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191018220New York: Henry Holt and Company 1910. First Edition. First Issue per Ahearn one of approximately 613 copies. Octavo; vertical-ribbed maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; 252pp 10 ads. Some trivial rubbing to extremities with light spotting to upper edge of text; Near Fine. A collection of letters written between Mencken and his friend Robert Rives La Monte who worked at the Baltimore News as well as being an editor for the International Socialist Review. La Monte who whole-heartedly believed in the promise of socialism wrote six letters to his friend in an effort to convince him to reject his selfish ways and become a comrade in the revolution. Mencken an avowed individualist presents his fiery responses to La Monte's plea for total equality and universal brotherhood. Scarce in the trade particularly in this condition. APG 011a. Henry Holt and Company unknown books
190327082Boston: James H. West Company 1903. First Edition. Octavo 21.25cm; hunter green cloth with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 115pp; photographic frontispiece 25 plates of illustrations. Shallow bump to rear cover mild wear to spine ends with biopredation resulting to some scattered loss of color on cloth; binding firm contents clean - Good. Late collection of poems by the Massachusetts labor leader social reformer and early advocate for the eight-hour work day. Broken into six sections - Of Nature Of Labor Of Religion Of Patriotism Of Men Miscellaneous - "it is in the verses devoted to "Labor" that the writer shows his intellectual strength as well as his keen sympathies with all oppression and suffering.The patriotism of the writer of these verses is undoubted" City and State December 10 1903 p.388. Uncommon; no copies of the first edition in commerce July 2015; OCLC finds 20 copies in U.S. institutions. James H. West Company unknown books
189932998San Francisco: Sunday Examiner 1899. First Edition. Folio 35.5cm.; pictorial bifolium printed in green yellow and black author photograph printed on the upper panel. Closed tears and shallow losses along wrapper extremities the whole rather toned due to poor paper stock. About Very Good and sound overall. Published as a supplement to the San Francisco Sunday Examiner 1899. Poem famously inspired by the contemporaneous painting "L'homme a la houe" by the French artist Jean-François Millet. The piece was first read at a New Year's Eve party in 1898 launching Markham's career as a poet and lecturer to the working class. The painting recreated on the upper panel of the present edition shows a laborer bent over by the weight of his toil his face anguished and somehow simultaneously expressionless. Of him Markham wrote: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans / Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground / The emptiness of ages in his face / And on his back the burden of the world." Presumed first published appearance of the poem according to Markham's biographical history in the Online Archive of California. The poem would also appear in a volume of Markham's poetry the same year The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems. Sunday Examiner unknown books
192935095London: William Heinemann 1929. First Edition. Small octavo. Gray-brown thick paper wrappers printed in gold on spine and front cover; 92pp. Scattered foxing to text else a straight sound copy well preserved in the original wrappers. The radical poet's second book a collection of rather emulative free-verse lyrics in the Imagist style giving little indication of the combative socially engaged verse that would come to define Lowenfels' later career. A rather uncommon book not abundant in commerce especially when in attractive condition. William Heinemann unknown books
190645142Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1906 but after 1915. First Kerr Edition. 12mo 17.5cm; photo-illustrated wrappers stapled; 302pp. Mild wear to extremities some faint scattered foxing to upper text edges else a bright Near Fine copy. WOODBRIDGE 1043 mistakenly identifying this Kerr edition as the first printing. However see BAL 11897 for the following note: ".advertised in Appeal to Reason. Girard Kansas Oct. 27 1906.there were many reprints; the earliest probably not before 1912 was issued by Charles H. Kerr & Company's Co-Operative." In fact the address given for Charles H. Kerr on the rear wrapper dates this edition to 1915 or later supporting Blanck's assertion of priority. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
192040004Pasadena: Upton Sinclair 1920. First Edition. Octavo 18.75cm; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; ii9911pp. With a full-page contemporary inscription from Le Prade to U.S. Attorney General A. Michell Palmer on the front endpaper: "To A. Mitchell Palmer - The poets of the world appeal to you for the liberation of Eugene V. Debs. - Sincerely / Ruth Le Prade / Editor of "Debs and the Poets" / "Glad witness to your zeal for God and love of man I bear." - Whittier / December 25 1920." Gentle sunning to spine hint of dustiness to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine and clean throughout. Poems honoring socialist leader Eugene Debs by a variety of radical 20th century poets including Witter Bynner Max Eastman Charlotte Perkins Gilman Carl Sandburg Siegfried Sassoon Horace Traubel and Israel Zangwill many others. Sinclair contributed the foreword along with letters from H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw who states: "Clearly the White House is the only safe place for an honest man like Debs". A key association copy inscribed to Palmer who served as Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson from 1919-1921. As a reaction to domestic unrest Palmer created the General Intelligence Unit in 1919 recruiting J. Edgar Hoover to lead the new organization. During the First Red Scare 1919-1920 the "Palmer Raids" were launched which resulted in numerous suspected radicals to be rounded up and deported. During the final weeks of Wilson's time in office Palmer requested a Presidential pardon for an aging Debs whose health was deteriorating in prison; Wilson's response was "Never! Upton Sinclair unknown books
192046734Pasadena: Upton Sinclair 1920. Two octavo volumes 18.75cm; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; ii9911pp. The first copy is inscribed by Eugene Debs to American film actress screenwriter and editor Helen Louise Gardner on the front endpaper: "To Helen L. Gardner / With love and greetings and with deep appreciation for her beautiful character her lofty spirit her rare vision courage understanding and her high ideals and noble aspirations - Eugene V. Debs / Terre Haute Indiana / December 1924." Gentle sunning to spine oxidation to gilt with moderate scattered soil to covers light wear to extremities and heavier wear with resulting board exposure to upper right corner of front cover; mild offset to endpapers from binders glue; Good. Housed in a clamshell case. <br/><br/>The second copy is inscribed to Gardner by Ruth Le Prade opposite the title page: "To Helen Gardner - with cordial greetings / Ruth Le Prade." Spine-sunned cloth edge-worn and lightly soiled with oxidation to gilt a few small stains to front cover some erosion to cloth toward lower spine and mild offset to endpapers from binders glue; Good. Poems honoring socialist leader Eugene Debs by a variety of radical 20th century poets including Witter Bynner Max Eastman Charlotte Perkins Gilman Carl Sandburg Siegfried Sassoon Horace Traubel and Israel Zangwill many others. Sinclair contributed the foreword along with letters from H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw who states: "Clearly the White House is the only safe place for an honest man like Debs". An interesting pair of copies inscribed to Gardner 1884-1968 acclaimed stage actress and the first actress to form her own production company. <br/><br/>Moved by his circumstances and deeply influenced by his speeches she visited him in prison in 1920 bringing him an autographed photo and beginning a correspondence that would last through the mid-1920's. In a December 21 1920 letter she writes: "Let me tell you that I was surprised to find my emotional self somewhat unaffected while I listened to you talk. I know the reason now. It is the same with you as it was with Epictetus prison walls cannot confine the spirit -- the mind is ever free. So in a way I did not feel your plight as keenly as I would that of another who had little vision little intelligence little understanding about his body being so small a part of the real him that his confinement was of the physical order only." While the "special edition" of 500 with signed bookplate by Debs appears with some frequency inscribed copies of Debs and the Poets are genuinely uncommon. Upton Sinclair unknown books
192738536New York: The Macaulay Company 1927. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; pale green paper and black cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv15-1864pp; with photographic frontispiece reproducing a still from the stage production. Trivial wear to lower corners touch of dustiness to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine. Dustjacket designed by William Siegel is unclipped priced $2.00 lightly rubbed and gently spine-sunned with a tiny nick at crown and a few very short tears along upper edge; Very Good or better. Early work by the radical playwright former head of the Hollywood division of the CPUSA and one of the "Hollywood Ten." A political farce involving New York gubernatorial candidate Harry U. Collins - the type who wears a Hasidic fur cap with side-curls while addressing a Jewish group and a cheap green party hat while address an Irish crowd. Loud Speaker was first presented by the New Playwrights' Theatre at the 52nd St. Theatre on 2 March 1927 staged by Harry Wagstaff Gribble with sets designed by Mordecai Gorelick. The Macaulay Company unknown books
190415715Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1904. First English Language Edition. Octavo 22cm. Publisher's gray cloth boards decorated and lettered in black on front cover with pictorial paste-on; 57pp; frontispiece and two inserted leaves of plates with tissue guards. Light bumps to corners light wear; Near Fine with stamped ownership signature of John G. Hughes to front endpaper. Lafargue's classic anti-Capitalist parable first published in French in 1900. This edition ranslated by Charles Kerr himself and illustrated with halftone plates by Dorothy Deene. Paul Lafargue 1842-1911 though best remembered as Karl Marx's son-in-law was an important socialist critic and journalist in his own right author of the famous and much-reprinted tract Le droit à la paresse "The Right To Be Lazy" in 1887. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
19276934Philadelphia: Penn Publishing 1927. First Edition Remainder Issue. Green cloth boards; dustjacket. One of an unspecified number of publisher's presentation copies with tipped-on label bearing author's signature to front pastedown. Remainder issue in Grosset & Dunlap dustjacket but with correct publisher's slug to spine title page and copyright page jacket not supplied; as issued. Endpapers a little grubby mild tanning to text margins still VG or better in a very nice example of the scarce dustwrapper. A later work by this Rideout author whose early books infused with a zeal for socialist reform were well-received by critics and radical activists alike in the years prior to WW1. The present title an investigation of religious hypocrisy in the Episcopal Church clearly met with a limited audience given the fact that even the publisher's presentation copies had to be remaindered! Quite scarce and seldom seen in any sort of jacket. HANNA 1972. Penn Publishing unknown books
192328860New York: Lieber & Lewis 1923. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket blue topstain; 369pp. Chips and tears to jacket extremities including small loss to upper panel horizontal tear to spine crow some general dust-soiling. Near Fine in an About Very Good copy of the scarce dust jacket. Novel describing a young Virginian's dabbling with radicalism before maturing into conservatism. HANNA 1950. Lieber & Lewis unknown books
198137941San Francisco: Merlyn Gorky N.d. ca 1981. First Edition. Twenty-four letterpress broadside poems each 16cm x 11cm 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" or the reverse. Loose as issued with no enclosing envelope. Printed in different color inks on various cardstocks; each with imprint on verso. Together comprising Issue No. 2 of Merlyn Gorky a short-lived radical left literary-political journal there appear to have been only two numbers issued edited by the feminist poet Susu Jeffrey. Fourteen of the cards are signed a few with inscriptions; two dated May-June 1981. Complete and fine. <br/><br/>Of particular note is the signed contribution by "Pancho Aguila" - this was the prison pseudonym of notorious poet/criminal Roberto Solis convicted of murder in an armored car heist in 1969 released in 1992 and currently 2018 a fugitive from justice wanted in connection with a $3-million armored-card robbery in 1993. His autograph is uncommon. Issues 1-2 apparently all issued; no. 1 not located in OCLC no. 2 rare with OCLC recording one location only Delaware. Includes the following signed or inscribed where noted: <br/><br/> • Beyond Skinner's box / Steve Abbott signed<br/> • Mummy / Pancho Aguila signed<br/> • Spring Day / Dick Bakken<br/> • An ode to the great migrations / Andrew Benson signed<br/> • The Jew and the gentile / Carol Bergé<br/> • Mission district / Peter Brett signed<br/> • The warmonger's beatitude / Chinweizu<br/> • Nine lines / Geoffrey Cook<br/> • Dialectic / R. V. Cottam signed<br/> • As the general / John Curl signed<br/> • Just a note for the darkness / Tony D'Arpino<br/> • I dreamed I killed a butterfly. / Mathew Forstater<br/> • Postcard V for Susan Roach / Gary Gach signed with initials "ggg"<br/> • It makes all the difference / Phillip Guddemi<br/> • I used to lie on my back / Philip Hackett signed dated 6/1/81<br/> • A broad casting / Susu Jeffrey signed<br/> • Mist / Joyce Jenkins signed<br/> • War is a game / S. Lee<br/> • Why do the young always die / John Mueller signed<br/> • Identity crisis / Peter Pussydog<br/> • Ingredients / John S. Selby<br/> • Fish knot / Calvin Senter signed<br/> • 26 x 76 / David Shevin signed<br/> • Postcard / C. W. Truesdale inscribed: "for the San Francisco Poster Brigade / C.W. Truesdale" dated 20 May 1981. Merlyn Gorky unknown books
190731253Girard KS: The Appeal to Reason 1907. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; red cloth with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; 416 vi 2pp. Slight forward lean scattered foxing to text edges lower corners bumped with some rubbing to lettering though still quite legible; Very Good sound copy. A novel of the Colorado mine wars billed in the Publisher's introduction as "unique.from the fact that the author has introduced a new experiment in realistic story writing in that all his characters are real persons and only in a few instances are fictitious names used." HANNA 1864; BLAKE p.231; RIDEOUT p.292. The Appeal to Reason unknown books
193234722New York: Covici-Friede Publishers 1932. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; pale green and gray cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 2862pp. Hint of a forward lean else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 edgeworn sunned at spine and panels with several losses to spine ends and corners and numerous tears including two long ones on front panel mended with paper-tape on verso and a dozen remnants of cello-tape removed at same; Good to Very Good though substantially complete example. Scarce second novel by the Michigan-born author set in Lansing and Detroit and chronicling the life of a working-class Michigan girl in middle-class society. Herrmann lived in Paris in the 1920's where he was part of the famous expatriate circle of American writers including his first wife Josephine Herbst. Ernest Hemingway a friend of Herrmann's from his Paris years wrote a favorable assessment of the novel in Contact October 1932. HANNA 1699; ANDREWS Michigan in Literature p.211. Covici-Friede, Publishers unknown books
190919030New York: Mitchell Kennerly 1909 but later. Original red cloth boards lettered in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 329pp. Tight Near Fine copy in slightly soiled dustwrapper stating "Third Edition" at base of front panel. Dates on title page and copyright match 1909 however jacket states "Third Edition." Harris's only foray into "proletarian" fiction--a novel set among the anarchist victims of the events surrounding Chicago's Haymarket Square bombing of 1886. Published by Kennerley in 1909 and reissued by Harris in the Twenties; it is unclear whether the current issue is in fact from a third re-setting of the text or simply a remainder with a new dustwrapper. We note that the jacket sits about 1/16" short for the book but we offer it as received. Mitchell Kennerly unknown books
193714533New York: Viking Press 1937. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm. Original tan cloth red topstain 558pp; dustjacket. Slight lean to spine trivial spotting to foredge else binding tight and pages clean. Dustjacket is unclipped but front panel is separated at spine fold chipped with several closed tears. Good or better. Presentable copy of Halper's most straightforwardly radical novel written after his decided move to the Left following negative responses by leftist critics to his first two novels. HANNA 1548. RIDEOUT p.298. Viking Press unknown books
191920877New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1919. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 6376pp.; frontispiece & 3 leaves of plates. Extremities shelf-worn with a few tiny losses and closed tears jacket spine rather sunned else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. Anti-IWW and "anti-labor account of the ruin of a loyal German-American farmer in Washington state by striking I.W.W. farm workers" - HANNA 1504; see also BLAKE pp. 239-40 and MILES 4995. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
192014530New York: Thomas Selzer 1920. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Original printed paper boards; 98pp. Minor external wear and soil; corners of boards lightly bumped; a tight clean VG copy lacking the dustwrapper. Early work by the prolific British poet-journalist perhaps best known for his later career as a travel writer. Issued as No. 1 in the "Plays For A People's Theatre" series which also included D.H. Lawrence's Touch & Go. Thomas Selzer unknown books
19368558New York: International Publishers 1936. First Edition. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Private ownership stamp of A.C. Perlman to front endpaper. Tight straight copy in quite decent jacket chipped along upper extremities slightly soiled on rear panel; Very Good. Selections of Gold's newspaper commentaries most originally published in The Daily Worker and New Masses. International Publishers unknown books
193837747New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1938. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author this being copy no.492. Octavo 21.25cm; light gray linen with titles stamped in blue on spine and front cover; blue-violet topstain; dustjacket; xii4664pp. Light offsetting to endpapers else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $2.75 with some pinpoint wear to corners and spine ends. Stunning copy of the Massachusetts author's second novel. "Ostensibly an account of the Boston police strike of 1922 this is actually a Gothic novel in which murder rape robberty flogging and sexual titillation run wild. By the end of the novel all the major characters have died violently and Armageddon seems to have arrived on the streets of Boston. The policemen's strike releases all restraints and criminals and respectable Bostonians alike become an uncontrolled mob bent on pillage and murder" BLAKE p.265. Uncommon in the trade. HANNA 1406. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
191121365New York: Max N. Maisel 1911. First edition 12mo 18.25cm.; contemporary black cloth private paper spine label printed in manuscript; 159pp.; hinges weak textblock shaken page edges soiled old crude tape repair to index page; Good. A compilation of Russian "songs of freedom" and revolutionary poems by various authors. Some of the works included here are early printings of Ruzrushennyi Mol' "The Ruined Pier" by Grigorii Gershuni a Russian revolutionary and a founder of the Socialist Revolutionary Party; and Maxim Gorky's Piesnia o Bureviestnikie "The Song of the Stormy Petrel". Undoubtedly however one of the most interesting poems is Fedorushka here erroneously attributed to Leo Tolstoy. The poem was actually written in 1880 by Mikhail Rozengeim for whose poetry the term "liberal accusation" was coined. Tolstoy who disliked this particular poem expressed great displeasure at the incorrect attribution. The mistake was most likely made by the publisher Max N. Maisel whose shop in the Lower East Side was frequented by many political and cultural radicals. E-book format only in OCLC as of October 2014. Max N. Maisel unknown books
190017236Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19cm; gray pictorial cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and decorative panel in black and orange on front panel; 244pp. Hint of a lean with some soiling and staining to spine right edge of rear panel and upper edge of textblock; light general edgewear and lacking the rear endpaper; Very Good. The second of Friedman's three works of long fiction a sentimental tale of local-color about a Chicago tenement's inhabitants. Discussed by Rideout though not cited among his list of radical novels and quite uncommon. RIDEOUT p.14. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
194714436New York: Rinehart 1947. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Black cloth boards lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 310pp. Warmly and lengthily inscribed to a young Stephen Sondheim in year of publication: "To Stephen Sondheim: novelist and musician - With all good wishes" followed by a lengthy quotation from Proust's The Past Recaptured. Bottom board edges rubbed; abrasions along front and rear joints external; otherwise just light wear in the original unclipped dustwrapper Very Good. Satirical novel about an American radio troupe touring post-war Germany as part of a USO tour drawing heavily on Freeman's own experience as a writer for the popular radio quiz show Information Please. The lengthy inscription is to American Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim who at this time would have been just seventeen years old. The connection between Sondheim and Freeman is unclear but it is certainly plausible that they could have encountered one another - either through upper class New York circles in which both traveled; or through the progressive preparatory school Sondheim attended Fieldston School; or through mutual acquaintances on Broadway where Sondheim at this time was working his first job in show-business as a production assistant on Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro. Sondheim's name does not appear in the finding aid to Freeman's archives at the Hoover Institution. Rinehart unknown books
193433290New York: The Vanguard Press 1934. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv303pp. Small faint damp mark to lower left corner of front cover else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket designed by Ernst Reichl is unclipped priced $2.50 with a hint of sunning to spine and some mild wear to extremities; Near Fine. Attractive copy of this collection of short stories set in Chicago full of the same grim realism found in Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy. The stories first appeared in the pages of The American Mercury The New Masses Dynamo Story A Year Magazine Pagany Midland and Best Short Stories of 1933 and are gathered here for the first time. The Vanguard Press unknown books
193735182London: Constable and Company Ltd 1937. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 21.5cm; red cloth with titles stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x4391pp. Inscribed by the author to his American publisher Evelyn Shrifte on the front endpaper: "To Evelyn / With love / Jim." Upper and lower rear boar corners gently tapped though still sharp touch of dustiness to text edges else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 8/6 net showing light wear to extremities corresponding bumps to rear corners and some mild rubbing to spine and rear panel; still a bright Very Good to Near Fine example. Substantial volume collecting Farrell's short fiction nearly all of which first appeared in the U.S. published in Calico Shoes 1934 Guillotine Party 1935 and Can All This Grandeur Perish 1937. For Fellow Countryman Farrell revised nearly all of his stories adding three stories which had never before been published in book form. A distinguished copy inscribed to long-time Vanguard Press president Evelyn Shrifte 1901-1999 who published Farrell's Stud's Lonigan trilogy and many of his other works during her 36 year tenure. Constable and Company, Ltd unknown books
