Speigner, Al. 1952. Volume 1, Number 6. [6],82,[1]pp. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers, linen spine. Light wear and soiling, contemporary presentation inscription on front cover. Internally clean. Scarce prison periodical published at Draper Prison and representing “the entire inmate body of the Alabama penal system.” The magazine began publication in September..... More
[Spokane]: 1938. 96pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers three-ring bound into decorative wood boards. Light wear to wrapper edges; wood boards lightly scuffed. Numerous newspaper clippings tipped onto several leaves, inside wrappers, and on title page. Occasional, slightly later manuscript annotations. Light dust soiling and toning internally. A scarce 1938 Civilian..... More
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[N.p. ca. 1935]. 16pp. Tall 16mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light oxidization around staples. Light wear and soiling to wraps. Light tanning. A scarce and ephemeral little handbook, published as a guide for the enrollees into Company 755 of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which worked on the McKenzie Bridge over..... More
[N.p.]: 1932. Broadside, 9 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear. Father Divine was the most prominent black religious cult leader of the 1930s, believed to be a divine messenger, the messiah, or God himself by tens of thousands of African-Americans and middle-class whites during the Great Depression. In November 1931, Divine..... More
![Thirteen Issues of Pandora: A Washington Women's News Journal from the 1970s]. Feminism, Washington](/pictures/thumb/1361.jpg?v=1604262811)
Seattle: [1971-1979]. Thirteen issues. Issues range from 8pp. to 16pp., first four printed on white paper, the final nine issues printed on larger format newsprint. Some light wear and soiling. Thirteen issues of the second-wave feminist newspaper Pandora, published in Seattle in the 1970s. Pandora ran from October 1971 to..... More
Omaha: Klopp & Bartlett Co., 1903. 44pp. Original red cloth, cover stamped in black. Corners lightly rubbed. Text lightly toned, last few leaves with lower corner rumpled. A series of eighteen diagrams illustrating the ceremonial movements for initiation into the Degree of Honor lodges in Nebraska. The Degree of Honor..... More
Freeland, Md. & York, Pa. School of Living, 1970-1977. Volumes 8:11, 9:2-5, 34:3. Minor wear, toning. A few small edge tears. A small run of this journal published by the School of Living, “an educational organization that explores challenges of living, holds land in trust for present and future generations..... More
Great Falls: Tribune Job Print, 1902. 22,[2]pp. 12mo. Original limp calf wrappers. Head of spine chipped; some edge wear and rubbing to wraps. Very minor chipping at fore-edge of text block. Slightly later ownership inscriptions on rear endpapers. Light tanning. An unrecorded handbook for the short-lived Barbers' Protective Union of..... More
Oakland: 1980. Broadsheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded and mailed. Light wear. A 1980 "Communal Grapevine" news sheet, with announcements for classes, want ads for housing in the Oakland Utopian community, and fundraising requests. More
![Shadows [cover title]. Prison Magazines, Oregon](/pictures/thumb/McBRB554_01.JPG?v=1562628870)
[Salem]: 1952-1953. Two issues, July 1952 (17:7) & April 1953 (18:4). 32pp. each. Original printed stiff wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Two issues of the monthly magazine published by the Oregon State Penitentiary. First issued in 1936, the magazine is “Published monthly by and for the inmates of the..... More
![Sexual Economics and the Utopian Dream [cover title]. Utopias, Eve Furchgott](/pictures/thumb/McBRB378.JPG?v=1551785752)
[San Francisco? 1980? [4]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light wear and minor soiling. Entertaining pseudoscholarship on the connections between socialism and "polyfidelity," i.e. having multiple loyal partners, in communal living situations. According to the author bio, Furchgott was "a founding member of Kerista Village, an egalitarian, Utopian intentional community..... More
![A Trip to Freeland [cover title]. Utopias, Theodore Hertzka](/pictures/thumb/McBRB465.jpg?v=1553198804)
Bow, Wa. Freeland Printing and Publishing Co., 1905. 66pp. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Light foxing and soiling, light chipping and wear. Text evenly toned, minor soiling. Noted as the “Revised Edition,” this is the first printing of the first American edition, after original publication in German. Published as a...... More