Search Results: American Revolution from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1962. Hardcover. 169p., green cloth boards, no dust jacket; in very good condition.

Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1953. Hardcover. 379p., original cloth binding, first edition (1-15 Tausend), dj slightly shelf worn and lightly browned on the spine else very good condition. East German translation of Citizen Tom Paine.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. Hardcover. xii, 354p., tables, illus., review slip tipped in, very good condition in shelf worn dust jacket with a few tears. Ownership signature above review slip of Herbert Aptheker.

Hawthorne: Omni Publications, n.d.. Pamphlet. 37p. staplebound pamphlet, undated reprint of a 1931 tract; likely 1970s. Anti-Semitic publisher's reprint of a Jewish historian's challenges to myths regarding Solomon's role in the American revolution.

Tel Aviv: N. Tversky, 1948. 264p., hardcover, pages toned, otherwise very good, in a badly torn dustjacket, now under mylar. Fast's novel about the American Revolutionary War. During his blacklisted period, Fast relied to some degree on income from overseas translations of his books.

Washington DC: s.n., 1837. Pamphlet. Single 9.5x6 inch leaf, about 120 words printed recto; some edgewear and corner-creasing, scattered large blots of foxing, a good-only copy. 24th Congress, 2d session. 183. Wakeman was a veteran of the revolutionary war.

New York: National Executive Committee, Socialist Labor Party, 1923. Pamphlet. 30p., stapled wraps, later printing (first published in 1920), staples rusted, minor handling wear else very good condition, 5x7.5 inches.

Washington: The Associated Publishers, 1945. Hardcover. ix, 84p., slightly stained dj with some discoloration to lower edge of rear board, generally very good.

Georgetown, CA: Dragon's Teeth Press, 1981. Paperback. 140p., 5.5x8.5 inches, play script, vintage illustrations, very good paperback journal in white pictorial wraps. Verse play set in Revolutionary America.

Philadelphia: the Library Company, 1985. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about forty pages, profuse entries are keyboard-set and number-coded in sub-sets according to type of collection. Amidst the text find manuscript and pictorial facsimiles. Softbound as an 11x8.5 inch pamphlet; staples have rusted with a touch of migration, covers bear an inconspicuous crimp and a small rust seep, else immaculate. A good to very good copy. FYI, the only book on Du Simitiere featured on the net is one that focusses on the collector's numismatist persona, hardly noticed here.

New York: Frank Tousey, 1903. Magazine. 30p., newsprint cover and text, paste-fastened 11x8 inch color wraps. The coverstock is a cut above later productions and the magazine is larger than same in the 1920s. Very acidic and fragile (text paperstock is terrible) with much chipping of edges, spinefold is taped with old once-clear stuff, gutters in the text bear many little splits but item is complete and can be handled and read. Pluck and Luck no. 1529.

New York: Pathfinder Press, 1971. Pamphlet. 47p., wraps, first separate printing, previous owner's name on front wrap else very good condition. First published in the Militant newspaper 1951 - 1952.

Atlanta, GA: Byrd Printing Co, 1899. Handbill. 1 sheet. 9.25 x 5.5 in. Folded twice horizontally, otherwise Good. Text begins: "Every Soldier, Veteran, Student and Legislator: Every Daughter of the Confederacy, Daughter of the Revolution: Every man, woman and child should subscribe!". Ad for a subscription to a series of "cheap and good books" offered at the rate of $1 per year (four books a year).

New York: N.G. Slater; Officially Recognized Commemorative of the ARBA [American Revolution Bicentennial Administration], 1976. Four 1.5 inch diameter pins featuring Betsy Ross, Molly Pitcher, Abigail Adams and Deborah Gannet (depicted here as African American). Very good.

Morristown, NJ: Conover Press, 1944. Pamphlet. [2], 24, [2]p., wraps. 9 x 6 in. End papers foxed, otherwise Very Good. The speech details Washington's activities at around the time of Benedict Arnold's treason. This was the first meeting at which women were in attendance (though they could not yet be members).

New York: Carl Bloice Institute for Socialist Education, 2010. Paperback. 107p., no illustrations beyond the cover design, a 9x6 inch softbound in glossy decorated wraps, perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, a fine copy. The publisher, Bloice Institute, is "a project of the Committees of Correspondence Education Fund

Hewlett, NY: Self-published by the author, 1974. Paperback. 66p., 8.5x11 inches, staplebound; tear across entire front wrap, front wrap has some foxing and minor toning, minor rust stain on back wrap, foxing on block edges, overall good. No copies found in OCLC as of August 2023.

West Haven, CT: Promoting Enduring Peace, 1945. 20p., stapled wraps, 4.5x7.75 inches, frontispiece portrait of Paine, very good condition with Schroeder's ownership stamp on title page. Schroeder, active in defense of free speech, aided Emma Goldman in two trials, worked on free speech fights in Chicago and Patterson, NJ, worked on the defense of "Bad Bishop" Brown etc. He was active in anarchist and free thought circles.

Dacca: Premier Books, 1965. Two different editions of Fast's novel about the American Revolutionary War, published in what is now Bangladesh (then Eastern Pakistan). The earlier edition is a hardcover, 291p., very good, publisher uncertain; the latter edition is 314p., hardcover, corners somewhat rubbed. This edition has a paper slip laid in from the publisher giving publication details. During his blacklisted period, Fast relied to some degree on income from overseas translations of his books.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1958. 347p., first edition, original cloth binding, very good condition in a very good dj. Chaplain to Washington's army, diplomat to France, one of the few Americans to "see heads roll" during the French Revolution.