Belmont, Massachusetts: American Opinion, 1966. First Edition Thus. 8vo (9 x 6 inches; 228 x 150 mm), 19, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers. Lurid pamphlet claiming the "International Communist Conspiracy" is driving the U.S. civil-rights movement. The text drips with disdain for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other black..... More
Belmont, Massachusetts: American Opinion, 1965. First Edition Thus. 8vo (9 x 6 inches; 228 x 150 mm), 13, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers. Pamphlet claiming the Communists were behind riots in Los Angeles and other cities and were preparing for a civil war. This is a reprint of an article..... More
Fairfax, California: The Red Hill Press, No date (early 1970s). No edition stated. A rare antiwar chapbook featuring poems by Ezra Pound and Wilfred Owen, an excerpt from a small-arms training manual, a letter from the mother of a soldier, and other texts that highlight the horrors of war. Numerous..... More
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New York: Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, June 25, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Newsletter consisting of 3 loose mimeographed pages, each measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (277 x 215 mm). Anti-Franco newsletter, with a report on a one-day strike in Madrid against Franco as well as other..... More
New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. 4to, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 278 mm), 16 pages, in illustrated wrappers. Moderate toning to pages, small nick to front wrapper. A Very Good copy. Publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, with articles on..... More
New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. 4to, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 278 mm), 16 pages, in illustrated wrappers. Moderate toning to pages. A Very Good copy. Publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, with articles on censorship in U.S. armed-forces media;..... More
Newark, New Jersey: Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M), 1976. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), 28 stapled pages, in printed red wrappers. SIGNED by Amiri Baraka, the poet and playwright, on the title page. Baraka was chair of the Maoist group that issued this polemic, which does not..... 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: 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
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
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
Detroit: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1933. First Edition. Small Octavo pamphlet measuring 7 3/4 x 5 inches (197 x 128 mm), [16] pages, in stapled printed wrappers. Transcript of a radio broadcast by Father Coughlin in which he says government action so far has amounted only to..... More
Los Angeles: Hugo Gellert Anniversary Committee, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Invitation to a banquet honoring the great radical artist Hugo Gellert (1892-1985). Held at the Hungarian Cultural Center in Los Angeles on January 30, 1955, the banquet featured guest speaker John Howard Lawson, a playwright and screenwriter who was..... More
New York: New York Committee for the General Strike for Peace, 1961-1963. A collection of nine rare leaflets and letters concerning the General Strike for Peace, which in the early 1960s sought a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons as well as global disarmament. This material belonged to Jackson..... 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
Chicago: Grace Lutheran Church, 1971. Single-leaf handbill and two-leaf stapled article, both 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 278 mm) and both folded in half for mailing. Handbill announcement for a meeting at Grace Lutheran Church in Chicago on conscientious objection and alternatives to the draft. There's..... More
Brussels: Pour: Un Journal Libre au Service du Peuple, 1974. First Edition. SIGNED and numbered 36/70 by Joseph Beuys on the front cover. A collection of the first year of Pour, a radical/anarchist French-language magazine in Brussels, for 1973-74. Beuys was a supporter of Pour and sometimes raised money on..... More
New York: Student League for Industrial Democracy, n.d. [1934]. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 150 mm), 11, [1] pages, in illustrated stapled wrappers. An account of nationwide antiwar strikes on university campuses on April 13, 1934, with black-and-white photographs of the strike..... More
New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1968. First Edition. Publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, featuring articles on legal cases in which it was involved. The cover story is about Barry Johnson, a Vietnam War draft resister who chained himself to eight other people outside a New..... More
New York: Voice of Freedom Committee, Spring, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Newsletter consisting of 4 mimeographed leaves measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 218 mm), first leaf with text on both sides, all leaves stapled. The Voice of Freedom Committee, chaired by the writer Dorothy Parker, was a...... More
Chicago: Revolutionary Workers League U.S.A., 1939. Quarto-sized document (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), [4], 57, [1] mimeographed pages, stapled three times along left side. Rare document articulating the ideology of the Revolutionary Workers League U.S.A., a Marxist, anti-Stalinist organization based in Chicago. An introductory..... More
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New York: [Communist Party USA], 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Single-page typed letter and two-page mimeographed petition, printed on rectos only. Each page 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 280 mm). A rare typed letter, SIGNED in ink, by Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Roscoe..... More