np: np 1959. Very good. Light-brown paper hand-drawn in felt-tip marker; 24" by 18" approx. Evidence of having been hung up at corners: small pieces of tape at upper edge; two chips at bottom; plus 2" tear at center of bottom edge. Shallow creases folded into eighths. Else clean if mildly toned. Very good. Signed by an artist "Vid" and dated in July 1959. <br/><br/>An outstanding example of presumably amateur political protest art depicting the House Un-American Activities Committee as a rabid King Kong on the verge of seizing the helpless damsel Civil Liberties. 1959 was the Committee's 21st year of existence and it had by then become quite commonplace to condemn the HUAC's extremism so much so that President Truman in April of that year called the committee �the most un-American thing in the country today.� Still it would take sixteen more years for HUAC to be officially abolished. We've been unable to trace the artist but he again we presume was clearly skilled striking just the right balance between cartoon and editorial styles. A vivid piece of vernacular propaganda from the early days of the HUAC's decline. np unknown
np: np 1959. Very good. Light-brown paper hand-drawn in felt-tip marker; 24" by 18" approx. Evidence of having been hung up at corners: small pieces of tape at upper edge; two chips at bottom; plus 2" tear at center of bottom edge. Shallow creases folded into eighths. Else clean if mildly toned. Very good. Signed by an artist "Vid" and dated in July 1959. <br/><br/>An outstanding example of presumably amateur political protest art depicting the House Un-American Activities Committee as a rabid King Kong on the verge of seizing the helpless damsel Civil Liberties. 1959 was the Committee's 21st year of existence and it had by then become quite commonplace to condemn the HUAC's extremism so much so that President Truman in April of that year called the committee “the most un-American thing in the country today.” Still it would take sixteen more years for HUAC to be officially abolished. We've been unable to trace the artist but he again we presume was clearly skilled striking just the right balance between cartoon and editorial styles. A vivid piece of vernacular propaganda from the early days of the HUAC's decline. np unknown books
New Left Review Ltd 1995-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. NICE CONDITION SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK. New Left Review Ltd paperback
Victor Gollancz London. 1953. First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp vi 431. A devastating critique of something we would like to think will never happen again. The publisher's copy rubber-stamped "File Copy" on the front free endpaper and on the upper panel of the dustwrapper. Fine in very good indeed slightly marked dustwrapper. Victor Gollancz, London. unknown
Chicago: Henry Regnery Co. 1954. 8vo. xv 3 413 1 pp. Tan cloth black lettering on spine minor shelfwear rubbing minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover design by Ed Bedno chipping tears w/ o spine chipping to fore-edges VG/Fair w/ taped-in signature of Joe McCarthy tipped-in on ffep. obituary article offprints from the National Review after McCarthy’s death in 1957 laid-in. First edition w/ signed ruled paper slip taped-in of this decidedly skewed and supporting conservative critique of the infamous senator best remembered for his demagogic attacks and reckless pursuit of supposed communist infiltration of American Institutions. Buckley and his fellow conservatives criticized McCarthy of being disorderly reckless and impulsive thereby resulting in his downfall and yet supports his basic beliefs. McCarthy signatures are rather uncommon. Henry Regnery Co., hardcover