F*ck censorship [pinback button]
n.p. [196-?]. 1.25 inch diameter pin, very good. More
Cat.No: 258153
Banned, suppressed, censorship, Censored Material
Facts for editorial reference about the making of David Lean's Film of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago
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
Il Comunismo e i Cattolici.
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
L'Unita: problemi della vita italiana [five issues]
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
"The Miracle" Decision
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
Project Censored Alert! Vol. 12 , no. 1 (Winter 2008-09)
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 Bay Times: the gay/lesbian/bisexual newspaper & calendar of events for the Bay Area; vol. 13, #17, May 7, 1992; Dick's cool new tool: martial law
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
Spartacus: orgaan van het Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg-Front [Seventeen issues, later changing the subtitle to "Orgaan van het Derde Front"]
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
Twenty-four thousand years in jail for American citizens / American Freedom Convention at Chicago, September 25, 1919 [leaflet with cartoon strip]
Chicago: American Freedom Convention, 1919. Handbill. 8.5x3.6 inch leaflet, printed both sides, very good. One side has a comic strip depicting a government agent arresting an editor for publishing anti-war sentiments (artist's signature obscure); the other side has poetic quotes from John Hay and Longfellow along with contact information for..... More
Cat.No: 275126
Wu mei yuan / Shan shui qing 五美缘；山水情
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
Yuan yang ying / Jing wu zhong / Shen lou zhi 鸳鸯影；警寤钟；蜃楼志
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
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Zang shu [four volumes] together with Xu zang shu [two volumes]
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
The gag on teaching. The story of the new restrictions by law on teaching in schools; and by public opinion and donors on college. Second revised edition
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1937. Pamphlet. 63p., wraps slightly worn else very good condition, 6x9 inches. More
Cat.No: 275232
The gag on teaching. The story of the new restrictions by law on teaching in schools; and by public opinion and donors on colleges. Revised edition
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1936. Pamphlet. 59p., wraps slightly worn with minor toning else good condition, 6x9 inches. More
Cat.No: 278498
Obscenity and censorship, two statements of the American Civil Liberties Union
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
Communism: menace or promise? The speech they banned [sub-title from cover]
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]
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
Ryder; with illustrations by the author
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
Wild Lilies: Poisonous Weeds. Dissident voices from people's China.
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
TSarskaia tsenzura i bor’ba bo’shevikov za svobodu pechati (1895-1914)
Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Leningradskogo universiteta, 1967. 286p., very good hardcover, pages evenly toned. On censorship in czarist Russia. More
Cat.No: 187608
Pursuit of freedom; a history of civil liberty in Illinois 1787-1942. Illustrations by Misch Kohn
Chicago: Chicago Civil Liberties Commitee [and] Illinois Civil Liberties Committee, 1942. Hardcover. x, 221p., illus., first edition, very good condition, tattered remains of the dj are present. The Illinois Federal Writers Project did the research for this book. More
Cat.No: 9569
Pursuit of freedom; a history of civil liberty in Illinois 1787-1942. Illustrations by Misch Kohn
Chicago: Chicago Civil Liberties Committee [and] Illinois Civil Liberties Committee, 1942. Hardcover. x, 221p., illustrated with woodcuts at each chapter head, hardbound in dark red cloth boards gilt. Lacks the jacket. Mild edgewear to casing, pastedown toned with a neat presentation inscription, clean unmarked text, a good copy. The Illinois..... More
Cat.No: 284668
Inside out; a memoir of the blacklist
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. 292p., very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 42255
Action et Réaction
[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
Cauchemar persistant
[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