Antiwar Movement Ephemera from SDS Allied Coalitions and Peace Action Organizers in Cleveland and Columbus

by Ohio Anti-Vietnam War Protest

1969. Archive of anti-Vietnam War organizing literature documenting systems of grassroots protest coordination, student mobilization, and peace coalition activism in Ohio between 1969 and 1971. The material documents how antiwar organizations, student groups, clergy, labor activists, and peace coalitions coordinated demonstrations, conferences, transportation logistics, and public outreach campaigns opposing United States military involvement in Vietnam. Produced during the peak years of mass antiwar protest, the archive reveals the operational mechanisms through which decentralized coalitions organized national moratoriums, strategy meetings,... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Vietcong

by CARUSO, Bruno (1927 - 2018)

c.1968. Original engraving. Printed in black on Fabbiano mold-made paper; sheet size 50cm x 70cm (ca 20" x 27"); image area 35cm x 36cm (ca. 14" x 14-1/2"). Signed in pencil lower right; additionally inscribed, "A Giovanni i Gebbe Scianna" [i.e., Jonathan & Jean Shahn]; titled illegibly lower left. Faint foxing and soil to margins (well away from printed area); Near Fine. Edition not stated. A striking image by Sicilian painter, illustrator and printmaker Bruno Caruso (1927-1918).... Read More

Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Defend the Gainesville Vets

by [NEW LEFT - GRAPHICS] [COHEN, Peter G.]; Vietnam Veterans Against the War Defense Committee

N.p.: Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1973. First Edition. Original offset lithographed poster in colors, 56cm x 43cm (22" x 17"). Fine, fresh, apparently unused example. Poster sold as a fundraiser for the defense of the Gainesville Eight, a group of Florida Vietnam veterans who were accused (on dubious evidence) of conspiracy to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. All eight defendants, including the reputed ringleader Scott Camil, were eventually acquitted. A rare poster, and this... Read More

Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Original photograph of crowds waving to Robert Kennedy along the campaign route in June 1968

by [Robert Kennedy] Bill Eppridge (photographer)

New York: LIFE Magazine, 1968. Vintage double weight photograph of crowds along the campaign route waving to Robert Kennedy in June 1968. Kennedy would be assassinated on June 5, 1968 during his address to his supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, after his win had been announced in the California primary on June 4. Photographer Bill Eppridge worked as a photojournalist for Life magazine throughout the 1960s, until the magazine sealed in 1972. His images... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Vietnam: Spilled Blood Split the Country

by [BERKELEY POLITICAL POSTER WORKSHOP]

[Berkeley: Political Poster Workshop, 1970]. Original silkscreen in red, printed on white poster paper, measuring 77.74cm x 58.5cm (29" x 23"). Short repaired tear in left margin; hand-inked date (7/2/70) at upper right, else Near Fine. Unlike the majority of BPPW posters, this one is not printed on repurposed computer paper but rather on higher-quality poster paper, in a larger than usual format. One of some 600+ designs created by Berkeley student members of the Political Poster... Read More

Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Solomon King [Black Agent Lucky King] (Original poster for the 1974 Blaxploitation film)

by Sal Watts (director, screenwriter, starring); Jack Bomay (director); Jim Alston (story); James Watts, Samaki Bennett, Claudio Russo (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film, here under its original release title, "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host, Sal Watts, in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films, was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King," which Watts produced, wrote, co-directed, and starred, a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost, this... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Poster: Did You Vote For This? Who Did

by [BERKELEY POLITICAL POSTER WORKSHOP]

[Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, 1970]. Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in black on white, repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips, measuring ca.38cm x 56cm (15" x 22"). A Fine copy / A. A simple, powerful anti-war image by an uncredited Berkeley student. The image is reproduced from a 1968 AP photograph of the bodies of US Marines on Hill 689 in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. The poster "is an indirect invocation of the political order... Read More

Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

UCSB Student Activist Newspaper "El Gaucho" Archive Covering Leftist Activism, Anti-Vietnam Protests, and the Bill Allen Controversy, 1969

by El Gaucho; UCSB

1969. [Student Activism][Anti-Vietnam] El Gaucho, the University of California, Santa Barbara student newspaper, reporting on the November 15 Vietnam Moratorium, the anthropology department fight over Professor Bill Allen, and disputes over Black Studies and student power. Five issues dated November 10 to December 2, 1969, with front-page headlines including "Student groups call for unity," "Moratorium mobilizes to San Francisco," "Students demand public hearing," "Reform workshops created," "Moratorium activities finalized," "No funds for IFC, asks for Allen open hearing," and... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Why I Choose Freedom

by KHANH, Bui Quang

Saigon [now Ho Chi Minh City]: The Kim-Son Printing House, 1956. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by Madeleine M. D. Potter. Tall octavo. 92pp. Illustrated. Text in both English and Vietnamese. Printed wrappers over stapled textblock. Textblock neatly reattached, modest wear and toning, bottom corner a bit bumped and a couple of leaves with small marginal corner stains, a very good copy of a somewhat delicate publication. An introduction to Vietnamese life and culture with a strong... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

African American Vietnam War Photograph Archive of Black Paratroopers at Bien Hoa Air Base, Circa 1965

by Vietnam Black Troops

1965. Archive of original photographs documenting African American soldiers serving in the Vietnam War during the early phase of large-scale United States military escalation in Southeast Asia. The material captures the daily experiences, military operations, and interpersonal relationships of Black servicemen stationed at Bien Hoa Air Base circa 1965, including members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. The photographs provide primary-source visual evidence of integrated military life during a period when African American troops served disproportionately in frontline... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

California Antiwar and Nuclear Protest Large Press Photographs, 1960

by California Antiwar Protests

1960. California protest press photo archive documenting antiwar, anti nuclear, and student civil disobedience demonstrations during the height of Cold War anxiety and the emerging student protest culture of the 1960s. The group captures demonstrators participating in nuclear disarmament activism, mass public protest, and sit in actions connected to broader fears surrounding atomic weapons and militarization in the years following the Korean War and during escalating East West tensions. These photos record early postwar protest movements before the larger... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Tell Me Lies (Original press kit for the US release of the 1968 British film)

by Peter Brook (director); Denis Cannan (play); Mark Jones, Pauline Munro, Eric Allan, Robert Langdon Lloyd (starring)

New York: Continental Distributing, 1968. Vintage press kit for the 1968 British film. White pocketed folder, containing 20 black and white photographs, and 13 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on the 1966 experimental play "US" by Dennis Cannan. A group of British metropolitan inhabitants react to the Vietnam War, interwoven with newsreel footage and satirical skits. Folder, photographs, and promotional material Near Fine.

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Soldier: The Memoirs of Matthew B. Ridgway; As told to Harold H. Martin

by Ridgway, Matthew B.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of Soldier: The Memoirs of Matthew B. Ridgway, signed by the author.. Octavo, [12], 371pp. Red cloth, blue cloth spine, title in red and gilt on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Blemish to rear cloth panel, internally near fine. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $5.00 retail price on front flap, chipping along edges, wear to spine, faint label... Read More

Offered by The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Black Anti-Vietnam Protest, and Police Confrontation in the Midwest, circa 1969 to 1972

by Anti-Vietnam War

1969. Anti-Vietnam War press photographs recording violent police response, campus protest, social justice organizing, and police confrontation, circa 1969 to 1972, include recruitment protests, street mobilization, coalition messaging, and state response through photographs tied to the Vietnam Moratorium, University of Chicago protest activity, and University of Michigan demonstration culture. Between Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Boston, Several images align directly with the Vietnam Moratorium and campus protest culture that made Chicago a major Midwestern center of antiwar demonstration, while the... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

The Trial Of The Chicago 7: The Whole World Is Watching

by Sorkin, Aaron

[Los Gatos]: Netflix, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Signed first edition of The Trial Of The Chicago 7: The Whole World Is Watching, the screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.. Quarto, 144pp, 160pp, [3]. Illustrated hardcover. No additional printings noted. Free of marks or notations, appears unread. Heavily illustrated with hundreds of color photographs from the filming and actual trial of the "Chicago 7." Not issued with dust jacket. This copy is signed by Aaron Sorkin on the... Read More

Offered by The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

The Korean War; How We Met the Challenge

by Ridgway, Matthew

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. The Korean War by General Matthew B. Ridgway, inscribed to a fellow veteran.. Octavo, xvii, 291pp, [3]. Black cloth, title printed on spine. The first printing, with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page, "I-37" code in gutter. Solid text block. Illustrated endpapers, with light offsetting from the publisher's glue along hinges. In the publisher's dust jacket, wear along top edge, $6.95 retail... Read More

Offered by The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

A White House Diary

by Johnson, Lady Bird [Johnson, Lyndon]

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. First edition of A White House Diary, signed by President Lyndon Johnson to his tailor, Irving Frank.. Octavo, ix, [1], 806pp. Green cloth over white, title in gilt on spine. Stated "second printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, light soiling to cloth spine, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, near fine, price clipped, bright illustrations, a near fine copy.... Read More

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Northern Lights

by O' Brian, Tim

London: Marion Boyers, 1975. First English Edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine lettered in silver. Fine in price clipped illustrated dust wrapper. 356 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Signed presentation copy, "For Ken, Peace, Tim O'Brian." A tale of wilderness survival in the rugged Arrowhead area of Minnesota, his second book -- two brothers caught in a blizzard. His first novel, "If I Die In A Combat Zone," is one of the finest fiction novels on the Vietnam... Read More

Offered by Roy Young Bookseller, Inc.

Teen Titans 9 - License to Drive

by Johns

DC. Collectible - Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! Hong Kong: Printed by Kwok Hing Printing Press, 1969. 1st English language edition. 4to. 222pp. Illus. Possibly inscribed by author (Nguyẽ̂n Ngọc Hanh?) on flyleaf. Near Very Good book. Near Very Good dust jacket. Includes original acetate cover. (Vietnam War 1961-1975, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, pictorial works) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Offered by Wonder Book

THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS: A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS OF KING GEORGE IV., KING WILLIAM IV AND QUEEN VICTORIA[8 VOLUMES]

by Greville, Charles C.F.; Reeve, Henry [Editor]

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1874/1885/1887. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Octavos, 8 volumes; VG; bound in uniform three quarters brown calf with marbled boards and endpapers, paneled spines two two panels having lettering, date on tail; bound by Roger de Coverly & Sons; top edge of text block gilt; bookplates to front pastedowns; mild rubbing and wear; Series One: Second Edition 1874; Series Two: 1885; Series Three: 1887; shelved above Vietnam War. The journals of the reigns of George IV... Read More

Offered by Second Story Books

Republic of Vietnam Patrol Identification Guide (For Official Use Only)

COMNAVFORV ("Commander Naval Forces Vietnam"), 1966. Permabound. Very Good +. A copy of the uncommon "Republic of Vietnam Patrol Identification Guide", "For Official Use Only" (printed twice on the front cover). OPENS WITH AN OFFICIAL 4-PG DOCUMENT, SIGNED TWICE BY R.A. DOWD, "CAPTAIN USN -- ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR INTELLIGENCE" AND, BASED ON THE LETTERHEAD, ISSUED BY "COMMANDER U.S. NAVAL FORCES, VIETNAM". Followed by a 2 pg. Index and then straight into the Patrol Identification Guide Itself,... Read More

Offered by Appledore Books

African American Military Service and Base Life in the U.S. Army Transportation Corps, 1968-1969

by Black Soldiers in Vietnam

1968. Photographic archive (1968-1969) documenting African American enlisted personnel in the United States Army Transportation Corps during the Vietnam War era, with emphasis on training environments, unit structure, and daily life on base prior to overseas deployment. The material captures soldiers in both formal and informal settings, providing visual evidence of military preparation, racial composition within units, and interpersonal dynamics among predominantly Black troops during a period of significant racial tension within the U.S. armed forces. The archive supports... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Antiwar Protest and Police Confrontation at the 1972 Republican National Convention: Miami Beach Press Photo Archive

by Florida Antiwar Protests

1972. Florida antiwar protest press archive documenting demonstrations in Miami Beach during the 1972 Republican National Convention, when activists targeted President Richard Nixon's renomination after years of bombing, troop deployments, and stalled peace negotiations in Vietnam. Protesters gathered outside convention sites, government buildings, and public streets to oppose the war, challenge Nixon's reelection campaign, and confront the heavy police and military security presence surrounding the convention. Photo archive of 7 Large silver gelatin press photographs, each approx 8... Read More

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On the socialist revolution in Vietnam

by Lê-Duân

Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1965. First edition in English, 3 volumes, 12mo, near fine in original decorative wrappers. Volume I: The Socialist Revolution in Viet Nam; volume II: Industrialization and Agriultural Co-operativization; volume III: Ideological Work, Work Among Women and Youth, Education and Scientific Research. Widely held, but a standard in the political literture of the American war in Vietnam.

Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

No More Vietnams

by Nixon, Richard

New York: Arbor House, 1985. First edition, limited edition. Near Fine. SIGNED. 240pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Bound in brown leather, with title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Raised bands; satin ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. Spot of very faint rubbing to front board. In publisher's custom clamshell with a satin ribbon tie. Clamshell has two faint spots of soiling. Inscribed on the half-title, with love and best wishes, to Fred Chase. The "Presidential Edition"... Read More

Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books