Ayers Billy (9 results)

Signed by Wayne Ayers, Author; and Nancy Ayers, Editor. Quarto, softbound (slick, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), 255 pp. Near-Fine, with sunning to spine. From lower cover: Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, or Indian Rocks as it was called in the early days, has a rich and storied past dating to prehistoric native Indian settlement in the area. The gulf and bay wters, teeming with fish, drew both Indian and later white settlers to the area, and fishing-related pursuits were to become a mainstay of the local economy up to the present day. Indian Rocks grew slowly from the time of the first recorded settler, Capt. John Lowe, in 1859, until the first boom period in the 1920s. At that time wealthy tourists -- many from Tampa -- built summer homes on the beach, and hotels and bath-houses were flourishing. The second boom came in the 1950s when newly mobile middle-class families flocked to motels on the beach, while homes were built on fingers of land dredged from Clearwater Bay. The Indian Rocks area has, from the earliest recorded periods, featured a colorful mix of people and institutions that have given the city of Indian Rocks Beach its eclectic character, which residents prize and visitors seek out year after year. This volume presents the rich heritage of the Indian Rocks community, with over 300 photographs of people and places bringing history to life. Included are landmarks such as the old swing bridge and Tiki Gardens, a fascinating photograph of the train that came to Indian Rocks Beach, and people like "Dad" Hendrick who called this island "the most beautiful place on God's green footstool." Florida, Floridiana, Florida History, Americana, American History, U. S. History, United States History, U.S.-iana. nslic.

1976. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 28pp. 4to. Periodical. 8-1 / 2" X 11'. Stapled. Photograph of Lolita LeBron on the cover. Osawatomie / The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) is a revolutionary group of communist women established through the civil-rights, anti-war, and youth movements of the 1960s, in particular, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Black and white photographs. Contributions made by Bernadine Dohrn, Ella Flynn, J. Lardner. Includes a tribute to Paul Robeson, who died in 1976. Lightly toned; else is almost like new. Independicia Para Puerto Rico / Free the Nationalist Prisoners.

149 pp.; 25.7 x 17.8 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed 1975 reprint of "Prairie Fire : The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism, Political Statement of the Weather Underground." Offers detailed descriptions of the Weather Underground's goals and belief systems. Includes a text by Bernadine Dohrn, Billy Ayers, Jeff Jones, and Celia Sojourn. Additional text uncredited. Very Good. 8 mm. of soiling to recto., 4 mm. loss to bottom right corner of recto and adjacent 3.2 cm. area of soiling. Light creasing and bumping along bottom edge of publication. Soiling of verso with 9.5 cm. of moisture soiling carrying through to pages. Stamped with May Day books contact information on inside of verso. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used. 3 inch tear to front cover on spine. Generally pretty creased cover. One of 1000 copies printed in Boston, August 1974, by friends of the Underground.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Communications Co. edition. 186, [6]pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. Maps. Decorated orange and red wrappers with $1.50 printed price. Top corner clipped on title page, title inked on the spine with inked notation (plus 25 cent donation) on front wrap, clear tape along spine and corners of front cover, very good. Political manifesto.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large octavo (10 1/8 by7 1/4 inches). Pp. [x]152. There is no price on the cover; no mention of the San Francisco Communications Co., and no statement by the Prairie Fire Distribution Committee as to the copyright by the Communications Co. This would appear to be one of the first printings. Internally fine in red wrappers printed in black. Light sunning to spine and top edge of wrappers, else fine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Large octavo. 152, [2]pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. Maps. Decorated printed red wrappers. Small stain on early pages, a few pages and wrappers with creasing, modest wear on the yapped edges, a very good copy. Political manifesto, reprinted many times.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. 146, [2]pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. Maps. Decorated printed red wrappers. Very near fine. Political manifesto, reprinted many times.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. "Here is PRAIRIE FIRE, our political ideology - a strategy for anti-imperialism and revolution inside the imperial US. This paper has been collectively adopted as the political statement of the Weather Underground. PRAIRIE FIRE is written to communist-minded revolutionaries, independent organizers and anti-imperialists. It is written as an argument against those who oppose action and hold back the struggle." - Opening statement by Bernadine Dohrn, Billy (Bill) Ayers, Jeff Jones and Celia Sojourn. pp. [6], 7- 186, [6]. Frequently illustrated with grainy black and white reproductions of photos. Includes list of books studied in the preparation of this work. Chapters include: Impressions of U.S. History; Imperialism in Crisis - The Third World; Imperialism in Crisis - The Home Front; Against the Common Enemy; and more. "We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years. Our intention is to disrupt the empire. to incapacitate it. to forge an underground, a clandestine political organization engaged in every form of struggle, protected from the eyes and weapons of the state, a base against repression, to accumulate lessons, experience and constant practice, a base from which to attack." - page 1 of an earlier edition. Prior to publication the Weather Underground had already bombed multiple government buildings. Twenty-one years after publication, Ayers and Dohrn hosted a meeting at which Illinois state Sen. Alice Palmer introduced Barack Obama as her chosen successor. The rest is history. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Sunning to spine. A sound vintage copy of this work, the influence of which dominates headlines almost fifty years after publication . 8.5" x 5.5".; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Prairie Fire, Politics, Revolutionary Politics, Anti-Imperialism, Weather Underground, Revolution, Radical Left, Communism, United States, USA, Bombings, Alice Palmer, Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Jeff Jones, Celia Sojourn, Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro, An.