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New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); original red staplebound pictorial wrappers; 96pp.; illus. Fine. Edited by the African-American National Chairman of the CPUSA. Contents includes Gus Hall's paper "U.S. Imperialism in Africa" and W.E.B. DuBois' letter of application to join the CPUSA with Hall's reply.

Philadelphia: Whittier Press, N.d. [1953]. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 7pp. Hint of oxidation at staples, else Fine. Endorsement by Howard Fast at head of rear wrapper, with brief author statement. The somewhat uncommon first printing of Lowenfels's long poem criticizing America's entry into the Korean conflict, written weeks before his own arrest, trial, and conviction under the Smith Act in July, 1953. This long poem marked Lowenfels' return to poetry after a nearly twenty-year hiatus, and is the signal work of his later period. There is no printing statement, but later printings add details regarding the Smith Act case (2nd printing) and a lengthy endorsement from Luis Aragon (3rd printing).

New York: Harper & Row, Publisher's, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 148pp. Upper board edges gently sunned, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $8.95), with light shelfwear and rubbing overall. Wright's continuation of his autobiographical work Black Boy, covering his struggle to create a new life in Chicago, his early days and break with the Communist Party, and the ostracism that followed.

New York: Roving Eye Press, 1959. First, Limited Edition. Small octavo. Rust cloth (hardcover); 63pp. Limited to 1,000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted, spotted dustjacket, two tiny closed tears, else VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Lowenfels (1897-1976) was a key figure in the Paris avant-garde during the 1930s, where he was a close friend of Henry Miller and Anais Nin (and was in fact the model for the character Jabberwhorl Kronstadt in Miller's Tropic of Cancer ). Returning to the US, he became a central Communist Party organizer and an editor of the Philadelphia Daily Worker. He was arrested, tried and convicted under the Smith Act in 1953, but eventually exhonerated for lack of evidence.

Philadelphia: Whittier Press, N.d. [1953]. Third Printing. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 7pp. Hint of oxidation at staples, else Fine. Endorsements by Luis Aragon, I.F. Stone, Howard Fast and others on rear cover. Early (contemporary) reprint of Lowenfels's long poem criticizing America's entry into the Korean conflict, written weeks before his own arrest, trial, and conviction under the Smith Act in July, 1953. This long poem marked Lowenfels' return to poetry after a nearly twenty-year hiatus, and is the signal work of his later period. This a clean, apparently unread copy of the third printing, which adds Aragon's endorsement to rear wrapper.

New York: Dialog Publications, 1966. Staple-bound bi-monthly periodical. Single quarto issue; pictorial glossy paper wrappers; 39pp; illus. Clean, tight copy, Near Fine. CPUSA-sponsored magazine of radical art and literature, edited by Joseph North, long-time CPUSA apparatchik and Daily Worker editor. Walter Lowenfels was the Associate Editor, responsible for most of the creative content. Contributors to the current issue include Alvin Simon, Aaron Kramer, Alvah Bessie, Robert Gover, others; artwork by Rockwell Kent, Albert Handell, Marvin Cherney and Ralph Fasanella.

[New York: New Century Publishers, 1951]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp. Fine condition. Address by the African-American state secretary of the Communist Party in Illinois, delivered on the 33rd anniversary of the Russian Revolution and calling for peaceful coexistance at the height of McCarthyism. SEIDMAN L236.

New York: Dialogue [Dialog] Publications, 1966. Staple-bound bi-montly periodical. Single quarto issue; pictorial glossy paper wrappers; 39pp; illus. Mild external spotting and soil, still Very Good. CPUSA-sponsored magazine of radical art and literature, edited by Joseph North, long-time CPUSA apparatchik and Daily Worker editor. Walter Lowenfels was the Associate Editor, responsible for most of the creative content. Contributors to the current issue include Max Geismar, John Howard Lawson, Herbert Aptheker, Mari Evans, and others; with artwork by Siqueiros, Larry Rivers, Charles White, and Joseph Hirsch. Laid into this issue is an offset-printed broadside (11" x 8-1/2") announcing a symposium on "The Creative Artist & Social Commitment" at the Hotel Woodstock, New York.

Philadelphia: Whittier Press, N.d. [1953]. Second Printing. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 7pp. Hint of oxidation at staples, else Fine. Endorsement by Howard Fast at head of rear wrapper; with details of Smith Act proceedings and advertisement for autographed copies. Early (contemporary) reprint of Lowenfels's long poem criticizing America's entry into the Korean conflict, written weeks before his own arrest, trial, and conviction under the Smith Act in July, 1953. This long poem marked Lowenfels' return to poetry after a nearly twenty-year hiatus, and is the signal work of his later period. The second of three contemporary printings; there is no printing statement other than blurb on rear wrapper: "Shortly after the first printing...the author...was arrested under the Smith Act." Later printings are identified.

New York: Communist Party of the USA, N.d. [ca 1936]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm). Printed self-wraps; 15pp. Margins slightly browned, else Very Good. Issued as a broadside against the Socialist Party of America on the eve of their annual convention. Includes excerpts of speeches and essays by Earl Browder, Israel Amter, M.J. Olgin and others, as well as two cartoons by Fred Ellis. Much on the COMINTERN's stance towards the Spanish Civil War. SEIDMAN C-465: "Communist Party leaders warn the Socialist Party against Trotskyite influence, and invite socialists to collaborate in a people's front.

New York: Critics Group, 1937. First American Edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 93pp. Includes bibliography. Mild external wear; Very Good.

New York: Workers Library, 1932. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 46pp. Fine. History of persecutions and injustices perpetrated against Bolshevik agitators before the Revolution. "Prepared under the supervision of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, Moscow.

N.p. [New York]: American League Against War and Fascism, ca 1935. First Edition. Broadside, 64cm x 31cm (ca 25" x 12"). Printed recto-only on white stock; text in three columns. Vertical and horizontal folds from mailing; slightly toned along vertical center fold, else a clean, VG example. Lengthy statement by the American League Against War and Fascism countering accusations that the ALAWF was a Communist-controlled front group. Text unsigned. Concludes with an invitation to attend a Mass Meeting for the defense of Ethiopia (from which we obtain our 1935 date). Not found in OCLC.

[Los Angeles]: Communist Party Election Campaign Committee, [1936]. Broadside, 12" x 9"; printed offset, black ink on pink newsprint. Old folds; mild aging, with some shallow chipping along right margin; Very Good. Announces an "Anti-Kramer" Rally (Charles Kramer, California congressman) to promote local and national Communist Party candidates. Speakers include Anita Whitney, Emma Cutler, and Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor.

Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society, [1938]. Broadside, 18-1/2" x 9". Printed recto-only on newsprint. Text in single column beneath cartoon graphic signed "Doc Rankin". Single horizontal fold; paper slightly toned and eroded at margins (not approaching text); complete and Good. Right-wing broadside attacking Simon Gerson, who had recently been appointed Assistant to Manhattan Borough President Stanley Isaacs. Gerson (1909-2004) was the first openly Communist politician to hold an appointed office in New York; despite vicious attacks such as this from various right-wing groups he succeeded in holding on to his post for three years. Following WW2 (in which he served honorably), Gerson returned to politics, once again becoming embroiled in controversy when the Tammany machine blocked his appointment to fill deceased communist City Councilman Pete Cacchione's seat. The graphic, reproduced from the Brooklyn "Daily Eagle", shows Gerson conducting city business while a placid Josef Stalin… Read More

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.

Chicago: American Peace Mobilization, [1940]. Quarto (28cm). Staple-bound, mimeographed wrappers, printed recto only; 25, [3]pp. Mild aging and wear, still Very Good to Near Fine. An interesting example of the Comintern's Hitler-Stalin Pact-era "pacifism" - the authors argue vigorously against American participation in WWII, a position that they would reverse abruptly on June 21, 1941, the day Hitler launched his invasion of the Soviet Union. At this point the organization changed its name from the "American Peace Mobilization" to the "American Peoples Mobilization" and demanded America's immediate entry into the war. The current item, produced by a local Chicago chapter of the APM, includes an appendix with a seven-point plan detailing "The Illinois Program for Peace." Quite rare: OCLC finds no locations; not in SEIDMAN; not seen in commerce.

New York: International Publishers, 1945. First Edition. 12mo. Printed paper wrappers; 111pp. Mild wear and a few spots of staining to wrappers; internally tight, clean, unmarked. SEIDMAN R151: "A communist study of American economic development and of the operation of the capitalist economic system, written at the close of World War II when the Party hoped that enlightened capitalism and communism could cooperate for peace and progress.

New York: International Publishers, 1946. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Pencil date to cover; foxed and sunned along edges; Very Good. "...communist analysis of differences among cartels, trusts, and combines, pointing out that conflicts of interest are continued in cartels, though not in other forms of monopoly" - SEIDMAN A44.

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, but the convictions were overturned in 1957.