Samuel Sillen Editor (16 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. This copy is Good; the text is clear, bright, but with small lmarks and bits of marginalia;; binding is tight, but pages and edges show some wear. The front and back covers are Good; intact, including very good color and design, but signs of age. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We ship all books to U.S. buyers with Tracking. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete issue, original wrapper. ; 96 pages; Includes "Peace and Poetry: A Talk with Pablo Neruda.".

Paperback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Edge rubbed, with age toning of page edges, minor scuffing, creasing. Clean text, solid copy. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 64 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Full 1955 issue of this leftist magazine with Robeson's 3 page article. Also includes the full text of William Faulkner's statyement on the lynch-murder of Emmett Till.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Thus. Text/NEW w/discoloration (acidic paper reaction). Blue softcover with photo portrait of Bryant/VG; strong w/edge & surface wear. 1945 publication, Wartime Book issued in complicance with Government regulations. Anthology of selected works of Massachusetts-born William Cullen Bryant, (1794 - 1878), poet of nature and editor for 50 years of the New York Evening Post., during which he crusaded for civic rights, a steam subway and setting aside of land for the Central Park for New York City. 94 pgs. Poems, commencing with Thanatopsis, are arranged chronologically as are his prose. Edited, and Introduction by Samuel Sillen (-1973), Marxist literary critic.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Poor. Volume 4, No. 9, September 1951. 64 pp. Volume 4, No. 9, September 1951 only! Solidly bound copy with moderate heavy use. Top corner of front cover torn. Loose binding. Heavy foxing. Still an acceptable reading/ study/ work/ research copy.

Magazine. 64p., wraps, paper lightly toned otherwise in very good condition, 5.5x7.75 inches. Includes "Psychoanalysis vs. the Negro people" by Lloyd L. Brown.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The November 1954 issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. Articles include a look at American news correspondents in Moscow; an excerpt from a book about artist Robert Minor; an appreciation of the late Minnesota Communist Bill Herron; the Soviet approach to dealing with teenagers; and more. Scarce in commerce. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 198 x 135 mm), 64 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Heavy rubbing and light soiling to the wrappers, rusting to staples, light creasing to a few page corners. About Very Good.…

Magazine. 64p., wrap, minor creasing otherwise very good condition, 5.25x7.75 inches. Masses & Mainstream, vol. 5, no. 2. February, 1952.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. "Why Was Du Bois Fired?" by Shirley Graham. Four murals by Jose Clemente Orozco entitled "Struggle For The Land." 96pp. Orange pictorial Soft Cover slightly rubbed. Article by Shirley Graham concerns the firing of Du Bois from the NAACP editorial post in 1948. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The April 1953 issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. This is M&M's first issue since the death of Stalin and contains various tributes to the Soviet leader. ("The death of Joseph Stalin was a grievous blow to the partisans of progress everywhere," writes Editor Samuel Sillen, who focuses on Stalin's contributions to culture.) Other tributes follow, including a frontispiece drawing of Stalin by Hugo Gellert. In other articles, historian Herbert Aptheker attacks conservatism and anti-Communism. There's also a short story by Meridel Le Sueur, poems by Aaron Kramer and Bert Meyers, and more. Scarce in commerce. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 197 x 135 mm), 64 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Rubbing and soiling to wrappers and a couple small stains internally. About Very Good.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The October 1953 issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. Among the articles: Herbert Aptheker defends Alger Hiss; Editor Samuel Sillen says literary critic Van Wyck Brooks should do more to support writers battling McCarthyism; and Gladys Tayler Yang writes glowingly about education in the "New China." (Worth noting: Yang later spent four years in detention during the Cultural Revolution.) This issue is scarce in commerce. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto ( 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 197 x 134 mm), 64 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Light vertical crease throughout, some soiling and rubbing to wrappers, stains to a couple of pages but otherwise bright and unmarked. About Very Good.…

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Wraps; 64pp; Light dampstain to back cover, binding staples rusted, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Scarce, vintage Cold War era digest-sized magazine from the Communist Party USA. This issue: Cover: "If We Die" (poem) by Ethel Rosenberg: Letters from the Death House by Julius & Ethel Rosenberg; The Rosenbergs (poem) by W. E. B. Du Bois; The Art of Hugo Gellert (drawings); much more.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. EX LIBRARY BOOK.

Condition: Very Good. 64 pp., original paper wrappers, edges rubbed, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A theatre review by Lorraine Hansberry appears in this issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. Hansberry (1930-1965) wrote an enthusiastic review of William Branch's "A Medal for Willie," which the Committee for the Negro in the Arts presented at Harlem's Club Baron. The play concerns the mother of a young African-American who was killed in the Korean War. Willie's mother, Mrs. Jackson, was due to receive a medal from a general, but she refuses to accept it, calling out the racism and hypocrisy of Jim Crow America. "This is good," Hansberry writes in her review. "This is exciting and moving. Watching the play, I experience the glorious feeling that perhaps now -- in our time -- the dream of a New Harlem Theatre shall be realized." Although she points out a few flaws in the play, she concludes her review, writing: "But the play is a powerful indictment of Negro oppression. It has terrific impact. Don't miss it." This marks yet another appearance by Hansberry in Masses & Mainstream. The September 1950 issue contained her first published work, the poem "Flag From a Kitchenette Window," published when she was "a twenty-year-old art student in Chicago." Another poem, "Lynchsong," was published in July 1951. Hansberry, of course, went on to write her most famous work, "A Raisin in the Sun," a play about the struggles of a Black family in Chicago. It opened on Broadway in March 1959 and starred Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee. Besides Hansberry's review, this issue contains excerpts from a novel by V.J. Jerome; Richard O. Boyer's appreciation of Pettis Perry, an African-American who was a Communist Party official; labor news, including an article by Howard Fast; drawings by Hugo Gellert; and more. This issue of Masses & Mainstream is rare. OCLC shows no institutional holdings. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 197 x 135 mm), 64 pages, in stapled, printed wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Some scattered stains and soiling. About Very Good.…