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 about How You Can Help Win Peace
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 about All My Enemies
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 about The Smaller Dragon: A Political History of Vietnam
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 about It's Time to Call a Halt!
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 about Report on the Congress of American Women
[Paris]: USIS/Ambassade des États-Unis, [1959]. First Edition, First Printing. Text of an address by President Dwight Eisenhower on March 16, 1959, about the growing crisis in Berlin. French text, issued by the U.S. Information Service and the U.S. Embassy in Paris. The Soviets had demanded Western forces pull out of..... More about Rapport sur Berlin
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 about Freedom Begins at Home
New York: Freedom Press, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), 247, [1] pages in red cloth, titles to spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, internally clean and bright. The unclipped dust... More about The Pentagon Case: A Novel of the Cold War
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 about Masters of Deceit
Warsaw: Ksiazka-I-Wiedza, [1950]. No edition stated. 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 inches; 210 x 150 mm), 238 pages, in black boards. A few small ink smudges on preliminary pages, presumably from an ink stamp to the title page. Some light sunning to page edges. The unclipped dust jacket has some... More about Betrayal: Our Occupation of Germany
New York: Boni & Gaer, Inc., 1948. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 207 x 140 mm), 230 pages, in gray boards. Some rubbing to boards, very light toning to page edges, light soiling to top and bottom edges. A Very Good copy in a.... More about Hollywood on Trial: The Story of the 10 Who Were Indicted
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 about Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
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 about Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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 about Stranger Come Home
New York: SRT Publications, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, 5 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches, (138 x 214 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers. Edge wear and rubbing to wrappers, bottom right corner of front wrapper creased, resulting in creasing to all subsequent pages, shadow of newsprint once laid... More about Jungle Law or Human Reason? The North Atlantic Pact and What It Means to You
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 about Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal