New York: Harlem Trade Union Council, 1950. First Edition. "The text of an address to the National Labor Conference for Negro Rights, June 10, 1950, denouncing President Truman and the U.S. government for enslaving Negroes and others at home, and colonial people abroad with the Marshall Plan and the Point..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1946. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Pencil date to cover; foxed and sunned along edges; Very Good. "...communist analysis of differences among cartels, trusts, and combines, pointing out that conflicts of interest are continued in cartels, though not in other forms of monopoly" - SEIDMAN A44..... More
New York: American Youth Congress, 1940. First Edition. Events of the Sixth American Youth Congress and the second to be held during the Hitler-Stalin pact period. SEIDMAN A156: "Noncontroversial topics included civil liberties, the proposed American Youth Act, and opposition to poll taxes in the South." Octavo (21cm.); pictorial staplebound..... More
New York: American Youth for Democracy, 1946. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 23pp. Clean, fresh and unmarked, Very Good or better. On post-war campus overcrowding as a result of the GI Bill of Rights. Illustrated throughout in a light, mid-century style. SEIDMAN A-59. 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
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 334pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine, without jacket. More
New York: International Pamphlets, 1932. Second Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 31pp; lightly splitting along bottom of front hinge; age-toned; else in good or better condition. More
New York: Weekly Masses Co., Inc., 1937. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Marguerite Young, Ivor Montagu, Lou Partnow, Kenneth Rexroth, Victor Gollancz, Henry Hart, Granville Hicks, and others, with illustrations by William Sanderson, John Mackey, Theodore Scheel, Ben Yomen, Herb Kruckman, and Sylvia Wald, et al. Quarto (31cm); illustrated..... More
New York: Workers School, [1943]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original tan staplebound card wrappers printed in blue; 48pp. Fine. Three addresses on Thomas Jefferson delivered at a Jefferson Bicentennial Commemoration at Mecca Temple in New York; introduction by Alexander Trachtenberg. More
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New York: by author, 1949. First Edition. 1. 12mo (17cm.); original blue printed staplebound wrappers; 47pp.; printed from typescript. Lower wrapper edge trimmed slightly affecting price (25ยข), else Fine. BRENNEMAN, p. 29; SEIDMAN B631: "A prediction by the former leader of the party that a major economic crisis is developing..... More
Yonkers: Earl Browder, 1957. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original yellow staplebound wrappers; 38 typescript leaves printed on rectos only. Fine. Selected essays by the ex-Communist Party leader, published over a decade after his expulsion. More
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[New York? By the author, 1949]. First Edition. 12mo (16.25cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 16pp.; printed from typescript. Fine. BRENNEMAN, p. 32; SEIDMAN B634: "Criticism of the Communist Party's 'left-deviationism.' The author...argues that true Leninists should support state capitalism in the U.S. as a transition to ultimate socialism." More
New York: New Masses, Inc., [1943]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's orange printed staplebound wrappers; 47pp.; illus. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. SEIDMAN B590. More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940. 12mo (19.75cm.); publisher's green and white card wrappers; [641]-735pp. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940. 12mo (19.75cm.); publisher's green and white card wrappers; [809]-892pp. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940. 12mo (19.75cm.); publisher's green and white card wrappers; [409]-487pp. Light wear else Near Fine. More
New York: International Publishers, [1958]. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); original yellow card wrappers printed in green; 64pp. Near Fine, partially unopened copy. More
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Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1951. First Edition. Seventh and Eighth reports of the California Un-American Activities Committee, covering the years 1952-1955. Includes lengthy investigation of the "Gadar" [i.e., "Ghadar"] Party, a far-left organization of Punjabi exiles. Octavo. Later black buckram; original wrappers bound in; 296+622pp. Copy of high-ranking FBI..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1950]. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 284pp. Jacket extremities rather ragged with several smallish losses, including at spine ends touching text without loss of meaning, corners bumped, else Very Good only. Author's memoir of working as an F.B.I. undercover agent..... More
New York: Civil Rights Congress, [1952]. First Edition. "An assertion by the Party's front organization in the civil rights field that the Supreme Court is under reactionary pressure to support attacks on civil liberties and in particular to uphold the Smith Act convictions. The Congress calls for a program of..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 237pp. Ownership signature to front pastedown; a few page corners turned down, else a clean, tight copy in lightly edgeworn dustwrapper; VG or better. More
Hamtramck, MI: [Michigan Communist Party], 1934. First Edition. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates, which include one woman (Jennie Romaniuk) and one African-American..... More
Hamtramck, MI: [Michigan Communist Party], 1934. First Edition. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates, which include one woman (Jennie Romaniuk) and one African-American..... More
[Hamtramck, MI]: [1934]. 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. Hand-painted banner, 8.5cm x 65cm..... More
Muskegon, MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council, 1932. 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..... More
