HUAC, Cold War, Red Scare 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

Newark, NJ: Swingshift, 1951. First Edition. Slim octavo (17.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, some faint stress creases to wrappers; contents clean; Very Good+ or better. Proletarian literary and art journal produced by the Writers Workshop of New Jersey, a group comprised of "working artists and writers. And when we say 'working', we… Read more about this item

London: John Long Ltd, 1958. First Edition. First impression. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Admiral .. Arleigh Burke / I do hope it may amuse you to read this some time - if you can have any time for relaxation these days. With the very best wishes of the author, "Sea Lion," signed "alias Geoffrey R. Bennett," dated in… Read more about this item

New York: The Hour Publishers, 1952. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 16pp. Mild external soil; Very Good or better. Exposé of one of the major intelligence leaks of the early Cold War, which resulted when Major General Robert W. Grow, at this time the Military Attaché to the U.S. Embassy at Moscow, allowed his… Read more about this item

New York: New York State Council of the International Association of Machinists, [1948]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.25cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 38ppl illus. Light soil, wear and toning to extremities, with a few tiny tears, Very Good+. The author was a machinist and Chief Shop Steward in New York - the pamphlet aimed at fellow workers.

[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.

Taipei: United States Information Service, [1963]. 12mo (19cm). Stapled pamphlet in black and white paper wrappers; 31,[1]pp. Bilingual, with text in English and Chinese. Minor discoloration to wrappers, short tear and attendant creases to front fore-edge, else clean and Very Good. Propaganda pamphlet, including Kennedy's July 26, 1963 speech on the proposed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and… 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

Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; [8],277,[3]pp. Fine in bright, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $3.00 on front flap). The author's first novel, a cold-war classic set in a genteel suburb of New York following an apocalyptic nuclear attack. Source for the 1954 television drama Atomic Attack which starred Phyllis Baxter and Walter Matthau.… Read more about this item

New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, [1951]. First Edition. Slim octavo (18cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 24pp; illus. Subtle toning to front wrapper, else Near Fine. A denunciation of the Un-American Activities Committee for its frame-up of UE General Secretary Julius Emspak and UE Local 601 leader Tom Quinn, and a staunch defense of for the… Read more about this item

New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, [1948]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.25cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and subtle toning to extremities, with a few tiny nicks to front wrapper; Very Good+. "Attack on the Hartley Committee of the House of Representatives for accusing the UE of communist infiltration and for performing… Read more about this item

New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, 1950. First Edition. Slim octavo (16.25cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 24pp; illus. Light wear and some trivial dustiness to wrappers, else Near Fine. "An assertion that the UE is attacked as red because of its record of devotion to the American people in war and peace. The enemies of the… Read more about this item

London: Duckworth, [1914]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt on front and spine; plain endpapers, lacking front free endpaper; [vi],310,[2],[20]pp; 22pp of ads at rear. Stamp of Herbert Biberman to flyleaf; old pencil notes to flyleaf. A straight copy, spine lightly sunned, edges gently rubbed, f.f.e.p. lacking, mild toning: Very Good. … Read more about this item

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1957. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed paper self-wrappers; 7pp. Very Good. Two biographical background papers prepared for legislators during the HUAC hearings.

Washington DC: New Republic, 1953. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; [24]pp. Text darkened but not brittle; a few pages dogeared at corners, still complete, sound, about VG. Exposé of questionable financial doings by the head of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Separately issued offprint from the New Republic for March 30, 1953. … Read more about this item

Fairfax, VA: Preview Press, 1995. First Edition. First printing. INSCRIBED to a colleague by the author on half-title. Octavo (23cm); cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 228pp; illus. Fine and unmarked aside from the author's inscription.

[Cincinnati: Circuit Riders, Inc., 1962]. Broadsheeet, 43cm x 58.25cm (17" x 23"). Printed on both sides of a single sheet of newsprint; recto reprints a petition originally published in the New York Times for Feb 22, 1962; verso is commentary by Circuit Riders, Inc., a Cincinnati-based Christian-Nationalist conservative movement. Horizontal fold; mild toning to margins; Very Good. … Read more about this item

Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1947. First Edition. 12mo (19.5cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 38pp. Mild bumps to corners of text, brief pencil date to cover, still Very Good or better. Vyshinsky, Stalin's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, had been a lead prosecutor in the Moscow "Show" Trials of 1936.

Chicago: Chicago Journal of Commerce, 1947. Octavo (21cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 61pp. Clean, tight and unmarked with a bit of dusting to covers; Very Good. Conservative journalist's exposé of Communist infiltration of American labor unions after WW2.

Los Angeles: Freedom Clubs, 1952. Offprint. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"); bifolium; 4pp. Two horizontal mailing folds (as issued), else Fine. Reprinted from the December, 1952 issue of the National Republic. Right-wing attack on attempts to block passage of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, which established immigration restrictions in order to "... safeguard the country from communism, "Jewish interests", and undesirables… Read more about this item