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
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: 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. Oblong octavo (14cm x 19cm); black and white printed wrappers, stapled; [48pp]; chiefly illus. A few tiny stains to rear wrapper, else very Near Fine. A corporate paean to the end of the Axis powers, reproducing 23 caricatures by Boris Artzybasheff..... More
