New York: Young Socialist Alliance, 1969. Small group of ephemera from the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), a Trotskyist organization affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party. The material consists of the following six pieces: -- the March 1969 edition of Young Socialist magazine, a 24-page edition celebrating the..... 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
Detroit: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1933. First Edition. Small Octavo pamphlet measuring 7 3/4 x 5 inches (197 x 128 mm), [16] pages, in stapled printed wrappers. Transcript of a radio broadcast by Father Coughlin in which he says government action so far has amounted only to..... More
London: Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son for P. Elmsley, Strand, and J. Debrett, Piccadilly, 1795. First Edition, First Printing. An account of how the French Revolution spread to Geneva between 1792 and 1794. The author, who virulently opposed the Revolution, explains his anguish in three letters and..... More
New York: New Directions, 1946. First Edition Thus. Pamphlet reprinting an article by James Farrell on the future of writing and publishing in the aftermath of World War II. He's optimistic -- as long as writers defend literary culture against commercialization and censorship. "Decidedly, the time has come..... More
New York: New York Committee for the General Strike for Peace, 1961-1963. A collection of nine rare leaflets and letters concerning the General Strike for Peace, which in the early 1960s sought a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons as well as global disarmament. This material belonged to Jackson..... More
San Francisco: Amerus Press, 1982. Rare anthology of Albanian poems translated into English by Jack Hirschman (1933-2021), a prolific poet, social activist, and translator active in the San Francisco poetry and political scene. Hirschman has inscribed the book to the co-founders of the radical San Francisco Poster Brigade..... More
New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts. Articles include the full text of Irwin Shaw's antiwar play, "Bury the Dead," its first published appearance. There's also a profile..... More
Brussels: S.C. les Editions Sauvages, 1974. First Edition. Folio (14 x 11 inches; 355 x 280 mm), bound volume in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). SIGNED and numbered 36/70 by Joseph Beuys on the front cover. A rare collection of the first year of Pour, a radical/anarchist, French-language magazine..... More
Paris: Librairie Marcel Rivière, 1927. Later printing. French translation of the best-known book by the German Marxist theoretician, Karl Kautsky (1854-1938). Kautsky's book analyzes the development of capitalism and outlines the nature of a future socialist society. According to Kautsky, the victory of socialism and the working class..... More
New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1935. First Edition. An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts during the Depression. New Theatre was close to the Communist Party USA. This issue features an interview with Duke Ellington, who criticizes a...... More
New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1936. First Edition. The July, 1936 issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts during the Depression. New Theatre was close to the Communist Party USA. This issue features "A Call for a National Theatre"..... More
New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts. Articles include a look at German films under Hitler; children's theatre in Moscow; the final installment of a three-part essay by..... More
New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1935. First Edition. An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts during the Depression. New Theatre was close to the Communist Party USA. This issue features the complete text of Albert Maltz's one-act play..... More
New York: The New Theatre League and New Dance League, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. An issue of this influential left-wing magazine devoted to the performing arts. Articles include "Air Raid Over Harlem: Scenario for a Little Black Movie," by Langston Hughes; "I Can't Sleep," a monologue by..... More
New York: Privately published by Igal Roodenko, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful production, designed, composed, and printed by American pacifist and civil-rights campaigner Igal Roodenko as a May Day greeting to his friends, "particularly the comrades he met at the World Pacifist Meeting in India, and subsequently in..... More
![Item #2937 Ukanhavyrfuckincitibak [Cover title]. D.A. Levy: A Tribute to the Man; An Anthology of...](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2937_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727102251)
Cleveland: Ghost Press, [1968]. First Edition, First Printing. A massive collection of poems and essays by and about d.a. levy (1942-1968). Levy was an outspoken anti-establishment writer who had run-ins with the authorities in Cleveland over publishing allegedly obscene material. Besides printing his own works, he was active in issuing..... More
![Item #2784 Masses & Mainstream, December 1951 [Volume 4, Number 12]. Lorraine Hansberry, Samuel...](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2784.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1703547663)
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
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
New York: Voice of Freedom Committee, Spring, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Newsletter consisting of 4 leaves measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 218 mm), first leaf with text on both sides, all leaves stapled. The Voice of Freedom Committee, chaired by the writer Dorothy Parker..... More
![Item #3027 [Brezhnev and Reagan]. Rachael Romero, artist](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3027.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1752065111)
[San Francisco]: San Francisco Poster Brigade, 1982. Reagan and Brezhnev like you've never seen them! A rare poster of the San Francisco Poster Brigade, depicting the Soviet and American leaders with noses in the shape of missiles. In 1975, Rachael Romero and Leon Klayman founded the Wilfred Owen..... More
![Item #2024 Sing Out! [Volume 3, No. 3]. Rosenberg Case, Irwin Silber](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2024.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1565812924)
New York: People's Artists Inc., 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 16 pages, in stapled wrappers. An issue of Sing Out dedicated to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who "sit in the death house at Sing Sing awaiting execution..... 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
![Item #2180 [Letter about a neo-Nazi group]. James H. Sheldon](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2180_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673222526)
New York: Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, 1947. Two mimeographed leaves, measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (278 x 215 mm), bound with paper clip, and signed in ink by James Sheldon at end. Letter concerning trial and conviction of leaders of a white-supremacist, neo-Nazi group..... 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