Search Results: Authors starting with X from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Castro Valley, CA: Black Bird Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. vii, 277p., illus., inscribed and signed by the poet on title page to African American actor J. B. Saunders who in turn inscribed it to a friend, rubbed and worn wraps. The autobiography by the African American poet, although focusing on his conversion to Islam, contains considerable material on the Black Panthers and other radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

New York: Le Blanc Publications, 1955. Pamphlet. [20p.] staplebound booklet, mild handling wear, otherwise very good except for a penned note on the rear cover stating that the reader's "candid opinion is earnestly requested." Small pen correction to text on rear cover; it stated that Trotsky had been killed by gunshot, but "gunshot" is inked out. The authors were associates of the fascist Francis Parker Yockey, and they echo his argument for a far right alliance with the Soviet Union, seen by the 1950s as having shed its allegedly Jewish origins. They refer to the Western world as the "Jewish consensus," depicting it as pitted against a "Great Russiandom" with the "total support of the Colored World," in a "coming struggle for All or Nothing.

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975. Hardcover. 198p., illustrations, cloth boards with an inoffensive bookplate, enclosed in dust jacket, book is near-fine while the dust jacket is quite rubbed with edgewear and a short tear.

Barcelona: Exclusivas Ferma, 1960. 204p., green boards gilt-titled and -panelled, very good copy with flyleaf thoughts regarding this production by the former owner, who is not entirely approving of fiction. Jesuit author. Text in Spanish.

Barcelona: Ediciones Eler, 1980. 230p., sketch illustrations, second edition, trade-size pictorial wraps, leaves unopened else very good. Cover illus shows two brothers, one wounded. Originally published in 1940 Coleccion Dos Filos.

San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2002. Paperback. 73p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Poetry by the gay Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam winner.

Berkeley: Undermine Press, 1969. Pamphlet. 20p., stapled wraps, 5.25x6.25 inches, light edgewear, top corner of front wrap clipped else very good first printing; one of 1,000 copies. The Pick-Pocket Poets Series, No. 25. Political poetry.

Dayton, OH: Peter Xavier, 1953. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheet, toned on blank verso, signed in pen by Xavier at lower right. Xavier worked with various far-right groups including the National States Rights Party, gaining infamy for burning crosses and later being charged in the shooting of a Black man in a fight between NSRP members and Black protesters in Berea, Kentucky. Here he calls for withdrawal from the United Nations, and boasts of having dragged the "Spider Web" flag of the UN through the streets in Dayton.

Dayton, OH: Peter Xavier, 1952. 8.5x14 inch mimeographed handbill, folded for mailing, "Native Fascist" penciled in corner. Signed in pen by Xavier at lower right. Xavier worked with various far-right groups including the National States Rights Party, gaining infamy for burning crosses and later being charged in the shooting of a Black man in a fight between NSRP members and Black protesters in Berea, Kentucky. Here he compares the contemporary political situation to the time when, "In the darkest hour of the Revolution, General Washington gathered his ragged, starving forces and struck at Trenton." Outlines a campaign to attack the UN and "the internationalist treason candidates: Stevenson and Eisenhower" through public demonstration, convoys dragging the UN flag on the ground through public squares, burning the presidential candidates in effigy, etc. "WARNING! WARNING! Another Pearl Harbor Is Planned. Exactly when it will come, no one seems to know. But in your heart, be prepared. Be forewarned.… Read More

Washington, D. C.: National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1935. Pamphlet. 48p., staplebound printed wraps, mild creasing, wraps slightly browned and foxed else good condition. One chapter heading-- "The uplifting of the proletariat," --bespeaks a church forced to grapple a little with Marx's vocabulary.

Yang Ming Shan, Taiwan: Hwa Kang Press, 1974. 4, 146 pages, [12] pages of plates; inscribed by the author to professor Betty Lee Sung; very good but for rubberstamp indicating that the book was rejected as a duplicate by the Library of Congress. Text mostly in Chinese.

Shanghai: Jin zhang tu shu ju, [192-?]. Four slender volumes bound in traditional format with thread (total of 8 juan), paper toned, mild handling wear, ownership signature; in a wrap-around folding case. Several illustrations, including a two-page map.

Shanghai: Zhonghua xin jiao yu she 中華新教育社, 1925. 66p., slender paperback, second printing of this edition.

Shanghai: Jin zhang tu shu ju, 1927. Four slender paperbound lithographed volumes, bound with thread in traditional format, paper toned, otherwise very good, in wraparound case with title label. Republican-era reprint of the collection of Warring States anecdotes.

Taibei: Guangdong guomin daxue Taibei shi xiao you hui 廣東國民大學臺北市校友會, 1972. paperback. 10, 6, 3, 175 p., very good wraps, in mildly edgeworn plastic overwrap. Memoir by the Taiwanese educator, written in retirement in San Francisco. Significant discussion of Chinese-American life in San Francisco.

Shanghai: Sao ye shan fang, 1925. Three paperback volumes, pages toned, first volume has edge chip to front cover and chipping at top of spine panel. On the philosopher Xunzi.

Shanghai: Shanghai jiaoyu chuben shi 上海教育出版社, 1981. 328p, very good in wraps, title caligraphy by Xu Deheng, 25 black and white photos, including past presidents of Peking university. History of Peking University, from 1898 to 1949.

Beijing: Beijing gu ji chu ban she, 1980. 77p., slender paperback, abrasion at top of front cover. Reprint of two Ming dynasty books.

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. Paperback. 199p., paperback, old price stamped on rear cover, otherwise very good. Novel of a "barefoot doctor.

Huntington, WV: University Editions, 1993. Paperback. 168 pages, very good paperback. Novel highlighting changes in love and marriage in post-revolutionary China.