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.
All out in support of the striking Kaiser workers. Join...
Emeryville, CA: Marxist-Leninist Party, SF Bay Area Branch, 1986. 8.5x14 inch handbill, fold-creased, otherwise very good. Issued in support of the strike by SEIU Local 250, Lab Techs, and Optical Workers of SEIU Local 505. More
Cat.No: 249870
All Seasons Park [pinback button]
Vancouver: Mfg. by Superior Stamp, [1972]. Pinback Button. 1.5 inch diameter pin depicting a stylized tree. Some foxing in the field. Inspired by the earlier occupation at People's Park in Berkeley, local Yippie members in Vancouver set up a tent city at the entrance of Stanley Park to protest plans..... More
Cat.No: 267048
All's Fare
San Francisco: Auto-Graphics, [1976]. Pamphlet. [8p., including covers], very good in staplebound wraps. Pro-Situ tract, written in the first person. Only two copies found in OCLC as of 4/2021. More
Cat.No: 207062
The Alliance. Campus Worker-Student Newspaper. Vol. 1 no. 1 (May...
[San Francisco]: 1970. 5p., 8.5x14 inch mimeographed sheets stapled together at corner, fold crease, corner wear, red pen used to highlight parts of the masthead. From contents, it is apparent that this was issued by the PL incarnation of SDS at SF State University. Includes critique of treatment of campus..... More
Cat.No: 249900
Allowable Area of Thought for the Naturalized Citizen
New York: American Comittee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1943. Pamphlet. Reprinted from Lawyers Guild Review, Volume 3 No. 4, July-August, 1943. Single sheet folded to make 4 pages, musty, creased in middle from folding, rear wrap slightly soiled, a reading copy only. On the case of William Schneiderman, whose..... More
Cat.No: 228913
Almanacco della Rivoluzione, 1908
Paterson, NJ: Libreria Sociologica, 1907. 62, [ii, 4 p. catalog of other anarchist works from the same publisher], binders tape spine, rear cover missing, wraps chipped, 2-inch closed tear on front wrap along binders tape. Apparently the only issue published under this title. Includes articles about contemporary events, a calendar..... More
Cat.No: 262600
Almanacco della Rivoluzione, 1908
Paterson, NJ: Libreria Sociologica, 1907. 62, [ii, 4 p. catalog of other anarchist works from the same publisher], covers missing. Apparently the only issue published under this title. Includes articles about contemporary events, a calendar of historical anarchist events arranged by date, and selections of poetry and prose by noted..... More
Cat.No: 262601
Almanacco della Rivoluzione, 1908
Paterson, NJ: Libreria Sociologica, 1907. 62, [ii], rear cover missing, and lacking the 4 p. catalog of other anarchist works from the same publisher that we have seen at the end of other examples. Apparently the only issue published under this title. Includes articles about contemporary events, a calendar of..... More
Cat.No: 262602
Almanacco sovversivo. 1906-07
Barre, VT: Biblioteca Circolo Studi Sociali, [1906]. 107, [iv]p., staplebound booklet, 4.5x9 inches; wraps worn, chipped, and beginning to split along spine, rust at the staples, otherwise very good. Text in Italian. Cover art depicts a man fending off a vulture. Includes articles both on and by many of the..... More
Cat.No: 257149
Almanacco sovversivo. 1916
New York: Nicoletti Bros. Press, [1916]. 94p., staplebound booklet, lacks wraps and last page (pp95/96), title page toned and stained, staples rusted, 2.5 inch closed tear through pp89-94. Italian-language "Subversive almanac," with articles about the war and other contemporary events, tributes to the Haymarket martyrs and to Joe Hill, a...... More
Cat.No: 261786
The Alternative in brief: a summary of Forging Peace, the...
Washington DC: PACCA/Policy Alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America, 1987. 12p., staplebound pamphlet, staples rusted else very good condition. A summarized version of Richard Fagen's critique of US policy toward Latin America. More
Cat.No: 238719
An alternative media brochure.
Oakland: Vocations for Social Change, [1973-?]. [16p] brochure in folded tabloid newspaper format, illus., toned, otherwise very good. "The alternative culture is getting it together! Plug into the Movement! Read this rag!" Compendium of full-page ads for fourteen alternative media sources, such as Off Our Backs, Issues in Radical Therapy..... More
Cat.No: 180890
The Alternative newspaper vol. 1, no. 10, week of May...
Santa Barbara: Associated Students and Press Council, UC Santa Barbara, 1976. Newspaper. 12p. folded tabloid newspaper illustrated with b&w photos, evenly toned otherwise very good. Report on the strike against BFI and accompanying rally, march and protests. Photos of police actions and marchers. Cesar Chavez article. Jane Fonda article and..... More
Cat.No: 176836
Alternative, Journal of the Peace and Freedom Party. Vol. 1...
San Louis Obispo, CA: Peace and Freedom Party, 1972. Newspaper. 4p., tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold crease, toned, especially at spine, slightly misfolded else good condition. Second issue of the newspaper, with articles on the presidential campaign of Benjamin Spock ("Spock Charges Nixon Opportunist"), report on Women's Conference, La Raza..... More
Cat.No: 206731
Alternative; Journal of the Peace and Freedom Party. Vol. 1...
San Louis Obispo, CA: Peace and Freedom Party, 1972. 4p., tabloid newspaper format, evenly toned, some damp staining at lower right, else good condition. First issue of the newspaper, with articles on the presidential campaign of Benjamin Spock, the trial of Gary Lawton, the Union of Vietnamese in the United..... More
Cat.No: 199563
America -Love it enough to change it
Philadelphia: National Organization for an American Revolution, [1984]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, contact info for the San Francisco branch of NOAR rubberstamped at the end. By James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs' organization. Beginning with a portion of Langston Hughes' poem "Make America America Again," laments the results of..... More
Cat.No: 260317
America's Aging Workforce, A Travelers Symposium. A Monograph of Proceedings...
Hartford CT: The Travelers Company, 1986. Paperback. 86p., softbound, 9x5.5 inch paperback printed on alkaline glazed paperstock, chapter heads and captions rubricated throughout, an expensive production in very good condition: sound, clean, unmarked. Laid in is a two-page News Release on Travelers letterhead announcing the release of this very booklet..... More
Cat.No: 233306
America's New Opportunities in World Trade: Report of The Committee...
Washington DC: National Planning Association, 1944. iv, 79p., stapled wraps, 5x7.5 inches, wraps worn and soiled else very good condition. Planning Pamphlets Nos. 37-38. More
Cat.No: 255280
America's Steel Capacity: What It Is, What It Does
New York: American Iron and Steel Institute, [1948]. Pamphlet. 38, 11p., stapled wraps, 7x10 inches, illus., graphs, wraps lightly stained, staples rusted else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 276769
America: Arsenal of Democracy. We must pass the lend-lease bill
New York: Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, [1941]. Pamphlet. Eight panel brochure, 4x9 inches, date penciled on front wrap, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 283886
The American anti-socialist. A monthly magazine published at Washington, D.C....
Washington, D.C. John Basil Barnhill, 1912. First issue of the slender journal, 16p., blank margins of front and back pages have silverfish holes, but text complete; a reading copy. This issue contains essays reprinted from other authors including A.J. Balfour, former British Prime Minister, alleging fallacies and self-defeating weaknesses of..... More
Cat.No: 257440
The American anti-socialist. An organ of Jeffersonian democracy published at...
Washington, D.C. John Basil Barnhill, 1914. Last issue of the slender journal, 16p., crinkled with a piece torn out of the margin on the front cover (no text loss), staple rusted, a reading copy. The individualist anarchist editor adopts a more classically conservative perspective on such issues as inheritance taxes..... More
Cat.No: 257207
American appeal, volumes 1-2, 1920 - 1921 to volumes 7-8...
New York: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, 1968. Hardcover. Four volumes, in uniform blue cloth. three volumes are 8.5x11 inches, the fourth is 18.5x23 inches. Very good hardcover reprint set of the complete run. Original title of the magazine was The Socialist World. Radical periodicals in the United States, 1890-1960. First series..... More
Cat.No: 119553
The American Civil Liberties Union
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, [1973]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, 0.25 inch closed tear on front panel else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 278328
The American Civil Liberties Union
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, [c1974]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, date penciled on verso of front panel else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 278497
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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