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19302279Moscow: Various Publishers 1930s. <br /><br />Thirty black-and-white postcards each measuring 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches 147 x 98 mm all unused and unmounted. <br /><br />A collection of postcards depicting scenes in Moscow during the tumultuous 1930s when Stalin was expanding his power and killing off his opponents. The scenes include workers' houses hotels department stores and cathedrals that the Bolsheviks closed and turned into museums. Other scenes show Arbat Square Pushkin's monument the race course Dynamo stadium the Izvestia building Moscow University and more. <br /><br />Seventeen of the cards have brief captions in English and sometimes in French and German in addition to Russian. <br /><br />A wonderful series of vibrant images of Moscow in one of the most significant decades in Soviet history. <br /><br />CONDITION: One card lightly trimmed at the edges a few minor stains to the versos of some cards. Overall Very Good or better. Various Publishers books
196421414New York ca. 1964-1967. Wraps. Very good. Small printed portfolio 6.25" by 2.75" approx. Ten vouchers resembling money stapled in each intended to represent "one dollar and one brick" towards the Center with a brief note and quote from Davis printed inside the wrapper. Very good with mild toning to one edge and front cover lightly creased. <br/><br/>Fundraising campaign for this Harlem-based communist bookstore and community center named after the African-American politician and lawyer Ben Davis 1903-1964 a onetime member of the New York City Council and part of the Communist Party USA. "Every brick you buy provides the new Harlem Ben Davis Bookshop and Center with books pamphlets and periodicals of struggle and socialism. Help build a center to carry on the ideals and understanding of Ben Davis." OCLC does not locate any examples. paperback books
195536811New York: Hecla Press 1955. vi 59 1 blank pp. Near Fine in original staples and printed title wrappers light dusting.<br/><br/> Nelson a member of the Communist Party was tried and found guilty of violating Pennsylvania's anti-sedition law. Nelson appealed his conviction to the United States Supreme Court which held that federal law the Smith Act the Internal Security Act and the Communist Control Act had superseded and thus rendered void all State laws on the subject of subversion and sedition. See Pennsylvania v. Nelson 350 U.S. 497 1956.<br/> The amici were individuals who like Nelson had been convicted of violating similar State laws in Kentucky Massachusetts New Hampshire and Florida. Donner's brief on their behalf is an illuminating description of America's response to Communist subversion whether real or imaginary in the decade after the end of World War II. Hecla Press unknown books
19011202London: Liberty and Property Defence League ca. 1901-05. First Edition. <br /><br />Unbound pamphlet 8 x 5 1/4 inches 205 x 132 mm 4 pages.<br /><br />A wonderfully lurid warning against socialism by a British organization devoted to laissez-faire economics. The anonymous author suggests that socialism would lead to the breakup of families.<br /><br />"There would be no such place as home under socialism" the author writes. "Everyone would live in the State barracks. There would be no breakfasts dinners or teas with one's family at one's own table as in the first place meals in private would not be permitted as it would be against the socialist idea of equality.In other words everybody when hungry would be reduced to the necessity of repairing to the common swine-trough and eating the hogwash the State had placed therein. No roast beef turkey and plum pudding no smiling faces of children and friends around the table on Christmas Day. Indeed there would not be any Christmas Day under socialism." <br /><br />This pamphlet carries no publication date but it appears to have been issued sometime between 1901 and 1905. It refers to "the late Mr. Oscar Wilde" who died in late 1900. In 1906 the Liberty and Property Defence League issued a book "Socialism: Its Fallacies and Dangers" which included the text of this pamphlet. <br /><br />OCLC lists 7 institutional holdings: Syracuse Stanford Amherst Harvard Michigan Texas and Wisconsin Historical Society. No other copies in commerce. <b>SCARCE</b>.<br /><br />CONDITION: Paper lightly toned old stab holes along the gutter a couple small closed tears small ink stamp at the end of the text general handling wear. A Very Good copy of an uncommon publication. Liberty and Property Defence League paperback books
19402328Chicago: Citizens Press n.d. 1940s. Octavo 8 7/8 x 6 inches; 225 x 150 mm 8 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />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 of propriety and decency." Divided into 21 short sections such as: "Communists Are Perverts" "Communism Thrives on Trickery" etc. <br /><br />OCLC shows only two institutional holdings: Ball State and Michigan State while a separate search turns up a copy at Columbia. None in commerce March 2021. SCARCE. <br /><br />Condition: Splits at top and bottom of cover page but still holding firmly small nicks to corners vertical fold to lower right throughout pages lightly toned contact details of "Women's Voice" stamped on final page. About Very Good. <br /><br /><br /> Citizens Press books
195238806Washington DC: Chamber of Commerce of the United States 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 55pp. Mild external wear; Very Good. Red Scare-era primer on Communists: how to recognize them how to beat them around the world and in the woodpile. With laid-in mimeographed cover-letter by Emerson Schmidt. Chamber of Commerce of the United States unknown books
19512003Cleveland: Sherman Rogers Publications 1951. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Octavo 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 195 x 138 mm 71 1 pages in stapled pictorial wrappers.<p>The author gets right down to business in the first line of this pamphlet: "We are at war with communism!" Published during the Korean War the pamphlet says communism is trying to dominate the world. Van Hemert also says capitalism is far superior to communism and notes the Soviets haven't been able to deliver a decent standard of living to their own citizens. Profusely illustrated by Vernon Lind including the cover.<br /></p><p>This pamphlet is scarce. OCLC shows only three institutional holdings at Michigan Northern Michigan and Utah State. Scarce in commerce as well.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Wrappers and pages lightly toned pages clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy.<br /></p> Sherman Rogers Publications paperback books
192842186London: National Minority Movement 1928. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 66pp. Pencil marginalia throughout; minor aging to wrappers; stamp of the Labor Research Ass'n New York to front cover. Very Good. National Minority Movement 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
1982694New York: Pantheon Boos 1982. First Edition. A history of Moscow's relations with foreign Communist parties in the 1930s written by the left-wing historian and journalist E.H. Carr. Octavo pp. xi 461. Near Fine with a tasteful bookplate on the front paste down in a Very Good dust jacket that has a couple small closed tears on both panels along with some soiling on the rear panel. <br/><br/> Pantheon Boos unknown books
1932214953Brussels Belgium: CILACC 1932. Five issues of the slender staplebound journal numbers 2 3 5 11 and 12. Penciled notations on covers dampstains to edges not musty some edge tears; reading copies only. Text in French. CILACC unknown books
19572127Paris: Editions Présence africaine 1957. <br /><br />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. <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. 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. <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. Editions Présence africaine books
1961255193Long Beach: Christian Anti-Communism Crusade 1961. 8p. 8.5x11 inch newsletter fold-creased for mailing some pen marks. Updates on evangelism and anti-communist activism by Fred Schwarz' group. Christian Anti-Communism Crusade unknown books
1949886New York: Civil Rights Congress 1949 . No Edition Stated. <br /><br /> Single sheet folded to make four square 16mo pages.<br /><br />A four-page promotional leaflet and membership application for the Civil Rights Congress a front group of the Communist Party USA. The CRC sought to raise money to defend 12 leaders of the Communist Party who had been indicted on charges of conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government. <br /><br />"You as an American -- cannot stand by while your democratic heritage is in danger. Each of us must do our share for freedom now or accept our share of the guilt for bringing fascism to America." The striking cover image shows a swastika at 12 o'clock with the large hand of the clock at 5 minutes to midnight and the caption "Communist leaders indicted." Other parts of the clock show such captions as "Spy Scare" "Ku Klux Klan Flourishes" "Growing Anti-Semitism" "Lynchings Increase" "Hollywood 10 Cited" etc. The rear cover prints a membership application and contribution form. <br /><br />The image on the clock -- 5 minutes to midnight -- is a reference to the Communist Party's belief that fascism was imminent in America and that Communists had to be prepared to go underground if necessary.<br /><br />An uncommon ephemeral item; OCLC lists a single holding at the University of California Davis. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Folded once horizontally small staple mark at upper corner light toning at extremities else a Very Good copy.<br /> Civil Rights Congress 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
19491205Washington 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 Moscow. There's an especially lurid chapter on Muriel Draper president of the CAW: ".when Muriel Draper had nearly achieved the pinnacle of her consuming desire for importance fame even adulation her husband entered their London residence at teatime to confess that he had lost their last cent on a horse race. From that time on her faith in capitalism suffered a heavy decline." page 68. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. 8vo 9 inches / 23 cm iv 114 pages in stapled wrappers. Near Fine with some creasing to front and rear covers. SCARCE. <br/><br/> Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives unknown books
196634011London: Ellis Bowles 1966. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm; original pictorial staplebound wrappers; 84pp. Wrappers a bit worn with wrinkling along spine edge old ink note to upper cover else Near Very Good and sound. Covers the fall of the Independent Federation and First Republic of Nigeria which would lead to three years of civil war. Ellis Bowles] unknown books
197114948London: Inkululeko Publications 1971. Small octavo 20cm. Printed card wrappers; 135pp; illus. Minor external wear; text tanned but not brittle; Very Good. Organ of the South African Communist Party published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes a substantial 15pp article by Sol Dubula on the 10-year anniversary of the founding of the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe "Spear of the Nation" anti-apartheid movement. Other contributors include A. Lerumo Arnold Adams El Mahdawi others. Inkululeko Publications unknown books
197214941London: Inkululeko Publications 1972. Small octavo 20cm. Printed card wrappers; 122pp; illus. Minor external wear; Very Good. Organ of the South African Communist Party published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by J. Villiers "Namibia and the World;" R.E. Braverman "Apartheid Industrialisation and the Trade Unions;" Yusuf Dadoo "Tribute to Dimitrov;" others. Inkululeko Publications unknown books
197314950London: Inkululeko Publications 1973. Small octavo 20cm. Printed card wrappers; 136pp; illus. Minor external wear; internally fresh; Very Good or better. Organ of the South African Communist Party published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by Albert Tshume Alfred Hutchinson short-story - "The Rickshaw's New Year" Henry Mokgothi critical article on Alfred Hutchinson; R.E. Press J.K. Obatala others. Inkululeko Publications unknown books
197314953London: Inkululeko Publications 1973. Small octavo 20cm. Printed card wrappers; 127pp; illus. Minor external wear; internally fresh; Very Good or better. Organ of the South African Communist Party published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by R.E. Matajo ANC Kumalo Poem - "Red Our Colour" Henri Onan Basha Ahmed Abdi others. Inkululeko Publications unknown books
197414942London: Inkululeko Publications 1974. Small octavo 20cm. Printed card wrappers; 105pp; illus. Minor external wear; Very Good. Organ of the South African Communist Party published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by W. Pomeroy J. Villiers R.E. Press F. Meli others. Inkululeko Publications unknown books
197414944London: Inkululeko Publications 1974. Small octavo 20cm. Printed card wrappers; 130pp; illus. Minor external wear; Very Good. Organ of the South African Communist Party published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by Alexander Sibeko R.E. Braverman Z. Nkosi Phineas Malinga others. Inkululeko Publications unknown books
197814943London: Inkululeko Publications 1978. Small octavo 20cm. Printed card wrappers; 107pp; illus. Minor external wear; Very Good. Organ of the South African Communist Party published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by Phineas Malinga John Ngara Vukani Mawethu others. Inkululeko Publications unknown books
196415935Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 237pp. Ownership signature to front pastedown; a few page corners turned down else a clean tight copy in lightly edgeworn dustwrapper; VG or better. Cornell University Press unknown books
