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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.
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
1958FD30-814Beograd, Kultura, 1958. original Broschur, 8?, 230 pages / Seiten; Bibliothekstempel / bibliotheekstempel / cachet de biblioth?que / librarystamp, guter Zustand, a good copy
19326517New York: New Masses Inc 1932. First edition. Magazine 2 30 2pp. Advertisements illustrations. Staple bound in illustrated paper wrappers of O. Soglow. Some toning light edge wear. Very good. New Masses, Inc unknown
19468692ABNew York, Eigenverlag, 1946. 31 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen. Orig.-Broschur., 8692ab|8692ab 2 [2 Warenabbildungen] Insgesamt leicht gebräunt bzw. etw. braunfleckig, mit kleineren Randläsuren. Gutes, sauberes Exemplar. Edges a bit brown-spotted, some pages yellowed or brown-stained, only minor edge wear. 1 leaf loose. Else good condition.
1957833Plain printed and staple bound wraps. 205pp. Crease to front wrap previous owner's initials. Ownership stamp on front wrap reads "Commonwealth of Massachusetts / Dept. of Public Safely / Div. of Subversive Activities / Boston Mass." An investigation and report on the case against Professor Dirk J Struik of MIT a Dutch Marxist and mathematician who was accused of being a Soviet spy. Commonwealth of Massachusetts paperback
196284966New york: Doubleday 1962. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's russet cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. 359pp. Light wear to board edges and spine ends; internally clean fore-edge untrimmed; in a clean bright example of the dustjacket with some light marginal wear and fraying to the head of spine. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> One of two works written about life in the Soviet Union by Kosinski under his Novak pseudonym. Kosinski something of a master of obscuring his own footprints never really accounted for his need to write anti-communist material in the US under an assumed name and it was widely understood that these works were sponsored and commissioned by the CIA although the claim was never substantiated. This copy has one small piece of underlining to the text of the jacket flap where the author's status as "a social scientist" has been emphasised. This title and "The Future is Ours Comrade" both stem from the period when Kosinski was studying at Columbia on a Ford grant. Doubleday unknown
197017547New York: G. P. Putnam' Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine and top cover. Lacking DJ. Cover is clean and unworn. Corners sharp Binding sound tight and straight. Previous owner's name on ffep. There is a short personal inscription signed by the editor Buckley on the half-title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; Signed by Editor . G. P. Putnam' Sons hardcover
193481518New York: International Publishers 1934. First Edition. Oblong quarto 23cm x 27cm. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; 62pp; illus. A remarkably bright unworn copy with minimal rubbing to board corners with the pictorial elements bright and unfaded. Internally clean and unmarked with joints and hinges tight; Near Fine. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. There was also an issue in plain black bookcloth priority uncertain. <br /> <br /> A biographical encomium to Lenin for juvenile readers with illustrations by the New Masses cartoonist William Siegel. A great example of "party-approved" literature for children during the heyday of communism in America an unusually well-preserved copy. International Publishers unknown
19392412n.p.: Intourist Inc. 1939. <br /><br />Red folder measuring 4 x 5 3/4 inches 150 x 113 mm containing 10 post cards. <br /><br />Souvenir folder issued to commemorate the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The folder consists of 10 post cards in black-and-white with descriptions in English French and Russian on the verso of each card. Perhaps not surprisingly two of the cards depict Lenin and Stalin while others show a model of the Soviet Union's pavilion a sailboat Red Square a Caucasian dance festival Theatre Square the fountains at Peterhof holiday makers on the Black Sea and a map showing Intourist offices around the Soviet Union. <br /><br />We find no institutional holdings in OCLC. No others in commerce July 2021. A complete set of this rare portfolio. <br /><br />CONDITION: Fading to lettering of folder along with some creases and edge wear. Toning to the verso of the cards. Overall Very Good or better. Intourist, Inc.
193426222New York: Workers Library Publishers n.d. but ca.1934. Original poster offset printed in black on white stock measuring 67.5cm x 80.5cm. Light wear to extremities old horizontal and vertical folds with attendant creasing; Very Good.<br /> <br /> Propaganda poster advertising eight penny pamphlets published by the Workers Library; pricing ensured that even the lowliest worker would be able to afford something to read. The poster pictures titles by Israel Amter Elizabeth Lawson Herbert Benjamin and Sadie Van Veen. Issued by the National Committee Unemployed Councils proceeds presumably went to aid the unemployed and anti-hunger organizations. Not found in OCLC. Workers Library Publishers unknown
19502009<p>Oberlin Ohio: Oberlin College 1950. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />16mo 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches; 170 x 115 mm 27 1 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />A lecture on the politicization of science and the controversy over genetics in the Soviet Union. The author Harriet B. Creighton was a professor of botany at Wellesley College. <br /><br />"Only an informed and alert public can defend the freedom of scientific inquiry and the right to base practice on scientifically established facts. In this defense each of us has his responsibility" she writes. SCARCE. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some edge wear and soiling to wrappers staples rusted tear to recto of lower wrapper. Otherwise bright and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy.</p> Oberlin College paperback
1976N1468/28Washington: White Lotus Press 1976. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.30. Problems of Communism September-December 1979-Special Issue Vol. XXVIII White Lotus Press paperback
1976N1468/23Washington: White Lotus Press 1976. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.20. Problems of Communism September-October 1974 Vol. XXIII White Lotus Press paperback