New Left from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[Chicago: SDS - Students for a Democratic Society, 1969]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Folded pamphlet consisting of a single sheet accordion-folded to make eight panels; pictorial cover and three photographic text illustrations. Printed in black on thin white stock; a couple of small nicks to one edge, else a Fine, apparently unread copy. A timeline of U.S.… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Chicago: SDS - Students for a Democratic Society, 1969]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Folded pamphlet consisting of a single sheet accordion-folded to make 8pp; illustrated cover (portrait of John Brown) and three photographic text illustrations. Printed in black on thin white stock; Fine, apparently unread copy. Brief history of U.S. class conflict, the rise of working-class people's… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Seabury Press, 1974. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 184pp. Tight, unmarked copy; Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), gently rubbed at extremities; Near Fine. A selection of Enzensberger's literary and cultural criticism, including the essays "The Industrialization of the Mind," "The Aporias of the Avant… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Students for a Democratic Society, 1964. Second Printing (but first regularly published edition, following the mimeographed issue of 1962). 20,000 copies printed. 12mo; staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 64pp. Trivial cover soil; still a tight, clean, very Near Fine copy in the original wrappers. Includes an Introductory Note not present in the first printing. Quite lovely copy of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Montreal: Progressive Books & Periodicals, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 102pp. Fine. Single issue of this Canadian journal of Marxist art & literary theory. Contributions by P. Kogan, Eric Scheper, Caroline Borden, Armand Barotti, Mary Ellen Brooks, others.

Chicago: Revolutionary Union, 1974. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 156pp; illus. Light wear, with a bit of ageing to text, still quite clean, Very Good or better. Seventh and final issue of this irregularly-published journal, the theoretical organ of the Revolutionary Union, later reconstituted as the Revolutionary Communist Party. Red Papers appeared from 1969 to… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Verso, 1987. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 145pp. Fine, unmarked copy in Near Fine dustjacket.

San Francisco: Farmworkers Emergency Relief, N.d. [ca 1991]. Single sheet, 11" x 8-1/2"; photostatically printed on both sides of a sheet of yellow copier bond. Slight wrinkles to margins; Very Good. Fundraising broadside to assist California farmworkers following the disastrous December freeze of 1990, which wiped out 70 percent of that year's citrus crop and left tens… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago: Revolutionary Union, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 78pp; illus. Some external wear, mild toning, and dust-soil, with a few small tears; Very Good+. Theoretical organ of the Revolutionary Union, later reconstituted as the Revolutionary Communist Party. An irregularly-published journal, with a total of 7 issues printed; the first three were popular enough that it was… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago: Revolutionary Union, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 96pp; illus. Light wear and toning, with a few tiny tears; Near Fine. Theoretical organ of the Revolutionary Union, later reconstituted as the Revolutionary Communist Party. An irregularly-published journal, with a total of 7 issues printed; the first three were popular enough that it was necessary to reprint… Saber más sobre este artículo

Newark, DE: The Newark Free Community, Inc, 1968. First Edition. Tabloid (43.5cm); original newsprint wrappers; 8pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, a few tiny tears, postmarked at upper margin of front wrapper, with address label of the Liberation News Service to same, and a few pencil notations in text; Very Good+. A New Left monthly paper produced by the… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Los Angeles]: October League (Marxist-Leninist), 1973. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 17pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better.

New York: Dissent Publishing Association, 1954. Single quarterly issue in original wrappers. Octavo (23cm). Printed card wrappers; pp114-208. Mild cover soil; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good. Contributions by Mailer, Irving Howe, Adam Kaufman, David Sachs, Harold Orlans, others.

Cambridge: Root & Branch, [1970]. Reprint. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm); pictorial card wrappers; iv,108pp; errata. Clean and tight in the original wrappers; Very Good or better. Issued as "Root & Branch Pamphlet 1". Reprints Parts I & II of Pannekoek's major theoretical work; omits parts III-V, which were concerned specifically with the Second World War. With a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Madison: The Progressive, 1971. Offprint. Quarto (11"), staple-bound self-wrappers, 8pp. Offprint article from The Progressive of November 1971. Fine. Denounces Nixon's "New American Revolution platform for the 1972 elections;" announces a "New American Revolution" from the left, the goals of which "are as revolutionary for our time as were the goals of those who framed the Declaration… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Los Angeles: Peace & Freedom Party, 1986]. Campaign flyer, photocopied recto-only on a sheet of white copier bond. Slightly wrinkled, with mild creasing to corners; Very Good. Promotes a lecture by Bernie Sanders, described as "The Socialist Mayor of Burlington Vermont," who at this time was running for the Vermont governorship. Sponsoring groups included the Unitarian Church;… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Los Angeles: 1986]. Campaign flyer, photocopied recto-only on a sheet of pink copier bond; features a large portrait of the candidate posing with a Fender Stratocaster guitar in front of four unidentified bandmates. Mild edge-creasing; Near Fine. Relic of the short-lived political career of Los Angeles singer-songwriter Tom Hopke, who ran in California's 23rd District, encompassing portions… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: New England Free Press, ca. 1970. Offprint. Quarto (27.5cm.); yellow wrappers disbound as issued; 33,36-40,42pp. Some shallow creasing to extremities, else Very Good and complete despite breaks in pagination. Article first published in "Ramparts." The author, originally a self-identified Marxist, later founded the conservative think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 1988.

[N.p. (Madison?): People's Information Committee, Wisconsin Chapter, 1971]. Quarto. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 33pp; illus. Mimeographed. Minor soiling to covers, still a tight, Very Good to Near Fine copy, free of markings or significant wear. Exposé of the Army Mathematics Research Center, a federal military think tank located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Published seven months after the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago: New American Movement, (1978). Eighth "printing" (revised). 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 24pp. Faint crease at upper corner, else Near Fine. Revised version of NAM's political position statement, originally adopted in 1972. Includes policy positions on Racism, Sexism, Gay Sexuality and Oppression, Internationalism, etc; along with theoretical statements on the nature of the working class and… Saber más sobre este artículo