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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.
58533Milwaukee: Socialist Party 1933. Single sheet 9" x 24" folded to 9"x6" 10pp. Mild toning to margins; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Transcript of an extemporaneous speech delivered by Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan answering attacks against his administration's decision to issue city-backed bonds here called "scrip" rather than borrowing cash to address its outstanding budget deficit. The bonds were issued in six series between 1933 and 1938 and have been credited with saving the city from bakruptcy during the worst years of the Great Depression. Hoan 1881-1961 served as Milwaukee's mayor from 1916 to 1940 still the longest continuous Socialist administration in American history. This a rather uncommon remnant of Milwaukee's socialist past; not noted in commerce with ten catalogued examples in OCLC member institutions. unknown
19361497New 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. <br /> <br />A spirited -- rollicking even! -- essay with attacks on "fakers" "impostors" "swindlers" and other enemies of the working class. <br /> <br />May Day is the true holiday of the proletariat the author says while Labor Day in the U.S. is fake because it "sticks to the hollow pretense of a brotherhood between capital and labor." <br /> <br />Issued by the radical Socialist Labor Party the pamphlet argues that American labor leaders have eagerly embraced the capitalist class. "The 'labor' leaders travel through the country in the grandest style stop at the 'swellest' hotels--often as not manned with non-union labor. Where they go liquor flows expensively and plentifully--sometimes swinishly." page 30 <br /> <br />The author Olive M. Johnson 1872-1954 was a longtime activist editor and pamphleteer for the Socialist Labor Party. <br /> <br />This pamphlet is peak agit-prop. SCARCE. <br /> <br />CONDITION: Light soling and creasing to wrappers. Pages clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> New York Labor News Company unknown
191683564Chicago: Izdala RadniÄka Knjižara 1916. 12mo 19cm.; publisher's pale red staplebound card wrappers; 20pp. Minor wear and toning to wrappers; mild toning to text; Very Good or better. Slovak translation of an anonymous Russian Marxist theoretical work issued as Narodna Knjižnica Folk Library no. 9. Includes a chapter on the lumpenproletariat and anarchism. The source is possibly Pavel Rosenthal's "Люмпенпролетариат и революциÑ" "Lumpenproletariat & Revolution." St. Petersburg 1906. One copy located in OCLC Michigan as of 2024. Izdala RadniÄka Knjižara unknown
19572127<p>Paris: Editions Présence africaine 1957. <br /><br />A letter from the Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire to Maurice Thorez secretary general of the French Communist Party. Césaire announces his resignation from the party citing Stalin's crimes and the party's treatment of nonwhite people.</p><p>Césaire's letter is dated October 24 1956 one day after the start of the Hungarian Uprising against the Soviet Union and eight months following Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" documenting Stalin's crimes. <br /><br />"I think I have said enough to make it plain that it's neither Marxism nor Communism I repudiate; that the use certain people have made of Marxism and Communism is what I condemn" Césaire writes. "That what I want is that Marxism and Communism be harnessed into the service of colored peoples and not colored peoples into the service of Marxism and Communism." pages 11-12. Pamphlet entirely in English.<br /><br />While this pamphlet is widely held by institutions it's uncommon in commerce. SCARCE.</p><p>PHYSICAL DETAILS: 12mo 7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 113 mm 15 1 pages in stapled green-gray wrappers with errata slip pasted to recto of lower wrapper soft cover.<br /><br />CONDITION: Light soiling to wrappers some light creasing to pages but clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of a scarce publication.</p> Editions Présence africaine paperback
19732080502106406974San'ichishobo 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 406p San'ichishobo paperback
19732081402109703421San'ichishobo 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. San'ichishobo paperback
19732111902156100805San'ichishobo 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 San'ichishobo paperback
1927688<p>Paris: Librairie Marcel Rivière 1927. Later printing.</p><p><br />French translation of the best-known book by the German Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky 1854-1938. <br /><br />Kautsky's book analyzes the development of capitalism and outlines the nature of a future socialist society. According to Kautsky the victory of socialism and the working class was inevitable. <br /><br />This work first appeared in German in 1892 Das Erfurter Programm in seinem grundsätzlichen Theil erläutert and is usually known in English as The Class Struggle. Kautsky added a short preface to the first French edition in 1909 and made some changes to the text. The present edition was issued in 1927 by Librairie Marcel Rivière which published and sold socialist texts. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto 9 x 5.6 inches; 230 x 142 mm pps. v 1 240 in brown printed wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light wear to the wrappers. Many of the pages remain unopened and a few pages have light pencil marks. Light age toning to the leaves. Shadow of sticker to the spine. About Very Good overall. <br /><br /><br /><br /></p> Librairie Marcel Rivière paperback
192035884Paris: Editions Pour La Russie. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1920. Presumed 1st. Paperback. 69. 1 pages; Uncut page ends not separated. In buff publisher's wraps. Binding sound. Anti-communist. . Editions Pour La Russie paperback
2002003401Moscow Russia: Podkova 2002. Hardcover. New/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 003401 Tolstaya Tatiana; Kys' /Slynx; Podkova Moscow Russia 2002. 5945840319. NEW unjacketed hardcover black boards with white lettering pocket-sized format. Post-apocalyptic satire from Leo Tolstoy's great-niece endorsed by Boris Akunin among others. All Russian text. rs-2 517 Podkova hardcover
19622080502106507881Meiji Literary Materials Publishing Association 1962. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Meiji Literary Materials Publishing Association paperback
19501962<p>New York: Self-published ca. 1950. No Edition Stated. Oblong 48mo 3 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 100 x 140 mm 31 1 pages in stapled wrappers.</p><p>American journalist and professional curmudgeon John T. Flynn 1882-1964 responds to critics of his 1949 book "The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution" in which he alleged America was being led down the road to socialism.</p><p>In this pamphlet he attacks Protestant church organizations saying they promote socialism. He also levels attacks at various people he considers socialists communists and fellow travelers. OCLC FirstSearch shows only six institutional holdings. SCARCE. <br /><br />CONDITION: Toning to wrappers rubber stamp of free-market economist Percy L. Greaves Jr. to upper wrapper. Internally clean bright and unmarked. Very Good.</p> Self-published paperback
19322091502135500003Japanese Institute of Socialism 1932. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 84 pages Size: 16 x 23 cm Japanese Institute of Socialism paperback
198115293Sussex; New Jersey: Harvester Press/Humanities Press 1981. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Mepham John Black cloth boardds with gilt titling on spine. Top corners and bottom edge near spine heel are bumped. 1/8-in. closed tear to rear upper hinge. 1-in. square scar where sticker was removed from pastedown. No indications of ex-library. Binding is sound and interior is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Ruben David-Hillel Editor. Contents include-- Andrew Collier: Scientific Socialism and the Question of Socialist Values; Martin Barker: Human Biology and the Possibility of Socialism; Timothy O'Hagan: On the 'Withering-Away' of the Superstructures; Russell Keat: Individualism and Community in Socialist Thought; Keith Graham: Illocution and Ideology; Allen Wood: Marx and Equality; G. A. Cohen: Illusions about Private Property and Freedom. Includes Notes on the Authors and an introduction. 'The essays in this volume are devoted to philosophical problems that arise in the context of socialist politics.the political concepts of freedom and equality.analyses of concepts in terms of which communist society has been characterised.the relation between theory and political values.and the analysis of language as social action.' -from the introduction. Harvester Press/Humanities Press hardcover
1965863<p>Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1965. First Edition.</p><p>Octavo xii 467 pages in blue cloth hard cover.</p><p><strong>INSCRIBED</strong> by Walter Schneir on the front end paper: "To John J. Macbride / With best wishes / Walter Schneir." Dated August 1965 the year of publication. A review of the trial and conviction of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for espionage; the authors argue that the Rosenbergs had been framed.</p><p>CONDITION: Very Good with top edge a bit soiled and crown of spine tapped in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket that's creased and has a couple small chips and some soiling on the rear panel. <br /><br /></p> Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
1945206871New York: Rand School of Social Science/Meyer London Memorial Library 1945. Cover leaf and verso of last leaf toned; pencil marks on front; very good. 12 mimeographed pages 8-1/2 x 11 in. stapled with mimeographed cover. Thorough index of contemporary articles compiled by Lena Morrow Lewis the journalist and longtime Socialist leader whose career of activism began in the movement for women's suffrage. The index lists labor-oriented articles on a range of topics from agriculture business and Unions to the atom bomb race discrimination and women's rights as well as labor organizing in the U.S. and around the world. Rand School of Social Science/Meyer London Memorial Library unknown
1972913New York: Capitol Hill Press 1972. Revised Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper: "Many thanks - / to / Tom Moran / Herbert A. Philbrick / 1972." Philbrick's account of his nine years in the Communist Party working as a spy for the FBI. Originally published in 1950 the book was updated and reissued in 1972. It was also the basis of a television series in the mid-1950s called Three Lives. Foreword by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 8vo 306 pages. Red remainder mark on bottom page edges light stain on rear pastedown. Otherwise Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket that has some nicks creases and rubbing as well as ownership signature on the front flap. <br/><br/> Capitol Hill Press unknown
1849588Paris: Victor Lecou 1849. Later printing. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 182 x 115 mm 4 iv 500 pages in original morocco spine titles in gilt over marbled boards. <br /><br />A vigorous defense of private property and opposition to "communism" appearing in the immediate aftermath of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. The first edition appeared in 1848; our copy was published the following year. <br /><br />This is the first history of socialism or communism in any language according to George Watson's "The Lost Literature of Socialism." Alfred Sudre 1820-1902 maintained that private property -- far from oppressing the poor -- was the best defense the poor had against oppression. Text in French. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some rubbing to boards and foxing to page edges. Very Good or better. <br /><br /> Victor Lecou hardcover
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
1936List3310United States 1936. Lithographic illustration measuring 12 x 13 ¾ inches. Unnumbered titled and signed recto in pencil matching handwriting of other known examples. Near Fine. A lithograph by American socialist artist Lydia Gibson 1891–1964. Gibson contributed artworks to radical publications including The Masses The Liberator New Masses and others. This illustration titled Glamour depicts two well-dressed gentlemen labeled “Banks†and “Munitions†courting a bejewelled lady skeleton whose tiara reads “Warâ€. More than a straightforward pacifist sentiment Gibson makes the now-familiar critique that industries that stand to profit off of war will ‘court’ it. A striking piece of twentieth-century socialist art. unknown
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
025940554X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
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
