[Cranford, NJ?], 1949. A booklet issued by the Cranford Negro History Club in Cranford, NJ, for an event commemorating 1949’s Negro History Week featuring William Ashby, Executive Secretary of Urban League of Eastern Union County as guest speaker. The booklet begins with the club’s motto, “Enthusiasm sets the embers glowing..... More
New York: [National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression], [1973]. A significant compilation of documents from the founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression held May 11-13, 1973, in Chicago. The Alliance grew out of the Committee to Free Angela Davis and was closely affiliated with..... More
Guatemala: Seccion de Divulgacion del Ministerio de Educacion Publica, 1956. First edition. Stapled, white wrappers illustrated in blue, 48, [18] pp, illus. In Spanish. Rubbing to wrappers, small sliver missing to the front panel near tail; stain to rear wrapper with a small piece missing from bottom corner. A Guatemalan government..... More
[San Francisco]: Fillmore Club, Communist Party, [ca. 1946]. First edition. An 8 ½” x 11” mimeographed broadside on newsprint. Browning to paper; small hole, minor edgewear. No record for this broadside in WorldCat. Accuses the British and American ruling-class of establishing a military alliance that would declare war on the Soviet..... More
n.p.: n.p., [196-?]. An unattributed racist NAACP membership application very similar to one we’ve handled for the National Association for the Abolition of Caucasian People (NAACP). Questions include “Number of children claimed for relief check,” “Number of illegitimate children (if known),” “List of white schools you would like to attend,”..... More
[Berkeley?]: Third World Liberation Front, [1969]. A pamphlet written and published by the Third World Liberation Front providing a detailed chronology, a discussion of the politics and tactics of the strike, and a proposal for an alternative Third World College. Published after the strike was temporarily suspended on March 14..... More
Chicago: New University Conference, 1970. First edition. One sheet folded, 4 pp. One in a series of crisis papers issued by NUC to address the political and tactical differences between different factions of student radicals. This paper focused on the question of violence on college campuses. The author(s) discuss seven..... More
London: [Women In Struggle, Rising Free Bookshop], [1978]. First edition. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (8 ” x 11 ¾”), 50 pp, illus. Light edge wear, a few surface scratches, VG+. Just over a dozen copies found in OCLC, none others in commerce (Oct. 2019). As described in an opening editorial, this publication..... More
New York: American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, [1961]. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ½”), 15 pp, two illustrations and three photographs. A Fine copy. Eight copies located in WorldCat institutions. An uncommon pamphlet published by the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, an..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm); yellow cloth with green speckles, orange paper label to spine; xiv, 275 pp.; dust jacket. The memoir of Count de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine as told to the feminist British novelist and poet, Stella Benson, who..... More
Rochester: The Gannett Newspapers, 1948. First edition. Yellow, stapled wrappers printed in red and black; 79 pp.; photographs, map. The articles in this booklet first appeared as dispatches in late 1947 in The Gannett Newspapers. Blanchard reports on the conditions of post-war Germany and comments on the failed Allied policies..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912. First edition. Octavo (20 cm). Grey pictorial cloth; 224 pp.; photographic frontispiece of a Mountain Schoolhouse. A scarce piece of Kentucky regional fiction. A Very Good+ copy with some light speckling to top edge and two marks of soiling to fore-edge. More
San Mateo, Calif.: C. P. R. - Information Center, 1969. First edition. 4to.; stapled wrappers with black linen tape to spine (as issued), 55 pp., charts & tables. Spine tape rubbed and worn, else Fine. Five copies in WorldCat institutions (LoC, Harvard, Univ. of Guelph, Cal. State Fullerton, Univ. of..... More
London: The Annals of Psychical Science, 1909. First edition. 12mo. Green paper-covered boards with title stamped in blue to front board; 52 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. Carrington's investigation into Indian fakirs, in which he endeavored to "examine the evidence for the genuine phenomena, and [to] explain the tricks and fraudulent..... More
[Detroit?: Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement], [1970]. A large ca. 23” x 30” offset printed poster featuring a photograph of the 1970 election slate of the Dodge Revolutionary Movement Union (DRUM) followed by 16 demands. Some wear, creasing and small closed tears to the edges. No record for this poster in..... More
London: Panorama Press, 1961. First edition. A book that purports to expose the conspiracy of Zionist Imperialism, which the author maintains is the root cause of anti-Semitism. Reprints the Protocols in full before describing the duplicitous way Zionists have infiltrated Britain, instigated two world wars and weaponized Freemasonry in their..... More
Denver: The Vampyre Publishing Co., 1901. First edition. A bound run of the first six issues of this obscure “little magazine” edited and published by Frank C. Evans in Denver, CO, from 1901-02. In the inaugural issue, the editors (the first two issues were co-edited by Evans and J. Forrest..... More
[New York]: [New Day Publishing Co.], 1939. First edition. Quarto. Saddle-stapled wrappers with photomontage to front cover; 116 pp.; illus. A single issue of Father Divine's magazine, which largely served to publish his sermons and to raise money through advertising. This was the second Peace Mission organ began by Divine's..... More
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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
Claremont, California: The Key Books Publishers, 1930. First edition. An account of Russian-born German Mennonite, Dederich Navall (b. Dietrich Neufeld), and his experiences in the Ukraine during the Russian Revolution, in which he “lost most of his family and friends to the predations of Makhnovites, the Bolsheviks and the Whites..... More
Washington, D.C.: Hubbard Association of Scientologists, Int. 1953. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Perfect-bound paperback; iii, 123 pp.; illus. A scarce first edition of How To Live Though an Executive with the requisite statement: "The manuscript of this book was prepared by Richard deMille [sic] who helped in the development..... More
Printed by Come! Unity Press, New York City, [1975]. A two-sided flyer offset printed in color advertising the second Live and Let Live Festival held at Hunter College on June 20-22, 1975. Organized by the Anarchists of New York, the three day festival featured film screenings of 1984, Metropolis, Night..... More
Atlanta: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1927. First edition. A special issue of the Klan's magazine devoted to Roman Catholicism and the campaign of the Catholic New York governor, Alfred E. Smith, for President of the United States. The majority of the issue is devoted to a lengthy article..... More
Atlanta: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1929. Three uniformly sized (ca. 5” x 8”), stapled issues printed on newsprint, 22; 21; 21 pp. All in Fine condition with some negligible toning to newsprint. The first issue of the Klan Edition of the Kourier plus two subsequent and concurrent issues from..... More
![Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [SIGNED BY EDWARD ALBEE]. Ernest LEHMAN](/pictures/thumb/07978.jpg?v=1599790629)
Los Angeles: Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., [196-?]. Limited ed. The script of Ernest Lehman’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from the award-winning play by Edward Albee. Albee has playfully crossed out Lehman’s name on the title page and SIGNED his own. Hand-numbered 75 of an undisclosed number of..... More