New York W. W. Norton & Company. (2004). Author Tom Hayden's indictment of the " neoconsevatoive politics of law and order that dominate current policy and suffocate inner-city youth." Presented with a new preface on the globalization of gangs, includes index, and notes. 432 pp. ISBN: 1595580301.

New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, (2012). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which points out how "everything that was once part of private life love, friendship, child rearing is being transformed into packaged expertise to be sold back to confused, harried Americans. . . From dating services that train you to be the CEO of your love life to wedding planners who create a couple's 'personal narrative'; from nameologists (who help you name your child) to wantologists (who help you name your goals)" INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. 300 pp. ISBN: 978-0805088892.

New York: Dial Press, 1968 (1970). Described on the cover as "The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a 5 Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial" this was a proclamation by this radical activist and co-founder of the Yippie movement calling for a counterculture revolution against poverty, racism and the Vietnam war. Includes (in a very small font) his first pamphlet publication titled "Fuck the System." Illustrated with black and white photographs. The cover photograph of Abbie jumping, rifle in hand is by Richard Avedon. 231 pp.

New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1943. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive study of the program itself, eligibility, numbers employed and of the broader issues of relief as a government function. Illustrated with data tables, diagrams and maps. Index. 879 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A Devasting Report on Life Inside the Texas Death House" based on interviews with the inmates on The Row at the Texas State Prison at Huntsville - a shocking portrait of the living dead. Includes a Glossary of the Row. xvii, 292 pp plus 24 pp of inserted photographs. ISBN: 0-807032026.

New York: Norton, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on two years of traveling through the United States, this discusses the concerns of 'ordinary people' about the problems in American society - including the loss of jobs, schools becoming dumping grounds, crime in the streets, race problems, migrant workers, falling through the 'safety net' and others that reflect the dimming of the American dream. Even more relevant now, perhaps, than when it was first published! SIGNED on the title page. Index. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-393-036294.

New York: Norton, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on two years of traveling through the United States, this discusses the concerns of 'ordinary people' about the problems in American society - including the loss of jobs, schools becoming dumping grounds, crime in the streets, race problems, migrant workers, falling through the 'safety net' and others that reflect the dimming of the American dream. Even more relevant now, perhaps, than when it was first published! Index. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-393-036294.

New York: Harper Collins/ HarperOne, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An innovative plan for solving two of our biggest challenges - the failing economy and our devasted environment. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication. Foreword by Robert F, Kennedy Jr. Resource list, notes. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1650757.

New York: Trident Press, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a "compassionate illuminating study of the many masks worn by today's youth" this is a look at the various masks college students might assume by someone who has worked with college students as counsellor and teacher for over 17 years. 219 pp.

New York: Time Incorporated, 1966. New introduction by Phyllis McGinley. 286 pp

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. Hardcover - Kerr's classic work on how tradition and commonly accepted beliefs create a system where it is difficult to recognize and feel genuine pleasure.

New York Crown, (c.1995.) dj. Hardcover - A book about inner city children - growing up in the South Bronx - and the guarantee that they will lead lives full of heartbreak, violence and disease unless people start trying to make a difference. Index. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-517-799995.

New York Crown, (c.1995.) dj. Hardcover - A book about inner city children - growing up in the South Bronx - and the guarantee that they will lead lives full of heartbreak, violence and disease unless people start trying to make a difference. Index. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-517-799995.

New York & London: Verso, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Comments upon the moral and intellectual confusion found in American culture at the end of the "American century" by the editor of Harper's Magazine. Annie Dillard called him "one of our most brilliant writers and thinkers." Winner of the National Book Award for essays and criticism. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Index. 371 pp. ISBN: 1859849520.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The tenth book by this MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, who is the first African-American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor. A book which explores the ways in which we leave one thing and move on to another, from long farewells to quick goodbyes and sudden endings, both ordinary and extraordinary. Notes, selected sources. 259 pp. ISBN: 978-0374151195.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts/ Meredith (1968). A book of readings from those who spent some time at the "margin" - which might include prostitutes, nudists, drug experimenters, jazz musicians, mental patients and much more. Includes writings by Polly Adler, Whittaker Chambers, Thomas Leary, William Burroughs, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lenny Bruce, Ruth Kirk, Guy Straight, et more. Bibliography. 230 p.

Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, (1999.). A passionate, eloquent and well-researched look at the death penalty (and what is wrong with it) by an insider - an attorney who has been involved in many death penalty appeals. Foreword by David Von Drehle. Notes, index, 393 pp. ISBN: 9780299153441.

Philadelphia: Girard Bank, 1970. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with full page, color paintings by Jamie Wyeth.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - First trade edition - a slightly longer version than the original limited edition by the Girard Bank.

New York: Random House, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Essays, poetry, and prose from California prisons, including an original report by inmates on conditions at San Quentin." 352 pp. ISBN: 0-394467582.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living." Thus writes the author in the introduction to this visionary new book. Bits, the DNA of information, are rapidly replacing atoms as the basic commodity of human interaction. And this change is "irreversible and unstoppable." Now, many years later, we are living in the midst of this revolution that Negroponte, MIT Professor, futurist, inventor, founder of the "One Laptop per Child" foundation. both predicted and explained in a book written for everyone. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens, "with best regards. Always be optimistic" and dated in 1996. Uncommon thus. Index, 243 pp. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. ISBN: 0-679-439196.

New York: Macmillan, (1966.) dj. Hardcover - A cross-disciplinary approach - incorporating anthropoligical, economic, pyschoanalytic, Western Christian and other ways of looking at the family Includes notes and references at the end of each essay. Author and subject indexes. 328 pp.

Las Vegas: Huntington Press, (2010). First edition - A book which shows a side of Las Vegas rarely seen - Stories from a "seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont street.. . They're about prostitutes, ex-cons, and the homeless and they're set under Caesar's Palace and in trailer parks (many of them closing with the tenants being forced out) and weekly motels. Illustrated with photographs by Bill Hughes. 227 pp. ISBN: 1-935396412.

New York: Random House, (2023). SIGNED first edition - An intriguing wide-ranging book. As the NY Times noted in their review: "The phenomena of 'individual time pressure and climate dread share a set of deep roots, and they have more in common than just fear.' European colonialism let loose upon the world an economy of extraction, both of human labor and of natural resources. Our problems stem from the economic model that makes 'stuff' and assigns a monetary value to that which is priceless: our lives, the miracles of physics and coincidences and evolution that have given rise to everything on this planet, and our continued ability to live here." Illustrated with photographs, notes, bibliography. xxx. 348 pp.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Berkeley, CA: Crime and Social Justice, 1977. First edition - Includes an announcement that the Berkeley School of Criminology - which was the impetus behind this journal and the only progressive program of study of criminlogy in the US - had been abolished. This issue contains articles on Class consciousness and crime in Chile by James Petras; on prison psychiatrists and drugs by Richard Speigelman, on the FBI and more. Photographs, ads, large format (8.5 by 11.5 inches), 74 pp.