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74 pages. Features: Sex and Love of God; I Had Polio; Princess Margaret O'Brien of Hollywood; The House That Dimes Built - How Frank Woolworth parlayed a gift of gab into an American institution; Animals are the Craziest People; They Call Him Mr. Baffle - Leslie L. (Biff) Biffle, Secretary of the Senate; Down in the Arctic - Jack Kastner, Sir Robert Stirling-Hamilton, Ben Custer, Charles Wilcox and Jerome Scalise crash their plane in the Arctic; French Boxer Marcel Cerdan; Interesting back page opinion piece considers China's move to communism. Short Stories: The Loves of Martin; The Man of the House; Three Little Girls Wore Blue; The River; Martha and Her Dream Man; Ringside Maiden (part 5 of 8). Nice ads for: Studebaker Trucks (inside front cover), Zenith Televisions, Good Year Tires, RCA Victor audio products, Hudson cars (nice full-page color), Papst Blue Ribbon - one -page color ad featuring Mr. and Mrs. F. Warren Pershing,Vitalis (featuring Buddy O'Connor, General Motors GM - two-page color, Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring color photo of Mrs. William E. Benjamin II, Spam (in color), Back cover color photo ad for Camel cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
86 pages. Articles: Chiselers' Holidy - long vacations on unemployment money; Our Job in Italy - Communism isn't beaten yet; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (5) - further negotiations with Stalin/the true story of the Atlantic Charter; Dancing-School Bonanza - the big business of teaching rumba, samba and tango; Joan of Arc - the movie starring Ingrid Bergman; Guinea Pig for Cancer - an experiment with atomic energy; Warren Warm-Up - appraising California's governor as a presidential candidate. Fiction: Ring-Shy; Death Had a Voice; The Man Who Painted Himself Blue; What Would You Do?; The Branble Bush (part 3 of 5); The General was an Honest Man. Ads include: Heinz ketchup (great photo ad); Toastmaster; Vitalis (with Lloyd Mangrum); Philco; Crosley fridges; Hudson cars; Auto-Lite spark plugs (featuring Ann Sheridan); Firestone Super-Balloon tires; Chevrolet trucks; 1949 Ford cars; Coke - large illustration of soda fountain; Dodge Trucks; Lord Calvert Whiskey - featuring full-page color-photo of author Hassoldt Davis; Walt Disney's "Melody Time" movie; Trailways bus lines; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Nice one-page color ad for Lincoln cars features a red four-door with suicide doors; One-page color ad promotes Florida vacations; Classy color one-page ad for Mallory Hats; One-page photo ad for North American Aviation Inc. features their Navion 4-passenger plane; Hoover - "U.S. Communists are better organized than any fifth column Hitler had."; Senator Claude Pepper; Hawaii - struggle for control; Centralia Coal Co. Mine disaster at Wamac, Illinois; Attractive Coke ad shows three young office ladies eating their lunches in office; Color Camel cigarette ad features champion fisher Mrs. Dorothy Allan Newstead of Georgia; British prepare to turn Palestine over to the United Nations; Awesome one-page color Chevrolet ad features big chrome grill over flat black background; The French Four-Year Plan; Where are the POWS? - Two million missing Germans captured by the Soviets; Disastrous food situation in the Ruhr; Finnish physiotherapist Dr. Felix Kersten releases his analysis and observations of Himmler's personality; Color ad for 1947 Ford cars; Violence in Formosa; Photos of Australian girls bidding farewell to American sailors on the Wooloomooloo wharf in Sydney; Communism in Franc - illusions and realities; Jeep ad shows it doing utility jobs; Brief obituaries for Johnny Evers, Charles S. Whitman and Edith Craig; Examining Hiroshima victims 16 months later; Uranium 233; Barbara Ward - First Lady of the Economist; Airlines - Eddie Rickenbacker of Eastern; Photo of Horace T. Pentecost and his one-man "Hoppi-Copter" helicopter; Glorious color ad for Chrysler cars at apple blossom time; Henry Hazlitt writes on High Taxes vs. Incentive and Revenue; Photo of world record swimmer Joe Verdeur; Wonderfully-illustrated Fruehauf Trailers ad features the Minnehaha natural spring water and their loading docks on wheels; Erich Leinsdorf; Nice two-page ad for Newsweek; Nice color ad for Venus drawing pencils; Color-photo ad for Corby's whiskey; Nostalgic ad for P.I.E. - Pacific Intermountain Express (truck lines); Color-photo Studebaker ad inside back cover; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Age-toning to contents. A worthy vintage copy. Book
124 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. Prescient thoughts on the threats to freedom and material well-being represented by socialism/communism. Particularly interesting given that it was written just after the tide of WWII had turned. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Features: What we can do about fallout - how to protect yourself from the hottest year for nuclear fallout since testing began - Canada is the hottest country in the world; What is a Screen Gem? - the tv show machine that turns out the lion's share of the canned entertainment on our screens - a profile of the factory and the shrewd men who run it in the United States and Canada; Mordecai Richler reports from the world hockey tournament in Sweden; The cottage industry of Timmins, Ontario - Stealing Gold; Moral Re-Armament/MRA - a private citizen's security check on this 'mysterious organization that claims to be fighting communism'; Mackenzie Porter among the Bunnies - what these lovely young women are like on their own time; Pierre Berton spends election night with the Pearsons. Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows young lady in red gown and young man in clown suite. Some chipping and sunning to edges of front cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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. books
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.
(Codice SO/2181) In 8º (22 cm) 411 pp. Première édition belge. Moindres piqures de rouille. Brochage original, dos réfait. Grandes marges non coupées. Très bon état. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
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
Milano, Longanesi & C., 1967. Si tratta della PRIMA edizione italiana del febbraio 1967. Unica traduzione italiana dall’originale cinese di Giorgio Zucchetti. L’edizione originale è apparsa in Cina nel 1966. Più che una raccolta, “citazioni”, questa è una vera e propria piccola antologia del pensiero di Mao Tse-Tung, sistemata per argomenti. Volume N. 72 appartenente alla Collana: La Fronda. In 16mo (cm. 18,8); brossura originale con titoli al piatto e al dorso; pp. 266, (6). Dalla seconda di copertina: Ecco finalmente, nell’unica traduzione italiana condotta con assoluta fedeltà sul testo cinese dell’edizione apparsa nel Settembre 1966, quello che è oggi il più famoso e più letto libro del mondo. Ottima copia. PAxs
16346Genève, 1871. xvi, 311, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, original covers preserved. Zaleski 79; not in Catalogue Russica. First French edition. Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian social thinker and is known as the 'father of Russian socialism.' Early in his intellectual development, Herzen was influenced by German idealist thinkers such as Schiller and Schelling. He believed in the autonomy and dignity of the individual and opposed forces, such as family and state, that oppressed the individual. Later, under the influence of French socialist thinkers such as Charles Fourier, Herzen's thought became more radical. Herzen projected his earlier concern for the oppressed individual onto society at large and he became a supporter of socialism. The socialism he envisioned was a loose federation of self-governing communes. Only in such a system could the ideal society be achieved- according to Herzen that society would be a free association of individuals which provided for the full flowering of each personality. Herzen initially placed his hopes for this future order in the European socialist movement. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions to achieve socialist principles, however, Herzen became disillusioned about European prospects and turned his attention to Russia. Herzen argued that socialist transformation would actually come first to Russia because communal institutions such as the peasant commune survived and bourgeois attitudes hadn't yet emerged. This sense of the advantages of Russian 'backwardness' was influential among the Populists in the 1870s. Herzen has been called a 'gentry revolutionary.' The illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, Herzen viewed the gentry as a progressive class. The revolution he envisioned was for the people but not necessarily by them. Also, his socialism was a national destiny rather than a class one, and because he promoted the value of individualism in collectivist form--in other words, the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. Among Herzen's works are From the Other Shore (1848-50) and The Russian People and Socialism and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts.He founded a periodical, the famous Kolokol, in whose pages the free word first appeared in the Russian language, unhampered by censor or police, exposing the government's secrets, criticizing bureaucratic abuses, approving the good intentions of the czar, the 'liberator', and trying to dictate to him a reform program.
Cofanetto ill. su tre lati, contenente 50 volumetti di circa 100 pp. cad., di autori vari, Marx , Engels, Stalin , Lenin e Mao Tse dun, Plekhanov; bruniture ai dorsi e ai margini interni dei piatti, cofanetto danneggiato ad un ang. esterno(foto),segni d'uso e del tempo, interni in buono stato.
Original Wraps. 16mo. 63 pages. 17 cm. First Yiddish Edition. In Yiddish, with secondary English title: To The Workingmen, by Leo Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian by V. Aleksandrov. In the series Di Internationale Bibliothek. One of Tolstoys last essays, (originally published 1902) , calling for the spread of the gospel of peaceful anarchism amongst the workers of the world. Subjects: Socialism. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Yiddish Anarchism. One listing on OCLC (JTSA) . Light wear to wraps, very fresh. Very good + condition. (YID-19-8)
In-16 gr. (mm. 183x115), mz. pelle coeva, dorso a cordoni (restaurato), titolo oro su dorso a cordoni, pp. IV,500. Dal comunismo di Platone alle utopie socialiste degli scrittori francesi del XVIII secoloco (Morelly, Malby, Rousseau et Brissot de Warville), la Rivoluzione francese e quindi Robert Owen, Saint -Simon, Louis Blanc e Proudhon. "Prima edizione". Cfr. Lorenz,IV, p. 446. Con fioriture, lieve alone marginale solo su alc. cc., peraltro ben conservato.
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
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
193416160Hamtramck MI 1934. Hand-painted banner 8.5cm x 65cm ca 3-1/4" x 26". In red and black on a white background. Archivally framed; old stains and tape adhesions; Good. Not examined out of frame. 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 books
19492131New York: Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis 1949. <br /><br /> Single page folded once to create a 4-page brochure measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches 280 x 215 mm when folded.<br /><br />Illustrated brochure featuring an autobiographical statement by Benjamin J. Davis a Black Communist who was running for re-election to the New York City Council. The statement was based on his testimony in the 1949 trial against him and 10 other Communist leaders who had been charged with conspiring to overthrow the government.<br /><br />Davis recounts his childhood in Georgia attending college at Morehouse and Amherst and graduating from Harvard Law School. He talks about some of the cases he worked on as a lawyer and ends with a plea for readers to sign petitions to secure a place for him on the ballot. The brochure lists his 11-point program which includes ending police brutality in Harlem and restoring the five-cent fare. <br /><br />We find no institutional holdings of this brochure in OCLC and none in commerce June 2021. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: A bit of handling wear and soiling. A Near Fine copy. Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis books
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." Short missive on the dangers of communism in Chile quite possibly the only title issued by the "Union Social de Chile Asociación contra el Comunismo" despite the series number. Though this title appears uncatalogued in OCLC as of February 2019 we find Stauber's "El Pueblo Comunista y Su Influencia en Chile" with the same imprint quite possibly a cataloging error National Library of Chile only. [Union Social de Chile] unknown books
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
194725005USA: Not Published 1947. Typed letter signed dated November 20 1947 on 4 Essex Court Temple E.C. 4 imprinted letterhead 1.5 pages single-spaced; written to Cipe Pineles 1908 - 1991 award-winning Austrian-American graphic designer the first woman director for many influential publications including Mademoiselle Seventeen and Charm on the Vogue London staff and also involved in socialist and communist activities in Europe and America. The first part of the letter details Molly Pritt's thanks for various articles of clothing sent to her by Pineles and others due to the shortages in post-war Britain. Especially "the problem of shoes for women and growing childrenwhich were such a comfort to me in Russia and indeed here" She writes of her husband N.P. Pritt's trip to the U.S. and the kindness of Pineles and her husband during his tour. She looks forward to accompanying him on a return journey and "I believe I could be very useful.During the war when I was vice chairman under the Dean of The Joint Committee for Soviet Aid I addressed literally thousands of meetings in all parts of the countryin huge ordnance factories town halls womens organisations and so on and even at a big boxing match 7000 people in the Albert Hall here! So I am quite an expert with all types of audiences. I am still at it of course since my visit to the Soviet Union last year when I received the decoration given me by the Supreme Soviet for my workI find audiences now rather like they were at the beginning of the waranxious for news of Russiaanxious to have their fears dispelledfear inculcated by the press of courseRobin Page Arnot 1890-1986 British political activist and historian foundation member of the CP Great Britain came to lunch yesterday.Now I must go out into the dark to tackle a housing problem of some of my husbands constituentsThey each came to ask my husbands advice about itand he suggested I should go and inspect and see if I could offer any solutionwhat a job!! However along I'll goavoiding the awful drifting crowds who are up from the provinces for the wedding. It is coldit is foggyit is damp but still they find the streets more comfortable then their homes. It would seem.signed Molly Pritt" Approx. 8" x 10" size; light wear old fold lines in very good condition; With a plain typed one-side cardstock 'ticket' for the Guest of Rt. Hon. D. N. Pritt Section B Row 1 Seat 3 to the "American Soviet Friendship Rally" at St. Nicholas Arena Sunday November 9 1947UOPWA Richard Morford Executive Director National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. Approx. 3" x 5" size; light wear; very good condition. Denis Nowell Pritt 1887-1972 British lawyer and political activist "one of Britain's sturdiest fellow-travellers Pritt's legal talents were rapidly harnessed for a variety of progressive causes if incorrigible as a Stalinist he should be remembered too for diverting his career from more lucrative legal pastures to a mostly exemplary body of work for the labour and anti-colonial movements. If his plaudits from the people's democracies were fulsome he also knew the less pleasant experience of professional and social ostracism at home. His wife less political than her husband apparently found their moments of isolation especially trying." Kevin Morgan in the ODNB Pritt's wife Marie Frances Mollie Gough 1895-1999 whose influence and impact is minimized in the biographies and relegated to a supportive role to her husband's activities was much more significantly involved as this letter proves. Her activities were certainly as dedicated to their cause as her more famously-documented husband. . Typed Letter Signed. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books