San Francisco: Poster Brigade, 1980. A San Francisco Poster Brigade (SFPB) flyer soliciting submissions for the inaugural Internationalist Art Show “on the theme of international opposition to WWIII or any aspect of the anti-imperialist struggle around the world, satire of the ruling class, the draft, the history of struggle against..... More
Chicago: Peoples College, 1981. A single issue of this black liberation newspaper published by the Peoples College in Chicago beginning in 1971. The theme for this issue is the “fight for liberation from the problems of oppression and exploitation,” and features a lengthy article on “Black History and Black Liberation”..... More
n.p. n.p., [1860s?]. A carte-de-visite of the popular 19th century lecturer, alpinist, abolitionist, and women’s rights advocate Anna Dickinson (1842-1932). Dickinson was born to a Quaker family in Philadelphia and at 13 published an essay in William Lloyd Garrison’s “The Liberator.” At 19 she went on her first lecture tour..... More
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: United Klans of America, [1966]. An unnumbered issue of the United Klans of America's newspaper featuring a lengthy article titled, "Is the Justice Department & Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith Conspiring Against White Patriots?" Other articles on focus on civil rights agitation in Selma, black crime, the arrest..... More
Aurora, Mo. The Menace Publishing Company, [1916]. An anti-Catholic pamphlet on the role of papal politics in instigating WWI, and more broadly, its "participation in secret diplomacy, international intrigue, and such political meddling in public, as well as private affairs, as serve its ulterior end of controlling the human race"..... More
[Detroit?]: n.p., [1949]. A tribute to long-time Communist labor organizer, Bill McKie's, on the occasion of his 72nd birthday. McKie was a Scottish-born member of the Sheet Metal and Braziers Union who emigrated to the U.S. in 1927 and began organizing a union at Ford. He was an inveterate Communist..... More
n.p. United States Navy, [195-?]. An accordian style brochure for recruiting women into the U.S. Navy. Panels include information on the types of jobs, qualifications, living conditions, a pay table, and many photographs. Small format (4 ½” x 4 ½”), 16 panels. A near fine copy. More
Atlanta: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Incorporated, 1929. The Kourier began in 1924 as the official magazine of the Ku Klux Klan and was distributed to both its members and the public. In early 1929, the Imperial Wizard and the magazine’s editorial board decided to issue a new internal..... More
Chicago: Proletarian Party of America, 1925-26. Three issues of the magazine of the Proletarian Party of America (PPA), which began as a news sheet for the left-wing faction inside the Socialist Party of Michigan (from which the PPA emerged in 1920). The Proletarian began publication in May 1918 and ceased..... More
Various cities: Various publishers, 1950s. The execution of Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19, 1953 was a culminating event for the Red Scare zealots who preached that Communists had infiltrated the upper echelons of government and for the progressives who accused the Red Scare zealots of treating..... More
[Chicago]: People's Institute of Applied Religion, 1946. An uncommon edition of Cedric Belfrage’s biography of People’s Institute of Applied Religion founder Claude Williams. Belfrage first met Williams in Hollywood in 1938 when the latter was fundraising for his labor and civil rights work in the South. Belfrage’s biography developed out..... More
New York: Vanguard Press / The Jewish Anarchist Federation, 1929. First Edition. A scarce copy in dust jacket of Alexander Berkman's seminal anarchist work. In 1926, the Jewish Anarchist Federation asked Berkman, who was at the time living in France, to write a primer on anarchism that would convey anarchist..... More
Washington, D. C. National Patriotic League, ©1929. Second Edition. The Red Fog was a book by two anti-Communist women activists named Bonnie Busch and Lucia Ramsey Maxwell who were members of the National Patriotic League, a non-profit, civic organization founded in 1915 in Washington, D. C. “for the purpose of..... More
[Philadelphia]: [American Friends Service Committee], [1941]. A project notebook for peace caravaners developed by Harold Chance, head of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee. Published in the summer of 1941, the notebook begins with a short preface by influential Quaker Rufus Jones followed by quotes from Rupert..... More
Providence: Clark Coolidge, 1966. The third and final issue of this literary magazine edited by Clark Coolidge and Michael Palmer that by this issue had transitioned to Concrete Poetry. Contributions from John Cage, Kenneth Rexroth, Bernadette Mayer, John Furnival, Aram Saroyan, John Perreault, Clark Coolidge, James Koller, Fielding Dawson, Stan..... More
Reedy, West Virginia: White Power Publications, 1976. The second issue of George P. Dietz's White Power Report. Content for this issue includes an article by James K. Warner on "Your Rights in a Police State" with a lengthy introduction by Eric Campbell; an action report; a reprint of Dr. Walter..... More
Chicago: Elizabeth Dilling, 1961(?)-63. Five scarce issues of Elizabeth Dilling's right wing, anti-Semitic bulletin, which continued her Patriotic Research Bureau newsletter that she began during the late 1930s. These newsletters were extensions of the obsessive research she compiled into her right wing bestseller The Red Network—A Who's Who and Handbook..... More
[Houston]: Freedom In Action, Inc., 1956. Revised Edition. This pamphlet was the "Revised edition of material first published in 1952," and was presumably issued for prospective members of the Texas-based anti-Communist group Freedom In Action. It provides the group's ideological tenets, a plan of action, its organizational structure, a member..... More
Washington, D. C. National Putnam Letters Committee, [ca. 1963]. A short collection of material arguing for biological racial differences and refuting the “equalitarian” dogma of social scientists employed by groups like the ADL. In 1963, the ADL posed 11 questions to social scientists on the topic of intelligence tests, their..... More
Buffalo: Friends of Malatesta, [1971?]. A reprint by an obscure anarchist group in Buffalo of Susan Griffin's landmark article on rape originally published as “Rape: The All-American Crime” in Rampart magazine. Griffin argued that rape was entagled with patriarchy and that only its dismantling and the reorganization of gender roles..... More
Portland, Oregon: The Order of the White Rose, [193-?]. Twelfth edition. An occult treatise on auras and colors and their metaphysical significance, which includes The Dictionary of Colors; Their Spiritual Meanings. One of the many titles written and published by Jesse Charles Fremont Grumbine (1861-1938), a Unitarian minister who founded..... More
[Greenlawn, NY?]: [Published by the author], 1950. A somewhat bizarre political/economic treatise from New York Supreme Court stenographer Ned Reuben Harman (1890-1962). Reuben inexplicably writes as his alter ego Mano Mars, an inhabitant of Mars “who sees all things objectively as to Earth, [and who] has succeeded in applying mathematics..... More
Los Angeles: The Committee to Organize the Advancement of Women, ©1940. Third printing. A pioneering and ultimately controversial book written by Communist Party member and women's rights activist [Ida] Mary Inman (1894-1985) analyzing the economic and cultural sources of women’s oppression while developing novel insights into the productive labor of..... More
London: The National Socialist, 1965. The seventh of only ten published issues of the erratically published newspaper of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), Britain's first explicitly post-war National Socialist organization. Founded by Colin Jordan and John Tyndall on Hitler's birthday in 1962, the party emerged out of a split in..... More
Bonsall, CA: The Pagan Revival Network, 1999. Although numbered issue 41, this was the first issue in magazine format of what began as an untitled open letter (typed or handwritten) to Kaldenberg's friends and fellow pagans. Kaldenberg had previously been the long-time editor of Tom Metzger's W.A.R. newspaper and was..... More