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
[Miami?: F.O.R.D.C.?], [ca. 1965]. Three evocative flyers issued by the Frente Obrero Revolucionario Democrático Cubano (FORDC) depicting exhausted Cubans building Castro’s socialist state, literally at the barrel of a gun. The FORDC was a Cuban exile group based in Miami and funded by the CIA. It was founded in 1960..... More
New York: Provisional Committee for Cuba, 1935. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (5” x 7 ¼”), 31 pp. Light rubbing to wrappers; three lines underlined in pencil, VG. Anti-imperialist pamphlet in which Clifford Odets recounts his imprisonment in Cuba as a representative of the American Commission to Investigate Labor and..... More
Seattle: Rational Island Publishers, 1976-77. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ½” x 11”), 16, 24 pp., illus. In Spanish and English. Both issues with some toning, but about Near Fine. A scarce publication with only three institutions holding scattered issues in WorldCat (MSU, Stanford & UC Santa Cruz, with none holding..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Sociedade Anonyma Brazilian American, 1924. First edition. Saddle-stapled, folio-size magazine; 54 pp.; profusely illustrated. This scarce issue of the Brazilian American features "The Amazon Rubber Survey: The Brazilian and American Commissions" by W. L. Schurz, which include many black & white photographs of Dr. Schurz's expedition; "Culture..... More
Silver Spring, MD: CARP, [1982]. An 7½” x 11¼” two-sided flyer printed on newsprint. An anti-FMLN/DRU flyer issued in the lead up to the 1982 El Salvador elections, in which the author(s) maintain that the threat to democracy in El Salvador comes from the left-wing guerrillas. Concludes, “The government of..... More
Phoenix: Communist Party of Arizona, [ca, 1946]. An 8.5” x 11” mimeographed flyer published under the auspices of the Community Party of Arizona and calling for a mass meeting to protest the discrimination faced by Mexican-American veterans during Phoenix’s post-war housing crisis. Some white Phoenicians were incensed that the proposed..... More
New York: N.Y. District, International Labor Defense, [1935]. First edition. A report on the terror instilled on the Cuban people by the Mendieta-Batista government, “how it operates, who is behind it, its significance to the toiling masses of America, and what they must do to fight it.” Stapled, illustrated wrappers..... More
Caracas: Free Venezuela National Anti-Communist Movement Publications, 1959. First edition. Stapled, glossy wrappers, 43 pp. Light rubbing to wrappers, else Fine. Just over a dozen copies found in OCLC institutions. Anti-communist propaganda in the form of the alleged diary of a Venezuelan medical student, Edwin Erminy, who was duped by the..... More
New York: Louis Carrier & Co, 1928. First edition. 8vo; black cloth boards stamped in red, red topstain and endpapers, 415 pp, photographic frontis of General Calles, 27 photographs. An account by the intrepid Northern Irish born journalist, Francis McCullagh, of the anticlericalism of the “half-savage Dictator,” President Plutarco Elías..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1954. First edition. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 56 pp., 13 photographs, 2 illustrations. A publication by the Communist Party-affiliated, Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, denouncing the harassment and deportation of Mexicans under “Operation Wetback,” which began on June..... More
New York: Agora Publishing Co., [1945]. First edition thus. 8vo; stapled wrappers printed in blue, 12 pp, one illustration, two photographs. Reprinted from “The Converted Catholic Magazine,” the author outlines the Catholic Church’s role in the establishment of fascism in Argentina following the military coup of 1943. Browning to wrappers..... More
Tulsa: Christian Crusade, [ca. 1965]. First edition. 8vo; stapled, illustrated wrappers, 40 pp, photographs. Published by Rev. Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade, this Red Scare pamphlet charts the rise of Communism in the Dominican Republic. Fine. Six copies in OCLC. More
[La Habana]: Departamento de Relaciones Publicas, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, 1960. First edition. 23 x 15.5 cm; 23 pp.; photographs. Saddle-stapled red, white & blue wrappers; some very light rubbing, else Fine. In Spanish. A government publication on the importance of the children within the new Cuban state. Six black..... More
[Mexico]: [Universidad Obrera de México], 1941. Stapled black wrappers printed in red, [46] pp. Wear and creasing to wrappers with a closed tear at crown and a small sliver missing from the top front corner, cheap paper browning. None others in the trade (Aug., 2019). Not scarce, but less than..... More
Editorial Alas, 1946. First Spanish language edition. Plain wrappers (6” x 8 ¾”) printed in blue, 183, [9] pp. Some toning and smudging to wrappers, but a VG+ copy. Only eight copies of this edition found in WorldCat institutions. In Spanish. Ten short stories by the enigmatic B. Traven translated from..... More
Buenos Aires: Accion Obrera, 1941. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (5 ½” x 7 ¾”), 48 pp. Rubbing and small edge tears to wrappers with a ¾” x 1 ¾” chunk missing from the fore-edge; cheap paper browning, but an about VG copy of a fragile item. No record for this edition..... More
Buenos Aires: Instituto Cultural Argentino - Norteamericano, 1938. First edition. Stapled, glossy wrappers (7” x 10”), 16 pp, photograph of the author. In Spanish. Penciled name to the top of the front wrapper, else Fine. Half a dozen copies in OCLC. A lecture delivered at the Argentine-American Cultural Institute on the..... More