Fairfax, California: The Red Hill Press, No date (early 1970s). No edition stated. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 215 x 175 mm), [32] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). A scarce antiwar chapbook featuring poems by Ezra Pound and Wilfred Owen, an excerpt from a small-arms..... More

Chicago: Citizens Press, n.d. [1940s?]. Octavo (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 225 x 150 mm), 8 pages, in stapled wrappers.  A ferocious attack on communists and communism: "Communism is immoral and decadent: it reduces men and women to the level of beasts and they lose all sense..... More

New York: New Century Publishers, 1949. First Edition. A Communist Party USA pamphlet, arguing that Americans pay high prices and have a lower standard of living because of out-of-control military spending. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 125 mm), 23, [1] pages in..... More

New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1951. First Edition. Scarce pamphlet decrying a Supreme Court decision that upheld the Smith Act, which was used to persecute Communists. An organization closely allied with the Communists, the Civil Rights Congress published this pamphlet. It features statements by trade unionists, newspapers, and even Eleanor..... More

New York: Communist Party U.S.A., 1937. First Edition. Scarce issue of Party Organizer, the Communist Party's publication on internal Party matters. It features numerous articles from around the U.S. on efforts to build Party membership and to promote its publications, with case studies of both successful and unsuccessful efforts. There..... More

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

Hengelo, The Netherlands: Situationist Times, 1962. First Edition. Small Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches; 275 x 220 mm), [52] multicolored pages, in stapled illustrated wrappers. The scarce first issue of The Situationist Times, a radical, avant-garde periodical that focused on art and politics. Articles in German..... More

Baltimore: Vacant Lots Press, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. An essay on the benefits of anarchist feminism. The author suggests that feminists explore Situationism as a possible theoretical framework. She also decries the modern obsession with "witchcraft, magic, and psychic phenomena." Report No. 26 of Research Group One in Baltimore..... More

New York: International Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 322 pages, green cloth, titles in silver to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). A collection of articles by the proudly Communist writer Mike Gold (1893-1967). Gold..... More

New York: Communist Party of the U.S.A., 1947. Second Printing. A guide for new members of the Communist Party by the party's assistant organization secretary. Welcome message from William Z. Foster, the national chairman, followed by chapters on party goals, discipline, members' obligations, etc. It also makes clear that members..... More

Chicago: Grace Lutheran Church, 1971. Single-leaf handbill and two-leaf stapled article, both 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 278 mm) and both folded in half for mailing. Handbill announcement for a meeting at Grace Lutheran Church in Chicago on conscientious objection and alternatives to the draft. There's..... More

New York: International Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Small Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 202 x 137 mm), viii, 9-192 pages, in publisher's original gray cloth, with a printed dust jacket. An important compilation of papers and proceedings at the historic first Writers' Congress of 1935. Authors..... More

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1944. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 129 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Eric Hass decries the spread of anti-Semitism in the United States and argues that socialism is the answer to defeating it. Hass was..... More