Devil Book by Trumbo Dalton, Signed (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. States ""First Printing, May, 1956." No. 710 of a Limited, Signed Edition of 750 copies, signed in red ink "Dalton Trumbo" immediately below the limitation. Trumbo -- a member of the "Hollywood 10" -- protests the "Smith Act" prosecutions of current or former officers of the Communist Party. A couple of the pages remain unopened; this 108-page, stapled pamphlet, despite being age-toned to edges, would probably grade "very good" save for the inch-and-a-half triangular dampstain to lower outside corner of the wraps (impinges NO text to interior.) An important artifact of the "Red Scare" era. Trumbo signatures are sought-after. Reduced from $570. Signed by Author(s).

paperback. Condition: very good. Limited. 42p. printed wrappers; lightly faded at the edges. (Los Angeles), 1956. Limited First Edition. A denunciation of The Smith Act, published by the California Emergency Defense Committee. Limited First Edition. One of 750 signed copies.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. No. 237 of 750 press-numbered copies signed by the author. Stiff card wraps, sun darkening to the edges, otherwise near fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall (5 x 9" or 13.5 x 22.5cm); 42 pp.

Wraps. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. This is No. 250 of a limited edition of 750 copies signed by Dalton Trumbo. The American novelist and screenwriter, who scripted films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Trumbo (1905-76) aligned with the Communist Party in the United States before the 1940s, although he did not join the party until 1943. He was an isolationist. One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He was subsequently blacklisted by that industry, though he continued working clandestinely, writing under other authors' names. This pamphlet, published five and a half years after Trumbo served eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky for contempt of Congress, analyzes the conviction of fourteen California Smith Act defendents: "As the Supreme Court moves to review the Smith Act convictions, the American people must also review them and enter the struggle to overthrow them. The old and not very valorous strategy of tossing Communists to the wolves in despairing hope that the civil rights of all others will then be spared has not worked. The appetite of the Department of Justice and the FBI has proved insatiable." The Smith Act set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government. A series of Supreme Court decisions in 1957 reversed a number of convictions under the act as unconstitutional. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Typical mild toning to the extremities; else near fine.