n.p.: n.p., [ca. 1939]. A purported confidential document issued before the U.S. entered WWII describing the ways Communists have infiltrated the U.S. Armed Forces. The first section includes excerpts from Communist publications describing the Communist attitude and objectives within the armed forces. The second section lists the methods of infiltration..... More
[Memphis?]: Southern Tenant Farmers Union, [1943]. An intra-war report on the projects of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, “an inter-racial organization...founded in 1934 by a group of Negro and white sharecroppers living on a cotton plantation in Eastern Arkansas.” The report provides an introduction to the union and updates on..... More
Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., State Printer, 1906. First edition. Octavo (22.5 cm); 297 pp; frontis, illus. Navy blue cloth with blind-stamped ruling and gilt titling to front board. Pages all clean and unmarked. Includes black & white photographic portraits. Only two copies found in OCLC; none in the trade..... More
1945. An original 5” x 7” publicity photograph of Anita Pollitzer, Chairman of the New York City Committee, National Woman’s Party and the newly elected National Chairman of the National Woman’s Party. Pollitzer, a Charleston-born Jew, was an active suffragette who was instrumental in the passage of the 19th Amendment..... More
Washington, D. C. Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate / Fifth Estate Security Education, Inc., 1974. A small collection documenting the efforts of two watchdog groups opposed to “technofascism” and the machinations of the U.S. intelligence community. Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community (CARIC) was formed in 1972 by..... More
New York: Young Socialist Alliance, 1969. “This resolution was written for the Young Socialist National Convention to be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, December 27-30, 1969. It was drafted by the National Executive Committee of the Young Socialist Alliance. This draft resolution is a continuation and elaboration..... More
United Klans of America, 1967. A broadside for a United Klans of America rally in Richmond, VA May 6-7, 1967, during the height of UKA membership (approximately 15,000 nationwide). UKA organizing in Virginia began in 1965 and by January 1967 there were 1,250 members of various UKA klaverns (p. 29..... More
An 8 ½” x 11” flyer for a United Klans of America rally held in Suffolk, VA. The “White Public” was invited to hear special guest speaker, Robert M. Shelton (UKA Imperial Wizard), Robert H. Hudgins (Grand Dragon), Lewy Williams (Grand Klaliff), Calvin B. Williams (Grand Klarogo) and Robert Williams..... More
Fort Worth: The Judge Armstrong Foundation, 1950. A response by George W. Armstrong to the allegation that he offered a struggling Jefferson Military College in Mississippi a $50,000,000 endowment if they’d “indoctrinate its cadets with the kind of ‘racial superiority’ doctrines that Hitler saddled upon Germany (from an Anti-Nazi League’s..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1923. First edition. Octavo; brown cloth, illustrated endpapers; 256 pp.; 15 photographs, 4 watercolor reproductions and 4 pencil sketches done by the author on the spot. The author, an English artist, traveller, author and lecturer, recounts her 600 mile journey through Kashmir..... More
Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, [ca. 1912]. Two harrowing testimonies from China Inland Mission missionaries Mr. and Mrs. Fiddler on escaping death during the Boxer Rebellion and in the Chinese Revolution of 1911. Stapled yellow wrappers (5” x 6 ”), 31, [1] p., three poorly reproduced photographs. Staple bleed, some rubbing..... More
Dover, N. H.: George J. Foster & Co., 1927. First edition. 12mo. Green buckram boards with gilt to front board & spine; 232 pp.; frontis; dust jacket. Two stories, one concerning a medical student's life in a Medical College and the other "a tale of love and adventure laid in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1853. First American edition. Octavo (19.5 cm); v, 274, [8] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with blind-stamped oval device and ruling. Cloth is rubbed; very dulled gilt to spine; bumped corners; some light dampstaining to a few page corners not affecting text; pgs. 23-24 missing very..... More
New York: Free Ranger Tribe, [1971]. Self-wraps, printed on newsprint, [16] pp. Slight toning to newsprint, else Fine. News from the Underground Press Syndicate issued by Thomas Forcade’s Free Ranger Tribe, which also published the Free Ranger Intertribal News Service. Content includes articles on the occupation of Rolling Stone by the..... More
London: Voice of Solidarity, 1986-89. Nine uniformly-sized volumes; stapled wrappers, one vol. with spine tape as issued, 24; 40; 44; 44; 44; 40; 40; 60; 48 pp, illus. All volumes Near Fine with staples slightly oxidized. No issues in commerce (Jan., 2019). A broken run of 20 later issues of..... More
San Francisco: Journal of Black Poetry, 1969. A single issue of this important black arts journal founded by Black Dialogue poetry editor Joe Goncalves in 1966 in San Francisco. 17 issues were published until the journal’s demise in 1973, although Goncalves started a similar, but less successful, journal in the..... More
Cleveland: Hungaria Freedom Fighter Movement, 1968. Two white sheets printed in red, black and green folded to make 8 pp.; illus. The inaugural issue of "Fighter," the English language edition of "Szittyakürt," the official quarterly publication of the Hungaria Freedom Fighter Movement. Features a laudatory endorsement of George Wallace's Presidential..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1940. First edition. Tall octavo (24 cm); zebra patterned cloth with 'Adventure' italicized; brown top-stain; photographic endpapers; 376 pp.; 83 illustrations from photographs, dust jacket. A desirable first edition ~ first printing with 'Manufactured in the United States of America by the Haddon Craftsmen, Inc...... More
Published by the author, 1969. First edition. Large 8vo; red cloth with gilt-printed spine, map endpapers, xiii, 289 pp, photographs, maps, dust jacket. The author, a successful banker and Congressman, recounts his experiences in WWI, much of it in epistolary fashion. Profusely illustrated with maps and photographs. Privately printed and..... More
Nampa, Idaho: Golden Rule Press, 1931. First edition. Stapled, yellow wrappers (5” x 7 ½”), 16 pp., photograph. Light wear and dust-soiling to wrappers, bottom corner creased, VG. None others in commerce (March, 2019) and only one copy located in WorldCat at Northwest Nazarene Univ. in Nampa, Idaho. Scarce. From..... More
[New York: Marxist-Leninist Party], 1971. First edition. Three corner-stapled 8 ½” x 14” mimeographed sheets folded, 6 pp. Some offsetting to rear sheet, else VG+. No record for this document found in WorldCat. The first draft of the MLP’s program was initially published in the inaugural issue of its organ, “The..... More
Chicago: P F Volland Company, 1919. First edition. First edition in illustrated box. Unpaginated; color illustrations. Pictorial boards are Near Fine with owner's name to front endpaper; illustrated endpapers. Box is rubbed and a trifle soiled with a few tears to edges. Scarce title by children's book publisher, writer and..... More
Allahabad: Indian Catholic Truth Society, [1919]. Second edition, revised. Brown wrappers printed in black ( ), xvi, 49, iv pp. Chipping to spine ends, small ex-libris ticket to front wrapper, faint circular stain and some light rubbing and soiling, but VG. One copy in WorldCat at the National Library of..... More
n.p. n.p., 1971. First edition. Large offset litho poster on newsprint (58 x 42 cm) created for World Solidarity Day. Also known as African Solidarity Day, the event appears to have been conceived by the pan-Africanist Student Organization for Black Unity (later the Youth Organization for Black Unity) and was..... More
New York: RAT, 1971. The anniversary issue of RAT following its takeover by W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) in Feb. 1970. The cover photograph features a group of armed witches stirring a trash can cauldron and playing music. An editorial recounts the takeover and encourages other women to..... More