Washington, D.C. Seventy-Three Club, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 x 6 1/8 inches; 230 x 158 mm), [12] pages, in wrappers featuring a wonderful photographic portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. A program for a luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1936... More about Program of the Seventy-Three Club Banquet in Honor of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh Courier, 1950. First Edition Thus. Small 4to (9 1/8 inches x 6 5/8 inches; 235 x 170 mm), 7, [1] pages, in stapled pictorial wrappers. Pamphlet reprinting an article from The Pittsburgh Courier on the progress African-Americans had made in government service in the first 50 years... More about Fifty Years of Progress in Government Service

New York: People's Artists Inc., 1953. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 138 mm), 16 pages in stapled wrappers. An issue of Sing Out featuring "Oklahoma Dust Bowl balladeer" Woody Guthrie on the cover, along with the words and music to his song... More about Sing Out [Vol. 3, No. 12

Baltimore: Sacco Publishers, [1962]. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 215 x 135 mm), [48] mimeographed pages in stapled pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED to Izzy Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in New York, with Young's ownership note on the last page. Scarce first book... More about People Beneath the Window

[New York]: [Committee to Defend the Panthers], [1970]. No Edition Stated. Single sheet folded to create [4] pages, measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 215 mm) when folded. Leaflet seeking freedom for the New Haven Nine, who were indicted in connection with the murder of Alex Rackley, a.... More about Conspiracy to Murder: A Tool of Repression

New York: Brooke Alexander, Inc. and Marlborough Graphics, Inc., 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong 4to (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 310 x 235 mm), [32] pages, in stapled wrappers. Catalogue containing Alex Katz's portraits of 14 poets, with a poem by each poet on the facing page. The... More about Face of the Poet

New York: New Age Publishers, July, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 186 x 127 mm), 23, [1] pages, in stapled pictorial wrappers.  Pamphlet by Trinidad-born activist Claudia Jones (1915-1964) on the horrible treatment of African-American soldiers during World War I. Jones was active... More about Jim-Crow in Uniform

Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts: The Babson Statistical Organization, 1921. No Edition Stated. 24mo (5 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches; 130 x 88 mm), 8 pages, in stapled green wrappers. Pamphlet promoting Babson's business-forecasting newsletters for sales people, manufacturers and wholesalers. "The year 1922 promises to be a good one for salesmen--more... More about Increasing Sales in 1922: Containing Information of Vital Interest to Sales and Advertising...

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 wrappersAnnual 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 about Eighty-Third Annual Report of the Directors of the American Peace Society Nineteen Hundred and...

Quincy, Illinois: Storm-Mollet Publishing Associates, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (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, wrote a book called "Thunder God's Gold," which... More about I Was Swindled by Red Movie Makers

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 a professor... More about Political Control of Science in the U.S.S.R.: A Lecture Delivered on the Nellie Heldt Lecture Fund

New York: New Century Publishers, 1949. No Edition Stated. Small 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 128 mm), 23, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers. Elwood Dean, educational director of the Communist Party of New Jersey, defends six black men accused of murdering a white shopkeeper in Trenton, New... More about The Story of the Trenton Six

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1970. First Pocket Edition. 24mo (5 x 3 1/2 inches; 126 x 89 mm), 8 pages, in stapled wrappers.Mao says, among other things: "U.S. imperialism, which looks like a huge monster, is in essence a paper tiger, now in the throes of its death-bed struggle." CONDITION... More about People of the World, Unite and Defeat the U.S. Aggressors and All Their Running Dogs! (Statement...