Washington, D.C. American Peace Society, 1911. No Edition Stated. 8vo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 225 x 145 mm), 27, [1] pages in stapled brown wrappers Annual report of a long-established pacifist organization (founded in 1828). The directors report membership is growing, the cause of peace is being strengthened around..... More
Chicago: Tribune Company, 1952. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 154 mm), 15, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers. An offprint featuring controversial "revisionist" historian Harry Elmer Barnes's review of a book on American foreign policy. The review was prepared for the Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books..... More
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Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Dalhousie Review, 1941. Small 4to (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 260 x 165 mm), 16 pages, in grayish-white wrappers. Offprint of an article by Czechoslovakia's president condemning Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia. Reprinted from the October 1941 issue of The Dalhousie Review of..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, Inc., 1945. 12mo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 190 x 127 mm), 31, [1] pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). A report to the Communist Political Association's national committee by its president, Earl Browder. Not surprisingly, he urges support for the decisions..... More
New York: Self-published, 1949. 16mo (6 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 172 x 125 mm), 38 pages, in printed green wrappers (soft cover). Text of a 1949 lecture by Earl Browder, who had been ousted as leader of the Communist Party USA in 1946. He argues that socialism..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1917. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 214 x 140 mm), 15, [1] pages, in stapled green wrappers. Text of an address by the Belgian poet and playwright Émile Cammaerts about the awfulness of the German occupation of Belgium during World..... More
New York: American Association for International Conciliation, December 1911. No Edition Stated. Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 131 mm), 13, [3] pages, in stapled wrappers. Text of a speech by Andrew Carnegie, president of the New York Peace Society, on how Democratic politicians..... More
No place of publication stated: [Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services], 1974. No edition stated. Small Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 inches; 267 x 205 mm), [12 pages] in stapled wrappers. Transcript of a speech by William J. Casey (1913-1987), accepting the William J. Donovan Award from..... More
London: H.M. Stationery Office Press, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto pamphlet (9 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 250 x 162 mm), 8 pages, in stapled self-wrappers. A scarce pamphlet presenting a statement by Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, asking Parliament to grant more..... More
New York: American Association for International Conciliation, June, 1912. No Edition Stated. Small 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 197 x 133 mm), 13, [3] pages, in stapled wrappers. A warning against war by the rector of St. John's, Syracuse, two years before the outbreak of World War I...... 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
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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 217 x 147 mm), 196 pages, in burgundy cloth, titles in gilt to upper board and spine, in an illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. Joseph Heller's second book, an antiwar play, following..... More
Boston: World Peace Foundation, January 1912. No Edition Stated. Small 8vo (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 201 x 140 mm), 7, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers. Article decrying sea power. "Sea power is a device for doing injury at a distance," says the author, president of Stanford University. This..... More
New York: American Association for International Conciliation, December, 1911. No Edition Stated. Small 8vo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 193 x 130 mm), 21, [3] pages, in stapled wrappers. Two articles in this edition of "International Conciliation," the house organ of the American Association for International Conciliation. One on..... More
New York: Privately published by Igal Roodenko, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo ( 7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 202 x 133 mm), [8] pages in stapled gray wrappers featuring a phoenix design in red, yellow, and black on the front wrapper. A beautiful production, designed..... More
New York: American Association for International Conciliation, May, 1912. No Edition Stated. Small 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 197 x 133 mm), 30 [2] pages, in stapled wrappers. Article about a peace conference held in Baltimore. It was published in "International Conciliation," the house organ of the American..... More
West Haven, Connecticut: Foundation for Promoting Enduring Peace, [1952?]. No Edition Stated. Single sheet folded to create [4] pages, each measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (279 x 216 mm). Rare leaflet on U.S.-Soviet relations, from a Christian Left perspective. The author pleads for better understanding of Russian..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. 3rd Printing. 12mo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 126 mm), 32 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). War is capitalism's cure for unemployment yet it's the workers who pay for war with their blood, according to this declaration..... More
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 225 x 150 mm), xiv, 303, [1] pages in publisher's original tan cloth, black titles to spine, in a photo-illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper to Kathryn Cravens..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1941. Transcript of a speech by Joseph Stalin in which he vowed his country would defeat the Germans in World War II. He spoke in Moscow on November 6, 1941, some 4 1/2 months after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. SCARCE. DETAILS: Small..... More
London: I.N.G. Publications, 1944. First English Language Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 13/16 inches; 183 x 122 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers. Diary of Erich Weinert, president of the Free Germany National Committee in Moscow. Weinert (1890-1953) was a German Communist poet who spent the war..... More
