La Fine dell'Anarchismo
by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] GALLEANI, Luigi
[Newark]: Edizione Curata da Vecchi Lettori di Cronaca Sovversiva, 1925. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original grey pictorial wrappers printed in blue and dark grey; x,[2],130pp.; facsimile of Galleani's handwriting. Slightly worn from handling, else Very Good to Near Fine. Lengthy essay in response to the former anarchist author and attorney Francesco Saverio Merlino after his conversion to socialism and his statement in an interview titled "La Fine dell'Anarchismo" in the Italian daily La Stampa that anarchism was dead. Galleani's... Read More
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Il Pensiero di Galleani. No. 1
by [ANARCHISM] [ITALIAN-AMERICANS] GALLEANI, Luigi
Ancona: Gruppo Editore "L'Antistato, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound, printed buff wrappers; 40pp. Text bound upside down in wrappers, else Very Good, with minor creasing and some toning to text margins. The first publication issued from this important post-war anarchist press, a compendium of short pieces by Galleani. The "Antistato" Group was founded in 1949 by Pio Turroni, who had been a prolific publisher of anarchist tracts in the 1930s and a member of the Ascaso Column... Read More
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![Anarchy and Anarchists. A history of the Red Terror and the social revolution in America and Europe - communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed - the Chicago Haymarket conspiracy and the detection and trial of the conspirators [...] with numerous illustrations from authentic photographs, and from original drawings](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/551/152/1638152551.0.l.jpg)
Anarchy and Anarchists. A history of the Red Terror and the social revolution in America and Europe - communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed - the Chicago Haymarket conspiracy and the detection and trial of the conspirators [...] with numerous illustrations from authentic photographs, and from original drawings
by [ANARCHISM] SCHAACK, Michael J.
Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1889. First Edition. Quarto (25.5cm); brown cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt, black, and red on spine and front cover; floral-patterned endpapers; xv,16-698pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author and numerous illustrations throughout. As usual, pp.689-90 lacking from pagination. Spine ends pushed and a bit worn, corners bumped, with minute board exposure to lower corners; foxing to right edge of textblock, and a few preliminary and terminal leaves; old glue repairs... Read More
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God and the State [Free Society Library, No. 4, March, 1900]
by [ANARCHISM] BAKUNIN, Michael
San Francisco: Free Society Library, 1900. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pink printed wrappers; 40pp. Wrappers slightly toned at extremities, brief chipping to spine, crease to rear cover, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good or better copy. Scarce early American edition of the first half of "God and the State" (the second half only posthumously published in 1908), reprinted from the London Anarchist Groups edition of 1893, which was itself reprinted from Benjamin Tucker's edition of that same year, and... Read More
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Correspondance de Michel Bakounine: Lettres a Herzen et a Ogareff (1860-1874)
by [ANARCHISM] BAKUNIN, Mikhail; Marie Stromberg, transl; Michel Dragomanov, editor
Paris: Perrin, 1896. First Edition. First impression. Small octavo (19cm). Printed blue paper wrappers; 383pp. Scattered marginal foxing, else straight and sound; Very Good or better in a later glassine dustwrapper. Neat ink ownership signature to half-title (illegible), dated 1947. Text entirely in French, translated from the Russian originals by Marie Stromberg. A well-preserved copy.
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Vicarious Philanthropy
by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] SWIFT, Morrison I.
N.p., N.d., but ca. 1890. Small octavo (19.5cm.); sewn pamphlet; printed self-wraps; 24pp. Front cover soiled, with faint institutional hand-stamp; text clean and unmarked. An early work by the prominent Anarchist, utopian novelist, and eugenicist; a criticism of top-down social reform measures, encouraging would-be philanthropists to "repent of their crimes against the toilers...withdraw from corrupting alliances with caste and cultivation, and .. become Socialists, Anarchists, revolutionists." No date, but mentions the University Settlement of New York (founded in 1886)... Read More
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![Etika. Tom 1. Proiskhozhdenie i razvitie nravsvennosti [Ethics. Volume 1. The Origin and Development of Morality]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/164/519/884519164.0.l.jpg)
Etika. Tom 1. Proiskhozhdenie i razvitie nravsvennosti [Ethics. Volume 1. The Origin and Development of Morality]
by [ANARCHISM] KROPOTKIN, P.A. [Pyotr Alexeyevich]
Niu Iork [New York]: Izdatelskoi Komissii pri Rabochem Soiuze "Samoobrazovanie"], 1923. First American Edition. Second edition in Russian, and first American Edition. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; [5], 6-259, [2], iv, + [8]pp publisher's ads. Minimal external wear; internally clean and unmarked; a Near Fine copy. "Tom I" all published. First American edition of what Kropotkin's editor Lebedev called "the swan song of the great humanitarian scientist and revolutionist-anarchist, [constituting] as it were,... Read More
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Sacco and Vanzetti; The Anarchist Background
by [ANARCHISM] AVRICH, Paul
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xi]; 265pp. Minor wear and scuffing to board edges and apine ends, a little residue or soiling to the cloth in places, internally clean with some light staining, in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket. A very good copy. An academic reassessment of the importance of anarchist thought, practice, and community in the Sacco & Vanzetti case.
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Russian Literature [spine title: "Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature."] Author's Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Isaak Vladimirovich Shklovsky
by [ANARCHISM] KROPOTKIN, Peter
London: Duckworth, 1905. First Edition. First impression. Inscribed by Kropotkin in Russian, on the front endpaper, to fellow revolutionary and prominent Anglo-Russian journalist Isaak Vladimirovich Shklovsky, "..with fraternal greetings," signed, dated August, 1905. Octavo. Deep red cloth; gilt spine titles; top edge gilt; xii, [1]-341pp. Externally rubbed and worn, with some loss of gilt on spine; bookplate of the Lyceum Club of Piccadilly to front pastedown, with stamp of same to title page at bottom edge of text block;... Read More
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La Ciudad Anarquista Americana. Obra de construccion revolucionaria. Con el plano de la Ciudad libertaria
by [ANARCHISM] [UTOPIAN FICTION] QUIROULE, Pierre [pseud Joaquín Alejo Falconnet]
Buenos Aires: La Protesta, 1914. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Printed card wrappers; 283,(1)pp; one folding plan inserted at p.72. A sound, Very Good copy in the original wrappers; old adhesive stain (possibly from bindery) to verso of rear wrapper; the plan with small punctures at folds; text fresh and unopened. Text in Spanish. A rare and curious work by this French-born Argentinian anarchist who, though little-known outside his native country, produced nearly twenty works of anarchist... Read More
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Césarisme et Christianisme (de l'An 45 Avant J.-C. a l'An 476 Aprés)
by [ANARCHISM] PROUDHON, P.-J.; J.-A. Langlois, préf
Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion Éditeurs, 1883. First Edition. Two volumes; 12mo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines in five compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled; xxiv,273; 312pp. Boards a bit scuffed especially to leather, leather rather dried with some shallow chipping at spine ends, spine gilt almost entirely effaced, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership signatures to both title pages, else a Very Good, sound set. Posthumously published work compiled of notes taken in the 1850s... Read More
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The State
by [ANARCHISM] BOURNE, Randolph
New York: The Resistance Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 42pp. Mild external wear and soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked - a solid, Very Good copy. Cover illustration after Henri Rousseau; introductory matter by John Dos Passos and Michael Grieg. Twenty five hundred copies printed. Bourne's major theoretical work, on governmental usurpation of social and economic resources, especially in wartime; it is the first appearance of his oft-quoted phrase "War is the health of... Read More
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The Anarchist Ideal and Other Essays
by [ANARCHISM] WENLEY, R.M. [Robert Mark]
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1913. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 274pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in a crisp, clean dustwrapper, Near Fine but for a spot of erosion at crown of spine panel. Collection of five scholarly lectures by the Scots-American classicist and historian of ideas, long-time head of the Department of Philosophy at The University of Michigan. Of the five works included, only the title essay - on... Read More
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![Der arme Teufel [The Poor Devil]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/514/927/858927514.0.l.jpg)
Der arme Teufel [The Poor Devil]
by [ANARCHISM] REITZEL, Robert
Detroit: Robert Reitzel, 1895-1897. 22 tabloid issues (ca.36cm); printed newsprinted wrappers; 8pp per issue. Publication sequence runs as follows: Vol.XI, Nos.565-567; Vol.XII, Nos.595, 597, 599-603; Vol.XIII, Nos.631-640, 642-643. Edgeworn, with occasional creasing and short tears; quite tender at folds, with splits starting; mailing label of previous owner to front wrappers of nearly all issues (Felick Jelineck); Good or better overall. Also included are three issues in poor condition (nos.566-567), badly browned, edges brittle, and split along center folds, but... Read More
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L'oeuvre littéraire de John Henry Mackay. Texte français et notes de E. Armand
by [ANARCHISM - MACKAY] RILEY, Thomas A[uraldo]
Paris: Amis d'E. Armand], 1950. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Pictorial paper wrappers consisting of folded sheets, unstapled as issued; 24pp. Cover portrait of Mackay by F. Cotard. Tight, clean copy; minute chips to extremities, else about Fine in original wrappers. One thousand copies printed, "edition réservée aux 'Amis d'E. Armand.'" This appears to be a loose translation of Riley's bio-bibliographical essay on Mackay, "New England Anarchism in Germany," which first appeared in the New England Quarterly in... Read More
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Lo Sciopero dei Risaiuoli. Dramma Rivoluzionario in 4 Atti Con Prologo D'Introduzione. 2e Edizione
by [ANARCHIST LITERATURE - ITALY] CONCORDIA, Tomaso
Genova: Edizione de "La Comune" / Tipografia Ligure, 1920. Second edition. Octavo (23cm x 17cm). Pictorial paper wrappers; 117,[8]pp. Slight raggedness and small losses to paper on spine, partially obscuring title, else a fresh, Very Good or better copy. With a Preface by Gino Piastra and an "Introductory Monologue" by "Right" (pseud?). Text entirely in Italian. Extremely uncommon anarchist drama, set among a community of striking rice-workers in rural Italy. Tomaso Concordia (dates uncertain; active ca 1910-1950) is... Read More
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My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel
by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] TILLIER, Claude; Benj. R. Tucker, trans.; Ludwig Pfau, sketch of the author's life
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1890. First English Language Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 312,[3](ads)pp.; added color lithographic title page. Light shelf wear, miniscule damp spot to upper cover, spine a shade darkened, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and bookplate to front pastedown, late 20th-century bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good or better. Though first published in France in 1843, "Mon Oncle Benjamin" was not previously available to an English-speaking readership before individualist anarchist... Read More
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The Kreutzer Sonata
by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] TOLSTOÏ, Leo [alt. spelling Tolstoy]; Benj. R. Tucker, trans
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1890. First American Edition. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's orange decorative card wrappers; 143pp. Some wear to wrapper extremities including shallow chips at spine ends, faint dampstain to top edge of upper cover not bleeding into textblock, else a Very Good, tight and unfaded copy. Though Tolstoy never considered himself an anarchist, he was among the American movement's literary darlings due to his sympathetic portrayals of the peasant class and anti-militarist views. The present translation, by radical... Read More
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![The Brownstone [Six Issues, Mar-Nov 1963]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/803/425/1042425803.0.l.jpg)
The Brownstone [Six Issues, Mar-Nov 1963]
by [ANARCHISM] [ANARCHIST PERIODICALS] RICHMAN, V.L.
New York: V.L. Richman, 1963. Six issues. Quarto (14" x 8-1/2"). Original corner-stapled sheets; mimeographed; each issue 6pp. Horizontal folds for mailing, else Very Good to Fine. Six representative issues, including the scarce inaugural number, of this individualist anarchist semi-monthly, which ran to a total of 23 issues, ceasing publication in 1965. An eccentric and ephemeral publication, described on the mast-head thus: "An independent and assertedly individual journal of commentary news and criticism of interest to residents of New... Read More
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Anarchism and American Traditions
by [ANARCHISM] DE CLEYRE, Voltairine
Chicago: Free Society Group, 1932. Reprint. Slim octavo (19.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 20pp. Touch of oxidation to staples, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. De Cleyre (1866 - 1912) was the leading figure of radical anarchist feminism prior to Emma Goldman. This title was originally issued by Goldman's Mother Earth Press in 1909; the present edition includes a brief biographical foreword, unattributed. 88766.
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![[Prospectus for] Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist. A Sociological Study](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/379/745/1028745379.0.l.jpg)
[Prospectus for] Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist. A Sociological Study
by [ANARCHISM] [BAILIE, William]
[Boston: Small, Maynard and Co, 1906]. Small octavo bifolium (19.25cm.); just a hint of toning to extremities, else Fine. Prospectus provides a brief description of Josiah Warren, founder of Philosophical Anarchism in America. "It will be brought out as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers have sent in their names to the editor of 'Liberty.'" Though no publication information is provided, Bailie's biography would be published by Small, Maynard and Co. in 1906.
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There Is Justice. A Summary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
by [ANARCHISM - SACCO-VANZETTI] [FLOYD, William]
New York: Sacco-Vanzetti National League, [1927]. First Edition. Only printing. Octavo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 21pp. Near Fine. Post-mortem examination of the Sacco-Vanzetti case by a mainstream left-wing commentator, citing evidentiary gaps, questionable witnesses, and the ultimate injustice of the imposed death penalty.
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Why? An Anarchist Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. 7 (December, 1946)
by [ANARCHIST PERIODICALS] YOUNG, William
New York: Why, 1946. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers; 16pp; illus. Minimal wear; Very Good or better. Single issue in original wrappers; includes a substantial extract from B. Traven's The Death Ship, "Kurt from Memmel." Uncommon anarchist periodical.
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The Wind and the Whirlwind
by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] [BENJAMIN TUCKER] BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1884. First thus. Small square quarto (17cm.); original japan vellum over cardstock wrappers; 30pp. Unopened. Slight browning to edges, else a neat, unworn copy. Scarce printing (possibly unauthorized) of Blunt's anti-Imperialist polemic, attacking British policy in the Sudan. Though Tucker generally limited his publishing ventures to projects that explicity furthered his individualist anarchist views, he occasionally found time for projects such as this; finely printed in two colors throughout and attractively bound in japan vellum.... Read More
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Zia Summer [Review Copy]
by ANAYA, Rudolfo
New York: Warner Books, 1995. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's promotional letter laid in. Octavo; gold and green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in tomato red on spine; dustjacket; 386pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Anaya's first mystery novel featuring Chicano detective Sonny Baca.
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