Libertarianism from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: H. Havel, 1937. Single, original tabloid issue, 46cm x 31cm (about 18" x 12"); 8pp; illus. Old horizontal fold at center, likely as issued; minor nicks and short tears in margins; partially unopened; Very Good. Excellent single issue of this important American anarchist journal, which ran from 1933 to 1940 despite its publisher and editor… Read more about this item

New York: H. Havel, 1937. Single, original tabloid issue, 46cm x 31cm (about 18" x 12"); 8pp; illus. Old horizontal fold at center, likely as issued; minor nicks and short tears in margins; partially unopened; Very Good. Excellent single issue of this important American anarchist journal, which ran from 1933 to 1940 despite its publisher and editor… Read more about this item

New York / London: M.L. Holbrook & Co. / L.N. Fowler, 1897. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth limb cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt; viii,200pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed with brief cloth peeling, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally sound. Printer's slug at bottom of title page: Elmira, NY:… Read more about this item

New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1897. Second Edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; blind-stamped decorative borders to front board; red edge-stain; frontispiece portrait; x,[1]-512,[1]pp. A slightly worn copy; boards evenly rubbed and soiled, with board exposure at upper corner-tips and rubbing to cloth at spine ends; both hinges thinly cracked (but holding); text clean… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Libertarian Socialist Organisation, N.d. (ca 1979?). Octavo (21cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 52pp; illus. Fine. Booklet containing the "four main statements outlining the political position of the Libertarian Socialist Organization," an Australian anarchist group, successor to the SMG (Self-Management Group) following the latter's disbandment in 1977.

Detroit: Labadie Shop, 1912. Single issue original, unbound condition. 12mo (18cm); 4pp (bifolium). On newsprint. Mildly tanned (but not fragile); light soil; horizontal fold, with a few tiny chips to margins; Very Good. Third issue (of four) of this extremely ephemeral, privately-circulated "newspaper," produced by a 13-year-old Laurance Labadie on the premises of his father's (Jo Labadie) anarchist print… Read more about this item

Paris: Imprimerie Ranchal, 1974-79. Sixteen issues in original wrappers. Issued irregularly. Format varies; mostly quarto, side-stapled wrappers (but 4 issues in digest format); ca. 32-48pp per issue. Minor external wear to a few early issues, overall Very Good or better, free of markings, significant soil or wear. Text entirely in French. Official organ of TAC, an anarchist-communist collective mostly… Read more about this item

Babson Park, FL: Nidar Book Co, [1937]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; [8],184pp. Corners a bit bumped, contemporary bookseller rubberstamp to front pastedown and gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound overall. Proto-libertarian treatise by the Norwegian-born American politican. Rustgard began his career at the age of fifteen as a cabin boy… Read more about this item

London & Aberdeen: Social Revolution, (1976). Quarto. Staplebound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 12pp; illus. Clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Introduction to the goals and principles of this British libertarian communist group centered in London and Aberdeen.

Westfield, NJ: The Lloyd Group, Authors & Publishers, [1905]. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 85. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's brown card wrappers printed in red and black, French flaps; 26pp. Signed by the author on front flap below colophon. Attractively printed book of poems by the individual anarchist, composed in 1903 at Point Eternity,… Read more about this item

Indore: Modern Publishers, N.d. (ca 1946-7). 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; [i]-viii, 41pp text + 19pp ads. Mild foxing and toning to page edges; Very Good or better. English-language Indian reprint of Goldman's essay, originally collected in her Anarchism & Other Essays (1910). This edition published by the great Indian libertarian pamphleteer Arya Bhavan, whose Libertarian Book… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Institute for Policy Studies, N.d. (ca 1979). First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 28pp. Near Fine. Dated from text. Ravenal (b. 1931), noted libertarian scholar and long-time fellow at the Cato Institute.

New York: V.L. Richman, 1963. Six issues. Quarto (14" x 8-1/2"). Original corner-stapled sheets; mimeographed; each issue 6pp. Horizontal folds for mailing, else Very Good to Fine. Six representative issues, including the scarce inaugural number, of this individualist anarchist semi-monthly, which ran to a total of 23 issues, ceasing publication in 1965. An eccentric and ephemeral publication, described on… Read more about this item

New York: These Times Publishing Company, 1932. Quarto (28.25cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, a few faint stains to margins, with archivally mended tears to right edge of first four pages; Very Good+. Premiere issue of this scarce Libertarian publication, with contributions by Benjamin DeCasseres ("The Blueprint Mind of Herbert Hoover"), Henry Hazlitt ("Shall We… Read more about this item

Glen Gardner, NJ: Libertarian Press, 1950. First Edition. Ocatvo. Comb-bound pictorial thick card wrappers; 200pp. Small chip to front wrapper at corner of bound edge; text browned (but not brittle); Very Good. 2000 copies printed. Among the author's scarcer titles.

London: Kropotkin's Lighthouse, 1973. Limited Edition. Second, "enlarged" edition of 200 numbered copies. Quarto (25cm); mimeographed sheets stapled and tape- bound at upper edge; 15pp; illus. Fine. Poems on anarchist themes.

London: Kropotkin's Lighthouse, 1973. Second Edition. Quarto (23cm). Mimeographed sheets, stapled and tape-bound along upper edge. Fine condition. Collection of anarchist passages from the works of William Blake, Percy Shelley, DH Lawrence, Joe Hill, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Gerrard Winstanley.

Sykesville, MD: Francis B. Livesey, [ca 1905]. Broadside, 17" x 5-12". Printed recto-only; text in single column beneath three-line headline; signed in type by author/publisher below text. Old folds; single, brief split at left margin (no loss of text); marginal toning; Very Good. Eccentric broadside from the apparently indefatigable pamphleteer and libertarian rabble-rouser of Sykesville, Maryland, who reputedly authored,… Read more about this item

Detroit: Cartwright, Mueller, Benjamin and Robinson, 1944. First Edition. Small octavo (21cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 157pp. Inscribed by the author on verso of title page (undated). Endpapers slightly darkened; mild dusting and wear; Very Good. In complete, unclipped dustwrapper, rubbed & lightly soiled with a 3/4" triangular chip at upper extremity of rear panel, still about VG. Uncommon novel… Read more about this item