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1972913New York: Capitol Hill Press 1972. Revised Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper: "Many thanks - / to / Tom Moran / Herbert A. Philbrick / 1972." Philbrick's account of his nine years in the Communist Party working as a spy for the FBI. Originally published in 1950 the book was updated and reissued in 1972. It was also the basis of a television series in the mid-1950s called Three Lives. Foreword by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 8vo 306 pages. Red remainder mark on bottom page edges light stain on rear pastedown. Otherwise Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket that has some nicks creases and rubbing as well as ownership signature on the front flap. <br/><br/> Capitol Hill Press unknown 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Supreme Court which held that federal law the Smith Act the Internal Security Act and the Communist Control Act had superseded and thus rendered void all State laws on the subject of subversion and sedition.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
1958911New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. First Edition. SIGNED by John Gunther on the half-title page. Gunther's acclaimed account of politics and everyday life in the Soviet Union in the years immediately following Stalin's death. He also deals with the arts as well as foreign policy Khrushchev's secret speech and the crushing of the Hungarian revolt. 8vo xxiv 550 pages. Top and bottom page edges slightly soiled otherwise Fine in bright unclipped dust jacket with some soiling to rear panel light rubbing a few creased closed tears and shallow chipping to spine ends and tips. Signed copies of this book are uncommon. SCARCE SIGNED. <br /><br />John Gunther 1901-1970 was a famous foreign correspondent best known for his "Inside." series of books. Harper & Brothers books
197645463London & Aberdeen: Social Revolution 1976. Quarto. Staplebound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 12pp; illus. Clean tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Introduction to the goals and principles of this British libertarian communist group centered in London and Aberdeen. Social Revolution unknown books
1965863Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1965. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Walter Schneir on the front end paper: "To John J. Macbride / With best wishes / Walter Schneir." Dated August 1965 the year of publication. A review of the trial and conviction of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for espionage; the authors argue that the Rosenbergs had been framed. 8vo. xii 467 pages. Very Good with top edge a bit soiled and crown of spine tapped in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket that's creased and has a couple small chips and some soiling on the rear panel. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company, Inc. 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
19501962New York: Self-published ca. 1950. No Edition Stated. Oblong 48mo 3 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 100 x 140 mm 31 1 pages in stapled wrappers. American journalist and professional curmudgeon John T. Flynn 1882-1964 responds to critics of his 1949 book "The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution" in which he alleged America was being led down the road to socialism.In this pamphlet he attacks Protestant church organizations saying they promote socialism. He also levels attacks at various people he considers socialists communists and fellow travelers.OCLC FirstSearch shows only six institutional holdings. None in commerce as of July 14 2019. SCARCE. <br /><br />CONDITION: Toning to wrappers rubber stamp of free-market economist Percy L. Greaves Jr. to upper wrapper. Internally clean bright and unmarked. Self-published books
19341495New York: New York Labor News Company 1934. First Edition. 12mo 7 1/4 inches / 185 mm tall 63 1 pages in bound wrappers. Light soiling to wrappers general handling wear. Pages clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Defense of Marxist principles by a leader of the Socialist Labor Party published by the party's New York Labor News Company. Black-and-white frontispiece of Marx plus three plates showing various places in London where Marx worked and lived. <br/><br/> New York Labor News Company unknown books
19211436Paris: Biblioteque Communiste 1921. First French edition. Original wraps. 8vo Pp. 124. Spine darkened. A very good copy. Biblioteque Communiste 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
19311496New York: New York Labor News Company n.d. 1931. First Edition. 8vo 9 inches / 230 mm tall 30 2 pages in stapled wrappers. Vertical fold throughout wrappers soiled a few pages with narrow folds along the outside page edges. Pages unmarked. Good only. <br /> <br />Essays on the class struggle by the prolific Arnold Petersen and Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party. A defense of their radical vision of Marxism with frequent attacks on the more moderate Socialist Party which they consider anti-Marxist. Frontispiece depicts Karl Marx. Three further illustrations. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> New York Labor News Company unknown books
19361497New York: New York Labor News Company 1936. First Edition. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 126 mm 40 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /> <br />A spirited -- rollicking even! -- essay with attacks on "fakers" "impostors" "swindlers" and other enemies of the working class. <br /> <br />May Day is the true holiday of the proletariat the author says while Labor Day in the U.S. is fake because it "sticks to the hollow pretense of a brotherhood between capital and labor." <br /> <br />Issued by the radical Socialist Labor Party the pamphlet argues that American labor leaders have eagerly embraced the capitalist class. "The 'labor' leaders travel through the country in the grandest style stop at the 'swellest' hotels--often as not manned with non-union labor. Where they go liquor flows expensively and plentifully--sometimes swinishly." page 30 <br /> <br />The author Olive M. Johnson 1872-1954 was a longtime activist editor and pamphleteer for the Socialist Labor Party. <br /> <br />This pamphlet is peak agit-prop. SCARCE. <br /> <br />CONDITION: Light soling and creasing to wrappers. Pages clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> New York Labor News Company unknown books
193329764Antofagasta: Partido Comunista de Chile 1933. Lithographed postal card ca 19.5cm x 9cm 5-1/4" x 3-1/2". Mild discoloration; corners slightly rounded; Very Good. Recto is a captioned portrait; verso printed for mailing with text providing a brief biography of Anabalon a communist-affiliated college professor who was arrested tortured and killed by Chilean government forces in 1932. A rare memorial of this little-remembered but briefly influential event. [Partido Comunista de Chile] unknown 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. books
19672010Moscow: Moscow News 1967. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Oblong Octavo 5 x 8 inches; 125 x 203 mm 80 pages in stapled pictorial wrappers. <br /><br />Booklet containing 12 popular Soviet songs in English and Russian including Moscow Nights rendered here in English as Moscow Evenings. Lovely cover with the upper wrapper featuring piano keys along the spine and a drawing of a Kremlin tower topped by a red star. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br /> CONDITION: Wrappers a bit soiled light edge wear staple rusted pages very lightly toned and some lightly creased. A Very Good copy. Moscow News paperback books
195750456Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1957. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 44pp. Bit of external soil and wear; text paper mildly age-toned but still a tight Very Good copy. Article prepared by the editorial department of the People's Daily where it originally appeared December 1956. Presumably this is not the first issue of the pamphlet as a statement preceding the text states that "Some minor changes in the English wording as compared ith the earlier translations issued by the Hsinhua News Agency and People's China have been made. Foreign Languages Press unknown 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
193227027Muskegon MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council 1932. Original bifolium issue 22.75cm printed in black on newsprint; 4pp. Slight toning to paper else Fine. An unrecorded Michigan newspaper produced briefly we assume by the Muskegon Unemployed Council. In addition to exposing corruption and mismanagement within Muskegon's municipal government the paper makes repeated invitations to unemployed workers to join the Communist Party and read the Daily Worker suggesting the Unemployed Council was if not an official CP front then at least heavily infiltrated by CP members and fellow travelers. This issue includes coverage of the Ford Hunger March in which 5 protesting workers were shot to death by Ford Company guards outside the gates of the River Rouge Plant.<br/><br/>Rare; we find no examples in the trade July 2015 with one location only in OCLC Library of Michigan; not found in the North American Union List of Serials 1939 ed. Muskegon Unemployed Council unknown books
193227000Muskegon MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council 1932. Two bifolium issues 22.75cm printed in black on newsprint; 4pp. Slight toning to paper else Fine. An unrecorded Michigan newspaper produced briefly we assume by the Muskegon Unemployed Council. In addition to exposing corruption and mismanagement within Muskegon's municipal government the paper makes repeated invitations to unemployed workers to join the Communist Party and read the Daily Worker suggesting the Unemployed Council was if not an official CP front then at least heavily infiltrated by CP members and fellow travelers. The first issue includes coverage of the Ford Hunger March in which 5 protesting workers were shot to death by Ford Company guards outside the gates of the River Rouge Plant.<br/><br/>Rare; we find no examples in the trade July 2015 with one location only in OCLC Library of Michigan; not found in the North American Union List of Serials 1939 ed. Muskegon Unemployed Council unknown 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
197815966Pyongyang Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1978. Red faux leather binding stamped in gilt. VG binding glue discoloration to front paste-down perimeter/faint stain to fore-edge. 643 pp. Portrait of Il Sung. 8vo. <br/><br/>Kim Il Sung the long-time North Korean leader. Book contains reports from 1955 - 1961. Foreign Languages Publishing House hardcover books
197116792Roma: Partito Comunista Italiano / Editoriali Fratelli Spada 1971. First Edition. Lithographed poster offset in three colors; 100cm x 70cm ca 40" x 28"; on heavy paper. Minor toning; light creases at margins; Near Fine - Grade A/A-. A bit of a puzzle: the poster appears to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the formation of the Associazione Bandiera Rossa an Italian Trotskyist group; but the poster bears the imprint of the PCI the main-line Marxist-Leninist party in Italy -- an ideological implausibility even within the chaotic confines of Italian Marxism. Adding further to the confusion is a quotation from Antonio Gramsci founder of the PCI in upper right. In any case a terrific graphic attributed here to Luciano Prati whose name we encounter on a few late-70s Italian film posters but nowhere else. Duke University appears to be the only North American institution to hold a catalogued copy of this work. Partito Comunista Italiano / Editoriali Fratelli Spada unknown books
19502009Oberlin 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. Oberlin College paperback books
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. 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 books
1920591131920. COMMUNISM - RUSSIA. DAS PROGRAMM DER KOMMUNISTISCHEN PARTEI RUSSLAND BOLSCHEWIKI. Angenommen aufdem 8. Parteikongress 18. bis 23 Marz 1919. Mit Einfuhrung von Karl Radek. Zurich: Internationaler Verlag 1920. 67 pp. Pamphlet format: 8 3/4 by 6 1/4inches 22 x15.5 cm printed paper wrappers. The text is clean; however the paper is of inferior quality and is uniformly toned throughout. There is a faint dampstain along the fore-edge; the last two leaves have tears which extend into the text without loss. The wrappers are edge-chipped creased and reinforced with paper tape at the spine. There is a small label affixed to the front panel as well as a closed tear. As is. unknown books
