Radicalism
Have the Methodists Accepted Communism?
[Place of Publication Not Identified]: [Publisher Not Identified], [1956?]. Octavo (8 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 213 x 97 mm), 14 pages, in stapled wrappers. Lurid antisemitic pamphlet that begins, "Are the Methodists teaching Judaism instead of Christianity?" The pamphlet goes on to give excerpts from Jewish..... More
The Chips Are Down: The Story of Communism's 'War to Death' With Capitalism
Cleveland: Sherman Rogers Publications, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 195 x 138 mm), 71, [1] pages in stapled pictorial wrappers. The author gets right down to business in the first line of this pamphlet: "We are at war with communism!"..... More
The Depravity of Communism
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
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Free Spain: The Madrid Strike--And After [Vol. XII, No.8]
New York: Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, June 25, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Newsletter consisting of 3 loose mimeographed pages, each measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (277 x 215 mm). Anti-Franco newsletter, with a report on a one-day strike in Madrid against Franco as well as other..... More
Rights (June 1970, Vol. XVII, No. 2)
New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. 4to, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 278 mm), 16 pages, in illustrated wrappers. Moderate toning to pages, small nick to front wrapper. A Very Good copy. Publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, with articles on..... More
Rights (March 1, 1970, Vol. XVII, No. 1)
New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. 4to, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 278 mm), 16 pages, in illustrated wrappers. Moderate toning to pages. A Very Good copy. Publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, with articles on censorship in U.S. armed-forces media;..... More
Appeal of Earl Browder to the members of the C.P.U.S.A.
Yonkers, New York: Self-published, 1946. First Edition. An appeal by former Communist Party USA General Secretary Earl Browder to the party membership, dated just days after his expulsion from the party. Printed at his own expense (there's even a coupon for sending in a donation), Browder argues that he has..... More
What Is Communism?
New York: Vanguard Press, 1936. First Edition. SIGNED by Earl Browder on the front free end paper. Browder was, of course, the longtime leader of the Communist Party USA. Octavo, 254 pages. Cloth boards are quite grubby. Offsetting to end papers. Dust jacket rubbed, with a few small chips to..... More
It's Time to Call a Halt!
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1949 (?). No Edition Stated. Single sheet, folded to make four square pages of 5 1/2 inches (155 mm) each. A four-page promotional leaflet and membership application for the Civil Rights Congress, a front group of the Communist Party USA. The CRC sought..... More
Report on the Congress of American Women
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
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Ben Davis--Fighter [Cover Title]
New York: Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis, [1949]. Single page folded once to create a [4]-page brochure measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 215 mm) when folded. Illustrated brochure featuring an autobiographical statement by Benjamin J. Davis, a Black Communist..... More
The Western Front: Material for Branch Educational Discussions
San Francisco: Communist Party of California, 1942. No Edition Stated. Seven-page mimeographed document, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm), stapled in top left-hand corner. A "Dear Comrades" letter addressed to all branches of the Communist Party in California, Arizona, and Nevada, urging them to meet..... More
Defeat the War-Powers Bill: Get Out and Stay Out of the War
San Francisco: California State Committee, Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. Bifolium of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm). A vigorous denunciation of what became known as Lend-Lease, where the US. supplied military assistance to Britain and other Allied..... 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
Lecture by Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin: Lateral and Frontal Attack!, Sunday, October 22, 1933
Detroit: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1933. First Edition. Small Octavo pamphlet measuring 7 3/4 x 5 inches (197 x 128 mm), [16] pages, in stapled printed wrappers. Transcript of a radio broadcast by Father Coughlin in which he says government action so far has amounted only to..... More
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The Situationist Times [Number 1]
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
A Souvenir Program in Memory of Dr. William E. Burghardt DuBois 1868-1963
New York: No publisher listed. [DuBois Memorial Committee], 1964. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 217 mm), 15, [1] pages, in stapled self-wrappers (soft cover). Scarce souvenir program presented to attendees of a memorial service for W.E.B. DuBois at Carnegie Hall in New York. The program..... More
The Hugo Gellert Anniversary Committee Invites You to Join Them on the Occasion of a Banquet in Honor of Hugo Gellert, Sunday, January 30th, 1955, 2 p.m.
Los Angeles: Hugo Gellert Anniversary Committee, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Invitation to a banquet honoring the great radical artist Hugo Gellert (1892-1985). Held at the Hungarian Cultural Center in Los Angeles on January 30, 1955, the banquet featured guest speaker John Howard Lawson, a playwright and screenwriter who was..... More
Collection of Ephemera on the General Strike for Peace
New York: New York Committee for the General Strike for Peace, 1961-1963. A collection of nine rare leaflets and letters concerning the General Strike for Peace, which in the early 1960s sought a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons as well as global disarmament. This material belonged to Jackson..... More
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Communist [INSCRIBED by Jack Hirschman]
San Francisco: Fishy Afoot Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 14 pages, in stitched orange wrappers. INSCRIBED by Jack Hirschman, the translator, on the inside cover, with a laid-in slip of paper containing a further inscription from..... More
A gathering of people concerned about Conscientious Objection, Alternative Service and the Draft
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
Episodes of the Revolutionary War
Havana: Guairas Book Institute, 1967. First English Language Edition. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 inches; 235 x 155 mm), 104, [16] pages, in white cloth, red titles to upper panel, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. Che Guevara's reminiscences of his days as a revolutionary fighting..... More
American Writers' Congress
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