London: Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1965, 1966. Two issues of the staplebound journal, lightly worn wraps. Issues present are No. 4 (Autumn 1965) and No 5 (Winter 1966). Topics discussed include censorship of theater, China's information control system, and much more. In 1966 it was revealed that the sponsoring organization..... More
Cat.No: 226036
London: Gays Against Cruising, [1980]. Single 6x8.25 inch leaflet printed one side only with horizontal fold crease else very good on salmon stock. British protest leaflet lists The Lies, What Are Lesbians and Gay Men Asking For? We Will Not Hide! Censorship? More
Cat.No: 268656
n.p. [196-?]. 1.25 inch diameter pin, very good. More
Cat.No: 258153
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
Roma: Arnaldo Forni, 1918. Five issues of the weekly newspaper run by the socialist Gaetano Salvemini; all are folded and toned, with address labels of the diplomat Tommaso Bertele (sometimes misspelled Romasso). Four to eight pages per issue. Numbers present are vol. 7 no. 37/38, 41, 42, 48, and 49..... More
Cat.No: 250195
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
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 knowledgable..... More
Cat.No: 54294
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
Xi'an: Tai bai wen yi chu ban she 太白文艺出版社, 2006. 316p., paperback, very good. Text in Chinese. Zhongguo gu dai jin hui yan qing xiao shuo, vol. 6. Part of a series reprinting erotic works that had previously been banned. Both of these novels date to the Qing dynasty... More
Cat.No: 237004
Xi'an: Tai bai wen yi chu ban she 太白文艺出版社, 2006. 301p., paperback, very good. Text in Chinese. Zhongguo gu dai jin hui yan qing xiao shuo, vol. 7. Part of a series reprinting erotic works that had previously been banned. These three novels date to the Qing dynasty. More
Cat.No: 237005
![Zang shu [four volumes] together with Xu zang shu [two volumes](/pictures/thumb/228949.jpg?v=1536806283)
Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974. Total of six paperback volumes, old rubberband marks across the front cover of the last volume. Reprint of the infamous "Book to be hidden away" and its sequel, by the unorthodox late Ming dynasty philosopher who committed suicide in prison. More
Cat.No: 228949
Chicago: American Civil Liberties Union, [1949]. 31p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x5.5 inches, very good copy. Critique of the Seditious Activities Investigation Commission, aka Broyles Commission, which recommended extreme measures of harassment of CP members, ''to treat them as the mongrel class of citizenry" (from document quoted on p.13) thus censoring "personnel"..... More
Cat.No: 149473
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1963. Pamphlet. 8p., wraps slightly toned, minor creasing, old price on front wrap, ACLU stamp on front wrap else good condition. More
Cat.No: 265664
![Zhongguo jin shu da guan 中國禁書大觀 [A complete introduction of Chinese banned books]....](/pictures/thumb/145043.jpg?v=1510528159)
Shanghai: Shanghai wenhua chubanshe 上海文化出版社, 1994. 715p., hardcover in lightly edgeworn dj; black and white illustrations. Overview of book banning in Chinese imperial history, including a list of 3,000 banned titles and their authors. More
Cat.No: 145043
![Communism: menace or promise? The speech they banned [sub-title from cover]. Herbert Aptheker](/pictures/thumb/15595.jpg?v=1502683715)
New York: New Century Publishers, 1963. Pamphlet. 24p., wraps, lightly shelfworn else very good condition, 5x7.5 inches. Text of a speech that Aptheker was to give at New York State University in Buffalo, and was prevent by a court injunction from delivering. More
Cat.No: 15595
![Communism: menace or promise? The speech they banned [sub-title from cover]. Herbert Aptheker](/pictures/thumb/264971.jpg?v=1619058839)
New York: New Century Publishers, 1963. Pamphlet. 24p., wraps, lightly shelfworn, date penned on front wrap else very good condition, 5x7.5 inches. Text of a speech that Aptheker was to give at New York State University in Buffalo, and was prevent by a court injunction from delivering. More
Cat.No: 264971
New York: Viking, 1987. Hardcover. 206p., very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Cuban American novelist. This was his first novel, meant to be the beginning of a semi-autobiographical series of 5 books of which "Farewell to the Sea" was the third book but the first..... More
Cat.No: 16223
New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Hardcover. xiv, 751p., quarter-cloth boards, 6.25x9.5 inches, corners bumped else very good first Viking edition in an unclipped, edgeworn dj. A Richard Seaver Book. Barea headed the Republic's Foreign Press and Censorship Bureau during the war, and writes eloquently of the Republic, the war..... More
Cat.No: 29874
New York: Horace Liverwright, 1928. Hardcover. 323p., illustrations, one of 3,000 copies, very good first US edition(expurgated) in blue cloth boards with red and gilt titles and triangle design in poor, heavily-chipped and torn price-clipped dj, large section missing from upper-front panel and head of spine. The US edition was..... More
Cat.No: 216634
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995. x, 216p., very good hardcover. Biography of the man known for the Comstock Act, which regulated sexual literature in America. More
Cat.No: 262737
London: Pluto Press, 1982. xvi, 218p., first edition softbound, 8x5 inch decorated wraps. An intense small brown stain affects lower tip of last 25 leaves, paperstock is mildly toned, a sound and otherwise clean copy. More
Cat.No: 177965
Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Leningradskogo universiteta, 1967. 286p., very good hardcover, pages evenly toned. On censorship in czarist Russia. More
Cat.No: 187608
[Geneva]: [Le Réveil], 1942. 16p., staplebound booklet, pages toned, very good. Contents in French and Italian. "Quelque part en Suisse." No. 47. Luigi Bertoni, who had been publishing the anarchist serial Le Réveil for decades, turned it into a clandestine publication during the war years, each issue a pamphlet with..... More
Cat.No: 260088
[Geneva]: [Le Réveil], 1941. 16p., staplebound booklet, pages toned, vertical crease. Contents in French and Italian. "Quelque part en Suisse." No. 30. Luigi Bertoni, who had been publishing the anarchist serial Le Réveil for decades, turned it into a clandestine publication during the war years, each issue a pamphlet with..... More
Cat.No: 260084
[Geneva]: [Le Réveil], 1942. 16p., staplebound booklet, pages toned, vertical crease; some staining to front cover. Contents in French and Italian. "Quelque part en Suisse." No. 32. Luigi Bertoni, who had been publishing the anarchist serial Le Réveil for decades, turned it into a clandestine publication during the war years..... More
Cat.No: 260085
