n.p. [Democratic National Convention?], 1964. 12mo (7 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 184 x 133 mm), 23, [1] pages in stapled wrappers (soft cover). A summary of the Democrats' platform for the 1964 election, in which President Lyndon Johnson trounced Senator Barry Goldwater. The Democrats also published a...... More
New York: National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, [ca. 1940]. Rare pamphlet opposing a bill by Senator Robert Wagner of New York to give states the right to establish compulsory health insurance. The American Medical Association strongly opposed the bill, which died in committee. The pamphlet reprints an..... More
Chicago: Tribune Company, 1952. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 154 mm), 15, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers. An offprint featuring controversial "revisionist" historian Harry Elmer Barnes's review of a book on American foreign policy. The review was prepared for the Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books..... More
Düsseldorf: Free International University, 1979. Small Quarto (11 inches / 280 mm), [26] pages in side-stapled wrappers. German artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) appeals for a third way between capitalism and communism. His appeal originally appeared in German in the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper on December 23, 1978. This volume..... More
Chicago: Self-published, 1936. Small Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 192 x 125 mm), 33,[1] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). A defense of the Roosevelt administration by Chicago businessman William E. Clow Jr. He points to the administration's efforts to put people back to work and..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1947. First Edition. 12mo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 125 mm), 1,143, [1] pages, in blue cloth, titles to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. Don't be put off by the odd title. There's plenty of interesting content here about post-war Britain..... More
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..... More
Harvard University Press, 1985. 2nd Printing. A distinguished historian explains Soviet behavior, rejecting both right-wing as well as some left-wing revisionist arguments. Probably one of the most balanced accounts available at the time of publication in 1985. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo, pp. xiii, [5], 411, in a dust jacket..... More
No place of publication stated: No publisher stated, 1939. 8 1/2 x 11 (216 x 280 mm) sheets, [1], 16 pages, printed on rectos only and stapled at top left. Advance copy of an acerbic speech by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, in which he levels..... More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 252, [6] pages, in blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title: "To Virginia Elliott..... 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
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. 1st Edition. Octavo, in an illustrated dust jacket. The great French journalist and intellectual Jean-Francois Revel (1924-2006) argues that the United States could lead a global revolution. This, needless to say, caused a great outcry among the Left, especially in France... More
[Chicago]: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, [1947]. Reprint (Offprint). Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 217 mm), 5, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Rare offprint of an article by Leo Szilard (1898-1964), a nuclear physicist and veteran of the Manhattan Project. He..... More