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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
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
