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Greetings, and welcome to Lorne experiment. If the experiment works, Bair Catalog Thirty-Two. This list we may in future decide to spare the contains 99 rare or unusual items in forests and reduce the number of cat- our usual subject areas, comprising alogs we print each year to two instead the history, art and literature of Rad- of four. But the frustrated author in ical Social Reform Movements the us will never allow us entirely to give world over (with a strong emphasis on up the paper format. And enough of the Twentieth Century and on North you have expressed appreciation for America). If you’ve been receiving our printed catalogs that, all exigen- our catalogs for awhile, the layout of cies aside, you may continue to count this catalog will be familiar to you. If on receiving at least a couple of them you’re new to our lists, you’ll in the mail each year. see that material is present- We realize that for some of ed alphabetically by subject, you – specifically, those rep- beginning (typically) with resenting institutions whose Africa and African-Ameri- fiscal years turn over at the cana and ending with Wom- first of the year – this cata- en’s History. Between those log may be landing on your dependable book-ends, the virtual desks at a somewhat stops include whatever new inopportune moment. Don’t and noteworthy items we’ve fret. We’re happy to defer managed to turn up in the billing until the new fiscal previous months that we year, or to adapt in any other way to thought would be best presented in the imperatives of your institution’s the context of a catalog. In this in- accounting department. We’ve yet to stance, we have what we feel to be meet the bookseller who won’t be just particularly strong offerings in the as desperate for cash sixty days from areas of Anarchism (items 29-33); now as they are today. works by women (especially items 43, 46 and 96); and Radical & Pro- Finally, a warm thanks to all of you letarian Literature (items 68-80). As who’ve supported us over the past always, our emphasis has been on year (to say nothing of the past twen- material that is either unique or sig- ty-five). You’ve given us lots to be nificantly unusual that it is unlikely to thankful for, and we wish everyone a be encountered elsewhere. warm and nourishing holiday season. It’s been some years since we pre- Sincerely, sented a catalog in electronic-only The ever-expanding Lorne Bair Rare Books format. Our fondness for print cata- crew: Lorne, Francesca, Jessica, Helene, logs is well-known. But a confluence Amir and Ashley. of events – the season, other ongoing projects, and the changing tastes of our customers – have led us to this LORNE BAIR RARE BOOKS :: CATALOG THIRTY-TWO PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HORATIO BRIDGE to a U.S. SENATOR

1. [AFRICA] BRIDGE, Horatio (author); HAW- THORNE, Nathaniel (editor) Journal of an African Cruiser: Compris- ing Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape de Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Le- one, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1853. Presumed Third Printing, First Issue (see note below). Octavo (19.25cm); brown vertically-ribbed cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, tri- ple-ruled border and decorative centerpieces stamped in blind to covers; pale yellow endpapers;179,[3]pp. Inscribed in pencil on the front flyleaf: “Hon. J. Collamer / With respects of The Author” (likely Jacob Collamer, judge and U.S. Senator from Ver- mont). Tiny chip to upper left corner of rear endpaper, handful of dog-eared pages smoothed out, else very Near Fine. Handsome copy of this volume Hawthorne edited for his friend and patron Horatio Bridge (1806-1893), a United States Navy of- ficer. First printed in wrappers in 1845, Journal is the narrative of Bridge’s trip on the USS Saratoga, “the flagship of Commodore Matthew Perry, with the mission to stop and search all American ships on the west coast of Africa that might be carrying slaves. That mission was fruitless (they saw none), but Bridge’s comments on the efforts of the American Colonization Society in Liberia and on Africa in general were vivid” (Moore, Margaret B. the Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne, p.135). An interesting printing, not noted by BAL - “What appear to be first-issue sheets with the Putnam title page intact, gathered in the same form as the Putnam publication, are also found in a typical Ticknor format A binding...When Ticknor and Fields bought the Putnam plates for Mosses and Cruiser at the Bangs Bros. Trade Sale in New York, March 1854, they may have acquired some Putnam sheets that were later bound up in Ticknor style and distributed in an effort to recover some of the purchase costs” (Note: CLARK A14.1.c1). Presentation copies uncommon, with only two noted in Rare Book Hub (PBA, 2019; Goodspeed, 1910). cf.BAL 7597. $850. ORIGINAL PRINT by a CELEBRATED CHRONICLER OF AFRICAN VOODOO

would probably have disrupted things...After some hesitation, the 2. [AFRICA] VON HOFFMAN, Carl man came forward and, in Zulu, with a few English words thrown Original Photograph: “The Voodoo Be- in, said that he was about to drown some spirits. There were three pots near by, with fires beneath, and some of the women were lief Among African Natives” pouring water into them. The Voodoo doctor, dressed in a black N.p.: Pacific & Atlantic Photos, n.d. but mid-1920’s. Original sil- robe, stood there holding a Bible in Zulu script, and mumbling in- ver gelatin print, measuring 24cm x 16.5cm (9.5” x 6.5”). With cantations. The patients now came forward, stripped to the waist, P&A Photos rubber-stamp on verso, along with a lengthy holo- to be anointed by the Voodoo doctor with lion fat, and among graph caption in blue pencil: “HOF 221287 / © by Carl von them was the girl who had been bewitched...muttering to herself Hoffman from P&A / The Voodoo belief among African natives but no longer raving. Each of the patients was then told to kneel / The bewitched natives drink water with voodoo gods blessing. and drink from the can of water placed before him, while the doc- / They then vomit it and the bad spirits leave them. / This is tor kept up his incantations. The hot water was served in gallon forbidden by the white man in Africa and is a prison offense. / cans, which formed part of the Voodoo equipment, and the pa- The photographer came upon this group in a bush by the riv- tient was not allowed to stop drinking until the can was emptied, er by chance.” Mild rippling, rubber-stamp faded on verso; Very as otherwise the magic would lose its force. As soon as one can Good+. was emptied by a patient he would be given another, urged on by being told that the more magic he consumed the more certain was Fine image by Carl von Hoffman (1889-1982), documenting a the cure...When all drinking ceased, the doctor showed them how voodoo ritual in Zululand during a three-year trip from Cape- to insert their fingers in their mouths as far back as possible, with town to Cairo. Von Hoffman was a soldier, adventurer, author, the result that much vomiting started. To those struggling, the and photographer, best known for his photographs of Theodore doctor shouted that the evil spirit was fighting within them, that Roosevelt, Pancho Villa, and the Mexican Revolution, as well as it was trying to stay in their stomachs, and must be driven out by his role as cinematographer for D.W. Griffith; he was a member throwing it up. After ridding themselves of the water, the patients of the Explorers Club, and a lifetime member of the Adventur- got up and walked away with smiling faces, for now they were ers’ Club of New York. In As Told at The Explorers Club: More than unwitched. The raving girl was among the cured. When the Voo- Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure, he recalls a love potion gone wrong, doo doctor, M’Zungu, left the ravine, his safari contained goats, resulting in a young woman “running about braying like a ze- cows, and sheep that had been paid him for the cure” (pp.64-65). bra” being the catalyst for the ritual, which was carried out by a A fascinating and well-documented view of an African voodoo renowned witch doctor. “It turned out that the witch doctor was ritual, captured at a time when such ceremonies would be seldom Lucas M’Zungu, a great Voodoo doctor, a combination of witch seen by non-Africans. and witch doctor with a smattering of the white man’s religion. I approached the place with caution in the hope of watching the $750. performance unobserved. The Voodoo practice, as any witch- craft, was forbidden by the white man’s law, and my appearance 3. [AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS] ATTAWAY, William Blood on the Forge Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine; dustjacket; 279pp. Touch of softening to spine ends, previous owner’s name at front pastedown, with offsetting from binders glue to both pastedowns; Near Fine. Dust- jacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly edgeworn, with a few small nicks and tears to extremities, and faint foxing to verso; Very Good+, with the spine unfaded. Attaway’s second book, and a classic novel of postwar Afri- can-American migration, following the lives and careers of three southern-born brothers in their travels to the industrial North. Highly praised upon publication by the likes of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but long-neglected until a recent reissue by the New York Review of Books. Scarce in jacket. HANNA 148,; BLAKE p.271. $450.

4. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [A.M.E. CHURCH] STROYER, Jacob My Life in the South. [New and En- larged Edition, Inscribed as Usual] Salem, MA: Newcomb & Gauss, 1898. Fourth edition. 12mo (19cm); publisher’s dark brown cloth with gilt title to front cover; portrait frontispiece; 100pp. Mild external rubbing, with a hint of fading to spine; Very Good or better. In- scribed by the author in ink below his portrait. Fourth (and final) edition of Stroyer’s autobiog- raphy, recounting his youth in slavery in South Carolina and harsh recollections of life in the Confederate South. Following the Civil War, Stroyer migrated to Massachusetts, where he became an ordained A.M.E. minister. Preced- ed by editions in 1879, 1880, and 1891; all copies we have seen of this fourth edition bear the same generic handwritten inscription. $250. 5. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLITION] COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Resolutions Relating to the Abolition of Slavery [Senate No. 84] [Massachusetts?: 1837]. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); single leaf folded into 8-pp. pamphlet, partially opened. Previous mail folds, some creasing and wear to extremities, light foxing throughout, faint contemporary pencil notes on p. [6] (blank), else Very Good and sound. Response of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the introduction of the infamous slavery gag rule, printed here and maintaining that “all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, without being either printed or referred, should be laid upon the table” (p. [3].) The text following this statute includes letters from Charles Allen, arguing that Congress “possesses the right to abolish slavery and the slave trade therein”; and a Mr. Sage, who wrote “That we repudiate and disavow the idea that free and honest discussion of a great moral and political question, can, under our constitution and laws, be prosecuted as a misdemeanor” (p. 7). Nevertheless, the gag rule stood, from 1836 to 1844, despite the efforts of Allen, Sage, and John Quincy Adams. Quite scarce, with no copies in the trade or auction records as of October, 2019. $450.

6. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLITION] FOLLEN, Mrs. [Eliza Lee Cabot] and Samuel Long- fellow [Broadside] For the Twenty-Fifth Nation- al Anti-Slavery Subscription Anniversa- ry, at the Music Hall, Boston, Wednes- day Evening, January 26, 1859 Boston: Prentiss, Sawyer, & Co., 1859. First Edition. Original broadside (24.5x19cm.); text printed in two columns within decorative border. Some toning to verso along previous folds, tiny chip to left-hand edge, else Very Good and sound. Broadside issued on the occasion of the Society’s twenty-fifth anniversary, providing the lyrics to three anti-slavery hymns, two by Follen, “The Slave’s Prayer” and “Song for the Friends of Freedom”; the last, “Watchman, What of the Night?” by Samu- el Longfellow, brother of Henry Wadsworth. $350. 7. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLI- TION] GARRISON, William Lloyd Sonnets and Other Poems [Publisher’s Presentation Copy] Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1843. First Edition. 16mo (17cm). Pub- lisher’s decorative cloth, lettered in gilt on front board; 96pp. Slight external rubbing and soil; scattered foxing and staining to text; still a solid, pleasing, Very Good copy. Ink presentation to front endpaper, from the publisher to his sister: “Mrs Betsey Jonhnson / with the regards of her brother,” signed “O. John- son,” undated. Early collection of Garrison’s poems, most on abolitionist themes, many having first appeared in the pages ofThe Liberator. Includes a brief prose introduction by Garrison. $750.

8. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLITION] FREEMAN, O.S. (pseud. of Edward Coit Rogers) Letters on Slavery, Addressed to the Pro-Slavery Men of America; Showing Its Illegality in all Ages and Nations: Its Desctructive War Upon Society and Government, Morals and Religion Boston: Bela Marsh, 1855. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm); publisher’s vertically-ribbed deep brown cloth titled in gilt, with or- nate floral border stamped in blind to covers; cream endpapers; iv,[5]-108pp, with “Opinions of the Press” leaf tipped onto p.iii. Light wear to base of spine and lower corners, touch of fraying to cloth at crown, with a small tear to upper front joint, and some scattered foxing to text edges, preliminary, and terminal leaves; Very Good+. Series of ten pseudonymously-written letters by abolitionist writer Edward Coit Rogers, addressed to pro-slavery men in America, in hopes that they would “with well-directed power, strike down the evils that make war upon the “rights of human nature.” Among the opinions of the press on the inserted leaf are recommendations from the Liberator, Gerrit Smith, and the Boston Telegraph, which notes: “We have rarely seen so much genuine anti-slavery truth packed into so small a space as is the case with this work. The author has ransacked history, theology, philosophy, law, and every other species of knowledge for arguments against the sin of this country.” Scarce in commerce; we find no copies for sale in the trade (Sept.2019), with the most recent copy in the auction record sold in 1928. SABIN 25773; LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 8959; DUMOND, p.98. $450. 9. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLITION- ISM] GOODELL, William Come-Outerism. The Duty of Secession from a Corrupt Church New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1845. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); side-stitched self-wrappers; 38pp. Light wear and dust-soil, else Very Good and fresh. “One of the most important manifestations of anarchism in an- tebellum reform was come-outerism, a type of religious hostility to the organized churches” (see Lewis Perry, Radical Abolitionism (1995), p. [92]). The movement was heavily encouraged by Wil- liam Lloyd Garrison in his abolitionist newspaper the Liberator, which advocated secession from all organized churches. Good- ell, himself the editor of the Society’s newspaper The Emancipator, disagreed strongly with many of Garrison’s views, here instead arguing only in favor of secession from “corrupt” churches. DU- MOND, p. 60; LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 4167. $650.

10. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLITION] [GRAYSON, William J.] The Hireling and Slave Charleston: John Russell, 1854. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher’s brown gilt-lettered cloth, yellow glazed endpapers; xvi,[17]-106pp. Cloth unevenly sunned along extremities, first few leaves quite browned, later (1919) pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Lengthy poem of 1,576 lines romanticizing the slave-holding South, described by one scholar as “One of the most effective of the many books defending the institution of slavery in the eighteen fifties” (Thomas D. Jarrett, “The Literary Significance of William J. Grayson’s ‘The Hireling and Slave,’” in “The Georgia Review,” Vol. 5, no. 4, Winter, 1951, p. 487). Throughout, Grayson compares the wage-earner of the North to the enslaved person of the South, a trope over which he would lose his New York publisher (Jennifer Rae Greeson, Our South (2010), p. 117). SABIN 28424. $450. FICTIONAL SLAVE NARRATIVE, with AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVENANCE

his health. (For additional information see Louis S. Friedland, 11. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLI- “Richard Hildreth’s Minor Works,” in Papers of the Bibliographical TION] [HILDRETH, Richard] Society of America, Vol. 40, no. 2, 2nd Quarter, 1946.) LCP AF- RO-AMERICANA 4798-4800 for other editions; SABIN 31790; The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore WRIGHT I 1189. [James Monroe Whitfield’s Copy] This copy presented by an anonymous Englishman to the Afri- Boston: Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, 1840. Third Edition. Two can-American barber, poet and, abolitionist James Monroe Whit- volumes bound in one; small octavo (18cm.); publisher’s cloth- field (1822-1871), who later participated in a debate with Fred- backed boards, printed spine label; 123,[1],115pp. Boards scuffed erick Douglass on the pros and cons of the highly questionable and a bit soiled, small losses along spine label extremities, lacking Colonization Movement (Whitfield arguing in its favor). While front free endpaper, contemporary (1851) gift (or possible owner- the two men may have disagreed on such a dividing question, it ship) inscription to front pastedown: “James M. Whitfield, / from wouldn’t deter Douglass from describing Whitfield as “this sable an English friend / January, 1851.” son of genius” (cf. Joan R. Sherman, “James Monroe Whitfield, Poet and Emigrationist,” in Journal of Negro History, Vol. 57, no. 2 Early popular anti-slavery novel, though its portrayal of an inces- (April, 1972), p. 169). tuous triangle between the protagonist Archy, his sister Cassy, and their father Colonel Moore generally inspired more disgust than $1,250. abolitionist sympathy amongst its contemporary reviewers. How- ever, the novel did provide “first-hand observation of Southern plantation life and slavery conditions” (Friedland, p. 129) based on the two years the author spent in Florida for the benefit of LITTLE-KNOWN & RATHER JUMBLED REFUTATION of SLAVERY by a BOWDOIN MAN

12. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLITION] SMALL, J. [Jonathan] An Inquiry into the Nature and Character of Ancient and Modern Slavery. To which is added a Brief Review of a Book Entitled, Testi- mony of God Against Slavery, by Rev. La Roy Sunderland N.p. [Lovell, ME?]: 1836. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Contemporary plain sewn paper wrappers; [4], 122, [1] pp. Errata leaf. Moderate wear and soil; scattered foxing to contents; Very Good. Small (1804-1852) was a physician and graduate of Bowdoin College, whose records locate his practice in the village of Lovell, Maine, from where the foreword to this volume is datemarked. A rather convoluted refutation of anti-slavery arguments based in Christian theology, though it is unclear toward what rhetorical goal the author is inclining – he claims to abhor the institution of slavery, but cites and interprets only those Biblical examples that appear to justify it, and finally contends that “Slavery is not Sin.” The book’s entire second part is a negative review of Sunderland’s Testimony of God Against Slavery, which Small characterizes as errant in its definitions of bondage and insufficiently rigorous in its theological analysis . “... Slavery is not what some endeavor to make it, so exceeding sinful that no slaveholder can be saved who continues the practice; but that while it is an evil greatly to be deplored, and which calls for efficient means for its abolition with a voice not to be misunder- stood, it requires deep thought and a close examination for its consistent extermination...” A scarce work; OCLC notes ten locations, none in Maine. SABIN 82203. IMPRINTS 1836-40375, incorrectly ascribing authorship to Sunderland. WILLIAMSON (Bibliography of the State of Maine) 9199. $750. A SUBSTANTIAL ABOLITIONIST MANUSCRIPT by EMILY TAYLOR

the institution of slavery makes slaves not only of its subjects but 13. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLI- of its perpetrators as well. Taylor concludes as a postscript on the TION - WOMEN AUTHORS] TAYLOR, Emily final leaf: “Would you, dear Mrs. Follen, forward the enclosed to Mrs. Chapman [Maria Weston Chapman, editor of The Liberty Autograph Letter Signed to Eliza Lee Bell ]...I am sorry, but do not know Mrs. C’s address.” [Cabot] Follen, including Manuscript The poem was in fact published, without revisions, as “To A Poem “For the Liberty Bell.” 4pp, dated Friend,” in the 1844 edition of Chapman’s important anti-slav- August 10th, 1843 ery gift annual The Liberty Bell; other contributors to this edition included James Russell Lowell, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet [Liverpool: 1843]. Quarto sheet, folded once to make 4pp. Martineau, Amasa Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, and others. Signed in three places “Emily Taylor”; marked “Private;” and The recipient of the letter, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, was herself a “for Mrs. Chapman.” Mild cover soil; small loss at right margin prominent and prolific abolitionist author, scion of the Cabots of (from opening); slight fading to ink. Very Good. Includes brief Boston and part of the Boston social circle that included William introductory, followed by an anti-slavery poem of 67 lines, “For Ellery Channing, Henry Ware, George Ticknor, and other patri- the Liberty Bell,” submitted for publication in the American gift cian intellectuals of the period. An excellent and representative annual of that name. Numerous ink corrections to the text in the letter and manuscript, involving four key women figures in the author’s hand. abolitionist movement during a particularly heady period for the cause. English poet and hymnist Emily Taylor (1795-1872), was the author of more than twenty works, including the book-length $2,750. anti-slavery poem The Vision of Las Casas (1825). Though best- known as an author of historical works for children, she was also a prolific hymnist, contributing more than a dozen works to various Unitarian hymnals in the first decades of the 19th century. The present letter is addressed to the prominent abolitionist author Eliza Lee Follen of Boston, and opens: “My dear Madam, Our mutual friend Harriet Martineau assures me of a kind reception from you, and accordingly, I transcribe for you a few lines written immediately on reading your Liberty Bell for 1843. If you are to enroll my name among those which I hold so holy & dear as your contributors in the Abolition cause, please to accept them...” The substantial 67-line poem which follows begins with the prologue: “To a friend, who asked the author’s aid and prayers for the slave;” and continues: “Pity & prayers and pleading for the Slaves! / Them thou didst ask, and soon as ask’d, I gave...” The poem goes on to ex- tend the by-then familiar argument that 14. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SHEET MUSIC - ABO- LITION] HUTCHINSON, Jesse Jun. “Get Off the Track!” A Song for Emanci- pation, Sung by The Hutchinsons Boston: by the Author, 1844. First Edition. Small folio; 6pp. Lithograph on cover by Thayer. Neat hand-threading to bound edge. Light foxing & browning. Very good. Dichter & Shapiro, p. 67, with very full description of the wonderful illustration. D & S note plate mark 388, which is present here, and call for 6 pp., with pp. 2 & 6 blank, as here.. Our text page (with the plate mark) contains stanzas 2 - 11; 11 is the concluding stanza. Stanza one is on p. 3, with music. American Imprints 44-44-3263, recording two copies and calling for 5 pages. Neither D & S nor Imprints identify the publisher, but we also have an inscribed copy (by Hutchinson), that is published by Henry Prentiss. OCLC lists both. $750.

15. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SHEET MUSIC - RE- CONSTRUCTION] WEBSTER, J.P. (Music); Luke Collin (lyrics) Protect the Freedman. Song & Chorus Sung by Skiff & Gaylord’s Minstrels Chicago: Lyon & Healey, 1866. First Edition. Small folio. Litho- graphed title; 5pp; rear cover blank. Moderate soil and creasing to extremities; Very Good. Slout (Burnt Cork & Tambourines) notes that Skiff & Gaylord’s Min- strels opened at New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1864, one of at least four blackface ensembles to be led by manager M.T. Skiff between the 1860s and 1880s. Atypically for a blackface number, “Protect the Freedman” is a straightforward, positive anthem cel- ebrating the accomplishments of African-Americans during the Civil War, with the Chorus: “Protect the Freedman, he was true to us when help was needed ... The cry of one who wore the blue must never go unheeded.” Dedicated “to the honorable Thirty-Ninth Congress,” which was at this time considering both the Freedmen’s Bureau Act and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1866. An uncommon Reconstruction-era sheet; five locations noted in OCLC, not noted in commerce. $450. A PAIR of ICONIC BLACK PANTHER POSTERS

Hoover, three days after a Federal warrant was issued in San 16. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER Francisco, “charging Cleaver with unlawful interstate flight to PARTY] Federal Bureau of Investigation avoid confinement.” Additionally, “CLEAVER ALLEGEDLY HAS ENGAGED POLICE OFFICERS IN GUN BATTLE Wanted by the FBI: Interstate Flight - IN THE PAST. CONSIDER ARMED AND EXTREMELY Assault with Intent to Commit Murder DANGEROUS.” This alleged “gun battle” took place in Oak- / Leroy Eldridge Cleaver land in April, 1968, during which two officers were wounded and seventeen-year-old Panther member Bobby Hutton was Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, December killed. Cleaver, who was also wounded during the fight, fled to 13, 1968. First Edition. Original photo-illustrated poster, offset Cuba and later Algeria, where he founded an overseas Black printed in black on white stock, measuring 56.5cm x 86cm Panther office. Among Cleaver’s physical attributes noted on (22 2/16” x 34”). Modest wear and handling to extremities, this flyer are “Numerous pock scars on back” and a small gold several tiny nicks and small edge tears, discreet pin-holes to earing in his left ear lobe. Adorned with four photographs, two corners, with a few faint, scattered stains; shallow loss to left taken in 1966, as well as Cleaver’s 1968 mugshots. Uncommon corners, with a small abrasion to upper right corner, and old in this format; OCLC notes 2 holdings for the smaller broad- tape remnant on verso; Very Good/Very Good+. side (Yale, U.Mississippi), though none for the poster. Scarce, large-format issue of FBI Wanted Flyer No.447, issued $1,500. on December 13, 1968, and signed in facsimile by J. Edgar A PAIR of ICONIC BLACK PANTHER POSTERS

ing sun in the background, and the Black Panther logo printed 17. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER along the lower margin. The artwork was designed by English PARTY - HUEY NEWTON] OLIVE, Bill artist Bill Olive, who moved to Los Angeles in 1968 to work for artist and printer Earl Newman. Newman and his wife owned Happy Birthday Huey P. Newton ‘69 an art gallery and print shop in Venice Beach, where he found [Los Angeles: Earl Newman Posters, 1969]. Original illustrated success hand-silkscreening posters, and is today considered a poster, silkscreened in three colors on thick white stock, measur- master of the artform; according to one source, no more than ing 58.5cm x 89cm (23 1/16” x 35”). Trivial wear to extremities, 100 copies of any design were produced in his print shop. Not some very faint “spidering” to color toward lower margin, else found in OCLC. very Near Fine / A. $1,500. Psychedelic poster featuring a large abstract portrait of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton, surrounded by a blaz- 18. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER PAR- 19. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER PAR- TY] GENET, Jean TY] KIFNER, John Here and Now for Bobby Seale The Story of the Murder of Fred Hamp- [New York]: Committee to Defend the Panthers, [1970]. First ton (which the N.Y. SUNDAY TIMES re- Edition. Quarto (28cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; [20] fused to print). Reprinted from Scanlan’s pp; illus. A Fine copy. New York: Committee to Defend the Panthers, [1970]. First Sep- First edition of this collection of four essays by Genet, written as arate Edition. Quarto (27.75cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, sta- an appeal to defend Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale, pled; [16]pp; illus. A Fine copy. who was facing murder charges in New Haven. Genet entered the U.S. clandestinely in March of 1970, and spent the next two Reportage by New York Times reportedr John Kifner, written in months traveling the country, speaking on behalf of Seale and months after the murder of Fred Hampton. Hampton was Chair- the Black Panther Party in major cities and on numerous college man of the Party’s Illinois chapter and Deputy Chairman of the campuses. The title essay was based on a talk given on March 18, national BPP, a prominent activist involved with the NAACP 1970, at the Albert Jorgensen Auditorium at the University of and SNCC whose profile was rising rapidly at the national level. Connecticut. It first appeared in the March 28, 1970 issue of The He was assassinated on December 4, 1969, while sleeping in his Black Panther, under the title “Bobby Seale, the Black Panthers and apartment, during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Us, White People” (Vol.4, No.17); it was reprinted in The Black IL State Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Panther, with extensive modifications, in the May 31, 1970 issue Department and the FBI. Kifner’s piece originally appeared in under the title “Here and Now for Bobby Seale.” Genet modified Scanlan’s magazine. Uncommon; OCLC notes 8 holdings (Yale, the text still further, with this translation by Judy Oringer appear- Northwestern, U.Chicago, U.Kansas, Tulane, U.Mass.Amherst, ing in the June, 1970 issue of Ramparts. The text of the March 28, Temple, Wisconsin Historical). 1970 issue, along with the Ramparts version, are included here, $450. along with two other essays: “I Must Begin with an Explanation of My Presense in the United States,” and “The Black Panthers Are Preparing the Revolution with Precipitous Care. The Rev- olution Will Come: Time Is At Their Service.” Uncommon in commerce. For background, see Genet’s The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews, pp.297-299. $450. A POSTER and a FLYER FOR SCLC’s POOR PEOPLE’S MARCH

people overall - and set up a shantytown called Resurrection City 20. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] SCLC on the Washington Mall. These particular posters are among the We Question America - Poor People’s Cam- more striking examples we have seen from the Poor People’s C paign 1968 [Together With] “We Question ampaign; while the photographs are uncredited, they accurately America” May 8, Washington D.C. capture the face of economic suffering in America. Rare, with no examples for either poster in the auction record, or in OCLC. [N.p.: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1968]. Two photographic posters, the first offset printed in black on white $2500. poster stock, measuring 57cm x 67.5cm (22.5” x 26.5”), the second offset printed in black on thicker beige card stock, measuring 35.5cm x 43.25cm (14” x 17”). The larger poster shows mild signs of handling, faint diagonal crease to lower right corner, else Near Fine / A (unbacked); smaller poster shows slight curling at left and right edges, a handful of small staple and pin-holes toward upper right corner, with some mild toning to upper half on verso, and faint, shallow dampstains along lower edges; Very Good+ / B (unbacked). Attractive pair of posters relating to the Poor People’s Campaign, issued roughly one month after the assas- sination of Martin Lu- ther King, Jr. As early as late1966, King began to envision a multi-ethnic campaign to bring together poor people of all races and draw them to Washington, D.C., in order to make visible the plight of poverty in America. The campaign involved Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and whites from Appalachia, an inclusive representa- tion of national poverty during the Vietnam era, and a concerted effort by King to shift his energies toward a “new phase” of the civil rights movement - human rights. The ultimate goal was not to have a sit-in, but a live-in - to place an interracial community of poor people on the National Mall - a place so visible they could not be ignored. Under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy, nine major caravans of demonstrators came voluntarily from all over the country, by car, bus, on foot, and by mule train - some 3000 21. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] [WASH- INGTON, Leroy] Broadside: “Dear Fellow Students...” Atlanta: S.i., [1961]. Broadside, with text mimeographed in black on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5” x 11”). Minor handling, else Fine. Jailhouse letter by Leroy Washington, freedom rider, a member of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and a student at Brown Morris, a historically black college in Atlanta. Wash- ington, together with Leon Green and 17 others, was arrested on February 7, 1961, for participating in a sit-in at the Sprayberry Cafeteria (in the Federal Building at Peachtree and 7th Street in Atlanta) and requesting service. The letter, composed by Wash- ington at the City Jail on behalf of his fellow inmates, is a pas- sionate display of resolve in the face of difficult and uncertain conditions, addressed to the student body at Atlanta University Center. “We know most of you are wondering why we are doing this...the only way we can achieve our freedom is by being willing to endure and suffer the hardships that are encountered in the achievement of freedom. I only wish that each of you were here to share the darkness of this room, this hard bunk, the smell of this place, and the filth, but yet the light of freedom is slowly 22. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] [HAS- slipping in. The morale is high here, we are singing and praying even though we know the prices we might have to pay for our SLER, Al & Ben Resnick] convictions are severe. We would rather spend the rest of our Martin Luther King and the Montgom- lives here as chained men, bound together in brotherhood for one cause, than to be chained outside in the prison of segregation.” A ery Story compelling and little-known letter from a key period in the civil Nyack, NY: Fellowship of Reconciliation, [1957-58]. First Edi- rights struggle; the sole reference to the text we have found is in tion. Slim quarto (26cm); illustrated wrappers; [16]pp; illus. Morris Brown’s monthly newspaper, the Wolverine Observer (Vol.31, No.4), which published the full text on the front page shortly after Uncommonly nice copy of this powerful comic book, which had his arrest.. significant ties to the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. The comic was originally conceived by Alfred Hassler, Director $450. of Publications for Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith civil rights organization. Though Hassler had never written a comic book, he had a fascination with finding creative ways to expand FOR’s nonviolent integrationist message to a broader audience. Montgomery Story was brought to life thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Fund for the Republic, a non-profit institution advocating for civil rights and civil liberties. Hassler teamed up with Benton Resnick, manager of Toby Press, who would serve as the crucial creative link between FOR and the comic publishing world. The men corresponded with King throughout the process, soliciting his input on the story line and factual points. The comic book was produced in a run of 250,000 copies, the first of which were distributed in December, 1957. In the coming years, the comic book would be translated and distributed to South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. According to Aydin, “Nowhere in the comic book is there a signature or credit to an artist or writer...the artist remains unknown, perhaps a casualty of history or simply an unsung hero yet to take a bow.” $750. The NAACP RESPONDS to BLOODY SUNDAY

Poster, showing obvious signs of use, for an NAACP demonstra- 23. [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] NAACP tion in response to the events of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Al- Poster: “What? NAACP Peaceful abama on March 7, 1965. The “peaceful demonstration,” sponsored by the NAACP and students of Augustana College, was Demonstration. Where? In front of Rock one of several demonstrations and “sympathy marches” held Island City Hall. When? Sat., March 20, nationwide, on March 20, 1965. The poster, unadorned and hast- 1965 Noon to 1 p.m.” ily-printed, clearly outlines the aim of the demonstration - “To Protest: Racial Intolerance in Alabama and Mississippi AND The [Rock Island, IL: S.i., 1965]. Original poster, with text silkscreened Beating of 3 White Ministers in Selma, Alabama” - followed by in black and red on beige chipboard, measuring 36.25cm x a powerful charge: “If you believe that God is our Father and 55.75cm (14.25” x 21 15/16”). Recto shows toning and dustiness, all men are brothers, then YOU are urged to attend!” A rare, faint stress creasing, a few tiny tears, and a single pin-hole at up- locally produced poster documenting the response - even among per margin; left edge shows the impact mark of either rotten fruit students on a conservative campus - to a watershed moment in or vegetable matter, with resulting spatter across the poster; Very the Civil Rights struggle. Not found in OCLC. Good and sound. $1,500. A VERY RARE NCWA UPLIFT POSTER, 1921

two-story building and forty acres of land; by the end of the year 24. [AFRICAN-AMERICANA - UPLIFT] PRICE, Jo- it had one new building and ninety-three students. Under Price’s seph Charles leadership, Livingstone College excelled in educating students in liberal arts, theology, scientific training, political science, and so- Poster: Dr. Joseph Charles Price, 1854- cial responsibility...Although he was only twenty-eight years old 1893. First President of Livingstone when he became president of Livingstone College, Price rapidly College, Salisbury, N.C., (1882-93) attained regional and national prominence as a leader. His contemporary, W.E.B. Du Bois, remarked, “The star of achievement New York: National Child Welfare Association Inc., 1921. Orig- to which Joseoh Charles Price a black boy of those days hitched inal illustrated poster, offset printed in black on thick beige stock, his wagon was the founding of a school for colored youth, a sort measuring 43cm x 71.5cm (17” x 28”). Light wear and handling of black Harvard” (see Kinard, Joy G., article on Price in African to extremities, tiny chip to American National Biogra- lower left corner, stray ink phy, Vol.6, pp.434-435). mark to left edge, with a few Price died of Bright’s tiny nicks and tears, and a disease on October 25, longer one (ca. 1-1/2”) at 1893; more than one upper margin; Very Good+. thousand people - black A rare and attractive uplift and white - attended his poster, prominently featuring funeral, the largest Salis- a large portrait of Dr. Joseph bury had ever seen. Charles Price rendered in Not recorded in com- charcoal pencil, beneath the merce, nor separately printed quote “I do not care catalogued under cap- how dark the night; I believe tion title or publisher, as in the coming of the morn- of December 2019. ing.” Price (1854-1893), son of a free-born woman and $3,000. a former slave, was born in Elizabeth City, North Caro- lina and raised in New Bern and Wilson, eventually attending Shaw University in Raleigh in 1873. After trans- ferring to Lincoln Universi- ty in 1875, he was inspired by the oratory of Frederick Douglass and began developing his craft as a speaker, winning oratorical prizes during his freshman and ju- nior years. By 1880 he was ordained as an elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church, representing the denomination as a delegate to the Ecumenical Conference of Methodism in London, where he lectured extensively on the condition of the American Negro and black Methodism; his popu- larity was such that he was named by the London Times one of the seven greatest or- ators in the world. He was elected President of the AMEZ-affiliated Livingstone College in 1882, a position he held until his death in 1893. “That fall the school opened with five students in a MAJOR ASSOCIATION COPY of VAN VECHTEN’S FINEST NOVEL

25. [AFRICAN AMERICANS IN LITERATURE] VAN VECHTEN, Carl Nigger Heaven [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Charles Jackson] New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); vertically-ribbed tan cloth, with titling and decorative border stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; blue topstain; [viii],[2],3-286,[2]pp. Inscribed to novelist Charles Jackson, author of The Lost Weekend, on the front endpaper: “These sable pages for Charles Jackson / March 1, 1950 / New York / Carl Van Vechten.” Wear to spine ends and front board corners, topstain rubbed, with sunning to spine, and some faint staining to heel and right edge of rear cover; contents clean; Very Good. Van Vechten’s enduring and controversial fictional chronicle of the Harlem Renaissance, drawing upon his close friendships with such figures as Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen. “Van Vechten’s novel attempted to depict the cultural life in Harlem among both the intellectuals and underworld and by explaining the artistic emergence of the black renaissance” (Blockson, p.51). The book was wildly popular, going into at least a dozen printings in the Twenties, and several dozen more after being published in a cheaper format by Grosset & Dunlap. Uncommon in the first printing, especially with any sort of meaningful inscription; according to the Library of Congress, Van Vechten took Jackson’s portrait on the same day this book was inscribed. A distinguished copy of a Harlem Renaissance cornerstone. BLOCKSON 66; HANNA 3616; COAN p.192. $2,500. A CELEBRATED and MUCH-PUBLISHED WW1 PORTRAIT

the division called themselves “Buffalo Soldiers” in honor of the 26. [WW1] ANONYMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER 19th-century African-American cavalrymen who were so-called Original Photographic Portrait - “Big by their Native American adversaries. Nims,” Soldier in the 92nd Infantry Divi- The earliest published iteration of this image we have been able to locate is in Emmett Scott’s Official History of the American Negro sion (“Buffalo Division”) in the World War, where it is captioned thus: “ ‘Big Nims’ ... who N.p.: ca. 1917. Original (vintage) bromide photographic print, found great amusement in contemplating the grotesque appear- 5”x7” (ca 12.5cm x 18cm), on ca 7” x 9” card mount with typed ance of his comrade with a gas mask adjusted over his face and caption affixed below image. Portion of caption lacking; mount head. Many hours of gloom was dispelled [sic] by the good hu- slightly age-toned and with evidence of removal from an album mor of Nims which together with his unquestionable courage at to verso. Print is clean and unfaded, with no losses or abrasions many times served to cheer the flagging spirits of his comrades.” - Near Fine. Further information about Nims has proved unavailable; as to A celebrated and oft-reproduced image, depicting a WW1 Afri- the photographer, the image is uncredited but apparently was can-American infantryman breaking into laughter during a gas- an official Army Signal Corps photograph. We find no record mask drill. The included caption, apparently from an exhibition in commerce of an original print of this image having ever been of World War photographs, mis-identifies the subject as “Hap- offered at auction or in dealers’ catalogues. py Sims” (leading to no end of red-herrings and rabbit-holes for $1,500. this cataloguer); in fact the soldier’s nick-name was “Big Nims,” a member of the 3rd Batallion, 366th Infantry of the famed 92nd Infantry Division, an all-Black Division which served with great distinction in both the first and second World Wars. Members of 28. [ANARCHISM] ALEXANDRE, Arsène; Benj. R. Tucker, trans. The Thirty-Six Trades of the State. New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1897. First Separate Edition. 12mo (17cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 10pp. Shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, the whole a bit toned and dust- soiled, else Very Good and sound. Publisher’s advertisements printed on pp. [11] and [14] (rear wrapper). Satirical short essay by a founding editor of Le Rire, describing the trades of “The State,” from art collector to tapestry weaver, from transportation enterprise to colonialism. Though “The State” is everywhere, it is also nothing, and the essay opens with the description of a man being thrown out of the chamber of depu- ties, taken for a madman trying to make an appointment with “The State.” First published in the original French in Le Figaro and translated for publication in Tucker’s individualist anarchist magazine Liberty. See Roger E. Stoddard, “Liberty’s Library: Benj. R. Tucker’s Imprint, 1875-1912,” in Essays in Honor of William B. Todd (1991), p. 170. OCLC locates four physical copies in North America as of October, 2019, at Columbia, NYU, Harvard, and U. Michigan. $250.

27. [AMERICA LATINA] [YOUNG LORDS] [Drop title] Free Cha Cha! [Inscribed and Signed by Raul Lugo, Y.L.O.]. Chicago: Young Lords Organization, n.d. but 1969. Broadside flyer (28x21.5cm.), mimeograph from typescript. Previous mail folds, shallow toning to extremities, else Very Good or better. Typescript note signed by Y.L.O. member Raul Lugo at top edge: “We would appreciate it if you would reprint this article in your newspaper or in any other [illegible] newspaper in our area.” Appeal to the reader dated August 1 regarding the recent sentence of Y.L.O. organizer José (Cha Cha) Jimenez to a year in Cook County Jail “for supposedly stealing $23 worth of lumber last year.” Several thousand dollars would need to be raised for an appeal bond while Jimenez also faced charges of mob action after trying to defend two mothers at a welfare office who were being intimidated “and pushed around physically by the assistant director at the office...Cha Cha stepped in and said ‘Push /me/ mother fucker!’ For this they could send him away for 5 to 10 years.” Jimenez, a founding member of the Young Lords in 1959, was elected chairman in 1964 “and in 1968 began moving the Lords from a Puerto Rican street gant [sic] to a revolutionary organization,” often targeted by the “pigs.” The text concludes with the statement “Cha Cha is a political prisoner. A political prisoner challenges the very foundations of the power structure. Cha Cha was arrested because his ideas and actions challenge the state at its roots.” Contributions and protesters called for to come to the courthouse on August 11 to “FREE CHA CHA!” Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of October, 2019. $450. A TRIO of RARE HAYMARKET BRIEFS

two hundred policemen swarmed the scene to disperse the meet- 29. [ANARCHISM - HAYMARKET] SUPREME COURT ing and moments later a lit dynamite bomb was thrown into their OF ILLINOIS midst, killing one instantly. Seventy more were wounded, of which six expired over the course of the following month. The aftermath In the Supreme Court of Illinois, North- of the event was significant, described as “decisive in several ways: ern Grand Division. March Term, A.D. it made anarchism (and with it all politics and actions of the far 1887. August Spies et al., Plaintiffs in left) thoroughly disreputable in the eyes of the great majority of working men. It convinced most Americans that far-left politics Error vs. The People of the were the concern only of the foreign born, too State of Illinois, Defendant indifferent or too stupid to appreciate the supe- rior American system of government” (John S. in Error. Kebabian, The Haymarket Affair and the Trial of the Chicago: Barnard & Gunthorp, 1887. First Chicago Anarchists 1886 (1970), p. 5). Of the eight Editions. Three volumes bound in one; thick defendants, all were convicted and handed the octavo (25cm.); contemporary law library death sentence, though only four were eventual- cloth, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels, ly executed, Louis Lingg having blown himself original printed upper wrappers only bound up in his cell days before his scheduled execu- in. Ex-Association of the Bar Library of the tion. The surviving three served six years in jail, City of New York with their usual markings, by which time they were pardoned by Governer smallish loss to bottom spine label, Fifer. As Kebabian notes “It is very clear that the old white paint and other brief splat- eight anarchists would never have been convict- ter to spine, contemporary law book- ed today upon the evidence that seller tickets to each upper wrapper, was offered against them,” most else a Very Good, sturdy and inter- of which was purely circumstan- nally clean volume. Titles as below: tial, the damning pieces including Spies’s “Revenge” broadside and 1. Indictment for Murder. Brief and Argu- Schwab’s editorial. Albert Par- ment for Plaintiffs in Error. W.P. Black and sons, a former Confederate sol- Salomon & Zeisler, Attorneys for Plaintiffs dier turned anarchist, had spoken in Error. vi,426pp. at the Haymarket meeting but left 2. Brief on the Facts for Defendants in Er- well before the bomb was thrown. ror. George Hunt, Attorney General. Julius He evaded arrest but attended the S. Grinnell, States Attorney. vi,342pp. courtroom the first day of the tri- 3. Brief on the Law for Defendants in Er- al where he was arrested, convict- ror. George Hunt, Attorney General. Julius ed, and executed. S. Grinnell, States Attorney. iv,205pp. The present volume of appellate In the midst of heavy striking for an briefs covers all the evidence, eight-hour work day, August Spies, much of it deemed illegitimate, the German-born anarchist editor of the leftist newspaper used in the original trial, from “Arbeiter Zeitung,” called a meeting for the “Lumber Shovers Spies’s presence at the McCor- Union” at the McCormick reaper factory. Unfortunately, the mick meeting, his “Revenge” broadside, to his speech delivered meeting took place just as a hoard of strikebreakers was exiting at Haymarket, arguing that “Mere participation in an unlawful the building and fighting quickly broke out. Additional police en- assembly does not make responsible for the independent crime of forcements were called for and shots were fired into the crowd, a participant” (Indictment for Murder, p. iv). Also includes a long list killing one and wounding several others. Spies, himself the lead- of illegitimate evidence provided, including newspaper literature ing speaker at the ill-fated meeting, returned to the offices of the and works written by Johann Most, himself saved from arrest for “Arbeiter” and composed the infamous “Revenge” broadside, already being in jail at the time of the bombing (also for inciting while his editorial assistant Michael Schwab (also convicted for violence). The latter two volumes lay out the “Evidence of Facts the Haymarket Bombing) issued an editorial urging readers to About Which There Is No Dispute,” prepared by the prosecution take up arms. Another meeting was called for May 4 to protest (here labelled the “Defendants in Error”); and the law of conspir- the McCormick shooting, this time held at the open Haymarket acy and the competency of evidence. square. Earlier on that day, at another meeting place, defendant The three volumes exceedingly scarce and not found in State Louis Lingg handed around dynamite bombs he had prepared, Prosecutor Julius S. Grinnell’s collection of printed and manu- the components of which were later matched to that set off at the script material relating to the trial. Haymarket meeting. The meeting itself was a failure with very few attendees, though numbered among these the Mayor of Chicago $750. who left early out of boredom. However, around 10 P.M. almost 30. [ANARCHISM] LE ROY, Achille 31. [ANARCHISM] LE ROY, Achille La Commune de l’Avenir: Amour & Pensée La Liberté de L’Amour ... avec La Carma- Libres [Inscribed & Signed]. gnole sociale - Le Père La Purge [&c.] Paris: Librairie Socialiste Internationale, n.d., ca. 1890. First Edi- Paris: Librairie Socialiste Internationale, 1887. First Edition. tion. Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher’s pink pictorial wrappers; Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher’s pink pictorial wrappers; 21,[3]pp.; 24pp. Evidence of having been removed from larger volume, vignette at head of p. [1]. Extremities a bit toned and slightly upper wrapper nearly separated, small loss at bottom fore-edge chipped, else Very Good and sound. At head of upper cover: Bib- corner not approaching text, some toning along extremities, else liothèque Ouvrière Cosmopolite. At bottom of last leaf of text: Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on upper “Deux cents exemplaires de la LIBERTÉ DE L’AMOUR seront cover verso: “Au citoyen Clément St. Gachie, Homme de lettres, vendus dans les réunions populaires au bénéfice des enfants per- à Geaune (Landes). / Témoignage de sincère estime de l’auteur dus, des révoltés, qui râlent dans les chiourmes.” / Achille Le Roy.” Quite uncommon post-Communard proto-anarchist treatise on Call for a new Commune, opening with the statement “La Re- Free Love (“Qu’est-ce encore? De la pornographie?”) and its re- publique bourgeoise? Qu’on la vomisse!” Authored by the Com- lation to socialism. The author describes human nature as driven munard proletarian typographer, poet, bookseller, and publisher by hunger and love...the socialist Fourier named this reproductive Achille Le Roy, perhaps most significant for writing the song “Le urge ‘flitting,’ a word that describes human nature as constantly Chant des Prolétaires” (1879) and publishing several of Louise in search of the love spasm” (our translation, p. 4). Only with the Michel’s works, including “Le Débâcle Universelle” and “L’Ère freedom to love and “libertarian communism” (p. 21) can mem- Nouvelle.” Includes a short section on Free Love featuring an bers of the working class ameliorate their economic condition. acrostic poem spelling out the name of a Victorine Labouret. Le Text concludes with a small selection of proletarian and Commu- Roy (1841-1929) served as a lieutenant of one of the Communard nard songs without music, the most famous being Paul Brousse’s batallions during the Paris Commune and was deported, together “Le Drapeau Rouge,” first composed while in exile in Switzerland with Michel, to New Caledonia (see Robert Brécy, “Le Drapeau following the fall of the Paris Commune (qv. M.R. Brécy’s contri- Rouge,” in Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, T. 22, no. 2, p. bution to “La Tradition Culturelle de la Commune en France au 264n). OCLC locates one copy in North America as of October, XIXe Siècle,” in Le Mouvement Sociale, May 1971, p. 321.) 2019, at Northwestern. Under this imprint Le Roy also published works by Marx, Kro- $300. potkin, and Lafargue, as well as the monthly L’Avant-Garde Ou- vrière: Organe Mensuel d’Union International. OCLC locates no copies in North Ameri- ca as of October, 2019. $300. 32. [ANARCHISM] MALATESTA, Errico Al Caffè: Conversazioni sull’Anarchismo [alt. subtitle: Conversazioni Dal Varo]. Bologna: Edizioni di “Volontà,” 1922. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher’s cream card wrappers printed in orange and black; 118pp. Spine rather significantly cocked, some wear to extremities; still, quite a Very Good, fresh copy of a scarce edition. A series of fictional conversations and debates between a student, a “borghese,” an anarchist-socialist, a judge, and a mer- chant. Divided into chapters, the “characters” discuss a socialist constitution, economics, communism, government, laws and communist anarchism. The first ten conversations were written in 1897 before Malatesta fled Italy, and were based on his experiences as the frequenter of “a café that was not usually the haunt of subversives such as himself...Anarchism would almost certainly have been one of the topics of conversation since the anarchists of the city [Ancona] constantly bombarded their fellow townspeople with a barrage of propaganda” (Robin Healey, Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation 0584, citing the 2005 translation). Only upon his return to Ancona, in 1913, did Malatesta revisit the conversations, publishing the first ten in his new journal Volontá though they were not fully completed until after the end of World War I, in 1920, shortly before the author’s arrest. Though his home was searched and arms and explosives discovered, the manuscript was either missed or ignored and published in its entirey for the first time in this edition with a short afterword by Luigi Fabbri, co-editor with Malatesta of the 33. [ANARCHISM] PROUDHON, P.-J.; J.-A. Langlois, préf. journal L’Agitazione (See Paul Nursey-Bray’s introduction to the Césarisme et Christianisme (de l’An 45 Avant 2005 translation). Exceedingly rare: no copies in the trade as of J.-C. a l’An 476 Aprés). October, 2019; Smith College and the IISH only in OCLC. Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion Éditeurs, 1883. First $750. Edition. Two volumes; 12mo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines in five compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled; xxiv,273; 312pp. Boards a bit scuffed especially to leather, leather rather dried with some shallow chipping at spine ends, spine gilt almost entirely effaced, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership signatures to both title pages, else a Very Good, sound set. Posthumously published work compiled of notes taken in the 1850s during Napoleon’s reign as Monarch of France. Proud- hon, known as the father of anarchism, had already spent three years in prison, from 1849 to 1852, for insulting Napoleon (at the time President of France) and the present study of early Christianity draws comparisons to the present political climate, describing a “Napoleon-Caesar as a despot who maintained his hegemony through corruption, cunning and terror. The multitude of people was reduced to an ignorant and miserable mass” (George l. Mosse, “Caeserism, Circuses, and Monuments,” in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 6, no. 2, p. 169). $300. SIX PROTEST-WORN ANTI-NUKE ARMBANDS

34. [ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT] the SHAD Alliance against the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on June 3, 1979.” The band worn at the Three Mile Island Group of Six Armbands from Anti-Nuclear indicates that protests were ongoing well after the accident in Protests. March, 1979. Collection as follows: 1. Stop Nuclear Power. Seabrook, New Hampshire, April 30 Various Places: S.i., 1977-1988. Group of six variously-colored Occupation. Clamshell Alliance (Seabrook Station Nuclear linen armbands, with text and decorative elements printed in Power Plant, Seabrook, NH. 1977) various colors, a few with embellishments in colored marker; measuring ca.4” x 22-25”. Signs of general wear and use, a few 2. Occupation-Restoration. Seabrook, June 24, Clamshell Al- with scattered stains or soil, and occasional loose threading; liance. Don’t Let It Happen Here - No Nukes (Seabrook, NH. uniformly Very Good. 1978) Well-preserved group of armbands used at several high-profile 3. Natural Guard - Radioactivist (Seabrook, NH. ca.1988) anti-nuclear protests over a ten year period, including events 4. SHAD Alliance 6-3-79. Shoreham Long Island Occupation in Seabrook, NH, Shoreham, NY, and Dauphin County, PA. Conversion (Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant protest, Shore- Among these are three armbands worn by members of the ham, NY. 1979) Clamshell Alliance, active from 1976-1988, who were involved in a series of non-violent actions to protest the construction of a 5. T.M.I. is not over (Three Mile Island accident, Dauphin nuclear reactor at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. The sole County, PA. ca.1980-81) example produced by the SHAD Alliance, involved in the Shore- 6. Symbol featuring a nuclear bomb transforming into a bus ham Nuclear Power Plant protest in Shoreham, NY, bears the (N.p., ca.1980’s) following vertically-printed text: “The person wearing this arm- band has been trained in non-violent action and is authorized to $450. participate in the civil disobedience demonstration organized by VERY SCARCE ACCOUNT of the FOUZHOU REBELLION

35. [CHINA] KINNEAR, H.N. The Annual Report of Foochow Mission- ary Hospital, Foochow, China, for the Year Ending January 31st, 1912 [Cover title: The Battle of Foochow]. Foochow: Foochow College Press, 1912. First Edition. Small, slim octavo (19.5cm.); publisher’s pale pink decorative wrappers; [2],26pp.; photographic frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates, including one mounted facsimile printed on yellow handmade stock; additionally tipped in on p. [27] are five strips of colored paper to recreate the new Chinese flag, “five broad band stripes -- Red - Yellow - Blue - White - Black--representing the five original parts of the Republic of China proper -- Mongolia - Manchuria - Thibet - Eastern Turkistan” (p. 26). Faint vertical crease, wrappers a bit dust-soiled and slightly faded along extremities, tiny splits at spine ends, else Very Good, internally fine. Laid in fundraising leaflet calling for monetary donations, together with a separate donation blank printed on pale green stock. The Foochow (alt. spelling Fuzhou) Hospital’s annual report covering almost exclusively the overnight revolutionary upris- ing which took place in the city on November 9 and 10, 1911. Includes a photograph of the Surgeon-in-Charge Dr. Kinnear with his first patient injured during the hositilities, “a boy from the preparatory military school, who had been throwing bombs at the ‘Water Gate.’ He was within the gallery of the gate, and missing his aim, threw the bomb against the side of the window through which he was attempting to throw it. His lip was badly torn, and he had a flesh wound of his right leg” (p. 7). Kin- near goes on to describe his other patients, all Chinese, many of whom perished over the course of the following days from their wounds. A significant first-hand account of one of the last battles before the fall of the Qing dynasty. $500. RARE MARYLAND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR CAMP NEWSPAPER

land, and ran from February, 1942 to October, 1944. Contents 36. [CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS - WORLD WAR of the present collection, which appears to be only lacking two II] CIVILIAN PUBLIC SERVICE CAMP NO. 24 issues, include poetry, cartoons, and camp news, with emphasis on developing a “Christian philosophy of the rural community” The Soil - Collection of Ten Issues. (The Morning Herald (Hagerstown), January 2, 1945). Each issue Hagerstown, MD: C.P.S. Camp No. 24, 1942-1943. First Edi- includes monthly updates on camp work conducted by the four tion. Ten volumes; quarto (27.5cm.); uniformly bound in sta- separate units, including converting stock-feeding stables into pled mimeographed wrappers of various colors; cartoons and chicken coops and setting up a satisfactory reading room and illus. throughout, text printed entirely mimeograph. Publication basketball court, while one Paul Moyer became “the guardian sequence as follows: Vol. 1, nos. 2-9, [10], & 12. Wrappers rath- of over 500 baby cockerels.” Final issue in this collection fea- er toned and brittle due to poor stock, all issues with previous tures the opening article “Pacifists Can Make a Contribution mail folds and rear covers postally used, else a Good or better to Soil Conservation,” by Ora DeLauter, Director of Unit 2. collection of an exceedingly scarce publication. Quite scarce, with no copies of any issue in the trade as of Sep- tember, 2019, and holdings at U. Michigan and Swarthmore Monthly magazine issued by one of the Civilian Public Services only. Not found in Union List of Serials. camps established during World War II for conscientious objectors who were willing to serve their country in a non-military $1,250. capacity. Camp No. 24 was based on Hopewell Farm in Clear Spring, Washington County, just outside of Hagerstown, Mary- 38. [CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD] MATSELL, George W. Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon. Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources. New-York: George W. Matsell & Co., 1859. First Edition. Small 12mo (12.5cm.); publisher’s blue pebble-grained blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown glazed endpapers; vi,[7]-130,[1](ad)pp. Boards gently scuffed, corners bumped, else a Very Good, quite brilliant copy. Early American slang dictionary by a commissioner of the New York City police force, about two-thirds of the work plagiarized from English sources, though the author here claims that “Occupying the position of a Special Justice, and Chief of the Police of the great Metropolis of New-York, where thieves and others of a like character from all parts of the world congregate, and realizing the necessity of possess- ing a positive knowledge of every thing connected with the class of individuals with whom it was my duty to deal, I was naturally led to study their peculiar language” (p. iv). The work appears to be aimed at readers of Matsell’s newspaper the National Police Gazette, advertized on the last leaf of text. A random dip into the early leaves reveals such unknown slang words as “Ard” (hot), though the OED only defines this as an obsolete form of “Hard.” More recognizable listings appear under “Cow” (a dilapidated prostitute), while her “grease” is butter, her “juice” is milk, and “Cows and Kisses” applies to the ladies. $850. 37. [CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD] KOPPELBERG- ER, Johannes [alt. spelling “Coppelberger”] [Drop title] Ein Neues Lied von der Mordgeschichte des Joseph Müller, welcher im Januar 1822, in einer Sonn- tags-Nacht [&c] N.p. [Pennsylvania?]: 1822. Broadside (36.5x19.5cm.) printed in blackletter within typographically decorative border. Faint folds, some spotting, else Very Good and sound. German-American murder poetry broadside recounting the life and death of the Prussian-Polish immigrant Joseph Müller, who eloped to Lebanon, Pennsylvania, with his upper-class wife. Des- titute and homesick, Müller eventually murdered his pregnant wife and two children with an axe before hanging himself. Poem consists of sixteen stanzas of eight lines apiece and appears to have gone through as many as sixteen editions, some spelling the name “Miller.” A search in OCLC provides three separately catalogued records under the “Müller” spelling, none conforming to the dimensions of this copy. (See Don Yoder, The Pennsylvania German Broadside (2005), pp. 52-4, referring to a variant.) Not in Shoemaker. $850. 39. [CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD] [MOORE, Lang- 40. [DRUGS] HUXLEY, Aldous and Timothy Leary don W. a.k.a. Charley Adams] CONCORD NATION- Visionary Experience and How To AL BANK Change Behavior. [Drop title] Bank Robbery. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1962 [but 1963]. Second Separate Concord, MA: 1865. First Edition. Broadside (28.5x19.5cm.); Printing. One of appoximately 100 copies printed for distribu- faint previous horizontal mail fold, light wrinkling from handling, tion to members of the International Federation for Internal else a Very Good or better, fresh copy. Text signed in print by Geo. Freedom in 1963. Slim octavo (23cm); white wrappers print- Heywood, President of the Bank, and Geo. M. Brooks, President ed in black, stapled; 40pp. Gentle sunning along spine-fold and of the Middlesex Institute for Savings. upper edge of front wrapper, with a faint, tiny scuff beneath Leary’s name, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. List of bonds totalling $300,000 which were stolen from the Con- cord National Bank on September 25th, 1865, while the teller was Offprint, revised, of the first book appearance of this talk - the eating lunch. The Directors of the Bank, together with the Trust- first and only occasion Huxley and Leary lectured together. ees of the Middlesex Institution for Savings offer at the bottom of “The XIV International Conference of Applied Psychology the flyer a 10% reward “upon the amount of the property recov- took place in Copenhagen, Aug. 13-19, 1961. In addition to ered.” It wouldn’t be until February of the following year that the Leary, Frank Barron of the Harvard psychology department mystery was cleared up, the crime having been committed by pro- and author Aldous Huxley were also invited to speak...Huxley’s fessional counterfeiter and bank robber Langdon Moore, a.k.a. lecture was entitled “Visionary Experience”; it was delivered Charley Adams. At the time of the robbery Moore was residing earlier than Leary’s, and concludes with a reference to Leary’s on a farm just twelve miles away and was an early suspect of the upcoming lecture (“We shall hear from Dr. Leary about the in- crime though he managed to evade detectives for several months. duction of such experiences by such substances as psilocybin”). Moore was finally arrested in Paulsboro, New Jersey, on January Barron’s talk contains the first reference in print to his “com- 24, 1866, and a search of his residence revealed $100,000 of the mend[ing] the mushroom to the attention of Dr. Leary, who stolen bonds. Moore later wrote a memoir (His Own Story of His immediately seized upon its possibilities as a vehicle for induc- Own Eventful Life, 1893) to which he devoted nearly a hundred pag- ing change in behavior as a result of the altered state of con- es to the planning and execution of this, his greatest achievement. sciousness which the drug produced” (HOROWITZ, WALLS He was convicted, but secured his release by returning two-thirds & SMITH AA23D). of the take. However, he later spent ten years at the Concord State Substantially expanded from the two earlier printings, both pro- Prison following the robbery of the Warren Institution for Savings duced by mimeograph and issued in small numbers. BROMER in Boston. OCLC locates one copy as of October, 2019, at the B113. Concord Free Public Library, catalogued as part of a small collection of ephemera relating to this robbery. $450. $450. FIRST INTRODUCTION of the MOTION PICTURE CODE, 1927

Becoming Prevalent Type of Picture Endorsed – Question- 41. [DRAMA & FILM] [HOLLYWOOD - HAYS able Subject Matter Not Destined for Place on the Screen;” CODE] HAYS, Will H. (III), ed. “Motion Picture Industry...Adopts Code of Ethics as Public Looks on Approvingly;” and, most importantly: “Producers The Motion Picture. Issued monthly by List 11 Themes Which Are Not Now and Won’t be in Motion Motion Picture Producers and distrib- Pictures; 26 Careful Subjects Named.” Among the proscribed utors of America. Vol. III, no. 2 (Nov. topics were: “pointed profanity;” “licentious or suggestive nu- dity;” “the illegal traffic in drugs;” “sex hygiene and venereal 1927). diseases;” “children’s sex organs;” “any inference of sex per- version;” and other similar themes that would of course be- New York: Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of come the letter of the law after formal adoption of the Hays America, 1927. First Edition. Single issue in original wrappers. Code in 1932. “The Formula,” write the editors, “is entirely Small quarto; staple-bound self-wrappers; 16pp. Vertical fold; legal and it is workable. It does not restrict development but light creasing and wear; Very Good. merely operates to prevent that which is objectionable – about Uncommon film-industry trade journal edited by Will B. Hays, which there can be no question – from reaching the screen” III, author of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1930. (emphasis ours). This is the origin-story of film censorship in This a highly important single issue, announcing the resolu- America. tions of the MPDA’s first annual conference in October 1927. The journal’s title was changed to The Motion Picture Monthly in Most significant among these was the announcement of the 1930. All Pre-1930 issues appear genuinely uncommon, with so-called “Dont’s” and “Be Carefuls,” restrictions on film con- fewer than five scattered locations noted in OCLC, and none tent that predicted, in spirit if not in letter, the provisions of noted in commerce. the 1930 Hays Code. Most of the contents of this issue relate to these new production standards, with headlines such as $750. “Formula to prevent Prevalent Types of Books and Plays from CAST-SIGNED, an AFRICAN-AMERICAN THEATRICAL HIGH-SPOT

Greaves, Frank Roane, Sheila Guyse, and ten-year-old Herbert 42. [DRAMA & FILM] [PATON, Alan] ANDERSON, Coleman, who dated his inscription 1950. Maxwell, words; Kurt Weill, music Attractively-produced program for the original production of The Playwrights’ Company... Pres- “Lost in the Stars,” the musical dramatization of Alan Paton’s 1948 novel Cry, the Beloved Country, a protest narrative against the ents “Lost in the Stars” [Inscribed and segregation in South Africa that was soon to lead to apartheid. Signed by Eight Cast Members and The original cast included twenty-one-year-old Julian Mayfield the Director]. in the role of Absalom Kumalo and child actor Herbert Cole- man whose biography printed here describes his career begin- [New York]: Playwrights’ Company, n.d. but 1949. First Edi- ning at the age of three as “a part of his parents’ vaudeville act, tion. Quarto (30cm.); publisher’s blue pictorial staplebound playing vaudeville and club dates all over the country.” Cole- wrappers; [16]pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrappers man was apparently “signed for Hollywood,” though a search rather foxed and dust-soiled, wear and wrinkling from han- in IMDB yields no film credits. Instead, a 1956 newspaper no- dling. Good or better overall. Inscribed and signed throughout tice mentions his nightclub debut at the 59th Street Cafe. to a “Smiley” by director Todd Duncan and all the leading members of the cast: Guy Spaull, opera baritone Warren Cole- $750. man, author Julian Mayfield, documentary filmmaker William MARTINEAU’S ILLUSTRATIONS of POLITICAL ECONOMY

43. [ECONOMICS] MARTINEAU, Harriet somewhat toned and ends slightly rubbed, light spotting to cloth, textblock a bit foxed. Pastoral novel promoting the enclosure Illustrations of Political Economy - Collection of common land in the English village of Brooke. Final leaf of Seventeen (of Nineteen) Volumes. of text (misnumbered “12” instead of 202) with a summary of principles, concluding that “The increase of agricultural capital Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1832-1834. Stereotype Edition provides a fund for the employment of manufacturing and com- [First American Editions]. Seventeen volumes; 12mo (ca. 15.5 - mercial, as well as agricultural, labor.” 16.5cm.); all bound in publisher’s cloth of various colors, printed 4. Demerara. A Tale. 1832. 198pp. Dark green cloth. Cloth rather paper spine labels. Collection includes Vols. 1-4, 6-18 [misnum- darkened and joints starting to crack, brief exposure at cor- bered 17] (of 19). Condition varies from Good to Near Fine (see ners, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. below). Novella portraying the ill effects of slave systems, the summary An uncommonly substantial collection of the first American provided on pp. 196-8 concluding that “The slave system inflicts edition of Martineau’s earliest published works, issued under the an incalculable amount of human suffering, for the sake of mak- series title “Illustrations of Political Economy.” Based on James ing a whole-sale waste of labor and capital” (p. 198). Mills’s four economic operations (Production, Exchange, Distri- 6. Weal and Woe in Garveloch. A Tale. 1833. 200pp. Pinkish-orange bution, and Consumption), each volume, written in the form of cloth. Cloth rather soiled and spine label toned, contemporary a short novel, addresses a specific political and economic facet ownership signatures to front free endpaper and flyleaf, gener- (colonization, slave labor, the New Poor Laws, etc.). Through the al foxing throughout textblock. Novel in part arguing in favor voracious readership of the works, which were first published in of delayed marriage and birth control in the form of “moral England before being exported to the United States and France, restraint.” As the summary concludes, “The ultimate checks Martineau popularized economic theory, though perhaps by which population is kept down to the level of the means of inevitably she was derided for her poor writing quality, while subsistance are vice and misery...These evils may be delayed by John Stuart Mills accused her of “reducing ‘laissez-faire’ to ‘an promoting the increase of capital, and superseded by restraining absurdity’” (cf. Valerie Sanders and Gaby Weiner, eds., “Harriet the increase of population” (p. 200). Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines” (2016), p. 5). Sets such as this are a rarity, only a handful of individual volumes ap- 7. A Manchester Strike. A Tale. 1833. 6,[9]-194pp. Green cloth. pearing in the auction record as of September, 2019. Individual Cloth a bit darkened and spotted, small loss to spine label, cor- volumes described below: ners bumped with brief exposure, endpapers quite toned due to inferior paper stock, contemporary ownership signature to front 1. Life in the Wilds. 1833. xviii,[19]-177pp. Rose cloth, printed free endpaper. The most widely-read of the works in this series, paper spine label (“Life in the Woods [sic]”). Corners a bit addressing trade unions and strike action. bumped, spine quite faded and spine label partly perished. Pref- ace ends with a list of “Principles illustrated,” including the ways in which labor is economized (“1. Men do best what they are accustomed to do. / 2. Men do the most quickly work which they stick to. / 3. It is a saving of time to have several parts of a work going on at once”). The novel, based in part on Robinson Crusoe, describes a small British settlement in the European territories of South Africa. 2. The Hill and the Valley. A Tale. 1833. 183pp. Rose cloth. Spine quite sunned, foxing to textblock. A novel of industrial conflict set in a South Wales valley iron works, the last leaf of text providing a summary of principles covered, chiefly that “The interests of the two classes of producers, laborers and capitalists, are...the same; the prosperity of both depending on the accumulation of CAPITAL” (p. 183). 3. Brooke and Brooke Farm. A Tale. 1832. 4,8,[7]-201pp. Green cloth. Spine NEARLY the ENTIRE RUN of U.S. FIRSTS, in ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDINGS

8. Cousin Marshall. A Tale. 1833. 187pp. Rose cloth. Cloth spine lacking front free endpaper, faint dampstaining to early leaves of and spine edges sunned, corners bumped, shallow loss at spine textblock. Tale inspired by the June Rebellion in Paris, 1832, in crown, else a Very Good, fresh copy. A novel on the original part a result of several years of poor harvests. After reading this 17th-century Poor Laws. particular work in the series, the French monarch Louis-Philippe 9. Ireland. A Tale. 1833. 178pp. Blue cloth. Spine a bit sunned, I ordered that the series be translated into French and dissemi- light wear to extremities, general foxing to textblock. Novella re- nated throughout the school system (see Lesa Scholl, “Hunger counting the plight and eventual ruin of the poor but hard-work- Movements in Early Victorian Literature (2016), p. 21). ing Irish land tenant family the Sullivans. From the concluding 13. The Charmed Sea. A Tale. 1833. 180pp. Dark purple cloth. summary Martineau notes that in Ireland, “Population should Spine a bit faded and label toned, corners gently bumped, be reduced within due limits,– in the present emergency, by contemporary ownership signatures to front free endpaper and well-conducted schemes of emigration; and Permanently, by flyleaf, general foxing throughout. Set amongst a community of education of the people till they shall have become qualified for exiled Poles on the shores of the Lake Baikal in Siberia. the guardianship of their own interests” (p. 178). 14. Berkeley the Banker. Part I. A Tale. 1833. vi,[7]-228pp. Dark rose 10. Homes Abroad. A Tale. 1833. 172pp. Dark rose cloth. Spine cloth. Cloth a bit soiled and spine toned, contemporary owner- and extremities sunned, corners bumped. Fictional study of ship signature to front flyleaf. the affect of emigration to the British colonies, following the 15. Berkeley the Banker. Part II. A Tale. 1833. 191pp. Dark rose different fates of members of the Castle family, some of whom cloth. Cloth soiled, shallow loss to upper cover fore-edge, corners are sent to the Australian penal colony against their will, while bumped with some exposure, contemporary ownership signature others choose to emigrate to that same continent in order to to front flyleaf, textblock rather heavily foxed. One of the series’ avoid the workhouse. lengthiest novels, set in the 1810s and 1820s during the crisis of 11. For Each and For All. A Tale. 1833. 176pp. Brownish-purple converting specie to paper money. cloth. Spotting to upper cover, loss at spine foot (remnant now 16. Messrs. Vanderput and Snoek. A Tale. 1833. vi,[7]-186pp. Dark laid in), lacking endpapers. With tipped in cancel to title page rose cloth. Cloth a bit soiled, spine toned and ends chipped, con- noting that “The present No. is published before No. 10 in temporary ownership signature to front flyleaf, textblock foxed. consequence of that No. not having been received from London Novel based on the author’s experiences living in Holland and so soon as this. Nos. 10 and 12 are in press and will be issued the Bills of Exchange. during the present month. May 1st, 1833.” Anti-socialist tale, authored in response to Owenite principles. 17. The Loom and the Lugger. Part I. A Tale. 1833. 174pp. Dark rose cloth. Cloth rather rubbed and upper joint cracked, corners 12. French Wines and Politics. A Tale. 1833. 189pp. Brownish-purple bumped, contemporary ownership signatures to front free end- cloth. Spine and rear cover extremities faded, corners bumped, paper and flyleaf. 17 [but 18]. The Loom and the Lugger. Part II. A Tale. 1834. vi,[7]-191pp. Dark rose cloth, printed paper spine label. Light soil, corners slightly bumped, contemporary ownership signatures to front free endpaper and flyleaf. Novel detailing the British government’s misguided attempts at restricting the import of French goods into England, the summary concluding that “These wants and desires [of all the comforts and luxuries which the world produces] can be in no degree gratified but by means of mutual exchanges. They can be fully satisfied only by means of absolutely universal and free exchanges” (p. 190). $3,500. AN EXTRAORDINARY KINDERGARTEN ALBUM, ca 1910s

44. [EDUCATION REFORM] [FROEBEL, Friedrich] Kindergarten Work No place, publisher or edition stated; ca 1910s. Oblong quar- to (23.5x28cm); black pebbled cloth boards, stamped in gilt on upper cover; [30pp]. Mild wear and soil to boards; material frayed slightly at crown of spine; gilt faded; cloth tie detached from rear board (still attached to front); bump to rear leading edge. Some interior soiling, toning, and brittle areas, particularly where two full-page sewing exercises are tipped-in; one paper cutting exercise torn, mostly lost. Presumed ownership inscription (signed “M. Brown”, in mature handwriting) on front pastedown. Overall Very Good; a remarkable rarity. German educator Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) founded the first Kindergarten in 1837. His pedagogy encouraged the use of creative projects, games, and free play to spur learning and development. Notably, he developed a curriculum of fundamental activies, or “Occupations”, which utilized materials of increasing complexity called “Gifts.” Beginning with simple yarn balls and wooden blocks for infants, children could eventually work up to paper folding and cutting, sewing, clay modeling, wood- work, and more. His system became popular around the world, and elements of his approach to early childhood education are still used today. This album was most likely created by a prospective kindergarten educator as a means of learning and demonstrating Frobeli- an classroom methods. Each concertina-folded, card paper leaf contains different tipped-in examples of the kindergarten Oc- cupations, including paper weaving, pricking and sewing, paper folding (origami), and paper cutting. Six additional paper folding exercises are laid-in. $750. INSCRIBED TO AYN RAND, by an ACOLYTE

Channing Pollock, and struck up a friendship which lasted 45. [FAR RIGHT] ALEXANDER, Ruth Wilbur throughout their lifetimes. She referred to Rand as “America’s What Will People Say? [Inscribed to Ayn Joan of Arc,” and in her Daily Mirror column went so far as to assert that “Ayn Rand is destined to rank in history as the Rand] outstanding novelist and most profound philosopher of the New York: Vantage Press, 1975. First Edition. New York: Van- twentieth century.” A champion of many of Rand’s projects, tage Press, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); she wrote a favorable review of the Caxton edition of Anthem black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; (1953), and was among the earliest conservative voices to praise [viii],120pp. Inscribed by the author to Ayn Rand on the title her screenplay for The Fountainhead (1949), eliciting the following page: “To my beloved Ayn / with profound admiration - Ruth.” response from Rand: “...I want thank you once more for your Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.95), reaction to The Fountainhead and for the wonderful column with gentle sunning and some pinpoint wear to red spine letter- you wrote about it...You are the first and only one of the con- ing. servatives I know who has come out publicly in support of the picture, and I shall never be able to tell you how profoundly I Distinguished copy of the author’s first novel, “highlighting the appreciate it” (Berliner. Letters of Ayn Rand, p.451). cruel and irrational emphasis society puts on age in marriage” and representing “the first break from the double standard A fiine association copy of an unaccountably rare book; we for those of differing ages - wrong-way-round, who find love, find no copies in commerce, a single holding in OCLC (Mills marry and find happiness in each other” (from front flap). Dr. College), and the only contemporary review appearing in The Ruth Alexander, distinguished economist, conservative author, Crescent (Sept.1975), the Gamma Phi Beta sorority magazine lecturer, and major voice among right wing Libertarians, served from her alma mater, Northwestern University. Provenance: as the associate editor of Finance from 1942-44, participated in through the trade; private collection of Jay T. Snider; Bonhams, the American Economic Foundation’s Wake Up, America! radio June 28, 2005 (The Library of Ayn Rand). broadcasts from 1940-46, and wrote a syndicated column “Our $1,500. America” for Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror from 1944-63. She and Rand were introduced in 1940 by novelist and playwright INSCRIBED TO AYN RAND, by a MENTOR

46. [FAR RIGHT] PATERSON, Isabel If It Prove Fair Weather [Inscribed to Ayn Rand]. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); russet cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 306,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author to Ayn Rand on the front endpaper: “To Ayn Rand from Isabel Paterson / “Because he was himself, because I was myself.” Slight forward lean, tiny splash mark to lower right corner of front board, with a faint, shallow stain to right margin of a few preliminary leaves; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly edgeworn, with several tears and attendant creases, a few of them neatly mended on verso; Very Good. Attractive copy of Paterson’s final novel, a story of frustrated love in which a female college professor becomes embroiled in a relationship with a married businessman. “Patterson contrives the kind of situation that allows her to study the basic moral and psychological dilemmas that she regards as typical of intimate re- lationships. Of her chief male character, Paterson remarked that “there was no way for him to behave well. He had only a choice of behaving badly in different ways” (see Stephen Cox’s introduction to The God of the Machine (2009), pp.xxi-xxii). Paterson (1886-1961) was a Canadian-American novelist, journalist, and political theo- retician, acknowledged by her biographer as “the earliest progen- itor of libertarianism as we know it today” (Cox, The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America). Her final book, duced by a mutual acquaintance. “Friends and political allies The God of the Machine (1943), was a highly-influential treatise on for many years, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson were two of the political economy and individualist thought, called by her disciple champions of individualism of the 1940s...Rand and “Pat” saw and one-time protegé Ayn Rand “a document that could literally each other on many occasions, often talking philosophy all night save the world...The God of the Machine does for capitalism what and often disagreeing. The contrasting approaches to ideas evi- Das Kapital does for the Reds and what the Bible did for Christian- dent in their letters seem also to have characterized their conver- ity” (Berliner, Michael S. (ed). The Letters of Ayn Rand, p.102). Her sations - Rand organized and logical; Paterson spontaneous and relationship with Rand began early in 1940, after being intro sometimes rambling. Rand later said of Paterson: “...At her best, she was enormously rational, with a very wide kind of abstract mind, could talk fascinatingly, make the best philosophical iden- tifications and abstract connections. And generally was a marvel- ous mind” (Berliner. Letters of Ayn Rand, p.173). Their relationship would ultimately deteriorate in 1948, after Paterson visited Rand and her husband in California, and insulted several of Rand’s friends unnecessarily. A monumental association copy, connecting arguably the two most prominent figures in American Libertarianism, and dating from the earliest years of their association. Provenance: through the trade; private collection of Jay T. Snider; Bonhams, June 28, 2005 (The Library of Ayn Rand). $7,500. SUBSTANTIAL RUN of an IMPORTANT FREETHOUGHT NEWSPAPER

America” (article signed by Roderick French in: Gordon Stein 47. [FREETHOUGHT] KNEELAND, Abner; Josiah (ed), Encyclopedia of Unbelief. NY:1985; I:64ff). Under Kneeland’s Mendum (eds) editorship, the paper also became an outlet for abolitionist and feminist sentiments, boosted by the paper’s brief association Boston Investigator. Collection of 52 with Frances Wright (whose name appeared on the masthead Original Issues, 1836-1844. beside Kneeland’s for part of 1836, though none of these issues are present in the current collection). The majority of articles, Boston: J.Q. Adams (and others), 1836-1844. Fifty-two repre- especially in early issues, are signed with pseudonyms – con- sentative (but non-consecutive) weekly issues of what is gen- ceivably an after-effect of Kneeland’s very lengthy public tri- erally considered the first freethought newspaper published in al for blasphemy, which ended with his brief imprisonment in the United States. In original, unbound condition; each issue 1838. Among the many identified contributors to the current ca. 53cm x 40cm (20-3/4” x 16”); 4pp. Old vertical and hori- run of issues are Lewis Masquerier, Charles Knowlton, Tyler zontal folds, most issues with the ownership signature of a Dr. Parsons, Horace Seaver, James Pollard Espy, Frances Wright, J. Angier, others with that of J.G. Wilson; a few with additional Stephen J.W. Tabor, Robert Owen, Orestes A. Brownson, Eli- holograph notations in ink to first hu Palmer, and others. page. Generally mild to moder- The issue for Nov. 11, ate wear and aging; a few more 1840 includes An Ad- heavily stained or worn, with oc- dress of the Working- casional splits or losses costing a men of Charlestown, few characters of text but with- Mass, to their breth- out loss of sense – all issues com- ren throughout the plete, sound and legible; a Good Commonwealth..., a or better group overall. Includes significant statement the following issues: of principles by this Vol. VI (1836): nos.2,5, 7,8,17- early proto-labor 19,30,32. union. Vol. IX (1839): nos.1,4, 8,10,11,15 Individual issues are ,22,24,27,30,31,33,35,38,41,44,45 uncommon in com- , 47,48,51 merce; to our knowl- Vol. X (1840): edge no cohesive nos.3,5,7,9,10,12,14,15,20,21,25,27- grouping of issues has 30,35 appeared at auction in Vol. XI (1841): no.27 at least 25 years. Vol. XIII (1843-44): nos.4,6,39 $1,750. An attractive and representative collection of early issues of this important freethought weekly, founded by Abner Kneeland in 1832 and published continuously until 1904, when the paper was absorbed by the vastly wider-cir- culating Truth Seeker. The Investiga- tor was published and printed by J.Q. Adams (the Boston radical printer/publisher, not the former U.S. President) until being taken over by Josiah Mendum in 1839; Kneeland turned over editorial responsibilities that same year to his former shop assistant, Horace Seaver. Of the Investigator’s influence, one historian has written: “...the Investigator runs like a single unbroken thread through a frag- mented history of ephemeral local associations, abortive building campaigns, and countless short-lived periodicals...by 1836 [it had] become and would remain for more than half a century the major national organ of the freethought movement in HEAVILY ANNOTATED by a PROMINENT AMERICAN RATIONALIST

Wakefield “Finished pencil copy of speech + began it in ink. 48. [FREETHOUGHT] [WAKEMAN, Thaddeus More German with Mrs. A... English coast!” The following Burr] WILDE, Oscar day “Off the cliffs of Dover wrote first letter home to Clara -- more German with Mrs. A corrected her translations.” The The Soul of Man Under Socialism last two entries of his diary made in Hamburg during the [Thaddeus Burr Wakeman’s Copy]. conference, noting a dinner with Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, co-president with Ernst Heinrich Haeckel of the Monist St. Louis: Hermann Schwarz, 1906. First Thus. 12mo (17cm.); League. publisher’s cloth tape-backed pictorial card wrappers, glassine dust jacket; [6],62pp.; text printed in red and black through- Wakeman was a New York City lawyer and former president out. Glassine toned with a few tiny chips and closed tears, front of the New York State Freethinkers’ Association, his speech hinge cracked, Wakeman’s pencil underlining and checkmarks delivered at the Congress published two years later in the throughout text, additional extensive notes to blanks (see be- collection Addresses of Thaddeus Burr Wakeman at and in Reference low), else Very Good overall. to the First Monist Congress at Hamburg, in September 1911 (Cos Cob, CT: 1913). The collection included Wakeman’s letter to Provenance: Copy of rationalist Thaddeus Burr Wakeman George E. MacDonald, editor of the “Truth Seeker,” in which (1834-1913), given to him on August 24, 1911, on board the he writes “Altogether we have had a very pleasant voyage, and S.S. Pennsylvania by a Rachel Lillian Andrews “as a ‘good I have made several excellent acquaintances that will be very bye,’ + my problem to be solved by my visit to the first Monist useful for the purposes for which this trip was made” (p. 10). Congress at Hamburg as Delegate from U.S.” (manuscript Though Wakeman clearly read Wilde’s short work during his note on p. [iii]). Throughout his trans-Atlantic journey Wake- trip, mention of the text never made it into his address. This field used the rear blank leaves of this volume as a diary of the edition not in Mason. progress made for his speech to be delivered at the Congress and his German lessons with a Mrs. Austin, broken up with $750. evening dancing and concerts. On Sunday, September 3, tablishment of an independent Ireland through peaceful means, 49. [IRELAND] IRISH NORTHERN AID British, Irish, and U.S. governments have since accused the orga- [Broadside] Margaret Thatcher - Wanted nization of raising money for, and smuggling arms to, the Pro- visional Irish Republican Army. By the time this broadside was for Murder and Torture of Irish Prisoners issued in the 1980s Noraid consisted chiefly of a federation of San Francisco: Irish Northern Aid, n.d., ca. 1980s. First Edition. local branches focusing on fundraising to benefit the families of Original photo-illustrated broadside (35.5x21.5cm.); printed off- IRA volunteers. (For additional information see William E. Wat- set on newsprint. Three small pinholes along top edge, minor ton- son and Eugene J. Halus Jr., Irish-Americans (2014), pp. 102-3.) A ing and wrinkling, else Very Good or better. rare broadside; no examples in the trade or auction record; nor separately catalogued in OCLC as of October, 2019. Issued by the Irish American organization Irish Northern Aid (NORAID), founded by Michael Flannery in 1969 in the wake $300. of the Troubles. Though its mission statement supported the es- 50. [IRELAND] CLAN NA GAEL and I.R.A. Veterans of America [Broadside] Re-Arm the I.R.A. & Restore the Republic! New York: 1956. First Edition. Small broadside flyer (23x16cm.); printed in green on coated white stock. A few faint shallow creases to bottom left-hand corner, else Near Fine. Flyer announcing the 40th Anniversary Easter Week Commemo- ration Concert in memory of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, which left several hundred dead and the fourteen organizers executed. The concert, held at the Pythian on West 70th St., included contributions by several Irish-American aritsts, among them the McNiff Troupe of Irish Dancers. Listed as the principal speakers were former IRA Chief of Staff Andrew F. Cooney, who emigrated to the United States and settled in Maryland in the 1940s; and Thomas Magu- ire, former Commandant General of the Second Western Division, who was visiting the United States from County Mayo. “General Maguire is one of the surviving members of Dail Eireann Executive Council, the lawful Government of the All-Ireland Republic, which was overthrown by traitors with British aid in 1922; he is thoroughly conversant with conditions and prospects in Ireland today.” Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of October, 2019. $300.

51. [IRELAND] MACREADY, Nevil, Winston Chur- chill, and Lloyd George The Drama of Eight Days, June 22nd to June 29th, 1922: How war was waged on Ireland with an economy of English lives as related by General Sir Nevil Macready, Mr. Winston Churchill, and Mr. Lloyd George. [New York: Irish Republican Headquarters], 1922. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. Light dust-soil and toning, else Near Fine. Small pamphlet issued by the fraternal oath-bound Irish Repub- lican Brotherhood, reprinting excerpts by General Macready in Dublin and Churchill and George from the House of Commons regarding the Irish Civil War, concluding with the tongue-in- cheek “Crowning Triumph: ‘In William Cosgrave and Richard Mulcahy two men stepped forward who, if they did not at first inspire univeral confidence, proved for a time loyal to their obligations towards the British Government, and determined to assert their authority in their own country by means far more drastic than any which the British Government dared to impose during the worst period of the rebellion’” (p. 8). Somehow missed by Woods. $250. 52. [LABOR HISTORY] [BALLOU, Ellis] An Account of the Coal Bank Disaster at Blue Rock, Ohio, in which four men were buried beneath the hill for two weeks; together with their own account of the feelings they experienced in their solitary confinement. Malta, OH: E. Ballou, 1856. 12mo. Original sewn, printed wrappers; 32pp. Few tiny nicks to extremities, mild aging to text; Near Fine. One full-page illustration (a diagram showing the layout of the mine) and two decorative woodcut tail-pieces. “Sixth Edition” stated on title page, as with all known copies. SABIN 56861. Rear wrapper bears a certification from three of the victims: “We the undersigned hereby certify that we have given to E. Ballou, of Malta, a correct account of our sufferings and feelings while con- fined in the Blue Rock coal mine, and that we have given such statement to no other person...” An unusual imprint, and a remarkable account of this early U.S. mine disaster. $350.

53. [LABOR HISTORY] [INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER] WARSAGER, Hyman [Poster] 5th Anniversary Drive. Shop Month in the International Workers Order [New York]: International Workers Order, 1936. Lithograph in two colors, 35” x 22” (ca 89cm x 56cm). Printed in black and red on semi-glossy coated stock. Vertical and horizontal fold lines; brief splits at margins; light creasing; Very Good, unrestored condition, Grade B+/B. Unbacked. Graphic signed “Warsager” at lower right. Attractive large recruiting poster for the International Workers Or- der, a fraternal, mutual aid and insurance organization that grew out of the Jewish Workers Circle (aka Arbeiter Ring) in the early Thirties. Though affiliated with the CPUSA, membership in the IWO was open to all regardless of “sex, nationality, race, color, creed or political affiliation.” The IWO was particularly committed to recruiting African-American members, a theme reflected in the current graphic. Hyman Warsager (1909-74) was a New York painter, graphic artist and printmaker who contributed a substantial body of work to the WPA Art Projects during the Great De- pression. His work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, MOMA, and other institutions. The current work is uncommon; we find no example in any institutional catalog, and no evidence of a copy in commerce in at least 25 years. $750. IMPORTANT PRIMARY SOURCE for the COLORADO MINE WARS & I.W.W.

Wilson’s appointee, the progressive lawyer Frank P. Walsh. The 54. [LABOR HISTORY] COMMISSION ON INDUS- Report, completed four years after the Commission first began TRIAL RELATIONS its research, reached a total of 11,260 pages, the first 265pp. consisting of the report, the remaining text devoted to testimo- Industrial Relations: Final Report and nials. Listed among the testimonials are those of Samuel Gomp- Testimony Submitted to Congress by ers on the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, the Commission on Industrial Relations and the Industrial Workers of the World; and chapters on the mining conditions of Butte, Montana; the industrial relations Created by the Act of August 23, 1912. of Seattle, Washington; collective bargaining in California; the “smuggling of Asiatics”; and the Coloardo Coal miners’ strike Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1916. First Edi- (Vol. VII, pp. 6345-6990, Vol. VIII, pp. 6991-7425 and 7761- tion. Eleven volumes; thick octavos (23cm.); publisher’s tan dou- 8013; Vol. IX, pp. 8015-8948), whose opening testimonies in- ble-ruled cloth, spines lettered in black. Ex-Willard Library with clude those of two coal miners’ wives, Mrs. Pearl Jolly and Mrs. their contemporary bookplates to front pastedowns, cloth and Mary Hannah Thomas, the former’s husband having been laid textblocks a bit dust-soiled, spine cloth slightly darkened, else a off after travelling to Trinidad, Colorado, one weekend, the trip Very Good, sturdy set. Issued as Senate Documents Vols. 19-29 coinciding with a United Mine Worker’s convention, though for the 64th Congress, 1st session, December 6, 1915-Septem- according to his wife he was only there “to do a little shopping” ber 8, 1916, Document 415. (p. 6348). Contents also include several testimonies made by Comprehensive report of the labor struggles and laws at the Pullman employees (Vol. X, pp. 9543-9695) with detailed de- turn of the 20th century, substantially devoted to the Colorado scriptions of the duties of a Pullman porter. Labor Wars. The Commission was first created in 1912 in the wake of a wave of labor disputes, and was headed by Woodrow $500. RARE & IMPRESSIVE MAMMOTH-PLATE ALBUMEN of the B of LF under GENE DEBS

Debs. Debs, though not positively identified, is almost certainly 55. [LABOR HISTORY] [DEBS, Eugene] BROTHER- present in this photograph, seated second from the left of the HOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN third seated row. Original Albumen Photograph of the An article in the October, 1888 issue of Locomotive Fire- men’s Magazine gives a vivid description of the Brotherhood’s Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen festivities during the Chicago to Atlanta journey, making special [Terre Haute?: September, 1888]. Mammoth-plate albumen mention of the day spent in Terre Haute: “...the first of the photograph (42.5cm x 49cm, ca 17” x 19”.); laid down to sleepers, was ornamented with a strip of canvas on which ap- original pasteboard mount. Shallow toning and minute chip- peared the flag of the United States...’United We stand, united ping along image extremities, mount toned, slightly warped, not we remain,’ apeared on the next sleeper, while on another was affecting image; Very Good, with image uniformly bright and painted, ‘We advocate arbitration’…while on the last car was unfaded. written, “Our employers’ interests are our interests’ … a large concourse of people awaited the arrival of the train at the Van- An exceptional mammoth-plate group portrait of approximate- dalia depot, and as it came in, it was greeted by stirring music ly 250 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen en by the Ringgold band, of Terre Haute, a compliment which it route from Chicago to the Brotherhood’s 15th Annual Con- was easy to see the delegates on the train highly appreciated...” vention in Atlanta, 1888, along the Chicago & Eastern Illinois The mottoes described in the article match those in the present Railroad. The members are shown posing in a field, their train photograph (visible in the background, but legible only with standing idle a few hundred feet behind them, draped with magnification). Though theMagazine’s detailed description of commemorative banners. Also present are a handful of women the day’s festivities in Terre Haute does not make specific men- and children, and we note at least three African-American tion of a group portrait being taken, enough other details align Pullman porters standing among the crowd. Our date is based with the description to provide confidence in the attribution. upon a detailed description of the Brotherhood’s journey from Chicago to Atlanta, in the October, 1888 issue of the Loco- An exceedingly uncommon and attractive American labor pho- motive Firemen’s Magazine. Though the location is not specified, tograph, to our knowledge never published, and likely one of evidence suggests it to be Terre Haute, Indiana, which was very few such portraits produced especially in this large format. the first stop along the Convention Train’s route as well as the $4,500. headquarters of the Brotherhood’s Grand Secretary, Eugene V. WITH a MULTITUDE of ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS by EUGENE DEBS

of Locomotive Engineers...Through the struggle the B. of L.F. 56. [LABOR HISTORY] DEBS, Eugene V., ed. proved itself in every emergency to be as considerate and as cou- Firemen’s Magazine [Later title Locomo- rageous as the B. of L.E., and by virtue of its fealty to the interests of the B. of L.E.” (Vol. XIII, p. 154). By 1890 the Magazine tive Firemen’s Magazine] - Four Bound was openly in favor of striking, unfortunate as the action may Volumes. be, for “there is something far more deplorable than strikes. It is a condition when men, subjugated and degraded, accept chains [Terre Haute: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, 1882-1890. without protest” (Vol. XIV, p. 712). Whereas the earlier two vol- First Edition. Four volumes; octavo (22cm.); all bound in half mo- umes make little mention of strike activity, no fewer than seven rocco or calf over cloth, gilt-lettered spines; illus. Publication se- separate strikes were covered in the years 1889 and 1890. Other quence as follows: Vol. VI (1882), Vol. X (1886), Vol. XIII (1889), questions that arose in the later issues included worker safety and and Vol. XIV (1890). Boards uniformly scuffed and leather dried the eight-hour day. with joints subsequently cracked, shallow loss at Vol. XIII spine crown and rear cover Notable among the magazine’s features was the diversity of separated, boards of contributors, in- Vol. XIV bowed, later cluding humorists ownership inscription Mark Twain (“Mark to front free endpaper Twain Tells of His of Vol. X, Vol. XIV Traveling Experi- front free endpaper a ence”) and Bill Nye; bit cockled from expo- novelist Bret Harte; sure to damp. Overall and Grand Master Good to Very Good, Workman of the contents mostly fine. Knights of Labor T.V. Powderly. By Substantial collection 1886 the Magazine of the magazine issued had added a “Wom- by the labor fraternal an’s Department,” order the Brotherhood edited by the wom- of Locomotive Fire- an’s rights activist men, edited by Eu- and journalist Ida gene V. Debs starting Harper, who also in 1880, a platform served as the secre- with which he “urged tary to the Indiana workers to educate chapter of the Na- themselves on vital is- tional Woman Suf- sues, to join unions, frage Association. to strengthen their The first reference unions’ political clout to women’s suffrage at election time, and does not appear in to pressure politicians this collection until to secure the passage September, 1889, and enforcement of though it is given prolabor laws” (Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 114, August, 1991, p. an entire column in almost every subsequent issue. Additional- 32). The present collection exemplifies the evolution of Debs’s ly, Harper addresses intemperance, house-keeping, “Woman’s early conservative approach to labor organizing and his gradual Dress,” “Husbands Who Flirt,” and the “Woman’s Side of the radicalization following his involvement in the failed Burlington Labor Question.” Perhaps not unrelatedly, the second issue fol- Railroad Strike of 1888. The earlier two volumes issued prior to lowing the introduction of the “Woman’s Department” featured the event, and a description of an address delivered in 1886 notes the earliest placement of a few choice ads, for cigars, tea, the cure his arguing that “The object [of the Brotherhood] is to give to for piles, and, later, artificial limbs. employers more reliable and competent workmen, and to make the Firemen the peer, morally and intellectually of the best of $1,500. men” (Vol. X, p. 310). The following issue opens with a lengthy article arguing against boycotting as a means “of redress for any troubles which may environ them” (p. 329). However, by the early months of 1889 the rhetoric of the Brotherhood had shifted, and a statement on the collapse of the Burlington Railroad Strike begins “The Brotherhood of the Locomotive Firemen was as vi- tally involved in the C., B. & Q. strike as was the Brotherhood A REMARKABLE ALBUM OF ILLINOIS COAL MINING PHOTOGRAPHS

57. [LABOR HISTORY] SHARON COAL CO. 10-22.” Impressive collection of professional photographs taken at the Album of Occupational Photographs of Sharon Coal Company located in Georgetown, Illinois, south Coal Mining in Illinois of Danville. As of 1909 the mine was hauling 50 tons per day at a depth of 245 feet. According to the album label the company Georgetown and Danville, IL: Sharon Coal Co. / Bowman’s provided coal to the Illinois Traction System and the Toledo, Studio, ca. 1920s. Quarto (21.5x29cm.); limp black post-bound St. Louis & Western Railroad, though the mine was defunct cloth, later printed label glued and taped to upper cover; by 1927 according to Christopher Stratton’s 2002 report on ten linen-backed silver gelatin photographs (all measuring abandoned mine lands reclamation. The photographs depict 20x25cm.), Danville-based Bowman Studios rubberstamp on the miners (including one mule) and the machine workers, the each verso. Light soil to album covers, metal spine binding a bit shafts, the machinery, and the outlying buildings, a single Ford rusted, linen backing a bit frayed, else a superlative collection. Model T parked outside. Date based on the final photograph, depicting the company’s coke ovens, on one of which someone had written in chalk “5- $1,500. A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF QUAINTANCE MALE-ORDER ARTWORKS

Attractive collection of prints, reproducing original paintings by 58. [LGBTQ+] QUAINTANCE, George (artwork); homoerotic art pioneer George Quaintance (1902-1957). Born on GARCIA, Victor Manuel (photographer) a farm in Page County, Virginia, Quaintance displayed an early aptitude for art, studying at the Art Students League in New York Collection of 21 Homophilic Images. City once he turned 18, and starting his career doing advertising Phoenix and Los Angeles: Quaintance Studio, [1943-1954]. work and, eventually, supplying illustration art to various “spicy” Quarto (29cm); spiral-bound photo album with brown leather- pulp magazines through the late 1930s. During the 1940s-50s, he ette covers, containing 21 black & white photographic prints on became more heavily involved in painting and photography, set- heavy coated paper, all signed and (mostly) dated in-plate, with tling at an estate in Phoenix he called Rancho Siesta, from where titles and the artist’s studio he operated Quaintance Studio with his lover Victor Manuel stamp on versos (measuring Garcia, a model and Quain- 8” x 10”). Some light, ex- tance’s long-time business ternal wear to covers, with partner. Quaintance scholar a few small tears to acetate Ken Furtado described Ran- sleeves, else Near Fine; a few cho Siesta as “the nearest prints with mild waviness at thing to Shangri-La in Amer- upper or lower edges, else ican history...populated with very Near Fine. A list of cowhands, models, staffers, prints offered in the album ex-lovers and a coterie of are as follows: followers who were always young, handsome, built like 1. Temptation (Los Angeles, gods and clad in little more n.d.) than 501s and boots. It was 2. Golden Faun (Phoenix, also an ingenious and over- 1952) whelmingly successful mar- 3. In the Arms of Morpheus keting concept.” It was from (Phoenix, 1951) Rancho Siesta that Quain- tance clearly drew much of 4. Orpheus in Hades (Los his inspiration, depicting re- Angeles, n.d.) alistic, macho men in west- 5. Idyll (Phoenix, 1952) ern settings: cowboy studs, ranch hands, matadors, rural 6. White Captive (Phoenix, laborers, and Aztec gods. He 1951) dabbled in fantasy and Greek 7. Sacrifice (Phoenix, 1952) mythology as fluidly as he de- 8. Slave Market (Phoenix, picted sailors on shore leave. 1952) His artwork was used on the first cover of Bob Mizer’s 9. The Crusader (Phoenix, Physique Pictorial, and business 1943) began to thrive as demand for 10. Point Loma (Phoenix, his artwork increased. In ad- 1952) dition to managing the busi- 11. Shore Leave (Phoenix, ness, Garcia filled the role of 1952) principal photographer for Quaintance Studio. Quain- 12. Manolo (Phoenix, 1952) tance died of a heart attack on November 8, 1957, and Garcia 13. Gloria (Phoenix, 1953) continued to run the business until 1964, when he sold Rancho Siesta and moved to Los Angeles. Today Quaintance is consid- 14. After the Storm (Phoenix, 1951) ered both a master painter of the male physique and pioneer of 15. Thunderhead (Phoenix, 1951) the macho gay aesthetic that influenced Tom of Finland, James 16. Sunset (Phoenix, 1953) Bidgood, Pierre et Gilles, and others. During a time where being openly gay was both risky and widely illegal, he normalized erotic 17. Saturday Night (Phoenix, 1954) depictions of the male form and male companionship, cementing 18. Morning (Phoenix, n.d.) his place in the history of homophilic art and iconography. 19. Night in the Desert (Phoenix, 1951) $2,500. 20. Siesta (Phoenix, n.d.) 21. Sunrise (Phoenix, 1953)

59. [NEW LEFT / COUNTERCULTURE] MIAMI CONVENTIONS COALITION The Nomination Day. Republican Na- tional Convention. Miami Beach, Au- gust 22nd, 1972. Miami: Miami Conventions Coalition, 1972. Original litho- graphed poster, 21-1/2” x 16”. Printed in black on thick, uncoated stock. Faint fold lines, else Very Good to Near Fine. Terrific monochrome Pop Art-inspired poster featuring a re- peated image of Richard Nixon’s demonic-looking face. Issued ahead of the 1972 Republican National Convention demonstrations by the Miami Conventions Coalition, a loosely affiliated association of left groups that included Yippies, main-line Marxists, and pacifists. This poster rare; IISH only in OCLC as of September, 2019; not catalogued at Center for Social & Political Graphics (CSPG) – however an on-line search does turn up a single copy at Tamiment Library, NYU. Pictured in Ralph Young, Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century (NY: 2016). $650.

60. [NEW LEFT / COUNTERCULTURE] WEEGE, William Impeach Johnson [with] Impeach Nix- on & 1967 [Signed and Dated]. [Madison, Wisconsin]: 1967. First Edition. Diptych comprised of two original silkscreen posters, each approximately 60x44cm, printed in red or black on card stock. Faint finger soil and marginal wear else Near Fine. Each signed and dated in pencil, lower right. William Weege was an integral figure in the golden age of printmaking in Madison, where he first began learning the techniques of both commercial and artistic printmaking as an undergraduate. While working part-time as a film stripper for the local Litho Publications, Weege was also producing protest posters which he put up around campus, though “Students and others in the community found the posters so appealing that they were removed as fast as they were put up” (Cole- scott, p. 114), leading Weege to discover that he could make money from his artistic output. Both images here were issued in Weege’s Peace Is Patriotic portfolio (also 1967), though these impressions appear to have been made independently as they are on different paper and have slightly different dimensions. These are likely proofs, pulled while the portfolio was in production (but not so identified). Each signed and dated “67” in pencil at bottom of image. (See Warrington Colescott, Progres- sive Printmakers (1999), pp. 113-115.) $750. 61. [NEW LEFT / COUNTERCULTURE] [PEOPLE’S PARK] DESPRAIRIES, S. [Poster] Berkeley Free Clinic / Tenth Anniversary May 69 May 79 / People’s Park: May 12-20, 1979, a week of commemorative events Berkeley: Berkeley Community Health Project, 1979. First Edi- tion. Original poster (58.5x44cm) printed offset lithograph from a blockprint in black on white stock; faint wrinkling from having been clumsily rolled, very faint toning to far extremities, else Very Good or better. Quite rare promotional poster for the still-extant Berkeley Free Clinic, the center of the sheet adorned with a large and rather unsettling image of a creature one can only describe as part clown, part lion, and part leopard, caged in a line of leafy trees. Signed in image by an S. Desprairies. The organization was first founded in 1969 as a free street clinic in conjunction with the major clashes which took place at the local People’s Park in May of that year, during which student James Rector was shot and killed by police (events not mentioned on the Clinic’s website as of 2019). Scarce: we find no copies on the market or auction records (September, 2019), nor in OCLC, though a copy is catalogued in the OMCA Collections. $400.

62. [NEW LEFT / COUNTERCULTURE] [ANONY- MOUS ARTIST] End The War – Free Bobby & all political prisoners. [Berkeley: People’s Legal Defense Committee, ca 1968]. Origi- nal silkscreen poster in black ink on white background; on thick poster stock, 18-1/4” x 25”. A clean, unworn copy, very Near Fine (A). Striking, anonymously-produced poster, reputedly produced for a 1968 exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery in Berkeley. Attributed in the image to “The People’s Legal Defense Committee,” an organization to which we can find no recorded reference in contemporary newspaper accounts. Not noted in OCLC or in the on-line catalog of OMCA/CSPG. $750. 63. [NEW LEFT / COUNTERCULTURE] [CLERGY AND LAYMEN CONCERNED ABOUT VIETNAM] The Vietnam War Continues [...]. Series of Seven Posters, June 1971-May 1972. New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnem, 1971-2. Seven original posters (from a series of at least twenty), printed offset in colors on varying heavy poster stocks; each 22” x 17”. Original vertical and horizontal folds; minor wear and soil, three with small tape reinforcements at folds; Very Good (B). The posters in this series were presumably issued monthly, providing a running tally of the still-startling numbers of dead and wounded in the Vietnam War. Our set includes issues for June, Sept-Dec 1971; March and May 1972. During this period the number of American soldiers killed in action rose from 54,795 to 55,886; while the number of N.L.F. and North Vietnamese deaths went from 748,201 to 827,930(!). None separately catalogued in OCLC, but we note several institutional collections with examples included; evidence would suggest that the series ran from at least mid-1969 to at least mid-1972. $450. 64. [NEW LEFT] [WHITE PANTHER PARTY] 65. [PACIFISM] BURLEIGH, George S., Elihu Bur- Survival Manual - 1. ritt, and Henry C. Wright Somerville, MA: White Panther Party / New England Region, Gems of Reform; Comprising Attic [n.d. but ca.1970]. First Edition. Tabloid (43cm); illustrated news- Webs and Other Articles: by George S. print wrappers; [12]pp; illus. Faint, horizontal streak of dustiness at center of front wrapper, else a fresh, Fine copy. Burleigh; “One Blood and One Broth- First (and by all accounts only) issue of this newspaper, published erhood”: by Elihu Burritt: and Dick in Somerville, MA by the New England chapter of the White Crowinshield, the Assassin; and Zachary Panther Party. While little is present by way of substantive writ- Taylor, the Soldier [by Henry C. Wright]. ing, the paper is visually dazzling, merging psychedelia with underground cartoons, radical quotes, brief articles, and poetry. The New-Concord, OH: M.R. Hull, 1848. First Edition. Octavo issue includes a colorful, full-sized comix centerfold (“Revolution (19.5cm.); publisher’s yellow wrappers printed within typograph- is the Way to Life”), along with quotes by John Sinclair, Lawrence ically decorative border; 48pp. Wrappers a bit worn and foxed, “Pun” Plamondon, and Timothy Leary, and the White Panther bottom third of spine perished with subsequent closed tear to up- Party Program. An attractive publication, at the intersection of per wrapper not approaching text, else Very Good and sound. activism, drug culture, and rock-n-roll. OCLC notes 2 holdings Upper wrapper title misspelled “Crowningshield.” (Northwestern, U.Michigan). Small collection of articles compiled by William E. Lukens which $450. first appeared in the pacifist, anti-slavery newspapers The Herald of Freedom and the Pioneer and Herald of Freedom, mostly authored by Burleigh. The majority of the text is devoted to Burleigh’s eight- part series “Attic Webs,” which covered myriad topics, beginning with “Spiders and Things” (“I live in an attic. A sure sign of genius, says one”), and concluding with “Toads,” “Free Speech,” and “Anti-Slavery” in the middle. The contribution by marriage reform advocate Henry C. Wright is written in the form of short dialogues conducted between the assassin Richard Crowninshield (1804-1830) and his employer, presidential hopeful Zachary Tay- lor, juxtaposed in order to show the similarities (killers for hire) and dissimilarities (one treated as a criminal, the other a hero). $450. 66. [POLITICAL CARTOONS & CARICATURE - WW2] DEBARRE [Jean-Rene] Yesterday’s Supermen? To-Day’s P.W.’s. Verviers: S.i., 1944. First Edition. Portfolio of 12 postcard-sized caricatures, 15cm x 10.5cm. Printed offset on heavy card stock; versos blank. In original textured card folder, printed with title and publication details. Cards in very fine, unworn condition; folder slightly soiled on front and rear panels, else Near Fine. Scarce collection of anti-Nazi caricatures, clearly published in conjunction with the liberation of Belgium in 1944. Jean-Rene Debarre (1907-1968) was a Belgian artist known primarily for his sculpture and public artworks. The current work does not appear to be held by any OCLC member institution. $550. 67. [PRISONS & PRISON REFORM] GILLIN, John 68. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] AL- Lewis GREN, Nelson; WRIGHT, Richard (introd) Taming the Criminal: Adventures in Pe- Never Come Morning. nology [Warden Lewis Lawes’s Copy]. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942. First Edition. First New York: Macmillan Company, 1931. First Edition. Octavo Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped (22cm.); publisher’s maroon gilt-lettered buckram; vii,[7],318pp.; in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xvi,284pp. Spine ends gently nudged, photographic frontispiece, eleven leaves of photographs print- corners gently tapped (though still sharp), else clean throughout; ed on rectos and versos. Boards rather rubbed with exposure at Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), spine ends and corners, tiny soil spot to upper cover, endpapers with light wear and several tiny tears to extremities, shallow loss toned with a few chips at top edge of front free endpaper, else to corners, two triangular chips at crown, and a small spot to rear Very Good, internally sound. Pictorial ownership ex libris to front panel; Very Good+, notably absent the usual sunning to spine. pastedown of Sing Sing prison warden Lewis Lawes (1883-1947). Algren’s second novel, chronicling the short and sordid life of Bru- Study of penological practices across the globe, from the criminal no “Lefty” Bicek, a young Polish prize-fighter living in Chicago’s tribes in India, Japanese penal institutions, and the Parchman pris- tenderloin district. Similar in tone to James T. Farrell’s Studs Lo- on farm in Mississippi. nigan trilogy, the novel is centered around the tenderloin’s Polish immigrants; Lefty, “whose ambition turned towards the limelight Provenance: From the library of Sing Sing Correctional Facility of a successful career in the ring; of Shefft, hatrayed by Lefty into prison warden and author of the 1932 memoir 20,000 Years in Sing a life of the streets and brothels– a side issue in what is their own Sing Lewis Lawes, his bookplate featuring a cartoon of Lawes at pitiful romance. A dark and sordid picture of evil of the streets his desk, a repeat prisoner standing before him, the speech bub- and joints, the flophouses and crowded tenements, the gutters, the ble eminating from his mouth: “I’m in again boss to return your petty underworld of pimps and crooked small time politicians and book.” By the time Lawes retired from his post in 1941 he had cheats and killers and dopesters” (Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 1942). overseen 303 executions, though he was best known for prison With a short but moving introduction by Richard Wright, who reform and the policy of treating his prisoners like humans rather praises Algren for portraying in his work “what actually exists in than unreformable criminals. The book plate may very well be an the nerve, brain, and blood of our boys on the street, be they black, example of prisoner art based on the crudeness of the illustration. white, native, or foreign-born” (p.x). The novel went through two $250. small printings in hardcover, though it would go on to sell close to a million copies in paperback between November, 1948 - De- cember, 1951. BRUCCOLI A2.1.a; COAN, p.207; HANNA 49; RIDEOUT, p.298. $500. 69. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] BLITZ- STEIN, Marc The Cradle Will Rock: A Play in Music New York: Random House, 1938. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dark gray topstain; dustjacket; [4],5-150,[2]pp. Signed by the author at the upper margin of the half-title page. Oxidation to spine gilt, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), gently spine-sunned and slightly dusty, with light wear to extremities, a few tiny nicks and short tears, with a diagonal tear at base of spine; Very Good+. Blitzstein’s best-known book, a proletarian musical whose production was mounted as part of the Federal Theatre Project and produced on Broadway under the directorship of Orson Welles. The piece, set in “Steeltown USA,” describes the efforts of Larry Fore- man to unionize in opposition of the town’s greedy capitalist Mr. Mister, who tightly controls the town’s factory, press, and church. A year after it appeared on Broadway the musical appeared at Welles’s Mercury Theatre, the preview raising funds to support strikers at the local newspaper the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Basis for the 1999 film adaptation directed by Tim Robbins, starring Hank Azaria, John Cusak, and Cary Elwes. Uncommon signed. $1,500.

70. [RADICAL &PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] BOND- AREV, [Timofei] and Lyof Tolstoï [alt. spelling Leo Tolstoy]; Mary Cruger, transl. Suppressed Book of the Peasant Bond- areff. Labor: The Divine Command. Made known, augmented, and edited by Count Lyof Tolstoï. New York: Pollard Publishing Company, 1890. First American Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher’s pale blue wrappers printed in dark blue; 160pp. Wrappers a bit chipped along extremities, spine crown pulled, some minor soil and faint shallow dampstain along bottom margin of upper wrapper, old ink price, else Very Good, internally sound. Early appearance of the peasant philosopher’s treatise “Interdict- ed by the Czar of Russia.” Born into serfdom, Bondarev had been forcibly signed into a 25-year conscription during which time he was separated from his wife and children and consequently re- nounced Russian Orthodoxy. Arrested and exiled for apostasy, Bondarev relocated to far eastern Russia and founded a school where he expanded on his philosophy of “bread-labor” described here. Tolstoy first read the work in 1885 and endeavored to have it published twice, both times thwarted by the censors, before finally having it serialized in the weekly newspaper “Russkoye Delo” in 1888. This appears to be the first English translation, later published in 1906 under the title Toil: The Triumph of the Farmer or In- dustry and Parasitism. $600. 71. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE]. 72. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] FAR- COLODNE, Carl RELL, James T. Your Cell! Your Hell! [Inscribed] Calico Shoes and Other Stories. [New York?]: By the Author, [1938]. First Edition. Octavo New York: The Vanguard Press, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher’s tan staplebound card wrappers printed in (21cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front red; 64pp. Wrapper extremities toned with a few small chips to cover; dustjacket; [xiv],303pp. Small, faint damp mark to lower extremities, rear wrapper rather foxed, else Very Good, inter- left corner of front cover, else Near Fine and clean throughout. nally sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page, Dustjacket designed by Ernst Reichl is unclipped (priced $2.50), “Thanks! Sincerely / Carl Colodne.” with a hint of sunning to spine and some mild wear to extremities; Near Fine. Quite rare self-published collection of poetry dedicated “to the sweat and tears of the people” (p. [2]), by an author who has Unusually attractive copy of this collection of stories set in Chi- (probably mistakenly) been identified by some cataloguers as an cago, full of the same grim realism found in Farrell’s Studs Lonigan African-American poet. It is clear that Colodne was concerned trilogy. The stories first appeared in the pages of a variety of left- with African American civil rights (as evidenced in the present wing little magazines including The American Mercury, New Masses, volume in such poems as “on skins and rope,” written in the Dynamo, Story, A Year Magazine, Pagany, etc, and are gathered here third person from the point of view of a black cotton picker; and for the first time. the long poem “gangs in chains,” which describes the anguish of $500. a man on a chain gang). Much later, Colodne further published the long-poem “YOU CAN’T LYNCH MY SOUL,” also written from the point of a view of a Black lynching victim, in Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 33, no. 4, April, 1970. However, genealogical records list just a single Carl Colodne, born in Virginia in 1917 to Russian immigrant parents. Regardless, this title is genuinely rare and of real interest to scholars of the proletarian strain in American poetry. No others in commerce as of November, 2019; three copies in OCLC, of which two in Israel, the third at the Library of Congress. $450. COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT DRAFT of COBB’S NOT-QUITE-PROLETARIAN FILMSCRIPT

centered around Lem Schofield, an attorney and homespun phi- 73. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] COBB, losopher, and Clay Clinton, son of Schofield’s deceased partner. Irvin S. Clinton, in love with Schofield’s daughter and anxious for quick success, joins the employ of J.T. Tapley, the town’s corrupt and The Dark Horse, or So This Is America, influential industrialist. “When Tapley imposes a ten percent wage Or Homespun - An Original Manuscript cut at his factory, the workers walk out on strike, precipitating a Treatment for Our Leading Citizen. labor war. Lem immediately withdraws as Tapley’s attorney, but Clay, ignorant of the nefarious tactics that Tapley is planning, stays [N.p. : S.i., 1934]. Holograph manuscript, composed in dark blue on. To crush the strike, Tapley calls in a gang of strikebreakers led ink on 152 numbered leaves (rectos), and housed in a bespoke che- by Shep Muir. While pacifist union leader Jim Hanna struggles to mise and slipcase by Barrieri. With presentation inscription from end the strike peacefully, communist agitator Jerry Perkins arrives Cobb to MGM film produced and screenwriter Samuel Marx (in in town to advocate radicalism and violence. Riots break out, and pencil) at upper right corner of title leaf: “Original manuscript amid an atmosphere of fear and suffering, Lem steps in to quell copy for Sam Marx Esq / with my compliments / Irvin S. Cobb.” the unrest. After insuring the arrest of agitators Peters and Muir, A heavily-revised draft, with extensive holograph additions and Lem works to institute a labor settlement, and Clay, finally recog- elisions (in pencil and in pen) throughout, marking substantial tex- nizing Lem’s virtues, nominates him for the position of United tual differences between this and the final draft of the screenplay. States Senator” (see synopsis on website of Turner Classic Movies, Mild wear and handling; preliminary leaves with faint creasing to TCM.com). extremities, with subtle toning to title leaf; Very Good+ or bet- While the final script faulted greedy capitalists and violent revo- ter. Slipcase with some light wear and minute board exposure to lutionaries alike, the film was blacklisted by V.J. Jerome, head of points around opening, else Near Fine. the communist cultural commission, who got an early look at the Early, unpublished manuscript treatment for the 1939 Paramount script and, together with film critic Howard Rushmore, deemed it Studios film Our Leading Citizen, directed by Alfred Santell, with potentially anti-communist. a screenplay by Jack Moffitt. A “Capital vs. Labor” story, set in a once-small town that has evolved into an industrial city, and $6,500.

A FABULOUS DEBS PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION, and ONE OTHER

Poems honoring socialist leader Eugene Debs by a variety of rad- 74. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] LE ical 20th century poets including Witter Bynner, Max Eastman, PRADE, Ruth (editor); SINCLAIR, Upton (introd) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Carl Sandburg, Siegfried Sassoon, Horace Traubel, and Israel Zangwill, and many others. Sinclair Debs and the Poets [Two Copies, In- contributed the foreword, along with letters from H.G. Wells and scribed by Eugene Debs and Ruth Le George Bernard Shaw (who states: “Clearly the White House is Prade to Helen L. Gardner] the only safe place for an honest man like Debs”). An interesting pair of copies inscribed to Gardner (1884-1968), acclaimed Pasadena: Upton Sinclair, 1920. Two octavo volumes (18.75cm); stage actor and the first film acto to form their own production maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; company (the Helen Gardner Picture Players, established 1912). [ii],99,[11]pp. The first copy is inscribed by Eugene Debs to Amer- Moved by his circumstances and deeply influenced by his speech- ican film actress, screenwriter, and editor Helen Louise Gardner es, Gardner visited Debs in prison in 1920, bringing him an au- on the front endpaper: “To Helen L. Gardner / With love and tographed photo and beginning a correspondence that would greetings, and with deep appreciation for her beautiful character, last through the mid-1920’s. In a December 21, 1920 letter, she her lofty spirit, her rare vision, courage, understanding, and her writes: “Let me tell you that I was surprised to find my emotional high ideals and noble aspirations - Eugene V. Debs / Terre Haute, self somewhat unaffected while I listened to you talk. I know the Indiana / December, 1924.” Gentle sunning to spine, oxidation to reason now. It is the same with you as it was with Epicetus, prison gilt, with moderate, scattered soil to covers, light wear to extremi- walls cannot confine the spirit – the mind is ever free. So, in a way, ties, and heavier wear with resulting board exposure to upper right I did not feel your plight as keenly as I would that of another who corner of front cover; mild offset to endpapers from binders glue; had little vision, little intelligence, little understanding about his Good. Housed in a clamshell case. body being so small a part of the real him that his confinement The second copy is inscribed to Gardner by Ruth Le Prade, op- was of the physical order only.” While the “special edition” of posite the title page: “To Helen Gardner - with cordial greetings 500, with signed bookplate by Debs, appears with some frequen- / Ruth Le Prade.” Spine-sunned, cloth edge-worn and lightly cy, inscribed copies of Debs and the Poets are genuinely uncommon. soiled, with oxidation to gilt, a few small stains to front cover, some $3,500. erosion to cloth toward lower spine, and mild offset to endpapers from binders glue; Good. PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN in DUST JACKET

Considered to be one of the earliest American prophetic dysto- 75. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] LON- pian novels, The Iron Heel (first published in 1908), set in Califor- DON, Jack nia mountain country, describes the not-too-distant collapse of democracy in the United States and the rise of a “Plutocracy,” The Iron Heel a forerunner to Fascism. “In the indefinite future – about seven New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908. First Edition. First centuries from now – a manuscript is found, called the “Everhard Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and dec- Manuscript,” which tells of the terrifying events of the 20th cen- orations stamped in gilt, black, and pale gray on spine and front tury, the collapse of Democracy, and the rise of the first Oligarchy. cover; dustjacket; xvi,354,[4]pp ads. Spine ends gently nudged, Of the horrors described, the lovely California mountain country- mild wear to lower board edges, with a tiny booksellers ticket to is transformed into a refuge for deer under the Oligarchy, after all lower rear pastedown; Near Fine, with the the decorative elements the inhabitants had been driven from their homes. Society every- bright and almost entirely unrubbed, and advertising brochure where is in continual revolt” (BAIRD 1538). Though one of Lon- for Macmillan’s “Newest Books For Young People” laid in. In the don’s most clearly Socialist novels, “The Iron Heel...was received original dustjacket, with titling and decorative emblem printed in joyously only among the revolutionary I.W.W. and the extreme left black on white and green patterned paper; sunning to spine, with wing of the Socialist Party” (Rideout, p. [47]). Excessively uncom- lighter sunning to panels; extremities worn, with losses to spine mon in dustjacket. BAL 11908; WOODBRIDGE 62; SISSON, ends, corners, and lower right edge of front panel (none affecting pp.39-40; HANNA 2225; NEGLEY 703. lettering); some scattered foxing, two small splash marks to lower $8,500. front panel, with some tears and splits to joints and flap folds, ar- chivally reinforced on verso; Very Good. A NOVEL and a MOVIE of BIRTH CONTROL – PLUS ROCKWELL KENT

the cover illustration by Rockwell Kent on the front cover, and 76. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] NOR- reproducing a modified version inside. Bifolium (22.5cm); single RIS, Charles; Rockwell Kent (design) sheet of lavender card stock, folded once at center to create a 4pp Seed: A Novel of Birth Control program, printed and illustrated in black and gold; Fine. An epic novel dealing with the decline of an American family, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. First notably, a promising young author and his wife who move to New Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); brick red cloth, with Rock- York. The book also deals, very frankly, with the issue of birth well Kent illustration stamped in black on front panel, and titling control usage (or lack thereof), and its effect on the socio-economic in black on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; [xii],436pp. Previ- standing of the protagonist and his family. A stunning copy, featur- ous owners name to front pastedown, some very faint creasing to ing one of Rockwell Kent’s finest jacket designs. Basis for the 1931 upper corners of a few preliminary leaves, else Fine in a Fine dust- film directed by John M. Stahl, starring John Boles, Lois Wilson, jacket, unclipped (priced $2.00), with some trivial dustiness to flap and a young Bette Davis in her second film role. folds. Offered together with an original program for the 1931 film premiere of Seed at the Fox Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles, $650. styled after the dustjacket on Norris’s novel, prominently featuring RARE, and a TRUE “FIRST THUS”

portunity. Where previously he had written and published poet- 77. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] REED, ry and flirted with the Mexican revolution, now his prose caught John (text); LENIN, V.I. (introduction) fire at the prospect of a worldwide socialist catharsis” (McCrum, Robert. “The 100 best nonfiction books: No.47 - Ten Days That Ten Days That Shook The World Shook the World by John Reed (1919”). In The Guardian, 19 De- New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. Famine Relief Edition. Octavo cember, 2016). Upon his return to the United States, according to (20.75cm); dark blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue his editor Max Eastman, Reed shut himself away, and wrote his on spine and front cover; map endpapers; dustjacket; xxiv,371,[5] account of the revolution in ten days. pp. Spine ends gently nudged, with a few faint scuffs to lower A significant edition, published two years after Reed’s death, with covers, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket priced $1.00 at half of all proceeds pledged to help ease the suffering caused by mid-spine; modest shelfwear, gently spine-sunned and lightly dust- the the Russian famine of 1921-22, which killed an estimated five soiled, with several small losses, tears, and attendant creases, some million people. It printed for the first time anywhere the introduc- light surface scarring to spine panel, and some bleed-through from tion by Lenin, which has appeared in all subsequent editions of four cello-tape mends on verso; unrestored, Very Good only. the book, as well as a full-page statement by Reed’s widow Louise Attractive copy of Reed’s classic eyewitness account of the first Bryant, whose own account of the October Revolution, Six Red ten days of the Bolshevik-led October Revolution in 1917. Reed Months in Russia, was published in 1918. Unique to this edition is a joined the staff of the prominent Socialist magazineThe Masses in photograph of five starving Russian boys reproduced on the verso 1913, the same year his first book was published, and married his of the Contents page, with a “Friends of Soviet Russia” pledge wife, journalist Louise Bryant, in 1916. “On the Masses, Reed’s form following Lenin’s introduction; additionally, Boni & Liveright modus operandi, as a reporter, was to get arrested, which he regu- commissioned an entirely different binding and dustjacket design. larly did, while looking for trouble. Soon, weary of provoking the A landmark of 20th-century journalism, scarce in dustjacket. US authorities, he broadened his horizons to take in the ferment $3,500. in the old world as well as the new. In 1917, appalled by Woodrow Wilson’s declaration of war against Germany, the newlyweds set off for Europe, and wound up in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the revolution. Reed saw at once that this was his great op- EXCELLENT ARCHIVE OF UPTON SINCLAIR CORRESPONDENCE

pation of Paris, stating in one (undated) letter: “France is groping 78. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] SIN- for a notion of human socialism and french [sic] people are very CLAIR, Upton and Jean-Robert Lamour interested in everything that refers to U.S.A...” At another point Lamour dismisses the publisher Bernard Grasset, who had turned Archive of Correspondence to and from down several of Sinclair’s works for translation during war-time: J.R. Lamour [aka Yves Malartic] “In 1944, Grasset has been deprived of his ownership for collab- oration and a manager has been appointed by the government...” V.p.: 1946-47. Archive of six typed notes, signed, five typed letters, (indeed, following the dismissal of its principal, the firm of Gras- signed, and one Western Union Cablegram from Upton Sinclair set would become the primary publisher for many of Sin- to the Paris literary agent and translator Jean-Robert Lamour (bet- clair’s works in France). ter known by his pseudonym, Yves Malartic). Together with ten of Lamour’s retained carbons of communications to Sinclair and Sinclair’s replies range from long, admiring letters to brief others. Correspondence spans the period January, 1946 to De- acknowledgments and notes of transmittal. Throughout, he cember, 1947, and deals with Lamour’s efforts to secure publish- shows concern not only for his own legacy among French reading contracts for French-language translations of Sinclair’s works ers but for the wellbeing of his putative translator – Lamour including The Jungle, They Call Me Carpenter, Our Lady, and others, (who does in fact appear to have been driven by a somewhat altru- as well as Sinclair’s ongoing work on the Lanny Budd series. Sin- istic impulse) at one point appears to suggest that he is willing to clair’s letters range from notes of as few as four lines to letters of translate and edit Sinclair’s works without compensation, to which two pages, the entirety compris- Sinclair responds that Lamour should feel free to charge the pub- ing approximately 2500 words, lisher, but “not so much that it will with numerous hand-corrections discourage translation.” and signatures in blue or black Sinclair’s ongoing, consuming ink. Lamour’s letters to Sinclair work on Presidential Mission and comprise nine pieces of corre- One Clear Call, the eighth and spondence (of which three are ninth installments in his Lanny partial) and one draft contract, Budd series, forms a backdrop to with a total of approximately the entire correspondence; at one 3000 words. Three of Lamour’s point he attempts to engage Lam- letters are in French, addressed our’s assistance with background to French correspondents, all on research on One Clear Call; at sev- matters concerning the transla- eral others, he begs off new writ- tion and publication of Sinclair’s ing assignments because of the works. Occasional toning; old all-consuming nature of his folds; onion-skin carbons creased work, even declining to read a at margins; Very Good. recently-published short story by Archive of original correspon- Lamour, claiming that all his en- dence dating from Sinclair’s ergies are consumed by the Lanny productive wartime and post- Budd project. Indeed, Sinclair’s War period, during which he output during this period was phe- produced the monumental, nomenal: in the two-year span in eleven-volume Lanny Budd series which these letters were written, of novels, including the Pulitzer Sinclair, well into his sixties, pro- Prize-winning Dragon’s Teeth. duced three massive novels – A World to Win, Presidential Mission, The correspondence appears and One Clear Call – and was well to have been struck up by Lam- along on a fourth, O Shepherd Speak! (published in 1949). our in late 1945 (those letters not present here), seeking rights to translate and publish a number of Sinclair’s early proletarian While Sinclair letters are hardly unusual in commerce, the cur- novels including The Jungle, They Call Me Carpenter, Samuel the Seeker rent archive of correspondence is noteworthy for providing real as well as such shorter works as No Pasaran!, The Flivver King, Depres- insight, not only into Sinclair’s working methods but also into the sion Island and others. Lamour (born ca. 1911), at this date in the post-war literary climate in France, where it is clear that writers early stages of his literary career, would go on to translate numer- on the left, who had been radically disenfranchized during the ous works by American authors, in particular Chester Himes and long Occupation, were eager to take on any project that might Alex Haley, under the pseudonym “Yves Malartic.” In his letters re-establish their careers while also (hopefully) putting food on the to Sinclair, Lamour/Malartic shows careful reading and textual table. analysis of the novels under consideration, expresses admiration $6,500. for Sinclair’s body of work and is clearly excited about exercising a newly-available liberty to publish leftist works after the long occu-

79. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] SLO- 80. [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] STEIN- COMBE, George BECK, John Romance of a Dictator John Steinbeck Replies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. First Edition. First [New York: L.M. Birkhead, Friends of Democracy, 1940]. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in Edition. 12mo bifolium (19.5cm.); faint uneven toning to upper black and silver on spine and front cover; gray topstain; dustjack- panel, else Near Fine. et; [viii],[3],4-315,[1]pp. Crown gently nudged, mild sunning to Small leaflet reproducing the correspondence between Birkhead, base of spine and lower board edges, else Near Fine. This copy Director of the Friends of Democracy, and John Steinbeck in re- wears both the trial dustjacket, bearing only the title Dictator and gards to the latter’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath. The first letter, lacking publisher’s imprint at base of spine, and the finished dust- from Birkhead, is originally dated May 2, 1940, and opens “I hope jacket, printed in black, red, and silver, bearing the title Romance of that you will not think I am impertinent, but our organization has a Dictator. Trial dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine- had put up to it the problem of your nationality. You may con- sunned and lightly shelfworn, with mild dust-soil, a few short tears sider that it is none of our business, nor the business of anyone and attendant creases, and a few shallow losses at spine ends; Very else in the country. However, there is a very widespread propagan- Good+. Trade jacket is price-clipped, with a few tiny closed tears, da, particularly among the extreme reactionary religionists of the some light wear and tiny sunned spots at spine ends; Near Fine. country, that you are Jewish and that ‘Grapes of Wrath’, is Jewish A fictional portrait of a fascist dictator, clearly based on Mussoli- propaganda.” Steinbeck’s response is dated Los Gatos, California, ni, by Slocombe (1894-1963), a British journalist and foreign cor- May 7, 1940, and begins “I am answering your letter with a good respondent who spent time around Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler. deal of sadness.” Steinbeck goes on to describe in detail his heri- The novel describes the rise in tyranny in an imaginary European tage, noting that his paternal grandfather was a German farmer, country. It is the story of “the rise and fall and the rise again of many of whose relations still reside “on a fairly large farm near Hannibal, uncrowned king of ‘Thalia’; of how, at the close of the Dusseldorf.” On his mother’s side “my blood is all north Irish, my Great War, he turned from radicalism to conservatism, built up grandfather whose name was Hamilton having come from Mul- an army of devoted followers, and by an audacious march on the keraugh near Londonderry.” Steinbeck concludes “I can prove capital overthrew constitutional government and made himself these things of course--but when I shall have to--the American de- dictator” (from front flap). CLUTE & NICHOLS, p.1117. mocracy will have disappeared.” In a postscript Steinbeck remarks “On both sides and for many generations we are blond and blue $450. eyed to a degree to arouse the admiration and perhaps envy of the dark complexioned Hitler.” The correspondence was reprinted later that year under the title “A Letter in Reply to a Request for a Statement” in a limited edition of 350 copies by the Overbrook Press in Stamford, Connecticut. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A13a. $950. A LANDMARK WORK IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS and DUST JACKET

can neither be halted nor reversed. While the work was initially 81. [SOCIAL HISTORY] SPENGLER, Oswald poorly received by scholars and historians, it enjoyed wide success Der Untergang des Abendlandes [The among the reading public, selling more than 100,000 copies by 1926. “The tremendous success of the book among the semi-lit- Decline of the West]. erate, especially in Germany and America, during the period af- Vienna, Leipzig, and Munich: Wilhelm Braumüller / C.H. ter the First World War, is a politico-sociological phenomenon Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1918, 1922. First Editions. First that has nothing to do with the intrinsic merits or demerits of Impressions. Two octavo volumes (24cm); first volume in pub- this ‘new outlook on history and the philosophy of destiny,’ as lisher’s original printed wrappers; xvi,639,[1]pp, with the three the author himself described the aim of his book. This popular folding tables present and intact; second volume in publisher’s success was certainly not forseen by the leading German phi- original beige paper-covered boards and beige cloth backstrip, losophy publisher (Felix Meiner of Leipzig) who turned down with titling and decorative border stamped in black on spine and the manuscript offered first to him, nor by the leading Austrian covers; black topstain; dustjacket; viii,635,[1], plus 12pp ads; text academic publisher who, after the first volume, transferred his is entirely in German. Volume 1 shows sunning to spine, light rights to a Munich general publisher. In fact, every responsible wear, tiny tears, and attendant creases to extremities, with shallow historian repudiated Spengler’s theory; but it offered a plausible loss to base of spine (not affecting lettering), and rear wrapper pseudo-scientific basis to the innate propensity of the Germans neatly detached but present; preliminary signature loose; text is for ascribing to an inexorable fate what they refused to acknowl- fresh throughout, and free of foxing; Very Good. Volume 2 gently edge as their own shortcomings and failures; and it confirmed the sunned at spine and extremities, subtle tanning to text edges, else americans in their complacent belief that ‘the West’ (which they Near Fine. Dustjacket is spine-sunned, showing vertical folds to equated with the Old World) was in fact ‘finished’” (PMM 410). spine and both panels, modest wear and hand-soil, with several Volume one is uncommon in the first printing (OCLC notes 8 in short tears and attendant creases, and a few tiny stains; a Very U.S. institutions), and rare in the original wrappers; after publish- Good, unrestored example. ing rights were sold to Beck, it was reissued to match the format of the second volume in 1922. The auction record shows but a True first edition of this landmark work by the German histori- single copy in original wrappers in the last 40 years. an and philosopher, a “morphology of universal history” which contends that all civilizations, like living organisms, go through a $12,500. pre-determined life cycle (prime, maturity, decay) - a trend that 82. [SOCIALIST PARTY] THOMAS, Norman 83. [SOCIALISM] NATIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS Human Exploitation in the United States ORGANIZATION [Inscribed to William J.M.A. Maloney] [Placard] The D.C. Four Against the Poor New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. First Edition. [Washington?]: National Welfare Rights Organization, n.d. but First Printing. Octavo (21cm); brick red cloth, with titles stamped 1972. Strike placard comprised of original photographic poster in black on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; xxii,402pp. Inscribed (43x28cm.) printed offset in purple and black on white stock, sta- by the author and his wife to William Joseph Marie Alois Malo- pled to pastepaper board, hole-punched and threaded with thick ney on the front endpaper: “To Wm J.M.A. Maloney with affec- string for hanging around neck. Extremities rather chipped and tion from / Violet Thomas / Norman Thomas.” Gentle sunning bottom edge slightly curled, poster rather dust-soiled, else Good to upper board edges, with the barest hint of mottling to cloth, or better, with clear evidence of use. else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is price-clipped, Placard featuring a poster protesting H.R.1 and the “D.C. Four lightly shelfworn, with a touch of dust-soil, a few short tears, and Against the Poor” President Richard Nixon, Senator from Con- shallow loss to base of spine; Very Good+. necticut Abe Ribicoff, Congressman from Arkansas Wilbur Mills, Attractive copy of Thomas’s extensive Depression-era study of and Senator from Louisiana Russell Long. Adorned with their the conditions affecting millions of Americans, and the relation of photographic portraits below which is printed “These men are these conditions to the capitalist system. He explores “the connec- dangerous!!! They have conspired to starve children, destroy fam- tion between the workers and the unions; the farmer, the miner, ilies, force women into slavery and exploit poor people -- all in the “white collar” man, the factory workers. Women in industry the name of ‘Welfare Reform.’ STOP THESE MEN!” The plac- and business. Child labor problems. Every aspect of the human ard was presumably worn at the NWRO-sponsored “Children’s side of labor, with many startling revelations of the low standards March for Survival” on March 25 in Washington, D.C. The pa- of living even under so-called prosperity, and statements as to the rade, which consisted of over 50,000 participants, more than half ultimate conclusions if no drastic right about face is not accept- of them children, was led by Jesse Jackson and NRWO’s leader ed as necessary to preservation of our national integrity” (Kirkus George Wiley, and included speakers Bella Abzug and Coretta Reviews, Dec.4, 1934). Born in Scotland to Irish parents, Maloney Scott King with her two daughters. The poster used here not sep- (1881-1952) was a neurologist, author, and member of the Irish arately catalogued in OCLC as of October, 2019. independence movement in the United States; after the Easter Rising, he resigned his post in the British army, joined Clan na $250. Gael, and wrote propaganda for the Irish independence movement. cf.Aiken, Siobhra. The Men Will Talk to Me: Ernie O’Malley’s Interviews with the Northern Divisions. EGBERT II, p.292. $375. ODDLY AFFECTING IMAGES OF CHICAGO SLUMDWELLERS

84. [SOCIAL WELFARE & REFORM] STICKNEY TOWNSHIP HEALTH DEPARTMENT Six Original Silver Gelatin Photographs of Chicago Tenements Stickney, IL: Stickney Township Health Department, n.d., ca. 1930s. Six original sepia-toned silver gelatin photographs (20x25cm.), three of which with typescript note on verso: “PROP- ERTY OF STICKNEY TOWNSHIP HEALTH DEPART- MENT / 6547 West Pershing Road / PLEASE RETURN.” Some wear and shallow creasing to extremities, two photographs with short closed tears, finger-soiling to versos, else a Very Good collection. Date based on the Department’s address, which it oc- cupied ca. 1936-1940. Photographs taken by the WPA-funded Health Department of the small town of Stickney, Illinois, all of interior shots depicting the plight of white destitute families living in shacks and run-down tenements. Two of the photographs show single, possibly elderly, tenants, a woman stirring a pot with her back to the photographer, a man in an oversized coat feeding old newspapers into his Stewart oven. The remaining four photographs all include children, all with just one parent (three with the mother, one with the father). That of the father and his two young sons show them sitting in a bedroom with three beds, the young- est son bare-footed while his brother wears shoes that look two sizes too big. The most compelling photograph, however, shows a mother and her two sons in an unkempt kitchen, the children smiling slightly, while their mother is slumped in a chair leaning her head on her fist, too depressed or ex- hausted to look up for the camera. $850. WITH A CONTEMPORARY INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR

and its community. Owen’s greatest success was revolutioniz- 85. [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] OWEN, Robert ing the early education of worker’s children, the foundation of An Address Delivered to the Inhab- which he expanded to include worker education. The present New Year’s address delivered at the opening of the Institute for itants of New Lanark, on the First of the Formation of Character, which offered education from in- January, 1816, at the Opening of the fancy through adulthood. Owen opened his oration by delineat- Institution Established for the Forma- ing the main far-reaching purposes of the Institute, “The first relates to the immediate comfort and benefit of all the inhabi- tion of Character [Inscribed]. tants of this village; The second, to the welfare and advantage of the neighbourhood; The third, to extensive ameliorations London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. throughout the British Dominions; And the last, to the gradual Third Edition. Octavo (25cm.); later 19th-century green peb- improvement of every nation in the world” (p. [5]). The success bled cloth; 48pp. Cloth boards bumped at corners, added end- of New Lanark, one of the earliest and longest-surviving com- papers causing considerable browning to title page and final munities run on socialist principles, has been long-standing, and leaf of text, some light spotting throughout textblock, else a the village is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. HAWKES Very Good, still quite sound copy. Inscribed by Owen at head (Bibliography of Robert Owen, the Socialist, 1771-1858) 9. of title page: “With the Author’s Regards.” Robert Owen first purchased the textile mill at New Lanark, $1,000. Scotland, from his father-in-law in 1799 and set about experi- menting his socialist theories in the management of the business 86. [UTOPIAN] BORSODI, Ralph Very Good overall. The back-to-the-land agrarian theorist’s earliest introduction Property and Trusterty, A Study of the to the concept of “trusterty,” a substitute for land ownership Possessional Problem [Together With] based on the early Christian rejection of property and Gandhian trusteeship. The earlier title “condensed” by Mildred J. Loomis, Seventeen Problems of Man and Society. co-founder of the Borsodian Lane’s End Homestead from which V.p.: 1964, 1968. First Edition. Two volumes as described below: she directed its branch of the School of Living, an extension program originally founded by Borsodi “to set up local schools... 1. Property and Trusterty, A Study of the Possessional Problem. Book 10 in committed to systematic study of and action on the actual prob- a series on Seventeen Basic Problems of Individuals and of Society from an lems of living in their communities” (see Loomis’s The Decentralist original manuscript of 250 pages by Ralph Borsodi...Condensed by Mildred Answer). The text of this work was entirely revised as Chapter XI, J. Loomis. Brookville, OH: School of Living, 1964. First Edition. “Trusterty and Property--The Possessional Problem” in Seventeen Quarto (28.5cm.); original tan staplebound card wrappers, type- Problems of Man and Society, which goes on to define the three cat- script label mounted to upper cover; [6],73pp.; text printed from egories of possession “which cannot be morally treated as prop- typescript. Dampspotting and wear to wrapper extremities, spine erty” under trusterty--human beings, natural resources, and legal a bit rubbed, else Very Good, internally fine. grants. The earlier title apparently unrecorded, with no copies in 2. Seventeen Problems of Man and Society. Anand, India: Charotar Book the trade or in OCLC as of October, 2019. Stall, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher’s cloth in decorative dust jacket; viii,595pp. Jacket extremities chipped and $500. rubbed, top third of upper flap fold split, half-inch loss at spine foot, minor toning to endpapers, corners bumped, else Good to RUN of a SCARCE FLORIDA UTOPIAN COMMUNITY JOURNAL

earth was not a convex sphere but instead a hollow, concave cell 87. [UTOPIAN] [FLORIDA] “CYRUS / KORESH” containing the entire universe with the sun at its center. (pseud. of Cyrus Reed Teed) After failed attempts at founding communal settlements in Mora- The Flaming Sword - Vol.XIX, Nos.30-52 via, Syracuse, and New York City, Teed moved to Chicago, IL, where his persuasive oratory enabled him to assemble a firm (January 2, 1906 - June 5, 1906). core of followers in the late 1880’s and form the commune called Estero, FL: Guiding Star Publishing House, 1906. 22 consecutive Beth-Ophra. Teed incorporated his organization there as the Col- quarto issues (31cm); original illustrated wrappers, disbound; 16pp lege of Life in 1886, and established a printing house that be- per issue. Stab-holes (with corresponding oxidation) from saddle gan producing three major publications: The Guiding Star, The staples, some offsetting to spine-folds from fabric tape binding, Flaming Sword, and The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. “These with some light wear and dust-soil to wrappers; No.52 with sever- publciations began a long legacy of Koreshan publishing aimed at al tears and toning to rear wrapper; a handful of issues with some the public as well as their own members, intended to explain and light, scattered underlining, else quite clean; Very Good or better. promote their beliefs, relate and preserve their story, and discuss political, social, scientific, and religious ideas and issues.” A substantial sampling of this newspaper edited and written by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, a Utica, NY native and founder of the Kore- Believing himself to be a messiah who would lead his people in shan Unity. “Koreshanity,” as it was also known, was born in the establishing a New Jerusalem, Teed assumed the name Koresh in wake of two related movements: the millenial fervor that swept 1891 (after Cyrus the Great, King of Persia). As with his previous early-to-mid-19th century central and western New York State, locations, Teed’s beliefs did not endear him or his followers to the and the utopian communalism that began attracting increasing general public, forcing him to relocate from Chicago to the quiet numbers of adherents during the same period and into the later beach town of Estero, FL in 1894. It was here that the Koreshan 19th century.” A graduate of Eclectic Medical College of the City Unity established a growing, self-sustaining community, though at of New York, Teed’s interests went beyond medicine to encompass the height of the movement their membership numbered no more alchemy, botany, physics and metaphysics, and he would regularly than 250. Teed died in December 1908, but The Flaming Sword conduct experiments in these areas inside his medical laboratory. continued to be published from Estero through the 1960’s, with It was in this laboratory in 1869 that “Teed conceived what would the Koreshan publishing tradition continuing well into the 1980’s. become known as Koreshanity after experiencing a late-night re- Early material produced by the Koreshan Unity is scarce; we find ligious vision. During what he called his “illumination,” he saw a no examples for sale in the trade (December 2019); institutionally, beautiful woman who revealed to him a series of universal truths Hamilton College holds the largest and most complete collection which formed the fundamental principles of Koreshan belief ” of the four periodicals published by the Koreshan Unity; OCLC (see the lengthy article on the history of the Estero Koreshans at finds 10 locations with incomplete runs of The Flaming Sword. www.floridamemory.com). Among Teed’s most interesting beliefs was cellular cosmogony, or the hollow earth - the notion that the $1,500. A NOTABLY SCARCE NEW HARMONY IMPRINT

translated into Spanish and published in Madrid, Maclure having 88. [UTOPIAN] MACLURE, William travelled to Spain in the hopes of founding an agricultural school Opinions on Various Subjects, Dedicat- “for the common people, in which labor should be combined with instruction” (DAB 12, p. 136). Maclure purchased 10,000 acres of ed to the Industrious Producers. land outside Alicante, but had to relinquish these after the over- New-Harmony, IN: Printed at the School Press, 1831. First Edi- thrown of Cortes when the land was restored to the Church. From tion. Second (and best) issue, text extended to p. 640. Two vol- Spain Maclure travelled to Robert Owen’s community of New umes in one; octavo (24cm.); original muslin-backed boards, print- Lanark in Scotland, which in turn inspired him to travel overseas ed spine label, leaves untrimmed; [4],640pp. Boards rubbed with to the Owenite community of New Harmony, where his early ar- some brief exposure at corners and upper cover fore-edge, spine ticles appeared in the Gazette; the remaining essays were publish- and joints cracked but holding, paper flaw to front pastedown from ing in the Disseminator of Useful Knowledge and the Disseminator, both partially effaced ownership signature, occasional foxing through- issued in New Harmony. Along with his writings, Maclure also out textblock, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Text founded the New Harmony Working Men’s Institute, in 1838, just ends mid-sentence at end of Vol. 2 (as issued: the third volume did two years before his death. BYRD & PECKHAM 444; HOWES not appear until 1838 and is treated as bibliographically separate). M-162; SABIN 43554; STREETER 4241. Notice and errata leaf bound in after Vol. 1 title page, stating that $1,500. “Six of the following essays were written at Paris, in the year 1819, at the request of the editor of the Revue Encyclopedique, for publication in that work; but they were excluded by the Censors of the press, as too democratic.” The repressed essays were subsequently 89. [UTOPIAN] REIBIN, S.F. 90. [UTOPIAN] [YOUNGS, Benjamin Seth] [Text in Russian] Trud i Mirnaia Zhizn’ Transactions of the Ohio Mob, called (Toil and Peaceful Life) ... Istoriia Duk- in the public papers “An Expedition hobortsev Bez Maski (History of the Against the Shakers”. Doukhobors Unmasked) (Miami Country, [sic] State of Ohio, 1810; but likely Albany: San Frantsisko: “Delo,” [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); Hosford, c.1811). 12mo (18cm). Contemporary plain blue paper publisher’s tan printed card wrappers; [6],338pp.; author portrait wrappers; 11pp. Minor external wear; Very Good. Second of two frontispiece, seven leaves of photographs printed on rectos and printings; for the somewhat complicated printing history of this versos. Wrapper extremities a bit worn, light soil to upper cover, pamphlet, see Streeter’s note below. spine rather heavily cocked, else Very Good, internally fine. Text Per Streeter: “... Although the [American Imprints Inventory] entirely in Russian. Inscribed and signed by the author in Russian Ohio, gives the place and time of printing as [“Union Village? on frontispiece verso with manuscript cancel on copyright page in 1810],” my friend Ernest Wesson (in a letter to me dated July 4, the same hand, though in Roman letters, changing address to Box 1953), says that no printing has been recorded in Union Village 1892, West Sacramento, Calif. until 1823 and that it is unlikely that a pamphlet would have been Detailed account of the history of the Doukhobor, the Spiritualist published in Ohio in the early days with “Ohio mob” in the ti- Christian sect that arose out of Russia in the early 18th century. tle. He thinks it was probably printed by Hosford in Albany, New Known as “folk-Protestants” the Doukhobor rejected the Rus- York, about 1810 or 1811, saying that by “the thirties they had sian Orthodox church and, facing persecution and starvation, a experience with other mobs and I cannot think they would have substantial portion of members emigrated with the help of funds singled out this one affair for publication.”... Thomson describes donated by Leo Tolstoy from royalties of his book Resurrection and this tract as “an account of the action of ‘five hundred armed other lesser titles in the last decade of the 19th century. Seven- men’ at Union Village, near Lebanon, Ohio, on August 27, 1810, ty-two hundred Doukhobors eventually settled on land granted in which an attempt was made to force the Shakers to renounce them by the goverment in what is now Saskatchewan and Man- their public preaching and mode of worship, or quit the country.” itoba, where they established as many as sixty villages practic- STREETER 4231. RICHMOND 1470. SABIN 79725. ing communal living throughout the region. Members eventu- $650 ally splintered into three groups, the naturalized “Independent” Doukhobors; the smaller radical Sons of Freedom; and the orthodox Doukhobor, whose clashes with Canadian authorities led to the loss of their land in 1907. The last of these was led by Peter V. Verigin to privately buy land in British Columbia and the author of this present work served as his secretary and “primary scribe.” Despite the negative wording of “unmasking” the Doukhobors, the account of the sect is in fact neutral to positive, the author maintaining good relations to the community at the time of writing. (Kind thanks to our colleague Dr. Joseph Kellner for his assistance in the cataloging of this item.) $250. CARING for the UNFORTUNATE in NEW YORK’S NOTORIOUS FIVE POINTS

York slum neighborhood of Five Points, issued by the Trustees 91. [WELFARE & REFORM] [FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF “in which they could freely record the incidents of their work, INDUSTRY] PEASE, L.M., ed. and make them more extensively known to the public” (Vol. 1, no. 1, p. [1]). Articles include short descriptions of orphans and The Monthly Record of the Five Points wards of the institution who have successfully been put up for House of Industry - Collection of Nine adoption, though the separation of siblings appears to be glossed Issues. over, and evidence of malnutrition is made light of (“Johnny was a dwarfish little fellow. We could not see that he grew at all during New-York: Published at the Institution, 1857-1858. First Edition. the two years he was with us” - Vol. 1, no. 1, p. 14). Additional Nine volumes; octavo (22.5cm.); uniformly bound in blue pictorial articles describe a typical Sabbath at the House, “A Day at Our wrappers; publication sequence as follows: Vol. 1, nos. 1-3, 5-6, Office,” Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Each issue concludes with 8-11. General toning along wrapper extremities, some brief tears a list of cash receipts and donations made for the month. and splitting to spines, a few wrappers toned or lightly foxed, else a Very Good, internally fresh collection. Cancel tipped to p. [1] of $750. Vol. 1, no. 1, providing subscription fees. Monthly magazine issued by the charitable institution for the New 92. [WOMEN] FRIEDAN, Betty 93. [WOMEN - ANTI-FEMINISM] GLOVER, H.C. and The Feminine Mystique J. Walter Stoops New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc,, 1963. First Edition. Rights and Wrongs of Woman. A Poem. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); first state binding in red pa- New York: J. Walter Stoops, 1874. Reprint. Small octavo (18.5cm.); per-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped publisher’s orange, blind-embossed cloth lettered in gilt, un- in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-410,[6]pp. Forward lean, crown adorned spine; [2],72pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, pictorial slightly nudged, with light wear to extremities, lower front board advertisements throughout, the earliest printed in red. Boards a corner tapped, with scattered foxing to text edges; Very Good. In bit scuffed with tiny loss towards bottom of spine, extremities a the first state dustjacket, with quotes by Pearl S. Buck and Virgil- bit sunned, else Very Good, internally fresh. A list of subscribers ia Peterson on front and rear panels, and right margin of front provided on title page verso. flap trimmed to 3/16” (from 9/16”); lower right corner of front flap clippe, with $5.95 price at upper front flap; shelfwear, some Long poem first published a year earlier, advertisements printed dust-soil to spine and panels, with a few small losses, tiny tears, on rectos, the poem itself printed on versos only. Text lauds the and attendant creases; Very Good or better, with the spine panel female sex while arguing against women’s rights: “Ye dames whose notably unfaded. souls with high ambition glow, / Who loud proclaim that woman’s lot is low; / Is’t low forsooth, to reign the queen of home? / To rear Well-preserved copy of this cornerstone work by Friedan (1921- a race for great events to come? / To train the minds that guide 2006), a book widely credited for launching second wave femi- the ship of State? / To be the mothers of the good and great? / nism in the United States. Friedan discusses “the problem that has O, false ambition, thus the angels fall...” Opposite these lines the no name” - a widespread sense of dissatisfaction among women reader can peruse advertisements for Henry Lee Dickerman, den- in the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s. Sensing this unhappiness tist, and A.K. Rankin, Photo-Artist (“Children’s Likenesses a Spe- in her own life prompted her to compile an extensive question- cialty”), while on the following page are advertisements for a local naire, which she used to survey her classmates from Smith College undertaker, cigar store, and grocer. The poem ends on p. 66, and is 15 years after graduation. “The answers given by 200 women to followed by a brief essay by Stoops on “Courtship and Marriage.” those intimate open-ended questions made me realize that what KINNARD (Antifeminism in American Thought) 154. was wrong could not be related to education in the way it was then believed to be. The problems and satisfaction of their lives , $650. and mine, and the way our education contributed to them, simply did not fit the image of the modern American woman as she was written about in women’s magazines, studied and analyzed in classrooms and clinics, praised and damned in a ceaseless barrage of words every since the end of World War II” (p.9). The book sold more than a million copies within the first year of publication, and has since been noted by the U.S. Department of Labor as one of the “Books that Shaped Work in America.” $1,250. 94. POLK COUNTY WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIA- TION The Woman’s Hour [Two Issues]. Des Moines, IA: The Woman’s Hour, 1878. First Edition. Two tabloid bifolium issues (40cm.); text printed in four columns within decorative double rule. Publication sequence as follows: Vol. 2, nos. 2 & 4 (September 11 & 24, 1878). Old fold lines and uneven soiling, no. 4 a bit creased with small hole at center from folds affecting a couple of letters without loss of sense. Overall Very Good and still quite fresh examples of this exceedingly rare pe- riodical. Publishing arm of the local Des Moines women’s suffrage association which appears to have run only from 1877 to 1878, “to awaken thought, and encourage the effort to demand justice for women” (no. 4, p. [2]). Contents include local editorials, news, and poetry, the earlier of the two featuring an article in response to Austin Phelps, Congregational minister at Andover Theologi- cal Seminary, who had argued that “negro suffrage in the South- ern States has been a great failure for want of physical power to enforce it, and in all probability woman suffrage would bring like disaster and ruin the Northern States if adopted here.” Harvard only in OCLC as of November, 2019; not in the Union List of Serials. $750.

95. PALMER, A.J Divorce Abolished. Minneapolis: 1888. First Edition. Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher’s dark blue gilt-lettered cloth; 84pp. Boards a bit soiled and bowed, else Very Good, internally fine. Uncommon work of marital advice, the author arguing that divorce will become a thing of the past if unhappy couples would just follow his advice on the most common causes of martial strife and how to abolish them. Palmer describes ten such causes, No. 1 being “The ignorance of women in the conduct of house- holds,” but also covers “The lack of sympathy between men and women,” “The lack of proper respect, between men and women, for womanly employments,” “Lack of business training in women,” and, most significantly, “The failure, on the part of the husband, to respect the wife’s ownership of herself ” (p. 10). Of this final problem, Palmer describes it as “one of the most important causes” but also acknowledges that “this idea is all but new, and indeed really belongs to an age so advanced that it is likely to receive but small support at present.” Though the author does not boast of having invented such a concept, he does not provide an attribution. $450. DAWN POWELL’S NOTORIOUSLY RARE DEBUT NOVEL

The earlier part of the novel, at least, somewhat mirrors Pow- 96. [WOMEN AUTHORS] POWELL, Dawn ell’s own experiences. She led a somewhat unhappy childhood Whither in Ohio, where her stepmother took pleasure at burning her early attempts at poetry and fiction; after moving in with a Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1925. First Edition. supportive aunt and attending Lake Erie College, she moved Octavo (19.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on to Manhattan to pursue a career as a writer, finding work as a spine and front cover; dustjacket; 305,[3]pp. Spine ends very publicist for several organizations before marrying her husband, gently nudged, hint of dustiness to upper edge of textblock, else an advertising executive named Joseph Gousha, and settling a fresh, Fine copy. In the dustjacket designed by Harold James in Greenwich Village, where she would live out the rest of her Cue, priced $2.00 on front flap; light shelfwear, touch of dust- life. Her marriage allowed her to quit her job and focus on her soil to spine, rear panel, and flap edges, with a few short tears writing full-time, “using the Children’s Reading Room of the and attendant creases (upper edge of front panel and upper New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue as the place to write. rear joint), shallow loss to spine ends (none affecting lettering), What became the classic elements of Dawn Powell’s work were and a dozen small soil spots to panels; still a bright, substantially in evidence from the outset. Her first novel,Whither ...has the complete, and Very Good+ example, unrestored. characteristic satiric tone, mordant wit, and unforgiving eye Attractive copy of Powell’s first novel, an autobiographical for the foibles of middle-class Americans, whether they lived in work, recounting the story of an idealistic Midwestern girl who the Middle West, the setting for her early work, or were newly moves to New York, aspiring to be a playwright. She settles into arrived midwestern émigrés to the big city of New York desper- a boarding house for women, surrounded by a cast of charac- ately seeking sophistication” (Carnes, Mark C. “Dawn Powell.” ters who are perpetually out of money, deeply concerned with Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation but Missed their wardrobes, and trying to find a man. She finds fulfilling the History Books, p.232). Powell disavowed her literary debut, work as a copy writer, navigates her way throughout a string leaving it out of lists of her publications throughout her lifetime, of suitors (all the while soliciting advice from her housemates), and referring to She Walks In Beauty (1928) as her first novel. quits her job, and briefly entertains the idea of taking up with An uncommon debut, published in small numbers, and rare in a Greenwich Village bohemian and writing plays full-time; she dustjacket; we find no copies for sale in the auction record, and abandons her dreams after accepting an eleventh hour proposal OCLC notes a scant 11 holdings in U.S. institutions. SMITH from a wealthy suitor, embarks on a steamship to London with P-576. her man, and sails off toward her new life with the words “Is the $15,000. world really so gorgeous as this?” sheer whiteness of the space. It was a bright, gleaming, artificial 97. [WOMEN – PRISON REFORM] white, the kind of white that with any lengthy exposure could Poster: Shut Down the Women’s Control almost sear your eyeballs. It was the kind of white that can make you go mad...It was lifeless. The only sounds were the rattling Unit at Lexington! Stop the Torture of and clanking of our own chains and the barely audible buzz of Political Prisoners & POW’s! the rotating surveillance cameras mounted on every wall and at every crecive...The air-conditioning was on full blast and there [San Francisco: Fireworks Graphics Collective, ca.1987]. First was no natural light to provide warmth anywhere. The space re- Edition. Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in black on white sembled the refrigerator in a morgue. Nothing living had yet left stock, measuring 48cm x 63.25cm (19” x 24 14/16”). Light wear an imprint.” Prisoners were subjected to a cruel (and often arbi- and handling to extremities, with a few tiny tears along right trary) psychological program by the unit’s manager. “Denounced margin; Near Fine / A (unbacked). by Amnesty International and by the ACLU as a “living tomb,” Striking poster drawing attention to the plight of prisoners held it was later closed by order of a federal judge” (Ridgeway, James at the Women’s Control Unit at the Federal Correctional Insti- and Jean Casella. “Voices from Solitary: Imprisoned in the First tution in Lexington, Kentucky. The basement-level isolation unit Control Unit for Women.” Solitary Watch. February 26, 2011). contained primarily political prisoners, and was the country’s Though not credited, the poster was designed by the Fireworks first such control unit for women. Groups like the Committee Graphics Collective, the propaganda arm of the Prairie Fire Or- to Shut Down the Lexington Control Unit, some comprised of ganizing Committee, a radical New Left organization with roots friends and family members of the detainees, drew attention to in the Weather Underground of the 1970s. Uncommon, with no the harrowing conditions inside, and allegations of psycholog- copy separately listed in OCLC, though we note copies held at ical abuse. Susan Rosenberg, one of the first prisoners at the CSPG and OMCA. Lexington Control Unit, described the conditions in her book An American Radical: “I looked around and was overcome by the $450. 98. [WOMEN - ABOLITION] WRIGHT, Frances Address to the People of Philadelphia, Delivered in the Walnut Street Theatre, on the Morning of the Fourth of July, Common Era 1829, and the Fifty-Fourth Year of Independence New York: George H. Evans, 1829. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original unadorned drab wrappers; 15pp. Wrappers chipped along extremities, most heavily so along spine edge, long shallow loss to bottom edge of rear cover, textblock rather heavily foxed with old dampstain along top half of textblock fore-edge, later newsclipping tipped to last leaf (blank); still Good and sound overall. Fourth of July address, one of the feminist abolitionist’s tamer oratorial exercises, pertains especially to Wright’s argument for universal education, concluding that “Liberty shall exist only for man when it shall reign in the mind; equality, when it shall exist in our knowledge, in our habits, in our enjoyments and both these righteous principles...shall only exist /in practice/ when a self governing people shall /legislate for the equal instruction, the rational education, and the national protection of youth/” (p. 15). SABIN 105584; SHOEMAKER 38333. $650.

99. [WW1 - NATIVISM - ILLINOIS] Made in Germany and transported to Springfield by W.W. Watts - the foreign musicians who are now playing at the Princess Theatre [...]. [Springfield, IL: ca 1917]. Broadside, 9”x6” (ca 23cm x 15cm). Printed in blue ink on white, uncoated stock. Old folds, light wear; Very Good. Anonymously-printed broadside handbill lambasting a prominent Springfield theatre owner for having the temerity to employ Ger- man-born musicians. “W.W. Watts boasts that he has the Greatest Musicians in the world. No doubt these same musicians have en- tertained the Kaiser himself...As you are in America, and if you don’t like America and American Citizens. Why don’t you get out?” Anti-German sentiment ran high after America’s entry into the Great War, especially in such Lutheran-heavy cities as Spring- field (home to the Concordia Theological Seminary). $250.