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: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1937. Reprint. A reprint, with some additional material, of the author's "Fifteen Years of the Communist Party," which first appeared in 1934. During the 1940s and '50s, the U.S. government frequently harassed the Russian-born Bittelman (1890-1982) for his involvement with the Communist Party and..... More

New York: The John Day Company, 1932. First Edition. Pamphlet advocating an American revolution by the left-wing literary critic V.F. Calverton (1900-1940), who founded the Modern Quarterly, a Marxist journal. He says that the U.S. has a revolutionary tradition and that the working class can build upon that tradition. No..... More

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

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

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

Regina, Saskatchewan: Anarchist Communist Federation of North America, [1980s]. A scarce anarchist pamphlet denouncing corruption and state power in Africa. "For the 420 million people of Africa, independence has brought little, if any more, freedom than under colonialism," the author writes. The problem, he says, is the power of the..... 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

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

New York: New Century Publishers, 1951. Report by the Communist Party's national secretary, warning about fascist tendencies in America and Wall Street's thirst for profits and war. There are also sections dealing with the "Negro people," youth, women, and internal party politics. DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 3/4 x...... More

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1937. 5th Printing. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 127 mm), 69, [3] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Pamphlet attacking labor leader John Lewis as "a servant of plutocratic capitalism." This pamphlet was written by Eric Hass, a...... More