Military
Vietnam Poems
Oxford, England: Carcanet Press, 1970. First Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 183 x 128 mm), 16 pages, in stapled illustrated wrappers over stiff card stock (soft cover). SIGNED and dated October, 1970 on the title page by John Balaban. The author's first book. Of 600..... More
The Smaller Dragon: A Political History of Vietnam
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160mm). 535, [1] pages, in gray cloth, titles to spine, with image of dragon stamped on the front cover, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED..... More
The Clandestine War in Europe (1942-1945). Remarks of William J. Casey on receipt of the William J. Donovan Awards at Dinner of Veterans of O.S.S., December 5, 1974
No place of publication stated: [Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services], 1974. No edition stated. Small Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 inches; 267 x 205 mm), [12 pages] in stapled wrappers. Transcript of a speech by William J. Casey (1913-1987), accepting the William J. Donovan Award from..... More
Navy Estimates: Statement by Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on the 27th February, 1940
London: H.M. Stationery Office Press, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto pamphlet (9 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 250 x 162 mm), 8 pages, in stapled self-wrappers. A scarce pamphlet presenting a statement by Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, asking Parliament to grant more..... More
Everything for Victory: Statement of National Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.
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
A People's Program for the Defeat of Hitlerism
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
The Pentagon Case: A Novel of the Cold War
New York: Freedom Press, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), 247, [1] pages in red cloth, titles to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED on the front free end paper: "To Dr. Norman Vincent Peale /..... More
We Bombed in New Haven
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 217 x 147 mm), 196 pages, in burgundy cloth, titles in gilt to upper board and spine, in an illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. Joseph Heller's second book, an antiwar play, following..... More
Through Russian Eyes
West Haven, Connecticut: Foundation for Promoting Enduring Peace, [1952?]. No Edition Stated. Single sheet folded to create [4] pages, each measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (279 x 216 mm). Rare leaflet on U.S.-Soviet relations, from a Christian Left perspective. The author pleads for better understanding of Russian..... More
Down With War! Declaration on the Outbreak of War by the Socialist Labor Party of America
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. 3rd Printing. 12mo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 126 mm), 32 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). War is capitalism's cure for unemployment yet it's the workers who pay for war with their blood, according to this declaration..... More