Miami: Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil, 1963-65. All issues 8 ½” x 11”, 2-10 pp. (most 4 pp), crudely reproduced photographs. Some toning to paper, light wear, but most Near Fine. Only Univ. of Miami and Kansas hold any issues in WorldCat. Scarce. A broken run of the Cuban exile newsletter published..... 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
n.p.: Mexican-American Political Association / Farm Workers Political Education Committee, [1968]. Three items in support of Hubert Humphrey’s 1968 Presidential campaign, which he ran unsuccessfully against Richard Nixon. Humphrey publicly support Cesar Chavez’s national boycott and even met with him privately when campaigning in California. His attempt to extend the..... More
México, D.F.: Ediciones Frente cultural, [193-?]. Wrappers, 61, [3] pp. Light edgewear, about Fine. A scarce edition with only three copies in OCLC (Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), UC Berkeley). The presumed first Mexican edition of Adoratsky’s treatise on dialectical materialism, which is followed..... 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
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
Milano: Maquis, 1967. First edition. Perfect-bound, glossy wrappers, 128 pp, 150 photographs. In Italian. Some rubbing to wrappers, light edgewear, but VG+. Only one copy in OCLC at an Italian institution. Scarce. A heavily illustrated biography of Cuban revolutionary, Che Guevara, with an appendix that includes Che’s last letters to Fidel..... 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
Havana: Embassy of the Republic of South Viet Nam in Cuba, 1971. First edition. 16mo; stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 67 pp, photographs. A single issue of this small format propaganda magazine published by the Embassy of the Republic of South Viet Nam in Cuba with various essays and statements demanding a...... More