Anarchism from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Weston, MA: M&S Press, 1971. Six octavo volumes. Green cloth hardcovers; variously paginated. Unread, just removed from publisher's shipping box, though with a few very faint freckles of foxing to fore edges, the result of long storage. Still, a Fine, unused set. Collected writings of the great American freethinker, iconoclast, legal theorist, and political anarchist. The works… Read more about this item

New York: H. Havel, 1937. Single, original tabloid issue, 46cm x 31cm (about 18" x 12"); 8pp; illus. Old horizontal fold at center, likely as issued; minor nicks and short tears in margins; partially unopened; Very Good. Excellent single issue of this important American anarchist journal, which ran from 1933 to 1940 despite its publisher and editor… Read more about this item

New York: H. Havel, 1937. Single, original tabloid issue, 46cm x 31cm (about 18" x 12"); 8pp; illus. Old horizontal fold at center, likely as issued; minor nicks and short tears in margins; partially unopened; Very Good. Excellent single issue of this important American anarchist journal, which ran from 1933 to 1940 despite its publisher and editor… Read more about this item

N.p., n.d. [Hopedale: 1848?]. 16mo (15cm). Sewn self-wrappers; 12pp. A worn copy, stain on first leaf bleeds (with diminishing effect) through entire text; marginal loss to final leaf, not costing text; still, complete and Good. Issued without imprint, but likely printed at Adin Ballou's Hopedale Community, where Wright was a resident (but see note below). Date of composition is… Read more about this item

New York / London: M.L. Holbrook & Co. / L.N. Fowler, 1897. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth limb cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt; viii,200pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed with brief cloth peeling, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally sound. Printer's slug at bottom of title page: Elmira, NY:… Read more about this item

Weston, MA: M & S [M&S] Press, 1970. First Edition. First printing of the Collected Works. Twelve volumes; v.1 quarto, remainder octavo; uniform blue cloth with gilt spine titles. A fresh, unread set. Collected edition of works by the iconoclastic essayist, poet, dramatist and progressive reformer John Jay Chapman (1862-1933). Includes all twenty-seven of Chapman's published works, running… Read more about this item

New York: by the Author, 1920. Illustrated & Definitive Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 336pp. Brief (

Boston: Bela Marsh, 1849. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (18.5cm). Brown cloth stamped in blind, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; 414pp; steel mezzotint portrait frontispiece. Rubber stamp of William Floyd to copyright page. A firm, upright copy, but with wear to edges and losses at tail, dampstaining to upper and fore-edges of front board (not affecting interior), lacking the… Read more about this item

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 237pp; illus. Straight, tight, and unmarked; a Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, also Near Fine. On the Flores Magon brothers and the anarchist plot to use a violent revolution to establish an anarchist Tejano republic in the states of… Read more about this item

Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); light brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece; 315,[1],[4]pp ads. This copy originally owned by American radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist George Ephraim Sokolsky (1893-1962), with his pictorial bookplate mounted to front pastedown, and his holograph signature ("George E. Sokolsky / School of… Read more about this item

Hassocks, Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1978. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 214pp. Fine and unmarked in a crisp but slightly spine-sunned dustwrapper.

N.p.: s.i., N.d. [ca 1893]. Original silver-gelatin photographic print, 6-1/2" x 8-1/4", on gray board mount, 10" x 12". Minor rubbing to mount at extremities and verso; print clear and unfaded, Very Good or better. Pencil captions on verso, identifying the five subjects in the photograph. An unusual composite photograph, possibly created to commemorate the unveiling of… Read more about this item

N.p.: Jack L. Saunders, 1976. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 36pp; illus. Fine. Stream of consciousness musings on contemporary abstract painters, with occasional recipes. Illustrations throughout by Jack Neff. Quite uncommon self-published chapbook by the eccentric underground poet/essayist, who passed away in 2018.

New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1897. Second Edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; blind-stamped decorative borders to front board; red edge-stain; frontispiece portrait; x,[1]-512,[1]pp. A slightly worn copy; boards evenly rubbed and soiled, with board exposure at upper corner-tips and rubbing to cloth at spine ends; both hinges thinly cracked (but holding); text clean… Read more about this item

N.p., n.d. [Detroit: Labadie Shop, ca 1902]. 4-pp leaflet, 14cm x 9cm. Printed in black on greenish-tan wove stock. Trifle worn at fold; slight aging to margins, still a well-preserved copy, Very Good. Prints the text of Labadie's poem "What Shall We Do?," which originally appeared in the Detroit News for Oct 22, 1902. Concludes with a… Read more about this item

Weston, MA: M&S Press, 1970. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of the 1900 edition, with an historical essay by medical historian Marc H. Hollender. Octavo (23cm). Yellow-tan cloth-covered boards (hardcover); variously paginated. A new, unread copy. The M&S Press, publishing arm of the Rhode Island antiquarian bookseller Dan Siegel, specialized in high-quality facsimile editions of hard-to-find 19th-century works of… Read more about this item

[London: Black Bear, n.d., ca. 1975]. Second impression. Octavo (21cm). Stapled pamphlet, white cover title; [i],1-13,[2]pp. Minor edge wear from handling, else Near Fine. Colophon: "Lynne Farrow's Feminism As Anarchism first appeared in 1974 as an article in Aurora, a New York feminist magazine." Black Bear Pamphlet 2.

Manchester: Black Economy, 1995. Single chapter extracted from Lew Louderback's Pretty Boy, Baby Face - I Love You (Lon: 1969). Octavo pamphlet; printed, folded sheets (not stapled); 24pp. Very Good. Includes an uncredited Introduction. The original title of the chapter reprinted here was "John Dillinger - the Fastest Mind and the Slowest Gun in the Midwest." Reprinted… Read more about this item

Berlin [but London?]: Patriotische Verlagsanstalt, 1907. First Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; [36]pp. Spine expertly repaired, wrappers a bit dampstained and upper cover trimmed at bottom edge affecting text without loss of meaning, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, else a Very Good, sound copy. Anti-militarist Tarnschrift attributed to the German anarchist Arnold Roller, brother… Read more about this item

[Philadelphia: Powelton Village Tenants' Union, 1969]. 8pp, comprised of four corner-stapled sheets of standard bond; mimeographed. Mild discoloration to margins, else Very Good. Possibly one-off community newsletter for residents of the Powelton Village neighborhood of Philadelphia. The text singles out the community's largest land-owner, Powelton Village Development Associates, for unfair rent increases and for attempting to displace… Read more about this item