[Chicago]: [195-]. Two 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at corner; carbon copies of typed text, with a pen correction; minor handling, very good. "An editor of Big Table, the Chicago literary magazine which publishes many of the Beat Generation writers and poets, has asked Mayor Daley to appoint him to fill..... More
Cat.No: 347490
Toronto: Canadian Association for Free Expression, 1986. Newsletter. [2p]., corner-stapled 8.5x11 inch sheets; in very good condition. "The CAFE Quarterly reports on threats to freedom of speech and expression across Canada and places special emphasis on the repressive activities of Human Rights Commissions." More
Cat.No: 302432
Springfield, MA: Victory Publishing Company, n.d. [3]-23, [1]p., stiff blue wraps with typed title label affixed to front cover. Very Good. Anonymous pamphlet calling for the formation of a national anti-censorship organization. Much discussion of obscenity, particularly the Gathings Committee and recklessly applied post office regulations. Accuses Catholic Church of..... More
Cat.No: 131240
n.p. International Commission of Jurists for the Examination of the Karlsruhe Proceedings, 1955. [5p.] 8.25x10.75 inch pamphlet, "Communist Front" penciled in corner, otherwise very good. Not found in OCLC as of August 2023. An analysis co-signed by a number of jurists from various countries, arguing against West Germany's plan to..... More
Cat.No: 308307
n.pl. A Carlo Ponti Production presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, n.d. Pamphlet. 23p., 6.75x9 inch wraps; mildly toned, else very good. More
Cat.No: 295520
San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Area Coalition for Freedom of Expression, [c1981?]. Newsletter. 8p., folded tabloid style format; photos., illus., evenly toned, else very good condition. Newsletter on the restrictions of art projects funded by the National Endowment for the Arts covering political censorship to depictions of children. More
Cat.No: 305435
Hollywood, CA: Freedom from Fear Committee, 1948. 4p., 8.5x11 inches, paper toned, minor edge chipping, not affecting text. Uncertain if later issues were published; one holding found in OCLC as of June 2025, at the Wisconsin Historical Society, which is also limited to this first issue. The Committee was organized..... More
Cat.No: 335690
New York: Grove Press, New American Library, 1959. In August 1959, Grove Press, which was publishing the first unexpurgated American edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and the New American Library, which held the rights to an expurgated version of the censored novel and sought to issue its own unexpurgated version..... More
Cat.No: 347500
Roma: Edizioni di Voce Operaia. Movimento Cattolici Comunisti, 1944. Paperback. 143p., diminutive softbound in plain printed 6.5x4.5 inch unglazed wraps. All paperstock toned, covers fully browned but not fragile, textblock leaves with marginal toning only, spine panel wrinkled and split for an inch or so at the tail, brief erasable..... More
Cat.No: 263698
London: Index on Censorship, 1983. Magazine. 49p., 8.25x11 inches; pages evenly toned, wrappers a bit handled, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 313920
n.p. [201-]. 14x23 inch screenprint, numbered 7/15 and signed in Chinese Li Huoran (almost certainty a pseudonym). Very good. Refers to getting around the internet censorship and surveillance system set up by the Chinese government. More
Cat.No: 343328
New York: World Wide Book Services, [1950s-1960s]. Twenty-seven mail-order handbills and fliers mostly from World Wide Book Services and a few others covering sexology, erotic, banned books and even health care for your dog! Fragile paper stock. It includes only one handbill for World Wide that is gay. More
Cat.No: 347333
New York: National Council on Freedom from Censorship of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1952. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, small rust stain on rear wrap panel else very good condition. On two Supreme Court decisions declaring unconstitutional a New York State ban on the film "The Miracle" and..... More
Cat.No: 279852
New York: MM Newsletter, 1973. 4p., 8.5x11 inches, horizontal fold crease, mailing label, else a good newsletter. Cover story about Stephen E. Shapiro's campaign to halt the showings of "Deep Throat" in a theatre near his home. Mostly reports on obscenity hearings. More
Cat.No: 334366
New York: National Council on Freedom from Censorship, 1941. Pamphlet. 8p. staplebound pamphlet, 4x9 inches, ownership name rubberstamped in corner. More
Cat.No: 280673
New York: National Council on Freedom from Censorship, Affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union, 1946. Pamphlet. 8p. staplebound pamphlet, 4x9 inches, minor toning. More
Cat.No: 306130
New York: Rushdie Defense Committee USA, PEN American Center, 1994. Ephemera. [4]pp., wraps. 7.5 x 4.75 in. Statement by the Rushdie Defense Committee condemning Rushdie’s persecution by Ayatollah Khomeini, referencing book burnings and the murder of Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of Satanic Verses. More
Cat.No: 303575
New York City :: San Francisco: International Peace for Cuba Appeal Commemorative Journal, 1992. Unpaginated 8.5x11 inch staplebound booklet; inner side of staples slightly rusted, some foxing along top edge, else very good. Lengthy directory of the many organizations that support ending the U.S. blockade on Cuba. More
Cat.No: 297728
Rohnert Park, CA: Project Censored, 2008. 8p. newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Includes a cover story on the group's receipt of an award from PEN Oakland, an obituary for longtime Sonoma State professor and activist Tom Lough, a piece on the success of democratic socialism in Venezuela, and more. More
Cat.No: 251476
Chicago: Illinois division, American Civil Liberties Union, 1956. 8.5x11 inch sheet with mimeographed text on both sides, name of Kenneth Douty (executive director) written at top, minor handling wear and toning. The second sheet is more worn, with an edge tear. Argues that a proposed ordinance would "effectively censor the..... More
Cat.No: 347496
New York: George Peabody and Associates, Inc. for The Catholic Digest, [1956-?]. Two 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at corner, minor edgewear and toning. “Continued publication of sex-obsessed novels may mean that America's book publishers are committing suicide in their own cesspools. Publishers have recently revealed an almost unbelievable stupidity in..... More
Cat.No: 347488
San Francisco: Coming Up! 1992. Newspaper. 60p. tabloid newspaper with cover photo with the head of SF police chief Richard Hongisto on a police uniform, with his billy club in a most suggestive pose (collaged of course; body was posed for by a uniformed lesbian lady, so runs the knowledgeable..... More
Cat.No: 54294
Richmond, VA: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, c1966. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure in stiff-wraps; in very good condition. An argument about the difference between state and federal laws in the censorship of obscene materials. The Commission, an official state agency, was formed to present a genteel defense of segregation and racism..... More
Cat.No: 302004
Amsterdam: Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg-Front; Derde Front, 1941-1942. Seventeen issues of the clandestine newsletter published by revolutionary socialists under Nazi occupation. On the first issue, the title is spelled Spartakus, after which it becomes Spartacus. After the third issue, the subtitle changes to "Orgaan van het Derde Front." The issues appear in a...... More
Cat.No: 272179
New York: Students for a Democratic Society; New York Committee to End the War in Vietnam, [1965]. Poster. 30x46 inch poster depicting a girl with extensive scars; text at the lower left states "This 10-year old girl was burned by napalm bombs." Originally issued by SDS, this example has a...... More
Cat.No: 316374
