Search Results: peekskill usa by howard fast

Fortschrittlicher Deutscher Schriftsteller, 1952..

Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1952. 147p., very good in wraps with minor edgewear, pages evenly toned. East German edition. During his blacklisted period, Fast relied to some degree on income from overseas translations of his books.

Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1952. Paperback. 224p., very good in wraps, pages evenly toned; translated by Matsumoto Masao. During his blacklisted period, Fast relied to some degree on income from overseas translations of his books.

Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1952. 224p., very good in wraps, pages evenly toned, intact obi with torn cellophane overwrap; translated by Matsumoto Masao. During his blacklisted period, Fast relied to some degree on income from overseas translations of his books.

Moscow: Moscow: Foreign Languages, 1954. Good. Hardcover. 1954. pp 109 white covers slightly discoloured .

Dover Publications, August 2006. Trade Paperback. New.

Bucharest: Editura de Stat, [1951]. Small octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; 122, [6]pp; text is in Romanian. Mild overall wear, tanning to text; Very Good+. Romanian language edition of Fast's detailed account of the 1949 Peekskill riots, which took place after Paul Robeson's benefit concert for the Civil Rights Congress in Westchester County, NY. OCLC finds a single holding at U.Pennsylvania.

Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1953. Paperback. 114p., [8]p. of plates, pictorial wraps with montage of Klan violence scenes and Paul Robeson's portrait, clerical edges worn, head of spine chipped, pages evenly toned else very good condition. During his blacklisted period, Fast relied to some degree on income from overseas translations of his books.

Prague: Edice za Mir, 1952. First Czechoslovakian edition. 12mo; printed card wrappers; yapp edges; 94pp; 4 leaves of photographic plates (haltones). External rubbing and wear, with some chipping to wrapper edges; text age-toned; Very Good. First Czech edition of Fast's account of the racist and anti-semitic riots in Peekskill, NY in 1949. Published in the U.S. under the title "Peekskill USA.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1953. 1st Thus (English). Hardcover. Cream paper covered boards, cloth spine. boards slightly grubby, spine faded, corners and head/tail of spine bumped. NO INSCRIPTIONS. Edges of pages browning with age, black and white frontis. 110pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Overall internally CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Publishers note in Russian at front of book.; 105286; 8vo .

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publis, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. A clean, tight copy. Binding tight.

New York: Civil Rights Congress,, 1951. Paperback . Very Good. Original covers with some rubbing and slight creasing, a few pencil lines to introduction, otherwise very good. First printing.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publising House, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. First Russian edition. 109, [1]pp. Illustrated from photographs. Introduction in Russian; text in English. Quarter cloth and printed paper over boards. A little rubbing and soiling about very good, without dust jacket (as issued?).

Moscow: Foreign Language Publishing House, 1954. Photo frontispiece. 110 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth backed boards. Photo frontispiece. 110 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

United States: Civil Rights Congress, 1951. First Edition. One of 500 copies signed by Fast, Robeson and Patterson. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Minor soiling and light offsetting or toning around the edges to the jacket, else very good. First Edition. One of 500 copies signed by Fast, Robeson and Patterson. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed by Fast, Robeson, and Patterson. The copy in cloth is signed by Howard Fast, William L. Patterson (who wrote the introduction) and Paul Robeson (the dedicatee). The classic account of the violent race riot which took place in August 1949 at a Robeson concert in Peekskill, NY. Robeson having been accused of being a Communist and with a fabricated "deep fake" statement put out of the wires, white supremicists descended on the concert, physically attacked audience members and burned Robeson in effigy, all while the local police stood by. Blockson 8309