Published by The Realist, New York, 1968
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. First edition. First edition, The Realist issue 81 published alongside a free version. 23 pp. Bound in stapled wraps. Very Good, typical toning with age and a few small, light stains to front and back wraps. A statement of principles by the '60s San Francisco anarchist collective, printed in Paul Krassner's satirical/ earnestly political magazine The Realist.
Seller Inventory # 140945544
Published by Freedom Press, Los Angeles, 1977
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good+. Second Revised Edition. iv, 66, 58 [reproducing 18 tiny pages per sheet] pp. Oblong wraps. Text in English and German. Very Good+ with small tear near foot, a little foxing to back wrap. An uncommon counterculture edition of radical Freudian psychologist, writer, and inventor Wilhelm Reich's writings on sexual politics.
Seller Inventory # 140939157
Published by Resurrection City, Berkeley, 1976
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Rare pamphlet from a nondenominational ministry catering to the UCLA Berkeley campus called Resurrection City, positing conservative President Richard Nixon and SLA-kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst as the Left and Right wing destructors of the '60s wave of activism in Berkeley. Rare wrap advertises "Night of Miracles" sermon at Veteran's Hall in Berkeley. Undated, probably from 1975 or 1976. Single sheet folded vertically. Very Good+ with light wear, three staple holes. An unusual take on the decline of the hippie era juxtaposing two very different '70s icons.
Seller Inventory # 140943559
Published by Black & Red, Kalamazoo, MI, 1969
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. 20 pp. Stapled wraps. Fine. The most significant American response to Situationism, which would light the way for much of American post-Marxist and anarchist theory of the late 20th century by focusing on everyday life and "the liberation of desire.".
Seller Inventory # 140943711
Published by Black & Red, Kalamazoo, MI, 1970
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. 96 pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good+ with light foxing, small stain to front wrap. Reports of how events in May 1968 unfolded in France with the council communist model applied to committees of college students and the proletariat.
Seller Inventory # 140943712
Published by Point-Blank!, Berkeley, 1972
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. An as-yet unstapled, unfolded copy of the first issue of the 1970s Bay Area post-Situationist group Point-Blank's journal. 100 pp. Loose 8.5" x 11" sheets. Very Good with staining to what would be back wrap if folded, light stains to table of contents. Illustrated with detourned comics. A radical publication currently in a literal state of arrested development.
Seller Inventory # 140943714
Published by Oh! Press, San Francisco, 1985
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. Unpaginated. Stapled wraps.Very Good, spine toned, light wear. The collected works of the post-Situationist group Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous comprised of John Zerzan, who gained national notoriety for his endorsement of the Unabomber and his later works of Primitivist anarchist philosophy, and Dan Todd. Many of these graphics (fake ads and posters) would be reprinted in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed.
Seller Inventory # 140944656
Published by Indymedia, Portland, OR, 2002
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Two 11" x 17" vintage black-and-white flyers protesting then-VP Dick Cheney's 2002 visit to Portland, Oregon. Staple holes, light wear. Popular Left/antiglobalization site Indymedia's web address written in marker on the bottom margin of one poster; highlighting to text of the other with dates corrected in sharpie, Cheney's eyes poked out to give him an even more demonic appearance. Uncommon. A real time capsule of protest in the tense months following 9/11, as dissent went through one of its lowest ebbs in modern memory. The antiglobalization movement had stalled, but organizing via the internet through sites like Indymedia was just beginning. The Bush administration was at its historical peak of popularity, but even then Dick Cheney was a magnet for derision, the Machiavellian grey eminence behind the scenes. To paraphrase a running joke at the time: if Cheney ever died, Bush might actually get to be President.
Seller Inventory # 140942987
Published by Point-Blank!, Berkeley, 1972
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. The first issue of the 1970s Bay Area post-Situationist group Point-Blank's journal. 100 pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good+ with light staining and foxing to wraps, a little wear at head and tail, contents in nice shape. Illustrated with detourned comics.
Seller Inventory # 140943562
Published by CIRA-Nippon, Kobe, Japan, 1975
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
48 pp. Stapled wraps. Text in English. Good+ with some wrinkling, toning with age, slight creasing to edges, a little foxing. A Japanese anarchist publication with a focus on Korean anarchism. Rare.
Seller Inventory # 140944707
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1993
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. x, 414 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with white spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket with trivial rubbing to laminate of rear panel. A major entry in the vast corpus of Kennedy assassination literature as well as foundational work in the field of parapolitics. The author is a Canadian poet, former diplomat, and retired professor of literature largely responsible for introducing the oft-abused term "deep state" to American parlance. It originated in the byzantine intrigues of 20th century Turkish politics.
Seller Inventory # 140945822
Published by Random House, New York, 1962
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Signed by Dwight Macdonald on first blank page in blue ink, inscribed "For Richard Nolard [sp?], to / add to his Bartlett 260 / library he so kindly let / me use last term, from / Dwight Macdonald/ East Hampton, N.Y. , June 1971." First edition, fourth printing. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth. Very Good,a little foxed and musty, in Very Good dust jacket, a bit toned and stained, price-clipped. A collection of excellent essays on popular culture including the often-derided "Masscult & Midcult" by the late fearsome radical critic, writer, and editor of Politics and Partisan Review.
Seller Inventory # 160223010
Published by Point-Blank!, Berkeley, 1973
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. [16] pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good+ with foxing and a little staining to front wrap. Uncommon.Bay Area post-Situationist group Point-Blank! looks at wildcat strikes (i.e. strikes without union approval) in industrial Detroit.
Seller Inventory # 140943713
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1951
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. xiv, [16, photos], 474, xvii, [3] pp. Finely rebound by Asprey in full morocco with five raised bands, gilt spine lettering and ornate turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Near Fine. An expose of fascist networks active in the Middle East after WWII by muchraking anti-fascist journalist John Roy Carlson, an Armenian-American journalist whose bestselling book Under Cover brought similar networks in the US before and during WWII to light. Scholars of terrorism post 9/11 have called attention to some of the figures in this book as early proponents of Islamic fundmentalism and third-positionism. An unusual, obscure choice for such a luxurious binding, but for the intrepid collector of parapolitical literature and the history of political extremism perhaps it's ideal.
Seller Inventory # 140944789
Published by Students for a Democratic Society, Chicago, 1966
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. [ca. 1966]. 12 pp. Publisher's pale blue stapled wraps printed in black. Very good with light shelf wear and light biopredation to covers. Pages lightly thumbed and lightly toned. A short pamphlet written mostly by an older SDS member, Paul Lauter, less about how to be a conscientious objector, and more about how to start to think about becoming one.
Seller Inventory # 140938928
Published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York, 1965
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Paperback. First edition. Signed by Gene Sharp, inscribed on title page to a fellow scholar of nonviolence, dated January 19, 1966; uncommon early signature. 67 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. A Good+ copy with coffee splashes to title page with signature and just a bit to cover. Cover a bit rubbed, ding to bottom of front cover. An early work by the man dubbed "The Machiavelli of Nonviolence," whose thought influenced post-Soviet Russia, the Occupy movement, and the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Seller Inventory # 140905136
Published by John Lord Press, Northridge, CA, 1980
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Gerald R. Ford, this being number 327. Very Good, with fading to cloth at spine and edges; contents fine. An address given by Ford to the Republican National Convention in 1980.
Seller Inventory # 180409013
Published by Apollo Editions, New York, 1970
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Fair. Inscribed by Harold Cruse (1916-2005) to former owner on title page, signed and dated Dec. 26 2001. [vi], 594 pp. Wraps. A slightly better than Fair copy with former owner's underlining and notes in margins and inside cover, creased spine, worn wraps. A very rare signed copy of the author's first book, first published in 1967, which has been called a foundational work in African American studies. It remains influential; for example, Cornel West has often stated that every time he writes he is "shadow boxing with Cruse.".
Seller Inventory # 140937903
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by the author, warmly inscribed to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould, "6/99 For Steve, my teacher, with fond memories & unflagging admiration [signed] Robert Proctor." From the library of Gould. x, 380 pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. First edition. Corners slightly tapped, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. A history of the Nazi state's campaign against cancer and cancer-causing products such as tobacco, and how this scientific activism dovetailed with the party's propaganda and antisemitic worldview. Uncommon signed.
Seller Inventory # 140939915
Published by Macmillan & Company, Limited, London, 1912
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. [viii], 211, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with two small wear spots to spine, two dings to boards along top edge, edges a little foxed, offsetting to endpapers, vintage Paris bookseller's ticket to paste down. A collection of essays on the subject of the British empire by the governor of the small Indian Ocean island Mauritius, the follow-up to his earlier autobiographical work The Broad Stone of Empire.
Seller Inventory # 140941806
Published by Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1980
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, copy 77 (hand numbered) of five hundred signed by Ford on the rear limitation page. Unpaginated. Original blue cloth with silver lettering. Very Good, with toning to cloth at spine and edges, lettering rubbed; contents fine. An address given by Ford to the Republican National Convention in 1980.
Seller Inventory # 170915009
Published by Point-Blank!, Palo Alto, CA, 1972
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. [16] pp. Unbound folded sheets. Very Good with slight foxing, brown paint stain on rear wrap "Psychogeographic Map" of Stanford University. A rare critique of higher education-- Stanford University in particular-- by the Bay Area post-Situationist group Point-Blank!.
Seller Inventory # 140943558
Published by United Farm Workers of America, San Francisco, 1974
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Single sheet. 8.5" x 11".Folded in thirds for mailing with return address and postage paid stamped on verso with Berkeley address written in pen. Good+ with light wear along edges, small interior hole, two creased tears, a few pinholes. Light dampstain visible to verso. A rare piece of United Farm Workers ephemera, not found in OCLC or the trade. A call for organizers in the Bay Area to join in anticipation of a community organizing drive in September and October of 1974. Quotes Cesar Chavez on boycotts.
Seller Inventory # 140944412
Published by Straight Arrow Publishers, San Francisco, 1970
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
A complete run of a short-lived environmentalist publication from 1970. Articles on pollution, ecology, Native American radicalism, wolves, the Vietnam war, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, living in an ashram, and more. Folded tabloid format. Good+ condition with foxing, toning, and soiling. Subscription card or ad cut out of issues 1 and 2. Uncommon.
Seller Inventory # 140944428
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, London, 1882
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Early British edition. viii, 512 pp. Library rebind with brown cloth, morocco title label. A Fair copy, ex-library with typical stamps,call number written on spine, bookplate on paste down, inkless perforation to title page; a few tears to title page repaired with tape. 1897 newspaper story about death of author mounted on front free endpaper. A few underlines to text in light pencil. One of the major political works of the late 19th century, extremely influential for decades although largely forgotten today. Said to have kickstarted the progressive era.
Seller Inventory # 140944925
Published by Marlin Hawkins, Morrilton, AR, 1991
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition. Signed by Marlin Hawkins on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. 388 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine, former owner's name on paste down, in Very Good dust jacket with a few scratches to front panel, light wear, small closed tear in top of rear panel. The frank autobiography of Conway County, Arkansas sheriff and political fixer Marlin Hawkins (1913-1995), published on the eve of fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton's ascent to the White House. A minor classic in the sub-genre of true stories of American political corruption and crime, as well as a fine example of a memoirist saying the quiet part (that is, the thing that many officials keep quiet about) out loud.
Seller Inventory # 140945427
Published by George Braziller Inc, New York, 1956
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American edition. First American edition. xxxii, 208 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, cocked spine, tips worn, in a Very Good dust jacket, worn at head, some tears and chips along edges, spine sunned. The Russian political thinker's writing in exile.
Seller Inventory # 140945747
Published by New Classics House, Chicago, 1965
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. 126, [2] pp. with 8 pages of b/w photos in middle of book. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with subtle creasing to spine, light wear. An ephemeral "lone nutter" work about the assassination of John F. Kennedy published in its wake that incorporates a novel ostensibly written about the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, while he was still a teenage crypto-Marxist in the Marines: The Idle Warriors. New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison would chase down the author in his investigation into conspiracy and cover-up in the assassination, which was recounted in the Oliver Stone film JFK. To this day, like so many facets of the JFK assassination mythos, opinion is sharply divided about Thornley's motivations and the accuracy of Garrison's probe. Thornley would go on to co-found the joke religion of Discordianism and be active in the libertarian right.
Seller Inventory # 140946100
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, & Oxford, 1991
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition. Signed by Peter Dale Scott on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. viii, 279pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly worn, spine a bit sunned. A parapolitical examination of the Iran Contra affair co-written and signed by Canadian poet, author, and diplomat Peter Dale Scott.
Seller Inventory # 140945936
Published by Beacon Press, Boston, 1994
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Howard Zinn on title page, inscribed to former owner in Taos, New Mexico, dated 1999. [x], 214 pp. Original black cloth with magenta spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a little sunning to spine panel, light shelf wear, unclipped. A signed copy of the late radical historian's memoir. He's best known for A People's History of the United States.
Seller Inventory # 140938412