Search Results: Pro-Democracy Movements from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Paris: Présence Africaine, [1960]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original grey printed staplebound wrappers; 15,[1]pp. Textblock a bit toned, else Fine. Issued by the Committee of African Organisations "as the first of a series intended to provide a forum for discussion of the future..." (p. 3).

Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 215pp; illus; includes bibliography. A fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. In the original dustwrapper, lightly rubbed on front and rear panels but still Near Fine.

S.i.: Central Committee of the Patriotic Anti-Dictatorship Front, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Printed wrappers; 308pp; illus. Externally worn, with creases and a small corner-losses to wrappers; internally tight and clean, with a few pages slightly dog-eared. Good or better; a serviceable reading copy. Documentary evidence against the far right military junta that ruled Greece from 1967-1974, compiled by the principal expatriate pro-Democracy group the Patriotic Anti-Dictatorship Front (PAM), also known as the Fronte patriottico antidittatoriale. With many photographic illustrations (halftones). Uncommon.

London: League Against Imperialism and for National Independence, ca. 1935. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 24pp. Slight soil, toning and creasing to wrapper edges, else VG. Halftone illustrations. Uncommon pamphlet, calling for the immediate independence of all British colonies, by the League Against Imperialism, an international organization founded in 1927 with support from the COMINTERN. Though the League dissolved by 1936, it was an important incubator for such national independence movements as the League for Indian Independence and the Burma Reform League. OCLC gives five locations, of which only two in the U.S.

Stockholm: Chilekommittens Smaskriftserie, 1977. Octavo (21cm); white wraps offset printed in black, stapled; 31pp; illus. Touch of edgewear, else Fine. A Swedish language pamphlet bringing attention to the plight of Chilean political prisoners during the reign of Augusto Pinochet. No copies in OCLC.

Heidelberg: Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth; dustjacket; xxviii; 401pp. As new, unread copy. Edited volume of essays on economics of developing democracies; contributions by Ebke, Vagts, Tom Farer, Satoru Osanai, Jean Sonnekus, Michael Wallace Gordon, James Tent, Marina Tode, others. Text entirely in English.

[Berlin: 1848]: Vereins Buchdruckerei. Broadside, 27cm x 20cm (ca 10-3/4" x 8"). Printed in blackletter on white wove stock. Slightly toned, with old vertical and horizontal fold-lines; creased at margins; Very Good. Satirical broadside in the form of a fictional speech by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, in which he (ironically) expresses support for the demands made by liberal parliamentarians at the May 18th Parliamentary Assembly in Frankfurt-am-Main. These included expanded rights for the underprivileged classes (including, most importantly, universal male suffrage); attenuation of executive power; the election of a permanent German parliament, and monetary reforms including a unified German currency. The great wave of liberal revolt that washed over the European Continent in 1848 proved short-lived; by 1851, most of the newly-established liberal régimes had been quashed by reactionary movements, with radical leaders either imprisoned, murdered, or driven into exile. Out of this crucible would arise… Read More

Princeton: American Workers & Artists for Solidarity, [1980]. Single sheet folded to make 4pp. Mild creasing and soil; Very Good. Announcement of a New York fundraising event to support Solidarity, ca 1980. Featured participants included Joseph Brodsky, E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, Nat Henthoff, Susan Sontag, Kurt Vonnegut and a host of others, with musical performances by Pete Seeger and the "Solidarnosc singers," Ryszard & Krzysztof. Undated, but from context appears to be from the first or second year of Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement., ca 1980-81.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1972. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm). Bloth boards; dustjacket; 192pp. Fine, unmarked copy in pristine dustwrapper. As-new. Bound from British sheets; publisher price-clipped at lower corner of front jacket flap (with U.S. price printed at upper corner). Journalist's travelogue through the African states which achieved independence in the Sixties.

Poona: East and West Series, 1969. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 32pp. Mild aging to wrappers; scattered marginal markings in ink; Very Good. Gandhi as Buddhist exemplar, by the noted Buddhist author and educator.

New York: Pathfinder Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 15pp. Slight wear; vertical crease; a few ink notes in margins; a Good reading copy. Interview, first published in the Intercontinental Press (1972).

Lincoln: Johnsen Publishing Company, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; no jacket; 180pp. Stanley M. Daugert (eds). Slight dusting to boards; appears unread; a tight, crisp copy in very good or better conditon.

Brasília: Ministero de Justiça, 2000. First Edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 143pp. Fine and unmarked; an apparently unread and unopened copy. One of 1500 English-language copies printed.

London: Overseas Publication Interchange Ltd, 1981. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 194pp. A few stray light pencil markings to text, else Fine. Compilation of source documents relating to the Polish Solidarity (Solidarnosc) movement of 1980. Text entirely in Russian, excepting bi-lingual title page.

Milano: Rizzoli, 2001. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 222pp; illus. Text entirely in Italian. On the Italian revolutionary's enormous postmortem influence on Italian literature, art and politics.

Richmond, B.C.: Liberation Support Movement, [ca 1970]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 35pp; illus. Clean and unmarked; VG or better. One in a series of LSM interviews with MPLA Rebel Leaders during the Angolan War of Independence.

Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; pictorial pictorial paper-covered boards (hardcover); xii,336pp; maps. Includes selected bibliography. Fine and unmarked; an apparently unread copy.

Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1968. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers, 14pp. Fine, unread copy.

Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1988. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 48pp. Fine. Round-table including participants from the Soviet news media including Igor Kon, Eduard Klopov, Gavril Popov, others.

Los Angeles: Committee in Solidarity with Solidarity, N.d. [ca 1980]. Broadside, 14" x 8.5", printed recto only. Horizontal fold; mild toning; Very Good. 22 lines of text above blank portions (unused) for signatures. Petition calling on Polish officials to immediately release all imprisoned Solidarity leaders; an end to martial law, and the legalizaion of Solidarity and related pro-Democracy movements. Issued under the auspices of the "Committee in Solidarity with Solidarity," apparently a project of California Trotskyist Earl Gilman.