New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo [8], 247, [5] pages, hardcover in dust jacket. Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to..... More
Yonkers, New York: Self-published, 1946. First Edition. An appeal by former Communist Party USA General Secretary Earl Browder to the party membership, dated just days after his expulsion from the party. Printed at his own expense (there's even a coupon for sending in a donation), Browder argues that he has..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1936. First Edition. SIGNED by Earl Browder on the front free end paper. Browder was, of course, the longtime leader of the Communist Party USA. Octavo, 254 pages. Cloth boards are quite grubby. Offsetting to end papers. Dust jacket rubbed, with a few small chips to..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Joseph Buttinger on the half title. An early, classic study of Vietnam, published after the division of Vietnam into two separate countries. 8vo., 533 pages. Very Good, with some pencil lines in the margins of numerous pages, in..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. First Edition. A history of Moscow's relations with foreign Communist parties in the 1930s, written by the left-wing historian and journalist E.H. Carr. Octavo, pp. xi, 461. Near Fine with a tasteful bookplate on the front paste down in a Very Good dust jacket that..... More
Paris: Editions Présence africaine, 1957. 12mo (7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 113 mm), 15, [1] pages in stapled green-gray wrappers, with errata slip pasted to recto of lower wrapper. A letter from the Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire to Maurice Thorez, secretary general of..... More
Beijing: New Star Publishers, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (10 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 260 x 185 mm), 32 pages, in stapled wrappers. Chinese government booklet justifying the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June, 1989. "Beijing experienced a horrifying counter-revolutionary rebellion on June 3 and 4, 1989,"..... More
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1949 (?). No Edition Stated. Single sheet, folded to make four square 16mo pages. A four-page promotional leaflet and membership application for the Civil Rights Congress, a front group of the Communist Party USA. The CRC sought to raise money to defend 12..... More
Washington, D.C. Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, 1949. First Edition. An investigation into the Congress of American Women by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The committee maintained that the CAW was a Communist front organization; its report attacked various members and attempted to tie them to..... More
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New York: Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis, [1949]. Single page folded once to create a [4]-page brochure measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 215 mm) when folded. Illustrated brochure featuring an autobiographical statement by Benjamin J. Davis, a black Communist who was running..... More
San Francisco: Communist Party of California, 1942. No Edition Stated. Seven-page mimeographed document, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm), stapled in top left-hand corner. A "Dear Comrades" letter addressed to all branches of the Communist Party in California, Arizona, and Nevada, urging them to meet..... More
San Francisco: California State Committee, Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No edition stated. Presumed First Edition. Single bifolium of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x280 mm). Evenly toned, a couple of small edge tears, pencil notation to upper left corner of first..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No Edition Stated. Presumed First Edition. Single sheet, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm), printed on one side only. A Communist Party USA flyer issued in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No edition stated. Single sheet of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (211 x 266 mm). Announcement of a speech by Communist Party Chairman William Z. Foster in Los Angeles a...... More
Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches; 170 x 115 mm), 27, [1] pages in stapled wrappers. A lecture on the politicization of science and the controversy over genetics in the Soviet Union. The author, Harriet B. Creighton, was..... More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo, 513 pages. Very Good, with some light soiling to the boards. End papers slightly toned. Pages 490-491 contain some offsetting from an index card but all the text is still legible. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly soiled, with..... More
[Paris]: USIS/Ambassade des États-Unis, [1959]. First Edition, First Printing. Text of an address by President Dwight Eisenhower on March 16, 1959, about the growing crisis in Berlin. French text, issued by the U.S. Information Service and the U.S. Embassy in Paris. The Soviets had demanded Western forces pull out of..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Howard Fast explains his disillusionment and break with the Communist Party. 8vo., 197 pages. Near Fine in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket that has a couple of small creases and tears and sunning. Overall, a beautiful copy. More
New York: International Publishers, 1972. First Edition. A terrific collection of articles by the left-wing writer Mike Gold (1893-1967). Gold was probably best known for his regular column in the Daily Worker, "Change the World!" as well as his semi-autobiographical novel, "Jews Without Money." This collection features some previously unpublished..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by both authors on the front free end paper. U.S. economist John Kenneth Galbraith and Soviet economist and journalist Stanislav Menshikov met in a New England farmhouse in 1987 to discuss the state and future of communism and capitalism, glasnost..... More
San Francisco: Fishy Afoot Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches / 140 x 215 mm), 14 pages, in stitched orange wrappers. INSCRIBED by Jack Hirschman, the translator, on the inside cover, with a laid-in slip of paper containing a further inscription..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. Later Edition. Octavo, 363 pages. Near Fine, with some light toning of the pages. The dust jacket shows some wear along the edges and has a couple small chips and closed tears. Overall, an attractive copy. John Gunther (1901-1970) was an acclaimed foreign..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1935. First Edition. An important compilation of papers and proceedings at the historic first Writers' Congress of 1935. Authors included Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, Louis Aragon, Waldo Frank, and Langston Hughes, among many others. Much of the discussion dealt with proletarian literature; the role of..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1958. First Edition. SIGNED by J. Edgar Hoover on the front free end paper. A virulently anticommunist tract by the former head of the FBI. Near Fine (a bit of age-toning on the page edges) in a Fine dust jacket with only slight edge..... More
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Praha [Prague]: Nakladatelstvi Mir – Družstevní Práce, 1951. Jefimova, Boris [Efimov, Boris]. First Edition. Small 4to (10 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches), 275 x 235 mm), [124] pages, in illustrated boards. A collection of anti-Hitler and anti-U.S. cartoons by the great Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov [1900-2008], whose name is rendered in..... More