A Living without a Boss. Illustrated
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] Anon
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First Edition. Demi octavo (18cm). Original olive-green cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 231pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates by Arthur William Brown. Bit of dusting to upper edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, lightly nicked at spine ends and with a small (
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Demokratische Thronrede um 22sten Mai 1848 nicht gehalten. Dem demokratische Klubb gewidmet
by [REVOLUTIONS of 1848] [GERMANY] Anon
[Berlin: 1848]: Vereins Buchdruckerei. Broadside, 27cm x 20cm (ca 10-3/4" x 8"). Printed in blackletter on white wove stock. Slightly toned, with old vertical and horizontal fold-lines; creased at margins; Very Good. Satirical broadside in the form of a fictional speech by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, in which he (ironically) expresses support for the demands made by liberal parliamentarians at the May 18th Parliamentary Assembly in Frankfurt-am-Main. These included expanded rights for the underprivileged classes (including, most importantly, universal... Read More
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![Lumpenproletarijat. S Ruskog [= "Lumpenproletariat - from the Russian"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/799/989/1656989799.0.l.jpg)
Lumpenproletarijat. S Ruskog [= "Lumpenproletariat - from the Russian"]
by [SOCIALISM] [SLAVIC AMERICANA] Anon
Chicago: Izdala Radnička Knjižara, 1916. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's pale red staplebound card wrappers; 20pp. Minor wear and toning to wrappers; mild toning to text; Very Good or better. Slovak translation of an anonymous Russian Marxist theoretical work, issued as Narodna Knjižnica (Folk Library) no. 9. Includes a chapter on the lumpenproletariat and anarchism. The source is possibly Pavel Rosenthal's "Люмпенпролетариат и революция" ("Lumpenproletariat & Revolution." St. Petersburg 1906). One copy located in OCLC [Michigan] as of 2024.
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The State Dunces. Inscribed to Mr. Pope
by ANON. [WHITEHEAD, Paul]
London: W. Dickenson in Witch Street, 1733. First Edition. Folio. 32.5cm. Disbound, with slight residual crust of old calf to spine region. 18pp. Some old ink spots to title page, which effectively comprises the front wrap, strong and durable, toning to the extremities of both outer wraps and a little internal thumbing, otherwise clean and fresh, woodcut head and tailpieces, luxuriously wide margins. A very good, long disbound example of a well-aimed piece of 18th century satire. A... Read More
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![The War Diary of a Regimental Surgeon [Cover Title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/432/570/1534570432.0.l.jpg)
The War Diary of a Regimental Surgeon [Cover Title]
by [WW1] Anon
Carlisle Barracks, PA: Medical Field Service School, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. Textured thick paper wrappers; 108pp. Conspicuous scuff to lower front wrapper; creasing to covers; Very Good. Unattributed memoir of a German field surgeon in WW1, translated for the use of American students at the American Field Service School. Uncommon.
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Captured War Materiel - Rifles and Carbines
by [WW1] [PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION] Anon
S.i., n.d. [ca 1918]. No author or imprint; dated from text. Oblong octavo (6" x 10"). Gilt-titled blue cloth; [22pp] text; 8 inserted photographic plates. Occasional hand-corrections to text. Text has been reproduced from typescript, cut and pasted onto leaves. "This book contains photographs of 23 rifles and carbines. The selection is designed to show the regulation weapons of England, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Roumania, Japan, Austria and Germany...there is also shown three single-loading rifles of 50 years... Read More
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The Absolute Truth
by [WW1] [PHOTOGRAPHY] Anon
N.p., n.d., s.i.. Octavo (23cm). Printed buff wrappers; [32]pp (all halftone photographic reproductions). Mild external creasing and soil; pencil note to front cover ("from Leslie / Sept 11th 1932"); another faint pencil annotation to rear wrapper, indecipherable; else clean and unmarked, Very Good. Reproduces thirty official U.S. War Department and Signal Corps photographs, all being battlefield photos of atrocities from the European theatre in WW1. Most are extremely graphic images of dead and mutilated soldiers, the only... Read More
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Father Tom and the Pope, or A Night in the Vatican
by ANONYMOUS [Samuel Ferguson, attr.]; Frederic S. Cozzens, "anti-pref.
New York: Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, 1868. First Thus. Small, slim octavo (ca. 20cm.); publisher's purple blind-ruled cloth, gilt spine; xiv,[5]-63pp.; illus. throughout, text printed on pale brown-wash stock. Light shelf wear, spine toned to tan with spotting to cloth sizing, contemporary ownership ex libris of a Wm. H. Davis accomplished in manuscript to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally sound. Attributed to the Irish poet and barrister Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886). Though unnamed in this edition, the "anti-preface" by... Read More
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Of the Birth and Death of Nations. A Thought for the Crisis
by ANONYMOUS [James McKaye, attr.]
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1862. Offprint. Octavo (19.5cm.); sewn self-wrappers; 33pp. Stitching snapped and signatures separated, brief soil to upper cover, faint creases and tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner; Good or better only. Article attributed to a founding member of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, formed the following year to investigate the status of slaves newly freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. SABIN 43370, noting this article was first published in the "Rebellion Record.
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Valpurgis; or, The Devil's Festival. In Two Cantos. The Ball and Drawing Room
by ANONYMOUS [Richard Harris Barham, attr.]; Robert Seymour, illus
London: William Kidd, 1831. First Edition. Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); late 19th-century maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original pictorial wrappers laid in; 35pp.; frontispiece and one additional plate by Robert Seymour. A hint of wear to cloth extremities, late 19th-century engraved ex-libris of a Gulielmi Gemmell, illustration signed in plate "E.G.," to front pastedown; mid-20th century ex-libris of Nathan Comfort Starr to front free endpaper; old bookseller's description tipped to p. [36] (blank). Very Good or better overall. Satirical verses inspired... Read More
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The United States and England: Being a Reply to the Criticism on Inchiquin's Letters. Contained in the Quarterly Review for January, 1814
by ANONYMOUS [PAULDING, James Kirke]
New-York: A.H. Inskeep, 1815. First Edition. Issue A. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 115pp. Light toning and foxing to textblock, last leaf of text nearly separated, else Very Good. Attack on Great Britain written in response to a series of unflattering articles written by Charles Jared Ingersoll following a trip to the United States. In turn Paulding portrays Great Britain "as a degenerate, despotic kingdom, burdened by parasitical aristocracy, and jealous of America's success (J. Eaton, "The Anglo-American Paper War" (2012),... Read More
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Télephe en XII livres
by ANONYMOUS [PECHMEJA, Jean]
Londres [i.e. Paris]: Et se trouve à Paris, chez Pissot, 1784. First Edition. Octavo; pp. [6],264pp.; [*]4 A-Q8 R4; woodcut title page vignette, head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary red imitation morocco, double ruled in gilt, flat spine decorated in gilt. Extremities rubbed with boards occasionally exposed, contemporary blue ribbon marker detached but present. A Very Good, attractive copy. Pechmeja's best-selling prose poem, published anonymously under the patronage of one Madame de Beauvau, presumably the Marquise de Boufflers. The work... Read More
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The 49 Questions: How would you reply to these statements or questions if your job was to talk to people at a public demonstration or discussion
by [Anonymous]
[Exeter, NH: Philips Exeter Academy Student Peace Group, N.D. but ca.1962]. Two mimeographed sheets, printed in black on goldenrod stock and stapled at upper left corner; 21.5cm X 28cm (8.5" X 11"); [2pp]. Horizontal fold at center, with minor wear and a few tiny creases to extremities; Very Good+. A curious list of questions designed to prepare demonstrators or debaters for issues they might be challenged with in a public forum. The sheets are undated, but appear to be... Read More
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The County: A Story of Social Life
by ANONYMOUS
New York: Pollard & Moss, 1889. Reprint. Octavo (19cm.); original brown decorative cloth embossed in black, gilt-lettered spine; [2],186,[4](ads)pp. Textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, contemporary gift bookplate of the Salem Lodge no. 100, I.O.O.F., accomplished in manuscript. Very Good to Near Fine. Novel of two sisters from a prosperous rural British family and the struggles they face when their fortunes change. First serialized in The Cornhill Magazine, edited by William Makepeace Thackeray. Quite scarce in any... Read More
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The Reviewers Reviewed, or British Falsehoods Detected by American Truths
by ANONYMOUS
New-York: R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden, 1815. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); removed; 72pp. Stock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Anonymous polemical against the "London Quarterly Review" and the English people in general, covering that country's labor, educational, and moral conditions. For example, "The general system of English boarding school education tends much to the formation of their national character. Surly and morose--proud in prosperity--mean and abject in adversity, haughty and vindictive--forgetting right, when they feel power--affecting... Read More
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![Don't Be a Gull! Written for those who want lots more war and for those who don't, by one of the latter [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/918/279/876279918.0.l.2.jpg)
Don't Be a Gull! Written for those who want lots more war and for those who don't, by one of the latter [cover title]
by ANONYMOUS
[Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1943]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 55pp. Rather dust-soiled, small stain to rear wrapper, else a Very Good, partially unopened copy. Comparison of the British population after years of war-time propaganda and the behavior of the Black-Headed sea gull. OCLC locates 5 copies in the United States as of April, 2016, at Kansas, Harvard, Duke, Swarthmore, and Minnesota.
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Three Essays, on the Modern Practice of Consecrations, and Ancient and Modern Idolatry; with strictures on an oration lately pronounced and published, entitled, "Masonic and Social Address, &c.
by ANONYMOUS
Portsmouth: Peirce & Gardner, 1807. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); removed; 23pp. Stock a bit toned, final leaf starting to separate, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary gift inscription on title page verso. Issued in response to George Richards' oration "Masonic and Social Address delivered at the Laying of Corner-Stone of St. John's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, N.H., June 24, 1807." Quite scarce. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 13703.
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Edmund and Margaret: or, Sobriety and Faithfulness Rewarded
by [RELIGIOUS FICTION - TEMPERANCE] ANONYMOUS
Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); disbound; 60pp. Light soil, else Very Good or better. Moralistic tale establishing the "basic situation often used in later temperance fiction--a marriage threatened by the husband's drinking habit" (David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal, "The Serpent in the Cup" (1997), p. 24). We find this title published later for the London Christian Tract Society under the authorship of "A.H." SHOEMAKER... Read More
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The Lottery Ticket: An American Tale
by [RELIGIOUS FICTION - NEW HAMPSHIRE] ANONYMOUS
Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); disbound; 51pp. Very faint spotting to title page (serving as upper cover), else Very Good and sound. The tale of Mr. Merriam, an upstanding farmer in New Hampshire, and his moral decline after winning $1000 in a lottery, culminating in an extended stay in prison. The tale ends happily, however, thanks to the piety and patience of Mrs. Merriam. SABIN 42155;... Read More
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The "Goldfish": Being the Confessions of A Successful Man
by [ANONYMOUS]
New York: The Century Company, 1914. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt and brown; plain endpapers; [vi],340pp. Straight and sound, unfaded, but with discoloration to front, foxing to endleaves and edges of textblock (not affecting pages), minor fingersoil: Good or better. "A self-made man contemplates his success and his family without pleasure." HANNA 3550.
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Cursory Suggestions on Naval Subjects, with the Outline of a Plan for Raising Seamen for His Majesty's Fleets in a Future War, by Ballot
by [NAVY] [ANONYMOUS]
London: Printed for the author, and sold by F. C. and J. Rivington, 1822. First Edition. Octavo in fours (20cm). Rebound in black cloth, titled on spine in gilt; plain endpapers; [ii], 97, [1]pp; with folding advertisement for a Quarterly Muster, Pay, and Victualing Book sold by Burgess, Hunt, and Carter, Ramsgate. Errata slip laid down on final page. Annotated throughout in pencil. A sturdy copy, rebound, with minor soiling to intial and final leaves, tear in folding table... Read More
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Colombe: A Comedy
by ANOUILH, Jean; Denis Cannan, trans.; Peter Brook, pref
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1952]. First U.K. Edition. 12mo (18.75cm.); original cloth in salmon price-clipped dust jacket lettered in white; 103pp. Jacket spine a bit toned, minor chipping to extremities, else Very Good or better. First produced at the Théâtre de l'Atelier, Paris, in February, 1951.
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Sociologie du Roman Africain: Réalisme, Structure et Détermination dans le Roman moderne ouest-africain
by ANOZIE, Sunday O.
Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1970. First Edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 268pp. Crisp, unread copy, Near Fine. Socio-criticism by a Biafran scholar. Text entirely in French.
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Calidoscopio latinoamericano: Imágenes históricas para un debate vigente
by ANSALDI, Waldo (ed)
Buenos Aires: Ariel, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 495pp. Clean, tight, and unmarked; few faint spots of foxing to endpapers, else Fine. Edited volume, with chapters by Lucia Sala de Touron, Eduardo Azcuy Ameghino, Vicente Oieni, Vitor Izecksohn, Verónica Giordano; others.
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Frontier Forts Along the Potomac and its Tributaries
by ANSEL, William H (Jr); David M. Ansel, illus
Parsons & Romney: McClain Printing Co. / Fort Pearsall Press, 1990. Reprint of the 1984 edition. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii,265pp; maps, illus. Tight, unmarked, Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, lightly soiled and edgeworn with a few brief nicks to extremities, Very Good. Reprint for distribution by the Fort Pearsall Press.
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