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New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971. First edition. Hardcover, [quarto], green cloth boards, white spine titles, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 241 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends gently chipped, edges worn with creases, else light soiling. Cover photo by Marc Miller; jacket design by Victoria Dudley. Work of experimental fiction in manuscript typography. The tale of the 'first post-war babies,' twins, Pookie and Paul Sweetmeat, born on V-E Day. The book tells the story of their last concert held at Big Sur in 1966. The non-linear narrative is written in a collage and cinematic style, splicing together wire taps, commercials, concert announcements with baby boom generation feedback on the cusp of the summer of love.
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The Sweetmeat Saga: The Epic Story of the Sixties
by G.F. Stevenson
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Dictionary of Jamaican English
by F.G. Cassidy, R.B. Le Page
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Second Edition. Perfectbound in printed wraps. lxiv, 509 pp. Very Good, sun toned spine, mildest edge wear..
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The Modern Utopian: Utopia, U.S.A.
by Richard Fairfield
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Very good with lightly soiled and worn wraps, some foxing to cover with softened corners. The Modern Utopian is the result of years of critical research into the conceptual and praxis of utopian consciousness and lifestyle. This era of politics is marked by the author as reaching from the intellectual front---students who read Walden Two and Stranger in a Strange Land---who were opposed to Vietnam and advocating for the legalization of Marijuana. This line of thinking led the author away from that front to strategizing the legitimacy of a utopian as someone who believes that there is a possible society that is better than the one to which one is born. And after one year of editing and publishing The Modern Utopian as a bi-monthly periodical of these investigations during 1970, the author arrived at two conclusions: '1.) I didn't like visiting communes, which seemed to me like a sort of voyeurism with gall, and 2.) that in order to really experience alternatives I had to reach beyond the narrow…
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Countryman Karl Black
by Neville Farki
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London: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, 1981. First paperback edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], illustrated wraps, 168 pp. Very good. Cover design Errol Llyod. Published by the radical London imprint founded by Guyanese activists Jessica and Eric Huntley in 1968 to first issue Walter Rodney's Groundings with My Brothers.
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Freedom---When
by James Farmer
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New York: Random House, 1965. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound navy cloth spine and blue boards, gilt spine titles, gilt and blue cover decoration, red top stain, pictorial dust jacket, 197 pp. Very good book; top edge dust-soiled; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped with close tears, spine toned, joint tears, edge wear with close tears. Photo by Edward Hollander; jacket design by S. Neil Fujita.
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The Big Clock
by Kenneth Fearing
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1946. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 175 pp. Very good book; good dust jacket, spine faded and chipped, edges torn and chipped, covers soiled, flap seams worn.
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Black Star Vol. 1 No. 5: An Anarchist Review
by Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation
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Milwaukee, WI: SRAF, 1977. Very good. Staple-bound newsprint, 8.5 x 11", with illustrated cover, SRAF declaration on last page, contents include a review of Carolyn Ashbaugh's biography of Lucy Parsons, essay on Bakunin on Violence, more.
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Double or Nothing: A Real Ficticious Discourse
by Raymond Federman
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Chicago: Swallow, 1971. First Edition paperback, simultaneously published with the cloth first edition. Signature-bound [quarto], in illustrated wrappers, 202 pp. Very Good. Little-known experimental "concrete" novel, utilizing many of the placement methods of concrete poetry throughout its prose.
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Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives (American Made Music Series)
by Feintuch, Burt; Thomas, Jeannie Banks (ed.); Samson, Gary (Photos)
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Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book is in very good condition, tight square binding, corners lightly pushed, tail of spine lightly bumped, clean and unmarked within. Jacket is in very good condition, tail of jacket spine bumped, light shelving and handling wear. Overall, Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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The Poet Exposed
by Felver, Christopher; Snyder, Gary (prologue); Creely, Robert (foreword); Parker, William E. (afterword)
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Toronto, Ontario: St James Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. square tight binding, light shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within.Very good.
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Artist in Exile
by Dumile [Feni]
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Johannesburg: Art on Paper, 2004. Signature-bound, [quarto], illustrated wraps, 52 pp. Very good, wraps soiled.
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The Meaning of Man
by Sidi 'Ali al-Jamal of Fez
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Norfolk, England: Diwan Press, 1977. Hardcover 6 1/2" x 9 7/8", black cloth boards with silver lettering with black end papers in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 455 pp. Very good/Very good dust jacket, lightly worn around edges. From Diwan Press, 'Translated from a unique 18th-century manuscript, this work examines the interaction of the opposites inherent in existence. It is a clear statement of how existence works.'.
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The Meaning of Man
by Sidi 'Ali al-Jamal of Fez
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Norfolk, England: The Diwan Press, 1977. Signature-bound, [octavo] with illustrated glossy wraps, 455 pp. Very good, lightly worn.
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Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon
by Finley, Cheryl
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University Press of Mississippi, 2018. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Slight wear and light scratched on dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy with no damage to boards, spine, or interior. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Susan Hiller: The Revenants of Time
by Jean Fisher
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London / Sheffield / Glasgow: Matt's Gallery / Mappin Art Gallery / Third Eye Centre, 1991. Signature-bound, [quarto], paper wraps in glossy pictorial dust jacket, [62]. About Near Fine. Design by Gabriella Le Grazie. Catalog essay by Jean Fisher marking the completion of the artist's new video projection work, 'An Entertainment' initiated and produced by Matt's Gallery, London, and the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield and Third Eye Centre, Glasgow. Acting also as a catalog for the artist's time-based works which were on exhibit at the Mappin Art Gallery.
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The Life Structure of Noh: An English Version of Yokomichi Mario's Analysis of the Structure of Noh
by Frank Hoff & Willi Flindt
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Racine, Wisconsin: Concerned Theatre Japan, 1972. Saddle-stapled, [quarto] in pictorial wraps, [46]. Near fine.
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The Negro and the Democratic Front
by James W. Ford
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New York: International Publishers, 1938. 8vo, green cloth boards with black lettering on spine, 222 pp. Good, ex-library with resultant stamps and lending card affixed to rear pastedown, significant amount of wear and rubbing to edges and corners of boards with a good amount of fraying, separation at hinge between rear board and spine, fading to edges of boards, otherwise text is clean and unmarked./No jacket..
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The Psalms of Struggle and Liberation
by Ernesto Cardenal; Thomas Merton [foreword]
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New York: Herder and Herder, 1971. Signature-bound [octavo] in pictorial wrappers. 76 pp. Very Good, with wraps lightly curling to corners, mild shelf and edge wear.. Scarce copy of Cardenal's first book published in the English language. Ernesto Cardenal, one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century, was an artist, poet, and priest. Highly active in the Sandinistan revolution, his political faith remained a guiding light throughout his life and work until his death in 2020. The Psalms of Struggle and Liberation (originally title: Salmos) is Cardenal's rewriting of David's biblical psalms, updated to reflect the injustices and inequities of his present day. With previous ownership inscription of Robert Marquez, editor of Caliban and translator, publisher, and scholar of Afro-Caribbean literature.
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Derrida and Africa: Jacques Derrida as a figure for African Thought
by Grant Farred (Editor) & Jean-Paul Martinon (Foreword)
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London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Hardcover octavo in glossy pictorial boards, no dust jacket, 102 pp. Very good, ISBN sticker on back board half torn off, noted minimal hi-lighting on less than 5 pages/No dust jacket. Cover image by Leonid Andronov.
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The Making of Black Revolutionaries
by James Forman
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 568 pp. Very good ex-library book, withdrawl slip torn from front free endpaper; very good dust jacket, spine worn with 2 close tears, spine sticker.
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