Zurich, Vienna, Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 254 pp, bound in full slate blue cloth with red blind-stamped titles. Printed dust jacket. The first edition of the third book in the Mahogany series, and the first book published by the Buchergilde Gutenberg following the seizure of the Berlin... More
San Francisco: Kerista Collective, 1985. First edition. 8vo, 128 pp, perfect bound wraps. A publication by the polyfidelity commune focused on science and communal, utopian living, notable for including a relatively early article on the use of computers in the commune. The commune, which termed itself "an operational Scientific Utopian... More
New York: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, nd. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed on both recto and verso from holograph and drawing. A leaflet attacking TPF and Bill Graham, with reference to the end of the Henry Street Commune. The verso advertises the Free Store at 89 East 10th St... More
np: Up Against the Wall / Motherfucker, nd [c. 1960's]. 8 1/2 x 11" broadside, mimeographed from holograph. A broadside by UATWM denouncing censorship against protestors by the Boston police, and calling for a rally at Boston Common. This unusual broadside - the first we've seen or handled - was... More
Frankfurt: Verband des Linken Buchhandels, 1976. 4to, 48 + 12 pp, perfect bound in photographically illustrated wraps. Text in German. A compilation of articles from the underground press, newsclippings, and other texts about attacks on leftist bookshops in Germany. A valuable reference for German bookstore history as well as a.... More
np: Christopher Gray and Ammunition Pressworks, nd. 8vo, [10] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A translation into English of Vienet's piece that was first published as the sixth chapter of his "Enrages et Situationists dans le Mouvement d'Occupations". Fine. More
Apeldoorn: De Lantaarn, c. 1930. 8vo, 18 pp, saddle-stapled in wraps. Text in Dutch. Scarce early pacifist / Dutch socialist pamphlet on the perils of chemical warfare, illustrated after a striking drawing of a woman holding a child in a cloud of poison gas; the drawing and pamphlet design are... More
London: Release Publications, 1976. First edition. 4to, 16 pp, stab-stapled illustrated covers. OCLC locates only three holdings at the time of cataloguing. Old horizontal crease, and some minor foxing and toning to margins; very good. More
Helsinki: Information Centre of the World Peace Council, 1978. 8vo, 55 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. Unbelievably good and compact work that is both a manifesto and survey of anti-nuclear action worldwide at the close of the 1970's. Profusely illustrated not only with photographs... More
Ann Arbor: Youth Liberation Press, 1976. First edition. Small 4to, 80 pp, illustrated wraps. Published as double issue (#52/53)--of FPS: A Magazine of Young People's Liberation. Important youth guidebook to feminism, including issues in the social life of high school, critiques of pedagogy and curriculum, and sections on gay issues. Newsprint... More
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 " broadside, letterpress printed with Cheltenham type. Fine. Of three paper variants, this example is on rose paper stock. Among the earliest ephemera from the press, dating from the Collins St. days. The simple design gives the text, a powerful manifesto... More
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 ", broadside on red crack and peel paper with backing still intact. Peter Howard, in the Serendipity Books catalog of the Holbrook Teter archive (no. 43), suggests that this was directed at the Republican culture of fear, and that "one can... More
