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Softcover. Oakland CA, PM Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. Sticking It to the Man tracks the ways in which the changing politics and culture of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s were reflected in pulp and popular fiction in the United States, the UK, and Australia. Featuring more than three hundred full-color covers, the book includes in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, articles, and reviews from more than two dozen popular culture critics and scholars. Among the works explored, celebrated, and analyzed are books by street-level hustlers turned best-selling black writers Iceberg Slim, Nathan Heard, and Donald Goines; crime heavyweights Chester Himes, Ernest Tidyman, and Brian Garfield; Yippies Anita Hoffman and Ed Sanders; best-selling authors such as Alice Walker, Patricia Nell Warren, and Rita Mae Brown; and a myriad of lesser-known novelists ripe for rediscovery.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Clear Light, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Preface by Terry Tempest Williams. Black & white photos, 104 pages. Renowned wilderness writer T H Watkins offers a portrait of remote areas of the fragile and beautiful canyonlands of Utah. He gives us a panorama of majestic mountains, buttes, and mesas; forest views of pinon an djuniper and tall mountains sage; and intimate glimpses of rivers weaving through red slits in the earth. Through Watkins's exquisite visual and literary images shines his deep commitment to saving treasured wildlands that were old when humankind was 'yet ungraced by the breath of creation'. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder and Co., Second Edition, 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcover volumes with blue leather covers featuring marbled endpapers, raised bands along brown spines with red title plates, gilt decoration. Second Edition. Black & white, and some color illustrations in all 3 volumes by John Ruskin. Volume 1 - "The Foundations". 400 pages. Top edge gilt. Light, faint pencil marginalia to a few pages. Minor abrasion to covers. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - "The Sea Stories". 394 pages. Top edge gilt. Faint foxing to some pages. a few moderate abrasions to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 3 - "The Fall". 362 pages. Top edge gilt. Light pencil marginalia scattered throughout. Faint foxing to some pages. Minor abrasions to covers. Clean, tight copy. A nice set.

Hardcover. Blue Ridge Summit, Tab Books, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 292 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 225 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bronson. Color illustrated endpapers. Review copy stamp on half-title page. Corners bumped, rubbed. Soiling to covers. A tale of two adolescent Native American boys on islands off the coast of Spanish-conquered Mexico. 47 illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Osgood and Company/Riverside Press, Reprint, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 532 pages. "Authors Edition". Black & white illustrations by M. L. Stone and V. Pedersen. Previous owners inscription on Preliminary page. Small piece of paper (pea sized) missing from bottom right corner of front endpaper. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 247 pages. Color, black & white illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Rubbing to spine, corners. Dust jacket with light soiling, chipping.

Hardcover. Chicago, American Colortype Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 96 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Dorothy Wagstaff. 22 short stories of a stereotypical black boy done in the style of the time. Chipping and wear to paper on the covers, interior clean, solid binding.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 71 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jim McMullan, his first book. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, large tears, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. New York, J. H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Front hinge intact but tender. Full color and black & white illustrations by Milo Winter and Charlotte Becker. Light foxing to front cover color paste down illustration. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint , 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Top edge gilt. Embossed cover with gilt decorations. Light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, hardcover. Gilt titling to spine and front panel. Decorated front panel. Gilted top text block. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by noted illustrator A.B. Frost. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Heavy bumping to all board corners, all edges slightly frayed. Mild fading and age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint , 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Oliver Herford. First published a year earlier. Beautiful, clean copy. all edges green, decorated cover with gilt lettering.

Hardcover. New York, Artabras, 2nd Printing, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with black printed rocking horse decoration to cover, black printed titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white, images beautifully interspersed throughout text. Bright dust jacket with sunfading to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. London, Reaktion Books, 2013, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Adam and Charls Black, 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations by Victor Ambrus throughout. Decorated cover boards, cover boards slightly warped, but no moisture damage present. Back endpaper has an horizontal air-bubble. pages clean and unmarked with exception of half title page with has a small brown smudge. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly tanned from age. Light tanning to edges. Binding tight. Spine straight. Here is the story of the British people, written by an author renowned as 'the young reader's historian' and illustrated by an artist who is amongst the most talented book illustrators of our time.

Hardcover. Salisbury, Keewaydin Camp, 1st Thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 67 pages plus section of black & white group camp photographs from 1912 to 1958. Hardcover. SIGNED BY ABBOTT FENN ON DEDICATION PAGE. Updated and corrected edition of the original 1959 'The Story of Keewaydin'. Dust jacket with wear to edges, tape repaired closed tears - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 2nd, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Fred Marcellino. SIGNED BY MARCELLINO ON TITLE-PAGE. Tight and bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, unclipped dust jacket. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 334 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges and preliminary pages.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 258 pages. Black and white Illustrations by Pyle. Tissue over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear to covers. Back hinge partially cracked. Previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with red, black and gilt decoration, 258 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w line by Howard Pyle. Front hinge cracked, previous owner's bookplate on blank prelim page, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Illustration in white of children along a bannister on front cover. Copyright 1899, with no previous printings listed. Light foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.