American Labor & Radicalism
This section includes books (both nonfiction and fiction) as well as ephemera related to labor unions and activism, grassroots political organization in fields such as environmentalism and free speech, and the underground press. Our holdings range from academic historical works and labor-themed novels to original leaflets and pamphlets.
New Arrivals
Featured Items
American Pilots [handbill]
[San Francisco Bay Area]: n.pub. [1971]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, date penned in corner, fold-creased. Leaflet arguing that US pilots bombing Southeast Asia are war criminals, "no different from the men who ran fascist Germany's gas chambers." More
Cat.No: 251506
American report: Review of religion and American power. [12 issues]
Huntington, IN: Clergy and Laymen Concerned, 1970-1971. Twelve issues of the weekly tabloid format newspaper by religious opponents of the Vietnam War; evenly toned, address labels, otherwise very good. Issues present are Vol. 1, No. 3 (Oct. 16, 1970), 7-11, 14, 25, 44, 46, 47; Vol. 2, no. 5 (Oct..... More
Cat.No: 174718
American report: Review of religion and American power. [78 issues]
Huntington, IN: Clergy and Laymen Concerned, 1970-1972. Seventy-eight issues of the weekly tabloid format newspaper by radical religious opponents of the Vietnam War; evenly toned, address labels, otherwise generally very good. Issues present are Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct. 2, 1970), 3-9, 11-36, 38-42, 44, 46, 47; Vol. 2, nos..... More
Cat.No: 174717
American report: Review of religion and American power. [five issues]
Huntington, IN: Clergy and Laymen Concerned, 1970-1971. Five issues of the weekly tabloid format newspaper by religious opponents of the Vietnam War; evenly toned, address labels, otherwise very good. Issues present are Vol. 1, No. 3 (Oct. 16, 1970), 7, 9, 11, 14, and 25 (April 2, 1971). More
Cat.No: 174721
American Report: Review of religion and American power. [two issues]
Huntington, IN: Clergy and Laymen Concerned, 1970-1971. Two issues of the weekly tabloid format newspaper by religious opponents of the Vietnam War; evenly toned, address labels, otherwise very good. Issues present are Vol. 1, no. 9 and 14. Articles include the punishment of a Kansas City black preacher for his..... More
Cat.No: 174722
The American Spectator: a literary newspaper, vol. 3, no 31, July, 1935
New York: The American Spectator, Corp. 1935. Newspaper. 16p. tabloid newspaper 9.5x12.5 inches, illustrations, stapled wraps, fold crease, small rust stain on front wrap, lightly worn else good condition. The original editors and contributors had left the paper by this time and it only had another year left in it..... More
Cat.No: 177578
The American Spectator: a literary newspaper, vol. 3, no 35, July, 1935
New York: The American Spectator, Corp. 1935. Newspaper. 16p. tabloid newspaper 9.5x12.5 inches, illustrations, stapled wraps, fold crease else very good condition. The original editors and contributors had left the paper by this time and it only had another year left in it. It had become a more mainstream literary..... More
Cat.No: 177580
American Women in the Postwar World
New York: Newsweek Club Bureau; Weekly Publications, 1944. Pamphlet. 36p., stapled wraps, 5.25x7.25 inches, staple rusted else very good condition. Collection of pieces by Mary Anderson, congresswomen Mary T. Norton, CIO president Philip Murray, US Chamber of Commerce head Eric Johnson, and others. More
Cat.No: 147174
American Women: report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women 1963
Washington DC: GPO, 1963. Paperback. [xi] 86p., 7.75x10.25 inche, report illustrated with tables and figures, footnotes, photos, very good paperback in glossy white decorative wraps. Published in late 1963 just before Kennedy was assassinated. More
Cat.No: 230051
American-European March for Peace [pinback button]
n.p. [196-]. Small one-inch pin, outline map shows the route of the march. Though often mistaken on the market for a Vietnam War protest, this was an earlier march from the campaign for nuclear disarmament. More
Cat.No: 255324
Americans want peace [poster]
[Berkeley]: [Political Poster Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley], [1970]. 17.75x21.75 inch poster silkscreened on the back of conjoined sheets of computer printout paper, as usual for the products of this workshop at Berkeley. Perforated sprocket edge strip intact. Very good. In the Maggs Bros book "4973: Berkeley Protest..... More
Cat.No: 245089
AMEX Canada, Published by Americans exiles in Canada; volume 4 no. 2 (May-June 1973)
Toronto: the journal, 1973. 39p., staplebound 8x11 inch wraps; mildly toned else very good condition. This issue of AMEX includes a cover story on the film "Two People," about a deserter; much on the Amnesty Action Conference, and more. More
Cat.No: 233022
Ammunition. Vol. 7 no. 3 (March 1949)
Indianapolis: United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, 1949. 55p., staplebound magazine, pages toned; front cover abraded at bottom edge else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 245118
Anarchism... a solution to world problems. A presentation of ten essays
Los Angeles: Man! 1940. Pamphlet. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, very good condition, 4.5x8 inches. Short essays by Melchior Seele, Ray Randall, Samuel Polinow, Edward Cunningham, Ammon A. Hennacy, Hippolyte Havel, M.B. Resin, Edna Larkin, Marcus Graham, and Richard Wagner. More
Cat.No: 42532
Anarchist Black Cross Bulletin [3 issues]
Chicago: Chicago Anarchist Black Cross, 1972-1974. Three issues of the bulletin, spanning the period between July 1972 and January 1974. Issues present are Nos. 1, 5, and 7. 13, [12], and 16p. respectively, stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, No. 1 fold-creased and with sticker shadow and address stamp on rear wrap..... More
Cat.No: 258898
Anarchist Black Cross Bulletin [3 issues]
Chicago: Chicago Anarchist Black Cross, 1972-1974. Three issues of the bulletin, spanning the period between July 1972 and January 1974. Issues present are Nos. 1, 5, and 7. 13, [12], and 16p. respectively, stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, No. 1 with pen mark on front wrap, address penned on rear wrap..... More
Cat.No: 261428
Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter. Issue #1, December 2002
Homewood, IL: South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, 2002. 57p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine-format newsletter, Updates on anarchist prisoners, prison abolition activism, and related topics. Includes a statement by former Black Panther Lorenzo Komboa Ervin regarding the newly formed network. More
Cat.No: 256779
Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter. Winter/Spring 2004
Chicago: the Network, 2004. 8p. tabloid format newspaper, paper mildly toned, small closed tear on front wrap else very good condition. Updates on anarchist prisoners, prison abolition activism, and related topics. More
Cat.No: 243338
Anarchist Black Cross: An Introduction
npl: Anarchist Black Cross, nd. Pamphlet. Single sheet folded to make a four-panel pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Outline of the group's goals alongside contact information for various ABC Collectives. More
Cat.No: 256780
The Anarchist Library Presents a Series of Classes on Worker Cooperatives / Collectives
[San Francisco]: The Anarchist Library, [2008]. Single sheet, printed one side only, 4.25x5.5 inches, very good condition. Flier advertising the Library's classes, held at the City College of San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 262330
Anarchist Organization and the Insurrectional Project: for the creation of moments of mass destruction where creativity and anger combine in unpredictable collusion
New Orleans: Tension Collective, nd. [16]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, bound upside down else very good photocopied zine. More
Cat.No: 256778
Anarchist Organization and the Insurrectional Project: for the creation of moments of mass destruction where creativity and anger combine in unpredictable collusion
New Orleans: Tension Collective, nd. [16]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good photocopied zine. More
Cat.No: 257011
The anarchist response to war and labor violence in 1914: Rebecca Edelsohn, Alexander Berkman, anti-militarism, free speech and hunger strikes
London; Berkeley: Kate Sharpley Library, 2003. Pamphlet. 25p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. More
Cat.No: 245452
The Anarchist Solution to the Problem of Crime
Mouintain View, CA: SRAF, [197-?]. [7p.], wraps secured by folding, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. A SRAF new directions series pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 182375
The Anarchist Solution to the Problem of Crime
Mouintain View, CA: SRAF, [197-?]. [7p.], wraps secured by folding, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. A SRAF new directions series pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 256775