Search Results: radical literature from Mary Riversong Books

By Oscar Wilde. Ballad of Reading Gaol (The Golden Books) Barse & Hopkins NY. Undated, circa 1910. POETRY. RARE EDITION with printed dedication related to the prison period in Wilde's biography - "In Memoriam C.T.W. Sometime trooper of the royal horse guards OBIIT H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire, July 7, 1896". USED. Good condition/ no DJ if issued. Gray paper boards with gold titling and ornamentation as shown in this stock photo. 4 ¼ X 7. 30 deckle-edge pages. Ships from United States.

Sinclair, Upton. Boston: A Novel. Complete in two volumes by Upton Sinclair. The Sacco & Vanzetti Case. Albert and Charles Boni, NY. 1928 1st Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust jackets included. Green, embossed Independence Hall with golden dome front boards. Pages no longer bright. Please see our photos. Based on the true story of Industrial Age Massachusetts. Per Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. site. "The trial resulted from the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard accompanying him, in order to secure the payroll that they were carrying. On May 5 Sacco & Vanzetti , two Italian anarchists who had immigrated to the United States in 1908, one a shoemaker and the other a fish peddler, were arrested for (and later executed for) the crime..the two men were sentenced to death on April 9, 1927."

Bruno Munari's Zoo. 1963 First American Edition, The World Publishing Company. 3rd Impression Thus. Number line starts with 3. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-14773 8 ¾ X 11 ¾. EXLIB. Good condition/ No DJ Included. Protected in mylar wrap. A trip to the zoo as envisioned and and presented by brilliant Italian Artist and educator Bruno Munari, Father of: Modern Graphic Design,The Futurist Movement, Useless Machines, Mobiles, Spacial Environment, Kinetics, Concrete Art Movement, Direct Projections, Arrythmic Machines. Unpaginated.

Jeffers, Robinson Cawdor and other poems. Copyright 1928 Horace Liveright, New York. Stated Second Printing Thus December, 1928. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Purple boards with black leather spine. Gilt titling and cartouche of nude at center on front panel is still in very nice shape but stamped titling is no longer visible on the black leather spine. Gift inscription by someone other than the author on the front endpaper makes mention of "the Crows Nest" and has dated his entry 1930. 160 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.

Goldman, Peter. The Death And Life Of Malcolm X. University of Illinois Second Edition, 1979. Softcover. Used. Biography/ Black Studies. Very Good Condition. 470 pages, Indexed. 5 3/8 X 8.

Joyce, James. Exiles, A Play in Three Acts. Introduction by Padriac Colum. DRAMA. The Viking Press, 1961 Compass Books Edition. June, 1962 second printing thus. Summary: "Exiles is James Joyce's only extant play and draws on the story of " The Dead". the final short story in Joyce's story collection Dubliners". USED. Very Good Condition. 126 pages. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾.

Bonney, Jo. 2000 First Edition, Theater Communications Group. EXTREME EXPOSURE, AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE TEXTS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. EXLIB. Softcover. 424 pages. 6 X 9. Good Condition/ None issued. Monologues, American; American Drama; 20th Century; Performance Art; United States. ISBN1559361557.

Pauli, Hertha: Her Name Was Sojourner Truth. 1962 Stated First Edition Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. Used. HARD TO FIND. A Biography of Sojourner Truth. Civil War Era. About Ms. Truth: "Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man." VG/Good original unclipped $4.95 purple dust jacket. Maroon boards with bright silver titling on the spine. 249 pages, indexed. 53/4 X 8 ¼.

2 VOLUMES. Hughes, Rupert: Miss 318 AND Miss 318 And Mr. 37. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911, 1912 1st Editions. Illustrated by Victor Semon Perard. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. NO DUST JACKETS ARE INCLUDED. RARE Historical fiction based on actual events that occurred during the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE: "One of the worst industrial disasters in the history of New York City, causing 146 deaths and an unknown number of injuries, took place on Saturday, March 25, 1911, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company.

Swinnerton, Frank. Nocturne. Copyright 1917 by George H. Doran Company. First Edition. Used. Good/NO DJ. Red boards with Gilt Celtic knot design on spine, gilting is still fairly bright. 250 pages. Bright pages. Plot summary: Summary: Jenny and Emmy are two sisters, who live with their 'Pa', now unable to work due to health problems. Jenny works in millinery, augmenting Pa's pension with her low wage and longing for more from life. She is a dreamer, her disappointment in Emmy's bland evening meals causing her to wish for better. Emmy, meanwhile, sees Jenny's escape from the "small houses of Kennington Park" as an adventure in itself... This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it."

T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.

Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.

Smith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944 1st. Edition, Stated 23rd Printing Thus. BANNED BOOK. USED. VG/VG Dust jacket. Author photo back panel. Now protected in a mylar wrap. About this book: Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith that dealt with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. The title was originally "Jordan is so Chilly", with Smith later changing the title to Strange Fruit.

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's. Douglas, Ann. Farrer First Noonday Press Edition, 1996. Softcover. Used. VG Condition. 6 1/8 X 9 1/8 606 pages, indexed. Summary: "Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan In The 1920's" is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann Douglas arugues that when, after World War I, the United States began to assume the economic and political leadership of the West, New York became the heart of a daring and accomplished historical transformation."