Search Results: Pamphlets & Ephemera from Respublica Books LLC

Chicago: Young Americans for Freedom, 1963. Flyer. 8.5 x 11 inches. Fine.. Exceptional flyer advertising the "Rally for Conservatism" sponsored by Young Americans for Freedom at the Medinah Temple in Chicago, Illinois on November 13, 1963, featuring US Representative Donald C. Bruce, William F. Buckley Jr., Dr. Philip Crane, and M. Stanton Evans. Young Americans for Freedom was founded in 1960 with the help of William F. Buckley Jr. to promote the ideals of individual freedom, strong national defense, and traditional values. YAF proved an effective opponent of communism and influenced many young Americans through its nationwide speaking engagements, publications, and social events. This bright 1963 flyer advertises a Chicago rally featuring a bevy of the days' conservative leaders. In addition to William F. Buckley Jr., National Review founder and popular movement leader, the event featured Donald C. Bruce, the founder of the Americana Conservative Union and US Representative from Indiana, Dr.… Read More

New York: The American Spectator Publishing Company, 1933. Newspaper, 8.75 x 11.25 inches. Folded newsprint with expected toning and brittle folds, but largely free of material chips and tears. Each issue includes the original wrap-around band. Near-fine.. An excellent collection of the first seven issues of The American Spectator founded by George Jean Nathan, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser, and James Branch in 1932 to publish original literary and opinion pieces from distinguished American and European writers. Not to be confused with the conservative magazine of the same name, The American Spectator set out to advance original fiction, opinion, and literary criticism by inviting each contributor to direct and self-edit their own articles, and it further set itself apart by refusing to sell advertising space in its pages. The first issue sold for fifty cents (which was then a rather high price for newsprint) and sold out, prompting an additional print-run of twenty thousand copies,… Read More

Rare books, articles, and correspondence, 1928-1989. English and German language works. Voegelin, Erich: Ueber die form des amerikanischen geistes: Tübingen, Germany: Verlag von J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1928. First edition. Original paper wrappers. Minor creasing and edgewear to wraps; former library sticker to spine and two-inch sticker scar to front wrap; library stamp to title page with penciled strike-through; otherwise leaves bright and unmarked. A scarce and well-preserved first edition of Voegelin's first published book (later translated as On the Form of the American Mind). [German language work]Voegelin, Erich: Rasse und staat: Tübingen, Germany: Verlag von J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1933. First edition. Original paper wrappers. Minor creasing and edgewear to wrappers with some rubbing and spotting; chipping to head and foot of spine; faint sunning to wrappers; occasional pencil underlining and marginalia; otherwise well-preserved. [German language work]Voegelin, Erich: Die… Read More

New York: Politics Publishing Co, 1946. Magazine. Stapled wraps, 8.5 x 11 inches. Lightly worn, staples rusted. Near-fine.. A bright copy of this uncommon publication of Simone Weil's (1909-1943) essay "Factory Work." During the years 1934-1935 ("hard and bitter years of economic crisis" in France), Weil set out to experience and document the "proletarian condition" of France's laborers in the factories of suburban Paris. As a result of her experiences Weil concluded that "our factories have become festering grounds of evil, and the evils of the factories must be corrected." Weil's essay records her appeal for the good over the useful, the qualitative over the quantitative, goodness over well-being-in sum, for a fundamental purpose over mere utilitarian function. Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982) published Weil's essay in the December 1946 issue of politics, a magazine he founded in 1944 and which began as a monthly publication until its fourth year, after which it ran as a quarterly. Macdonald launched… Read More

New York: John T. Flynn, 1945. Second edition, revised; a follow-up to his privately-printed pamphlet The Truth About Pearl Harbor (1944). Pamphlet. Stapled newsprint, 6 x 9 inches, 15 pp. An uncommon privately printed pamphlet. Browning and offsetting to newsprint wrappers with chipping to corners, else very good.. A privately printed pamphlet published by John T. Flynn (1882-1964) as a follow-up to his 1944 pamphlet The Truth About Pearl Harbor. Flynn, an anti-war journalist and staunch critic of President Roosevelt, was among the first to publicly question the events surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. In September 1944, Flynn privately printed a pamphlet, The Truth About Pearl Harbor, in which he argued that President Roosevelt's administration had advanced knowledge regarding a possible Japanese attack on the US. Flynn's The Truth About Pearl Harbor was also published in the Chicago Tribune in October 1944 and spurred other journalists to critically evaluate the events… Read More

Workers Party of the U.S., Pioneer Publishers, and Socialist Workers Party, 1938. War and the Workers: Workers Party of the U.S., 1935. Wrappers, 5 x 7.5 inches, 47 pp. Near-fine. Why Did They "Confess"? A Study of the Radek-Piatakov Trial: New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Wrappers, 5.25 x 7.25 inches, 31 pp. Some rubbing and spotting to wrappers. Very good. The People's Front: The New Betrayal: New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Wrappers, 5 x 7.5 inches, 64 pp. Toning to wrappers, very good. How to Fight War: Isolation? Collective Security? Relentless Cass Struggle?: New York: Socialist Workers Party and Young Peoples Socialist League (4th Internationalists), 1938. Wrappers, 5 x 8 inches, 15 pp. Very good. Let the People Vote on War!: New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1938. Wrappers, 5.25 x 8.5 inches, 14 pp. Previous owner's stamp to verso of front wrap, very good. Five pamphlets by James Burnham (1905-1987) published during his Trotskyist years. Prior to Burnham's participation in the… Read More

London: Socialist Labour League, 1960. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 7 x 5 inches, 8 pp. Toning to wrappers and pages with "Labor Book Shop" stamp to front wrapper; faint crease marks to upper-right leaves; one-inch chip to top of rear wrapper (along spine); one-inch closed tear to rear wrapper; wrappers pulling from staples. A delicate and rare pamphlet written by Alasdair MacIntyre for the Socialist Labour League. Very good.. Rare original printing of Alasdair MacIntyre's (b. 1929) early pamphlet discussing and debating a proposed change to Clause 4 of the Labour Party Constitution. Celebrated for his monumental work on virtue ethics, After Virtue (1981), MacIntyre was early influenced by Marxist thought and principles, and briefly joined the Socialist Labour League as a young scholar. His first book, Marxism: An Interpretation, published in 1953, evaluated the influence of theological concepts on Marxist thought. Although his Marxist sympathies would evolve throughout his distinguished career,… Read More

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1953. First edition. Duodecimo. Wrappers. Minor scuffing to wrappers, else near-fine.. John T. Flynn's (1882-1964) account of the story of Owen Lattimore (1900-1989) and the alleged American betrayal of China and Korea into communism. Flynn was an American journalist, anti-communist, and the author of While You Slept (1951) in which he examined the various forces responsible for the Korean War. Flynn took an interest in the case of Owen Lattimore, a journalist and Asian policy scholar who was alleged to be a leading Soviet espionage agent in 1950. In the 1930s Lattimore served as editor of Public Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and held professorships throughout his life, including at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Leeds. Lattimore also acted as an advisor to the American government during World War II with respect to its policy in Asia. In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy accused Lattimore of being an influential… Read More

New York: The Foundation for Cultural Review, Inc, 1982. Magazine. Stapled wraps, 7 x 10 inches. Toning with a slight crease to bottom-right cover corner, else fine.. A bright and original first issue of The New Criterion. The New York-based monthly literary magazine was founded by Hilton Kramer (1928-2012) in 1982 to speak plainly and vigorously about the problems facing the artist and the life of the mind in modern American society. Prior to launching The New Criterion, Kramer served as art critic for The Nation and, from 1965 to 1982, the New York Times where he challenged the Leftist political bias and perceived nihilism of the paper's art criticism. In 1982 Kramer resigned from the New York Times to found The New Criterion with pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman, establishing what would become one of the premier magazines covering art culture and criticism. The magazine is renowned and unique in its abiding emphasis upon artistic classicism and political conservatism. Its name is a… Read More

Chicago: Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, University of Chicago, 1961. Magazine. Stapled wraps, 6.75 x 10 inches. Fine.. Fine original first issue of the New Individualist Review magazine published in April 1961 to advance free, private enterprise, limited government, and human liberty. The New Individualist Review was the brainchild of several prominent political and economic scholars associated with the University of Chicago as well as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists (ISI), founded in 1953 by journalist Frank Chodorov to promote conservatism and individualism on college campuses, and the Mont Pelerin Society, founded in 1947 by F. A. Hayek to promote classical liberalism following the publication of his The Road to Serfdom in 1944. The magazine was founded to advance the ideals of free, private enterprise, limited government, and individual human freedom. The University of Chicago was uniquely situated in the early 1960s to launch the magazine because it was home to the… Read More

New York: New Masses, Inc, 1931. Magazine. Stapled wraps, 11.75 x 8.75 inches, 31 pp. Toning to wrappers and leaves with minor creasing and wear, but otherwise very well-preserved. An exceptional example of this rare volume. Very good-plus.. Exceptional and bright edition of the December 1931 volume of New Masses magazine (Volume 7, Number 7), featuring original works by Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) ("Death of the Communists: A Story") and John Dos Passos (1896-1970) ("Wesley Everest"). New Masses was an American Marxist magazine published from 1926 to 1948 and was closely affiliated with the Communist Party USA. Throughout the Great Depression and into World War II the magazine served as a fount of Marxist intellectual thought in America, publishing fiction, poetry, book reviews, and think pieces from the country's leading communist, progressive, and Left-leaning intellectuals. Throughout its influential run the magazine counted numerous leading lights among its editors and contributors,… Read More

N.P.: Offprint published from the Annals of Botany, Vol. XXXII, No. CXXVIII, 1918. Offprint. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 9 x 6 inches, offprint including pp. 466-501. Wrappers age-toned with creasing to wrappers and leaves; staining and sunning to wrappers, particularly at edges, with some spotting; staple rust; leaves unmarked and well-preserved with some wrinkling. This original offprint contains seven illustrated figures by Arber herself. Aged but very good offprint inscribed by the great British plant morphologist Agnes Arber to top of front wrapper: "With kind regards / A. A." Especially rare with inscription.. Original offprint authored and inscribed by Agnes Arber (1879-1960), the pioneering anatomist, historian, and botanist who would become the first woman botanist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first woman to receive the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society of London for her contributions to botany. Born in London in 1879, Arber attended the North London Collegiate School… Read More

Los Angeles: Ruhl Samples, 1961. Flyer. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Fine.. A fine copy of this 1961 flyer advertising a "Symposium on Freedom" presented by Ruhl Samples on June 24, 1961 at Hollywood High School, and featuring the eminent Austrian economist, Dr. Ludwig von Mises, who planned to speak on "Planned Chaos," and all for the incredible general admission price of one dollar. Mises (1881-1973) fled Europe in 1940 as a result of the German advance, emigrating to the United States where his scholarship was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and William Volker Fund. Mises would become a visiting professor at New York University from 1945 until his retirement in 1969, and was among the founding members of the Mont Pelerin Society. Mises was a leading scholar within the Austrian School of economics and a leading light for generations of libertarian scholars. The flyer notes that future speakers would include James Burnham (conservative scholar and former Trotskyist), Dan Smoot (former FBI agent and… Read More

New York: John T. Flynn, 1947. First edition. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 6 x 9 inches, 30 pp. Browning to newsprint, otherwise very good.. An exceptional version of this pamphlet written and self-published by John T. Flynn (1882-1964) in which Flynn "tells the story of one of the strangest chapters in our history-the story of private gestapos formed to terrorize citizens who differ with the objectives of the operatives." Their purpose, he asserts, "is to frighten into silence all who dare question their plans at home and abroad. This story is told here for the first time." Flynn then details the methods by which communist sympathizers, among others, coordinate to defame and smear the reputations of anti-communist writers, journalists, and politicians. Flynn was a journalist, author, and polemicist of the "Old Right," and remained ardently opposed throughout his life to the centralization and militarization of the U. S. government. Flynn helped create the America First Committee in 1940, which lobbied… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Young Americans for Freedom, Inc, 1960. Pamphlet. Stapled wrappers, 5.5 x 8 inches, 40 pp. Rare pamphlet with minor rubbing and a very small spot to front wrap, else near fine. OCLC locates no copies.. A rare pamphlet from the early years of Young Americans for Freedom with the biographies of the group's speakers and their areas of expertise together with a reprint of the Sharon Statement on the rear wrap. The Sharon Statement was adopted on September 11, 1960 by a group of one hundred young conservatives who convened at the home of William F. Buckley Jr. in Sharon, Connecticut with the purpose of creating Young Americans for Freedom. The organization was founded to promote the ideals of individual freedom, strong national defense, and traditional values. YAF chapters soon spread to college campuses throughout the US and proved instrumental in the nomination of conservative Barry Goldwater as the Republican candidate for president in the 1964 presidential election. YAF proved an… Read More

New York: Workers Party, 1940. Mimeographed sheets, stapled at left, 8.5 x 11 inches, 8 pp. Pencil marginalia and minor toning to sheets.. Original mimeograph sheets containing James Burnham's (1905-1987) resignation from the Workers Party together with a response from the Party's Political Committee. The Workers Party was born out of prolonged factional infighting within the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), and was organized in 1940 when Burnham, Max Shachtman, and other Trotskyists (estimated at forty percent of the SWP membership) resigned from the SWP in opposition to the Soviet invasion of Finland and the USSR's direction under Stalin. Although Burnham supported the split, his alliance with Trotsky and Trotskyism, which dated back to the early 1930s, was in its final stage. Throughout his years as a Trotskyist, Burnham had sought to formulate an "American approach" to Marxism capable of addressing American, as opposed to European, causes and concerns. His youthful alignment with the Marxist… Read More

New York: John T. Flynn, 1946. First edition. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 6 x 9 inches, 8 pp. Printed on newsprint. Small closed tears to tail edge and chipping to edges. Browning to newsprint. Very scarce, with only four showing in OCLC institutions (Northwestern University, University of Tulsa, University of Oregon, and Stanford University). Very good.. A scarce pamphlet written and published by journalist, author, and polemicist of the "Old Right," John T. Flynn (1882-1964). Flynn began his career as a journalist at the New Haven Register before becoming an editor at the New York Globe specializing in finance. During the 1920s and 1930s Flynn would grow into a prominent social and political commentator, contributing columns to national publications such as the New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly. Flynn was an early supporter of President Roosevelt, but was soon disillusioned by the New Deal's centralization of federal power, bureaucratic expansion, and reliance upon debt to finance… Read More

Claremont, California: Salvatori Center for the Study of Freedom, Claremont McKenna College, 1988. First edition. Octavo. Stapled wraps, 5.25 x 8.25 inches, 49 pp. Stiff paper wraps with black titling to front wrap. Slightly sunned along spine and rear, minor wrinkling to wraps. Near-fine.. Original issue pamphlet by Harry V. Jaffa (1918-2015) on the question "What is Political Science?," which Jaffa composed in connection with a 1988 debate on the subject hosted by the Salvatori Center for the Study of Freedom at Claremont McKenna College. This uncommon pamphlet sets forth Jaffa's views on the nature and direction of political science and, in particular, how competing views of political science pertain to the mission of the Claremont Graduate School at which he taught. Jaffa was an American political philosopher, historian, writer, and professor of political science, and served as professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University as well as a distinguished fellow of… Read More