CPUSA from Lorne Bair Rare Books

N.p., n.d. (1949). Anonymously authored, untitled report. Folio; 60pp, mimeographed from typescript on legal-size sheeets (14" x 8-1/2"); ca. 15,000 words; stab-bound into plain card wrappers. Issued without imprint or attribution. Final ca. 30pp extensively highlighted in blue and red pencil; pencil annotation at bottom margin of p.30 suggests that this copy may have been the property of one… Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers, 1933. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers; 23pp. Mild toning to wrapper edges; Very Good. A Communist Party perspective of Andrew Mellon as exemplar of late-stage capitalism. SEIDMAN 0-14.

New York: Workers Library, 1937. Second printing. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers, 64pp. Clean and unmarked copy in the original wrappers; about Fine. Party-line anti-Trotsky tract issued during the period of the Moscow show trials. Includes an extract from Earl Browder's "The Results of the Election and the People's Front" inside front wrapper.

New York: International Publishers, 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.75cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Trivial wear and dustiness, else Near Fine. "Communist pamphlet expressing grievances on behalf of the children of the working class. The author tells instance after instance of capitalism's inhumanity to the children, and concludes that children of the workers will really come into a full… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, [1929]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Red card wrappers printed in black; 36pp. Moderate overall soil and wear, with tiny chips at corners; brief manuscript annotation at head of text; a complete, about Very Good copy. Probably Lovestone's last publication as CUPSA Party Secretary, written on the eve of the 1929 National Convention,… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, 1934. First revised edition (originally published 1933). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 96pp. Trivial external soiling; hint of aging to text, still Near Fine. One of several printings of Olgin's strident "Third Period" polemic, first published in 1933.This version presumably issued to coincide with the 1934 midterm elections. Olgin, editor of the Yiddish communist daily… Read more about this item

[New York: National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case, 1951]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed newsprint wrappers, 32pp; illus. Slight toning, tiny chips to corners; Very Good. Post-trial pamphlet, issued after the Rosenbergs had been sentenced to death. Presents the evidence in the case and demands acquittal. Includes portraits of the principal figures.

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 127pp; folding chart tipped in between pp 64-65. Mild external soil and creasing; still a tight, complete, Near Fine copy of the uncommon first edition. SEIDMAN P113: "The definitive Party handbook, written by a Comintern representative in the U.S. Sections deal with fundamentals of the Party… Read more about this item

New York: Civil Rights Congress, [1946]. First printing. Octavo; original tape-backed printed paper wrappers; 56pp. Mild soil and toning to wrappers, else a Near Fine copy. The defendants had been indicted for violation of the Smith Act, accused, by dint of their association with the Communist Party, of advocating the violent overthrow of the United States. They were convicted,… Read more about this item

New York: The Daily Worker, 1935. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue; no. 50 of 100 clothbound copies signed by Burck. Quarto; tan buckram with titles and decorations stamped in brown on front and rear covers; 247pp. A lovely, fine copy, free of soiling or wear. There was a simultaneous trade issue in pictorial wrappers. The very scarce… Read more about this item

New York: New Century Publishers, 1947. Pictorial staple-bound pamphlet; 64pp. Pencil date impression to cover, light foxing to pages, else near fine. SEIDMAN T13: "...communist attack on Trotskyite [sic] activities, with emphasis on ballot steaing, racketeering, stooling for the bosses...

New York: International Publishers, 1942. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.75cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; 31,[1]pp. Trivial wear to extremities, subtle toning to rear wrapper, else Near Fine. "A laudatory account of the career of the militant abolitionist, a leader in the fight to abolish slavery, to emancipate and arm the Negroes during the Civil War, and to secure the… Read more about this item

[Milwaukee: Milwaukee Sentinel, 1966]. Original black and white photographic print, 8" x 10". Stamps and composition notes to recto below image; clipping glued to verso with brief ink caption; small loss to bottom right corner, well away from image. Very Good overall, with image area clean and unfaded. Photo shows the aftermath of the attempted assassination of… Read more about this item

[N.p.: CPUSA, 1967]. Corner-stapled, sheets, 14" x 8-1/2"; 20pp. Single horizontal fold, mild edgewear; Very Good. Substantial report from Lightfoot, at this time Secretary of the CPUSA's National Committee on Negro Affairs, addressed to the "National Conference" of the CPUSA, outlining a strategy for Party involvement in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements: "...Wherever there is… Read more about this item

New York: Communist Political Association, 1944. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Printed card wrappers; 142pp. Mild external wear and soil, but a well-preserved, Very Good or better copy. A key wartime document, containing the proceedings of the founding convention of the Communist Political Association, formed in the wake of the Teheran Conference and the dissolution of the Communist… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, 1941. First English Language Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 40pp. Small pencil notation to front wrapper, else about Fine. On the imperialist origins of the Second World War, by the Austrian Marxist Ernst Fischer (1899-1972), written, presumably in German, during his period of exile in the Soviet Union (1934-1944). The translation is not attributed.… Read more about this item

New York: Daily Worker, 1933. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Photo-montage wrappers after John Heartfield; 24pp. Mild cover soil; slightly mis-folded; Very Good or better. Transcript of Dimitroff's statement in self-defense before Germany's Supreme Court, made in Leipzig in December 1933, against accusations that he had participated in the Reichstag fire. Foreword by William L. Patterson, who at this… Read more about this item

New York: New Century Publishers, 1952. First Edition. Slim octavo (19cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 16pp. Toning to extremities, oxidation to staples, wrappers showing a few tiny chips, and a neat split down upper half of spine; complete, but only Very Good. "An appeal to American Negroes to defend the Negro communists indicted under the Smith Act. The author,… Read more about this item

New York: New Century Publishers, 1952. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Light wear and rubbing, some oxidation to staples, with two ink marks to margins; Very Good. "A call for unrestricted Negro suffrage and representation, and for the smashing of Jim Crow in our political life. While Marxists should seek to lead the movement,… Read more about this item

New York: International Pamphlets, 1934. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers, with faint creases to lower right corners of the first few leaves; Very Good. "Part I contains, with other material, Thompson's letter of resignation from the National Recovery Review Board, stating that NIRA is an instrument for increasing the… Read more about this item