Philadelphia: Arms of Friendship, Inc. 1959. No edition stated. Single sheet, 8 1/2 x 15.5 inches (215 x 393 mm), folded to create eight panels. Slight handling wear, otherwise crisp and clean. Fine. Cold war-era brochure by an organization that promoted dialogue between American and Soviet military veterans, mostly... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to no good. As far as Cold War fiction goes, it's not bad... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Joseph Buttinger on the half title. An early, classic study of Vietnam, published after the division of Vietnam into two separate countries. 8vo., 533 pages. Very Good, with some pencil lines in the margins of numerous pages, in... More
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1949 (?). No Edition Stated. A four-page promotional leaflet and membership application for the Civil Rights Congress, a front group of the Communist Party USA. The CRC sought to raise money to defend 12 leaders of the Communist Party who had been indicted on charges... More
Washington, D.C. Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, 1949. First Edition. An investigation into the Congress of American Women by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The committee maintained that the CAW was a Communist front organization; its report attacked various members and attempted to tie them to... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1961. First Edition. A pamphlet by the National Chairman of the Communist Party decrying legislation and court opinions aimed at crippling the party. The author, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), was a prolific writer affectionately known in the party as "The Rebel Girl," after a Joe... More
New York: Devin-Adair. INSCRIBED by John T. Flynn on the front free end paper: "To -- With my love. John T. Flynn, Bayside, LI." Date unclear but it appears to be Nov. 12, 1951. Octavo, 192 pages. Very Good- with dusty, faded, slightly bowed boards, with small check marks and... 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. Near Fine (a bit of age-toning on the page edges) in a Fine dust jacket with only slight edge... More
New York: Fair Play for Cuba Committee, n.d. [1961?]. First Edition Thus. INSCRIBED on page 3: "Amiri / Baraka / Unity + Struggle." Jones (1934-2014), who later became Amiri Baraka, recounts a visit to Cuba arranged by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in July 1960. He met Fidel Castro... More
Corinth, Vermont: Black Mountain Press, 1967. First Edition. A pamphlet reprinting an article from Ramparts magazine in which Jonathan Mirsky described the differences he encountered when returning to Vietnam in 1967 compared with his experiences there in 1965. The war, he found, had turned much of the population anti-American. Eight tall, narrow... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1959. First Edition. Hollywood movie producer spies for the "Reds." And then the FBI turns him into a double agent. Octavo, 248 pages. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Fading to spine lettering and to edges of boards. The price-clipped dust jacket has... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. An insider's account of the espionage battle in Berlin between the CIA and the KGB from the end of World War II to the building of the Wall in 1961. Octavo, pp. xxv, 530 pages. Near Fine in... More
No place of publication stated: No publisher stated, 1963. No edition stated. Single sheet, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (216 x 280 mm). Top corners chipped, a few pin holes. A Very Good copy. SIGNED by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk in ink below his facsimile signature. A broadside on... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1954. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the front end paper in the year of publication to American novelist Nelia Gardner White (1894-1957): "To / Nelia Gardner White / in admiration / Bill Shirer / 1954." It's supposedly fiction but it's very much about McCarthyism. The book... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1967. First Edition. SIGNED by Howard Zinn on the title page and dated 2001. The late Boston University professor advocates American withdrawal from the war in Vietnam. An uncommon book in the original hardcover. As of late February 2016, there were no other signed copies in the... More