Free Speech from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1919. Third edition. Small octavo (19cm). Pictorial card wrappers; frontispiece portrait; ix,244pp. Creasing to paper on spine, faint stain to front cover at lower fore-corner, else a tight, clean copy, Very Good or better, of the uncommon wrappered issue. Ownership signature of an "Attilio Corbini (or Corbino)" to title page. Standard biography, written during… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: New York Civil Liberties Union, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 159pp. Rubbed at edges, with minor staining along spine, lower edge of rear cover, and fore-edge, none affecting the interior: around Very Good. Highly critical evaluation of police action during the Columbia student protests of 1968. There was no regular cloth issue. [62885]. … Ler mais sobre este item

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1962. Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); illustrated wrappers, titled in white and yellow on cover, black on the spine; 125pp.; minor rubbing, Near Fine copy. "Dick Gregory is a comedian, social satirist, negro pioneer. In a little more than a year he climbed from $10 a day car washer to $5,000 a week… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); vertically striped decorated paper-covered boards in colors; paper label mounted on the front cover titled in black; 40pp. General rubbing; spine ends frayed with loss; light chipping to spine and several scuffs to the rear board; Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. This essay first… Ler mais sobre este item

Stamford, CT, 1936. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 12pp; portrait. Very Good. Prospectus, disguised as a biography, for Schroeder's speaking tours, with a brief biographical essay followed by several pages of press opinions. Schroeder (1864-1953) was a prominent lecturer on free speech, freethought, and pacifism, a co-founder with Lincoln Steffens of The Free Speech League, known for his vocal… Ler mais sobre este item

[Waukesha: 1970]: by the Author. Sole edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers; [16pp]. Gentle toning to page edges, else Fine. Self-published exposé of left-wing bias in Wisconsin higher education, in the form of a series of reprinted letters between John C. Love, a conservative Waukesha attorney, and Reza Rezazadeh, chair of the History Department at Wisconsin State University-Platteville. Love accuses Rezazadeh… Ler mais sobre este item

[New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee], 1979. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); photo-illustrated staple-bound card wrappers; 14pp. Disbound, light shelf wear, else Good to Very Good. Annual publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee. This issue devoted to the life and works of Leonard Boudin, with contributions by… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in grey decorative dust jacket; xxii,[23]-341pp.; seven leaves of plates. Tight, square, Near Fine copy, with just a hint of dusting to upper edge of text block; some chipping and shallow losses along jacket extremities, tiny abraision to upper cover slightly affecting the "G" in "RING," cleanly… Ler mais sobre este item

London: The University Press, Ltd, [1898]. First Edition. Octavo; burgundy cloth boards; 107pp. Cloth a shade sunned at spine, else a tight, straight, Very Good copy. The two titles bound together, as issued; second title has its own half-title, but pagination is continuous. Includes Appendix, "The English Press and the Prosecution." Two works, the first a satirical play, the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp. Near Fine. Annual publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee. Contributors to this issue include Eric Liebermann, Isidore Silver; Emily Goodman, others.

New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 56pp. Near Fine. Annual publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee. Contributors to this issue include Al Pinkney, Staughton Lind, Junella Haynes, Donald Addleston, others.

New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 48pp. Near Fine. Annual publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee. Contributors to this issue include Vern Countryman, Isidore Silver; numerous tributes to Justice William O. Douglas, then recently retired.

Palo Alto: Amnesty International Group 32, (1973). First Edition. Oblong quarto; (12)pp; illus. Near Fine. Attractive, early calendar distributed by the venerable international human rights organization. Introductory matter calls for release of political prisoners Bento Venturo de Moura (Brazil), Bakri Siregar (Indonesia) and Gunild Gerth (East Germany). Graphic credits include Ben Shahn, Kathe Kollwitz, Bob Korn, Bob Fitch, Dorothea… Ler mais sobre este item

Riverside, CT: Published for the Free Speech League / Hillacre Bookhouse, 1916. Enlarged Edition. Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's grey cloth; viii,206pp. Boards rather rubbed and worn at extremities, corners bumped, spine darkened, three-inch crack at top of rear hinge, else About Very Good. Prospectus flyer tipped to front pastedown. MILES 197: "Probes the problem of how far a radical may… Ler mais sobre este item

Amsterdam: VRIJBRIEF: Tegenkrant van Amsterdamse Jongeren, ca. 1980. Original photo-illustrated poster (43x61cm.) printed offset in purple and black on recto and verso; previous folds (as issued?), minor wrinkling and shallow creases to extremities, else Very Good. Poster issued by the anti-censorship students' rights organization, the photograph on the recto showing two male students peeling the tape from their mouths.… Ler mais sobre este item