Red Scare (13 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.
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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Condition: 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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Unbound. 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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Unbound. 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 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.
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 seller5-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.
Published by Counterattack, New York 1950
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First edition, dated "June, 1950" on title page. Octavo (21.5cm). Pictorial wrappers; 213pp. Tight, sound copy, lightly toned on covers but internally very clean, free of markings or notable wear. Easily Very Good and far better than usually seen. If not the founding document of the Hollywood Red Scare, then certa…inly the most notorious and influential of the many far-right tracts associated with that era. Published at the height of the Cold War, Red Channels purported to list 151 writers, composers, actors, directors and other leading figures in the entertainment industry whose communist affiliations made them unfit for celebrity. The notorious wave of Hollywood blacklists followed, putting many of those named here out of work for the decade to follow. Among those listed were Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Will Geer, Ruth Gordon, Edward G. Robinson, and many others. The fact that most of these individuals were guilty of nothing more than a commitment to liberal values did not save them from severe reversals in their professional careers; more than a few of those listed would be forced to abandon their careers altogether. A tough book to find in nice condition, and without question one of the defining works of the Cold War decade.
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.
More imagesThe Story of the Hollywood Film Strike in Cartoons!
[COLD WAR - RED SCARE] [HOLLYWOOD FILM STRIKE] PRICE, Gene (illus); Jack Kistner, text
Published by [Los Angeles: Local 644, International Motion Picture Painters Union, 1945]
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Sole printing. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). 189 unnumbered, mimeographed sheets, including title page and introduction, printed recto-only (chiefly illustrations); post-bound at left margin. Unprinted card rear cover wrapper (possibly later); no front cover wrapper, else complete and probably as issued. Minor edge-creas…ing and wear; faint marginal stain to final 15 leaves, well away from printed area; evidence of old adhesion to cover page, not affecting legibility; Very Good and quite well-preserved, especially considering the volume's inherent fragility. A bound volume, presumably one of very few produced, collecting all of the circa 185 issues of "The Picket Line," a cartoon broadside distributed daily to striking workers during the 1945 Hollywood Film Strike, which began in March, 1945 following a walkout by the Hollywood local of the International Set Decorators Union. A number of sympathetic locals joined the strike, but others - including the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the Screen Office Employees' Guild - refused to honor the picket line, leading to a lockout that lasted more than five months. The cartoons draw on topical events, often commenting humorously on developments of the day before. A recurring comic character is a sardonic rat, an avatar for the union scabs who refused to join the strike, weakening the position of labor and paving the way to the violent events of October 5, 1945, the so-called "Hollywood Black Friday", when strikebreakers were brought in to violently suppress the strike, fire-hosing and clubbing dozens of strikers in front of the gates of Warner Brothers Studios. All of these events are pictured here, with the upbeat mood of the drawings growing increasingly dark following the events of Black Friday. The cartoons are preceded by a one-page introduction giving the background of the strike and tracing its history through its conclusion, which came when the strikers finally called a truce on October 31st. A rarely-seen relic of one of the darkest incidents in Hollywood labor history. Rare: OCLC notes three copies (MSU, UM, and UCLA); not generally seen in commerce.
