Search Results: 1940S from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Budapest: Hungarian Bulletin, 1948. Pamphlet. 16p. staplebound booklet, 3x4 inches, very good; several black and white photos. An overview of recent developments in Hungarian politics and economy, from the last part of the postwar era before the multi-party parliament was consolidated under Communist influence.

New York: New School for Social Research, 1949. Magazine. pp137-216, 6x8.25 inches, essays, excerpts from plays and novels, illustrated with drawings, ads, very good booklet in stapled gray wraps. Student publication from the New School.

Peiping: Catholic University Press, 1948. Paperback. iv, lviii, 484 pages; paperback, pages toned, minor handling wear, very good. Scheut editions; Series I, Critical and literary studies v. 3. Bibliographic survey of modern Chinese literature, intended for a Catholic audience. Designed to introduce works while warning of the immoral ones; particular concern is given to the influence of leftist writers.

New York: Soviet Russia Today, 1944. Pamphlet. 15p., staplebound pamphlet 5x7.5 inches; wrappers slightly toned, else good condition.

New York: Olgin Ondenk-Komitet, 1940. 224p., hardcover, blue pebbled boards, couple spots of soil on back cover; text in Yiddish. On the Russian revolution of 1905, by the communist author who died in 1939.

New York: Socialist Labor Party, 1940. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 6x9 inches, evenly browned, mild wear, two fold-creases else good condition. The party's candidates for that year were John W. Aiken for President and Aaron M. Orange for Vice President.

Berkeley: California Book Co; UC Book Store, 1941. Pamphlet. [28p.] staplebound mimeographed booklet, 5.5x8.5 inches, with Hayashi's signature and brief course notes penned on the cover. Doris Hayashi, then a student, became known for her work with the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study as a researcher while she was in the Topaz internment camp. The disruption to her studies meant that she did not receive her diploma until seven decades later, at which time her story received journalistic coverage.

New York: Council for Pan American Democracy, 1940. Pamphlet. Four-panel card, map of South America on cover with Brazil highlighted; donation solicitation form tipped in. Receipt date of Dec. 1940 penciled at the bottom of the rear panel. Appears from outside to be a holiday card, but it opens to continue, "But in Brazil, under the Southern Cross, a great leader of the Brazilian people is being crucified. Luiz Carlos Prestes, honorary chairman of the National Liberation Alliance, will spend 1941 in the dungeons of Brazil. This Alliance was a unification of all progressive and democratic sections of the Brazilian people. Prestes has just been sentenced to thirty years in prison by the special tribunals of President Vargas of Brazil. Luiz Carlos Prestes led the fight against fascism, for the democratic rights and the emancipation of his people.Tat was his 'crime' ..." The Program of the Council is printed on the rear panel.

Chicago: Socialist Party, 1942. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure, 3.5x8.25 inches, a few small stains on rear wrap else very good condition. Cover title: Plan for Freedom.

Chicago: Socialist Party, 1942. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure, 3.5x8.25 inches, date penned on rear wrap else very good condition. Cover title: Plan for Freedom.

San Francisco: California CIO Council, 1947. Pamphlet. 15p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.25 inches, previous owner's name penned on front wrap, rear wrap stained, touch of rust to staples else good condition.

Los Angeles: The Democratic National Committee and The Democratic State Central Committee, 1948. Two-page letter on letterhead, a carbon-copy (early generation, very legible) signed in fountain-pen by James Roosevelt as General Chairman of the DNC, about 250 words; accompanied by a photocopied leaf (dinner and reception info) and a professionally-printed 3.5x6 inch contribution card. Foldlines for mailing (envelope not present), very good condition.

Oakland: Committee on Education and Relief for Japan, 1947. Paperback. [16p.], bound with blue thread, portrait of Kagawa on front panel. Calendar booklet with text on each page about Kagawa Toyohiko's brilliant leadership, pacifist and anti-communist activities, etc. First panel describes him as single-handedly stopping a mob of strikers from destroying a dock yard thanks to the persuasive power granted by God. On another page he compares capitalists to steam engines and cooperatives to electric motors. "You were all right in your day, but it is past." Kagawa was a labor activist and missionary, jailed several times for labor activities as well as for apologizing to China for Japan's occupation in 1940. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 and 1948, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and 1955.

New York: Communist Party Election Campaign Committee, 1948. Pamphlet. 15p., staplebound pamphlet, paper toned, red pencil notation on front wrap else very good condition. *Seidman C544.

Cleveland, OH: Socialist Labor Party, 1948. Four-panel brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, evenly toned, otherwise very good. Election platform with Teichert for President and Emery for VP; Ohio candidates listed on rear panel.

Grimma, Germany: Frdr. Bode, 1945. Staplebound. 16p. staplebound booklet, 7.5x10.5 inches, minor handling wear and soil. Illustrated with several black and white photos showing the infantry's progress during the war. Final page shows crowd of Germans surrendering to avoid the Soviet advance from the other side. "It was hard to believe that the same men who marched so docilely were the ones who such a short time ago reduced most of Europe to slavery and had become synonymous with savagery and destruction. No sympathy was given these 'Supermen' in their final degradation." Frank Mankiewicz, one of the assistants to the author, became a prominent journalist, serving as president of National Public Radio from 1977 to 1983.

Glasgow: The Strickland Press, 1944. Pamphlet. 13p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn, rubberstamp of the Plowshare Press in New York on rear wrap else very good condition. Russell was one of the founders of the far-right British People's Party and a supporter of Social Credit. Here he advocates legal protection of conscientious objectors.

[Chicago]: [National Physicians' Committee], 1944. Poster. 17x22 inch poster, neatly fold-creased, otherwise very good. Part of a fear-mongering campaign against the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill for government support of medical care; warns that it wold change doctors to mere public employees who would work only eight hours a day, working to please their political masters rather than patients. Argues that this would be a decisive step towards federal control of all professions and industry in the US.

New York: New Century Publishers, 1948. Pamphlet. 32p., stapled wraps, 5x7.25 inches, wraps lightly soiled, paper slightly browned else good condition. Text of a speech at the 1948 meeting of the Moscow Soviet.

New York: New Century Publishers, 1948. Pamphlet. 32p., stapled wraps, number written on cover, paper slightly browned else good condition, 5x7.25 inches. Text of a speech at the 1948 meeting of the Moscow Soviet.