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 items relating..... 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. 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 leaders of the Communist Party who had been indicted on charges..... 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
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No edition stated. Presumed First Edition. Single bifolium of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (211 x 266 mm). Evenly toned, pencil notation at top left corner of cover page, couple small closed..... More
New York: The Blue Heron Press, Inc., 1953. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), 254, [2] pages, in publisher's orange cloth, titles in black to the spine, in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Howard Fast on the front end paper. A...... 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
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
[London?]: Red Notes, 1977. No Edition Stated. 4to (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 295 x 210 mm), [2], 70, [2] pages, in stapled pictorial wrappers. A book of protest songs, mostly from the U.S., U.K., and Ireland. "The idea for this Songbook came from comrades in Liverpool and East..... 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
New York: Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell, [1951]. Single sheet folded to make [4] pages, measuring 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (215 x 140 mm), when folded. Rare leaflet issued on behalf of Morton Sobell, who was a defendant with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the Cold..... More
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New York: People's Artists Inc., 1952. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 16 pages, in stapled wrappers. An issue of Sing Out dedicated to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who "sit in the death house at Sing Sing awaiting execution for supposedly stealing..... More
New York: Onward Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. A plea for Marxists to embrace feminism by a three-time Vice-Presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party. The "Bustelo Incident" refers to a 1954 article in the SWP newspaper, The Militant, attacking the cosmetics industry and making fun of women who..... More
Everett, Washington: Socialist Party of Washington, [1915]. First Edition, First Printing. Single sheet folded to make 4 pages, each 6 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (155 x 232 mm). Pages toned, lightest edge wear. A Very Good or better copy. A parable of early 20th-century capitalism from a Socialist point of..... More