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ha Jin, Ian McEwan, Osip Mandelstam, Cynthia Ozick, Steven Pinker, and many others. | |
| 248280 PERIODICAL. MAXIMOV, Vladimir (ed.). KONTINENT 2. NY: Doubleday / Anchor, 1977. 246 pages. 1st English language edition. Trade paperback original (PBO; no hardback issued). ISBN: 0385125798 $4.95. International journal of literary, social, political and religious commentary. A Russian dissident quarterly, 'Kontinent,' English language edition of Russian original. Includes Leszek Kolakowski, Vladimir Voinovich, Gojko Broic, Alexander Bakhrakh, Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Mihajlo Mihajlov, Jaroslav Seifert, Alexander Piatigorsky, Alexander Sukonik, Ignazio Silone, Abram Tertz, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. | |
| 248747 PERIODICAL. MAXIMOV, Vladimir (ed.). KONTINENT. NY: Doubleday / Anchor, 1976. xvii+196 pages. 1st English language edition. Trade paperback original (PBO; no hardback issued). ISBN: 0385066112 $4.95. Premier issue of this international journal of literary, social, political and religious commentary. English language edition selected from the Russian dissident quarterly. Includes Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Eugene Ionesco, Andrei Sakharov, Abram Tertz, Joseph Brodsky, many others. | |
| 249185 PERIODICAL. NEWMAN, Charles (ed.) [Aime Cesaire, Edward Said, E. M. Cioran, John Hawkes, Joyce Carol Oates]. TRIQUARTERLY 20. Winter 1971. Northwestern University, 1971. 423 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $9.95. 'Writing Up Against the Wall.' Contributors include Aime Cesaire, Edward Said, Tony Tanner, George Steiner, E.M. Cioran, John Hawkes, Joyce Carol Oates, Yves Velan and many others. | |
| 249184 PERIODICAL. NEWMAN, Charles (ed.) [Edward Dahlberg, Jack Kerouac]. TRIQUARTERLY 19. For Edward Dahlberg. [Number Nineteen]. Fall 1970. Northwestern University, 1970. 196 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $14.95. Special issue devoted to Edward Dahlberg. Contributors include Jack Kerouac, Jonathan Williams, Josephine Herbst, Paul Caroll, August Derleth, Cid Corman, Douglas Woolf, James Laughlin, Muriel Rukeyser, Thomas McGrath, Anselm Hollo, Anthony Burgess, Guy Davenport, Thomas Merton, Kay Boyle, Robert Kelly, the anarchists Karl Shapiro, Philip Whalen, and many others. | |
| 249183 PERIODICAL. NEWMAN, Charles (ed.) [Ken Kesey, Robert Coover, Dave Ettor, Eugene Ionesco, Maxine Kumin, John Cage]. TRIQUARTERLY 18. [Number Eighteen]. Spring 1970. Northwestern University, 1970. 254 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $7.95. Ken Kesey, Robert Coover, Dave Ettor, Joseph Brodsky, Maxine Kumin, the anarchist John Cage, Douglas Blazek, Osip Mandelstam, among many others. | |
| 249188 PERIODICAL. NEWMAN, Charles (ed.) [Walter Abish, Robert Coover, Russell Edson, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Henry Roth]. TRIQUARTERLY 26. Ongoing American Fiction I. Winter 1973. Northwestern University, 1973. 419 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $7.95. 'Ongoing American Fiction.' Contributors include Walter Abish, Robert Coover, Russell Edson, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Joyce Carol Oates, Henry Roth and many others. | |
| 249189 PERIODICAL. NEWMAN, Charles (ed.) [Walter Abish, Robert Coover, Russell Edson, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Henry Roth]. TRIQUARTERLY 28. Russian Literature and Culture in the West: 1922 - 1972, Volume Two. Fall 1973. Northwestern University, 1973. pages 365 - 612. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $9.95. 'Russian Literature and Culture in the West: 1922-1972.' Fiction, poetry, and prose by, and articles about, Russian emigres. This volume includes sections on Music, (Stravinsky, Balanchine), Poetry, Prose and Philosophy plus Painting, and Painters as Writers. | |
| 248190 PERIODICAL. NEWMAN, Charles (ed.). TRIQUARTERLY 8. [Tri-Quarterly; Number Eight]. Winter 1967. Anniversary Issue. Evanston: Northwestern University, 1967. 286 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $4.95. Andrew Field on Nabokov, Richard Greeman on the anarchist/Bolshevik/Trotskyist historian and novelist Victor Serge, the anarchist/poet Kenneth Rexroth on the sad state of American poetry; also Kay Boyle, Percival Goodman, the anarchist /critic Richard Kostelanetz, among others. | |
| 248192 PERIODICAL. NEWMAN, Charles (ed.). TRIQUARTERLY 12. [Tri-Quarterly; Number Twelve]. Spring 1968. Evanston: Northwestern University, 1968. 238+ pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $7.95. George Lichtheim, 'From Marx to Hegel'; also Robert Duncan (a one-time member of Rexroth's San Francisco Libertarian Circle), Stephen Spender, Theodore Roethke, Felix Pollak, George Hitchcock, John Berryman, Ronald Silliman, among others. | |
| 248193 PERIODICAL. NEWMAN, Charles (ed.). TRIQUARTERLY 15. [Tri-Quarterly; Number Fifteen]. Spring 1969. Evanston: Northwestern University, 1969. 279 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $7.95. Fredric Jameson, 'Living the Dead Life in America'; also Ezra Pound, Joyce Carol Oates, Jean Follain, A. R. Ammons, Richard Hugo, Dennis Schmitz, Richard Hugo, among others. Supplements to Contemporary Latin America Literature issues #13 and 14 includes Julio Cortazar and Carlos Fuentes. | |
| 249187 PERIODICAL. NEWMAN, Charles and George White (eds.) [Noam Chomsky, Carlos Fuentes, Marge Piercy, Paul Buhle]. TRIQUARTERLY 23 / 24. Literature in Revolution (Special Double Issue). Winter / Spring 1972. Northwestern University, 1972. 640 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0041-3097. $11.95. 'Literature in Revolution.' Includes Carlos Fuentes, Carl Oglesby, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Raymond Williams, John Seelye, Paul Buhle, Truman Nelson, Sol Yurick, Todd Gitlin, and the anarchists Noam Chomsky, Marge Piercy, Dick Lourie, among many others. | |
| 245730 PERIODICAL. NORMAN, Bob (ed.). SING OUT! The Folk Song Magazine. Vol. 23, No. 5. Nov/Dec 1974. NY: Sing Out, 1974. 49 pages. Stapled trade paperback. Illustrated. $6.95. New Orleans Mardi Gras, Cajun Mardi Gras, LA Heritage Fair, M.C. Worley: Banjo Maker, starting a Coffeehouse. Words and music to 'Che Guevara' by Peggy Seeger; 'Ludlow Massacre' by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson. | |
| 245656 PERIODICAL. OLSEN, Richard and Csaba Polony (eds.). LEFT CURVE: Art and Revolution. No. 6. Summer-Fall 1976. SF: Left Curve, 1976. 120 pages. Oversize trade paperback. Profusely illustrated. ISSN 0160-1857. $12.95. Left magazine dedicated to 'Socialist-Realism'. 'Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.. - Arvatov. Very scarce. | |
| 245671 PERIODICAL. OLSEN, Richard and Csaba Polony (eds.). LEFT CURVE: Art and Revolution. No. 6. Summer-Fall 1976. SF: Left Curve, 1976. 120 pages. Oversize trade paperback. Profusely illustrated. ISSN 0160-1857. $14.95. Left magazine dedicated to 'Socialist-Realism'. 'Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.. - Arvatov. Very scarce. | |
| 248402 PERIODICAL. OLSEN, Richard and Csaba Polony (eds.). LEFT CURVE: Art and Revolution No. 3. Winter-Spring 1975. SF: Left Curve, 1975. 84 pages. Large trade paperback. Illustrated. $10.95. Includes Margaret Randall's 'Conversations with Three Vietnamese Women Writers'. | |
| 252099 PERIODICAL. PLIMPTON, George, Peter Matthiessen, et al (eds.). [Clancy Sigal, Dizzy Gillespie, William Burroughs, Edward Dorn]. THE PARIS REVIEW 35. Volume 9, Fall 1965. Paris: The Paris Review, 1965. 147 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN #00312037. $14.95. Interviews with Dizzy Gillespie and William Burroughs. Fiction by Clancy Sigal et al. 'Chronicle' by William Burroughs. Poetry by Robin Blaser, Edward Dorn, Larry Eigner, Elaine Feinstrein, Kenneth Irby, Ron Padgett, Tom Pickard, Aram Saroyan. Art by Bernard Cohen. | |
| 246479 PERIODICAL. POLONY, Csaba Polony (ed.). LEFT CURVE. No. 11. Oakland: Left Curve, 1986. 96 pages. Oversize trade paperback. Profusely illustrated. ISSN 0160-1857. $15.95. Left cultural magazine dedicated to 'Socialist-Realism'. | |
| 246480 PERIODICAL. POLONY, Csaba Polony (ed.). LEFT CURVE. No. 14. Oakland: Left Curve, 1990. 112 pages. Oversize trade paperback. Profusely illustrated. ISSN 0160-1857. $13.95. Left cultural magazine dedicated to 'Socialist-Realism'. | |
| 250140 PERIODICAL. ROSSET, Barney (ed.). EVERGREEN REVIEW. No. 95. Fall 1972. Evergreen Review, 1972. 175 pages. Mass market paperback. Illustrated / B&W photos. $5.95. Interview with Han Suyin on the revolutionary change in the lives of Chinese women; Dotson Rader on the 'corporate liberal publishing establishment' effort to suppress Abbie Hoffman's 'Steal This Book,' denying it distribution, refusing its ads, and rejecting reviews. Also includes Seymour Krim and Tom Seligson; fiction by Khushwant Singh, David Rottenberg, John Fergus Ryan; and poetry by Michael Rumaker, R. Savino, Martin Steingesser, Gene Tashoff, Raymond Washington and Keith Wilson. Cartoons and illustrations throughout. | |
| 248013 PERIODICAL. ROWE, Tom and Terrence Ames (eds.) [Keith Abbott, Richard Kostelanetz, Opal Nations, Richard Morris]. THE FAULT 5. Volume 1 Number 2. Spring - Summer 1972. Fremont: The Fault, 1974. Not paginated. Stapled paperback, grey pictorial wraps. Illustrated. $14.95. Poetry and arts. Contributors includes Keith Abbott, Richard Kostelanetz, Opal Nations, Dave Boutos, Richard Morris, Susan Youchi and many others. | |
| 247034 PERIODICAL. SILLEN, Samuel (ed.) [Pablo Neruda, Howard Fast, Antonio Frasconi, Nelson Algren]. MASSES AND MAINSTREAM. Volume 2 Number 11, November, 1949. NY: Masses and Mainstream, 1949. 96 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated throughout by Frasconi and Anton Refregier. $15. 'Our Duty Toward Life' by Pablo Neruda. 'Journey to Boston,' a story by Howard Fast. Sidney Finkelstein review of Nelson Algren's 'The Man With the Golden Arm'. 'What I Saw in Mexico' (a report on the Continental Peace Congress) by Lloyd L. Brown. Cover illustration of Neruda by Antonio Frasconi. | |
| 242863 PERIODICAL. SILLEN, Samuel (ed.). MAINSTREAM: A Literary Quarterly. Vol. 1 No. 2. Spring, 1947. NY: Mainstream Associates, 1947. Trade paperback. B&W illustrations by Jack Levine. $14.95. Contributors include Theodore Dreiser, Millard Lampell, Olive Sutton, Samuel Sillen, Eugene Alma Zov, Jose L. Gonzalez, Stefan Heym, Martha Millet, Steve Nelson, Isador Schneider, Ira Segal, Wilma Shore, H. Taylor. | |
| 242864 PERIODICAL. SILLEN, Samuel (ed.). MAINSTREAM: A Literary Quarterly. Vol. 1 No. 4. Fall, 1947. NY: Mainstream Associates, 1947. Trade paperback. $14.95. Contributors include Charles Humboldt, Luis Enrique Delano, Lloyd L. Brown, Philip Evergood (8 drawings), Herbert Aptheker, Jack Clark, Ben Field, Nicolas Guillen, Thomas McGrath, Eve Merriam, Edwin Rolfe, Lev Slavin. | |
| 242262 PERIODICAL. SILLENS, Samuel, (ed.). MAINSTREAM: A Literary Quarterly. Summer, 1947. Volume 1, Number 3. NY: Mainstream Associates, 1947. 384 pages. Trade paperback. $15. Contributors include Ralph Knight, Howard Fast, Anna Seghers, S. Finkelstein, Arnaud d'Usseau. | |
| 242263 PERIODICAL. SILLENS, Samuel, (ed.). MAINSTREAM: A Literary Quarterly. Spring, 1947. Volume 1, Number 2. NY: Mainstream Associates, 1947. 256 pages. Trade paperback. 3 pages of B&W illustrations by Jack Levine. $15. Contributors include Theodore Dreiser, Roger Garaudy, Millard Lampell, Walter Bernstein, Stefan Heym, Steve Nelson, Isador Schneider, Olive Sutton, Samuel Sillen, Eugene Alma Zov, Jose L. Gonzalez, Martha Millet. | |
| 252386 PERIODICAL. SMITH, Ada and Stephen Luster (editors) [William Witherup]. LIPS. No place, no publisher, no date. Not paginated. Stapled paperback magazine. $7.95. Poems by William Witherup, Smith, Luster, et al. Art by William Minor. | |
| 243694 PERIODICAL. SOLOTAROFF, Theodore (ed.) [Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Robert Coover]. NEW AMERICAN REVIEW 11. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971. 240 pages. 1st edition. Small quality Mass Market paperback, wraps original. ISBN: 0671208373 $11.95. Movement writings. Includes Sylvia Plath ('Last Words'), Allen Ginsberg (the first appearance of his 'From These States'), W. S. Merwin, James Merrill, Robert Coover, et al. | |
| 243695 PERIODICAL. SOLOTAROFF, Theodore (ed.) [Max Apple, Ernest Callenbach, Carol Bly, Marshall Berman]. NEW AMERICAN REVIEW 19: The Magazine of New Writing. NY: Bantam, 1974. 273 pages. 1st edition. Mass Market paperback, wraps original. $5.95. Includes Max Apple, Ernest Callenbach, Carol Bly, Marshall Berman, et al. | |
| 247851 PERIODICAL. SOLOTAROFF, Theodore (ed.) [Robert Coover, Doris Lessing, Reynolds Price]. NEW AMERICAN REVIEW 14. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1972. 256 pages. 1st edition. Small quality Mass Market paperback, wraps original (PBO). ISBN: 0671212206 $2.95. Includes Randall Reid, Robert Coover, Doris Lessing, Reynolds Price, Peter Steinfels, James Welch, Maxine Kumin, Howard Moss, James Merrill, et al. | |
| 243696 PERIODICAL. SOLOTAROFF, Theodore (ed.) [Thomas Disch, Alice Hoffman]. NEW AMERICAN REVIEW 23: The Magazine of New Writing. NY: Bantam, 1975. 275 pages. 1st edition. Mass Market paperback, wraps original. $2.95. Includes Cynthia Ozick, Paul Zweig, J.F. Powers, Daryl Hine, Tom Disch, May Swenson, Alice Hoffman, et al. | |
| 251696 PERIODICAL. SPIEGELMAN, Art & Francois Mouly, (eds.) [Raw; Sue Coe, Lynda Barry, Jacques Tardi, Joost Swarte, Winsor McCay]. RAW. Vol. 2. No. 2. Required Reading For The Post-Literate. Penguin Press, 1990. 190 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback magazine. Profusely illustrated, some in color. ISBN: 0140122818 $9.95. Includes Chapter Nine of Art Spiegelman's 'Maus.' Also Sue Coe, Lynda Barry, Jacques Tardi, Joost Swarte, Winsor McCay and others. | |
| 251548 PERIODICAL. SPIEGELMAN, Art & Francois Mouly, (eds.) [Raw]. RAW. Number Five (5). The Graphix Magazine of Abstract Depressionism. Raw Books and Graphics, 1983. 50 pages. 1st edition. Large stapled paperback magazine. Profusely illustrated, some in color. $100. Includes Chapter Four of Art Spiegelman's Maus bound in, as well as his 'Couple' and 'One Row'. Also Sue Coe, Charles Burns, Gary Panter, Fletcher Hanks, Jacques Tardi, Joost Swarte, Kim Deitch, Jerry Moriarty and others. | |
| 251549 PERIODICAL. SPIEGELMAN, Art & Francois Mouly, (eds.) [Raw]. RAW. 6 separate issues. Number Three (3) The Graphix Magazine That Lost Its Faith in Nihilism; Four (4) The Graphix Magazine for Your Bomb Shelter's Coffee Table; Five (5) The Graphix Magazine of Abstract Depressionism; Six (6) The Graphix Magazine Overestimates the Taste of the American Public; Seven (7) The Torn-Again Graphix Magazine; Eight (8) The Graphic Aspirin for War Fever. Raw Books and Graphics, 1983. 6 separate issues, most about 50 pages. 1st edition. Large paperback magazine. Profusely illustrated, some in color. $450. Ground-breaking comics anthology. Each issue includes a Spiegelman Maus booklet bound in (chapters 2 through 7). #4 lacks the vinyl record of 'Reagan Speaks for Himself'; #7 also includes Yoshiharu Tsuge's Red Flowers bound in, and the top corner of front wrap is torn and taped onto the title page (as issued). | |
| 252445 PERIODICAL. STEIN, Jean (ed.) [William T. Vollman, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Peter Sellars, Edward Said, Mike Davis, Ruben Ortiz-Torres; Doris Salcedo, James Welling, Octavio Paz, Eduardo Galleano, Aime Cesaire, Gabriela Mistral]. GRAND STREET 61. All - American. Vol. 16, No. 1. Summer 1997. NY: Grand Street, 1997. 270 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISSN 0734-5496. ISBN: 1885490127 $11.95. Includes Renaldo Arenas, William T. Vollman, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Peter Sellars, Edward Said, Mike Davis, Ruben Ortiz-Torres; Doris Salcedo (Portfolio), James Welling (photos); poems by Octavio Paz, Eduardo Galleano, Aime Cesaire, and Gabriela Mistral, and many others. | |
| 250937 PERIODICAL. SUSSLER, Betsy (ed.) [Bradford Morrow, Ruben Dario, Margaret Randall, Roque Dalton, Gary Indiana, Kathy Acker]. BOMB. No. 9. The Americas, Art, Poetry, Fiction Film. Spring/Summer 84. NY: Center for New Art Activities, 1984. 83 pages. Large (quarto) stapled paperback magazine. Illustrated. $50. Contributions by Bradford Morrow, Ruben Dario, Margaret Randall, Roque Dalton, Gary Indiana, Kathy Acker and many others. | |
| 246095 PERIODICAL. SWEEZY, Paul M. and Harry Magdoff (eds.) [Adrienne Rich]. MONTHLY REVIEW: An Independent Socialist Magazine. Vol. 53, No. 2 June 2001. NY: Monthly Review Foundation, 2001. Stapled paperback. ISSN: 0027-0520. $1.95. 'Imperialism and Globalization' by Stair Amin. 'Credo of a Passionate Skeptic' by poet Adrienne Rich. | |
| 248440 PERIODICAL. THE RAVEN STAFF. [Duane Niatum, James Grabill, James Bertolino]. THE RAVEN CHRONICLES Volume 10, #2. Law, Justice, Freedom. Seattle: Raven Chronicles, 2001. 80 pages. Magazine. Illustrated. Photos. ISSN: 1066-1883. $6.95. Nice Seattle-based magazine, promoting stories, poems, fiction, art, photography created at a community level. This issue includes Duane Niatum, J. Glenn Evans ('The Day I Was a Wobbly'), review of Diane di Prima's 'Recollections of My Life as a Woman,' James Grabill, James Bertolino, Roberto Valenza, cover art by Mark Sullo, and many many others. | |
| 248014 PERIODICAL. Tom Plante, Julia Vinograd, Jack Hirschman, Cynthia Genser, Jack Micheline, Randy Fingland, et al. POWER BALL. Vol 4 #1. Fall 1976. Berkeley: Cross Cut Saw Publications, 1976. Not paginated. Stapled paperback, white pictorial wraps. Illustrated. $17.95. 'An Occasional.' Sex, death and Lunacy. Contributors include Linda Clausen, Tom Plante, Julia Vinograd, Jack Hirschman, Cynthia Genser, Jack Micheline, Pancho Aguila, Randy Fingland. This publication appears to be a precursor to 'Renegade: The West Coast Review of Unlimited American Literature and Art ,' also published by this press. | |
| 252388 PERIODICAL. WHITE-SWIFT, E.G. (editor) [William Witherup, Enrique Lihn, Rolando Campins, R. Phillips]. PORTLAND REVIEW MAGAZINE: An Oregon Quarterly of Literature and Thought. Winter 1972. Portland State University, 1972. 96 pages. Trade paperback magazine. Illustrated. $9.95. Poems by William Witherup, Enrique Lihn (translated by Bill Witherup and Serge Echeverria), Rolando Campins, R. Phillips, et al. | |
| 242099 PERIODICAL. William Phillips, ed. PARTISAN REVIEW. Vol XXXIX, #2. Spring 1972. NY: Partisan Review, 1972. 291 pages. Trade paperback. $3.95. Stephen Spender on America, Marcuse on Art and Revolution, stories by Oates, Sukenick, James Tate. | |
| 242100 PERIODICAL. William Phillips, ed. PARTISAN REVIEW. Vol XLIV, #1. 1977. NY: Partisan Review, 1977. 161 pages. Trade paperback. $3.95. Christopher Lasch on Narcissistic Personality, Peter Shaw on Ezra Pound; New Writing form Latin America: Jose Donoso, Emir Monegal, Manuel Puig, Ronald Christ; poems by Robert Duncan and Frank O'Hara. | |
| 242101 PERIODICAL. William Phillips, ed. PARTISAN REVIEW. Vol XLVI, #4. 1979. NY: Partisan Review, 1979. 153 pages. Trade paperback. $3.95. Psychoanalysis Today: Jacob Arlow, Joel Kovel, Steven Marcus; story by Paul West, New Black Poetry by Jame-Maceo Camier, Wanda Coleman, Anthony McNeill, George Pitts, Lorenzo Thomas, Kinglsy Widmer in praise of waste, Roger Shattuck on Harold Pinter. | |
| 248840 PERIODICAL. Woodworth, Fred (editor) [Holley Cantine, Kenneth Rexroth, George Woodcock]. RETORT: A Quarterly Journal of Anarchism, art and reviews. Special Anthology issue, 1942-1951. Tucson: The Match, no date. 62 pages. Reprint. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $16.95. Small collection from this anarchist journal edited by Holley Cantine, includes contributions by Kenneth Rexroth, George Woodcock, among a few others. Reprinted by a long-time anarchist publisher. | |
| 245376 PFEIL, Fred. ANOTHER TALE TO TELL: Politics and Narrative in Postmodern Culture. NY: Verso, 1990. 278 pages. 1st Trade paperback. ISBN: 0860919927 $6.95. | |
| 251898 PIERCY, Marge and Ira Wood. STORM TIDE. Fawcett / Ballantine Books, 1999. 2nd printing. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0449001571 $6.95. | |
| 244547 PIERCY, Marge. SUMMER PEOPLE. NY: Summit Books, 1989. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671678566 $2.95. | |
| 244548 PIERCY, Marge. FLY AWAY HOME. NY: Summit Books, 1983. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671494198 $1.95. | |
| 244799 PIERCY, Marge. HIGH COST OF LIVING. NY: Harper & Row, 1978. 268 pages. 1st edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060133392 $3.95. Piercy's fifth novel. | |
| 245801 PIERCY, Marge. BRAIDED LIVES. NY: Summit Books, 1982. 1st printing of the 1st edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0671438344 $5.95. | |
| 246215 PIERCY, Marge. HIGH COST OF LIVING. NY: Harper and Row, 1978. 268 pages. 1st edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060133392 $8.95. Piercy's fifth novel. | |
| 246805 PIERCY, Marge. THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE. NY: Knopf, 1996. Later printing. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0394738594 $4.95. | |
| 251469 PILNYAK, Boris. THE NAKED YEAR. Ardis, 1975. 203 pages. 1st printing / edition thus. Bibliography. Translated, with afterword, by A.R. Tulloch. $25. | |
| 241259 PLATE, Peter. A KAMIKAZE IN HER EYES. San Francisco: Pressure Drop Press, 1994. 271 pages. Trade paperback. ISBN: 096270914x $9.95. Fiction. | |
| 242753 POOLE, Ernest. THE VILLAGE: Russian Impressions. NY: Macmillan, 1918. 234 pages. Hardback. Gilt stamped blue cloth. $21. | |
| 250101 POPESCU, Lucy and Carole Seymour-Jones (eds.). WRITERS UNDER SIEGE: Voices of Freedom from Around the World. New York University, 2007. xxviii+275 pages. Uncorrected Proof. 1st printing / edition, precedes the hardcover. Trade paperback. Intro by Tom Stoppard. Foreword by Hari Kunzru. $7.95. Anthology prepared by PEN, bearing witness to the power and danger of the pen. Collects 50 writers who paid dearly for the privilege of writing. Some tortured; some killed. All understand the cost of speaking up and speaking out. In prose and poetry, in fiction and nonfiction, they reveal the personal consequences of war, conflict, terrorism, and authoritarianism. Grouped into four sections - Prison, Death, Asylum, and The Freedom to Write. | |
| 244027 PORTASS, Nan G. POEMS FROM ME TO YOU. Bryn Mawr: Dorrance, 1984. 47 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Signed by the Author , and with a typed poem from the author laid in. ISBN: 0805929479 $4.95. Poems with a religious bent. Dedicated to the 'brave women of Greenham Common', by this longtime activist in the peace movement. | |
| 248346 POTREBENKO, Helen. LIFE, LOVE AND UNIONS. Vancouver: Lazara Press, 1987. 71 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0920999069 $14.95. Poetry by a this Canadian author, long involved in labor and women's issues. | |
| 248347 POTREBENKO, Helen. HEY WAITRESS and Other Stories. Vancouver: Lazara Press, 1990. 167 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0920999123 $8.95. By a Canadian author, long involved in labor and women's issues. | |
| 252573 POTREBENKO, Helen. TWO YEARS ON THE MUCKAMUCK LINE. Vancouver: Lazara Publications, 1980. 11 pages. 1st printing / edition. Large stapled paperback pamphlet. $18.95. Long poem written on occasion of the Muckamuck strike by this longtime labor advocate and writer. | |
| 249892 PYROS, John. MIKE GOLD: Dean of American Proletarian Literature. NY: Dramatika Press, 1979. x+218 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback original, red wraps. ISBN: 0960400001 $18.95. Scarce. | |
| 246773 QUIN, Mike [Paul William Ryan]. ON THE DRUMHEAD: A Selection From the Writing of Mike Quin. SF: Pacific Publishing Foundation, 1948. 244 pages. Large trade paperback. Illustrated by Bits Hayden. Edited, with a biographical sketch, by Harry Carlisle. ISBN: B0007E7ANY $11.95. A Memorial volume. Mike Quin, aka Paul William Ryan. See 'Seidman C64'. | |
| 243367 RANDALL, Margaret (selected and translated by). THIS GREAT PEOPLE HAS SAID 'ENOUGH' AND HAS BEGUN TO MOVE: Poems From the Struggle in Latin America. SF: Peoples Press, 1972. 38 pages. 1st Edition. Stapled paperback original. Illustrated, B&W Photos. Selected and translated by Margaret Randall, with an introductory note by her. $12.95. Published by a radical publishing group. Very scarce. | |
| 245972 RANDALL, Margaret. 25 STAGES OF MY SPINE. New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, 1967. 1st edition. Hardback. ISBN: B0006BT7RA $6.95. Poems by this veteran radical. | |
| 249816 RANDALL, Margaret. HUNGER'S TABLE: Women, Food and Politics. Papier-Mache Press, 1997. 109 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Photos. ISBN: 1576010007 $4.95. Poems, some of which are also recipes, by this longtime feminist, radical militant and photographer. | |
| 247639 RENAULT, Gregory. THESES ON SCIENCE FICTION: Mass Culture and Social Criticism. Peterborough: The Penury Press, 1979. 13 pages. 1st printing / edition, 1 of a limited edition of 200 copies; this is copy #44. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $7.95. | |
| 247640 RENAULT, Gregory. THESES ON SCIENCE FICTION: Mass Culture and Social Criticism. Peterborough: The Penury Press, 1979. 13 pages. 1st printing / edition, 1 of a limited edition of 200 copies; this is copy #54. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $15. | |
| 247641 RENAULT, Gregory. THESES ON SCIENCE FICTION: Mass Culture and Social Criticism. Peterborough: The Penury Press, 1979. 13 pages. 1st printing / edition, 1 of a limited edition of 200 copies; this is copy #49. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $25. An earlier version of this chapbook appeared in 'Red Menace', a libertarian socialist newsletter. Rare. | |
| 242377 RIDGE, Lola. FIREHEAD. NY: Payson & Clarke, 1929. 2nd printing of the 1st edition. Hardback. ISBN: B000858K5E $14.95. Retells the story in light of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. See 'Nelson p284'. | |
| 248843 RIFBJERG, Klaus. SELECTED POEMS. Curbstone Press, 1976. 36 pages. Stapled paperback. Translated from the Danish by Nadia Christensen and Alexander Taylor. ISBN: 0915306042 $7.95. | |
| 242411 RITSOS, Yannis. ROMIOSSINI: The Story of the Greeks. Paradise: Dust Books 1969. Unpaginated. 1st US. Stapled softcover. Illustrated with ink drawings by Gary Elder. Translated by O. Laos. Introduction by Dan Georgakas. $30. Poetry. 'First and only complete publication in English.' Very scarce. | |
| 244620 ROBINS, Doren and Uri Hertz (eds.) THIRD RAIL #4. 1980. Los Angeles: Third Rail, 1980. 139 pages. Trade paperback. Illustrated. $14.95. Poets Against Nuclear power, etc. Ernest Cardinal, interview with Alexandro Jodorowsky, Eluard, Cendrars, etc. Very Scarce. | |
| 250480 ROGERS, John R. LOOKING FORWARD or The Story of an American Farm. Spike Publishing, 1898. 325 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. $35. Semi-biographical story of farm life, in novelized form; parts previously published in the 'Kansas Commoner'. | |
| 252845 ROLLYSON, Carl and Lisa Paddock. SUSAN SONTAG: The Making of an Icon. Norton, 2000. xiv, 370 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Photos. Notes, index. ISBN: 0393049280 $14.95. | |
| 244459 ROLLYSON, Carl. [Norman Mailer]. THE LIVES OF NORMAN MAILER: A Biography. NY: Paragon House, 1991. 425 pages. 2nd printing. Hardback. Source notes, bibliography. ISBN: 1557781931 $2.95. | |
| 248212 ROSEMONT, Franklin (editor). ARSENAL: Surrealist Subversion. No. 2, Summer 1973. Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1973. 64 pages. 1st edition. Large Trade paperback, red illustrated covers. Profusely illustrated. ISBN: 094119406X $30. English-language iconoclastic journal of the International Surrealist Movement. Includes prose and poetry by Philip Lamantia, Joseph Jablonski, T-Bone Slim, Penelope Rosemont, Paul Garon, graphics by Leonora Carrington, Rikki, Franklin Rosemont; and contributions by many others. | |
| 251570 ROSEMONT, Franklin (editor). ARSENAL: Surrealist Subversion. No. 2, Summer 1973. Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1973. 64 pages. 1st edition. Large Trade paperback, red illustrated covers. Profusely illustrated. ISBN: 094119406X $20. English-language iconoclastic journal of the International Surrealist Movement. Includes prose and poetry by Philip Lamantia, Joseph Jablonski, T-Bone Slim, Penelope Rosemont, Paul Garon, graphics by Leonora Carrington, Rikki, Franklin Rosemont; and contributions by many others. | |
| 251571 ROSEMONT, Franklin (editor). SURREALISM AND ITS POPULAR ACCOMPLICES. City Lights Books, 1980. 120 pages. 1st edition. Large Trade paperback, red illustrated covers. Profusely illustrated. ISBN: 087286121X $45. Originally appeared as a double issue of the journal Cultural Correspondence. Includes prose and poetry by Philip Lamantia, Joseph Jablonski, FR on T-Bone Slim, Penelope Rosemont, Nancy Joyce Peters, Paul Garon, graphics by Franklin Rosemont; pieces on H.P. Lovecraft, Bugs Bunny, Buster Keaton, Isadora Duncan, Ernie Kovacs, Krazy Kat, and much much more. | |
| 248855 ROSEMONT, Franklin, David Schanoes, Surrealist Group. IN MEMORY OF GEORG LUKACS. Chicago: Surrealist Editions, 1973. 19 pages. 2nd printing. Stapled paperback. $15. | |
| 249271 ROSEMONT, Franklin. LAMPS HURLED at the STUNNING ALGEBRA of ANTS. Chicago: Surrealist Editions, 1990. 48 pages. Trade paperback original. Illustrated by Karol Baron. Presentation copy, inscribed 'with surrealist greetings!' and Signed by the Author . ISBN: 0941194221 $14.95. American surrealist poet and editor of the Charles Kerr Publishing Co. in Chicago. | |
| 242428 ROSZAK, Theodore (ed.). SOURCES: An Anthology of Contemporary Materials Useful for Preserving Personal Sanity While Braving the Great Technological Wilderness. NY: Harper Colophon, 1972. 572 pages. 1st edition. Small quality paperback original, no hardcover published. Illustrated. ISBN: 0060910003 $8.95. Broad ranging and savvy mix of Beat, counter culture, anarchist, and libertarian Marxist sensibilities. Includes Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, John Haines, Norman O. Brown, Paul Goodman, Michael McClure, Pablo Neruda, Martin Buber, Stanley Diamond, George Woodcock, Murray Bookchin, Peter Marin, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, E.F. Schumacher, Berkeley Tribe, Herbert Marcuse, R.D. Laing and many others. | |
| 245797 ROTH, Henry. A DIVING ROCK ON THE HUDSON (Vol 2 of Mercy of a Rude Stream). NY: St. Martin's, 1995. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0312117779 $3.95. | |
| 243324 ROTH, Philip. I MARRIED A COMMUNIST. Vintage Books, 1999. 323 pages. 1st Trade paperback edition. ISBN: 0375707212 $2.95. A fate worse than death, like marrying a Republican. Tells of the rise and fall of a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in the 1930s, becomes a 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. But as any good rightwinger, ala William F. Buckley, Jr., will tell you, there was no blacklist and no one was seriously hurt. | |
| 246230 ROTH, Philip. I MARRIED A COMMUNIST. NY: Vintage Books, 1999. 323 pages. 1st Trade paperback edition. ISBN: 0375707212 $3.95. A fate worse than death, like marrying a Republican. Tells of the rise and fall of a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in the 1930s, becomes a 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witch hunt of the 1950s. But as any good rightwinger, ala William F. Buckley, Jr., will tell you, there was no blacklist and no one was seriously hurt. | |
| 248023 RUDOLPH, Richard. GIVE ME SOIL TO FLY IN. Voorheesville: Baobab, no date [1970s]. 28 pages. Stapled paperback, illustrated wraps. Illustrated by Joyce Saunders. $17.95. Poems by Dick Rudolph, Jewish American composer/songwriter/producer, husband of soul singer Minnie Riperton (1947-1979), father of Maya Rudolph (of Saturday Night Live). Songwriter, producer, co-founder of Dickiebird Music. The introductory note indicates he is currently working on rewriting revolutionary history from an anarchist point of view. Of the poems it says: 'It is the soil of Anarchy that gives him leave to fly.' Freedom, justice, and the human condition are the concern of these poems, marked with a tempered rage, and simply presented, in the manner of Peter Maurin, some overtly referencing anarchism or anarchists ('If Marx can be a hero / Could Bakunin be a zero?'). | |
| 246367 RUFF, Ivan. THE DARK RED STAR. London: Pluto Crime, 1985. 185 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0745300057 $3.95. A volume in the Pluto Crime series. | |
| 243831 RUFF, robert i, jr. ACCENTS ON NEW GRASS rather than pigmeat. Boston: New England Free Press, 1970. Not paginated [24] pages. Stapled paperback pamphlet. $9.95. 24 poems published by this movement press. | |
| 246577 RUKEYSER, Muriel and Octavio Paz. SUN STONE. NY: New Directions, No date. 47 pages. 1st edition. Small trade paperback. Cover drawing by Jesse Reichek. $35. | |
| 251710 RUKEYSER, Muriel. (edited By Jan Heller Levi; intro by Adrienne Rich). A MURIEL RUKEYSER READER. Norton, 1994. 294 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Index. Introduction by Adrienne Rich. ISBN: 0393035662 $11.95. 'Muriel Rukeyser, with the eye of a historian/researcher and the pen of a poet, has reclaimed Thomas Hariot ...[an] infinitely sensitive portrait of a man who was indeed great, not only for his time, but for all time'. | |
| 247477 SALABERT, Miguel de. INTERIOR EXILE. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1963. 222 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: B0006AYSV6 $14.95. | |
| 246566 SALZMAN, Jack and Barry Wallenstein (eds.). YEARS OF PROTEST: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's. NY: Pegasus, 1970. 448 pages. Reprint of the 1st edition. Trade paperback. Illustrated, photos. ISBN: 067263614X $8.95. Great collection of materials, both text and image-wise. Hemingway, Dos Passos, Caldwell, Guthrie, Agee, etc. | |
| 246803 SALZMAN, Jack and Barry Wallenstein (eds.). YEARS OF PROTEST: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's. NY: Pegasus, 1970. 448 pages. 3rd printing. Trade paperback. Illustrated, photos. ISBN: 067263614X $7.95. Great collection of materials, both text and images. Includes Hemingway, Dos Passos, Caldwell, Guthrie, Agee, etc. | |
| 244562 SANCHEZ, Thomas. RABBIT BOSS. NY: Ballantine Books, 1974. 532 pages. 1st Mass Market Paperback edition. ISBN: 0345238478 $1. 'A novel of the vanishing American Indian Dream,' involving the Washo tribe in Nevada. Sanchez aided the Oglala Sioux Nation in 1973, running supplies in the underground packtrain, when it was surrounded by the American version of the Gestapo (FBI, an antisocial cross-dressing outfit [sic]). | |
| 245594 SAYLES, John. LOS GUSANOS. NY: Harper/Collins, 1991. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0060166533 $6.95. Novel of a Cuban family's life in the United States over six decades. By the author of 'The Anarchists' Convention' and a notable film director. | |
| 247769 SAYLES, John. UNION DUES. NY: HarperPerennial, 1992. Trade paperback. 1st edition thus. ISBN: 0060974745 $3.95. Labor, communes, sixties, revolutionaries, welfare; a 17-year-old is involved in all aspects of 1969 America, as he searches for his brother. The second book by the highly acclaimed film director and author of 'The Anarchist's Convention'. | |
| 248891 SAYLES, John. THE ANARCHIST'S CONVENTION. Boston: Little Brown, 1975. 313 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0316772321 $45. Along with the hilarious title story, this book of short stories includes the Vietnam War-related story 'Tan.' Sayles's elusive third book (& first collection of short stories), published just prior to the release his acclaimed film, 'The Return of the Secaucus Seven'. See 'Newman 517'. | |
| 249528 SAYLES, John. DILLINGER IN HOLLYWOOD: New and Selected Short Stories. Nation Books, 2004. 1st Trade paperback printing / edition. ISBN: 156025632X $4.95. Stories by the noted novelist and filmmaker. | |
| 250033 SAYLES, John. THE ANARCHIST'S CONVENTION. Little Brown, 1975. 313 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0316772321 $51. Along with the hilarious title story, this book of short stories includes the Vietnam War-related story 'Tan.' Sayles's elusive third book (& first collection of short stories), published just prior to the release his acclaimed film, 'The Return of the Secaucus Seven'. See 'John Newman 517'. | |
| 250255 SAYLES, John. LOS GUSANOS. HarperCollins, 1991. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0060166533 $3.95. Novel of a Cuban family's life in the United States over six decades. By the author of The Anarchists' Convention and a notable film director. | |
| 251899 SAYLES, John. UNION DUES. Atlantic-Little Brown, 1977. 1st edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0316772348 $2.95. Labor, communes, sixties, revolutionaries, welfare; a 17-year-old is involved in all aspects of 1969 America, as he searches for his brother. Second book by the highly acclaimed film director and author of The Anarchist's Convention . | |
| 245223 SCHWARZ, Wilhelm Johannes. HEINRICH BOLL: Teller of Tales. NY: Ungar, 1969. 123 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Translated by Alexander and Elizabeth Henderson. $9.95. | |
| 250958 SCOTT, Peter Dale. COMING TO JAKARTA: A Poem about Terror. New Directions, 1989. 160 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0811210952 $3.95. | |
| 244040 SEGHERS, Anna. THE REVOLT OF THE FISHERMEN. NY: Longmans Green, 1930. 172 pages. 1st US edition. Hardcover, Red-stamped black cloth. Translated from the German by Margaret Goldsmith. $27. Author's first novel, a German Depression Era novel of a spontaneous insurrection of desperate Breton fishermen 'who strike, starve, fail, and go back to toil for a wage that is still to leave their wives and children hungry'. Here Seghers formed her key themes - that people must work together to fight oppression and rebellion gives meaning to one's life. Winner of Kleist Prize for 1929 and made into a 1934 Soviet Union film by the radical theatre director Erwin Piscator. Her work inspired, among others, Christa Wolf. Seghers was a member of the Communist Party and the Union of Proletarian and Revolutionary Writers. Her silence in the late 50s in the Stalinist trial of Walter Janka, director of Aufbau publishing company, dogs her reputation among leftist intellectuals. Daily Bleed Saint for November 16th. | |
| 242936 SENDER, Ramon J. SEVEN RED SUNDAYS. NY: Collier, 1968. 286 pages. Small pocket paperback. ISBN: 0929587294 $3.95. Novel of the Spanish Revolution of 1936. | |
| 248876 SENDER, Ramon J. CHRONICLE OF DAWN. Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. Translated from the Spanish by Willard Trask. $25. A young man's childhood and early life before the Spanish Civil War. By the author best known for his classic novel of Spanish anarchist-syndicalism, 'Seven Red Sundays' and a Major in the Republican Army before fleeing into exile. | |
| 243996 SETTLE, Mary Lee. THE SCAPEGOAT. NY: Random House, 1980. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0394504771 $4.95. Labor novel set in the coal mining area of West Virginia in 1912. Striking coal miners led by Mother Jones face strikebreakers. | |
| 233948 SHAPIRO, Karl. TO ABOLISH CHILDREN & OTHER ESSAYS. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1968. Hardback. ISBN: B0006BUBFC $6.95. Essays. Includes 'To Revive Anarchism'. | |
| 233949 SHAPIRO, Karl. THE YOUNGER SON: An Autobiography in Three Parts. Volume 1: The Youth & War Years of A Distinguished American Poet. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988. 287 pages. 1st printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0912697865 $6.95. Shapiro, intensely conscious of being a Russian Jew in the South, describes his initiation into the worlds of women & sex, poetry & literature & also deals extensively with his war experience. | |
| 245128 SHAPIRO, Karl. WHITE HAIRED LOVER. NY: Random House, 1968. 37 pages. 1st edition, printing. Hardcover. $12.95. | |
| 245853 SHAW, Bernard. BERNARD SHAW'S SAINT JOAN, MAJOR BARBARA, ANDROCLES AND THE LION. NY: The Modern Library, 1952. 479 pages. Later printing. Small Hardback. $6.95. 3 plays by the socialist and 1925 Nobel Prize winning Irish author. | |
| 248597 SHAW, George Bernard. THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1933. 74 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. Black cloth with white-stamped spine and cover lettering. Illustrated. Designed and engraved by John Farleigh. $13.95. | |
| 249644 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. LA MASCHERATA DELL' ANARCHIA / THE MASK OF ANARCHY. Castenedolo: Andrea Chersi, no date [circa 1982]. 31 pages. Stapled paperback. $20. Dual language, English text of Shelley's famed poem with Italian translation on facing pages. 'Rise like Lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number - / Shake your chains to earth like dew / Which in sleep had fallen on you - / Ye are many - they are few.' Shelley, British romantic poet atheist / pagan pamphleteer / anarchist, whose works are generally considered among the greatest in the English language, drowned at age 29, while sailing, and was cremated on the beach where his body washed up. Oddly, his heart would not burn. His wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, carried it with her in a silken shroud for the rest of her life (not too odd herself, eh?...). Chersi also published the 82 page pamphlet, 'Il Caso Faurisson,' in 1982. Scarce. | |
| 246602 SHERBURNE, James. POOR BOY AND A LONG WAY FROM HOME. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0395354005 $9.95. Novel, with much on the Wobblies in Washington state, Mooney, etc. The clueless soul who wrote the DJ blurb got it wrong, calling them the 'International' Workers of the World, but the author got it right! 'Not in Miles'. 'Reminds me of Dos Passos' '1919' and Doctorow's 'Ragtime'. Exciting times, with bindle stiffs, yard bulls, Wobblies, and early film-makers.' - Oakley Hall. | |
| 245940 SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail. AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON: 4 Volume Set. Moscow: Foreign Publishing House, no date. 4 volume set. Small Hardbacks. Translated from the Russian. $65. | |
| 252119 SIEGLER, Alan. COMRADES. St Martins, 1976. 1st printing / edition. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. $7.95. Author's first novel. | |
| 243235 SIGAL, Clancy. THE SECRET DEFECTOR. NY: HarperCollins, 1992. 1st edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0060190116 $2.95. In mid-50s England a self-exiled American radical enters into an affair with a novelist and struggles to also become a writer. By the author of Going Away.Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award winner and author of 'Going Away'. | |
| 249552 SILKO, Leslie Marmon. ALMANAC OF THE DEAD. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 763 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0671666088 $9.95. Through the decipherment of ancient tribal texts of the Americas the Almanac of the Dead foretells the future of all the Americas. | |
| 247370 SILONE, Ignazio. BREAD AND WINE. NY: Penguin, 1946. 1st Mass Market paperback printing / edition. Penguin # 578. Translated by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. ISBN: 0451522788 $3.95. Novel of the Italian underground just before the Abyssinian war by this veteran radical author, an antifascist, 'a socialist without a party, a Christian without a church'. | |
| 247815 SIMECKA, Martin. THE YEAR OF THE FROG. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1993. First edition. Hardback. Translated from Czech by Peter Petro. Introduction by Vaclav Havel. ISBN: 0807118699 $7.95. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. | |
| 252134 SIMENON, Georges. A MAIGRET TRIO: Maigret's Failure, Maigret in Society, Maigret and the Lazy Burglar. Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1973. 290 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151551391 $6.95. First US publication of these stories by the veteran Belgian author and creator of Inspector Maigret novels ... according to the famed online Daily Bleed Calendar, Simenon, while not an activist, considered himself an anarchist from the age of 16 on. | |
| 252748 SIMENON, Georges. MAIGRET'S BOYHOOD FRIEND. Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1970. 2nd printing of the 1st US edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French By Eileen Ellenbogen. ISBN: 0151551359 $7.95. Mystery by the Belgian author ... according to the famed online Daily Bleed, Simenon, while not an activist, considered himself an anarchist from the age of 16 on. | |
| 249733 SINCLAIR, Andrew. JACK: A Biography of Jack London. Harper, 1977. xv+297 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Photos. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 0060138998 $8.95. London was once the highest paid and most popular writer in the world - a millionaire socialist and intellectual braggart - a prodigious free spirit of profound contradictions and a voracious appetite for life. | |
| 245587 SINCLAIR, Mary Craig. [Upton Sinclair]. SOUTHERN BELLE: A Personal Story of a Crusader's Wife. Phoenix: Sinclair Press, (1962). 407pages + small section of her sonnets. Memorial edition. Hardback. Illustrated. Foreword by Upton Sinclair. $9.95. Memoirs of the wife of the muckraking author and radical activist Upton Sinclair, who prepared this edition for free distribution to public libraries. | |
| 251680 SINCLAIR, Upton (ed.). THE CRY FOR JUSTICE: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. NY/Pasadena: Upton Sinclair, no date. 891 pages. Reprint. Hardcover, Red cloth with gilt-stamped lettering spine and front cover. Frontis. 32 illustrations. Indexes of authors and titles. Introduction by Jack London. $45. 'Writings from philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers and others, selected from 25 languages, covering a period of 5,000 years. Illustrated with reproductions of social protest art'. Massive collection, including many socialist, communists, and anarchists. William Blake, Francisco Ferrer, Emma Goldman, Arturo Giovannitti, Harry Kemp, Kropotkin, Octave Mirbeau, Pottier, Pouget, Tolstoy, and Oscar Wilde are just a few of the worthies included. Illustrations by Hogarth, Dore, Kollwitz, Crane and many others. See BAL 11961. | |
| 242035 SINCLAIR, Upton. DE WILDERNIS. Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek [nd]. Dutch language edition. Hardback, printed paper covered boards. $11.95. | |
| 243537 SINCLAIR, Upton. DEPRESSION ISLAND. Pasadena: the author, 1935. 124 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small Hardcover, brick red cloth, gilt-stamped spine with author/title/publisher, black ink printed author/title front. $22. Sinclair's self-published drama satirizing labor relations during the depression, produced during his EPIC campaign for Governor of California. Parable of 3 castaways on an island who reinvent capitalism and its woes. Based on his 1933 booklet, 'The Way Out'. See Gottesman. | |
| 246279 SINCLAIR, Upton. THE MILLENNIUM: A Comedy of the Year 2000. NY: Seven Stories Press, 2000. 1st edition thus. Trade paperback. ISBN: 1583220216 $5.95. | |
| 247700 SINCLAIR, Upton. MOUNTAIN CITY. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1930. 311 pages + advertising. 2nd printing of the 1st UK edition. Hardback, red cloth gilt-stamped. ISBN: B0006D941W $19.95. | |
| 248352 SINCLAIR, Upton. LOVE'S PILGRIMAGE. NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1911. 663 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback, brown cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine. Small 8-page promo pamphlet, consisting of an exchange of letters between Robert Herrrick, Sinclair and Eden Phillpotts, laid in. $35. Semi-autobiographical fictionalized tale of Sinclair's poverty-stricken early years of marriage, by this veteran socialist and muckraker. 'To those who throughout the world are fighting for the emancipation of woman I dedicate this woman's book.' A 'Rideout novel'. | |
| 248063 SKVORECKY, Josef. THE ENGINEER OF HUMAN SOULS: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, the Working Class... NY: Alfred Knopf, 1984. 2nd printing of the 1st US edition. Hardback. Translated by Paul Wilson. ISBN: 039450500X $7.95. | |
| 248064 SKVORECKY, Josef. TALKIN' MOSCOW BLUES: Essays About Literature Politics, Movies, and Jazz. NY: Ecco Press, 1990. 367 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Trade paperback original (PBO), never published in hardcover. Bibliography. Edited by Sam Solecki. ISBN: 0880012315 $8.95. | |
| 248065 SKVORECKY, Josef. DVORAK IN LOVE. Alfred Knopf, 1987. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Translated by Paul Wilson. ISBN: 0394546814 $4.95. | |
| 249840 SLOVO, Gillian. MORBID SYMPTOMS. NY: Dembner, 1984. 147 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0934878595 $7.5. Radical politics and mystery combine in this novel, with sleuth Kate Baeier - socialist, feminist and freelance journalist - tackling murder and espionage for the 'African Economic Reports' publishers. | |
| 244935 SMALL, Christopher. [George Orwell]. THE ROAD TO MINILUV: George Orwell, the State, and God. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1975. 220 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. Bibliographical note, index. ISBN: 0822911248 $6.95. Explores the links between Orwell's life, obsessions, and creations - in the nightmarish visions of '1984' and 'Animal Farm' - and their prophetic relevance. | |
| 251900 SMEDLEY, Agnes. DAUGHTER OF EARTH. Feminist Press, 1976. 414 pages. 2nd printing. Small Trade paperback. Afterword by Paul Lauter. ISBN: 0912670104 $2.95. Autobiographical novel. Smedley was sympathetic to the Chinese Communists and wrote a number of nonfiction works as well. A Rideout novel . | |
| 251848 SMIRNOV, V. A. SONS. Doubleday, 1947. 305 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Russian by Naomi Y. Yohel. Jacket design by Leona Wood. Intro by Paul Hollister, Jr. $25. | |
| 247521 SMITH, William Jay. THE CHEROKEE LOTTERY: A Sequence of Poems. Willimantic: Curbstone Press, 2000. 97 pages. Trade paperback original (no hardback issued). Illustrated. ISBN: 1880684667 $6.95. Smith, who is part Choctaw, is perhaps the first to portray 'The Trail of Tears' in poetry. | |
| 246779 SOAMES, Sally [preface by Norman Mailer; Doris Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, Gore Vidal, et al]. WRITERS. Chronicle Books, 1995. 160 pages. 1st printing / edition. Large Hardback. Black paper-covered boards. Full page photographs of modern authors. Preface by Norman Mailer. ISBN: 0233989455 $6.95. Large black and white portraits of 28 authors, including Maya Angelou, John Irving, Doris Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, Gore Vidal, with short excerpts from seminal works. | |
| 242037 SOLOMON, Norman. NOW: A Narrative Document. Portland: Out of the Ashes, 1976. 53 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 0912874112 $9.95. Early 70s 'movement' piece. Excerpts appeared in 'SunRise,' 'Center,' 'The Stranger' and 'Flashfoods.' Publishing partly funded by an NEA grant, but the author 'in no way recommends support for the US government'. | |
| 246834 SONTAG Susan. IN AMERICA. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000. 387 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0374175403 $5.95. | |
| 252847 SOOS, Troy. HUNTING A DETROIT TIGER. Kensington, 1997. 346 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1575661500 $9.95. An old-time baseball player trying to organize a players' union, during the Red Scare of the 1920s, is killed at an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) meeting and utility infielder Mickey Rawlings is accused of the misdeed. The Wobblies want the murder avenged and Mickey's teammates think he is trying to sabotage the union, while the owners put heat on him to denounce the union. Soos is a member of SABR, a graduate of professional umpire school. This is his 4th baseball mystery novel. | |
| 250905 SOUTHERN, Terry. NOW DIG THIS: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995. Grove Press, 2001. 263 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman. Afterword by Nile Southern. ISBN: 0802116892 $9.95. Inspired American black-humorist, beat-era social rebel. Likes candy (of course). American novelist/screenwriter, Southern attacked Hollywood's film industry, drugs, TV-shows, religion, cliches of pornography, 'dreamgirls' etc. His works aroused critical debates, has been labeled pornography or just plain sick. His most notable screenplay was Dr. Strangelove . | |
| 249593 SPIEGELMAN, Art. MAUS: A Survivor's Tale. Chapter Four, The Noose Tightens. Raw Books, 1983. Page 65 to 85. Staple-bound single chapter insert originally issued with RAW magazine [#5?]. Illustrated. $40. Maus, hailed as one of the most gripping accounts of the Nazi horrors ever produced. This small press comic illustrator broke out of the comic strip 'ghetto' to rave reviews - from the old 'Raw' magazines to the front page of the NY Times' Book Review. | |
| 249771 STAVIS, Barrie. THE MAN WHO NEVER DIED: A Play About Joe Hill with Notes on Joe Hill and His Times. NY: Haven Press, 1954. 242 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Photos. $11.95. The story of Joe Hill, the famed Wobbly organizer and songwriter who was framed for murder and condemned to death by the state of Utah, despite world-wide protests (including the US president). Stavis also wrote 'Harpers Ferry,' a play about John Brown. | |
| 245328 STEINHARDT, Anne. HOW TO GET BALLED IN BERKELEY: A Historical Romance of the Sixties. NY: Viking, 1976. 172 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 067038335X $3.95. Erotic novel set in Berkeley's counterculture scene. Author's third book, chronicling the adventures of two young men on the make. | |
| 248485 STEPHAN, Ruth and John (eds.) [William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Fearing, Jean Genet, Lloyd Frankenberg, Antonio Frasconi]. THE TIGER'S EYE. # 8. June 1949. Westport: Tiger's Eye, 1949. 140 pages. Trade paperback. Pages variously colored. Illustrated, two color reproductions tipped in. $35. Short-lived literary magazine which lasted 9 issues, featuring the foremost writers and artists of the day. This issue includes William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Fearing, Jean Genet, Lloyd Frankenberg, Katherine Hoskins, Irene Orgel, Antonio Frasconi, Miro, Schwitters, Picasso, et al. | |
| 244725 STILLMAN, Edmund (ed.). BITTER HARVEST: The Intellectual Revolt Behind the Iron Curtain. NY: Praeger, (1959). 313 pages. Trade paperback. Introduction by Francois Bondy. $1.95. Stories, poems and essays serve a damaging indictment of the Communist state. Includes Dery, Harich, Kolakowski, Hlasko, Djilas, Nagy, Ehrenburg, Wazyk, Pasternak. | |
| 245228 STONE, David. TOO DEEP THEN. London: Pluto Crime, 1987. 114 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0745301363 $9.95. | |
| 244668 STONE, Judy. THE MYSTERY OF B. TRAVEN Los Altos: Kaufmann, 1977. 128 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Select bibliography. ISBN: 0913232327 $12.95. Stone recreates much of the anarchist novelist's life, from May Day 1919 in Germany when he faced execution, to his encounters with her in Mexico in 1966-67, when he was a deaf old man clinging to his secrets. | |
| 232508 STOUT, Rex. TOO MANY WOMEN. NY: Viking, 1947. 251 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. $95. | |
| 246843 STRELOW, Michael, et al (eds). AN ANTHOLOGY OF NORTHWEST WRITING: 1900-1950. (Northwest Review; Vol. 17, No. 2-3). Eugene: Northwest Review Books, 1979. 303 pages. 1st printing / edition, as stated. Trade paperback. Illustrated with photos. ISBN: 0918402034 $7.95. Highly popular issue, this anthology has gone through a number of reprints. Includes the socialist John Reed, H.L. Davis, Woody Guthrie, Vardis Fisher, Mary Barnard, Stewart Holbrook, the anarchist poet William Everson (a participant in Rexroth's San Francisco Libertarian Circle), William Stafford, James Stevens among many others. | |
| 232344 STRONG, Anna Louise. THE SONG OF THE CITY. Oak Park: Oak Leaves Press, no date. 61 pages. Hardcover. Photos. $180. | |
| 246636 SWADOS, Harvey. A RADICAL'S AMERICA. Boston: Atlantic Little Brown, 1962. 347 pages. Stated 1st edition. Hardback, red cloth with blue panel and gilt lettering on the spine. ISBN: 0837168694 $8.95. Swados is author of numerous books, 'Celebration', 'On the Line', 'Out Went the Candle', and long associated with labor and radical issues. | |
| 249784 SWADOS, Harvey. A RADICAL AT LARGE: American Essays. London: Hart-Davis, 1967. 311 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. $6.95. Pieces from the 60s, some previously published in 'The Nation' and 'The Saturday Review', on the American labor movement, Upton Sinclair, C. Wright Mills, 'Mac Bird!', the New Frontier, his famous essay, 'Why Resign From the Human Race?,' and many more. Swados is author of numerous books, 'Celebration,' 'On the Line,' 'Out Went the Candle,' and was long associated with labor and radical issues. | |
| 247244 TABORI, Paul. (ed.). THE PEN IN EXILE: An Anthology of Writers in Exile. no place [London]: International P.E.N. Club Centre for Writers in Exile, 1954. 227 pages. Hardback. Burgundy cloth. ISBN: B0006D9Y4O $13.95. Essays, poetry, and short stories of East European writers of the Cold War. | |
| 244031 TALMADGE, Irving DeWitt (ed.). PUSHKIN: Homage by Marxist Critics. NY: Critics Group, 1937. 104 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Chronology. Number 4 in the Critics Group Series edited by Angel Flores. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. $6.95. Contributors: Maxim Gorky, A. Zeitlin, A. Lunacharsky and I. Vinogradov. | |
| 244324 TAYLOR, Jenny. [Doris Lessing]. NOTEBOOKS / MEMOIRS / ARCHIVES: Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. 251 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Biographical notes. Select bibliography of Lessing criticism. Index. ISBN: 0710090331 $3.95. Collects eight essays by Taylor, Jean McCrindle, Rebecca O'Rourke, et al, and her interview with David Gladwell, director of Memoirs of a Survivor. | |
| 247522 THOMPSON. E. P. SYKAOS PAPERS: Being an account of the Voyages of the Poet Oi Paz to the System of Strim in the Seventeenth Galaxy... NY: Pantheon Books, 1988. 482 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0394568281 $3.95. ... to Earth (or Sykaos as it was known to Oitarians) the poet-space traveler was in big trouble...with the Beastly People. | |
| 247523 THOMPSON. E. P. SYKAOS PAPERS: Being an Account of the Voyages of the Poet Oi Paz to the System of Strim in the Seventeenth Galaxy... London: Bloomsbury, 1988. 482 pages. 1st UK printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0747501173 $7.95. Wickedly funny, wildly satirical jaunt ... to Earth (Sykaos) the poet-space traveler was in big trouble mixing with the Beastly People. Transmitted by Timewarp to E.P. Thompson. | |
| 248388 THOMPSON. E. P. SKYAOS PAPERS. NY: Pantheon Books, 1988. 848 pages. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0394568281 $8.95. | |
| 250514 THOMPSON. E. P. THE ROMANTICS: England in a Revolutionary Age. New Press, 1997. 225 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Dorothy Thompson. ISBN: 1565843606 $7.95. Discussion of Mary Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge and a number of lesser known writers. Contains original texts and notes from a series of seven lectures given in the late 1960s. | |
| 250239 THORSETH, Matthea. CRADLED IN THUNDER. Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1946. 352 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Glossary of Norwegian terms. Signed by the Author. $14.95. Novel of a Norwegian immigrant working family adjusting to the new land of America. Thorseth also wrote The Color of Ripening, a similar novel with a sympathetic treatment of the IWW (see Miles 5015). | |
| 242917 TORRINGTON, Jeff. SWING HAMMER SWING!. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1994. 406 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0151874271 $4.95. 'Energetic, irreverent and very funny' first novel (NY Times Book Review). Set in Glasgow during a single week in the late 60s, staggering from crisis to crisis, Tom is a man pursued-by petty gangsters, Mafia-like in-laws, by a doppelgnger, and by time itself. He may have imagined he has evaded the tyranny of clocks by escaping the 9-to-5 grind, but no matter how fast he runs, death seems cold on his heels. Awarded Britain's prestigious Whitbread Award. | |
| 246550 TORRINGTON, Jeff. THE DEVIL'S CAROUSEL. NY: Harcourt and Brace, 1996. 225 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151002479 $6.95. | |
| 244607 TRAVEN, B. MARCH TO THE MONTERIA. NY: Hill & Wang, 1971. 227 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 080906748X $24.95. Third book in what has now become known as Traven's 'Jungle novels', by this reclusive German anarchist. More on Traven, Google the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia. | |
| 248136 TRAVEN, B. THE NIGHT VISITOR and Other Stories. NY: Hill and Wang, 1973. 238 pages. 1st trade paperback edition. Bibliography. A book in the 'American Century' series, with introduction by Charles Miller. ISBN: 0809001063 $9.95. Collects 10 stories by the German anarchist militant who fled to Mexico following the repression in Germany. Google the online Anarchist Encyclopedia for more on Traven. | |
| 248458 TRAVEN, B. THE CARRETA. NY: Hill and Wang, 1970. 264 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st US edition. Hardback, brown cloth. ISBN: 0809033607 $19.95. Second of what are known as his six 'Jungle Novels,' an epic fictional account of the birth of Mexican Revolution, the years when Emiliano Zapata, the Flores Magon brothers, Pancho Villa and others were actively trying to overthrow the government. Google our online Anarchist Encyclopedia for more on Traven, et al. | |
| 248459 TRAVEN, B. GENERAL FROM THE JUNGLE. NY: Hill and Wang, no date [1972]. 280 pages. 1st US edition, lacking statement of the date or printing. Hardback, brown cloth. Translated by Desmond Vesey. ISBN: 080904904X $19.95. Fifth (according to the publisher) of what are known as his six 'Jungle Novels,' an epic fictional account of the birth of Mexican Revolution, the years when the anarchists Emiliano Zapata, the Flores Magon brothers, and others were actively trying to overthrow the government. Google our online Anarchist Encyclopedia for more on Traven, et al. | |
| 248460 TRAVEN, B. THE REBELLION OF THE HANGED. NY: Hill and Wang, no date [1974]. 248 pages. 1st Hill and Wang printing / edition. Hardback, brown cloth. ISBN: 080908046X $24.95. Fourth of his six 'Jungle Novels,' an epic fictional account of the birth of Mexican Revolution, the years when the anarchists Emiliano Zapata, the Flores Magon brothers, and others were actively trying to overthrow the government. Google our online Anarchist Encyclopedia for more on Traven, et al. | |
| 248470 TRAVEN, B. THE CARRETA. NY: Hill and Wang, 1970. 264 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st US edition. Hardback, brown cloth. ISBN: 0809033607 $20.95. Second of what are known as his six 'Jungle Novels,' an epic fictional account of the birth of Mexican Revolution, the years when Emiliano Zapata, the Flores Magon brothers, Pancho Villa and others were actively trying to overthrow the government. Google our online Anarchist Encyclopedia for more on Traven, et al. | |
| 248471 TRAVEN, B. THE BRIDGE IN THE JUNGLE. NY: Hill and Wang, 1967. 216 pages. 1st Hill and Wang printing / edition. Hardback, brown cloth. $22. Novel first published in the US in 1938 (following 'The Death Ship' and 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre') by this reclusive German-Mexican anarchist. Google our online Anarchist Encyclopedia for more on Traven. | |
| 249223 TRAVEN, B. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux / Noonday Press, 1989. 308 pages. Trade paperback. Cover art by D. Benjamin van Steenburgh. ISBN: 0809001608 $6.95. The veteran German/Mexican anarchist's most famous novel, filmed by John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart in the lead role. He also wrote the great, if lesser known, labor novel, 'The Death Ship'. Aka Ret Marut, Hal Croves, etc., Traven wrote sympathetically of the struggles and conditions of post-revolutionary Mexico. Online, see either the Anarchist Encyclopedia for more on Traven's anarchist activities or also The Daily Bleed Calendar. | |
| 249583 TRAVEN, B. THE CREATION OF THE SUN AND THE MOON. Lawrence Hill, 1977. 65 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Small Trade paperback. Illustrated by Alberto Beltr n. ISBN: 0882080873 $9.95. Background on Traven, google our on-line Anarchist Encyclopedia. | |
| 250476 TRAVEN, B. DIE WEISSE ROSE. Zurich: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1951. 203 pages. Reprint. Hardcover, tan cloth. $35. Text in German only. Basis for the 1961 Mexican film 'Rosa Blanca' directed by Roberto Gavaldon. Filmed in Spanish with some English dialogue. Background on Traven, Google our Anarchist Encyclopedia. | |
| 251867 TRAVEN, B. MARCH TO THE MONTERIA. Dell, 1964. 255 pages. 1st printing / edition. Mass Market paperback. Dell # 5350. $5.95. Third book in what has now become known as Traven's 'Jungle novels,' by this reclusive German anarchist who ended up in Mexico. Google our online Anarchist Encyclopedia for more on Traven. | |
| 251868 TRAVEN, B. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Pocket Books, 1948. 329 pages. 1st printing / edition. Mass Market paperback movie tie-in cover with painting of Humphrey Bogart. Pocket Books # 455. $4.95. The veteran German/Mexican anarchist's most famous novel, filmed by John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart in the lead role. Traven wrote sympathetically of the struggles and conditions of post-revolutionary Mexico. Background, Google our Anarchist Encyclopedia for more on Traven's anarchist activities. | |
| 252623 TRAVEN, B. THE COTTON-PICKERS. Ivan R. Dee / Elephant Paperback, 1995. Reprint. Trade paperback. ISBN: 1566630754 $3.95. | |
| 246750 TRESSELL, Robert. RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS. NY: Monthly Review, 1978. 633 pages. Trade paperback. A volume published in the the Leo Huberman People's Library series. ISBN: 0853454574 $10.95. | |
| 249553 TROCCHI, Alexander [William Burroughs]. MAN AT LEISURE. Calder & Boyars, 1972. 1st Trade paperback printing / edition. Introduction By William Burroughs. ISBN: 0714503584 $40. Trocchi was a participant in the first 'Happening', an historic Beat underground reading - a Wholly Communion - with those rascally anarchists Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, et al, at London's Royal Albert Hall. A rootless Scottish cosmopolitan, he was also a member of the Situationist International, arrested in the US for drug use and trafficking. | |
| 251378 TROCCHI, Alexander. CAIN'S BOOK. NY: Grove Outrider, 1979. 252 pages. Mass Market paperback. Intro by Richard Seaver. ISBN: 0394174038 $5.95. Notorious novel, by this early British member of the notorious International Situationists, about the life of a drug addict in NY. The author's first book. 'The genuine article on a dope addict's life.' -NY Herald Tribune 'It is true, it has art, it is brave. I would not be surprised if it is still talked about in twenty years.' -Norman Mailer. | |
| 251978 TROCCHI, Alexander. [Jack Hirschman, intro]. WHITE THIGHS. Brandon House, 1967. 208 pages. 1st printing / edition thus. Mass Market paperback. Intro by Jack Hirschman, Ph.D. $11.95. Every man's secret fantasy..and every woman's nightmare! Softcore smut by this early British member of the notorious International Situationists. | |
| 244896 UNGER, Douglas. EL YANQUI. NY: Harper & Row, 1986. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060156457 $1. Novel of a young American who comes of age in the 1960's while studying abroad in Buenos Aires. The author's second book. Viet Nam War-related, with the protagonist's brother, a Vietnam vet, committed upon his return. DJ praise by Frederick Busch and Richard Stern. | |
| 244979 UNGER, Douglas. EL YANQUI. NY: Harper & Row, 1986. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0060156457 $3.95. Novel of a young American who comes of age in the 1960's while studying abroad in Buenos Aires. The author's second book. Viet Nam War-related, with the protagonist's brother, a Vietnam vet, committed upon his return. DJ praise by Frederick Busch and Richard Stern. | |
| 244980 UNGER, Douglas. EL YANQUI. NY: Ballantine, 1988. 340 pages. 1st Mass Market paperback edition. ISBN: 0345349407 $1.95. Novel of a young American who comes of age in the 1960's while studying abroad in Buenos Aires. The author's second book. Vietnam War-related, with the protagonist's brother, a Vietnam vet, committed upon his return. | |
| 248268 VALLEJO, Cesar. SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME. NY: Grove / Evergreen, 1974. 77 pages. 1st Trade paperback. printing / edition. Evergreen # E-638. Translated by Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia. ISBN: 0394178564 $14.95. Poetry written to commemorate the Spanish Revolution of the 1930s by this Peruvian poet who made many trips to Russia and Spain before his death in 1938. Bilingual edition, poems in Spanish and English on facing pages. Surprisingly scarce in all editions. | |
| 243993 VALLENTIN, Antonina. H.G. WELLS: Prophet of Our Day. NY: John Day, 1950. 338 pages. Printing not stated. Hardback. Dark red cloth. Spine gilt-stamped. Frontis. Bibliography, index. ISBN: 0848228359 $9.95. | |
| 245146 VALLES, Jules. THE INSURRECTIONIST. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1971. 240 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0134688848 $39. Fictional account of Revolt of 1871 and the Paris Commune. | |
| 244624 VARGAS LLOSA, Mario. FEAST OF THE GOAT. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2001. 1st US edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0374154767 $15.95. Recounts the end of a regime and the terrible birth of a democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and to the victims, both innocent and complicit, who were drawn into his deadly orbit. You may recall that Trujillo was supported by the US government - voter-elected and approved of - and thus is not considered a terrorist in the American lexicon. | |
| 246185 VARGAS LLOSA, Mario. DEATH IN THE ANDES. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996. 1st US edition. Hardback. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. ISBN: 0374140014 $6.95. An army corporal and his deputy in an isolated mining community are homesick and unenthusiastic about fighting guerrillas. But a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices send them into a eventful search to solve the mystery. A panoramic view of modern Peru is provided in the course of their search. | |
| 248067 VARGAS LLOSA, Mario. THE REAL LIFE OF ALEJANDRO MAYTA. NY: Aventura / Vintage Books, 1986. 309 pages. 1st Aventura trade paperback edition. Translated by Alfred Mac Adam. ISBN: 0394747763 $2.95. | |
| 250636 VARGAS LLOSA, Mario. MAKING WAVES: Essays. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997. 338 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. Edited and translated from the Spanish John King. ISBN: 0374200386 $7.95. Broad ranging collection by this Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists. Politically shifted to the center-right in his old age. | |
| 252463 VARGAS LLOSA, Mario. LANGUAGE OF PASSION: Selected Commentary. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000. 292 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. ISBN: 0374183260 $7.95. Broad ranging essays by this Peruvian writer, politician, journalist - by one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists. Politically shifted to the center-right in his old age. | |
| 250843 VARGAS, Roberto. NICARAGUA, yo te Canto Besos, Balas, y Suenos de Libertad: Poems. San Francisco: Editorial Pocho-Che, 1980. 138 pages. 1st printing / edition, 1 of 1500 copies. Trade paperback. Illustrated. ISBN: 0096334440 $30. Poems and prose. 'Nicaragua I Sing you Kisses Bullets and Vistions of Liberty'. Text is in English. | |
| 250502 VAZQUEZ MONTALBAN, Manuel. IL FRATELLINO. Milano: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 1999. 189 pages. Trade paperback. A volume in the Universale economica series. ISBN: 8807815354 $11.95. Italian text only. Featuring Pepe Carvalho, detective of politics, bon viveur and inspired cook. | |
| 242392 VERHAEREN, Emile. [Frans Masereel]. FIVE TALES. NY: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. 96 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Dark brown cloth with paper spine title label. Illustrated with 28 Masereel woodcuts. Translated by Keene Wallis. $63. Short Stories, strange sad stories complimented with the stark images of Frans Masereel. Nearly half these expressionistic woodcuts are full page. | |
| 248283 VORSE, Mary Heaton. A FOOTNOTE TO FOLLY: Reminiscences of Mary Heaton Vorse. NY: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935. viii, 407 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Silver-stamped black cloth. ISBN: 0405128657 $33. Important radical autobiography by a labor militant and author whose novel 'Strike!' is cited by Rideout. Includes material on the Lawrence strike, WWI, John Reed and the Communists, the Palmer Raids, the Woman's Peace Conference, the 2nd International, the Great Steel Strike, labor unions, the martyred anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, etc. Vorse's proletarian novels stressed the importance of the strength and courage of working-class women. | |
| 249302 WALCUTT, Charles Child [Jack London]. JACK LONDON. University of Minnesota, 1966. 48 pages. 1st printing / edition. Stapled paperback original. 'University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers # 57' series. Select Bibliography. $14.95. Scarce in this condition. Most copies offered are ex-library and often rebound in library card boards taped at the spine ('hardback'). | |
| 252228 WALDMAN, Anne and Andrew Schelling (eds.) [Peter Lamborn Wilson, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, William S, Burroughs, Ed Sanders]. DISEMBODIED POETICS: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School. University of New Mexico, 1994. 501 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0826315186 $15.95. Includes Peter Lamborn Wilson, interview with Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, William S, Burroughs, Ed Sanders and others. | |
| 242701 WALKER, Alice. POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. 286 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0151731527 $1.95. Novel of an African American woman - a tribal woman who spends most of her adult life in North America - who searches for the reasons invented by her ancestors for Pharonic circumcision. | |
| 246366 WALKER, Alice. POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1992. 286 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151731527 $4.95. | |
| 251076 WALKER, Alice. BANNED. Aunt Lute Books, 1996. 105 pages. 1st printing / edition. Small hardcover. Intro by Patricia Holt. ISBN: 1879960478 $15.95. Two stories, along with the beginning of her prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, that have been censored from tests, school libraries and from school curricula. These controversies, played out in communities across the United States, have raised issues of censorship and democratic process. | |
| 251380 WALMSLEY, Tom. DOCTOR TIN. Vancouver: Pulp Press, 1981. 90 pages. 2nd printing. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0889780498 $14.95. A novel of death, sex and rock'n'roll, of unabashed violence and anarchy. A cult masterpiece, Winner of the Second International 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest. | |
| 242032 WARD, A.C. [George Bernard Shaw]. BERNARD SHAW. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1963. 44 pages. Stapled paperback pamphlet. Reprint of #1 in the Writers and Their Work series. ISBN: B0007J5I8I $2.95. | |
| 252466 WARD, A.C. [George Bernard Shaw]. BERNARD SHAW. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1950. 56 pages. Stapled paperback. Bibliographical series of supplements to British Book News. Select bibliographical check-list. Indexes. $8.95. | |
| 244783 WARNKE, Janice. A PURSUIT OF FURIES. Random House, 1966. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. ISBN: B0007E0K3G $3.95. Warnke's second book, termed ambitious for a young novelist and 'abounds in flashes of insight and dramatic moments and ...exquisite tenderness.' Among various refugees populating the book is the writer Sylvia, fallen for a CIA agent representing all she abhors, set to a backdrop of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Jacket photo by NW photographer Mary Randlett. | |
| 248022 WARRIOR, M.C. QUITTING TIME. Vancouver: MacLeod, 1978. 28 pages. Stapled paperback, still illustrated wraps. Cover woodcut by Dennis Brown. $15. Primarily work poems by this Canadian logger and Wobbly. Praise blurb by poet Tom Wayman. | |
| 243212 WAUGH, Ernest and Alan Nicholson. (Ursula Le Guin). WAY OF THE WATER'S GOING: Images from the Northern California Coastal Range. Harper & Row, 1989. 139 pages. 1st printing / edition. Oversize Hardback. Introduction by Le Guin. ISBN: 0060161574 $3.95. Photography book with text based on Le Guin's 'Always Coming Home'. | |
| 248378 WAYMAN, Tom (editor). BEATON ABBOT'S GOT THE CONTRACT: An Anthology of Working Poems. Edmonton: Newest Press, no date [circa 1973]. Not paginated [about 56 pages]. Large stapled paperback, 10x7-1/2 inches. Illustrated. Notes on contributors. $14.95. Includes Pablo Neruda, Charles simic, Gary Snyder, Mark Warrior, Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, Philip Levine, Sharon Stevenson, among others. Excellent collection edited by one of the best 'work poets' practicing today, teacher and a longtime activist. Co-founder of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union (IWW), a work-writing circle, and participant in various labor arts ventures. Worked as a laborer in various industries, and the workplace is a thematic concern of his poetry. | |
| 245823 WAYMAN, Tom. MONEY AND RAIN: Tom Wayman Live!. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975. 150 pages. 1st edition, Oblong trade paperback. ISBN: 0770513107 $8.95. Originally issued in a small oblong box with a cassette tape to accompany the book of poetry. Excellent poet and a long-time IWW activist with ranging themes, including Wayman, work, love and politics. | |
| 242152 WEISS, Peter. EXILE. NY: Delacorte, 1968. 1st US printing / edition. Hardback. Translated from the German by E. B. Garside, Alastair Hamilton, Christopher Levenson. ISBN: B0006BU3DM $2.5. Association copy, with the signature of Northwest artist William Cumming fRont endpaper. Cumming has also left ink lines front page margins. | |
| 250727 WEISS, Peter. TROTSKY IN EXILE: A Play. Pocket Books, 1973. 160 pages. 1st Mass Market paperback printing / edition. Chronology. Translated by Geoffrey Skelton. ISBN: 0671786334 $6.5. Absorbing drama of Revolution by the author of Marat/Sade . | |
| 232470 WELLS, H.G. IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET. NY: The Century Company, 1906. 1st American edition. Hardcover. $65. | |
| 243333 WELLS, H.G. BOON, The Mind of the Race, the Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump, etc. NY: George H. Doran Co., (1915). 345 pages. 1st US edition. Hardback, maroon cloth. Gilt lettered spine, with publishers title label front panel. $49. Uncommon title. 'Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times. Prepared for Publication by Reginald Bliss, with an Ambiguous Introduction by H. G. Wells'. Pseudonymous collection of pieces written by Wells (acknowledged in the 1920 2nd edition). Included is a satirical view of Henry leaving a rift between the two: 'Ought there to be such a thing as a literary artist? Ought there, in fact, to be Henry James? I don't think so...' | |
| 243334 WELLS, H.G. THE DREAM. NY: Macmillan, 1924. 1st US edition. Hardback, Red cloth. Spine and cover titles gilt-stamped, top edge gilt. $9.95. Novel. | |
| 243335 WELLS, H.G. THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART. NY: Macmillan, 1922. 1st US edition. Hardback, Red cloth. Spine gilt-lettered, front blind embossed. $13.95. Novel. 'A modern psychiatrist is presented as one of the chief figures of the story but a young American heroine proves as adept as this specialist in diagnosing a mystifying heart ailment'. | |
| 243612 WELLS, H.G. WORLD OF WILLIAM CLISSOLD. Vol. 2. NY: George H. Doran, (1926). 1st American edition. Volume 2 only. Hardcover. Olive green cloth with gilt-stamped spine lettering. $9.95. | |
| 247191 WELLS, H.G. CRUX ANSATA: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. NY: Freethought Press, 1953. 160 pages. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0911826211 $7.95. Reprint of Wells' book first published in the US in 1943. The Roman Catholic press (while the Church was aiding Nazi war criminals to escape from Europe) accused Wells of spreading half-truths, innuendoes, and logical fallacies. A book swept under the rug of history because Wells offers credibility to an irrational opposing view. | |
| 248596 WELLS, H.G. THE DESERT DAISY. Urbana: Beta Phi Mu, 1957. xix+79 pages+. 1st US edition. #745 of 1,413 numbered copies, printed by the Lakeside Press. Hardback, black cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover lettering. Introduction by Gordon N. Ray. $11.95. Photo facsimile reproduction of the hand-lettered and illustrated manuscript of Wells' early novel, his earliest surviving narrative, written at ages 12 and 13. | |
| 249253 WELLS, H.G. THIS MISERY OF BOOTS. Boston: The Ball Publishing Co., 1908. 56 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Small Hardback, light brown cloth. $50. A treatise on....BOOTS!. | |
| 233625 WELLS, H.G. (As BLISS, Reginald). BOON, THE MIND OF THE RACE, THE WILD ASSES OF THE DEVIL, & THE LAST TRUMP: Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times. Prepared for Publication by Reginald Bliss, with an Ambiguous Introduction by H. G. Wells. NY: Doran, 1915. 345 pages. Hardcover. 26 sketches in the text by H. G. Wells, original maroon cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, title label affixed to front panel. $60. This book, first published pseudonymously in Britain & America, includes a satirical view of Henry James which put a strain on the friendship of the two writers. | |
| 244470 WHITE, Curtis. ANARCHO-HINDU: The Damned, Weird Book of Fate. Normal: Fc2, 1995. 113 pages. 1st edition. Small Trade paperback. ISBN: 1573660027 $4.95. Novel. What if Western revolution and Eastern reincarnation were found to be one and the same thing? Cover praise by Paul Auster and Gilbert Sorrentino. | |
| 251883 WHITE, Howard. WRITING IN THE RAIN: Stories, Essays and Poems. Harbour Publishing, 1990. 256 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. Illustrated with black and white photos. Foreword by Barry Broadfoot. ISBN: 1550170104 $5.95. | |
| 238092 WILDE, Oscar. THE SHORT STORIES OF OSCAR WILDE. New York: The Heritage Press, 1968. xiii+313 pp. Hardback. Introduction by Robert Gorham Davis. Frontispiece and illustrations in color from paintings by James Hill. $25. | |
| 249594 WILDE, Oscar. FAIRY TALES. Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper, no date. 87 pages. Small oblong hardcover in slipcase. Illustrated by Vera Bock. $14.95. | |
| 246376 WILLDORF, Barry. BRING THE WAR HOME!: A Novel about Resistance to the Vietnam War and Racism in the US Marines. San Francisco: Gauche, 2001. 275 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback. Glossary. ISBN: 097130260X $7.95. | |
| 244812 WILSON, Barbara. MURDER IN THE COLLECTIVE. Seattle: Seal Press, 1984. 8th printing. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0931188237 $2.95. The members of Best Printing, a collectively-managed print shop in Seattle, thought they had enough to worry about just trying to stay solvent. Then one night came the proposal to merge with lesbian-owned B. Violet Typesetting. Wilson and Seal Press in fact shared space with a worker-owned printing collective in Seattle back in the 70s and early 80s when there were a number of such projects scattered around the city (Left Bank Books, Little Bread Co., Morningtown Pizza and Subs, etc.). | |
| 245114 WILSON, Barbara. TROUBLE IN TRANSYLVANIA. Seattle: Seal Press, 1993. 277 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Signed by the Author . ISBN: 1878067346 $3.95. Second Cassandra Reilly mystery novel, lesbian sleuth by this Seattle author and publisher. | |
| 245115 WILSON, Barbara. MISS VENEZUELA. Seattle: Seal Press, 1988. 311 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Presentation copy, Signed by the Author . ISBN: 093118858X $2.95. Stories by this Seattle author and publisher. | |
| 245116 WILSON, Barbara. THE DOG COLLAR MURDERS. Seattle: Seal Press, 1989. 203 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Signed by the Author . ISBN: 0931188695 $3.95. A prominent anti-pornography activist is found strangled at a conference on women and sexuality and many fear a war between feminists. Pam Nilsen, sleuth, searches for answers. By a Seattle author and publisher. | |
| 245117 WILSON, Barbara. THIN ICE and Other Stories. Seattle: Seal Press, 1981. 125 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Presentation copy, Signed by the Author . ISBN: 0931188091 $4.95. Seattle author and publisher. Jane Rule blurb rear cover. One of Wilson's earlier and scarcer titles. | |
| 245118 WILSON, Barbara. WALKING ON THE MOON, Six Stories and a Novella. Seattle: Seal Press, 1983. 161 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Presentation copy, Signed by the Author . ISBN: 0931188180 $3.95. Seattle author and publisher. Valerie Miner blurb rear cover. | |
| 245119 WILSON, Barbara. TALK AND CONTACT, Stories. Seattle: Seal Press, 1978. 74 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Presentation copy, Signed by the Author . ISBN: 0931188016 $5.95. Seattle author and publisher. Her scarcest book. | |
| 245120 WILSON, Barbara. COWS AND HORSES. Portland: Eighth Mountain Press, 1988. 198 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Presentation copy, Signed by the Author . ISBN: 0933377010 $4.95. Seattle author and publisher. | |
| 245121 WILSON, Barbara. IF YOU HAD A FAMILY. Seattle: Seal Press, 1996. 281 pages. 1st Trade paperback edition. Signed by the Author and dated the year of publication. ISBN: 1878067826 $4.95. Seattle author and publisher. | |
| 245122 WILSON, Barbara. SISTERS OF THE ROAD. Seattle: Seal Press, 1986. 202 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Signed by the Author and dated the year of publication. ISBN: 0931188458 $3.95. Feminist mystery featuring detective Pam Nilsen. Seattle author and publisher. | |
| 246162 WILSON, Barbara. GAUDI AFTERNOON. Seattle: Seal Press, 1990. 172 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original. Signed by the Author . ISBN: 093118889X $3.95. Cassandra Reilly Mystery. 'Wilson adroitly folds feminist controversy into the whodunit recipe.' -ALA Booklist. By this Seattle author and publisher. | |
| 242923 WINGEIER, Stephen. NOT ONE OF US WILL ESCAPE THE RAPTURE. Evanston: self-published, 1986. Not paginated. [20] pages. Stapled paperback. Illustrated. $6.95. | |
| 246862 WINN, Dilys. MURDER INK: The Mystery Reader's Companion. NY: Workman, 1977. 522 pages. 5th printing of the 1st edition. Large Hardback. Illustrated with photographs and black and white drawings. Index. ISBN: 0517347857 $2.95. Winn was the original owner of 'Murder Ink', a NY mystery bookstore and knew most of the contributors. Overview of all aspects of the mystery genre with humor and facts. Includes Robin Winks, Donald Westlake, Jacques Barzun, P. D. James, Catherine Aird, Otto Penzler, the essay 'Marxism and the Mystery' by Robert B. Parker, 'The History of the Trench Coat' by Hopley Croyden, 'Verses for Hearses' by Isaac Asimov, poems by the anarchist/poet Kenneth Patchen and anarchist musician John Cage, and more and much more. | |
| 250997 WINN, Dilys. MURDERESS INK: The Better Half of the Mystery. Workman, 1979. xv+304 pages. 2nd printing of the 1st edition. Large Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with photographs and black and white drawings. Index. ISBN: 0517347873 $3.95. More than 50 fearless contributors, over 100 statements in the mystery's defense, enough mug shots to make Interpol jealous, and a bloody good time (in matching color). Includes pieces by or about Jane Langton, Stephen King, Ross Thomas, Margaret Millar, and many others. Winn was the original owner of 'Murder Ink', a NY mystery bookstore and knew many of the contributors. | |
| 252394 WITHERUP, William [Bill]. MEN AT WORK. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 1989. 63 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback original. Introduction by Robert Shuler. ISBN: 0916272397 $6.95. Wide-ranging poems of work, Vietnam War-related, anti-nuclear, nature, death and dying. | |
| 252395 WITHERUP, William. DOWN WIND, DOWN RIVER: New and Selected Poems. Albuquerque: West End Press, 2000. 177 pages. 1st printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0931122996 $7.95. | |
| 244310 WOLF, Christa. ACCIDENT / A DAY'S NEWS. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989. 113 pages. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Translated by Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian. ISBN: 0374100462 $6.95. Novel about the personal effects of Chernobyl on a woman by this award-winning German writer. | |
| 252723 WOLF, Christa. CASSANDRA: A Novel & Four Essays. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. 305 pages. 1st US printing / edition. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Jan van Heurck. ISBN: 0374119562 $14.95. Historical fiction from the radical German author. A retelling of the Greek story of the Fall of Troy, accompanied with four lectures she gave, illuminating its background and implications. | |
| 250696 WOLFF, Maritta. NIGHT SHIFT. Sun Dial, 1943. 662 pages. Hardcover. $35. Provides a ruthless, dramatic, fatalistic picture of cruelty and fear in a small factory town in wartime.' McBrearty. | |
| 252673 WOLFF, Maritta. NIGHT SHIFT. Scribner, 2006. 548 pages. 1st Scribner printing / edition. Trade paperback. ISBN: 0743254872 $3.95. 'Provides a ruthless, dramatic, fatalistic picture of cruelty and fear in a small factory town in wartime.' McBrearty . | |
| 245602 WRIGHT, Richard. BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR. NY: International Publishers, 1941. 48 pages. 1st edition. Trade paperback original, yellow and black printed wraps, with no printed price. ISBN: B0006EOJE8 $15.95. First published in the 'New Masses,' this is the first separate printing. Published in 1941, which is when Wright's preface is dated, although the copyright page states copyright by Richard Wright, 1938, and indicates it isrepublished with permission of Harper and Brothers. Issued as a fund raiser for Communist Earl Browder's defense fund. | |
| 248009 WRIGHT, Richard. NATIVE SON. NY: Harper, 1940. 359 pages. 1st edition, the so-called '2nd state' grey cloth with gilt spine lettering (with black background), being thus the Book-of-the-Month Club issued simultaneously with the true 1st; top page edges stained gray; title, decoration and 1940 in red lettering on title page, stated First edition with 'A-P' on copyright page. Hardback. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. $8.95. | |
| 248029 WRIGHT, Richard. UNCLE TOM'S CHILDREN: Five Long Stories. [Enlarged edition]. World Publishing Company / Tower Books, 1944. 250 pages. 4th printing of the 1st Tower edition. Hardback, blue-black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. $55. Enlarged edition of Wright's 1938 book, originally subtitled 'Four Novellas.' The enlarged edition, first issued by World Publishing in 1940, subtitled 'Five Long Stories,' contains 'important fresh material--an autobiographical preface and a new powerful long story.' It adds the autobiographical sketch 'The Ethics of Living Jim Crow' and 'Bright and Morning Star' to the stories 'Big Boy Leaves Home,' 'Down By the Riverside,' 'Long Black Song,' 'Fire and Cloud'. This Tower reprint was first issued in 1943. | |
| 246724 WYATT, Will [B. Traven]. THE SECRET OF THE SIERRA MADRE: The Man Who Was B. Traven. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. 369 pages. 1st Trade paperback edition. Photos. Appendices. Bibliography. ISBN: 0156799995 $8.95. 'Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any steenkin' badges!' A search into the true identity of the enigmatic anarchist/author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 'The Death Ship' and the famed Mexican 'Jungle' novels. For more on Traven, Google the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia. | |
| 244664 WYATT, Will. THE SECRET OF THE SIERRA MADRE: The Man Who Was B. Traven. Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. 369 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Photos. Bibliography. ISBN: 0385156006 $9.95. 'Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any steenkin' badges!' A search into the true identity of the enigmatic anarchist/author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 'The Death Ship' and the famed Mexican 'Jungle' novels. For more on Traven, Google our Anarchist Encyclopedia. | |
| 245576 WYATT, Will. THE SECRET OF THE SIERRA MADRE: The Man Who Was B. Traven. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. 369 pages. 1st Trade paperback edition. Photos. Appendices. Bibliography. ISBN: 0156799995 $7.95. 'Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any steenkin' badges!' A search into the true identity of the enigmatic anarchist/author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 'The Death Ship' and the famed Mexican 'Jungle' novels. For more on Traven, Google the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia. | |
| 246848 WYATT, Will. THE SECRET OF THE SIERRA MADRE: The Man Who Was B. Traven. Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. 369 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover. Photos. Bibliography. ISBN: 0385156006 $4.95. 'Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any steenkin' badges!' A search into the true identity of the enigmatic anarchist/author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 'The Death Ship' and the famed Mexican 'Jungle' novels. For more on Traven, Google the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia. | |
| 251940 YEN, Shih. IT HAPPENED AT WILLOW CASTLE. Peking: Cultural Press, 1951. 71 pages. Small Trade paperback in self-wrapping dustjacket. $11.95. Story of the experiences of a member of the People's Liberation Army in love with a peasant girl. | |
| 242754 YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. ALMOST AT THE END. NY: Holt, 1987. 1st edition. Hardback. ISBN: 0805001484 $4.95. | |
| 243246 YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. ALMOST AT THE END. NY: Holt, 1987. 146 pages. 1st Trade paperback. Translated by Antonina Bouis, Albert Todd, and Yevtushenko. Foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury. ISBN: 0805007857 $1.5. | |
| 243771 YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. FLOWERS AND BULLETS AND FREEDOM TO KILL. SF: City Lights Books, 1970. 19 pages. 2nd printing. Stapled paperback. Printed at Cranium Press. $5.95. Two poems, which appeared in Pravda (as reported in the NY Times and the SF Chronicle). Flowers and Bullets is based on the Kent State killings of four students by National Guardsmen while protesting the war in Vietnam, dedicated to Allison Krause, who, the day before her murder, is reported to have put a flower on a Guardsman's rifle, saying that 'Flowers are better than bullets'. Freedom to Kill was written in response to the assassination of Robert Kennedy. | |
| 245065 YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. A PRECOCIOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. NY: Dutton, 1963. 124 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Photos. Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew. ISBN: B00005WP33 $1.95. | |
| 247403 ZIOLKOWSKI, Theodore. HERMANN HESSE: Columbia Essays on Modern Writers No. 22. NY: Columbia University Press, 1969. 48 pages. 2nd printing. Stapled paperback original. #22 in the 'Columbia Essays on Modern Writers' series. Select bibliography. ISBN: B000CBNHZW $5.95. | |
| 243308 ZONGREN, Liu. 6 TANYIN ALLEY. SF: China Books, 1989. 313 pages. 1st printing / edition. Hardback. Map. Cross-Cultural notes. Glossary. Editor's note by David Carr. Signed by the Author with 'Best Wishes' in both English and Chinese. ISBN: 0835121461 $8.95. Novel of life in China from 1949 through the 80s, touching and frightening story of a young boy in poverty in Beijing from the rebuilding of the nation and a couple in the Cultural Revolution. The author lives in Beijing and signed copies are quite scarce. | |
| 246880 ZUBRO, Mark Richard. A SIMPLE SUBURBAN MURDER. St. Martin's, 1989. 215 pages. 3rd printing, Trade paperback. Cover art by the anarchist /editor/illustrator Clifford Harper. ISBN: 0312039336 $3.95. Tom and Scott Carpenter mystery. Tom is in a coma after the health clinic where he volunteers is bombed. As the bombings continue, his lover Scott must find the killer. | |