Chicago: American Peace Mobilization, [1940]. An interesting example of the Comintern's Hitler-Stalin Pact-era "pacifism" - the authors argue vigorously against American participation in WWII, a position that they would reverse abruptly on June 21, 1941, the day Hitler launched his invasion of the Soviet Union. At this point the organization..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935. SEIDMAN S-327: "...asserting that Hearst, in his drive against wages, unions, and communism, is driving for fascism in the U.S., with the knowledge and approval of the Roosevelt Administration." Dramatic cover illustration by Burck, depicting Hearst and Hitler as a pair of flying bats..... More
N.p. [New York]: American League Against War and Fascism, ca 1935. First Edition. Lengthy statement by the American League Against War and Fascism countering accusations that the ALAWF was a Communist-controlled front group. Text unsigned. Concludes with an invitation to attend a Mass Meeting for the defense of Ethiopia (from..... 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
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1936. First edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 30pp; ads at front and rear. Mild toning to spine and exterior extremities, else Near Fine. Issued as Number 6 in the "Reviewer's Library." More
New York: International Publishers, 1941. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Light foxing to cover and pages, else near fine. 12mo. More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1936. Revolutionary novel of the early days of the Spanish Civil War, set within the socialist and anarchist milieu of pre-war Madrid. Sender, an anarchist and a Republican sympathizer, fled Spain in 1938 and became one of the best-known Spanish exile-intellectuals of the post-war period..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. First Edition. Small quarto (25cm); off-white cloth, calico grain and stamped in dark brown, in b/w pictorial dustwrapper, with b/w photo-illustrated endpapers; 291pp. Trivial soiling and wear to boards. Dustwrapper toned, especially along spine; creases, chips and minor tears, with some material loss..... More
New York: Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1944. First Edition. A corporate paean to the end of the Axis powers, reproducing 23 caricatures by Boris Artzybasheff painted expressly for the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, a prominent steel manufacturer during the first half of the 20th century. Artzybasheff cleverly incorporated a different..... More
