Spain & Spanish Civil War from D. Anthem, Bookseller

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937. Pro-Soviet account of the People's Front in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and the broader struggle against fascism. Stapled wrappers, 31 p. A near fine copy.

London: Emergency Committee for Democratic Spain, 1947. Articles by three British women (Leah Manning, Labour M.P., Monica Whately, a Catholic, and Nan Green, Secretary of the International Brigade Association) describing their impressions of traveling to Spain to speak with anti-Fascist women imprisoned in one of Franco's jails (Las Ventas in Mandrid). The women's visit was in response to an… Read more about this item

New York City: Friends of the American Lincoln Brigade, 1938. The second (and final) issue of this short-lived quarterly magazine issued by the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which was edited by Friends chairman David McKelvy White who was a teacher at Brooklyn College before going to fight with the Republicans in Spain. This issue notable for Ernest… Read more about this item

New York: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1960. A report on the many political prisoners held in Spain by a former Univ. of Madrid mathematics professor. A refutation of a claim made by Franco in an interview with Le Figaro in June 1958. The rear cover includes an open letter to President Eisenhower on behalf of the Abraham… Read more about this item

[Chicago?]: [Solidarity Bookshop?], 1973. A two-sided poster celebrating the life of the famed anarchist militant Buenaventura Durruti. Durruti was a CNT-FAI leader who was killed in Madrid under disputed circumstances on Nov. 20, 1936. A reported half a million people attended his funeral. The recto features a black & white image of Durruti with the Manifesto of… Read more about this item

Caracas: F.I.J.L., 1962. First edition. A small format anti-Franco booklet written by the "Marco Polo of Anarchism," Germinal Gracia, writing under one of his pseudonyms. Gracia presents an objective analysis of Spain under the Franco regime to demonstrate the situation for the student, immigrant, worker, and peasant. As a teenager Gracia (1919-1991) fought as a member of the… Read more about this item

New York: The America Press, 1939. An expose of the "lift the embargo" movement, which the author contends was organized by six Communist Front organizations: Lawyers Committee on American Relations with Spain, Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Confederated Spanish Societies, American Friends of Spanish Democracy, American League for Peace and Democracy and North American Committee to Aid Spanish… Read more about this item