The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy. Bookplate and information sheet laid in as issued. More
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Mighty Stonewall (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy, still shrinkwrapped. More
Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy. Information sheet laid in as issued. More
Chancellorsville 1863: The Soul of the Brave (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy. Information sheet laid in. More
To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy. Bookplate and information sheet laid in as issued. More
Fiasco at Fredericksburg (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy. Bookplate and information sheet laid in as issued. More
Partners in Command: The Relationships Between Leaders in the Civil War (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy. Bookplate and information sheet laid in as issued. More
The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy (a few minor spots of gilt rubbed along fore-edge). Bookplate and information sheet laid in as issued. More
Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy. Bookplate and information sheet laid in as issued. More
The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862 (Leather-Bound Library of the Civil War)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. A Fine copy. Information sheet laid in. More
Attack Hitler Now: A May Day Call [cover title]
[New York]: New York State Committee, Communist Party, [1942]. An anti-Hitler, pro-Communist screed in the form of a May Day address to “Workingmen and Workingwomen of America.” Calls for a Second Front in Europe facilitated by the war production of the working class, the defeat of isolationist demagogues and politicians..... More
Students Fight War
New York City: National Student League, 1935. A scarce pamphlet by the Communist Party-directed National Student League on the student movement against war. Featuring cover art by Adolph “Ad” Reinhardt, the future abstract expressionist painter who graduated from Columbia the year this pamphlet was published. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (7 ”..... More
Life and Labor in the Soviet Union (International Pamphlets No. 52)
New York City: International Publishers, 1937. Communist Party USA propaganda on rising standards of living and wages under Soviet socialism. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (7 ¼” x 5”), 47 p. Near Fine. More
Socialism Marches On in the Soviet Union (International Pamphlets No. 53)
New York City: International Publishers, Inc., 1937. Communist Party USA propaganda on the advancements made under Soviet socialism. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (7 ¼” x 5”), 47 p. Near Fine. More
Joseph Stalin: A Short Biography
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1941. A laudatory biography of Stalin first published in 1939 on the occasion of his 60th birthday. This edition was published two years later by the CPUSA. Perfect-bound wrappers (7 ¾” x 5 ½”), 94 p., plates. Toning to wrappers, else Near Fine. An uncommon..... More
The Truth About the Communists
Brooklyn: Kings County Committee, Communist Party, [1937?]. A pamphlet published by the Kings County branch of the CPUSA describing the Party’s struggle for trade unionism, racial equality, peace and socialism and for the election of the Italian-American Communist Party member Peter Cacchione for New York City Council. Although unsuccessful, Cacchione..... More
Ten Years of Biro-Bidjan, 1928-1938
New York: ICOR, 1938. An English language pamphlet documenting ten years of growth and development in Biro-Bidjan (Birobidzhan), the Jewish autonomous region located near the Soviet-Chinese border. Established by a decree of the Soviet government, Biro-Bidjan became a refuge for Eastern European Jews and Jewish Communists, although it wasn’t the..... More
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. 68, No. 5 (whole number 583), May, 1961
New York: The Crisis Publishing Co., Inc., 1961. An issue of the NAACP’s small format magazine. This issue features two articles: “Rule 22 - An Historic Frustration” by Franklin H. Williams and “Castro and the Cuban Negro” by Juan Rene Betancourt. Also, “Along the NAACP Battlefront,” “How the Illinois NAACP..... More
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. 68, No. 8 (whole number 586), October, 1961
New York: The Crisis Publishing Co., Inc., 1961. An issue of the NAACP’s small format magazine. This issue features two articles: “American Negro and His Government” by Emmett E. Dorsey and “West Indians in Britain” by Hartley M. A. Sutten, as well as a section on racial integration, and a...... More
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. 69, No. 6 (whole number 594), June-July, 1962
New York: The Crisis Publishing Co., Inc., 1962. An issue of the NAACP’s small format magazine. This issue features two articles: “On Desegregating Advertising” by Sylvia Appelbaum and “African Explorers of the New World” by Harold G. Lawrence, as well as smaller sections on anti-colonialism in Angola and the NAACP’s..... More
Black Workers Set the Pace
Boston: New England Free Press, [1969]. From an article originally appearing in the April 1969 issue of The Movement, Jacobs describes the radical black organizing taking place in Detroit’s auto factories under groups such as the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), Chevrolet Revolutionary Union Movement (CRUM), Ford Revolutionary Union Movement..... More
The Legacy of Slavery and the Roots of Black Nationalism
Boston: New England Free Press, [196-]. An article from a speech delivered by Genovese at the 1966 Socialist Scholars Conference, which was then published in Studies on the Left. Genovese, a Rutgers professor, traces the increasing militancy of black nationalists to slavery and the failure of previous black integrationists to..... More
Unite the People Defeat Our Enemies: Statement by the Revolutionary Union on the Shooting of George Wallace
Chicago: Revolutionary Union, [1972]. A response to the 1972 assassination attempt on Presidential candidate George Wallace by the Communist Revolutionary Union. RU contends that despite Wallace’s supposed populism that he’s really a pawn of the ruling class, and that the working class of Alabama - both black and white -..... More
The Jewish People and the Fight for Negro Rights
Los Angeles: The Committee for Negro-Jewish Relations, 1953. A call for Jewish people to become actively involved in the struggle for Negro rights. Chapters on the economics and politics of racism, anti-Semitism in the U.S., and how Jews and blacks can unify to defeat prejudice. Stapled wrappers (8 ½” x...... More
Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968: A Political Biography
Zarephath, N.J. Herald of Freedom, [1968]. An exposé of Robert Kennedy by the right-wing conspiratorial propagandist Frank Capell who chronicles the Kennedy family power structure, Robert’s political ascent, his persecution of right wing figures, his uncomfortable proximity to Communists and the far left, and his eventual assassination. An uncommon title..... More