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1) THE SYMBOL
Bessie, Alvah

Random House 1966 New York. Fine in near fine dust jacket First edition. more information

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2) THE WATERFRONT WRITERS: THE LITERATURE OF WORK
Carson, Robert, editor

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Fine in near fine lightly edgeworn, lightly soiled dust jacket. Poetry, fiction, essays, and photographs from worker-artists, all longshoremen in San Francisco, including the editor.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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3) BEATRICE WEBB
Cole, Margaret

London: Longmans, Green, 1945. Very good (ink name, address, date on ffep; address card pasted on front pastedown; bumped corner; light foxing top of pages). Good+ dust jacket (edgeworn). Photographs.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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4) WASH US AND COMB US: STORIES BY BARBARA DEMING
Deming, Barbara

New York: Grossman , 1972. Near fine (light offsetting to endpapers, top cover edges sunned) in price-clipped dust jacket. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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5) SOMEWHERE THE TEMPEST FELL
Herbst, Josephine

New York: Scribner's, 1947. Very good+ (very light edgewear) in good+ dust jacket (price-clipped, tape-reinforced, edgeworn at spine and corners, small piece missing from front flap crease).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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6) THE STARCHED BLUE SKY OF SPAIN AND OTHER MEMOIRS
Herbst, Josephine

New York: Harper Collins, 1971. Seminal radical and feminist writer. Title memoir covers the Spanish Civil War. Literary figures like Hemingway, Ford Maddox Ford, and Katherine Anne Porter find their way into her memoirs, four in all in this book including a previously unpublished memoir of her childhood in Iowa. Introduction by Diane Johnson. Foxed page edges, otherwise like new in fine dust jacket.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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7) THE SORCERER'S SON AND OTHER STORIES
Johnson, Josephine

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965. Near fine (one bumped corner) in very good dust jacket (rubbed with light edgewear and soil at back panel). Radical writer.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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8) JOE JONES
Jones, Joe

New York: A. C. A. Gallery, 1940. Very good (white covers are somewhat browned) in heavy paper covers. The exhibition catalog for a 1940 exhibit of Jones's paintaings at the A.C.A. Gallery in New York City with a good, short introduction to this artist's work. Strong social content reflecting the upheaval and difficulty of the Depression.. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Illus. by Joe Jones. more information

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9) CORN VILLAGE
LeSueur, Meridel

Sauk City, WI: Stanton & Lee, 1970. INSCRIBED by author: "Peace and Corn for all the Global Villages of the Earth, Love, Meridel Le Sueur 1973." Le Sueur inscriptions are relatively scarce. Fine in very good dust jacket (soiled rear white panel; edgeworn, especially at corners). A collection of fiour short stories and one poem written between 1927 and 1945 with a 1970 preface from the author and a bibliography of her work. Midwestern writer.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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10) THE MIND OF AN ASSASSIN
Levine, Isaac Don

New York: Farrar, Straus, Cudahy, 1959. Very good+ (owner's name, address on ffep; faded spine) in Very Good dust jacket (two tears, edgewear). An examination of the "totalitarian mind" of the assassin of Leon Trotsky and the Stalinist plot behind the assassination.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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11) THE WAY THINGS ARE AND OTHER STORIES
Maltz, Albert

New York: International Publishers, 1938. Very good (giver's inscription) in good+ dust jacket (pc, edgeworn, darkened). Fiction from a writer who later was a member of the Hollywood 10 during the Red witch-hunt era.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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12) A LONG DAY IN A SHORT LIFE
Maltz, Albert

New York: International Publishers, 1957. Near fine in very good- dust jacket (edgewear, heavy at top of spine; 2 closed tears at spine). Written after Maltz's prison term following his refusal to answer HUAC's questions. He drew upon his prison experiences for this novel.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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13) THE SLAVES WE RENT
Moore, Truman E

New York: Random House, 1965. Early study of efforts of farm workers to organize, complete with bibliography and index. Bibliography and index. Near fine in Good+ dust jacket (edgeworn, darkened).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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14) THE SEXUAL OUTLAW, A DOCUMENTARY
Rechy, John

New York: Grove Press, 1977. Very good (closed tear in spine, otherwise fine) in very good dust jacket (closed tear at spine, corresponding to damage to book; in protective cover that disguises the damage and prevents its worsening). A documentary expose of the oppression of gays in Los Angeles when the power structure rarely supported the movement for fair treatment of this minority.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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15) FIRST LOVE AND OTHER POEMS
Rolfe, Edwin

Los Angeles: The Larry Edmunds Book Shop, 1951. #331 of 375 signed and numbered copies in this limited edition. Very good (browned gutters at the front and rear pastedowns, tanned pages) in fair+ dust jacket (fully intact, but tanned, edgeworn, with top edge chipped, now protected in clear plastic cover). Rolfe is best-known as the "poet laureate" of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the group of volunteer Americans who fought on behalf of the elected government of Spain during the battle against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, and some of these poems reflect that background.. Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Illus. by Lia Nickson. more information

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16) THE INTELLIGENT WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM
Shaw, Bernard

New York: Brentano's , 1928. Very good (somewhat soiled, wrinkled at top and bottom of spine), without dust jacket. Decorated covers. Extensive index and table of contents.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. more information

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17) FABIAN ESSAYS IN SOCIALISM
Shaw, G. Bernard, editor

London: Fabian Society . Very good (soiled spine, lightly bumped corners, wrinkled at top and bottom of spine, many uncut pages, spotted title page and frontispiece). 1 st edition, 2nd state: front cover and frontispiece have illustration with date "1890." Title page shows a date of "1889." The true first edition, first state would have the 1889 date on cover too. Essays by Shaw, Sidney Webb, William Clarke, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, and Hubert Bland.. Hard Cover. more information

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18) THE TWO WORLDS OF JOHNNY TRURO
Sklar, George

Boston: Little, Brown, 1947. VG+ (bumped corners) in G+ dj (worn, torn, but intact). SIGNED by author on ffep. A coming-of-age novel.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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19) THE MAN WHO NEVER DIED: A PLAY ABOUT JOE HILL with Notes on Joe Hill and His Times
Stavis, Barrie

New York: Haven Press, 1954. Near fine (wrinkled, worn at top and bottom of spine) in good+ dj (sunned, edgeworn, 1 closed tear). SIGNED by author. Photographs of Joe Hill.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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20) THE MAN WHO NEVER DIED: A PLAY ABOUT JOE HILL with Notes on Joe Hill and His Times
Stavis, Barrie

New York: Haven Press , 1954. INSCRIBED by Stavis, dated May 1954. Photographs of Joe Hill. Very good (worn at spine top and bottom, 1 bumped corner, edgeworn in a couple of spots) in good dust jacket (edgeworn, 1 inch piece missing from spine top, sunned).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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21) THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIALISM
Strachey, John

New York: Random House, 1936. Near fine (signature of owner) in good only dust jacket (edgeworn, spine torn).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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22) OUR PARTNERSHIP
Webb, Beatrice

London: Longmans, Green, 1948. Very good (rippled eps near hinges; starting 2/3 through book, but sound) in very good dj (edgeworn esp on top). Sequel to "My Apprenticeship" (1926) prepared after her death by Barbara Drake, Margaret Cole, but using Webb's text. Index and a fascinating biographical index (36 pages) that is itself a history of the period. Covers 1892 to 1912, combining her "personal biography" with the social history of the time.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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23) THE FIRST BOLSHEVIK: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF PETER TKACHEV
Weeks, Albert L

New York: New York Univ Press , 1968. Fine in edgeworn dust jacket. Bibliography. Illustrated with photographs.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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24) DOWNWIND FROM NOBODY
Wells, Joan

Charlotte, VT: Garden Way Publishing , 1970. 1st edition Review copy but 2nd printing. Near fine (edgeworn corners, spine top and bottom) in very good dust jacket (edgeworn, soiled, 1 closed tear). Wells writes about her r experiences with her husband moving from urban professionals to rural Oregon onto a 160 acre farm, attempting to live the Sixties dream.. Hard Cover. Illus. by Sherry Streeter. more information

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