New York: World Law Fund, 1967. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound, printed paper wrappers; 23pp. Clean, tight, Near Fine copy. Prospectus and study guide for the paperback reissue Elizabeth Jay Hollins's 1966 volume Peace is Possible, a pacifist reader with contributions by Robert Jay Lifton, Gunnar Myrdal, Abba Eban, George F. Kennan..... More
Washington DC: International Association of Machinists (IAM), 1979. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound card wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to text margins, else Fine. Argues for a rebalancing of defense spending, with greater apportionment to civilian infrastructure projects and alternative energy initiatives. More
Chicago: The International Council of Religious Education, 1935. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 28pp. Fresh and unmarked; about Fine. Christian Quest Pamphlet number 19. Anti-war instruction for Christian youth. More
[New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace], 1939. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); bifolium printed on yellow stock. Light wear from handling, else Near Fine. Educational pamphlet on the UN peace and labor agency the ILO. OCLC locates one separately catalogued copy as of September, 2019, at Yale. More
Cabot, VT: International Voluntary Service, 1960. Reprints James's prophetic essay on modern warfare, first published in 1910. With a foreword by Albert Bigelow. Staple-bound pamphlet. Illustrated card wrappers; 12pp. Toning to wrapper edges, else Near Fine. More
New York: Institute for World Order, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 58pp. Fine. Proposal for cold-war arms reduction by the Director of the Grenville Clark Project on Disarmament. More
Detroit: Correspondence Publishing Co., 1962. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound printed paper wrappers; 31pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good or better. Uncommon early pamphlet by the British anthropologist; predicts a post-nucler world society free of state controls. Gough was a member of the Johnson-Forrest Tendency and an outspoken Marxist and..... More
Washington DC: National Student Forum on the Paris Pact, 1935. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 39pp. Very Good. Source-book for secondary school students regarding the 1928 Paris Peace Pact. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First American Edition. Posthumous collection of Kettle's writings on the Great War, including his major essay, "Why Ireland Fought." Kettle (1880-1916), reputedly considered by James Joyce to be his closest friend in Ireland (see David Pierce, Joyce and Company, Lon: 2006; p152), was hailed..... More
West La Fayette, OH: By the Author, 1913. Ninth Edition. The author's attempt to "focus labor's attention on the class war instead of the international struggle for markets" (EGBERT II, p. 281). The popularity of the book would lead to the author's being chosen as Allan Louis Benson's Vice Presidential..... More
West La Fayette, OH: By the Author, 1914. Eleventh Edition. The author's attempt to "focus labor's attention on the class war instead of the international struggle for markets" (EGBERT II, p. 281). The popularity of the book would lead to the author's being chosen as Allan Louis Benson's Vice Presidential..... More
West La Fayette, OH: By the Author, 1911. Fourth Edition. The author's attempt to "focus labor's attention on the class war instead of the international struggle for markets" (EGBERT II, p. 281). The popularity of the book would lead to the author's being chosen as Allan Louis Benson's Vice Presidential..... More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1933. First, Limited Edition. First American edition, one of 1000 numbered copies (this is no. 124) on Normandy vellum. Very Good or better in the original patterned boards; in original paper dustwrapper, soiled and backed with kraft paper on verso; just Good. WW1 poetry. More
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Portland, OR: Henry Lee, N.d. [ca 1940]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Bifolium; illus. On newsprint; text slightly tanned, else Very Good. WW2 anti-draft propaganda. Lampoons the assignment of Capt. Elliott Roosevelt (second son of FDR) to a non-combat unit in WW2, with a graphic contrasting Roosevelt's cushy assignment with the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First American Edition. "An autobiography of the founder of Kingsley Hall, friend and neighbor of London's East End, leader in social causes, friend of Gandhi, ambassador of world good-will" - upper jacket panel. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket, brown..... More
New York: Dutton, 1937. First American Edition. Important work exploring the profit motive in war from the Classical Era through the early stages of the European conflict of the Thirties. Octavo. Tan cloth, lettered in deep red on spine and front cover; red top-stain; dustjacket; 287pp. Mildest of toning to..... More
N.p. American Federationist, 1936. Offprint. Octavo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; 8pp. Wrinkling and age-toning to margins; text unmarked; contemporary ownership stamp ("M. Rovner") to front cover; Good. More
Stockholm: Armémuseum, 1986. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 80pp.;illus. in color. Fine. With bifolium list of the 75 color plates reproduced in this exhibition catalogue to accompany an exhibition of Lipschutz's private collection of war posters, dating from the first World War to the present (1982)..... More
New York: Roving Eye Press, [1959]. First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Quarto (28.25cm.); original white staplebound pictorial card wrappers printed in dark blue, French flaps; unpaged; woodblock illus. throughout. Spine-extremities of both covers damp-stained, the whole rather dust-soiled and a bit toned, spine rather edge-worn, About Very Good only..... More
New York: Roving Eye Press, [1959]. First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Quarto (32cm.); publisher's cloth, pictorial plates printed in blue mounted to both covers; unpaged; blockprint illus., many full-page, throughout. Boards rubbed and quite soiled with upper cover plate starting to bubble from binding. Good to Very Good only..... More
Zürich: Edition Olms Zürich, 2004. First Edition. Folio (32.75cm.); original illustrated wrappers; 208pp.; chiefly illus. Fine. Compilation of more than 200 peace posters relating to the Iraq War (2003). More
New York: Vanguard Press, [1939]. First Edition. Large octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's boards in orange pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; unpaged; chiefly illus. Some closed tears along jacket extremities, none approaching text, brief tape repair to verso, white portion of spine shows some foxing, textblock rather soiled, else Near Very Good and..... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1920. First English Language Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, vii,[1],228pp. Spine a bit cocked, light dampstaining to cloth, spine gilt dulled; upper hinge cracked but holding, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. About Very Good. French Communist's first novel, published in the original..... More
New York: Plowshare Press, 1944. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; Printed buff paper wrappers; 32pp. Mild aging and external soil; free of markings or significant wear; Very Good. Transcript of Mayer's speech before the War Resisters' League, with additional commentary by Jesse Wallace Hughan, Evan W. Thomas, and others. Mayer a...... More
[London]: Center for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), N.d. (ca 1962). Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 12pp. Bit of creasing and soil to wrappers, else Near Fine. Early anti-proliferation tract by the Center for Nuclear Disarmament, a Brish nuclear watchdog group. More
