Radical Literature

MAN AND WIFE. Used. Good Condition. Antiquarian. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1871 Printing Thus. A novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Used. Good Condition. No DJ as issued. Black boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Paper covering split at spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. An important, early novel dealing with domestic violence, and marriage laws in Ireland and Scotland. RARE/SCARCE.

Oneida, NY: Oneida Community, 1877. Ten complete issues all Near Fine, a few small corner creases, 3 issues with small notebook holes at spine. Includes Vol. II, Nos.3, 16, 33, and 47, Jan. 18, Apr. 19, Aug. 16, and Nov. 22, 1877, Vol. III, Nos. 9, 11, 14, Feb. 28, Mar. 14, Apr.11, 1878, and Vol. IV, Nos. 2, 11, 13, Jan. 9, Mar. 13, and Mar. 27, 1879. . First Edition. Newsprint. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.

1728. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fine. With A Table of 69 Songs; Overture Compos'd by Dr. Pepusch; typographic music throughout the text; plus woodcut head- and tailpieces. 8vo. Full speckled calf, gilt ruled, spine with 2 gilt lettering-pieces; aeg; by Rivière & Sons. London: John Watts, 1728. Second Edition. The first expanded edition to include the music printed in the text. Gays highly successful ballad opera, satirizing popular Italian opera was an immediate triumph, and ran for a record 62 consecutive performances at the Theatre Royal where it premiered in January 1728. The first edition, printed earlier the same year, had 16 pages of engraved music at the end. Here, the music is printed in the text in woodcut. It features such memorable low-life characters as Polly Peachum, Jemmy Twitcher, Filch and Sukey Tawdry. For some lyrics, Gay borrowed from Allan Ramsays Gentle Shepherd. The music was composed by the German born Johann Christoph Pepusch, a contemporary of George Frederick Handel. It… Read More

Brooklyn: Autonomedia, Inc, 1988. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 228pp, printed wrappers. Elegantly SIGNED by the author at Naropa on July 4, 1988. A rare signed copy of this controversial collection of essays by the late polymath. Unmarked copy (aside from signature/place/date written by PLW), stain to fore-edge, reading wear and faint sunning to spine.

Hardcover. 178 pp.Kiev: Politvidav Ukraini Publishers, Ukraine (1985). First Edition. First Printing. Bright, clean, unmarked copy. Front panel bottom has several small ripples of delamination. Bilingual. Color illustrations of Communist Party propaganda posters, slogans, and poetry. Very Good to Near Fine. No DJ as issued. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box, with a packing slip.

Publisher's purple cloth with white titles to spine and upper board. Bound in purple cloth with a exquisite silk embroidered dustwrapper with very light soiling, by Paul Smith (illustrator). Floral patterned endpapers. Limitation label one of 1000 copies. Unnumbered copy of 1000 with double endpapers at front. One of 5 titles published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary.

Wharton, Edith et al. Stories from Scribner: Stories of New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, Copyright 1893. Authors /stories included in this book are: From Four to Six, Annie Elliot; The commonest possible Story, Bliss Perry; The End of the Beginning, George A. Hibbard; A Puritan Ingenue, John S. Wood; Mrs. Manstey's View, Edith Wharton. Used. Black, leather-bound pocket-size edition. Pink closure ribbon has gone. Good condition. Binding is a little loose. RARE.

Rudolfo Anaya. Bless Me, Ultima. TQS, Quinto Sol Publications, Inc. Berkeley, CA. Softcover. Copyright 1972, 25th Printing Thus, 1991 SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. ABOUT RUDOLFO ANAYA: Rudolfo Anaya was an American author. Noted for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Altima, Anaya was considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature.

United States: Iranian Student Association in U.S. and The Organization of Arab Students in U.S. and Canada RARE political protest poster, no artist, no place, no date, circa 1977, the year the United Nations declared November 29th to be International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Text at bottom of poster reads "Nov. 1 - 5 sponsored by the Iranian Student Association in U.S. and The Organization of Arab Student (sic) in U.S. and Canada". Poster is Near Fine, 2 faint creases at edges. A stong graphic image with flames coming from the stock end of an automatic rifle and a map of the Palestine- Lebanon region, Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 22 1/2" x 15 1/2".

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 First printing of the stated first edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear/crease to top edge of the front cover, diagonal crease to top corner of front and back flaps, a touch of rubbing to back cover, and light wear to spine ends, else fine. A beautiful copy of a very scarce title.

Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 60pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce third issue of this important multiracial South African literary magazine. Includes work by a vast number of writers. Unmarked copy, clean with minor wear.

New York: Random House, 1972 First printing of the stated first edition. A trace of rubbing to corner tips of jacket, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. An exemplary copy.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition, first printing with "First published 1949" on copyright page. Octavo. First edition rebound in modern red morocco with skull buttons and "Winston Smith" lettered in white to left breast with on-laid fake eye to chest with blind-stamped lines; title and name lettered in white on spine; front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns replaced with collage of Orwell's eyes, including a secret "trapdoor" on front pastedown disclosing a picture of the Queen of England; minor toning to certain leaves, including title page (as pictured). Brilliant first edition in remarkable custom binding.. First edition of George Orwell's (1903-1950) classic dystopian novel that has captured the imagination and fears of readers, critics, and social observers ever since its publication in 1949. Orwell's ninth and final book, written and published in the closing years of his life, Nineteen Eighty-Four provides a gripping and prophetic meditation on the twentieth century's… Read More

New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original green cloth over boards with gilt titling and dust jacket (not price-clipped) with $6.95 price and 10/57 on front inside flap and publisher's full address to rear inside flap. Superb first printing in a bright dust jacket, minor edgewear to dust jacket at spine and folds, with slight chipping to head of spine, and small abrasions to front and spine of dust jacket, else fine in a very good dust jacket.. Exceptional first edition of Ayn Rand's (1905-1982) magnum opus and libertarian classic. Reportedly born from a conversation between Rand and fellow libertarian novelist, Isabel Paterson, Atlas Shrugged explores the morality of self-interest by depicting the consequences of a general strike by creative professionals who henceforth refuse to share with the world their art, innovations, and ideas. Set in a dystopic future America, Atlas Shrugged combines science fiction, mystery, philosophy, and romance to investigate several… Read More

THE HANDMAID'S TALEMARGARET ATWOODSIGNED UK FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING 1986JONATHAN CAPENot price clipped.Some foxing to the dust jacket flaps, but book itself is clean, with light tanning to the textblock edges. Dust jacket is in a protective cover.Includes a SIGNED LETTER to a fan (presumably a previous owner) with the comment:"It's nice to have a picture of you in the paper".(The name and address of the correspondent in the letter have been blanked out in the photo.)