Pro-Democracy Movements from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: The New Leader, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 19pp. Very Good. Commentary by the noted French philosopher on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath; written under the auspices of the anti-Communist advocacy group (and CIA front organization) The Congress for Cultural Freedom.

Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, 1979. First Edition. First printing. Trade issue. Octavo; textured, printed card wrappers; 29pp. Publisher's prospectus laid in. A Fine, apparently unread copy. Poems translated from the Lithuanian. Geda, who died in 2008, was one of Lithuania's most prolific 20th century poets as well as a leading spokesman for Lithuanian independence. There was a simultaneous limited… Read more about this item

Managua: Editorial Vanguardia, [1986]. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; 58pp; text illus. Mild external rubbing, else complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. Frontispiece portrait of Carlos Fonseca, organizer of the Sandinista Revolution.

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.

New Haven: Don't Hold Back, N.d. [1980]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 50pp. Illus. Account of the 1980 Gdansk strike and the birth of Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement.

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.

[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… Read more about this item

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.

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.

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

New York: Committee for the Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 55pp. Fine. Solicitation for defense of Cold-War era political prisoners. Twelve cases discussed in detail, with photo portraits of subjects including Gabriel Superfin, Stefaniya Shabatura, Yuri Shukhevych, others.

New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970. Third printing. Octavo; staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 96pp. Near Fine. Includes Kuron and Modzelewski's Open Letter to the Polish Communist Party; Antoni Zambrowski, Reply to the Polish Workers Party; Isaac Deutscher, Open Letter to Gomulka & the Central Committee.

[Managua: Centro de Publicaciones 'Silvio Mayorga']. Octavo. Staple-bound pampet; pictorial paper wrappers, 24pp; illus. Very Good. Single issue of the official organ of the CNSP, which was the international propaganda arm of the Sandinista Liberation Front. Text entirely in Spanish.

Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm). Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); lvi, 296pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy. English-language translation of Magnón's memoir of Revolutionary-era Mexico, edited from an unpublished text discovered by Clara Lomas.

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.

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).

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.

Djakarta: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Indonesia, [1958]. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 96pp; illus. Mild external wear; Very Good. Jungschlager one of several Dutch nationals imprisoned for alleged conspiracies against Indonesian President Sukarno during the period 1957-58. This volume compiles evidence against Jungschlager, part of Sukarno's effort to justify the purge of more than 20,000 Dutch… Read more about this item

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