Radicalism from Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

[San Francisco]: Communications Co., 1974. Early Printing. An early printing of the Weather Underground's far-left political philosophy. $1.50 price on the cover. Numerous black-and-white photos and illustrations. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 214 x 140 mm), pp. 185, [7], in orange illustrated wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Some soiling to wrappers, small tear at bottom of spine where… Read more about this item

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. A "Special Edition" of John T. Flynn's anti-socialist, anti-communist tract, The Road Ahead, distributed by the Committee for Constitutional Government. He argues that America is well on the road to British-style socialism. PHYSICAL DETAILS: 12mo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm), 207, [1] pages, in stapled, illustrated… Read more about this item

New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc., 1954. First Edition, First Printing. The November 1954 issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. Articles include a look at American news correspondents in Moscow; an excerpt from a book about artist Robert Minor; an appreciation of the late Minnesota Communist Bill Herron; the Soviet approach to dealing… Read more about this item

New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc., 1953. First Edition, First Printing. The October 1953 issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. Among the articles: Herbert Aptheker defends Alger Hiss; Editor Samuel Sillen says literary critic Van Wyck Brooks should do more to support writers battling McCarthyism; and Gladys Tayler Yang writes glowingly about education… Read more about this item

New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc. , 1953. First Edition, First Printing. The April 1953 issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. This is M&M's first issue since the death of Stalin and contains various tributes to the Soviet leader ("The death of Joseph Stalin was a grievous blow to the partisans of progress… Read more about this item

New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc., 1951. First Edition, First Printing. A theatre review by Lorraine Hansberry appears in this issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. Hansberry (1930-1965) wrote an enthusiastic review of William Branch's "A Medal for Willie," which the Committee for the Negro in the Arts presented at Harlem's Club Baron.… Read more about this item

New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc., 1948. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2 inches; 204 x 135 mm), 10 issues bound together into a single volume, title in gilt to spine. The first 10 issues of Masses & Mainstream, a cultural magazine (with generous dollops of politics) closely associated with the Communist Party USA. Masses & Mainstream featured articles by numerous… Read more about this item

Chicago: Revolutionary Workers League U.S.A., 1939. Quarto-sized document (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), [4], 57, [1] mimeographed pages, stapled three times along left side. Rare document articulating the ideology of the Revolutionary Workers League U.S.A., a Marxist, anti-Stalinist organization based in Chicago. An introductory statement calls it a draft that must still be approved by the Central… Read more about this item

New York: New York Committee for the General Strike for Peace, 1961-1963. A collection of nine rare leaflets and letters concerning the General Strike for Peace, which in the early 1960s sought a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons as well as global disarmament. This material belonged to Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004), poet, performance artist, and peace activist. Eight… Read more about this item

Detroit: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1933. First Edition. Small Octavo pamphlet measuring 7 3/4 x 5 inches (197 x 128 mm), [16] pages, in stapled printed wrappers. Transcript of a radio broadcast by Father Coughlin in which he says government action so far has amounted only to a "lateral attack" against the Depression. What's needed, he says, is… Read more about this item

New York: Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, 1947. Two mimeographed leaves, measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (278 x 215 mm), bound with paper clip, and signed in ink by James Sheldon at end. Letter concerning trial and conviction of leaders of a white-supremacist, neo-Nazi group in Atlanta, the Columbians. Professor James H. Sheldon, administrative chairman of… 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

New York: People's Artists Inc., 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 16 pages, in stapled wrappers. An issue of Sing Out dedicated to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who "sit in the death house at Sing Sing awaiting execution for supposedly stealing atomic secrets." This issue presents "My Loved One," a… Read more about this item

New York: Voice of Freedom Committee, Spring, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Newsletter consisting of 4 mimeographed leaves measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 218 mm), first leaf with text on both sides, all leaves stapled. The Voice of Freedom Committee, chaired by the writer Dorothy Parker, was a left-wing group that fought the increasing anti-Communist hysteria of… Read more about this item

Everett, Washington: Socialist Party of Washington, [1915]. First Edition, First Printing. Single sheet folded to make 4 pages, each 6 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (155 x 232 mm). Pages toned, lightest edge wear. A Very Good or better copy. A parable of early 20th-century capitalism from a Socialist point of view. A greedy rooster takes over the chicken… Read more about this item

Folio (14 x 11 inches; 355 x 280 mm), bound volume in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). SIGNED and numbered 36/70 by Joseph Beuys on the front cover. A rare collection of the first year of Pour, a radical/anarchist, French-language magazine in Brussels, for 1973-74. Beuys was a supporter of Pour and sometimes raised money on behalf of the magazine, which at… Read more about this item