Imago Collectors Edition 10. History & Politics

Agosin, Marjorie Arpilleras: Lebensbilder aus Chile Frauebewegung und Dikatur German
translation of Scraps of Life, Gisela Ottmer, Deutsche Ubersetzung..5.25 x 8, 192 pp. with 10 full-colour illustrations of these 'quilts of life'. As new condition in well-bound paper covers $25.

Agosin, Marjorie Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras. The stories of the women who wove the names of their love-ones within quilts and remembered thereby the 'disappeared'. Also sub-titled: Chilean Women and the Pinochet Dictatorship. Translated from the Spanish by Cola Franzen. Cloth-bound in Mint condition, 5.75 x 8, 156 pp. $45.

Bernstein, Hilda No.46~ Steve Biko Steve Biko was the 46th person to die in security police detention in South Africa. This is a report of the inquest into his death which exonerated the police. First published in 1978, this is the 1987 reprint from IDAF, International Defence & Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 6 x 8.5, 150 pp. paper covered and all in Fine condition $35.

Campbell, Horace Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney a study of the cultural, political and spiritual origins of the Rastafarian Movement. First American edition of 1987. 6 x 8.5, 236 pp. Tear to front dustjacket, cloth binding and text as new. $40.

Castro, Fidel The World Crisis: Its Economic and Social Impact on the Underdeveloped Countries
Constitutes a socialist response to the Brundt Commision Report on North-South relations which contains no prospectus for the alleviation of the Third World problems of landlessness, starvation and mass unemployment. 5.25 x 8, 224 pp. one bunged corner but fine overall condition to this paperback from Zed Books $25.


Cockburn, Patrick Getting Russia Wrong: The End of Kremlinology Chronicles Gorbachev's policies of de-centralization and published as early as 1989 by Verso. 6 x 9.25, 228 pp. in blue paper covers, The Origin of Socialist Realism by Korner and Malamid illustrates the front cover. Fine condition overall $30.

Davis, Flora Moving the Mountain: The Women's Movement in America Since 1960 Published in 1991 by Simon & Shuster. Matte dustjacket and binding as new, some stains to top open face of text. 6.5 x 9.5, 604 pp. with extensive index and bibliography. Fne condition overall $35.

Hull, Jeremy Natives in a Class Society Fourth printing of 1988 from One Sky of Saskatchewan. Well-written study, beginning with the situation in Regina where the capitalist institutions of school and jail continue to fail Native-Canadian children and adults. Staplebound, 5.5 x 8.5, 78 pp. in fine condition $15.

Jones, Lynne States of Change: A Central European Diary, Autumn 1989 An eye-witness account of the the day-to-day events in the GDR, Czechoslovakia Hungary and, especially, Poland during that extraordinary year.5.25 x 8.5, 139 pp. from Merlin Press of 1990. Blue and yellow paper covers in fine condition overall $25.

Lockhart, R.H. Bruce Memoirs of a British Agent: Being an Account of the Author's Early Life in Many Lands and of His Official Mission to Moscow in 1918. First edition Putnam New York and London of 1932. No dustjacket but blue boards bind the leaves tightly to a good overall condition $35.

Lord, John Beacon Lights of History, Volume 5: Great Women Begins with Cleopatra and ends with George Eliot, twelve women in all under discussion. No dustjacket but text is sewn and then bound and sturdy from its 1896 printing. 6 x 8, 509 pp. in fine condition $55.

Lottman, Herbert The Left Bank History of a cultural enclave that saw culture and especially its own culture as intrinsically superior to any mere civilization. Subtitled, Writers, Artists and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War. Paper edition from Halo Books of San Francisco of 1991. 6 x 8.25, 319 pp. with extensive bibliography and index. Some stains, Good condition $25.

Mosley, Leonard On Borrowed Time: How World War II Began Random House 1969 edition. 6.75 x 9.75, 509 pp. with red tint to top of pages. Embossed black board covers and text in fine condition, jacket has scuffs and rips though $45.

.Raymond, Janice G. Women As Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle over Women's Freedom First edition from HarperSanFrancisco of 1993. 5.75 x 8.75, 254 pp. cloth bound in As New condition $45.

Sedgwick, Peter Psycho Politics: Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and the Future of Mass Psychiatry Argues that the new Anglo-American mental health movements which emphasize the individual ignore the community's responsibility for the mentally disabled. 5.5 x 8.5, 292 pp. Slight tear to back of dustjacket, text and binding fine $35.

Seidman, Ann The Roots of Crisis in Southern Africa A basic primer in neo-colonialism and how it is underdeveloping Black Africa. 6.25 x 9.25, 209 pp. Signed by the author in 1985, its year of publication. As new condition cloth-binding, dustjacket and text $45.

Toynbee, Arnold A Study in History, Volume 7A: Universal States What the dominant minority of a state constructs in order to prevent its own disintegration. 5.5 x 8, 379 pp. from Oxford University Press New York of 1963. Scuffed paper covers, so only fine overall condition $30.

Turok, Ben, editor Witness from the Frontline: Aggression and Resistance in Southern Africa Published by the Institute For Afrian Alternatives London in 1990 with 15 contributors. 6 x 8.25, 168 pp. in fine paperbound condition $20.