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[004129] Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives. Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. First Thus. Wrappers. Good. With appendixes and index. Designated "Committee Print." Revised and published December 1, 1961 to supersede Guide published January 2, 1957. Bump at top corner; Covers show some wear, mostly at edges. $15.00

[004130] Janowitz, Anne & Nancy Peters, Eds. (Geoffrey Rips, Aryeh Neier, Todd Gitlin, Angus Mackenzie, Allen Ginsberg). Unamerican Activities: Pen American Center Report: The Campaign Against the Underground Press. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1981. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good Covers show a little rubbing and edgewear, else about fine. 175 pages, with bibliography and footnotes. A detailed examination of the US Government's campaign against the underground press in the 1960s and 1970s, which used illegal surveillance, harrassment, disinformation, blackmail, and an arsenal of other weapons. Very enlightening. 176 pages. $29.95

[004132] Joint Legislative Fact-Finding Cmmittee on Un-American Activities. First Report Un-American Activities in Washington State, 1948. Olympia, WA: Joint Legislative Fact-Finding Cmmittee on Un-American Activities, 1948. Wrappers. Very Good+. 622 pages, bound into brown wrappers with silver lettering. Includes testimony of numerous witnesses, and an index. Slight wear at extremities, else fine. $29.95

[001072] Mitgang, Herbert. Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors. New York, NY: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. From the dustjacket: "'Dangerous Dossiers' is the shocking account...of the fifty-year espionage campaign waged by the C.I.A., F.B.I., and other intelligence agencies against such famed American writers as Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner and Sandburg, as well as such...authors as Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg." Other authors & artists discussed are Lillian Hellman, John Kenneth Galbraith, Graham Greene, Stephen Spender, Thornton Wilder, William Saroyan, Robert Frost, Alexander Calder, Ben Shahn, Georgia O'Keefe, among others. Spine a bit bumped, slight wear at extremities. In a rubbed dustjacket. $15.00

Robins, Natalie. Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993. First Paper. Wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 0813519543. Natalie Robins delves into the secret files of the FBI to document the agency's 'war' against writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack London, Lincoln Steffens, William Carlos Williams, Lionel Trilling, Uupton Sinclair, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes. Of special interest to those interested in the Beat Generation is Robins' discussion of the FBI's paranoid surveillance & persecution of the Beat writers - one FBI memo said, "the Beat generation is an accusation of the system.", Impression mark on back cover else fine. This is an unread copy. 495 pages, plus sixteen pages of photographs. $9.95