London: The Social Credit Party of Great Britain (The Green Shirts), 1935. A single issue of the Social Credit Party organ featuring a profile of Green Shirt Officer, Wilfred Townend, Social Credit Party Candidate for S. Leeds and the sole Party candidate to stand in the General Election of 1935..... More
[Fort Worth?]: Wonderful Workers of the World, [1947]. A small broadside announcing a membership drive for the Wonderful Workers of the World, an African-American benevolent association incorporated in Texas in 1920. The organization established lodges throughout the state, as well as in Louisiana and California and appears to have lasted..... More
Bronx: Committee to Defend Juan Otero, [1973]. A flyer on behalf of imprisoned Puerto Rican activist Juan Otero, a “victim of a campaign by vengeful Bronx cops and angry contractors in the building trades, long a stronghold of racism.” Otero is described as a “family man, educational specialist, respected community..... More
New York: United Labor and People's Committee for May Day, 1952. A pamphlet preceding May Day activities for 1952, which highlights the history of the holiday and the struggle for Negro rights, labor organizing, and peace. The United Labor and People’s Committee for May Day was a Communist front organization..... More
Communist Party, [1965?]. The Communist Party describes the characteristics and importance of the Negro revolution and situates it within the broader context of American political life directly following the assassination of President Kennedy. Corner-stapled 14” x 8 ½” sheets mimeographed on rectos only, folded (8 ½” x 7”), cover sheet..... More
n.p. n.p., [195-?]. A strange piece of anti-Semitic propaganda in the form of a purported letter from a NYC Jew named J. W. Pealer, Jr. to Forest Sammons (1895-1954) of Huntington, WV. The letter begins by addressing Sammons as a “Heine Bastard” and follows from there insulting Sammons and Southerners..... More
Spokane, Wash. / Hollywood, California: Prophetic Herald / New Christian Crusade Church, 1944; 1958; [ca. 1974]. The Five Sons of Judah. Spokane: Prophetic Herald, 1944. Schiffner argues that Jews are not Israel, or God’s chosen people, but a “rejected nation.” Stapled, illustrated wrappers (6 ” x 3 ½”), [12] p...... More
![Item #10059 Ve Vant Var [We Want War] - Propaganda sticker](/pictures/thumb/10059.jpg?v=1663506734)
[Los Angeles?]: [German-American Bund?], [ca. 1941]. A small sticker featuring a Star of David with an accentuated ‘V’ and the slogan ‘Ve Vant Var’. These stickers were distributed by Bundists, fascists and isolationists in opposition to the “V is for Victory” campaign, which they believed was a plot by the..... More
New York: The American Purity Alliance and National Vigilance Committee, 1910. Content for this issue includes short news items on various campaigns to halt immoral activity in cities such as Atlantic City; an article on combating the Chinese white slave trade in San Francisco; editorials on the white slave trade..... More
New York: Youth Publishers, [1931]. A small pamphlet introducing the Young Communist League and its struggle against capitalism, war, racism, and union busting. Extols the virtues of the Soviet Union as a worker’s paradise. Stapled, photo-illustrated, newsprint wrappers (5 ” x 4”), 24 p. Small chip to crown, nick to..... More
Mount Vernon, Washington: The Concord Press, [ca. 1939]. A small two-sided poster that warns of the Jewish attempt to instigate another world war for the benefit of International Jewry. The recto features excerpts from a 1921 interview with Henry Ford who discusses Jewish involvement in WWI as fulfillment of the..... More
Salt Lake City: Marilyn R. Allen, 1946. A pamphlet from the tireless right wing propagandist, Marilyn Allen, on the difference between Jewish-directed Communism and Christian Americanism. Allen documents the many forms of Jewish control and influence within various U.S. spheres and government agencies. She also refutes claims about her made..... More
London: British National Party, 1961. Smaller tabloid format, 4 pp, illus. One horizontal crease, very light wear, else Near Fine. A supplement of the relatively short-lived organ of the British National Party, which was founded in 1960 and joined Colin Jordan’s White Defence League with John Bean’s National Labour Party..... More
[Prague]: Peace and Socialism Publishers, [196-?]. A collection of original drawings by Danish cartoonist Herluf Bidstrup based on ideas and texts by Norman Freed and K. Oesterling. The drawings critique capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, war, and racism while extolling socialism. This was the first title in a proposed series of booklets..... More
New York: Dan Burros, [196-]. A virtually unobtainable flyer - and one seething of self-hatred - presumably designed, printed and distributed by Jewish-born Nazi Dan Burros in the early 1960s after he returned to NYC following his defection from the American Nazi Party. The flyer is a crude compilation of..... More
Oakland: The Flatlands, 1966. Two early issues of this newspaper focused on black community organizing in Oakland. The paper’s tagline was “Tell It Like It Is and Do What Is Needed,” an appropriate phrase for the paper’s confrontational approach to Oakland’s power structure. Articles and photographs exposed cases of police..... More
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Santa Barbara: Annular Publications, 1970-73. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed on newsprint; various pagination, from 8 to 18 pp.; all illustrated. A scarce semi-unbroken run of this newsletter edited and published by engineer and amateur space enthusiast, Donald Lee Cyr. Cyr self-published Life on Mars (1944) at the age..... More
New York: I.L.G.W.U., [1950]. A uniquely designed and formatted history of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, “done in the manner of a newspaper, comprised chiefly of accounts and illustrations drawn from contemporary sources, prepared and edited by the Staff of Justice, the official publication of the I.L.G.W.U.” (from the..... More
London: Sands & Company, 1901. First edition. Octavo; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, others deckle; xxxii, 276 pp.; 12 photographic plates, more than two dozen in text photographs. Neatly ex-library. Unobtrusive call & personal library numbers to spine, a few penciled numbers to ffep and title..... More
Berkeley: Black Politics, 1968. A single issue of this important black liberation journal published in Berkeley and closely affiliated with the Black Panther Party. Content for this issue includes “Teach Yourself to Shoot” by George Prosser (pseud.), “The Crude Art of Murder” by Cherkaoui Abdelhag, a crude multi-page comic of..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. First edition. Quarto (24 cm). Blue buckram with gilt spine; xvi, 429 pp. The scarce first edition of Edwards' seminal work on finance, or security, capitalism. He traces its evolution in England, Germany and France before turning to its application in the U.S., which..... More
Atlanta: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Incorporated, 1928. A single issue of the Klan’s official magazine primarily focused on opposing Gov. Al Smith’s campaign for the Presidency and Roman Catholicism more broadly. Content includes commentary on Smith’s speech before Tammany Hall, including his support of more lax immigration laws..... More
Hancock, VT: Top Drawer Rubber Stamp Co., 1979. The second of three catalogues issued by the Top Drawer Rubber Stamp company comprising stamp designs from many popular underground artists. The majority of designs for this catalogue are by Robert Crumb (52), with others by Bill Griffith, Kim Deitch, Jay Lynch..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1910. Second printing. 8vo (19.5 cm); brown cloth with cream and blue-stamped illustration to front board & spine, viii, 382, [6] pp.; frontis, illus, maps, dust jacket. Page edges show very faint foxing, shallow grazing, about Near Fine. Very scarce dust jacket is rubbed..... More
![Item #01417 The Forgotten Word [Jewish Currents editor Morris Schappes' copy]. William GOLDMAN](/pictures/thumb/01417.jpg?v=1509131606)
London and Glasgow: Art and Educational Publishers Ltd., 1948. First edition. 12mo. Green cloth, silver-stamped spine. The last novel written by East End chronicler and Jewish proletariat writer, Willy Goldman (1910-2009), best known for his autobiographical East End My Cradle. This copy owned by Morris Schappes (1907-2004), one-time Communist Party..... More