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[Puerto Rico]: Universidad Interamericana, Recinto Metropolitano & Instituto de Estudios del Caribe, Universidad de Puerto Rico & Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe & Archivo General de Puerto Rico, 1998. Paperback. 96p., paperback, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Text in spanish. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs.

Harrodsburg KY: Printed by Democrat Printing Co. for Woodward & Shanklin, 1894. Paperback. 117p., newsprint textblock, paperbound in densely printed 6.5x5 inch russet wraps, textblock is extremely acidic and fragile with a crease and a short split to last leaf, back cover wrap similarly split and creased with a minuscule chip, front cover detached, slightly edgeworn. A good copy, still handleable and rather attractive with its announcements arranged around a central image of a gentleman in bowler hat, printed black on terra-cotta. One illustration only, the bloke on the cover, presumably owner Woodard or Shanklin. Sample ad, for "Josie M., No. 195. Bay mare: 15 hands high; foaled 1889; owned by L.H. Smyth. Note.--this mare has unusual style, finish, speed and but for being blind in one eye would be exceptionally desirable to mate. The eye was knocked out when a two-year-old, but does not affect the other.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1895. Hardcover. 260p., 5.5x8 inch boards; titling in gilt, light soil on boards, spine sun-faded and front board edges slightly toned, corners bumped, text block edges slightly toned, very light (white) paint splatter and foxing along fore-edge, endpapers slightly browning, else very good.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. Hardcover. 268p., illus., very good condition in a slightly shelf worn dj. "America's Armories paint a vivid portrait of the architects who designed the armories, of the guardsmen housed in them, and of the upper-middle and upper classes, their hopes and fears, and especially the fear of class warfare that inspired the design." - dj.

Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely, 1894. Hardcover. 399p., cloth-covered boards with a blank spine label that is worn and peeling off, 5x7.25 inches, frontispiece portrait of Savage, boards lightly worn, corners bumped, small stain on rear board, pages evenly browned, previous owner's name penciled on front blank, frontispiece and title page dampstained along top edge, chipped, and beginning to come loose. Anti-anarchist novel by the former military officer.

Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, Publisher, 1891. Paperback. x, 305p., paperback cover has the imprint: New York, Humboldt Publishing Co., 1894. It appears that Humboldt Publishing purchased Tucker's original sheets for the book and reissued it with a new outer cover. The cover has a couple of edge chips and stains, textblock very good. This book was issued by Tucker in both hardback and wraps. *Egbert p. 41 Twentieth century library, no. 53. July, 1894.

V Praze: Vzdělávací bibliotéka, 1896. Hardcover. 369p., front end paper removed, previous owner's name, gilt lettering on cover dulled but visible, 4.5x5.5 inches. Czech translation of Mackay's book on anarchism. Vzdělávací bibliotéka no. 31.

Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1896. [14p.], staplebound pamphlet, couple spots to cover, very good. Sermons of James Freeman Clarke. The theologian presents a somewhat sympathetic critique of anarchism, noting that in the European countries where it was popular, the people had little say in governance. Proposes that the best way to fend off anarchy is the promotion of rational religion and democratic civic duty.

New York: Osvobozhdenie, 1920. 283p., paperback with some chipping to the black covers, spine panel separating. Russian translation of Mackay's novel. The English translation was titled "The Anarchists: a picture of civilization at the close of the nineteenth century.

Buenos Aires: Manantial, 2001. Paperback. 361p., wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps worn else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Cuadernos Argentinos.

Chicago: n.pub, 1900. Pamphlet. 7p. pamphlet, disbound from a collection, with several small holes pierced in the left margin (not affecting the printed portion). Undated, but mentions the rebellion of Emilio Aguinaldo as ongoing at the time of writing. The Populist politician argues in defense of US control of the Philippines, discussing the factors in their occupation during the Spanish-American War. "Our national title to the Philippines is as good in law as the titles we hold for our homes; and the allegiance of the Filipinos to the United States is due the same as that of the people of Alaska or Hawaii, or New Mexico, Arizona, or Oklahoma.

New York: Sound Currency Committee of the Reform Club, 1898. Pamphlet. 66-80p. (i.e. about fourteen pages), printed smallpoint in 9x5.5 inch stapled self-wraps, dust-soiled edgeworn wraps with a couple of severe marginal chips and short tears, spinefold has begun to split, text unaffected, good reading copy. Sound Currency devoted each issue to a single author or article.

Toledo, OH: Self-published by the author, 1895. Hardcover. vi, 90p., cloth-covered boards, 6x9 inches, frontis. portrait of Caulkins, diagrams, boards edgeworn and frayed at corners, endpapers and fore-edge lightly foxed, pencil scribble on front pastedown endpaper, else very good condition with author's rubberstamp on front pastedown endpaper. Caulkins, who identifies himself on the title page as "discoverer of the circulation of the nerves and inventor of the electro-magnetic circular power," was an Ohio physician. He writes in the preface that this work is "a concise description of a new air-ship which the author believes will be the finally accepted plan of successful aërial navigation.

Barcelona: Tipografia de la Casa P. de Caridad, 1894. 45p., stapled wraps, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, illus. with charts and tables, pages evenly toned, wraps unevenly toned along edges else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Author was a professor of economics and international trade law and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Paperback. viii, 308p., wraps slightly rubbed, else in very good condition. Otto Bauer, Max Adler, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Renner, Wilhelm Hausenstein.

Oakland: Clough & Baker, 1890. Poster. 1 sheet. 13 x 9.5 in. Edge wear, top left corner missing but no loss to text; text misprinted. Good. Advertisement for tracts in the present-day North Oakland neighborhood, near the border with Berkeley. Advertises rich soils and short distances to Berkeley, downtown Oakland, and San Francisco via local trains. On the verso is a map of Oakland and Berkeley (landmarks suggest it shows the area ca. 1890).

Independence MO / Lamoni IA: Herald Publishing House [reprint by same house], 1970. Paperback. 383p., no illustrations whatsoever, else a reprint of the original 1915 version. Mild wear & tear to paper covers, clean and unmarked within, softbound in 7.5x5 inch wraps, a good (good-only) copy. This represents the account of the mission of the author as a Mormon missionary to the South Sea Islands from 1896-1900.

New York: Abbey Press, 1901. Hardcover. 105, [1]p., boards. Bound in publisher's green cloth, stamped in silver on front cover and spine. Title page in red and black. Very Good. Author's account of his 5 years as a banker in a small town in southeastern Louisiana. With various thoughts on deposits, currency, bank cashier salaries, forged signatures, and much else.

Berkeley: University of California / Bancroft Library, 1978. Pamphlet. 39p., illustrated with mug- and snap-shots of eminent professors, softbound, a stapled 9x6 inch pamphlet; covers are faintly sunned, and front cover bears the author's signed inscription to "Ann," his editor. A very good copy. Professor Constance was tapped for an annual Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture, and wondered why, "knowing only that he had a University building named for him;" it so happened that Moses was a groundbreaking scholar of Latin America and that UC Berkeley was in one of its periodic ignore-South-America phases.

San Francisco: Better Days Publishing Co, 1891. Hardcover. 373p., bound in original blue cloth, damp stain at bottom edge (not penetrating), paper slightly browned, ownership inscription on endpaper, first edition. *Baird & Greenwood no. 825. Blake p. 217 notes: "A terrible utopian novel in which a general strike results in the death of industrialist Lorin French." "Dedicated to millionaires who help workers. Narrates the history of a gold mine owner who uses his money to increase the money supply, to start co-op and urban renewal projects, and to develop powerful weapons to enforce peace. Contains many anti-Semitic and anti-Indian passages." *Roemer p. 191.