Radical, Utopian, Labor And Reform Movements from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: by the Author, 1920. Illustrated & Definitive Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 336pp. Brief (

Boston: Gambit, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 196pp. Clean, tight copy with a small (

[Berkeley]: By the Author, [1964]. First Edition. Mimeographed, stapled sheets; (18pp). Introduction signed Lee Felsenstein. Horizontal fold, with toning to covers along fold-line, else a clean, Very Good or better example. Self-published songbook compiled by Felsenstein, issued at the height of the Berkeley Free Speech movement and featuring songs by Dan Paik, Malvina Reynolds, Dave Mandel, Peter Krug… Read more about this item

New Hyde Park: University Books, 1965. First edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue coth hardcover; dustjacket; black publisher's topstain; 260pp. A fine, fresh copy, with top-stain deep and even. In original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), quite bright but for some minor rubbing at spine ends and corners; Near Fine. A very nice copy of a book usually… Read more about this item

New Hyde Park: University Books, 1965. First edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue coth hardcover; dustjacket; 260pp. Near fine, in original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), slightly rubbed at margins and folds; Very Good. Attractive printed bookplate of B.G. Wallace to front pastedown. Articles by Timothy Leary, Julian Huxley, Ralph Metzner, Alan Watts, and others, selected… Read more about this item

Boise, ID: The Statesman Shop, [1907]. First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers; 130pp. Light wear and soil, with bumps at crown and heel of spine; still a clean, sound copy, Very Good. Full transcription of Borah's closing statement as prosecuting attorney in the case of Idaho vs. William D. Haywood et. al., for the 1905 murder of former Idaho Governor… Read more about this item

New York: by the Author, 1920. Illustrated & Definitive Edition. Original green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 336pp. Usual mottling to cloth covers (seemingly unavoidable with this edition); old kraft tape reinforcements to front and rear hinges (internal); just VG, lacking the dustwrapper. Harris's "definitive" edition, restoring some passages removed for the 1909… Read more about this item

New York: The Jungle Publishing Company, 1906. First edition. First printing. Inscribed slip tipped in between front endpaper and flyleaf: "To George D Herron / with love & best wishes," signed "Upton Sinclair," undated. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in black and white, with Socialist Party emblem stamped on front board; [8],413pp. Mild rubbing; board corners and… Read more about this item

New York: New Century Publishers, 1947. Pictorial staple-bound pamphlet; 64pp. Pencil date impression to cover, light foxing to pages, else near fine. SEIDMAN T13: "...communist attack on Trotskyite [sic] activities, with emphasis on ballot steaing, racketeering, stooling for the bosses...

New York: Daily Worker, 1933. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Photo-montage wrappers after John Heartfield; 24pp. Mild cover soil; slightly mis-folded; Very Good or better. Transcript of Dimitroff's statement in self-defense before Germany's Supreme Court, made in Leipzig in December 1933, against accusations that he had participated in the Reichstag fire. Foreword by William L. Patterson, who at this… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 508pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy, with no other markings to boards or text. Lacks jacket.

Toronto: Northern Book House, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Original brown wrappers, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine; 176pp; illus. Mild external dusting & soil; Very Good or better. A remarkable Cold War document, written by the career Soviet apologist (editor of the pro-Soviet journal "Northern Notes") Dyson Carter. Carter contrasts - at considerable length - the… Read more about this item

New York: Bold Face Books, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (22cm).Gray cloth boards; dustjacket; 160pp. Clean, tight copy, VG or better, in slightly rubbed and edgeworn dustwrapper. A state-by-state guide to "problems and progress in: eating places, voting, housing, education, employment, hotels, and travel." With a jacket blurb by James Farmer, National Director of CORE.

S.i.: Central Committee of the Patriotic Anti-Dictatorship Front, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Printed wrappers; 308pp; illus. Externally worn, with creases and a small corner-losses to wrappers; internally tight and clean, with a few pages slightly dog-eared. Good or better; a serviceable reading copy. Documentary evidence against the far right military junta that ruled Greece from 1967-1974, compiled by… Read more about this item

[New York]: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1950. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Stiff card wrappers; 161, (12)pp; illus. Bit of rubbing and wear to cover wrappers; internally clean and unmarked - Very Good. Preface by Jacob Potofsky. History of the ACWU, from its origins in 1910. Well-illustrated with photographic plates (halftones).

New York: Vanguard Press, 1928. First Edition. 12mo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; viii, 135 pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn jacket with light soil, a few perforations at flap-folds; Very Good. From foreword: "...an attempt to indicate how labor might make more effective use of the [legal[ weapons that are at hand..."). Discusses a number of key… Read more about this item