Washington DC: AFL-CIO, (1957). First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 27pp. Fine copy. Attack on the anti-labor policies of the Taft-Hartley Act on the tenth anniversary of its passage. Illustrated throughout with terrific mid-century illustrations. Foreword by Albert Whitehouse, Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department. More
![Dynamite: the Story of Class Violence in America [Inscribed 1st Printing]. ANARCHISM, Louis ADAMIC.](/pictures/medium/40300.jpg?v=1529353984)
New York: Viking Press, 1931. First Edition. The very elusive first edition of Adamic's first book, a classic history of militant social movements in America and the equally militant methods used to suppress them, starting with the labor riots of 1877 and including the Haymarket Massacre, the Wobbly trials, the... 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
![Stop Communism! [Complete (?) Sheet of 20 Anti-Communist Stamps Issued by The Anti-Communist Seal Company]. ANTI-COMMUNIST.](/pictures/medium/29550.jpg?v=1529353609)
N.p. Anti-Communist Seal Co., 1948. Unused sheet of twenty identical stamps with gummed versos, each with a portrait of Uncle Sam beside the legend: "Stop Communism! Go The American Way of Life!" Copyright 1948 by the "Anti-Communist Seal Company. Slight discoloration to upper margin of sheet, else very Near Fine... More
![Socialism or Empire. A Danger [...] the most serious questions presented to the American people since the abolishment of slavery is not receiving due consideratin [&c]. Col. Ed. F. BROWNE.](/pictures/medium/28278.jpg?v=1529353578)
[Omaha: Klopp & Bartlett, ca 1908]. Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; 229pp. Ownership signature to front endpaper (James J. McNeely, Sturgeon Bay WI) to front endpaper, dated 1909. Very Good copy. Anti-socialist polemic by a proponent of laissez-faire economics: "...any interference with the... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 227pp; illus. Fine and unmarked in unworn jacket; near-new. More
San Diego: Danielle Publishers, 1938. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 178pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly soiled jacket, Near Fine. Right-wing anti-Soviet propaganda from a fundamentalist Christian perspective. More
![An Appeal To America [...] Plan Christian Action Against Anti-Christ Educational System. Dan GILBERT.](/pictures/medium/27359.jpg?v=1529353538)
San Diego: Danielle Publishers, 1938. First Edition. Tabloid (44cm) bifolium; 4pp. On newsprint. Newsprint slightly browned, a little tender at folds with brief splits at outer margin; Good or better. Christian-right attack against communist influence in schools, encroaching "modernism." OCLC locates no institutional copies as of September, 2015. More
Boston: Thomas J. Flynn, N.d. (ca 1914). Second Edition. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in white on spine and front cover; 365pp. Spine lettering mostly flaked away; endpapers darkened; else a tight, VG copy. Refutation of Marxism by two Catholic writers, one of them (Goldstein) a briefly prominent convert... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1947]. "Great Western Edition" Novel first published in 1919, "An anti-labor account of the ruin of a loyal German-American farmer in Washington state by striking I.W.W. farm workers" - HANNA 1504; see also BLAKE, pp. 239-40, and MILES 4995 for the first edition. Octavo (19.5cm.);... More
![[Spine Title] Investigation of Un-American Activities. Volume XXIX: 1958. HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE.](/pictures/medium/25699.jpg?v=1529353468)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1958. First Edition. Investigation Of Soviet Espionage (Parts I & II); Investigation of Communist Infiltration and Propaganda Activities in Basic Industry (Gary, Ind., Area); Investigation of Communist Activities in the New England Area (Parts I-III); Communist Propaganda, Part 9: Student Groups, Distributors, and Propagandists; Communism... More
![[Spine Title] Investigation of Un-American Activities. Volume XXX: 1958. HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE.](/pictures/medium/25697.jpg?v=1529353468)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1958. First Edition. Communist Program for World Conquest: Consultation with Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, United States Army; Communist Psychological Warfare (Brainwashing). Consultation with Edward Hunter; International Commlunism (Communist Propaganda Activities in Canada). Consultation with Milan Jakubec; Communist Psychological Warfare (Thought Control). Consultation with Constantin W. Boldyreff;... More
Cleveland: The Ohio Apostolate, 1912. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Printed thick paper wrappers; 56pp. Inked catalog number to front wrapper, else just light external wear and soil; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good. A Catholic priest's exegesis on the evils of Socialism. Includes a substantial section on the Society of... More
London: A & C Black, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. Tan buckram (hardcover); 139pp. Clean and solid copy, not far from fine but for a spot of lifting to cloth on front cover and mild darkening to spine; internally fine.Though advertised as a "handbook of social facts," the author in fact... More
Boston: Richard Badger, 1912. First Edition. Plea for a volunteer militia movement, well-illustrated with 15 leaves of halftone plates. Includes a chapter on Strike Duty, which the author calls "the worst kind of duty that can fall to the lot of the soldier." Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, spine lettered... More
Boston: Richard Badger, 1912. First Edition. Plea for a volunteer militia movement, well-illustrated with 15 leaves of halftone plates. Includes a chapter on Strike Duty, which the author calls "the worst kind of duty that can fall to the lot of the soldier." Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, spine lettered... More
![The Grapple: A Story of the Illinois Coal Region [&c...]. RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE, Grace MacGowan COOKE.](/pictures/medium/018331.jpg?v=1529353239)
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1905. First Edition. Strike novel with a strong anti-union message, set in the coal fields of southern Illinois. SMITH C-724. HANNA 788. Not in Blake. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's olive green pictorial cloth boards, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; [iv], [1]-415 + 2pp... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1919]. First Edition. Anti-IWW and "anti-labor account of the ruin of a loyal German-American farmer in Washington state by striking I.W.W. farm workers" - HANNA 1504; see also BLAKE, pp. 239-40, and MILES 4995. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],376pp.; frontispiece... More
New York: Manhattanville Press, 1919. First Edition. Anti-Socialist dystopia, described by Lewis as "dull, and not only anti-Socialist, but anti-feminist and anti-Irish as well." Pallen (1858-1929) was a prolific Catholic writer; as Chairman of the National Civic Federation's Department of Subversive Movements, he proved an "indignant foe of restricted immigration... More
Kenilworth, IL: by the Author, 1934. First Edition. The somewhat uncommon first edition of Dillings oft-reprinted manual for red-baiters. SEIDMAN D200: "...lists 450 organizations and 1,300 individuals under the communist label, applying this term indiscriminately to all types of social reform as well as to radical groups." Octavo (21cm). Original... More
Kenilworth, IL: by the Author, 1934. Sixth (1936) Printing. Oft-reprinted manual for red-baiters. SEIDMAN D200: "...lists 450 organizations and 1,300 individuals under the communist label, applying this term indiscriminately to all types of social reform as well as to radical groups." Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's red cloth in yellow pictorial dust... More
New York: The Christian Alliance Publishing Company, (1927). First Edition. Anti-bolshevik, anti-semitic novel, set as a "Christian romance" among students and faculty at the fictional "Union Bible Institute." Contemporary events are mentioned, including the Bridgman Raid and the "discovery" of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (a document... More
New York: James A. McCann, 1920. First Edition. Delaware author's scarce second book, an anti-IWW novel with an "America First" theme, set among the Colorado mine wars of 1913-14 and clearly written at the height of the first Red Scare. In his foreword the author states: "...it remains for us...[to... More
Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1938. First Edition. HANNA 424. Novel of workers and communist labor organizers in a New England textile town, with a decidedly anticommunist slant. A very fresh copy. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 351pp. Front hinge cracked, else Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket lightly shelfworn, priced $2.00 at... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1908. First Edition. Anti-union novel, focusing on labor unrest and corrupt union bosses in the Chicago meat-packing industry. SMITH E-31. HANNA 1066. BLAKE p.232. Octavo (20cm). Original green cloth boards, lettered in darker green on spine and front cover; 415pp. Frontis. and four inserted leaves of plates... More
