Original File Photo of 1966 Attack on a Milwaukee Communist Bookseller
Published by [Milwaukee: Milwaukee Sentinel, 1966]
- First Edition
- Used
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since February 22, 1998
Condition: Used
US$ 66.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Original black and white photographic print, 8" x 10". Stamps and composition notes to recto below image; clipping glued to verso with brief ink caption; small loss to bottom right corner, well away from image. Very Good overall, with image area clean and unfaded. Photo shows the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Fred Bassett Blair, at this time Chairman of the Wisconsin Communist Party. A year earlier, Blair had been singled out by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as the proprietor of one of "eight major communist bookstores operating in the United States." The shooting was carried out by a 17-year-old boy with a handgun inside Mary's Books, a used bookshop owned and managed by Blair's wife (which indeed carried a small section of Marxist books). Blair was unharmed, but a bookseller colleague, Ralph Sacks, was injured by three bullets. Blair beat the assailant into submission with a toy baseball bat, and in this photo the unidentified youth is seen being carried out of the store on a stretcher.…
Seller Inventory # 58574
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Original File Photo of 1966 Attack on a Milwaukee Communist Bookseller
- Author
- [COMMUNIST PARTY - WISCONSIN] [BOOK TRADE] Anonymous Photographer
- Publisher
- [Milwaukee: Milwaukee Sentinel, 1966]
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Communism, CPUSA, Photography
Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
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Store description
We maintain an inventory of more than 50,000 items, including out-of-print and rare books, pamphlets, graphics, and ephemera, most in our specialty areas of Radical Thought and Modern Literature but including a large selection of fine books in all fields. Only a fraction of our inventory is catalogued for on-line sales. We also issue 2 to 4 printed catalogs each year of items in our specialisation. Though we are a private-premises business, our books are priced and organized for browsing. If you would like to visit our showroom, please contact us by e-mail or telephone as far in advance of your anticipated visit as possible. We'll do our best to accommodate you!…
Specialty
SOCIAL HISTORY, GRAPHICS & ORIGINAL ARTS, PROLETARIAN LITERATURE, RADICAL MOVEMENTSAssociation member
Seller's business information
Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
661 Millwood Ave, Ste 206
Winchester, VA U.S.A. 22601
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