No place of publication stated: [Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services], 1974. No edition stated. Small 4to (10 1/2 inches / 267 mm), [12 pages] in stapled wrappers. Governmental department stamp and log-in number on front wrapper, two horizontal folds for mailing. A Very Good copy. Transcript of a speech... More
No place of publication stated: No publisher stated, 1939. Advance Draft. 8 1/2 x 11 (216 x 280 mm) sheets, [1], 16 pages, printed on rectos only and stapled at top left. Some soiling to cover page. Otherwise, Near Fine. Advance copy of an acerbic speech by U.S. Secretary of the... More
No place of publication stated: No publisher stated, 1963. No edition stated. Single sheet, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (216 x 280 mm). Top corners chipped, a few pin holes. A Very Good copy. SIGNED by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk in ink below his facsimile signature. A broadside on... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 inches / 213 mm), 207, [1] pages in publisher's original blue cloth. Bright gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name to front end paper, a few nicks and bumps to the rear board, bit of soiling to top and bottom... More
Salisbury, U.K. Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd. 1989. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (9 1/2 inches / 240 mm), viii, 407 pages, in publisher's original blue cloth. Foxing and a bit of soiling to top and fore edges. The dust jacket has some minor edge wear. A Very Good copy. The author... More
Salisbury, U.K. Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd. 1992. Later printing. 8vo (9 3/8 inches / 240 mm), 201 pages, in publisher's original blue cloth. Foxing to page edges. A Very Good copy in a dust jacket that has slight soil and edge wear. INSCRIBED on the half title: "For my friend Bob... 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: American Friends Service Committee, 1963. No edition stated. Single sheet, 14 x 8 1/2 inches / 355 x 215 mm, printed on both sides. Some modest handling wear, folded for mailing. A Very Good or better copy. An invitation from the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group, to... More
San Francisco: California State Committee, Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No edition stated. Presumed First Edition. Single bifolium of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x280 mm). Evenly toned, a couple of small edge tears, pencil notation to upper left corner of first... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No Edition Stated. Presumed First Edition. Broadside, single leaf, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm), evenly toned, folded for mailing, neat pencil notations. A Very Good copy. Communist Party flyer issued in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on... More
San Francisco: Communist Party of California, 1942. No Edition Stated. Presumed First Edition. Seven-page mimeographed document, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm), stapled in top left-hand corner. Moderate toning to cover page, less toning to subsequent pages, pencil notation at upper left corner of cover page. Horizontal... More
New York: League of American Writers, August 1937. No Edition Stated. Folio (14 1/16 x 8 1/2 inches / 358 x 217 mm), 7 mimeographed pages, printed on rectos only and stapled at top left. Moderately toned, especially along the right-hand margin of the first page. A few small nicks... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc. 1940. First Edition. Small 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches / 192 x 125 mm), 15 pages, in side-stapled wrappers. Moderate toning of the cheap paper. A Near Fine copy. The author, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), was a prolific writer affectionately known in the... More
Boston: Industrial Defense Association, Inc. ca. 1933. No Edition Stated. 16mo (6 1/4 x 5 inches / 157 x 126 mm), [8] pages in side-stapled wrappers. Modest toning, vertical crease throughout. A Very Good copy. Pamphlet by an anti-union, anti-Semitic group decrying President Franklin Roosevelt's alleged socialism. It attacks various figures... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935. Presumed First Edition. Scarce pamphlet extolling Communist Party activities in the South, focusing largely on race relations and trade unions. 24mo (6 x 4 1/2 inches / 152 x 114 mm), 47, [1] pages in side-stapled wrappers. Small chip to top edge of front... More
New York: Parkchester Hostess Service, 1940. Presumed First Edition. A very scarce, amusing guide to how to give a party in the bleak year of 1940, featuring tips on decorations, entertainment, menus, and drinks. Sponsored by the Hoffman Beverage Company, the pamphlet promises "a complete recipe for a gay party... More
New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1970. Sixth Printing. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author as Amiri Baraka with "LJ" in parenthesis. The African-American poet's first book, originally published in 1961, featuring poems written between 1957 and 1961. Striking cover illustration by Basil King. 8vo (8 1/16 x.... More
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First Edition. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) decries the drive for uncontrolled profit-making in international trade, contending that it allows countries to take advantage of other countries, frequently leading to war. Instead, he advocates consumer co-ops, in which profits are returned to members. Such co-ops, he believes... More
San Francisco: Cleaver for President Committee, [1968]. Presumed First Edition. Scarce pamphlet on behalf of Eldridge Cleaver to be the presidential nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party in 1968. Cleaver, minister of information for the Black Panther Party, went on to defeat comedian Dick Gregory at the party's convention... More
[Newark, New Jersey]: [Congress of Afrikan People], 1974. Presumed First Edition. A call for the establishment of a black revolutionary party, based on Marxist-Leninist principles. Dated March 31, 1974, in Baraka's role as chairman of the Congress of Afrikan People, a black-nationalist group that evolved into a Marxist-Maoist organization. Small 4to... More
[Newark, New Jersey]: [Congress of Afrikan People], 1974. Presumed First Edition. Anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist tract, with heavy emphasis on analyses by Lenin and W.E.B. Du Bois. Dated April 6, 1974, in Baraka's role as chairman of the Congress of Afrikan People, a black-nationalist group that evolved into a Marxist-Maoist organization. Small 4to... More
Boston: Excelsior Press, [1936]. Presumed First Edition. A review of the Sacco-Vanzetti case, in which two Italian-born anarchists were found guilty of murder during an armed robbery in 1920. Following an international outcry, the Massachusetts governor appointed a three-man committee to assess the case; they upheld the verdict and found... 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
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London: The Aldwych Theatre, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Harold Pinter at his biography page, "To Milton from Harold," and SIGNED by the stars Vivien Merchant, Dorothy Tutin, and Colin Blakely, and director Peter Hall at their biographies. The program for the first production of Old Times, staged by the... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Essays on novelists and dramatists, including Stevenson, Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, Sand, and D'Annunzio, along with some musings on the writing life. 8vo (8 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches / 212 x 158 mm), 360 pages, in publisher's original green... More