DIVERSIFICATIONS [Signed]
by Ammons, A.R.
New York: Norton, 1975. First edition. First printing. Signed by poet on title page. Light spotting to top edge; Fine. Front flap clipped at the bottom as usual, not affecting price, and only a tiny spot of glue affecting the binding; Fine. A lovely copy.
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WORLDLY HOPES
by Ammons, A.R.
New York: Norton, 1982. First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 51 pp. This book has a signature which I do not believe is genuine, otherwise a fine copy. A fine copy in like dust jacket, as new.
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OMMATEUM, With Doxology [Inscribed]
by Ammons, A.R.
Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1955. First edition. Small 8vo. Light red cloth in dustjacket. The poet's rare first book inscribed: "for Barbara 11-30-58" and signed in full by the author. Bookplate of Barbara H. Mallon on front paste down. 49 pp. Light soiling, else Near Fine in a dampstained dustjacket with minimal wear and two closed tears with resulting creasing on the back panel. Ammons was the vice-president of a glass manufacturing firm when this book was published; his... Read More
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LAKE EFFECT COUNTRY
by Ammons, A.R.
New York: Norton, 1983. First edition. An uncorrected proof in orange wraps with prices written in on cover (a price correction made on the first page), in what looks like the same hand (i.e. the publisher) the word "poetry" is written on the cover; pub date written in with pencil and stamped. A perfect copy except for a small bump to the bottom edge that affects about a third of the pages. Still very near fine.
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Diversifications: Poems [Signed Bookplate Laid In]
by AMMONS, A.R.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1975]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],98pp. About Fine. Signed bookplate laid in. Poetry collection by the winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Poetry for his Collected Poems.
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EAST COAST POETS in QUIXOTE V 6, no. 4
by Amorosi, Roy (ed.)
Madison, WI: Quixote, N.d.. First Edition. Side-stapled illus. wrappers; 4to. 37 pp. Includes James Tate, "Breathing", "A Guide to the Stone Age" and "Contagion"; Robert Francis; Cathleen Quirk; Joseph Langland; Amorosi; Paul Jenkins; Donald Junkins. Very good, covers toned, light wear. Four WorldCat listings.
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The Amorphia Report: A Newsletter for Members of Amorphia, the Non-Profit National Cannabis Cooperative Devoted to Drug Research, Education, and Legal Reform - Vol.II Nos.1-3
by [DRUGS] [AMORPHIA]
San Francisco: Amorphia, 1974. First Editions. Three bifolium issues (28cm); original wraps, with text, photos, and illustrations printed in dark green on white stock; [4]pp per issue; illus. Old horzontal folds and staple holes from mailing, with the original recipient's address label on the rear wrapper of each issue; some faint foxing and mild handling, small loss from rough opening to lower margin of Vol.II, No.1, with a holograph notation (in ink) to rear wrapper of Vol.II, No.3; Very... Read More
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The Amorphia Report: A Newsletter for Members of Amorphia, the Non-Profit National Cannabis Cooperative Devoted to Drug Research, Education, and Legal Reform - Vol.I, No.3 (October-November, 1973)
by [DRUGS] [AMORPHIA]
San Francisco: Amorphia, 1973. First Edition. Bifolium (28cm); original wraps, with text and illustrations printed in dark green on white stock; [4]pp; illus. Old folds and staple holes from mailing, some trivial dust-soil and foxing, with original recipient's address label mounted to rear wrapper; Very Good+. Single, early issue of this short-lived bulletin published by the California-based cannabis co-operative between 1973-74. The publication, circulated among its membership, focussed on the latest studies centered around marijuana use, issues pertaining to... Read More
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Navaho Weaving, Its Technic and Its History
by AMSDEN, Charles Avery
Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1972. Stated Fourth Printng. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's cream cloth titled and decorated in pink and red foil to spine and front board. 261pp. Some soiling to the cream cloth, sunning to the spine that has faded the titles, and some isolated wear to extremities. A very good copy that has seen some use. Internally clean, with extensive fold out plates of Navajo weaving designs to front and rear pastedowns, illustrated throughout. A solid facsimile... Read More
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May Day 1939
by AMTER, Israel
New York: Workers Library, 1939. First Edition. Slim octavo (19cm); original printed card wrpapers, stapled; 16pp. A Fine copy. "A call for the unity of American labor; for the unity of all progressives in the democratic front for social and national security; and for a united stand by the U.S. and the USSR, the only two democracies that stand firmly for resistance to Hitler. (Published several months before negotiation of the Nazi-Soviet pact). SEIDMAN A195.
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Audit/Poetry, Vol. IV, no.2 (1965)
by ANANIA, Michael & Charles Doria (eds); Robert Kelly, William Sylvester, et al (contribs)
Buffalo: Audit, 1965. Single octavo issue. Staple-bound wrappers; 36pp. Mild rubbing to exterior, still a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. Single issue of this important semiannual little mag, founded and edited by Anania. Contributors to this issue include Mac Hammond, Peter Pinto, William Sylvester, Diane Derrick and Robert Kelly (six poems).
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Lumen" (Special Issues, 2)
by ANANIA, Michael
[Chicago]: The Wine Press, 1973. First, Limited Edition. Broadside. Limited to 90 signed copies; this is no. 50. 17" x 11" (ca 43cm x 28cm) sheet folded to 11" x 8-1/2," on heavy gray stock. Fine. A continuation of James Ramholz's ephemeral poetry periodical "Letters Broadside Series" (1972). Only two issues of "Special Issues" were printed; the first was John Jacobs' "Canons IV
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La Liberté de L'Amour ... avec La Carmagnole sociale - Le Père La Purge - La Marseillaise des travailleurs - Madame la Marquise - Le Drapeau rouge - Aux Hugolâtres - La Commune immortelle
by [ANARCHISM] LE ROY, Achille
Paris: Librairie Socialiste Internationale / Achille Le Roy, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's pink pictorial wrappers; 21,[3]pp.; vignette at head of p. [1]. Wrapper extremities a bit toned and slightly chipped, else Very Good and sound. At head of upper cover: Bibliothèque Ouvrière Cosmopolite. At bottom of last leaf of text: "Deux cents exemplaires de la LIBERTÉ DE L'AMOUR seront vendus dans les réunions populaires au bénéfice des enfants perdus, des révoltés, qui râlent dans les chiourmes." Quite... Read More
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Labor Agitator: the Story of Albert R. Parsons
by [ANARCHISM - HAYMARKET AFFAIR] CALMER, Alan; Lucy E. Parsons, fwd; Mitchell Siporin, illus
New York: International Publishers, 1937. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm); pictorial card wrappers, 126pp; illus. Mild soild and age-darkening to covers, with diagonal crease to rear wrapper, else a tight, Very Good copy. Ink ex-libris of Pittsburgh writer and activist J. Ernest Wright (see note), who has also made a few inobtrusive marks in the text. A sympathetic biography of Albert Parsons and the Haymarket Martyrs, written by a communist fellow-traveler and published by the New... Read More
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Die Moderne Gesellschaft [TOGETHER WITH] Prämie
by [ANARCHISM - HAYMARKET] PARSONS, Albert, August Spies, et al [AND] Levin Schücking
V.p., 1886 and 1869. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one; octavo (21cm.); contemporary brown cloth-backed marbled boards, two contemporary library spine labels. Boards rather rubbed, front hinge cracked, contemporary Wisconsin bookseller's rubberstamp to rear pastedown, textblock of the first title uniformly browned due to poor paperstock, title page neatly separated but present; Near Very Good. Contents as follows:. 1. Albert Parsons, August Spies et al. Die Moderne Gesellschaft, gekennzeichnet durch die Reden der verutheilten Chicagoer Anarchisten A.R. Parsons,... Read More
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Anarchism: its Philosophy and Scientific Basis as Defined by Some of its Authors
by [ANARCHISM] [HAYMARKET] PARSONS, Albert R.
Chicago: Mrs. A.R. Parsons, 1887. First Edition. Octavo. Blue-green cloth boards; 200, (3)pp. External wear: gilt dulled; bit of fraying to spine ends and corners; thin splits to hinges - still a tight, internally sound copy, free of markings; Very Good. "Anarchy Now" sticker (ca 1960s) affixed to front free endpaper. An anthology of original and borrowed materials compiled by Parsons in his jail cell; published posthumously by his wife Lucy. Includes excerpts from courtroom speeches in the Haymarket... Read More
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A Giuda da Carioth
by [ANARCHISM] [FREETHOUGHT] ORIANI, Alfredo
New York: Libreria Rossa, N.d. (ca 1920s). No statement of edition, but apparently the sole printing. 12mo; staple-bound wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to text; trivial toning to wrapper edges; Very Good or better. An anticlerical tract, written in the form of a letter to Judas Iscariot. Issued by the small New York emigré anarchist & freethought publisher Libreria Rossa, in their series "Romanzi Anticlericali." Text entirely in Italian. Very scarce; OCLC notes only a single physical location... Read More
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Le Avventure di Una Piccola Capra (Novella)
by [ANARCHISM] [FICTION] BOSCHI, Amedeo
Torino: Edizioni Era Nuova, 1949. Second edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers; 32p. Covers slightly worn and soiled; text tanned at margins; Very Good. Boschi (1871-1956) was a militant anarchist and close associate of Malatesta. We find only three institutional holdings for this uncommon Anarchist fable; the first edition was published in 1933 and is held only by the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence; OCLC, COPAC & KVK locate only two holdings for this second edition (BPL & IISH).
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[Tarnschrift] Soldaten Brevier [cover title]
by [ANARCHISM] ROLLER, Arnold [pseud. Siegfried Nacht], attr
Berlin [but London?]: Patriotische Verlagsanstalt, 1907. First Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; [36]pp. Spine expertly repaired, wrappers a bit dampstained and upper cover trimmed at bottom edge affecting text without loss of meaning, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, else a Very Good, sound copy. Anti-militarist Tarnschrift attributed to the German anarchist Arnold Roller, brother of Max Nomad, with whom Roller edited the militant periodical "Der Weckruf" from 1903 to 1907. Decoy wrappers give the... Read More
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The Thirty-Six Trades of the State
by [ANARCHISM] ALEXANDRE, Arsène; Benj. R. Tucker, trans
New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1897. First Separate Edition. 12mo (17cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 10pp. Shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, the whole a bit toned and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Publisher's advertisements printed on pp. [11] and [14] (rear wrapper). Satirical short essay by a founding editor of "Le Rire," describing the trades of "The State," from art collector to tapestry weaver, from transportation enterprise to colonialism. Though "The State" is everywhere, it is also... Read More
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The Story of a Proletarian Life. Translated from the Italian by Eugene Lyons
by [ANARCHISM] VANZETTI, Bartolomeo; Eugene Lyons, trans; Alice Stone Blackwell, fwd; Upton Sinclair, introd
Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1924. [Second Edition - see note below]. Octavo (23cm). Staple-bound, printed wrappers; 24pp; frontispiece portrait. Partial split to wrappers at bound edge; light soil, with expected toning to text; Very Good. Vanzetti's brief autobiographical statement, penned while imprisoned at Charlestown State Prison following his conviction, with fellow anarchist Nicola Sacco, for a 1920 armed robbery in Braintree, Massachusetts. The prosecution, though marred by countless procedural blunders and dubious testimony, nonetheless resulted in Sacco... Read More
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State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherein They Differ
by [ANARCHISM] TUCKER, Benj. R.
[Alpine, MI: Chas. W. Bergman, 1910]. Octavo (19.5cm); staplebound self-wrappers; [16]pp. A hint of wear and toning to wrapper extremities, else Near Fine. Tucker's oft-reprinted essay, first published in the anarchist journal Liberty in 1888. Of this odd little reprint, we can say little other than that it is scarce (OCLC gives 4 locations) and that this appears to be the only publication ever to have appeared under the "Chas. W. Bergman" imprint, which appears under the Price List... Read More
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Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One. A Fragmentary Exposition of Philosophical Anarchism
by [ANARCHISM] TUCKER, Benj[amin] R[icketson]
New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1897. Second Edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; blind-stamped decorative borders to front board; red edge-stain; frontispiece portrait; x,[1]-512,[1]pp. A slightly worn copy; boards evenly rubbed and soiled, with board exposure at upper corner-tips and rubbing to cloth at spine ends; both hinges thinly cracked (but holding); text clean and unmarked. A sound, Good or better copy. Perhaps the clearest exposition ever published of individualist anarchism, written by the... Read More
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System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Poverty (Part 1)" [in] The Radical Review, Vol. 1, no 2 (August, 1877)
by [ANARCHISM] TUCKER, Benjamin R., ed.; Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
New Bedford, MA: Benj. R. Tucker, 1877. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.). Original black glazed wrappers printed and double-ruled in red; pp.206-396,[2]. Wrappers oxidized, chipped at margins and with a few closed tears but no substantial losses; text remains clean, supple and unmarked; about Very Good overall. Tucker's first and scarcest literary and political journal, described by Longa (Anarchist Periodicals in English) as "...the one organ in which the prominent pioneer expositors of American anarchism were united" (p.... Read More
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Proudhon and His "Bank of the People." Being a defence of the great French anarchist, showing the evils of a specie currency, and that interest on capital can and ought to be abolished by a system of free and mutual banking. Series of newspaper articles written by..
by [ANARCHISM] DANA, Charles A.
New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1896. First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; morocco-grained stiff card wrappers with rounded corners, lettered in gilt on front cover; vii, 67, (2)pp. Small chip to rear wrapper; mild fading to titling, with front wrapper slightly sunned at edges; Very Good. A series of articles originally appearing in Charles A. Dana's The Spirit of the Age (1849). Stoddard notes a second printing, probably in the same year, in square paper wrappers. See Roger... Read More
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