Devil Book by Trumbo Dalton (10 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 42pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Front cover heavily toned with some soil, rear cover a bit tanned, a tiny bit of interior soil, sound and about very good. Trumbo's essay protesting the conviction of 14 California socialists and union activists who were charged with charged them with advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government under the Smith Act.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 42pp. Stapled wrappers. Toning on the spine and edge of wraps, very good. Trumbo's essay protesting the conviction of 14 California socialists and union activists under the Smith Act, which charged them with advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. States ""First Printing, May, 1956." No. 710 of a Limited, Signed Edition of 750 copies, signed in red ink "Dalton Trumbo" immediately below the limitation. Trumbo -- a member of the "Hollywood 10" -- protests the "Smith Act" prosecutions of current or former officers of the Communist Party. A couple of the pages remain unopened; this 108-page, stapled pamphlet, despite being age-toned to edges, would probably grade "very good" save for the inch-and-a-half triangular dampstain to lower outside corner of the wraps (impinges NO text to interior.) An important artifact of the "Red Scare" era. Trumbo signatures are sought-after. Reduced from $570. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 42 Pgs, staple binding, non-fiction analysis of the conviction of 14 California Smith Act Defendants by Blacklisted author Dalton Trumbo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Softcover in stapled white wraps. First printing. Very good condition. Pages are clean, crisp, and unsoiled. Light age-toning to cover edges and a short split at bottom of spine. Original price on cover is 15 cents. Small 8vo. 42 pp.

paperback. Condition: very good. Limited. 42p. printed wrappers; lightly faded at the edges. (Los Angeles), 1956. Limited First Edition. A denunciation of The Smith Act, published by the California Emergency Defense Committee. Limited First Edition. One of 750 signed copies.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. No. 237 of 750 press-numbered copies signed by the author. Stiff card wraps, sun darkening to the edges, otherwise near fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall (5 x 9" or 13.5 x 22.5cm); 42 pp.

Wraps. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. This is No. 250 of a limited edition of 750 copies signed by Dalton Trumbo. The American novelist and screenwriter, who scripted films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Trumbo (1905-76) aligned with the Communist Party in the United States before the 1940s, although he did not join the party until 1943. He was an isolationist. One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He was subsequently blacklisted by that industry, though he continued working clandestinely, writing under other authors' names. This pamphlet, published five and a half years after Trumbo served eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky for contempt of Congress, analyzes the conviction of fourteen California Smith Act defendents: "As the Supreme Court moves to review the Smith Act convictions, the American people must also review them and enter the struggle to overthrow them. The old and not very valorous strategy of tossing Communists to the wolves in despairing hope that the civil rights of all others will then be spared has not worked. The appetite of the Department of Justice and the FBI has proved insatiable." The Smith Act set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government. A series of Supreme Court decisions in 1957 reversed a number of convictions under the act as unconstitutional. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Typical mild toning to the extremities; else near fine.

First Edition. 8vo, 42pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. The first printing of Trumbo's statement in defense of the fourteen California socialists and union activists who were convicted under the Smith Act, which charged them with advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government. An unusually fresh copy. Fine, bright, without wear and just a hint of tanning to the spine.

First edition. 8vo, 42pp; printed card wrappers, stapled. This is Trumbo's essay protesting the conviction of 14 California socialists and union activists under the Smith Act, which charged them with advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government. This is one of 750 numbered copies signed by Trumbo -- there were also unsigned copies -- as part of an appeal for donations to aid in the legal defense. Despite its relatively generous edition, this has become a rather scarce book, especially so in fine condition. Tiny bump to lower corner, otherwise fine, fresh, and bright.