Red Scare (16 results)
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1994
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 393pp; illus. Mild wear to boards and jacket edges; VG to NF.
More imagesPublished by The Danielle Publishers, San Diego, CA, 1941
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA
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Add to basketOriginal wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 Inches. 63 PP. Original 1941 communist propaganda piece asserting that the public schools in America are filled with pagan and un-American textbooks! The author attacks the public school system and even goes on to attack Professor Albert Einstein and others who h…ave forsaken God in favor of science. Light toning throughout.
Published by California Emergency Defense Comm, Los Angeles, 1951
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB)
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. Broadside leaflet, 7-3/4 x 10 in. Text-heavy leaflet in defense of Communist party members prosecuted and convicted under the Smith Act, during the height of McCarthyism.
Published by [No Publisher], Los Angeles, 1983
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketUnbound. Condition: Fine. Photomechanically reproduced flyer on 8.5" x 11" green paper. Fine. An original flyer promoting a gig at Roxanne's Los Angeles with Circle One, Sin 34, Decry, and Red Scare featuring artwork of a lynching signed by N.T.
Published by [No Publisher], Los Angeles, 1983
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketUnbound. Condition: Fine. Photomechanically reproduced flyer on 8.5" x 11" paper. Fine. An original flyer promoting a gig at Roxanne's Los Angeles with Circle One, Sin 34, Decry, and Red Scare featuring artwork of a lynching signed by N.T.
Published by [Youngstown, OH: Kutcher Civil Rights Committee, 1956]
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFlyer, ca. 9" x 6". Printed recto-only; printed in black on uncoated white stock. Old horizontal folds; tape stains on verso, light soil; complete, Good and sound. Annotated in ink, in an unknown hand: "Youngstown - 1956;" the word "Cleveland" also present but crossed out. Handbill advertising a civil rights rally in Youngstown,… Ohio in 1956, during the height of the McCarthy-era Red Scare. The featured speaker was James Kutcher, a disabled WW2 veteran who had been fired from his job at the U.S. Veterans Administration because of his past affiliation with the Socialist Workers Party. Other speakers included Al Shipka, President of the Mahoning Co. CIO Council; E.B. Smith of the ACLU; and African-American civil rights activist Nate Lee.
Published by Sunshine Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1954
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA
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Add to basketOriginal wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 5 1/2 X 8 1/4 Inches. 19 PP. Original 1950's communist "Red Scare" tract reprinted by the Sunshine Press. Issued under the title "Moscow's Religious 5th Column in the United States" by Circuit Riders in the same year. An attack piece on at least 14 named members of the clergy…in the Chicago area accused of being Communist sympathizers. Some pencil (regular and red pencil) throughout text. SCARCE IN COMMERCE. OCLC locates "0" of this tract.
Published by Film Culture, New York, 1970
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 84pp; illus. Mild overall dusting and wear; a few page-corners rolled; Very Good. Special double issue, guest-edited by Gordon Hitchens, devoted entirely to an examination of the 1950s Hollywood Red Scare. Contributors include Gordon Hitchens, John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, Lew… Irwin, Joseph Losey, many others.
More imagesThe Official Bulletin of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee of Boston, Massachusetts. [August 1927 Issue]
[Massachusetts - Sacco and Vanzetti - Red Scare] Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee
Language: English
Published by Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, Boston, Massachusetts, 1927
Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Very good minus. The August 1927 issue of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee's Official Bulletin. The Committee was founded by personal friend Aldino Felicani shortly after the pair's 1920 arrest; the Committee's Bulletin was published monthly between 1926 and 1927. This issue was published shortly after the advisor…y committee assembled by Governor Alvan T. Fuller-consisting of Harvard President Abbot Lowell, MIT President Samuel Stratton, and Judge Robert Grant-had upheld the verdict, and shortly before the pair was executed. It reviews critical discussion of Fuller's decision by the Springfield Republican newspaper, and reproduces a column in the New York World by journalist Heywood Broun. It ends with the statement: "Sacco and Vanzetti die in the electric chair because honesty is not cherished even by President Lowell of Harvard. Sacco and Vanzetti are martyrs to truth. They are symbols for the workers of the world and for all men who sincerely seek to find the meaning of life. 'God Save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!'" . Four-page newspaper measuring 9 x 12 inches. Folded in quarters, delicate with some tears at folds; toned with some large stains, not affecting legibility.
Published by Gus Hall-Benjamin J. Davis Defense Committee, New York, 1962
- Softcover
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA
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Add to basketOriginal wraps. Condition: Very Good. 3 3/4 X 8 3/4 Inches. (6) PP. Original 1962 "Red Scare" pamphlet calling on the public to denounce Robert F. Kennedy's plan to investigate ten citizens as potential members of the Communist Party. The ten people called to Congressare: William Albertson, William L. Patterson, Louis Weinstock,… Betty Gannett Tormey, Miriam Friedlander and Arnold Johnson, Dorothy Healey, Albert Lima, Roscoe Proctor and Burt Nelson. "Each of the ten people has a long and impressive record of service to labor and to the common people. They have worked long and hard organizing in steel, auto, mining - leading the unemployed - leading the fight for unemployment insurance - for peace. against faccism. They have fought to save the "Scottsboro Boys". Sacco and Vanzetti. Willie McGee." OCLC LOCATES "7" COPIES. ZERO COPIES IN COMMERCE. Light rubbing and some wear to folds.
Published by Myron Fagan / Cinema Educational Guild, Inc, Hollywood, CA, 1956
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA
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Add to basketOriginal wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. "Sign and mail copies of this document to your Representatives and Senators - for the love of God and Country - and for the salvation of YOUR children!" Original lot of four 1950's & 60's "Red Scare" in Hollywood tracts. Published by Myron Fagan and his Cinema Educational Guil…d, these period tracts are aimed at stomping out Communism in Hollywood. Fagan, an early film writer and director for 20th Century Fox transitioned into a full-time pamphleteer and gossip king about 1945. In the late 1940s, Fagan launched a one-man crusade against what he claimed was a "Red Conspiracy in Hollywood". Out of this crusade came the Cinema Educational Guild. These four tracts are representative of many of those he published and have become quite scarce of late. Each tract is a double-sided three-panel sheet measuring 10" x 6" when unfolded. THIS LOT INCLUDES: UNESCO IS DEADLY MENACE TO AMERICAN YOUTH [CIRCA 1962] / OCLC LOCATES 3 U.S.A. ABOLISHED BY DECISION OF UN WORLD COURT [CIRCA 1962] / OCLC LOCATES 1 UN TRACT NO. 1 - WHY WE MUST GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE UN - AND THE UN OUT OF THE U.S. [CIRCA 1956] / OCLC LOCATES 7 UN TRACT NO. 2 - THE TRUTH ABOUT THE U.N. BY TRYGVIE LIE [CIRCA 1959] / OCLC LOCATES 6.
Published by National Committee to Defeat the Mundt Bill, Washington DC, 1950
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB)
Contact seller4-star sellerMimeograph broadside, on one side of a single leaf, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches. Text-rich poster in opposition to the anti-communist bill that had passed the U.S. House of Representatives and awaited action in the Senate. Originally the Mundt-Nixon bill when it was first introduced in 1948, it died in the Senate. In 1950, it was…offered up again as the Mundt-Ferguson bill, requiring the registration of all communist party members, or members of affiliated groups. While the bill once again failed in the Senate, its provisions were folded into the broader McCarran-Walter act two years later. Partly toned; folded as for mailing; neat pencil notation in one corner.
Published by Underground Productions / P.U.N.X. n.p., CA, 1982
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.Specific Object / David Platzker
Contact seller5-star seller[1] pp.; 27.8 x 21.5 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; photocopy / xeroxed Flyer / handbill for two nights of shows called "Underground Sounds for Everyone," held at the T-Bird Rollerdrome, Pico Rivera, CA, Friday, October 29 and Saturday, October 20 [1982]. Gig featured performances by Circle…Jerks, CH. 3, Circle One, Agression, Red Scare, Suicidal Tendencies, Ill Repute, Dr. Know, M.I.A., Bad Religion, Shattered Faith, Funeral, Minutemen, Red Brigade, Sin 34, Tourist, Public Nuisance, Men in Black, Crankshaft, Section 8, Secret Service, American Disgrace, Anti, The Horsemen, Corpus Delecti, The Patriots, Verbal Abuse, Catch 22, Stanic, Mad Parade, and U.A.T. Fair. Significant handling wear. Folded in eight. Yellow staining and multiple areas of clear tape and bumping and creasing and light tearing along flyer edges. 5.2 cm. of handwriting in black ink on verso. Clear tape along bottom and top edges of verso.
1951 FBI Poster Showing the Structure of the Communist Party USA
[Communist Party USA Second Red Scare] FBI Cartographic Section
Published by Washington, D.C., 1951
Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star seller10 x 12 inch sheet. A 1951 poster produced by the FBI explaining the national structure of the Communist Party USA, including names and photographs of the thirteen National Committee members and their nine alternates. During this timeslightly predating the formation of COINTELPROHoover's FBI was already engaged in surveilling, b…urglarizing, and otherwise persecuting alleged Communists, and forcing them out of government jobs. Represented among CPUSA leadership on this poster are all those convicted in 1949 of violations of the Smith Act on Hoover's recommendation and with the help of several FBI informants. Folded; slightly crumpled towards bottom. Very good to excellent.
Published by Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, New York, 1951
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. First printing (with Roman numeral "I" to copyright page). Inscribed by Massing on front free endpaper: "To Ralph and Nora / in friendship in love," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 335pp. Tight, clean copy, Very Good or better. In the origi…nal dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), rubbed and worn with some clear tape reinforcements to head and heel; just VG. A singular presentation copy of Massing's sensational memoir, revealing her career as an NKVD recruiter in Washington beginning in the 1920s, through the Great Depression and WW2. After the war, Massing turned; her testimony against Alger Hiss in 1949 was a critical factor in his ultimate conviction. This copy inscribed to the prominent right-wing journalist, commentator and political operative Ralph de Toledano and his wife Nora. Toledano's (1916-2007) 1950 book, "Seeds of Treason," is one of the key conservative accounts of the Hiss trial and marked a clear turning point in Toledano's career - he having been, prior to the revelations of the trial, a socialist-aligned left intellectual, at one time the editor of the SP organ The New Leader and later a publicist for the left-wing International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). Signed.
More imagesArchive of Lifelong Progressive and Democratic Party Organizer Carl Vonder Lancken, with Much on the Campaigns of Henry Wallace and Estes Kefauver
[Progressive Politics Organized Labor Second Red Scare] Vonder Lancken, Carl; Kefauver, Estes; Wallace, Henry; Novikov, Nikolai; Robins, Raymond; MacLeish, Archibald; O'Connell, Jerry; et al.
Published by United States and Brazil, 1970
Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Overall Near Fine. A large archive of material belonging to professor and organizer Carl Vonder Lancken (19101993), mainly documenting his political activities, which included campaigning for Henry Wallace in 1948 and Estes Kefauver in 1956. Most of the material is contained in Lancken's dense and meticulously kept 13…2 page scrapbook, which documents his activities between 1941 and 1971. Prior to Wallace's campaign Lancken was involved with organized labor, and was a member of the United Shoe Workers of America CIO in Chicago, for which he was the educational director and provided legal counsel (membership cards in the scrapbook show that he was a longtime member of the Tennessee Bar). Items from this time include clippings from The CIO News, Shoe Worker's Edition and The Shoe Horn, the official publication of the Chicago Joint Council No. 25, USWA; a syllabus for a "Brief Course in Trade Unionism for Shop Stewards and Committee Members", for which Lancken taught a unit on International Affairs Since 1933; and Lancken's due books, Chicago Industrial Union Council membership card, and honorable withdrawal certificate and card from the USWA. At the time Lancken was also executive director of the Chicago Council of American-Soviet Friendship. The archive includes flyers for Council events, such as a lecture on "Soviet Women and Family Life in Russia" by Rose Maurer; and a number of letters from artists and politicians expressing support for the cause but turning down Lancken's invitations to an unspecified event: Eddie Cantor, Rockwell Kent, Jo Davidson, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Wallace, Henry Morgenthau, and Raymond Robins all write to him. Robins explains that he is paralyzed and "shall not walk again this side of the 'Great Divide'", but sends Lancken a check in support. Lancken received an invitation from Soviet ambassador Nikolai Novikov to an event "In Celebration of the Twenty-ninth Anniversary of the Great October Revolution"; Novikov also sent a telegram declining one of Lancken's invitations. Lancken was also busily writing to congresspeople urging them to abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), about which he received mixed replies; many are supportive and many more noncommittal, but Rep. Alexander Resa of Illinois is downright blistering: "Your telegram [.] shows that you grossly misunderstand the meaning of the vote on the Barsky matter and that you are unforgivably unfair to many fine liberals in the House of Representatives. [.] When representatives of the joint anti-Fascist Refugee Committee called upon me some time ago I told them very frankly that I thought the course they were bent upon pursuing would destroy every chance of abolishing the Committee on un-American Activities in this Congress. Prior to the Barsky incident there was a considerable volume of opinion in the House of Representatives that the Committee ought to be abolished. That opinion is not so generally held since the Barsky incident. [.] You say that my pledge to abolish the Rankin Committee is meaningless. I do not permit anybody, no matter who he is, to make such a charge against me and to go unscathed. I demand of you a complete and immediate retraction of this charge of bad faith. In the absence of my receiving it promptly I want you to know that there is a[n] ugly four-letter word which I apply to you with all the vigor at my command." (April 13, 1946) The "Barsky incident" concerns Edward K. Barsky, head of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, an organization that aided refugees of the Spanish Civil War (a cause that Lancken shared, as a member of the Chicago Committee for Spanish Freedom). Barsky was charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to give the HUAC his organization's financial records. Lancken's next activity, as executive secretary of the Progressive Party in Oklahoma, was working to get Henry A. Wallace on the ballot. This part of the scrapbook mainly consists of newspaper clippings, including from the African Amer.
