New York: Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1944. Oblong Small Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 190 x 140 mm), [48] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Anti-Axis caricatures by Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) for Wickwire Spencer Steel Company. He imaginatively uses Wickwire's products in his surreal, grotesque images..... 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
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
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: Socialist Party of America, n.d. [ca. 1929]. Single sheet, 9 inches x 6 inches (230 x 150 mm) when folded to create [4] pages. The author, a Boston socialist, decries the stranglehold that corporations have on American life. "These giant corporations, in attaining their present domination..... More
Prague: Redakce Rudého práva, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong 8vo (5 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 145 x 208 mm), 75, [5] pages, in wrappers A book of cartoons published by the Czech Communist Party newspaper, Rudé právo. Antonin Pelc and Lev Haas drew the cartoons, which are pro-Communist..... More
Quincy, Illinois: Storm-Mollet Publishing Associates, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 18, [30] pages, in stapled pictorial wrappers. A supposed exposé of "Red" movie makers in Hollywood. Barry Storm, a treasure hunter..... More
Washington, D.C. Press Office-German Embassy, 1958. No Edition Stated. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 19, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers. With a compliments card laid in. Transcript of a speech by Ernst Lemmer, a German government minister, about the worsening refugee crisis..... More