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19302018<p>No Edition Stated. Single sheet folded to create 4-page leaflet measuring 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches 120 x 82 mm when folded.</p><p>Small leaflet in English inviting subscriptions to various Soviet publications including Moscow Daily News USSR in Construction Quarterly Review and Soviet Travel. Also offered are maps postcards and dictionaries. Prices listed in U.S. dollars. <br /></p><p>The leaflet is undated but we place the date at ca. 1930-1932 when American activist Anna Louise Strong was managing editor of the Moscow Daily News she's mentioned here. <br /></p><p>OCLC shows no institutional holdings. None in commerce March 2021. <b>RARE</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Light toning. A Near Fine copy.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> Amkniga Corporation books
19411284Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist Party n.d. 1941. No edition stated. <br /><br />Single sheet of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches 211 x 266 mm. <br /><br />Rare announcement of a speech by Communist Party Chairman William Z. Foster in Los Angeles a little more than a month after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The announcement appears at the beginning of a text in which the Party calls for the U.S. to spare no effort in defeating Germany: "There can be no peace for the peoples of the world without the complete destruction of Hitler and Hitlerism. Hitler fascism stands exposed as the greatest and main enemy of the peoples of the world."<br /><br />Prior to Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union the Communist Party strongly opposed U.S. involvement in World War II maintaining that the fight between Germany and Britain was an imperialist war. Obviously that policy changed 180 degrees following the German invasion of the USSR. <br /><br />An interesting look at how the Communist Party's position drastically shifted after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. <br /><br />No institutional copies found in OCLC. None in commerce in January 2021. <b>RARE.</b><br /><br />CONDITION: Evenly toned pencil notation at top left corner of cover page couple small closed tears. Horizontal fold probably due to mailing. A Very Good copy. Los Angeles County Communist Party books
1976182276Washington: Committee for Scientific Socialism M-L 1976. 20p. wraps 8.5x11 inches vertically creased pen underlining and marginalia a reading copy only. Committee for Scientific Socialism (M-L) unknown books
1975204948San Francisco: League for Proletarian Socialism 1975. Pamphlet. 45p. wraps 6.5x8.5 glue remains on title page from tipped in mimeographed note present but now detached else very good condition. Cover title: League for Proletarian Socialism a proposal. First point of the tipped in note is "to combat dogmatism and sectarianism within the Marxist-Leninist left." The League was also known as the Democratic Workers Party and known for its goon squad tactics. League for Proletarian Socialism unknown books
1977146875San Francisco: League for Proletarian Socialism 1977. Pamphlet. 16p. wraps 8.5x11 inches very good condition. Occasional papers. Critique of the Movement for a Revolutionary Left in Eugene Oregon published by Marlene Dixon's group. League for Proletarian Socialism unknown books
19461264Quarto 12 x 9 inches / 350 x 228 mm single sheet folded to create four pages. Printed on newsprint.<br /><br />Yonkers New York: Self-published 1946. First Edition. <br /><br />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 <br /><br />Browder argues that he has faithfully followed the party line and denies he has engaged in factionalism or attempting to undermine the party's current leadership. He further states that he was given no opportunity to defend himself during a "trial" by the party's national board.<br /><br />As far as Communists go Browder 1891-1973 was actually fairly moderate compared with his left-wing nemesis William Z. Foster. Among other things Browder advocated cooperation with the Roosevelt and Truman administrations as well as with other progressive groups. But following the end of World War II the Communist Party following the Soviet line adopted a much more confrontational policy toward the U.S. government and became even more radical and insular. Browder found himself odd man out.<br /><br />OCLC lists only four institutional holdings: Yale Williams Hamilton and Syracuse. No other copies in commerce. SCARCE. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some darkening to paper a few small nicks to the margins old folds. A Very Good copy. <br /><br /><br /><br /> Self-published books
19492131New York: Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis 1949. <br /><br /> Single page folded once to create a 4-page brochure measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches 280 x 215 mm when folded.<br /><br />Illustrated brochure featuring an autobiographical statement by Benjamin J. Davis a Black Communist who was running for re-election to the New York City Council. The statement was based on his testimony in the 1949 trial against him and 10 other Communist leaders who had been charged with conspiring to overthrow the government.<br /><br />Davis recounts his childhood in Georgia attending college at Morehouse and Amherst and graduating from Harvard Law School. He talks about some of the cases he worked on as a lawyer and ends with a plea for readers to sign petitions to secure a place for him on the ballot. The brochure lists his 11-point program which includes ending police brutality in Harlem and restoring the five-cent fare. <br /><br />We find no institutional holdings of this brochure in OCLC and none in commerce June 2021. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: A bit of handling wear and soiling. A Near Fine copy. Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis books
1988912Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. First Edition First Printing. SIGNED by both authors on the front free end paper. U.S. economist John Kenneth Galbraith and Soviet economist and journalist Stanislav Menshikov met in a New England farmhouse in 1987 to discuss the state and future of communism and capitalism glasnost and Reaganism. 8vo 225 pages. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight edge wear. Copies signed by both authors are uncommon. SCARCE SIGNED by both authors. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1998259822Chicago: Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism 1998. Pamphlet. 7p. stapled wraps 5.5x8.5 inches very good condition. Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism unknown 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
19392355New York: New York Labor News Company 1939. First Edition. 12mo 7 5/16 x 5 inches; 186 x 128 mm 110 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />A pamphlet attacking Communists as swindlers frauds capitalist stooges and other crimes. Written by Arnold Petersen leader of the Socialist Labor Party in his usual subtle style. Petersen believed the Communists had abandoned the working class by supporting the New Deal and offering to collaborate with other parties during the Communists' "Popular Front" phase. <br /><br />This pamphlet is quite scarce in commerce. <br /><br />Seidman P117 Joel Seidman editor Communism in the United States--A Bibliography Cornell University Press 1969. <br /><br />CONDITION: Soiling and creasing to wrappers corners bumped a few scattered stains and creasing to page corners. Overall Very Good. <br /> New York Labor News Company paperback books
194726204Washington DC: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Near Fine. 1947. First Edition. Stapled wraps. light age-toning to covers minor handling wear. 53-page report with the page numbers in RED just to make it a little scarier issued by the C of C's Committee on Socialism and Communism and "Approved by the Board of Directors" documenting the organization's belief that "every effort must be made to set forth the facts of Communist infiltration and strategy in all fields -- government literary entertainment education and wherever the Communists are at work." . Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America paperback books
1951902Praha Prague: Nakladatelstvi Mir Drustevnà Práce 1951. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 275 x 235 mm 124 pages in illustrated boards. <br /><br />A collection of anti-Hitler and anti-U.S. cartoons by the great Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov 1900-2008 whose name is rendered in Czech as Boris Jefimova. The anthology starts in the 1930s with the rise of Hitler and carries forward to the late 1940s attacking the Marshall Plan Wall Street fat cats the Western alliance and the U.S. position in Korea.<br /><br />By contrast and not surprisingly the Soviet Union is portrayed heroically having single-handedly defeated Hitler. Given the preponderance of Wall Street financiers in the cartoons Wall Street appears to be behind Western imperialism and belligerence and even abetted the rise of Hitler. The book opens with a quote from "J. Stalin" and contains 60 cartoons mostly in black-and-white but some containing deep red representing of course the supposed nobility of the Soviet Union and its allies. <br /><br />Copies of this Czech-language book are uncommon. OCLC lists just three institutional holdings: the College of William and Mary the National Library of the Czech Republic and the University of Leipzig. <br /><br />A very good striking example of Czech-Russian agitprop during the dark days of the Cold War. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light soiling and wear to the boards but the pages are clean and bright. Very Good or better. Nakladatelstvi Mir – Družzstevnà Práce hardcover books
19392354New York: New York Labor News Company 1939. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 187 x 127 mm 76 2 pages in illustrated stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Socialist Labor Party pamphlet celebrating the life and achievements of Daniel De Leon an important figure in the party and a Marxist theoretician. <br /><br />CONDITION: Soiling to wrappers edge wear corners bumped but otherwise clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. <br /><br /><br /> New York Labor News Company paperback books
191941717New York: Boni & Liveright 1919. First Edition. Small octavo 19cm. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; frontispiece portrait; ix244pp. Shallow chip to cloth at base of spine else a tight well-preserved copy in the very uncommon pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket with brief losses at head and heel of spine panel not approaching text mild abrasions to front panel and mild overall soil but still a Very Good example. Ownership signature of California historian and author Charles Elmer Upton. Standard biography written during the 1920 Presidential campaign in which Debs ran as a candidate from his jail cell in Atlanta's Woodstock Prison and still polled nearly a million votes. Forbidden by his jailers to write Debs reputedly composed the book's introduction verbally while Karsner transcribed it. Offers a detailed though partisan account of Debs's arrest and imprisonment for opposing U.S. entry in to the First World War with additional chapters on his early career as a trade unionist and co-founder of the American Socialist Party. Rarely seen in dustwrapper. Boni & Liveright unknown books
19411282<p>Communist Party U.S.A. <b>Defeat the War-Powers Bill: Get Out and Stay Out of the War</b>. 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. </p><p>A vigorous denunciation of what became known as Lend-Lease where the US. supplied military assistance to Britain and other Allied countries beginning in 1941. Here the Communist Party appeals for the U.S. to stay out of foreign wars arguing that Wall Street bankers -- referred to here as a "bandit gang" and "the crafty minds of the House of Morgan" -- are the ones who benefit from war. <br /></p><p>"The workers and farmers the people of America have nothing to gain from war. Only the Morgans the Rockefellers and du Ponts -- only the imperialist scavengers -- feast on the blood of imperialist war" the leaflet states in the Communist Party's typically overwrought style.<br /></p><p>This leaflet was published in early 1941 as Lend-Lease legislation was moving through Congress. Despite the opposition of the Communists on one side and right-wing isolationists on the other the legislation passed Congress and was enacted in March 1941. This was just months before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Needless to say the Communist Party would soon change its tune arguing for an all-out effort to defeat Hitler. And indeed Lend-Lease was used to aid the Soviet Union.<br /></p><p>Rare with no institutional holdings found in OCLC. None in commerce. <br /></p><p>An interesting artifact reflecting the Communist Party's antiwar position right before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. <br /></p><p>CONDITION: Evenly toned a couple of small edge tears pencil notation to upper left corner of first page horizontal fold from mailing. A Very Good copy.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> California State Committee, Communist Party 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
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
1977181660New York: FECOPES 1977. 8p. 8.5x11 inches text in Spanish photos very good newsletter. Cover editorial is in support of the general strike in Colombia noting Carter's meetings with various Latin American generals; also pieces on New York in crisis showing pigs in tophats eating Manhattan a critique of an immigrant amnesty plan and more. FECOPES unknown books
19411280<p>Single sheet 8 1/2 x 11 inches 217 x 280 mm printed on one side only. </p><p>A Communist Party USA flyer issued in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. It calls for a united front in the fight against the Axis powers and total mobilization of industry. "The Communist Party pledges its loyalty its devoted labor and last drop of its blood in support of our country in this greatest of all the crises that has ever threatened its existence."<br /></p><p>No institutional holdings found in OCLC. SCARCE.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Heavily toned folded for mailing some pencil notations. About Very Good.<br /></p> Los Angeles County Communist Party 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
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
191943080Detroit: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union 1919. First Edition. Quarto 30cm. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 ; slightly worn with wrappers darkened and stained contents slightly age-toned with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; Just Good. Hand-stamp of the SLP / Detroit to front cover. 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 and others; literary contributions by 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. Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union unknown books
1977152741Minaluta California: League for Proletarian Socialism 1977. Single 8.5x14 inch sheet horizontal fold otherwise very good printed both sides with the LPS's heraldic lion emblem at upper left. The LPS had been participating in the summer camp of the UMSS Union of Marxist Social Scientists at Camp Minaluta challenging the other members as pseudo-Leninists and daring them to "give up their class privilege and serve the working class through Leninist organization" conduct which aroused the ire of the other attendees. A meeting was called to discuss LPS' further participation but the group issued this leaflet to announce that it was withdrawing anyway having accomplished what it came to do. The League's leader was Marlene Dixon. League for Proletarian Socialism unknown 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
