Communism from Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

New York: New Outlook Publishers and Distributors, 1977. Pamphlet by longtime Communist Party USA writer Art Shields (1888-1988) in which he invites readers to join the Party. He gives an overview of Party history, accompanied by numerous black-and-white photos of Party luminaries. Scarce in commerce. PHYSICAL DETAILS: 9 1/4 x 7 inches; 235 x 176 mm), 16 pages, in stapled, illustrated… Read more about this item

[Chicago?]: Ceskoslovenská národní rada v Americe [Czechoslovak National Council of America], 1956. A scarce satirical guidebook to Prague written by a Czech-American author who lived in Czechoslovakia, highlighting the poor conditions under Communist rule. Want to know why the hotels are so expensive? (Translating from the Czech): You didn't realize what was included in the room price: free-of-charge eavesdropping on your… Read more about this item

[London?]: [Revolutionary Communist Party], [1966]. First Edition Thus. A scarce pamphlet published on the 10th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution. It includes material published in a 1956-57 edition plus additional material. The author, Gerry Healy, strongly denounces the Soviet invasion of Hungary and takes Western leftists to task for not supporting the workers' uprising. This edition was published as a… Read more about this item

New York: New Century Publishers, 1950. First Edition. Gus Hall, national secretary of the Communist Party USA, denounces American foreign policy in Asia. Speaking at Madison Square Garden on June 28, 1950, Hall declared that the United States "has launched an undeclared shooting war against all the peoples of Asia and the Pacific." DETAILS: 24mo (5 x 3… Read more about this item

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. First Edition. 12mo (7 5/16 x 5 inches; 186 x 128 mm), 110 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). A pamphlet attacking Communists as swindlers, frauds, capitalist stooges, and other crimes. Written by Arnold Petersen, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, in his usual subtle style. Petersen believed the Communists… Read more about this item

New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945. 4th Printing. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 184 x 126 mm), 39, [9] pages, in stapled wrappers. Ferocious attack on William Z. Foster, a longtime senior official of the Communist Party, who gets tagged as a "war monger," "liberty bond salesman," "fraud," "Anarchist microbe," "mediocre personality," and similar terms… Read more about this item

Fullerton, California: Education Information, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Small Quarto (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 271 x 212 mm), 21 pages, in stapled illustrated wrappers A "second report on modern art" issued by Education Information, Inc., an Orange County, California, anti-communist outfit. The main highlight: the purported minutes of a Communist cell comprising artists and writers: "PROGRAM: Remove… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions Présence africaine, 1957. 12mo (7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 113 mm), 15, [1] pages in stapled green-gray wrappers, with errata slip pasted to recto of lower wrapper (soft cover). A letter from the Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire to Maurice Thorez, secretary general of the French Communist Party. Césaire announces his resignation from the party,… Read more about this item

Robeson, Paul, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Roscoe Dungee. To the President and Congress of the United States of America [Petition] and Typed Letter Bearing Signatures of Robeson, Du Bois, and Dungee. New York: [Communist Party USA], 1947. Single-page typed letter and two-page petition, printed on rectos only. Each page 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 280 mm). A rare typed letter bearing… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Press Office-German Embassy, 1958. No Edition Stated. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 19, [1] pages, in stapled wrappers. With a compliments card laid in. Transcript of a speech by Ernst Lemmer, a German government minister, about the worsening refugee crisis. He notes that millions have fled the German Democratic Republic --… Read more about this item

Pelc, Ant., Lev Haas, and Holobrádek. RP karikatury. Prague: Redakce Rudého práva, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 208 x 145 mm), 75, [5] pages, in wrappers (soft cover). A rare book of cartoons published by the Czech Communist Party newspaper, Rudé právo. Antonin Pelc and Lev Haas drew the cartoons, which are… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Communist Party of California, 1942. No Edition Stated. Seven-page mimeographed document, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm), stapled in top left-hand corner.A "Dear Comrades" letter addressed to all branches of the Communist Party in California, Arizona, and Nevada, urging them to meet and discuss an editorial in the August 1942 issue of the Communist,… Read more about this item

Single sheet, 8 1/2 x 11 inches (217 x 280 mm), printed on one side only. A Communist Party USA flyer issued in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. It calls for a united front in the fight against the Axis powers and total mobilization of industry. "The Communist Party… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist Party, n.d. [1941]. No edition stated. Single sheet of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (211 x 266 mm). Rare announcement of a speech by Communist Party Chairman William Z. Foster in Los Angeles a little more than a month after Germany invaded the Soviet… Read more about this item

New York: Capitol Hill Press, 1972. Revised Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper: "Many thanks - / to / Tom Moran / Herbert A. Philbrick / 1972." Philbrick's account of his nine years in the Communist Party working as a spy for the FBI. Originally published in 1950, the book was updated and reissued… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Howard Fast explains his disillusionment and break with the Communist Party. Octavo, 197 pages (hard cover). Near Fine in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket that has a couple of small creases, tears and sunning. Overall, a beautiful copy.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Octavo, xii, 467 pages, in blue cloth (hard cover). INSCRIBED by Walter Schneir on the front end paper: "To John J. Macbride / With best wishes / Walter Schneir." Dated August 1965 (the year of publication). A review of the trial and conviction of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for espionage; the… Read more about this item

Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1949. 5th Printing. Propaganda songbook for youth of the nascent East Germany.  12mo, pp. 301, [3], paper pastedown on boards. The pages are heavily age toned, due to the the poor paper stock. Several cracks in the hinges. Ownership inscriptions on front pastedown.

Small Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 202 x 137 mm), viii, 9-192 pages, in publisher's original gray cloth, with a printed dust jacket. An important compilation of papers and proceedings at the historic first Writers' Congress of 1935. Authors included Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, Louis Aragon, Waldo Frank, Granville Hicks, and Langston Hughes, among many others. Much of… Read more about this item

London: Brassey's, 1997. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 277 pages. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Top of pages lightly sunned. Jacket slightly edge-worn.