Interim Volume Number (30 results)

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Staple-bound. Pages unmarked. Moderately worn. Binding firm.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Light corner and edge wear. Aging to covers. Interior pages are clean.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight rubbing and browning to wrappers (chiefly to lower wrapper); slight bumping to lower right corners; slight internal browning to edges. 40 pages. Contains 2 poems by William Carlos Williams ('The Sea Farer' and 'The Sound of Waves'), plus 1 poem by Kenneth Patchen ('To Bunneni, Hake, and Clem Maugre, the Seers of Gloccus -- as well as to all other forgotten minstrels of our enlightenment'), 1 poem by Peter Viereck ('Twenty Years After'), and contributions by Edward E. Bostetter, W. S. Graham, Clarence Alva Powell, and others. Also notable for Robert Halpern's upper wrapper abstract illustration. Wallace C396 (Williams).Halpern, Robert (illustrator); 1 b/w Illustration (upper wrapper).

Stapled Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Tom Holder {cover art} (illustrator). 1st Edition. Work by William Stafford, James Laughlin, Harold Witt, Donnell Hunter, Dan Campion and others. Publisher's sheet laid-in.

No binding. Condition: Good. Papercovers. Good. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Cinque, Gina M. (cover art) (illustrator). First Edition. Las Vegas: Interim, 1992. First edition. 8vo. Paperback4748 pp. Poetry by Donald W. Baker, Bill Cowee, Kenneth Pobo, Anthony S. Abbott, Lyn Lifshin, Rita Kiefer, Kenneth W. Brewer, Michael Huff, Bernard E. Morris, Clifford Paul Fetters, Faye George, John Heath-Stubbs, John Ronan, John Quinn, Sue Saniel Elkind, Craig Rullman, James Laughlin and Maurice Lindsay. Short fiction by G.K. Wuori and Peter Parsons. Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Las Vegas: Interim, 1991. First edition. 8vo. Paperback, 48 pp. Poetry by Kenneth Pobo, X. J. Kennedy, Melissa Hartman, Adam Johnson, Norma Westwood, Harold Witt, Donald W. Baker, Naomi Clark, John F. Deane, Aine Miller, Pat Boran, Paddy Hickson, Jean O' Brien, Ioanna Carlsen, George Bruce, Joan Cutuly, Kenneth O. Hanson, Agnes Gergeley, Simon Perchik, Conger Beasley, Jr., Pamela Wilkie, Michael Atkinson, Barry Spacks and Ace G. Pikington. From the personal library of award winning and Pulitzer Prize nominated poet Donald W. Baker; includes his handwritten notes. Fine.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the Vol. 1 No. 6 (Summer 1975) issue of "NIC Bulletin: National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People [MPOC]" published by MPOC out of New York City. An upper-left stapled mimeographed, as issued, newsletter measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 10 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are: Report from Lancaster, PA (Where We Come From; Chapter Origins; What We Have Learned); Report from Hartford, Conn. (Formation; Further Organizing; Electoral Campaign; Shadow Government ["We hope to create a Provisional Revolutionary Government in Hartford, although we probably would not call it a PRG"]; Community Center); New England Regional Report; Towards a National People's Program; lengthy Viva Puerto Rico Libre! by Ted Glick (which begins, "The Latin America/Caribbean region is one of the cornerstones of U.S. capitalist/imperialist system. It is the part of the Third World where U.S. corporate investment is at its height - over 25 billion dollars. It is the region in which the form of government for many of the countries is military dictatorship - in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere"); On the 1976 Strategy; Grand Jury Up Date; Murder in Mississippi (on Simmie Jobson); Final Notes.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the Vol. 1 No. 3 (January 1975) issue of "NIC Bulletin: National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People [MPOC]" published by MPOC out of New York City. An upper-left stapled mimeographed, as issued, newsletter measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 10 pages including front and rear covers. As stated on the front page, in part: "This NIC Bulletin is primarily devoted to a working paper prepared by the Administrative Committee for the expanded NIC meeting to be held January 31-February 2 [1975]." The contents are: Administrative Committee Report to the Expanded NIC (with topics Nature of Organizational Problems; The Economic and Political Crisis; Developments in the Left ["The political and organizational decisions we take regarding our next steps are also affected by developments in the American left"]; Organizational Strategy; Composition and Date Factors; Local Groups; National People's Program; Outreach to Key Constituencies; NIC's Participation in Other Groupings; National Structure and Tasks; Theoretical Studying and Writing); Responses to Past Issues of the Bulletin (from Peter Henner and Ronald M. Doane); Coalition on the Economic Crisis; Literature Available. Staple lightly age-rusted.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the June 1976 issue of MPOC Bulletin (Vol. 2 No. 6), formerly NIC Bulletin, published by the Mass Party Organizing Committee (MPOC) out of New York City. A left-stapled, printed newsprint newsletter in magazine format measuring 8-1/8" by 10-7/8" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Editorial: Onward to July 4th ("The kind of independent anti-capitalist, anti-Democrat/Republican electoral campaign which we have worked toward has still not gotten off the ground. The July 4th Coalition is, however, a reality"); July 4th Coalition Moves Toward Philadelphia ("As we move into the last month of mobilization for the July 4th demonstration, the government is intensifying its attacks against the people's movements" - "Since the formation of the July 4th Coalition four months ago, the coalition national office has been subjected to unusual interference with phone communications, mail regularly fails to arrive or arrives damaged, and the office has twice been broken into"); Martha Schwartz: MPOC Leader Harassed; Free the OGLALA 4! ("On June 7, Darryl 'Dino' Butler and Bob Robideau will go on trial in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They are charged with the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge reservation on June 26, 1975. These trials are part of a U.S. government conspiracy to discredit and destroy the American Indian Movement"); Assassination Plot Exposed (on Louis Tackwood and the San Quentin Six trial; "Testifying at the San Quentin Six trial last month, Black former agent provocateur Louis Tackwood rocked both the court and the country with the testimony that for over two years he personally participated in a state law enforcement conspiracy to assassinate Black Panther Party Field Marshall George Jackson, as well as other leading members of the Black Panther Party including Huey P. Newton"); Women's Caucus Meets by Barbara Webster; Organizing in Wisconsin by Robert Seltzer; The Philippines Today by Daniel B. Schirmer; Update: Panama. The Mass Party Organizing Committee (MPOC) was founded in late 1974 in an attempt to form a new national political party combining the ideologies of Marxists, socialists, and the progressive left. Printed name and address and BULK RATE stamp to rear cover; narrow edge chip to front and rear covers where issue was opened.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the Vol. 2 No. 1 (November 1975) issue of "NIC Bulletin: National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People [MPOC]" published by MPOC out of New York City. An upper-left stapled mimeographed, as issued, newsletter measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 8 pages including front and rear covers. The Contents are: Lancaster [Pennsylvania] NIC Meeting (with topics Organizational Decisions; '76 Strategy; The National People's Program ["Domestic Repression - Arthur Kinoy; Food - David Holmstrom; Foreign Relations - Ro Reilly; Women - Joyce Jed; Housing - Ted Overman; Jobs - Bob Lewis; Blacks & 3rd World - Martha Schwartz"']); New England Regional Meeting (with topics Socialist Feminism; The Hartford Proposal ["which stressed the development of a three level structure - local, regional, national - within the NIC"]; Criticism/Self-Criticism); And On the Road ("During September, Ted Glick spent two weeks traveling in the Mid-West for the NIC" with topics: People's Party Convention ["Approximately 100 people from around the country gathered in St. Louis for the People's Party Convention over the Labor Day weekend"]; Independents); From Around the World - The Anti-Imperialist Struggle Comes Home (with two articles: Toward Puerto Rican Independence and Toward Panamanian Sovereignty). Staple very lightly age-rusted; front cover lightly sunned; light corner creases.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 15, 1976-January 15, 1977 issue of MPOC Bulletin (Vol. 2 No. 10), formerly NIC Bulletin, published by the Mass Party Organizing Committee (MPOC) out of New York City. A left-folded, printed newsprint newsletter in magazine format measuring 8-3/8" by 11" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Editorial: After the Elections; Build Up Continues Toward National Conference To Found A People's Alliance; UE Convention: Calls for 'New national party' [United Electrical] ("Although the labor movement represents the largest number of organized men and women in the country, the experiences of the past 16 years, at least, are proof that the needs of its members are treated with disdain after the candidates are chosen and elected"); The Strange Case of Muhammad Adil (of the African People's Party; "On Dec. 12, 1975, Brother Muhammad was hauled into the local police station by two police officers and interrogated for two hours regarding a stolen auto. Two hours later, the officers returned to the station, with a quantity of drugs which they claimed to have found near the site where they had apprehended Muhammad"); Militant Workers Under Fire (with two entries: UE Organizer Framed - on Alex Markley; and Pressmen Face Trial - workers of Local 6 of the Pressman's Union in Washington, D.C.); Southern Africa: A Socialist Analysis by Fannie Hicks; Women's Caucus Reorganizes; lengthy A Strategy for 1977 (The principal feature of the present world situation is the increasingly successful revolutionary struggle of colonized nations against the imperialist and neo-imperialist powers"; "Building TODAY the Mass Party Organizing Committee is decisive to the fashioning of those permanent alliance forms which will be the transition to a real mass-based party of the people which can win millions of people to the struggle for political and economic power and the building of a new society, a socialist society"); photograph of and quote from Ho Chi Minh ("A revolution cannot be made by a single man"). The Mass Party Organizing Committee (MPOC) was founded in late 1974 in an attempt to form a new national political party combining the ideologies of Marxists, socialists, and the progressive left. Printed name and address and BULK RATE stamp to rear cover; two staple holes to right edge (where the issue was opened).

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the Vol. 1 No. 5 (April-May 1975) issue of "NIC Bulletin: National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People [MPOC]" published by MPOC out of New York City. An upper-left stapled mimeographed, as issued, newsletter measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 10 pages including front and rear covers. As stated on the front page, in part: "This NIC Bulletin is given over to a full report on our most recent expanded NIC meeting held in Washington, D.C., May 2-4 [1975]. Over 50 people attended from 16 cities." The Contents are: Report on NIC Meeting, May 2-4 [1975] (with topics A New Name for Ourselves [tabled] ["In the plenary discussion that followed, disagreement with 'United People's Party' was expressed because it sounds too populist, and populism was argued against because it doesn't have class-consciousness and isn't explicitly socialist"']; Becoming a Membership Organization; Organizational Forms; Fall Conference; '76 Election Strategy ["The administrative committee and a representative of the Congress of Afrikan People reported on developments in the discussions about a strategy for 1976" - "In the meantime the National Black Assembly was meeting and also discussing CAP's proposal"]; Election of New NIC ["Motion: 'The following people should continue to serve on the NIC: Joe Carnegie, Walter Collins, Bob Greenblatt, Moses Harris, Jim Houghton, Arthur Kinoy, Bob Lewis, Ro Reilly, and Barbara Webster'"]; Celebration); Party-Building Ideas From San Diego; Literature Available. Front page lightly sunned.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the Vol. 1 No. 2 (December 1974) issue of "NIC Bulletin: National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People [MPOC]" published by MPOC out of New York City. An upper-left stapled mimeographed, as issued, newsletter measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 8 pages including front and rear covers. As stated on the front page, in part: "How do you organize a party of the people? The approach will vary from place to place, and we will be using this Bulletin to share the thinking, successes and failures from around the country." The Contents are: lengthy An Approach to Local Organizing Committees by Bob Greenblatt and Barbara Webster ("Along these lines, it is critically important to involve women, Blacks, Third World and working class people" - "A party of the people, one that incorporates mass participation, can only be built if it begins that way; if it is rooted in the daily struggles for survival faced by the majority of our people"); Organizing Towards a Party in Columbia by Ted Glick and Fred Solowey ("One of the most basic is the problem of sexism. Major amounts of energy have gone into dealing with the sexism of some of the men in our group. There have also been political differences around people's understanding of the importance of the feminist or the socialist/feminist movement in relation to, say, the Black liberation struggle"); D.C. People's Proposed Principles of Unity; list of Literature Available. Quite rare.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the Vol. 2 No. 2 (December 1975-January 1976) issue of "NIC Bulletin: National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People [MPOC]" published by MPOC out of New York City. A left-stapled mimeographed, as issued, newsletter measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Domestic Repression ("It is now obvious that the events [Watergate] which rocked the country were no series of minor burglaries and financial corruptions. Continuing exposures have made clear that what the White House was attempting to cover up was a carefully-planned conspiracy by the most powerful groups in the country to abandon the most elementary democratic liberties of people and to substitute another form of rule - rule by open presidential dictatorship using the most massive methods of terror and illegality to smash any political opposition"); S-1 [Senate Bill 1]: Legalizing Fascism?; Native Americans (What is Ganienkeh [Territory]?; Native American Solidarity Committee; one-page comparison between Vietnam and Native America); 1970 Struggle Goes On (on Bob Canney); Attica; In Puerto Rico ("On August 13, 1975, FBI agents and members of the Puerto Rican Criminal Investigation Corps - CIC - armed with m-16 rifles broke into the home of Federico Cintron Fiallo and arrested him on suspicion of participating in an armed bank robbery. Cintron is the Executive Secretary of the United Workers Movement - MOU - of Puerto Rico"); Montana New Socialist Party; Food Stamp Cutbacks Planned; Hard Times Conference Scheduled ("The NIC has accepted an invitation to become a sponsor of the Hard Times Conference scheduled for Chicago over the weekend of January 30"); Organizational Issues: On "Binding" Powers; "A Revolutionary's Poem" by Otto Rene Castillo ("What did you do when the poor suffered / when tenderness and life / burned out in them?"). Previously folded in half for mailing purposes; printed name and address, two canceled stamps, and postmark (December 19, 1975) to lower rear cover.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the Vol. 1 No. 1 (November 1974) issue of "NIC Bulletin: National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People [MPOC]" published by MPOC out of New York City. An upper-left stapled mimeographed, as issued, newsletter measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 8 pages including front and rear covers. As stated on the front page, in part: "With this number begins the publication of a monthly organizing bulletin which is intended to cover both information and suggestions on organizing." Contents include: Report on NIC Meeting, Sept. 27-29 [1974] Washington (with topics including Brief History [which begins, "Saturday's session began with a brief national report on our organizational efforts to date. In the fall of 1972 Arthur Kinoy completed 'Toward a Party of the People,' and this was circulated in xerox form on a haphazard basis for nearly one year"]; How to Organize a Party of the People; Traveling Organizers; The Open Letter & New Material; Economic Analysis & Programmatic Alternatives; Next National Meeting; Criticism of the NIC); Teach-Ins on the Economy; communication to the New York Committee from Oliver Leeds (the Party "must be predicated on struggles and eventual confrontations with the enemies of the people"); RISE (the Party must be "Radical, Independent, Socialist, Equalitarian"). Staple lightly age-rusted. Quite rare.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 1976 issue of MPOC Bulletin (Vol. 2 No. 3), formerly NIC Bulletin, published by the Mass Party Organizing Committee (MPOC) out of New York City. A left-folded, printed newsprint newsletter in magazine format measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Hard Times: The Time to Unite ("We are in the midst of a major economic, political, and social crisis which is affecting broad masses of working people"); Political Council Sets MPOC Direction ("The prime overall strategic plan for 1976 is developed in the editorial found on page 1. In addition, MPOC will be continuing its work as part of the anti-imperialist movement, particularly around Puerto Rican independence within the Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee, as well as around the struggle of Native Americans, within the Native American Solidarity Committee, and Panama, within the Panama Solidarity Committee"); NBA [National Black Political Assembly] Initiates a Peoples Strategy for '76 ("The fundamental problem in America is that there is a dictatorship of the white male elite that owns, controls, and determines the distribution and production of wealth" - "Black and Third World people are doubly oppressed by this system" - "There can be no equality as long as the capitalist system exists"); Bob Canney: "It isn't in Denmark that something is rotten" (with text of his letter from prison); NIC Women Meet; Work at the base: Black Economic Survival (taken from interview with Moses Harris); PSP [Puerto Rican Socialist Party] Holds Successful Congress. The Mass Party Organizing Committee (MPOC) was founded in late 1974 in an attempt to form a new national political party combining the ideologies of Marxists, socialists, and the progressive left. Lightly age-toned; printed name and address, canceled stamp, and postmark (February 4, 1976) to lower rear cover; two staple holes to right edge (where issue was opened).

Softcover. Condition: Good. GOOD / NO DUST JACKET as Issued. 48 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Pages slightly toned. White paper wraps decorated with black photograph at front, scuffed, age-darkened, lower front corner chipped. Original staple binding intact and firm.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. Brian lee "The New Cloud of Unknowing" / M B Mencher "Glow Worms" / Roger Nash "The Psalms: Prayer that Poetry Helps Make" / Stanislav Andreski "The Myth of Vicarious Satisfaction" / S R Patriarca "Teaching Eliot: Things Ill Done and Done to Others' Harm" / Brian Lee "An Interim Report on Quiet Will".

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 28pp, stapled wrappers. Nice Near Fine copy of an early issue of this long-running little magazine from the Pacific Northwest; includes reproductions of work by Mark Tobey. Minor cover rubbing. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. ASSEMBLY INTERIM COMMITTEE REPORTS, 1955-1957, VOLUME 20, NUMBER 3, REPORT TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, PERTAINING TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE DEATH PENALTY AND ITS ADMINISTRATION IN CALIFORNIA, Assembly, State of California, 1957, 55p, stapled pamphlet pb, bumped/scuffed covers, tanning text, solid binding, underlining/marginalia throughout--20.00.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 168-189 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Volume 20, Number 2 complete volume. First edition. In a preliminary paper on the relationship between certain languages of Mexico, the author attempted "to set forth the theory that has shaped up so far, along with some of its phonological basis and an indication of important problems that remain." In the present study, it is proposed to give corrected formulation of the phonology with systematic evidence of moderate and representatives of three branches of proposed Popoloca-Zapotecan stock. Condition: Spine sunned, corners and spine heal bumped else a very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of this early issue of this long-running little magazine from the Pacific Northwest; includes an early poem by Harold Norse, plus writing by John Gould Fletcher, et al. Unmarked copy, light rubbing to covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 44pp, stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by the editors on the contents page. Solid copy of the first issue of this long-running little magazine from the Pacific Northwest. "Complimentary" stamp to back cover (no other markings), spine has 3/4" closed tear at top margin with associated bumping to back cover. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 44pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of the first issue of this long-running little magazine from the Pacific Northwest; includes an excerpt from "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" by Henry Miller, plus writing by Wendell Anderson and others. Unmarked copy with minor wear. Not Signed.

Paperback. Condition: VG. Ryszard Bartkowiak (cover) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 44 pages. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.

Paperback. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. 48 pages. Faded across spine else Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Two issues in one. Octavo. 96pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Oxidation to the staples and light edgwear, near fine. Contains the first and only publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, "The High Cost of Macaroni." The story was originally written as the third part of a triptych for *The Saturday Evening Post* but was never used. It features a somewhat fictionalized version of himself and Zelda, and their travels in Rome during the Winter of 1924-1925, shortly before the publication of *The Great Gatsby*. While the story itself was never published during Fitzgerald's lifetime, two events from it were later reworked into pivotal scenes in the novel, *Tender Is the Night.* The magazine also contains a very early poem by poet William Dickey, "Meditation: Evening," published before his first book and while he was a graduate student at the State University of Iowa. *Bruccoli* C313.

First Edition. Both issues are in fine condition. Uncommon.