THE PEOPLE AND THE PRESIDENT; America's conversation with FDR.
Boston: Beacon, (2002). First printing. 8vo, pp. xii, 612. Notes, indexes. Paper over boards. About as new. Letters, laudatory or quite otherwise, with commentary. More
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LETTERS TO THE CHICAGO WORKINGMAN'S ADVOCATE; November 26, 1870-December 2, 1871
NY: Holmes & Meier, (1982). First American edn. 8vo, pp. 176. Notes, index. Edited, and with an introduction and notes, by Philip S. Foner. Black paper over boards. Edges of cover slightly scuffed, o/w a nice copy. In 1870 Liebknecht was one of Germany's leading Socialists, and a close associate..... More
LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S WAR!
Boston: New England Free Press, [1965]. 4to, one sheet folded, pp. 4. Paper. Synopsized by Donald McKelvey. A little browned at edges, o/w VG. A synopsis of an article originally appearing in People's Daily, on 3 September 1965. More
"Two Poems"; In: Partisan Review, Volume XXIX, NO. 1, Winter 1962
NY: Am. Committee for Cultural Freedom, 1962. Periodical. 8vo, pp. 158. Paper wraps. Cover soiled, o/w VG. Also includes "Still Life," by Bernard Malamud, two poems by Robert Lowell, Evtushenko's "Baby Yar," and other reviews and poems. Includes THE COLD WAR AND THE WEST: A SYMPOSIUM. More
SOZIALREFORM ODER REVOLUTION
[Berlin: Komet-Druckerei] for Vulkan-Verlang in Leipzig, 1919. Third Collected Edition. 8vo, pp. [iv], 90, [2]. Bound in little browned original printed wrappers, spine little frayed, front wrapper browned. First issued in 1899, this third edition was published the year of her murder. It was her most successful book, translated into..... More
PARLIAMENT AND REVOLUTION
NY: Scott & Seltzer, 1920. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 180. Blue cloth with paper spine label. [The new library of social science.] Cover and edges little soiled and scuffed, second leaf partly loose, o/w a VG tight copy. More
"GENTLEMAN GEORGE" HUNT PENDLETON; Party politics and ideological identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Kent OH: Kent State University, (2007). First printing. 8vo, pp. ix, 307. Notes, bibliography, index. With sesveral illustrations. As new in dj. Pendleton served in the U.S. House from 1857 to 1865, and sought to unite the Democratic Party around its traditional Jacksonian principles. More
LES DISCOURS DE L'ETAT DE PAIX ET DE GUERRE, De Messire ...; plus un Livre de Mesme Aucteur Intitule Le Prince.
Paris: Hierosme de Marnef & Guillaume Cavellat, 1571. 16mo, (4-3/4 x 3-1/2 in) Two parts in one, each wth its own title-page. pp. 608; (609)-778, (6). Woodcut printer's device on both titles and verso of final leaf. Bound in later gilt stamped vellum, lightly soiled, brown morocco spine label, AEG..... More
THE ENORMOUS DESPAIR; The Diary of ... August, 1968 to April 1969.
NY: Random House, (1972). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 249. Index. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Edges somewhat soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in scuffed and soiled dj. Memoris of the founder of the Living Theatre in the intenmse 1960's. More
MEMOIRS OF EUROPE,; Towards the close of the Eighth Century written by Eginardus secretary and Favourite to Charlemagne; and done into English by the Translator of the New Atlantis [Mary De La Riviere Manley]
London: John Morphew, 1711, 1710. Second edition, corrected of vol. 1, First edition of vol. 2. 8vo, pp. xx, 334; xvo, 336. Some light marginal staining, some light foxing, and marginal staining, a very good set. With the ownership signature of "C. A. Anacker" on the corner of the title..... More
SECRET MEMOIRS AND MANNERS OF SEVERAL PERSONS OF QUALITY,; of both sexes from the New Atlantis, an Island in the Mediteranean, Written originally in Italian. In Two volumes.
London: John Morphew, 1709. Second edition of vol. 1, First edition of vol. 2. 8vo, pp. , i-vi, 1-246; , 1-272. With an engraved frontispiece in vol. 1. Some worming to the top margin of a few leaves in vol. 2 (not affecting any letterpress), some light foxing, a very..... More
BREAKING & ENTERING:; Policewomen on patrol.
Berkeley: University of California, 1980. A nice copy in slightly torn dj. A case study of officers in one police distict of Washington, DC. The author examines the problems women encounter, how they cope with those problems, and the impact women officers have on male officers, citizens, and on the..... More
CAPITAL; A critique of political economy. Volume II, The process of circulation of capital
Chicago: Kerr, 1933. Translated from the second German edition. 8vo, pp. 618. Edited by Frederick Engels, translated by Ernest Untermann. Red cloth, stamped in gilt. Edges slightly soiled, cover slightly scuffed at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. More
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY; With an appendix containing Marx's inroduction to the Critique recently published among his posthumous papers.
Chicago: Kerr, (1904). First American edn. 8vo, pp. 314. Author index. Blue cloth. Translated by N. I. Stone. Front hinge tender, cover little worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w VG. More
SELECTED WORKS; In two volumes
NY: International, (c. 1933). 8vo, pp. xxiv, 479; xxiii, 694. Indices. Errata slip tipped in at the back of Vol. 2. Maroon cloth. Spines little faded, o/w a VG tight copy. More
VALUE, PRICE AND PROFIT; Addressed to working men
Chicago: Kerr. Small 8vo, pp. 128. Paper wraps. Edited by his daughter, Eleanor Marx Aveling. Cover little chipped at bottom of spine, and little soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. More
A WORLD WITHOUT JEWS
NY: Philosophical Library, (1960). Fourth, enlarged edition. Small 8vo, pp. xii, 83. Introduction and epilogue by Dagobert D. Runes. Rust paper over boards. Cover very slightly scuffed at edges, o/w a nice copy in scuffed and little soiled dj. More
THE WOMAN CITIZEN'S LIBRARY:; A Systematic Course of Reading in Preparation for the larger citizenship. One of twelve volumes, fully illustrated.
Chicago: Civics Society, (1914). 8vo, pp. Vol. XI: Woman and the Larger Citizenship. 8vo, pp 2675-2930. Bound in little worn flexible cloth, a very good copy. Articles include: "The Prevention of Social Waste" (continued); "Factory Inspection" by Mrs. Florence Kelley; "Peace and Arbitration" by Mrs. Luceia Ames Mead; "The Public..... More
PRIVATE FACES | PUBLIC PLACES
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 448. Index. Author's presentation on half-title: "For Jane Whitehead | with best wishes | Abigail McCarthy | November 30, 1972" Illustrated with photographs. Black cloth stamped in gilt and light blue. Edges spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in..... More
UP 'TIL NOW,; a memoir
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1987). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 273. A very good copy in nice clean dj. Inscribed by the author to poet and editor William Claire: "to Bill Claire: Not Poetry " but with best wishes - any way. Gene McCarthy Mar 1987" A memoir by the poet..... More
OTHER THINGS AND THE AARDVARK
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, (1970). First Trade Edition, after a limited edition of 250 copies. Tall 8vo, pp. 81. Bound in publisher's boards, inscribed by the author: "To Bill Claire with best wishes Eugene McCarthy" Printed by the North Central Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, in Linotype Granjon, on..... More
WORKING-CLASS WOMEN AND GRASS-ROOTS POLITICS
Bloomington IN: Indiana University, (1977). First Edition. 8vo, pp. v, 256. Notes, bibliography. Owner's name on flyleaf. Edges somewhat spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in little chipped and stained dj. Research conducted on Chicago's Southwest Side and based on extensive interviews with white, married, female residents between the ages..... More
SOCIALIST MAN AND THE CHINESE REVOLUTION; The basis of the Cultural Revolution
Boston: New England Free Press, [c.1967]. 4to, one sheet folded, pp. 4. Adapted from speeches at the 1966 Socialist Scholars Conference and a conference on China. A nice copy. More
KARL MARX; The story of his life, with illustrations, reproductions, notes by the author, an appendix prepared under the direction of Euard Fuchs based on researches of the Marx-Engels Institute, a bibliography and an index.
NY: Covici, Friede, (1935). First American edn. 8vo, pp. xxv, 29-608. Notes, appendix, bibliography, index. Frontis portrait. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald, edited by Ruth and Heinz Norden. Blue cloth. Edges somewhat soiled, hinges tender, cover faded, and slightly worn at edges, o/w VG. More
AMERICAN POLITICAL IDEAS; Studies in the development of Amierican political thought 1865-1917
NY: AMS, (1969). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 481. Index. Reprinted from the 1920 edition. Red cloth. Cover and top edges slightly spotted, o/w a nice copy. More