The Victims of Dick and Jane
Chalcedon, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
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It is the gray brown sombre weight (opening words) (shaped poetry broadside)
Printed by S. Clarke, ca. 1980. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside, 10 x 15 inches, printed in black on white. Samuel Charters (1929-2015) was a musician, writer and poet, record producer and musician, and author of books on the blues and jazz. Poem is about a visit to the pyramids. First.....
Planes (broadside)
Printed by S. Clarke, n.d., ca. 1980. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside, 10 x 15 inches, printed in black on white. Samuel Charters (1929-2015) was a musician, writer and poet, record producer and musician, and author of books on the blues and jazz. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.....
Looking For Michael McClure at the Corner of Haight and Ashbury.
Portents, 1967. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside, 13.75 x 13 inches, folded once in middle to create 4 pages. Portents #8. Limited to 300 copies. Photo montage by Dorothy Hawley. First edition (first printing). A fine copy.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (in Seven Parts)
The Limited Editions Club, 1945. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 69 pages. 8 full-page hand-colored illustrations from the designs by Edward A. Wilson. First edition thus. Near fine copy in ostrich belly skin. Slight wear at spine ends. In chemise folder with title on spine with edge and corner wear and.....
The Organization of the House. Speech of Hon. Samuel S. Cox, of New York, in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, August 9, 1876
Congressional Record, 1876. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8 pages. Samual Sullivan Smith (1824-1889) was a House of Representatives member from Ohio (1857-1865) and New York (1869-1889) and special envoy to the Ottoman Empire 1885-1886. First edition (first printing). Very good copy.
Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (Revised edition)
Wesleyan University Press, July 2012. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. Minor marginalia on a few pages. The long-awaited reissue of a classic work of criticism -- revised and expandedIn Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not.....
'...Bribery, and Other High Crimes and Misdemeanors...': The Crimes of Richard M. Nixon. A Lawyer's Guide for the People of the United States of America
Library of Congress, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 169 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in orange wrappers (paperback). 'I.1.4' mark in ink on upper front cover.
The Subject Was Roses (program)
n.p., n.d., ca. 1966. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. Program for the Pulitzer prize winning play, starring Jack Albertson, Martha Scott, and Martin Sheen. 11 x 8.5 inches.
ALS 1785. With autograph and title 1789-1790 (2 items)
1785. Ephemera. 1. ALS: Single sheet folded with letter written on outside page only. Bottom of the page has been cut away. Fold is split and separating. On rear in same hand 'Dec. 6, 1785 / Bp of Gloucester at Bishop(?) and the g.' Letter content: 'Warsop, near Mansfield, 6.....
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress
Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office by Wyman and Sons, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 1238. List of Members, (p.ii), Table of Contents (pp. iii-x), Royal Warrant (pp. xi-xiii).[Majority] Report (pp. 1-645; Index (p.646); List of Principal Recommendations (pp. 647-670); Separate Report by the Prebendary H. Russell Wakefield, Franccis.....
A facsimile edition of Samuel Hartlib's 1641 pamphlet: A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria
Wallace Kibbee, 1961. First Edition Thus. Unknown. Unpaginated, 25 pages. Limited edition of 490 copies of which 90 copies are for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. 'Macaria' is Hartlib's description of a imaged Utopian community. First edition thus. A near fine copy in orange wrappers (paperback) with.....
typed letters signed (5 letters)
International Poetry Forum, 1977-9. Trade Paperback. Each letter on single sheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Samual Hazo, born 1928, is a poet, playwright, novelist and founder and director of the International Poetry Forum (which closed in 2009). He is the McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University where.....
Prologue Written by Samuel Johnson and Spoken by David Garrick at a Benefit-Performance of 'Comus' April 1750. Proposals for the Publisher 1744 (2 items)
Oxford University Press, 1925, 1930. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Prologue: viii, 5, xiii-xvi. Facsimile printed from type at the Clarenden Press. Limited to 500 copies. Proposals: 10 pages. Limited to 300 copies. First editions thus. Very good copies in marbled paper wrappers (paperback). Ex-lib with call numbers on covers.....
Student Concerto No. 2: Viola and Piano
Associated, November 1986. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the.....
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
St. Martin's Press, December 2025. Hardcover. A new copy. For readers of Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, and Jared Diamond: A bold, provocative, wide-ranging argument about the human idea of progress that offers a new vision of our future Progress is power. Narratives of progress, the stories we tell about whether.....
The Saint and Satan
India Publications, Ltd. Printed by James Cond, Ltd., 1930. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 48 pages. Satirical racist poem on Gandhi and the Indian Independence Movement. B/W illustrations from newspapers. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in brown illustrated wappers (paperback). Wrappers with edge and corner wear and small chip.....
Time of Year: A First Book of Poems
The Cummington Press, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 52 pages. Limited edition, 1/275. Zodiac on front cover drawn by Eugene Canade. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in paper over board covers with zodiac device on front cover. Spine edges are chipped. Dust jacket is separated at spine edge.....
Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
Yale University Press, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."--Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth century.....
Tonita Pena: Quah Ah, 1893-1949
Avanyu Publishing, July 1990. Trade Paperback.
Joiners' Company (copy) Renter-Warden's Account of Receipts and Payments, from August, 1837 to August, 1838
1838. Ephemera. Single sheet, 15 x 18.3 inches, folded in half, then in quarters. 3.8 x 9.5 inches when folded. Audit results printed on recto. Identifying title on verso. Very good copy, previously folded.
American Aphrodite - Quarterly For The Fancy-free - Volume Two, Number Seven, 1952
American Aphrodite, January 1952. Hardcover.
Typed letter signed
1928. Ephemera. Shortridge (1861-1952) was a Republican Senator from California from 1920-1932. He was a prominent voice for racist anti-Japanese forces in California. He also served as special attorney for the Justice Department in Washington from 1939-1943. One sheet, folded for mailing, on United State Senate Committee on Privileges and.....
Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 285 pages. The Presbyterian minister and college president's essay 'supporting the proposition that all men are of one human family' -- from the jacket flap. Reproduced from the enlarged 1810 edition. With a long introduction by Winthrop D. Jordan.....
West Coast Expositions and Galas. Series of 10 Keepsake folders. 1970
The Book Club of California. Printed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley, 1970. Trade Paperback. 10 folders, 4-6 pp. each, each with one (sometimes two) facsimile color reproductions of postcards mounted on first page. Index includes folders (with facsimiles) of the California Midwinter International Expo, Lewis &.....