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19602275Fullerton California: Education Information Inc. 1960. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 271 x 212 mm 21 pages in stapled illustrated wrappers <br /><br />A "second report on modern art" issued by Education Information Inc. an Orange County California anti-communist outfit. The main highlight: the purported minutes of a Communist cell comprising artists and writers: "PROGRAM: Remove all inspiring and beautiful art from all exhibits and substitute degenerate art in its place.Keep rational art out of all public exhibits -- allow only empty or distorted art to be shown in museums dealers' exhibits.Tie junk together and set it up as sculpture." <br /><br />There's plenty more in this vein. The woman who took these notes -- "a friend of truth and decency" -- supposedly mailed them to the right-wing sculptor Wheeler Williams who was active in anticommunist politics. Williams provides a Foreword to the notes saying he believes they're authentic. He says he shared the notes with colleagues and some former FBI undercover agents all of whom apparently believe the notes are genuine. <br /><br />Also in this pamphlet are articles on "subversion in art" lengthy excerpts from Williams's testimony to Congress on the Soviet uses of art and a piece by E. Merrill Root on conservative philosophy. <br /><br />This pamphlet is scarce. OCLC records around a dozen institutional holdings. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical fold throughout original mailing label and partially removed tape to lower wrapper extremities worn from handling staples a bit rusted. Otherwise Very Good. Education Information, Inc. books
19582004Washington D.C.: Press Office-German Embassy 1958. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 19 1 pages in stapled wrappers. With a compliments card laid in. <br /><br />Transcript of a speech by Ernst Lemmer a German government minister about the worsening refugee crisis. He notes that millions have fled the German Democratic Republic -- which he calls the Soviet Zone -- since 1949. <br /><br />He blames increasing "Sovietization" of the GDR and denies GDR assertions that West Germany is enticing people to leave. An interesting insight into West Germany's growing alarm about the tide of refugees from the GDR. The Communist regime of course would build the Wall less than three years later. SCARCE.<br /><br />OCLC shows about a dozen institutional holdings. Scarce in commerce. <br /><br />An interesting insight into West Germany's growing alarm about the tide of refugees from the GDR. The Communist regime of course would build the Wall less than three years later. SCARCE.<br /><br />CONDITION: Toning to edges a few light creases internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Press Office-German Embassy books
19751561Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1975. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches; 215 x 145 mm 538 pages quarter cloth over paper boards. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Some fading to lettering on spine internally clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears nicks and chips especially on the front panel as well as soiling to the rear panel and spine.An insider's account of Mao Tse-tung's drive for power during World War II. The author was a Tass correspondent and Comintern agent assigned to the Chinese Communist area around Yenan. Peter Vladimirov spent many hours speaking with Mao and was struck by his ruthlessness and lack of culture and morality. A valuable insight albeit from a Soviet viewpoint into Mao and the revolutionary movement he led. Numerous black-and-white photos. <br /><br /> Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover books
19562181Washington D.C.: Department of the Army 1956. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small 4to 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 279 x 215 mm 71 1 pages in stapled card wrappers. <br /><br />U.S. government guide explaining how North Korea interrogates and indoctrinates American prisoners of war. While the focus is mostly on North Korea the guide also discusses Chinese Communist treatment of prisoners. The final chapter asserts that "resistance is possible and profitable." With several black-and-white photographs. Army Pamphlet 30-101. <br /><br />CONDITION: Soiling and age toning to wrappers rusting to staples internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Department of the Army books
19342256New York: The Workers School 1934. <br /><br />Octavo-sized pamphlet measuring 8 7/8 x 6 inches 225 x 152 mm 16 pages in stapled printed wrappers. Laid in is a slightly smaller handbill printed recto only. <br /><br />A pamphlet listing courses available during the Fall 1934 term at the Workers School in New York which was operated by the Communist Party USA. The school offered a staggering number of evening courses in various aspects of Marxism-Leninism economics and history all from the Party's standpoint. The school located at 35 East 12th Street in Manhattan was one of many Workers Schools that the Party operated around the country. That building now consists of co-op apartments that sell for millions of dollars unaffordable by any proletarians. <br /><br />There were also courses in English and Russian along with "special courses" such as "Problems of the Negro Liberation Movement" taught by James W. Ford the CPUSA's candidate for Vice President in the three elections from 1932-1940. Another special course was "Revolutionary Interpretation of Modern Literature" taught by staff members of New Masses magazine including Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman. <br /><br />Tuition for each course was $3. The school emphasized that it wasn't an academic institution and that it "participates in all the current struggles of the working class" including strikes and demonstrations. Nonetheless it was clearly no-nonsense. In a section on attendance the pamphlet states: "Classes begin promptly at the hour set. Regular and punctual attendance is required. Failure to attend two weeks in succession without explanation will necessitate elimination of the student from the rolls." <br /><br />Included with this pamphlet is a handbill for the Workers School highlighting "Courses for Workers." One of the lecturers listed is "Browder" referring to Earl Browder the general secretary of the CPUSA. <br /><br />This pamphlet and handbill are rare. OCLC shows no institutional holdings although it's possible they're included in uncatalogued ephemera collections.<b> RARE</b>. <br /><br />A fascinating insight into Communist education during the Depression years of the 1930s. <br /><br />CONDITION: The pamphlet has some soiling and edge wear to the wrappers as well as rusted staples. Top half of lower wrapper detached from text block. Internally clean and unmarked. The handbill has numerous small nicks and tears. About Very Good overall. The Workers School paperback books
19301427Manchester England: The Co-operative Union Limited 1930. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 5/8 inches 212 mm tall 50 1 pages in stapled wrappers. Moderate toning to the covers front cover and first two leaves missing small pieces of paper at upper right vertical fold throughout probably as a result of mailing staples slightly rusty. Bookplate to verso of front wrapper. Pages clean and unmarked but lightly toned along the edges. A Very Good copy.Nearly two dozen members of British co-operative societies visited the Soviet Union in August 1929 as the guests of Centrosoyus the All-Russian Union of Consumers' Co-operative Societies. This is their report touching on such subjects as education agriculture the status of women scientific work factory conditions co-operatives in the USSR etc.Group members were impressed by what they saw. Given the overwhelmingly positive view they had of the Soviet Union they apparently felt it necessary to assure skeptical readers that group members "were able to investigate matters in which they were particularly interested.Not only were they not prevented from seeing anything else they wanted to when it was humanly possible but every facility for so doing was provided by the various co-operative organisations which entertained them."Some of their observations are jaw-dropping given what we know now about the Soviet Union in the late 1920s as Stalin began to consolidate his power. Especially notable is the short chapter on farming written just a few years before wide-spread famine killed millions of people in 1932-33. Visiting a commune in the Ukraine group members reported: "The quality and condition of the cattle of this village were remarkable." Then on a visit to a dairy farm outside Leningrad the report said that the farm "was built in accordance with our Western ideas of cleanliness and efficiency while most of the work is undertaken by milkmaids who were as bonny and fresh as one could possibly wish."There's plenty more along this line. All in all a fascinating look at various aspects of the Soviet Union in 1929 written by a group of well-meaning people who no doubt genuinely believed what they saw. They were so impressed that they returned several more times and wrote additional reports on their visits. Reports from later years are more often found in the trade than this edition which is fairly uncommon. OCLC WorldCat shows only 10 institutional holdings mostly in the U.K. The pamphlet contains the bookplate of J.J. Harpell 1874-1959 a Canadian businessman and publisher who was active in the co-operative movement. SCARCE. <br /><br /> The Co-operative Union Limited books
19751585New York: Self-Published 1975. No Edition Stated. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 138 mm 96 pages in stapled wrappers. Small light stain to fore edge light rubbing to wrappers internally clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy.Prolific pamphleteer George Spiro chides both the U.S. and Soviet Union over the SALT arms-control agreement. Spiro is both anti-capitalist and anti-Soviet and basically argues that neither country can be trusted to reduce the possibility of nuclear war. <br /><br /> Self-Published books
19771586New York: Self-Published 1977. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 138 mm 144 pages in stapled white wrappers. <p>Prolific pamphleteer George Spiro argues that both capitalists and Marxists want to enslave the world. He says World War II was a huge capitalist fraud joined enthusiastically by Marxists. He favors "authentic" socialism which he says has nothing to do with the Soviet Union. <br /></p><p>OCLC shows only two institutional holdings at New York University and the University of Wisconsin. <b>SCARCE</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Toning to edges of wrappers internally clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy.<br /></p><p><br /></p> Self-Published paperback books
1990189526Roma: Prospettiva 1990. xv 180p. lightly shelfworn wraps text in Italian. Prefaced by Dario Renzi. Documents approved at the founding congress of Socialismo Rivoluzionario. Prospettiva unknown books
191541991New York: Louis Weitz 1915. First Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; 59pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and toned spine lettering partly effaced else Near Very Good internally near fine. "Peoples Educational Society" - upper cover. Socialist study of unemployment. A copy would be sent to Jack London in Honolulu prompting him to write to Weitz: "I think it is a good clean straight-from-the-shoulder presentation of the situation for the jobless ones. My congratulations" see "The Letters of Jack London 1913-1916" 1988 p. 1543. Quite uncommon with only five physical copies in OCLC as of September 2018 at Cornell Library of Congress U. Kansas Harvard and U. Wisconsin. Not in Egbert. Louis Weitz unknown books
192010875Chicago: Socialist Party of the United States 1920. First edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers softcover; 37p. Complete but soiled; text browned and detached from covers; preliminary leaves loose; Good only. Socialist Party of the United States unknown books
190814628Kenton OH: 1908: S.i. 1908. Original poster ca 35cm x 28cm. Printed recto only in black ink on stiff white poster board; photographic portrait of the candidate halftone at upper left. Brief closed tear at upper margin; minor toning and wear Very Good. Attractive campaign poster in which Wharton a Socialist Candidate for the Ohio State Legislature promises to give his "best endeavor to forwarding the regular Socialist program of all production to the producer" and to ".work early and late for the Repeal of the New Tax Law.and to cut out every useless official in the State and County and reduce all salaries to not over $5.00 per day." Charles E. Wharton's 1908 campaign appears to have gained some national notoriety; a 1908 New York Times article describes him as a "wealthy socialist" whose campaign was to be assisted by twelve stump speeches by the Countess of Warwick "one of the most famous of English Socialists. S.i. unknown books
195818890New York: Monthly Review Press 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 160pp. Mild wear to board edges and spine ends still a tight VG copy in the original dustwrapper which is rubbed and slightly faded with a chip at crown just VG. Monthly Review Press unknown books
190739808Chicago: Brotherhood Publishing Inc 1907. Third Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; printed brown card wrappers; 128pp. Light wear else Very Good to Near Fine. Early edition of this popular Socialist song-book which went into at least seven editions between 1905 and 1913. COHEN 120; EGBERT II p. 494. Brotherhood Publishing, Inc unknown books
190917424Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1909. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Original pictorial wrappers; pp 385-472. Slight cover wear and soil; light wear to spine; occasional creasing; Very Good. Includes the entirety of Mary Marcy's socialistic Thanksgiving satire "Skinny's Turkey Dinner." Cover illustration by J. Reynolds. Other contributors to this issue include James Hatton Brower "Mickey's Religious Experience"; Lida Parce "The Relation of Socialism to the Woman Question"; others. Uncommon in original wrappers. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
192243854New York: The New York Call 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 18cm; pale blue vertically-ribbed cloth with printed title labels on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 2213pp with photographic frontispiece portrait of Debs. Warmly inscribed by Karsner to author and drama critic Walter Prichard Eaton on the front endpaper: "For Walter Prichard Eaton whose pen is true whose heart is warm whose hand is fraternal / From David Karsner / New York / January 20 1923." Light wear to spine ends touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket lightly dusty with some mild external wear and a few tiny losses to spine ends. A journal kept by Karsner while assisting Debs in the preparation of a series of articles after his release from prison. "Before leaving New York the thought occurred to me to keey a diary while with Debs but I soon discovered that this scheme was scarcely possible because of the pressure of work upon me. Still I was reluctant to neglect the opportunity to portray Debs to the public through his spoken word so I yielded to my desire to jot down notes of our talks and to record incidents in our daily contact for thirty days - the time required to complete his dozen or more prison articles" p.10. Scarce in dustjacket. The New York Call unknown books
192217324New York: New York Call 1922. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Pale blue ribbed cloth with paper spine and cover labels; dustjacket; 221pp; frontis. portr. Tight Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper with brief loss at crown and closed tear at base of spine; Very Good. Uncommon in jacket. New York Call unknown books
193647771New York: International Publishers 1936. First American Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket signed in image "Walker" red topstain; 648pp. A hint of shelf wear red jacket spine lettering sunned else a Near Fine copy. Layman's introduction to dialectical materialism as taught by Marx and Engels. See Egbert II p. 213 for the first London edition. International Publishers unknown books
192834089Detroit: Hoffman Photo Studios 1928. Original vintage print sight area ca 27cm x 45cm ca 11-1/2" x 17". Captioned in image. Professionally matted and framed with UV-protective plexiglas glazing. Sight condition fine; not examined out of frame. The portrait studio of Tomasz Hoffman 1892-1978 specialized in serving Detroit's Polish community producing work from the early 1920s through the 1940s. This attractive group portrait of Detroit's Polish Socialist Club is taken in front of the group's headquarters the Dom Ludowy on Detroit's East Side. Hoffman Photo Studios unknown books
191814355Glasgow: The Socialist Labour Press N.d. ca 1918. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 30pp. Text slightly darkened else Fine. A primer for workingment outlining the economic history of Great Britain from the feudal era to the early 20th century. Undated but text makes reference to the recent "European War. The Socialist Labour Press unknown books
193441205New York: Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party n.d. ca. 1934. First Edition. Quarto broadside flyer 28x21cm. printed mimeograph. Extremities unevenly toned with a few tiny chips along right-hand edge none approaching text else Very Good or better. Flyer promoting a talk by the New York-based socialist politician Benjamin Gitlow 1891-1965 a founding member of the CPUSA who later in life turned conservative and McCarthyist. The present item dates from Gitlow's tenure with the Workers Party on whose ticket he ran for Governor of New York in 1926. The talk held at the radical Rand School addressed such questions as "Will the Socialist Party Go Left or Right" and "Will the Socialist Party split" Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of July 2018. Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party unknown books
191412090Fitchburg MA: Suomalainen Sosialistinen Kustannusyhtio 1914. First American edition. Octavo 20cm; cloth boards; dustjacket; 437p. Tight clean copy Very Good or better. In original printed dustwrapper chipped at margins and with small clear-tape reinforcements at flap-folds; Good. Ursin 1854-1936 a major figure in early Finnish labor movements has been called the "Father of Finnish Socialism." The present anthology of Ursin's writings on labor subjects was produced by the Finnish-Socialist Publishing Company a publishing cooperative centered around the newspaper "Raivaaja" the Finnish labor weekly which has been in continuous publication since 1905. The present copy bears the ink ex-libris of one John R. Karvonen who was the defendant in a celebrated Massachusetts free speech case in 1914 arrested for parading with a red flag and convicted of inciting riot - qv. Feldman "Free Expression and Democracy in America" 2008 p.223. Very scarce in or out of jacket. Suomalainen Sosialistinen Kustannusyhtio unknown books
192314855Pasadena: by the Author 1923. Second Edition. Four 12mo volumes 18cm in uniform pictorial buff wrappers printed in black ink. Wrappers toned lightly soiled; one with a small 1/4" closed chip near upper spine; Very Good. Lacking wrap-around outer jacket as described in Ahouse never seen by us. The relatively uncommon wrappered issue comprising the entire Second Edition of 8000 copies. A bitter attack on the American university system with frequent reference to Sinclair's own experiences at Columbia University and with Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler whom Sinclair portrays as a puppet of the city's business interests. AHOUSE A30b. by the Author unknown books
19188078Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1918. First Edition. Original printed wrappers; 31pp. Chips to wrapper edges; neat repair to small section at fore edge of front cover; mild tanning to text; Good or better. A Rationalist analysis of the European war with much criticism of its religious and capitalist origins. HUNSBERGER 117. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
191943046Detroit / Troy: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union 1919 - 1923. First Edition. Quarto 30cm. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 in clean unmarked condition Very Good or better. Issue for 1923 worn with wrappers darkened and stained contents slightly age-toned with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; complete and just Good. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union. The WIIU the labor union arm of the Socialist Labor Party was effectively formed in 1908 following the split of the SLP faction from the Industrial Workers of the World; the group identified itself as the 'Detroit IWW' until 1915 at which point the name was changed to Workers International Industrial Union a typically De Leonist mouthful!. The WIIU never throve; its membership probably never numbered above about 2500 workers a number that dropped quickly following the death of Daniel De Leon in 1915. By the 1920s the WIIU was an afterthought and the group was finally disbanded in 1925.<br/><br/>Contents include articles by Michael Altschuler Herman Richter W.J. Dodge Henry Kuhn and others; literary contributions by Samuel French Fred H. Hartmann Richard Le Galienne William Morris and Walt Whitman; portraits and reproductions of artworks by Eugene Higgins Jan Styka and Eugene Chaperon. An attractive and rather uncommon American labor souvenir book; OCLC notes 6 physical locations for any issue 2018; the 1923 issue printed on clearly inferior paper probably a reflection of the Union's impending demise appears to be in the catalogue of only a single OCLC member institution NYPL. Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union unknown books
