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SHELTER NOW April 1971
London and Edinburgh: National Campaign for the Homeless and Scottish Campaign for the Homeless, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Self wraps. Some minor rubbing and edge-wear. Very slight foxing at lower portion of front wrap. Ex-library, with stamp at front, first page and a cataloging slip stapled to wrap. Interior.....
THE BACKCOUNTRY HANDBOOK: An Illustrated Guide to the Techniques and Joys of the Wilderness Experience by the Editors of Mother Earth News
New York: Fireside / Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Very good in like jacket. Jacket lightly toned at edges, mild edgewear. Book bumped at a couple corners. Clean and sound overall. First edition of this guide to the outdoors and a rather uncommon Abbey item. 191pp. with.....
[Flyer for a Mass Rally for Disarmament at the United Nations]
New York: Mobilization for Survival, 1978. First Edition. 8.5" x 11" approx. printed photomechanically reporduced recto only on yellow stock. Light edgewear. Very good. Flyer for a Memorial Day rally for disarmament on May 27th, 1978 at the United Nations. Organized by prominent pacifist group Mobilization for Survival, the rally.....
RESISTANCE: Bulletin of the Committee of 100 - Vol. 2 No. 11 - November 1964
London: Committee of 100, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled pictorial wraps. Very good. Two old fold lines to whole issue, perhaps for mailing. Lightly handed but else very clean and sharp. 24pp. Official mimeographed newsletter of the Committee of 100, a prominent British anti-war group whose first president was.....
THE FRENCH STUDENT REVOLT: The Leaders Speak
New York: Hill and Wang, 1968. First American edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. Moderate edgewear and scuffing. Faint soil to back cover. Very good. 112pp. Translated from the French by B.R. Brewster. Includes Bourges' interviews with crucial figures in the events of May '68: Jacques Sauvageot, Alain Geismar, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and.....
BOYCOTT DEL MONTE ! / ¡ BOICOTEE DEL MONTE !
(Los Angeles): (Boycott Del Monte Coalition), [late 1970s?]. Wraps. 8vo. Side-stapled wraps. Printed tete-beche with Spanish text on one side and English on other. Near fine with mild touches of handling wear. Errata slip laid in. [8] pp., including covers. Bilingual pamphlet presenting the case for boycotting Del Monte canned.....
CAGE THIS MAD BEAST! [Original Hand-Drawn Poster]
np: np, 1959. Light-brown paper hand-drawn in felt-tip marker; 24" by 18" approx. Evidence of having been hung up at corners: small pieces of tape at upper edge; two chips at bottom; plus 2" tear at center of bottom edge. Shallow creases (folded into eighths). Else clean, if mildly toned.....
AMERICAN POLICE SYSTEMS
New York: The Century Co., 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket is toned, especially at spine. Edges frayed, particularly at spine head, with closed tears at folds of rear panel. Interior is clean and bright overall. Tight. Very good. First edition of this critical.....
STEAL THIS URINE TEST: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America
(New York): Penguin Books, (1987). First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Photographic wraps. Near fine. Trivial edgewear. Pages modestly toned as usual, but clean and unmarked throughout. Binding tight. 262pp. A paperback original. The Yippie founder's treatise against urine tests, arguing against their constitutionality. Publsihed near the end of the War on.....
"Peace be upon you, political prisoners of Iran" [Original Protest Poster]
[Miami]: Iranian Student Organization of Miami, [ca. late 1970s]. First Edition. Poster, 18 x 24 inches. Black and white photographic image with Farsi text printed at upper and lower margins. Light creasing and minor edgewear. Very good. Poster made in support of Iranian political prisoners and protesters against the last.....
CLEAR CREEK: Animal Behavior Special / The Environmental Viewpoint No. 8 November 1971
San Francisco: Clear Creek Associates, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Folded newsprint. Uniformly toned, lightly foxed. Mild wear and some tears to page edges. Very good. Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue features a spread on the rhesus monkey, November's "Life Form of the Month."
CLEAR CREEK: Boise Cascade's Dream Lake / The Environmental Viewpoint No. 6 September 1971
San Francisco: Clear Creek Associates, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Folded newsprint. Uniformly toned, lightly foxed. Mild wear and some tears to page edges. Very good. Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue features Nathan Hare on Black Ecology, an interview with Hare by Edward Washington, and an article.....
CLEAR CREEK: The Environmental Viewpoint / No. 5 August 1971
San Francisco: Clear Creek Associates, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Folded newsprint. Uniformly toned, lightly foxed. Mild wear and some tears to page edges. Very good. Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue focuses on local American government at the county level, and features a Manifesto for Citizen Counterrevolution.....
WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Nonviolent Action (Peace Conversion Special Issue) - Vol. XIII, No. 33
Brooklyn, NY: Win, 1977. First Edition. Wraps. 8" x 10.75" approx. in self wraps. Light toning, else fine. 31pp. Weekly pacifist publication, this a special issue focused on nuclear disarmament edited by Bruce Birchard, a Quaker activist and leader of the watchdog group National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex.....
HONOR A QUIEN HONOR MERECE / RICARDO CHAVEZ ORTIZ [Honor to Whom Honor is Due]
Los Angeles: (Chavez Defense Fund), [1972]. Newsprint folio, 11.5'' x 17'' approx. Folded horizontally as issued. Toning, some chipping. 4pp. Very good. Publication of the defense committee for Ricardo Chavez Ortiz, calling for a Day of Brotherhood ("Dia de Hermanidad") and urging donations to his defense fund. Chavez Ortiz, a......
[The San Francisco] [The National] BALL
San Francisco and Los Angeles: B.A.L.L. Enterprises, (1970-1975). 4to. Original newsprint wraps. 139 issues (of approx. 177 published), beginning with issue 8 and continuing with various small gaps through issue 175. All issues folded in half. Mild wear, toning as expected. Very good or better overall. A complete inventory is.....
INTERGRAFIK 73: Anläßlich der X. Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten »Fur Frieden, Freundschaft und antiimperialistische Solidarität«
Berlin: Altes Museum, 1973. First Edition. Wraps. Square 12mo. Plain white perfect-bound wraps in printed dust jacket. Very good in a good plus DJ. Light edgewear, small chips and tears, mild foxing to jacket. Top edge of pages lightly foxed. Clean throughout. Unpaginated; [~115pp.]. Text in German; parallel introductory text.....
[Original Junta Patriotica Broadside]
Caracas: 1958. First Edition. Letterpress broadside; 9 3/8" x 6.5" approx. printed recto only. A couple of old folds, some soil along bottom edge. Very good. Broadside issued by the provisional Governing Board (Junta Patriotica) to the people of Caracas, dated two days after the January 23, 1958 coup deposing.....
DONALD TRUMP: The Magazine of Poetry
Upper Montclair, NJ: Temporary Culture, 2016. First Edition. Wraps. Large square 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Minor edgewear, near fine. First printing of 126 copies. Unpaginated. Homage of sorts to 1968's RONALD REAGAN / THE MAGAZINE OF POETRY. Includes several updated or parodic excerpts in that vein: Wessels' "Why I Want to.....