New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1937. Reprint. A reprint, with some additional material, of the author's "Fifteen Years of the Communist Party," which first appeared in 1934. During the 1940s and '50s, the U.S. government frequently harassed the Russian-born Bittelman (1890-1982) for his involvement with the Communist Party and..... More
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1951. First Edition. Scarce pamphlet decrying a Supreme Court decision that upheld the Smith Act, which was used to persecute Communists. An organization closely allied with the Communists, the Civil Rights Congress, published this pamphlet. It features statements by trade unionists, newspapers, and even Eleanor..... More
![Item #2660 Party Organizer [Vol. X, No. 1, January 1937]. Communist Party U. S. A](/pictures/thumb/2660.jpeg?v=1669428849)
New York: Communist Party U.S.A., 1937. First Edition. Scarce issue of Party Organizer, the Communist Party's publication on internal Party matters. It features numerous articles from around the U.S. on efforts to build Party membership and to promote its publications, with case studies of both successful and unsuccessful efforts. There..... 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
New York: Communist Party of the U.S.A., 1947. Second Printing. A guide for new members of the Communist Party by the party's assistant organization secretary. Welcome message from William Z. Foster, the national chairman, followed by chapters on party goals, discipline, members' obligations, etc. It also makes clear that members..... More
New York: Communist Party of the U.S.A., 1946. First Edition, First Printing. A guide for new members of the Communist Party by the party's assistant organization secretary. Welcome message from William Z. Foster, the national chairman, followed by chapters on party goals, discipline, members' obligations, etc. It also makes clear..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1933. A scarce pamphlet attacking the technocracy movement of Howard Scott, who advocated control of government by engineers and other technocrats. The authors were leaders of the Communist Party USA. The pamphlet also contains a speech by a senior Soviet official, V.M. Molotov, in which..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1949. First Edition. A Communist Party USA pamphlet, arguing that Americans pay high prices and have a lower standard of living because of out-of-control military spending. DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 125 mm), 23, [1] pages in stapled..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1950. First Edition. Gus Hall, national secretary of the Communist Party USA, denounces American foreign policy in Asia. Speaking at Madison Square Garden on June 28, 1950, Hall declared that the United States "has launched an undeclared shooting war against all the peoples of Asia..... More
New York: Liberation, Mid-1960s[?]. Later printing. An offprint featuring Albert Camus's plea against violence and war. It appeared in the February 1960 issue of Liberation, an American pacifist journal. This offprint was likely printed sometime in the mid-1960s, based on the journal's address and on the masthead (one of the..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1945. Scarce pamphlet by Mao calling for defeat of Japan in World War II. He believes the Kuomintang government has been too passive in fighting Japan and says the Kuomintang is kept in power by reactionary cliques of bankers and big landowners. Mao's Communists came..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966. The sixth in a series of pamphlets issued at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution by China's Foreign Languages Press, an important series in which China attempted to explain the Cultural Revolution to foreign audiences. This pamphlet features translations of five newspaper editorials about the..... More
New York: Critics Group, 1937. Fourth Printing. Soviet analysis of Shakespeare's plays. The author contends that Shakespeare was a humanist who opposed feudalism and wrote plays to change the world. DETAILS: Octavo (8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm), 93,[1] pages, in stapled, orange wrappers (soft..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1949. An analysis of how the CIO labor federation went from being a progressive Left organization to a reactionary, anti-Communist group that's too cozy with Wall Street profiteers and warmongers. George Morris (1903-1997) was Labor Editor of the Communist Party's Daily Worker. DETAILS..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1951. Report by the Communist Party's national secretary, warning about fascist tendencies in America and Wall Street's thirst for profits and war. There are also sections dealing with the "Negro people," youth, women, and internal party politics. DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 3/4 x...... More
Fairfax, California: Red Hill Press, 1971. First Edition Thus. A collection of poems by Vittorio Sereni (1913-1983), some of them dating from the 1940s and World War II. Translated by Paul Vangelisti, the poems appear side-by-side in Italian and English. All of the poems previously appeared in Italian in Sereni's..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1973. First Edition, First Printing. A book of 15 philosophical essays, mostly on logic and mathematics. The book features essays compiled and edited by Douglas Lackey, a professor at Baruch College, New York. Highlights include the first publication in English of Russell's criticisms of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page, a collection of 10 short stories. This is the hard-cover issue; most copies on the market are the paperback issue. In addition, signed copies of any kind are unaccountably scarce in the..... More
Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1998. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo, 120 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). An uncorrected proof of two collections of poems: Some Things Words Can Do and A History of Small Life on a Windy Planet. The author founded the creative-writing program at..... More
Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, 1966. A collection of more than two dozen poems by Mao Tse-tung, translated and annotated by Wong Man. Unsurprisingly, most poems are of a political nature. This book should not be confused with one issued a year later by the same publisher, Ten More Poems..... More
La Crosse, Wisconsin: Juniper Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author: "Hello! Bruce." A collection of long, narrative poems. Bruce Cutler (1930-2001) was the founder of the creative writing program at Wichita State University. Corner of an envelope with Cutler's Wichita address is..... More
![Item #2642 Red Cedar Review Vol. 8, No. 1 [April 1972]. Alan VerPlanck](/pictures/thumb/2642.jpeg?v=1668958804)
East Lansing, Michigan: Red Cedar Review, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Scarce issue of the Red Cedar Review, a quarterly arts magazine published at Michigan State University. This issue was devoted to seven East Lansing poets: Daryl Jones, Mary Davis, Douglas Lawder, Barbara Drake, Roger Meiners, Linda Wagner, and D.M...... More
Berkeley: Cloud Marauder Press, 1980. First Edition. A collection of poems by Don Cushman, one of 750 copies. Cover art by Mary Ann Hayden. DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 x 6 inches; 227 x 154 mm), unpaginated, in perfect-bound, French-fold wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Some soiling to..... More
[Berkeley]: Oyez, 1968. First Edition. Poetry and prose by Mary Fabilli (1914-2011), who played an important role in the Bay Area literary community. Besides writing poetry, she also illustrated some works of Robert Duncan and William Everson. Fabilli has written a lengthy introduction to this collection. DETAILS: Octavo..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Ann Stanford on the title page. A collection of poems, many dealing with animals, nature, and ancient legends. DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 235 x 140 mm), 88 pages, illustrated boards, titles..... More