Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1874. First Edition. Social and political essays, with a brief autobiography, by the prominent 19th-c. reformer, philanthropist, abolitionist and peace activist, founder of The League of Universal Brotherhood (1846) and editor of the pacifist newspaper The Christian Citizen. Of Burritt, DAB writes: "Almost uniquely in America..... More
N.p. Busines Executives Move for Vietnam Peace, 1968. Single 11" x 25-1/2" sheet, folded to make six 11" x 8-1/2" panels. On glossy paper. Folded in thirds for mailing; light wear, small splash-stain at lower right; Very Good. Address delivered before three meetings of "Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace,"..... More
London: Housmans, [1970]. Revised and Enlarged Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original orange decorative wrappers; 83pp. Light rubbing to extremities, else Very Good or better. More
Habana: Editora Politica, 1981. First English Language Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers printed in blue and red; 25pp. A hint of soil, else Fine. More
San Francisco: May 24, 1963. Original typed letter, signed, on single side of a sheet of white wove stock (28x21.5cm), "No War on Children" rubberstamp at top left-hand corner. Faint mail folds, light toning, else Fine. Letter written on behalf of the Committee by its co-Chair, addressed to a Seldon..... More
New York: Rand School Press, 1934. Anti-war literature by the future Executive Secretary of the Social Democratic Federation, an off-shoot of the Socialist Party. Introduction by George W. Hartmann, professor of psychology, Pennsylvania State College. First edition, 8vo (21cm.); printed staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp. Spine edge heavily foxed, else Very Good..... More
Washington DC: Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy, 1979. Quarato. Stapled self-wrappers; 8pp. Mild aging to paper margins, else fine. Promotional and fundraising brochure for this anti-Pentagon lobbying organization. More
New York: Committee for Promotion of Peace, (1948). Soviet anti-Western propaganda, published shortly after WWII; accuses the Allies of conspiring to isolate the Soviet Union and to encourage Nazi aggression as a means of toppling the Bolshevik regime. The essay originally appeared in English in "Soviet Union Today;" this reprint..... More
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London: Committee of 100, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo bifolium (20.75cm.); purple text printed on blue stock. Fine. Anti-nuclear Committee's mission statement. Co-founded by Ralph Schoenman and his employer Bertrand Russell, the Committee was one of the earliest to use British artist Gerald Holtom's now-ubiquitous peace sign, first created for the..... More
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[London: Goodwin Press Ltd], 1961. First Edition. Small octavo (20.5cm.); single sheet folded into 6-panelled pamphlet. Fine. Anti-nuclear Committee announcing blocking and mass walk-on demonstrations on December 9, 1961, at Ruislip, Middlesex and Brize Norton, Oxford, as well as Cardiff, Bristol, Yorkshire, and Manchester. Donation blank provided on one panel..... More
London: Communist Party, N.d. (ca 1944). First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 12pp. Very Good. Reading list, with glosses, to accompany Harry Pollitt's ˆHow to win the Peace (1944). More
New York: Yippy, 1971. First Edition. Rather early poster commission by the artist and art-world provocateur Robert Cenedella. Cenedella is perhaps best known for his 2018 lawsuit against five American art museums, in which he alleges that museums and private gallerists have been co-conspirators in denying certain artists -- including..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); black and gray illustrated paper-covered boards, with title label at upper spine; 96,[2]pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine and upper rear cover, light wear to spine ends and board corners, with minute board exposure to lower corners, a few..... More
New York: War Resisters League, [1941]. First Edition. Brief description of life in a federal penitentiary, prepared by a convicted C.O. to give others a notion of what to expect. Rather literal - the author discusses routines, policies, and regulations, but supplies no personal impressions - but an interesting and..... More
Roccasinibalda, Italia: Caresse Crosby, n.d., ca. 1952-1954. First Edition. Octavo broadside (21cm.); Fine. Text entirely in Italian. Manifesto of the pacifist Citizens of the World movement, which Caresse Crosby, founder of the Black Sun Press, established shortly after the end of World War II. This flyer presumably issued after her..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1902. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan printed dust jacket, top edge gilt; 126pp. Jacket in four disparate pieces having split along both flap folds and upper spine hinge, the whole quite brittle with numerous shallow losses along extremities, bottom two inches..... More
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in off-white decorative dust jacket printed in burnt orange and black; viii,344pp.; color folding map plate. Jacket extremities chipped and worn, long (approx. 2.5") closed tear to bottom edge of upper jacket panel affecting text without loss..... More
[New York]: Post War World Council, [1944]. Condensation of a report by Dr. Corwin D. Edwards, prepared for the Sub-Committee on War Mobilization of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. First edition, 8vo (21cm.); white pictorial staplebound self wrappers; 28pp. Light dust soiling and scattered foxing along bottom upper cover..... More
Havana: Commission Permanente du Comite International Preparatoire, 1978. First French Language Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated wrappers disbound as issued; 15pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear and soil from handling, else Very Good. French language brochure to accompany the 11th World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship..... More
New York: Pegasus, 1968. First Edition. Selection of nine essays examining the moral, philosophical, political, and legal aspects of conscientious objection. Contributors include Everett E. Gendler, Michael Harrington, Arnold Kaufman, John Courtney Murray, William V. O'Brien, Quentin L. Quade, Paul Ramsey, Jerome K. Segal, and Mulford Q. Sibley. Octavo (21cm);..... More
[Pasadena, CA: Friends Committee on Legislation of California / Stop the B-1 Bomber National Peace Conversion Campaign, ca. 1974. First Edition. Narrow octavo; single sheet folded into six-panelled brochure; illus. Stock a bit toned, else Very Good or better. Guide to writing to ones congressman against the American arms race..... More
Los Angeles & New York: Fellowship of Reconciliation, (1949). First Edition. Vignettes of travel with Mahatma Gandhi on several occasions, including the Anti-Untouchability Tour of 1934 and as his host and guide during Gandhi's visit to the United Kingdom in 1931. Signed by the author, the prominent British pacifist and..... More
[London]: University Grouop on Defence Policy, 1962. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 19pp. Mild external wear; contemporary ownership signature, else clean, tight and unmarked within - Very Good or better. Published as Pamphlet Number 3 of the University Grouop on Defence Policy, a British pacifist and anti-nuclear..... More
Glen Gardner, NJ: Libertarian Press, 1950. First Edition. Ocatvo. Comb-bound pictorial thick card wrappers; 200pp. Small chip to front wrapper at corner of bound edge; text browned (but not brittle); Very Good. 2000 copies printed. Among the author's scarcer titles. More
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. First Edition. Narrative of Harold Studley Gray's career as a C.O. during WWI, told through his letters from prison. Gray worked as a YMCA volunteer in British prison camps at the beginning of the war, then refused to accept conscription upon his return to..... More
