New Mission / Nueva Mission [ten issues]

by Hottman, Mary et al, editors

San Francisco: United Neighborhood Organization, 1969. Newspaper. Ten issues of the bilingual tabloid format newspaper, all with horizontal fold, otherwise generally very good condition with some edgewear. Issues present are Vol. 2 nos. 3, 5, 10, 12; vol. 3 nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and an undated issue. Articles on the farmworker movement, police brutality, opposition to the Vietnam war, neighborhood issues, etc.

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Thursday's Child

by KITT, Eartha

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 250pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Owner name on the front pastedown, slightly cocked spine, and toning thus very good in a very good dust jacket with shallow chips, tears, and some creasing. While known for her singing and performing, Kitt had a long history of activism from helping underprivileged Black youth during the 1950s and 1960s to her protests again the Vietnam War,... Read More

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President Ho Chi Minh, May 19, 1890-September 3, 1969

[Hanoi: printed at the Tien Bo Printing House, distributed by Xunhasaba, 1969. First edition in English (also printed in Russian, French, Chinese and Spanish), folio, pp. 36, [4]; numerous illustrations throughout, printed music; very good in original pictorial wrappers. A tribute to the late leader of North Vietnam, issued as a special supplement to the English edition of the periodical Viet-nam.

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Russian Anti-American Propaganda Poster Shows Woman Running from American Bomb

by Russian Anti-American Propaganda

1984. Russian Anti-American Propaganda Poster. 1984. Measures 19 x 26 inches. Soviet anti-American/Vietnam War poster titled "Остановите убийц!" - "Stop the killers!" Image shows aircraft marked "U.S. Air Forces" dropping bomb as a Russian woman holds her arms up as if to prevent the explosion. The upper section shows a stylized U.S. Air Force Jet rendered in harsh black-and-white contrast to symbolize mechanized American aggression. Below, a terrified civilian woman raises her hands in a gesture of horror or... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Paratrooper!; The Saga of U.S. Army And Marine Parachute And Glider Combat Troops During World War II

by Devlin, Gerard M. [Yarborough, William P.]

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Deluxe Edition. Leather bound. Fine. The deluxe edition of Paratrooper! by Major Gerard M. Devlin, signed by Devlin and Lt. General William P. Yarborough.. Octavo, xvii, 717pp, [1]. Three-quarter green morocco, beige cloth boards. Title in gilt on spine, four raised bands. All edges gilt. Silk bookmark. Illustrated endpapers. A few blemishes to gilt along the fore-edge, otherwise this volume appears unread. Includes a foreword by Lt. General William P. Yarborough. This... Read More

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No Business as Usual!" Original 1971 Vietnam Moratorium Day Protest Poster by the Vietnam Peace Parade Committee

by Vietnam Moratorium Day Protest

1971. [Counterculture][ Social Activism] This striking 1971 protest poster was issued by the Vietnam Peace Parade Committee to promote national participation in Vietnam Moratorium Day, observed on Wednesday, October 13th, 1971. Designed in bold agitprop style, the poster combines militant typography with an urgent visual motif that reflects the escalating tone of the antiwar movement in the early 1970s. New York: Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, 1971. Bold white typography with circular graphic emblem at top. Below the... Read More

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Reckonings: Stories of the Air War over North Vietnam

by BINGAMAN, H.W.

New York: Vantage Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in well-rubbed and price-clipped, very good dustwrapper. Scarce vanity press collection of poetry and prose by a retired fighter pilot who flew 105 missions over North Vietnam.

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Win, peace and freedom through nonviolent action [19 issues of the magazine]

New York: WIN Publishing Empire, 1972. Magazine. 19 issues of the magazine, a complete run for the year 1972. Issues present are Volume 8 Numbers 1 through 20 [Numbers 4 & 5 are a double issue]. Various pagination, all 8x10.75 inches. All with worn wraps and evenly toned pages, most with address stamps or stickers, some vertically creased. Number 8 has pen notations on front and rear wraps and page 30 and 31 and the corners are torn off... Read More

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Early Radical Activist Newspaper the Berkeley Tribe January 1971 covering Prison, Oil Spills, and Chicano activism

by Berkeley Tribe

1971. [Radical Activist] [Newspaper] Berkeley Tribe Vol. II No. 27 Issue 79: January 22-29, 1971. San Francisco: Red Mountain Tribe Press. 23 pages. Measures 12" x 17". Radical Activist Newspaper from Berkeley covering a variety of civil rights issues, cultures, race relations, LGBTQ communities and other various causes and groups. This issue has extensive articles on an oil spill by the Golden Gate Bride, prison conditions for minority groups, an update on Angela Davis and her conviction, and a... Read More

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They Say, All the Women Must be Commandos

by [Sheila Ryan]

Detroit, Michigan: The Radical Education Project, 1970. Very good. Some dust soiling, water staining.. First separate edition, originally published with author attribution to Sheila Ryan in issue no. 234 of the Liberation News Service, dated 14 February 1970. A powerful portrait of life for Arab women in refugee camps, and their recent rise as commandos to fight for their lives and families during the War of Attrition between 1967 and 1970. The piece highlights the challenges, both social... Read More

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Things We Dreamt We Died For

by Bell, Marvin

Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1966. First edition. Bell's first book (preceded by a single chapbook), one of 270 copies, all on Arches paper, original grey cloth, not issued in dust jacket, spine slightly faded. Inscribed presentation copy from Bell to the poet and novelist James Schevill. The first poet laureate of Iowa, Bell served in the U.S. Army in 1964-65.

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The New Soldier. Edited by David Thorne and George Butler

by Kerry, John and Vietnam Veterans Against the War

New York: Macmillan, 1971. First Edition. Illus. 174pp. 4to. Black cloth. Fine in near fine clippwed dj. First Edition. Illus. 174pp. 4to.

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1960s Berkeley Counterculture Newsletter "Outcry!" Reports on the Bloody Clash Over People's Park

by Berkeley "Outcry!" Reports

1969. Distributed by the Radical Student Union at UC Berkeley. Outcry! from Occupied Berkeley. Vol. 2. May 1969. Quadruple folded. This newsletter gives the chronology of the clash over People's Park that occurred on May 15, 1969, which was precipitated by the University's desire to turn a lot near campus that it had razed and purchased into a sports arena. The University aggressively acquired this land and razed the buildings on it, due to concerns about growing crime. However,... Read More

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First Appearance of Feminist Revolutionary Lenore Goldberg in Robert Crumb's "Motor City Comics", 1969

by Robert Crumb Comix

1969. [Counterculture] [Robert Crumb] Motor City Comics. San Francisco: Rip Off Press, April 1969. First printing. Staplebound in original wrappers. A landmark in underground comix and countercultural publishing, Motor City Comics showcases iconic cartoonist Robert Crumb's anarchic satire and radical political voice. Featuring the debut of Lenore Goldberg and her Girl Commandos, this issue exemplifies the genre's revolutionary, anti-authoritarian spirit and explicit critique of gender roles, capitalism, and police violence during the height of the Vietnam War era and... Read More

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First Appearance of Feminist Revolutionary Lenore Goldberg in Robert Crumb's "Motor City Comics", 1969

by Robert Crumb Comics

1969. [Counterculture][Comics] Crumb, R. Motor City Comics. San Francisco: Rip Off Press, April 1969. First printing. Staplebound in original wrappers. A landmark in underground comix and countercultural publishing, Motor City Comics showcases iconic cartoonist Robert Crumb's anarchic satire and radical political voice. Featuring the debut of Lenore Goldberg and her Girl Commandos, this issue exemplifies the genre's revolutionary, anti-authoritarian spirit and explicit critique of gender roles, capitalism, and police violence during the height of the Vietnam War era and... Read More

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The Things They Carried (Limited Edition, signed by the author)

by Tim O'Brien

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1990. Limited Edition, SIGNED by the author on the first blank. Publisher's promotional card laid in. A collection of short stories, drawing on the author's experiences in the Vietnam War. As New. Fine and unread, bound in full tan leather, all edges gilt, with three raised spine bands, and gilt titles and rule.

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印度支那に於ける邦人發展の研究; 古地圖に印されたる日本河に就いて / Indoshina ni okeru hōjin hatten no kenkyū; kochizu ni shirusaretaru Nihongawa ni tsuite. [

by Sugimoto, Naojirō, & Kin Eiken

Tokyo: Fuzanbo, 1942. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 5, [1], 2, [2], 33, [1], [2]; folding map and 19 plates; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, printed paper label on upper cover; edges worn and stained, second leaf and last plate with small pieces torn from fore-edge; retaining the original printed dust jacket with some loss at the edges and along the spine. A good copy of a very uncommon book. A study of the Mekong River... Read More

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Wings of The Tiger

by [VIETNAM WAR] KRUEGER, Carl

New York: Frederick Fell, 1966. First Edition. First Printing. Special Limited Edition, number of copies unknown. 8vo. 21cm x 14cm. Publisher's full black leather titled in gilt to spine with decorative gilt ruling to the front board. Clean and handsome. In a black cloth slipcase, duplicating the design of the dustjacket for the trade edition. Inscribed on an inserted handmade paper limitation page with some a rather lavish gold ink limitation statement, by the author and his wife: "Mimi... Read More

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The Graffitti – Issue #3, Special Moratorium Issue

Heidelberg, Germany: Published by G.I.s for G.I.s, 1969. Unbound. Near Fine. Issue #3. Quarto. Three loose leaves, folded to make 12pp. Two old horizontal folds, a bit of bumping and toning, near fine overall. Issue #3 of this Vietnam-era newspaper published by American troops stationed in West Germany. This "Special Moratorium Issue" includes an article on the November 15, 1969 Vietnam War moratorium held in Mannheim, Germany, as well as a section on the Black Panthers.

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American Emigrants League" Periodical Promoting Emigration as "Non-conformity

by J.W. Massecar

1963. [Civil Rights] [Social Activist]. American Emigrants' League Newsletter. Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1963. Features the front-page article, "Migration, An Expression of Non-Conformity" by J.W. Massecar. This article makes the case for Americans to leave their country in order to advance the cause of world peace. The author contends that repressive forces such as the "men of Madison Avenue" have used mass media to enforce conformity in Americans, which is present from the innocuous "dress fads of teenagers"... Read More

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Original photograph of Allen Ginsberg reading "Wichita Vortex Sutra," 1966

by Allen Ginsberg (subject)

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Vintage borderless photograph of poet Allen Ginsberg reading his antiwar poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra" at the Loeb Student Center at New York University, on June 18, 1966. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamps of United Press International Photo and a date stamp. Ginsberg first composed "Wichita Vortex Sutra" through dictation into a tape recorder while traveling across the midwest, and the poem was first published in his 1968 collection "Planet... Read More

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Peace Illumination Walk. Washington Sq. Fri. Dec. 23

by [Vietnam War – Anti-War Movement – Counterculture] Workshop in Nonviolence

New York: New York Workshop in Nonviolence, 1966. Broadside poster printed in red on white stock, approximately 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine.. A poster announcing the Peace Illumination Walk, an anti-Vietnam War demonstration held in New York City on Friday, December 23, 1966. Participants were instructed to assemble in Washington Square at 6 p.m. and march through Manhattan carrying candles “in sympathy with suffering in Vietnam.” The walk was to conclude about 8 p.m. with a light... Read More

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[Cover title]: USS Brooke DEG-I. Prima et Optima. Westpac Cruise 1968

(Marceline, Mo: Walsworth), 19641968. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 74pp. Pictorial cloth. A bit of soiling on the boards, very good or better. Vietnam War-era tour book of a guided missile escort ship.

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Belt Buckle Sample Catalog

by [Trade Catalogs] [Fashion] Hollander Metal Product Corp

Bridgeport, CT: Hollander Metal Product Corp, 1950. Very Good. Bridgeport, CT: Hollander Metal Product Corp., [ca. 1950s]. Six-panel folding trade catalog with 58 belt buckle samples. Belt buckles tied down and numbered and first four sample pages are labeled either bronze cast, bronze + brass wire, or steel wire. Variance in design and size are subtle though apparent. Hollander would go on to produce belt buckles for the Department of Defense during the Vietnam War. Folder edgeworn, scuffed,... Read More

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A Sort of Peace: Echoes and Images of the Vietnam War

by EHRHART, W.D. Images by Don Fox

[No place]: Foxphotoarts, 2005. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Oblong quarto. Spiralbound stiff wrappers with clear plastic cover. Fine. Images by Fox accompanied by Ehrhart's text. Signed by Fox. Scarce – *OCLC* locates a single copy.

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