Strange fire
Goff, Kenneth
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.
npl: [United Steelworkers of America?], c1978. paperback. 23p., 4x5.5 inches; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 302128
Rochester, MN: [Hotel, Hospital, Restaurant & Tavern Employees' Union - Local 21], [1973]. 20p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound wraps; bit of soil on fore-edge, else in very good condition. Inlaid and staplebound, an "Agreement to Amend Collective Bargaining Contract," staples somewhat rusted, [6]p., [1974] and a staplebound "Supplemental Agreement," inlaid, 14p...... More
Cat.No: 329272
New York: Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, 1946. 49p., pocketbook with stiff covers, very good. More
Cat.No: 244149
no city: [associated Railroad Brotherhoods], 1975 [date from cover]. Paperback. 192p., small stiff booklet under 6.5x4 inch printed cover sheets fastened with slot-headed aluminum bolts. A clean sound unmarked copy. Title page concludes with a non-discrimination statement. More
Cat.No: 227571
San Francisco: the unions, 1964. 57p., staplebound booklet, 3.75x5.5 inches, staples rusted, pages evenly toned, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 211956
Birmingham, AL: 1983. 20p., staplebound booklet, very good. More
Cat.No: 244146
San Francisco: F.O.R. Organizing Committee in the U.S., 1980. Pamphlet. 11, [i], wraps, not stapled, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 199572
San Francisco: F.O.R. Organizing Committee in the U.S., 1980. Pamphlet. 11, [i], staplebound pamphlet format, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 236889
San Francisco: F.O.R. Organizing Committee in the U.S., 1981. Pamphlet. 28p., staplebound pamphlet format, 6.75x8.5 inches, very good condition. On French Surrealist, Trotskyist, and Spanish Civil War veteran Benjamin Péret. More
Cat.No: 254688
Santa Cruz: Quiver Distro, 2006. Pamphlet. 34p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine. Pirated from the 2000 Elephant Editions version, itself a translation of a 1999 Italian pamphlet. "In Albania, just a few years ago, a sudden explosion of popular rage eloquently demonstrated that the State only persists thanks..... More
Cat.No: 286792
Swarthmore, PA: Albatross, 1961. 10p., staplebound booklet, minor toning and handling. Stapled inside the front cover is a dittoed note that begins, "Dear friends, We have been given your name as a leader of the Southern sit-in movement. Our magazine wants to print letters from sit-in students so that we..... More
Cat.No: 249893
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Albuquerque Anarchist Black Cross, 1999. [20]p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound zine-style format; very good. More
Cat.No: 340619
Albuquergue, NM: AT&T, 1971. Single 8.5x14 inch sheet, mimeographed one side, introducing the group's three candidates for City Commission, Gary Cook Mahan, Jim Greer, and Lynn Burlbaw. Mahan had co-founded the Independent New Mexican Party with John Salazar. More
Cat.No: 166535
San Francisco: EE.UU. Fuera de Centro América [U.S. Out of Central America], 1984. Newsletter. [2]p., folded tabloid newspaper format, evenly toned, top corner dog-eared, else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Spanish-language version of the newsletter. USOCA had been formed in 1983 by the Democratic Workers Party. More
Cat.No: 341256
San Francisco: [1976]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, very good, announcing a fundraising dinner to benefit the People's World newspaper and the presidential campaign of Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner. The families involved were those of Kendra Alexander and Guiliana “Huli” Milanese and Bill Sorro, all prominent Bay Area Communist Party members..... More
Cat.No: 338679
Guelph, Ontario: Alive Production Collective, 1976. 8p. tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, "free" rubberstamps, but generally in very good condition otherwise. "Cultural work in the spirit of Norman Bethune and Lu Hsun!" Canadian Marxist-Leninist journal combining literary selections with ideological articles. More
Cat.No: 346283
San Francisco: Upshot, [1977]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, very good. Paula and John Zerzan's group. "The insurrections in daily life have so far made themselves public as primarily a crisis of participation. The decline of productivity, of voting, of union allegiance, and of other forms of self-humiliation is becoming manifest..... More
Cat.No: 282602
San Francisco: Upshot, [1977]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, horizontal fold crease. Paula and John Zerzan's group. "The insurrections in daily life have so far made themselves public as primarily a crisis of participation. The decline of productivity, of voting, of union allegiance, and of other forms of self-humiliation is becoming..... More
Cat.No: 282603
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
Elmira, NY: United Front May Day Committee, [1935]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, toned, some edgewear. "For all workers, employed and unemployed, native and foreign-born, organized and unorganized, Negro and White!" Calls for the toiling masses to rise up against the capitalists on May Day. More
Cat.No: 334976
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
Buffalo, NY: Workers Alliance of America, [1938]. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed handbill, some toning. The Workers Alliance of America, a Popular Front-era collaboration between the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, and others, pressed for better WPA funding, and at this time was demanding the creation of 25,000 WPA jobs in Buffalo..... More
Cat.No: 341476
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
Philadelphia: The Alliance for Housing, Education, and Jobs, 1969. [4p.], 8.5x11 inch single stapled; date penned (and crossed out), middle crease, slight wear on corner, slight closed tear along top-edge, else good. Petition to tax landlords and banks for social services. More
Cat.No: 308862
New York: The Alliance, Inc., 1956. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, "Anti-Communist" penciled on front panel, date penciled on rear panel, else very good condition. Form letter to supporters with facsimile signature of Alliance President Archibald B. Roosevelt (one of Theodore Roosevelt's sons) laid in. More
Cat.No: 320708
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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