New York: Common Council for American Unity, 1942. First Edition. Highly important single issue of the CCAU's monthly literary magazine, issued from 1940-49, which was devoted to bridging ethnic and minority differences and to reflecting America's cultural diversity. This issue includes a substantial (13pp) short story by Woody Guthrie, "Ear..... More
![Training for the Godless Ministry [Life in Soviet Russia, no. 6]. Paul B. ANDERSON, eds](/pictures/medium/42690.jpg?v=1540505819)
[Paris: Russian Orthodox Theological Institute, 1934]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 47pp. Minor wear and dust-soil, else Very Good or better. One in a series of portraits of contemporary Soviet life published by the Russian Orthodox Theological Institute in the 1930s. The point of view, as one might..... More
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. First Edition. Anderson's second collection of short stories, all set in the American midwest. Includes the long stories "Unused," "The Man Who Became A Woman" and "A Chicago Hamlet;" the last of these is an extract from Anderson's unpublished early novel "An Ohio Pagan." HANNA..... More
New York: John Lane Company, 1917. First Edition. Anderson's scarce second novel centered around a dis-illusioned miner's search for meaning and order, who takes it upon himself to marshall the disorganized workers in his town into a disciplined, organized unit. A major proletarian novel, and scarce in any sort of..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, [1931]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pink dust jacket illustrated with woodcut by J.J. Lankes; 143pp.; two-toned (cream and black) frontispiece (dust jacket woodcut repeated) and title page. Jacket a bit toned, especially at spine, a few short closed chips and tiny tears along..... More
New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1920. First Edition. Anderson's fifth book, a novel centering around the rise of a poor white Tennessee farm worker who became a rich industrialist, the result of an agricultural machinery invention. The book also contains strong strike elements towards the end, where a last-ditch effort..... More
![Tar: A Midwest Childhood [Limited Edition, Signed]. Sherwood ANDERSON](/pictures/medium/24149.jpg?v=1529353419)
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Fictionalized memoir about "boyhood and family life in a middle western town." HANNA 80. Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.284. Octavo; 3/4 floral-patterned paper over vellum backstrip, with printed title label applied to..... More
San Francisco: Westgate Press, 1929. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 221. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards, gilt-lettered spine in contemporary paper covered slipcase (not called for in Sheehy & Lohf); [4],34pp.; two-toned woodcuts by Gannon throughout. Tiny split to spine crown cloth..... More
Los Angeles: Haymarket, 1976. Stapled self-wraps; [12pp]. Fine. House organ of the The Haymarket, a socialist community co-operative bookstore and coffee house located on Parkview Street in Los Angeles. Publication details uncertain, though this issue announces an expansion "to include fiction, poetry, criticism, and anything else of interest." Cover illustration..... More
Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836. First Edition. Influential study of the domestic slave trade in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, authorized by the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race, formed the year prior. The letters date chiefly from Baltimore, as well as Washington..... More
New York: Youth Publishers, n.d. [1934]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 44,[2](ads)pp.; illus. Faint dampstaining, else Very Good and sound. Propaganda pamphlet on Soviet education and youth culture, adorned with photographs of smiling children, handsome young men, and skiing beauties. More
Jerusalem: Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 42pp. Near Fine. A rebuttal to remarks made by Abu-Lughod at a 1969 University of Iowa symposium on "Middle East Problems in Perspective." More
![Poster] Saneren - Deporteren - Speculeren [Cleaning Up - Deportation - Speculation]. Ernest...](/pictures/medium/35295.jpg?v=1546641442)
[Amsterdam: Aktiegroep Nieuwmarkt, 1972]. Issued during the years-long battle between developers and citizens regarding plans to build a freeway through Amsterdam's Jewish neighborhood, the (eventually successful) protests spearheaded by the Aktiegroep Nieuwmarkt. Designer and publication information provided by OCLC no. 943722911 (IISH only as of September, 2017)--the dimensions differ slightly..... More
C.C.C. Company 297 moved from Kanona, New York to Heppner, Oregon in late 1936. The images in this album document the cross-country move in detail, including way-stops in Denver and Boone, Colorado. Includes many captioned of the lads at work, laying dams and bridges, cutting wood, preparing meals, etc. A...... More
N.p. [1930]. A rustic but quite charming juvenile production, in which a large, central portrait of Uncle Sam is flanked by images demonstrating proper safety techniques for young workers. The truck at center right bears the insignia "U.S. CCC," and most of the figures are uniformed, leading us to the..... More
N.p. [London: ca 1976]: C.A.C.T.L. [Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law]`. Large, vivid poster promoting the rights of squatters, tenants, and gypsies. Unattributed, but possibly from the Paddington Printshop in London, a peoples' printmaking workshop where a great many squatters' rights materials were produced. This poster advertises the Campaign Against..... More
N.p. [London, ca 1985?]. Universal calendar points to 1985 being the most likely date of creation for this vivid and graphically inspired poster, advertising a meeting of American radicals at the famed Conway Hall, long-time meeting place for radicals and intellectual center of the Conway Hall Ethical Society, thought to..... More
[New York: 1952]. Three snapshots by an unknown amateur photographer depicting a 1952 street protest against Soviet occupation of the Baltic States. The protesters can be seen carrying placards in front of a large Horn & Hardart warehouse, possibly in lower Manhattan. Signs read "Soviets Out of Lithuania;" "USSR is..... More
[Exeter, NH: Philips Exeter Academy Student Peace Group, N.D. but ca.1962]. A curious list of questions designed to prepare demonstrators or debaters for issues they might be challenged with in a public forum. The sheets are undated, but appear to be compiled around the time of the Cuban Missle Crisis..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1903. First Edition. Official report of Theodore Roosevelt's independent Commission, appointed "at the request of both the operators and of the miners" in October 1902 to investigate the causes of the Great Anthracite Strike of that year. The Commission's report marked an important mileston in..... More
![Broadside] Abajo el Fanatismo!! Abajo Los Curas!! Viva La CRMDT. ANTI-CLERICALISM, LABOR UNIONS,...](/pictures/medium/10618.jpg?v=1549582369)
n.p. C.R.M.D.T. (Confederacion Revolucionaria Michoacana del Trabajo), 1932. Rare poster issued by the C.R.M.D.T., a far left party of Michoacan state that advocated land and labor reform on socialist principles as well as total abolition of church involvement in government activities. The text urges campesinos, workers, feminists, and even temperance..... More
Berlin: Anti-Comintern (League of the German Anti-Communistic Associations), 1935. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original printed white staplebound wrappers; 56pp. Extremities a bit dust-soiled and lightly worn from handling, else Very Good and sound. Anti-Communist exposé of the Seventh Communist International. More
Washington DC: Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 55pp. Mild external wear; Very Good. Red Scare-era primer on Communists: how to recognize them, how to beat them, around the world and in the woodpile. With laid-in mimeographed cover-letter by..... More
N.p. Anti-Communist Seal Co., 1948. Unused sheet of twenty identical stamps with gummed versos, each with a portrait of Uncle Sam beside the legend: "Stop Communism! Go The American Way of Life!" Copyright 1948 by the "Anti-Communist Seal Company. Slight discoloration to upper margin of sheet, else very Near Fine..... More
[New York]: Anti-Defamation League, 1980. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp.; half-tone photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear, postally used on rear wrapper, else Fine. Lead article a debate between Irving Kristol and Martin Peretz on the topic "Foreign Policy and the American Jewish Community," though majority of..... More
