93 résultats
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
196816320Premier issue. 'Only daily Marxist newspaper in the USA'. Clean covers and interior; appears unread but newsprint has age darkened; remains supple enough for careful reading. 12 pp centerfold newspaper with 12 pp centerfold 'magazine' in center - same size; paged separately. Articles on: Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City; Vietnam War; peace activism; French politics; Steelworkers and other union activists; taxes; Democrats; Eugene McCarthy; Olympic boycott; james Earl Ray; CP convention. Magazine insert has: interview with Ho Chi Minh; article by Pete Seeger; article on hear transplants; editorial about Israel; movie book TV and theater reviews; much more. Newspaper that followed demise of The Daily Worker and The Worker. Published until 1986 when it merged with People's World to become People's Daily World then People's World which is now an on-line news site. Cf OCLC #41418856. Large folio 24 total pp; illustrated with photos and drawings. Long View Publishing paperback
Q-0299016803The University of Wisconsin Press 1958-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! The University of Wisconsin Press hardcover
191943051New York: Libreria Rossa N.d. ca 1919. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 24pp. Slight aging; mild creasing to spine; Very Good. Text entirely in Italian. Communist tract issued shortly after the Russian revolution calling for an immediate proletarian revolution in Italy with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders to prevent the flight of the bourgeoisie; and the "management of the new society through a free arrangement of persons and competent groups" ".persone e di gruppi competenti interessati all soluzione di ogni singolo problema tecnico e sociale". The pseudonym "Emme" is unknown to us; nor is it certain from which "Libreria Rossa" this pamphlet originated - "libreria rossa" "red bookshop" being a common enough appelation among Italian-American radical booksellers of all political stripes during this period. One copy only in OCLC; not seen in commerce; not in Periconi. Libreria Rossa unknown
77437Small poster 8 1/2" x 14" photomechanically reproduced on white paper. Two-sided with the text in English on one side and Spanish on the other. Creased horizontally with some mild toning; else very good.<br /> <br /> This piece was intended to raise awareness of an April 24 1980 march and memorial meeting in Oakland California organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party in honor of Damian Garcia who was murdered two days earlier while distributing party literature at the Pico Gardens housing project in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> Garcia a U.C. Santa Barbara graduate who served as executive director of La Casa de la Raza during the mid-1970s was a prominent RCP member who led one of the group's most notable actions: raising the red flag over the Alamo in San Antonio on March 20 1980. Throwing down the Texas flag Garcia declared "We've come to set the record straight about the Alamo. This is a symbol of the theft of Mexican land a symbol about the murder of Mexicans and Indians and a symbol of oppression of Chicanos and Mexicanos throughout the whole Southwest." He also called on people together with the proletariat worldwide to come out in struggle on May 1: International Workers Day.<br /> <br /> Following Garcia's death the RCP claimed that his murder was a result of this action and alleged Los Angeles Police Department involvement. The party also refused to cooperate in the investigation and organized demonstrations against both the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles including a May Day march in Los Angeles that was forcibly dispersed by riot clad police officers. As the RCP's first and only martyr Garcia remains an important propaganda symbol for the organization and frequently appears in the RCP newspaper The Revolutionary Worker. unknown
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 February 2022. <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
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
19011202<p>London: Liberty and Property Defence League ca. 1901-05. First Edition. <br /><br />A wonderfully lurid warning against socialism by an organization devoted to laissez-faire economics.</p><p>The anonymous author suggests that socialism would lead to the breakup of families: "There would be no such place as home under socialism. 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."</p><p>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.</p><p>OCLC lists 8 institutional holdings under two different accession numbers: Syracuse Stanford Amherst Harvard Texas Wisconsin Historical Society Michigan and the London School of Economics. No other copies in commerce.</p><p>PHYSICAL DETAILS: Single sheet measuring 8 x 5 1/4 inches 205 x 132 mm when folded creating a 4-page unbound pamphlet.</p><p>CONDITION: Paper lightly toned old stab holes along the gutter tiny check mark to front wrapper 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.</p> Liberty and Property Defence League paperback
193284963New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1932. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in red to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 282pp. A little light wear to extremities minor bumping to spine ends bright and strong; internally clean topstain red fore-edge untrimmed; in a strong example of the dustjacket priceclipped with some soiling to the white portions and some shallow marginal chipping. A very good copy. Signed by the author to the title page. <br /> <br /> Walter's assessment of the Russian experiment as it stood in the early 1930's after he had just been granted unprecedented access to administration and infrastructure during a six month tour of the country. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown
19562736<p>Chicago: Ceskoslovenská národní rada v Americe Czechoslovak National Council of America 1956.</p><p>A scarce satirical guidebook to Prague written by a Czech-American author who lived in Czechoslovakia highlighting the poor conditions under Communist rule. <br /><br />Want to know why the hotels are so expensive Translating from the Czech: You didn't realize what was included in the room price: free-of-charge eavesdropping on your phone maybe even a secret camera opening your mail without damaging the envelope and recording it in the police register photographing your more important correspondence. Want to look around Over here is the prison over there is secret police headquarters this is where Jan Masaryk was pushed out of a window to his death. <br /><br />Theres plenty more in this vein text entirely in Czech. The author Vlasta Vrázová 1900-1989 directed American relief work in Czechoslovakia in the years following World War II. In 1949 the Communist government held her for a week on espionage charges. She returned to the U.S. and became president of the staunchly anti-Communist Czechoslovak National Council of America the publisher of this volume. <br /><br />OCLC shows 16 institutional holdings. None in commerce. <strong>SCARCE</strong>. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto 8 ¾ x 5 ½ inches; 222 x 140 mm 32 pages in stapled red wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />CONDITION: Small tear to top corner of upper wrapper staples rusted some pencil erasures creasing and general handling wear. About Very Good. <br /><br /><br /><br /></p> Ceskoslovenská národní rada v Americe [Czechoslovak National Council of America] paperback
193284363New York: Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh 1932. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Original deep red cloth titled in black to spine with embossed publisher's imprint to front board. Dustjacket. 383pp. Bumped to spine ends with some minor wear to corners some minor darkening to the cloth in places; internally clean fore-edge untrimmed top edge a trifle dusty; in the John Gram dustjacket with some toning to the spine panel shallow chipping and loss to the spine ends intruding upon the author's first name and a short closed tear to the front upper front spine hinge. A good strong copy with some wear.<br /> <br /> Leonov's novel of Soviet labor centred around the building of an enormous factory; Sotstroy. Gorky provides the preface; the novel was notable at the time as an antidote to the image of the USSR as an enormous generator of plans progress noble artistic and industrial endeavor and a shining beacon of energy. Leonov tends towards a more on the ground depiction of enthusiastic ineptitude paranoia and fanaticism. Bookplate of Alvin Kapusta to front pastedown a Special Assistant for Soviet Nationalities at the US State Department and a notable scholar of the Soviet Bloc whose collections are housed at the Hoover Institution. Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh unknown
192984083New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. Large Paper Edition. Large Octavo. 26.5cm. Publisher's pale orange cloth titled in black and gilt to front board with red paper title label to spine. xvi; 308pp. Scuffing and bumping to extremities the cloth uniformly faded to a pale diluted pinkish orange with some scuffing and soiling darkening to the spine label and some very light marginal chipping; internally clean black topstain fore-edge untrimmed lavishly illustrated throughout in color and black and white. A strong and handsome copy about very good due to solidity and completeness but with cosmetic external wear. <br /> <br /> Significantly taller and more bulky than the trade edition likely a deluxe or large paper edition produced from British sheets the pagination differs considerably from the earlier trade edition with several additional color illustrations for example the "Red Angel of Revolution" color plate is here the recto of the photographic frontis and a rather unusual contemporary small format photograph of Leningrad tipped onto one of the plate pages. The paper title label suggests a slipcase although none is present. Unusual rather than scarce with a pretty solid showing in institutions if none in trade. Alfred A. Knopf 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
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
193243659Santiago de Chile: Union Social de Chile 1932. First Edition. 12mo 17.5cm.; publisher's blue-grey printed staplebound wrappers; 8pp. Textblock slightly toned else a Fine copy. Issued as "Folleto No. 21. [Union Social de Chile] unknown
193416160Hamtramck MI 1934. Hand-painted banner 8.5cm x 65cm ca 3-1/4" x 26". In red and black on a white background. Old stains and tape adhesions; complete and Good. Scarce relic from the 1934 Hamtramck Michigan mayoral campaign in which George Kristalsky and a slate of seven communist candidates for City Council were defeated. Hamtramck a working-class suburb of Detroit was a center of radical labor activity during the Great Depression. unknown
196912628Havana: Union de Jovenas Comunistas 1969. Seven newspapers each between 6 and 8pp. on newsprint. Illustrated. Modest toning some edge wear and closed tears some bumped or dog-eared corners. Overall very good. A small but instant collection of an informative newspaper from Communist Cuba published daily by the youth wing of the Party. The issues are all dated in January 1969 specifically from January 11 15 22 28 29 30 and 31. The issues contain domestic and international reporting along with topics relevant to revolutionary young people. Interestingly one issue contains a translated interview with Hollywood legend Marlon Brando. The paper also prints a legion of photographs cultural event listings classifieds baseball statistics and updates cartoons and more. Union de Jovenas Comunistas unknown
88373Philadelphia: Iran Student Association 1983. Two issues in original wrappers. Stapled paper self-wraps covers printed in two colors; 28pp 36pp; illus. Mild foxing at margins else Very Good. Text entirely in English.<br /> <br /> Organ of the American student arm of the Iranian People's Fedayee Fedai Guerrillas an Iranian guerrilla communist group that opposed both Western capitalism and the 1979 Islamic Revolution the latter chiefly from exile. This group is not to be confused with the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas from which the IPFG split in 1979 citing the former's lack of dedication to the principles of armed struggle. The magazine's contents are a combination of attacks on Iran's "imperialist" Islamic regime and on the foreign policy of the United States which the organization blames for laying the foundation for the Islamic revolution beginning with the CIA coup of 1953. A rare publication from a key period in modern Iranian history before the Islamic Republic had irrevocably consolidated power. This periodical rare; OCLC notes only about five locations for any holdings in the U.S. all for later issues. unknown
191983563Chicago: Jugosl. Medjunarodnog Soc. Saveza 1919. 12mo 17cm. Staple-bound printed pale blue wrappers; 28pp. Mild toning and soil to wrapper edges; expected tanning to text; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Scarce American Croat translation of Trotsky's Manifesto of the Communist International which had originally appeared in Issue no. 1 of The Communist International the Comintern's theoretical organ. The translator of this edition is unidentified; nor is there any mention of Trotsky as author. Hoover Institution only in OCLC. Jugosl. Medjunarodnog Soc. Saveza unknown
19421279San Francisco: Communist Party of California 1942. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Seven-page mimeographed document 8 1/2 x 11 inches 217 x 280 mm stapled in top left-hand corner.<p>A "Dear Comrades" letter addressed to all branches of the Communist Party in California Arizona and Nevada urging them to meet and discuss an editorial in the August 1942 issue of the Communist "No Delay in Opening the Western Front." The letter provides reading suggestions from Communist Party publications and suggests that party members bring articles from the non-Communist press that favor a second front against Germany. It further warns that "appeasers" are trying to prevent the opening of a second front and provides counter-arguments to those opposing the second front.<br /></p><p>No institutional copies found in OCLC. None in commerce. <b>RARE.</b><br /></p><p>An interesting look at how the Communist Party sought to mobilize popular support for a second front in Europe.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Moderate toning to cover page less toning to subsequent pages pencil notation at upper left corner of cover page. Horizontal fold probably for mailing. Light dampstaining. A Very Good copy.<br /></p> Communist Party of California paperback
195123521New York: Civil Rights Congress 1951. Very good condition. Two pamphlets part of a series of articles by the American author and noted Communist. Fast modeled his pamphlets on Thomas Paine's "Crisis Papers" noting "I intend this to be the first of a number of Crisis Papers. This tyranny of today will not be easily conquered nor will the evil men who rule America easily bow to the will of the people. I state that I will speak up again and again so long as the need be present". <br /> <br /> Crisis No. 1 protests the American war in Korea the activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and attacks and threats on American Communists. Fast decries the threats against the leader of the Civil Rights Congress William L. Patterson to turn over all of his organization's records or be jailed. The Congress's goal was to fight racism & racial injustice in the US.<br /> <br /> Crisis No. 2 concerns the government's attacks on the Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund. 8vo 4pp each. Paper evenly toned. These are the first and second of three pamphlets titled Crisis. Fast wrote extensively on the Paul Robeson riots in Peekskill NY. OCLC: 30448136 Crisis No. 1 and OCLC: 71682230. Civil Rights Congress unknown
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.
19713912<p>Oruro Bolivia: CEDI 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. VG. 8vo 282pp printed wrappers. Rare original edition of this revolutionary memoir published in Bolivia. In Spanish. Unmarked copy a bit of reading wear.</p> Oruro, Bolivia: CEDI paperback
1949182587Shanghai: Taipingyang chubanshe 1949. First edition of this large political visualization significant for its publication date only a few weeks before the founding of the People's Republic of China. It reflects an increased demand for material explaining the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party caused by the party's victory in the civil war and the complete collapse of the Kuomintang on the mainland. The table presents some of the core ideas of Marxism tracking economic and cultural evolution from primitive through to capitalist and then socialist societies. The columns address such criteria as modes and means of production vanguard revolutionary forces and class relations. Although the table accommodates a transitional period from capitalism and socialism this differs from the "new democracy" approach favoured by Mao in the PRC's early years. Printed table 530 x 680 mm folding away into 157 x 107 mm card wrappers front cover lettered in red within black frame. Table in Chinese text printed in red and black. Table with 140 mm closed tear sometime repaired on recto with adhesive tape small split at one intersection unknown
19482875New York: Council of Negro Trade Unionists 1948. Near fine. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Minimal wear. A rare leaflet issued by the Provisional Harlem Committee to Free Ferdinand C. Smith and the Council of Negro Trade Unionists. Ferdinand C. Smith secretary of the National Maritime Union was instrumental in promoting Black membership in the Negro Trade Unionists. Attorney General Tom C. Clark originally from Texas sought to deport Smith back to Jamaica because of his Communist affiliations and work for civil rights. OCLC reports just a single copy of this work at the University of Kansas. Council of Negro Trade Unionists unknown
