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 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
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
Appeal of Earl Browder to the members of the C.P.U.S.A.
Yonkers, New York: Self-published, 1946. First Edition. Quarto (12 x 9 inches / 350 x 228 mm), single sheet folded to create four pages. Printed on newsprint. An appeal by former Communist Party USA General Secretary Earl Browder to the party membership, dated just days after his expulsion..... 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
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
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
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
Mike Gold: A Literary Anthology
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
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
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
John L. Lewis Exposed!
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
Socialism Answers Anti-Semitism
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1944. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 129 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers. Eric Hass decries the spread of anti-Semitism in the United States and argues that socialism is the answer to defeating it. Hass was a Socialist..... More
Stalinist Imperialism: The Social and Economic Forces Behind Russian Expansion
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1946. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers. The author, Eric Hass, maintains that the Soviet brand of socialism is not socialism at all. Instead, he says, the USSR is an imperialist power..... More
John Reed: The Making of a Revolutionary
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Small Quarto (9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 237 x 160 mm), 445, [1] pages, gray cloth, in an unclipped, supplied dust jacket. INSCRIBED on the front end paper: "For Walter Lippmann / from / Granville Hicks." An interesting association..... More
May Day vs. Labor Day: A Comparison of the Social Significance of the Two Days of Labor Celebration
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1936. First Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 126 mm), 40 pages in stapled wrappers (soft cover). A spirited essay, with attacks on "fakers," "impostors," "swindlers," and other enemies of the working class. May Day..... More
Pour: Un Journal Libre au Service du Peuple
Brussels: S.C. les Editions Sauvages, 1974. First Edition. Folio (14 x 11 inches; 355 x 280 mm), bound volume in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). SIGNED and numbered 36/70 by Joseph Beuys on the front cover. A rare collection of the first year of Pour, a radical/anarchist, French-language magazine..... More
Hollywood on Trial: The Story of the 10 Who Were Indicted
New York: Boni & Gaer, Inc., 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 207 x 140 mm), 230 pages, in gray boards, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. SIGNED by Lester Cole on a preliminary page. Cole (1904-1985) was a screenwriter and one..... More
The Strawberry Statement: Notes of College Revolutionary
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 214 x 145 mm), 151, [1] pages, in black cloth, red top stain, titles in silver to spine, in a price-clipped, printed dust jacket. Life amid the Columbia University student protests of..... More