Americana from Spafford Books

Boston: Beacon Press; A Seventies Press Book 0-8070-6393 [0-8070-6393] 1975. (Mass market paperback) 93+. Very good. 8vo. English text. An assessment of contemporary poetry and a statement of the author's understanding of it. Includes work by Allen Ginsberg, Cesar Vallejo, Federico Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane, as well as others. There is a name penned… Read more about this item

New York: A New Directions Book [0-8112-0546-0] 1974, 6th printing. (Mass market paperback) 114pp. Fine. 8vo. Poems and essays, a collection that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975. A fine copy..

New York: A New Directions Book NONE [NONE] 1958, 16th Printing. (Mass market paperback) 93+. Very good. 8vo. Remains one of the best selling and most popular books of poetry ever published, the author's second collection. Includes 'I am Waiting', reputed to be Ferlinghetti's favourite poem of all those he wrote. Wrappers have separated, and… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. [0-385-07857-9] 1974. (hardcover) 207pp. Very good. Folio. Rust coloured cloth, with titles, in gilt, stamped to front and spine. Colour pictorial paste down to front cover. Clean and bright, Tight binding. No jacket. The copyright page identifies that this is the "First edition published after the Limited… Read more about this item

New York, London: The Free Press, A Division of MacMillan, Inc./Collier MacMillan Publishers [0-02-935601-6] 1989. (hardcover) vii, 245pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Describes how 2 cultures met and mised on the American frontier; the aristocrats, schooled a Eton and Cambridge and thei rough, independent cowboys of the time that shared a common moral… Read more about this item

Lawton, Oklahoma: Museum of the Great Plains NONE [NONE] 1968. (Mass market paperback) ix, 34pp. Very good. 4to. A study of early Indian trade guns presented to shed new light on old subjects. Black and white illustrations. Lightly starting at the front hinge, otherwise, a clean, bright copy. Published as Contributions of the Museum… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 978-1-4000-4360-6 [978-1-4000-4360-6] 2010. (hardcover) 656pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. The first book to fully explore the circumstances and experiences of Obama's life and his rise to the Presidency. Black and white as well as full colour photographs. Signed by author. Related ephemera laid in. Lightly bumped… Read more about this item

New York: National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor NONE [NONE] 1967. (Mass market paperback) 68pp. Fine. 8vo. Olive green wrappers, stapled. Pamphlet book published to create a better understanding of the challenges and needs of the 'poorest and least protected' of workers: the farm workers. Fine copy. Various contributors. Black and white photographs..

New York: Vintage Books / Random House NONE [NONE] 1967. (Mass market paperback) xii, 198+. Fine. 12mo. The work that defined 'Black Power'. Presents insights with regard to the roots of racism in the US and strategies to reform the traditional political process. A seminal book of the Civil Rights Movement..

Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press [0-8263-1362-0] 1992, 1st edition. (hardcover) 211pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. A study of the accounts and stories of the Lakota people as collected by Deloria in the 1920s and 1930s. Deloria, while known as an author, linguist and ethnologist, many may not know that she… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press [0-312-31932-0] 2003, 1st edition. (hardcover) 362pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Book and jacket bumped at the spine head. Comprehensive history of the CIA and the war on terrorism, written by one of America's most acclaimed investigative journalists. Inscribed by author to the title page. Black and… Read more about this item

New York: Pocket Books [0-671-78657-1] 1993. (hardcover) xviii, 492pp. Fine in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket shows some wear at the top edge; the book is fine. Comprehensive history of the FBI, written by one of America's most acclaimed investigative journalists. Inscribed by author to title page. Overall, very good copy. Inscribed by author… Read more about this item

New York: Pocket Books [0-671-72664-1] 1991. (hardcover) viii, 210pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Comprehensive look at the case and disappearance of Vitaly Yurchenko and the CIA's mishandling of the matter, written by one of America's most acclaimed investigative journalists. Inscribed by author to 'Other Books By Ronald Kessler' page. Black and white historical… Read more about this item

Montreal & Kingston London Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press [0-7735-2922-5] 2005, 2nd edition. (hardcover) 418pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Second edition, in which the author extends his analysis to cover the last 20 years of US foreign oil policy. Inscribed by author to acclaimed labour, military, and political historian, David Bercuson. A fine /… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois: Students for a Democratic Society NONE [NONE] 1966. (Mass market paperback) 14pp. Near fine. 8vo. Pamphlet, white paper, printed in black shows some light smudges on the rear cover; otherwise in fine condition. The Port Huron Statement was the first official statement prepared by Tom Hayden, at the time an Students for a… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books [0/87932/055/9] 1973. (hardcover) 419pp. Very good in near fine dust jacket. 8vo. Biography. Charters knew Kerouac socially and then later, he helped her to compliete his formal bibliography. She edited a collection of his 'Scattered Poems', and put together the photo and poetry album 'Scenes Along the Road'. She remained… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press [0-670-39702-4] 1983, 1st edition, first printing. (hardcover) xli, 628pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Signed Viking Press first edition, first printing. Chronicles the Wounded Knee Incident on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota (1973), the narrative of Leonard Peltier, as well as the "FBI's war on the… Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers NONE [NONE] 1954. (Mass market paperback) 64pp. Very good. 8vo. Scarce. Card wrappers, glued, as issued over stapled booklet. Covers show only the lightest of wear at the top edge. Fascinating piece of American labour history. A study of the top mnopolies, their links with peak finance and government -… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company NONE [NONE] 1939. (hardcover) xxxi, 660; xii, 655; xiii, 673; xii, 515pp. Near fine. 8vo. Tall. Blue-black cloth, gilt titles to spine. 4 volume set; each of which has the previous owner's name delicately penned to the front free endpaper. There are some markings to the covers; all else… Read more about this item

San Francisco: City Lights Books NONE [NONE] 1963, 1st edition, 3rd printing. (Mass market paperback) 98pp. Near fine. 16mo. Ginsberg's 4th volume of collected poems. First printing. Black and white card wrappers. Light edgewear; otherwise crisp and pristine. The Pocket Poets Series. Number Eighteen. "Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own… Read more about this item