London: Pluto Press Ltd., 1977. A book of poems and ballads by Wolf Biermann (b. 1936), who was stripped of his East German citizenship while performing in West Germany in 1976. The poems and ballads are in both German and English (translated from the German by Steve Gooch)..... More
New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., [1961]. First Edition. Scarce pamphlet about the Louisville civil-rights activist Carl Braden, who went to prison in 1961 for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. There's also plenty here about HUAC, racial justice, free speech, and the Red Scare of..... More
Paris: Editions Présence africaine, 1957. 12mo (7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 113 mm), 15, [1] pages in stapled green-gray wrappers, with errata slip pasted to recto of lower wrapper. A letter from the Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire to Maurice Thorez, secretary general of..... 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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by Max Eastman on the front free end paper: "For Theo - // Who also suffers / from both art and / the life of action - / with my love - / Max. // December 1934."... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Howard Fast explains his disillusionment and break with the Communist Party. 8vo., 197 pages. Near Fine in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket that has a couple of small creases and tears and sunning. Overall, a beautiful copy. More
New York: International Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 322 pages, green cloth, titles in silver to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). A collection of articles by the proudly Communist writer Mike Gold (1893-1967). Gold..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. Later Edition. John Gunther (1901-1970) was an acclaimed foreign correspondent best known for his "Inside..." series of books. Here he reports from behind the "Iron Curtain" in the immediate aftermath of World War II. He's especially compelling on Tito and Yugoslavia and the..... More
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New York: International Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Small Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 202 x 137 mm), viii, 9-192 pages, in publisher's original gray cloth, with a printed dust jacket. An important compilation of papers and proceedings at the historic first Writers' Congress of 1935. Authors..... More
[London?]: [Revolutionary Communist Party], [1966]. First Edition Thus. A scarce pamphlet published on the 10th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution. It includes material published in a 1956-57 edition plus additional material. The author, Gerry Healy, strongly denounces the Soviet invasion of Hungary and takes Western leftists to task for not..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1958. First Edition. SIGNED by J. Edgar Hoover on the front free end paper. A virulently anticommunist tract by the former head of the FBI. "The Communist Party, USA, works day and night to further the communist plot in America," J. Edgar..... More
Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1949. 5th Printing. Propaganda songbook for youth of the nascent East Germany. 12mo, pp. 301, [3], paper pastedown on boards. The pages are heavily age toned, due to the the poor paper stock. Several cracks in the hinges. Ownership inscriptions on front pastedown. More
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New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc., 1951. First Edition, First Printing. A theatre review by Lorraine Hansberry appears in this issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. Hansberry (1930-1965) wrote an enthusiastic review of William Branch's "A Medal for Willie," which the Committee for..... More
London: Brassey's, 1997. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 277 pages. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Top of pages lightly sunned. Jacket slightly edge-worn. More
New York: International Publishers, 1969. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Joseph North, the editor, on the front end paper to artist Raphael Soyer and his wife Rebecca: "You were inspirers of this book. With love, Joe North." Inscribed and dated in the year of publication. A nice association: Soyer..... More
Prague: Redakce Rudého práva, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 208 x 145 mm), 75, [5] pages, in wrappers (softcover). A rare book of cartoons published by the Czech Communist Party newspaper, Rudé právo. Antonin Pelc and Lev Haas drew the..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. First Edition. 12mo (7 5/16 x 5 inches; 186 x 128 mm), 110 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). A pamphlet attacking Communists as swindlers, frauds, capitalist stooges, and other crimes. Written by Arnold Petersen, leader of the Socialist..... More
New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945. 4th Printing. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 184 x 126 mm), 39, [9] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Ferocious attack on William Z. Foster, a longtime senior official of the Communist Party, who gets tagged as a "war..... More
New York: Capitol Hill Press, 1972. Revised Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper: "Many thanks - / to / Tom Moran / Herbert A. Philbrick / 1972." Philbrick's account of his nine years in the Communist Party working as a spy for the FBI. Originally published..... More
Moscow: Editions de l'Agence de Presse Novosti, [1966?]. No Edition Stated. Soviet pamphlet in French that claims West Germany is keeping Europe in a state of tension by asserting sovereignty over West Berlin. The city, the author says, is actually an independent political entity that should be neutral..... More
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New York: [Communist Party USA], 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Single-page typed letter and two-page mimeographed petition, printed on rectos only. Each page 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 280 mm). A rare typed letter bearing signatures of Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Roscoe Dungee, asking..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Walter Schneir on the front end paper: "To John J. Macbride / With best wishes / Walter Schneir." Dated August 1965 (the year of publication). A review of the trial and conviction of Ethel and..... More
New York: New Outlook Publishers and Distributors, 1977. Pamphlet by longtime Communist Party USA writer Art Shields (1888-1988) in which he invites readers to join the Party. He gives an overview of Party history, accompanied by numerous black-and-white photos of Party luminaries. Scarce in commerce. PHYSICAL DETAILS: 9..... More