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Anderson, George K. and Walton, Eda Lou. This Generation. Scott, Foresman and Company
Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life. The Modern Library
Aptheker, Herbert. The Negro in the Civil War. International Publishers
Bentley, Eric, ed. The Modern Theatre, Vol. II. Doubleday Company, Inc
Bone, Edith, trans. Not by Bread Alone. E. P. Dutton Co., Inc
Boyer, Richard O., and Herbert M. Morais. Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women. Cameron Associates. No date
(Central Committee) Edited by a Commission of the Central Committee of the C. P. S. U. (B)., Authorized by the Central Committee of the C. P. S. U. (B).. History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) : Short Course. International Publish
The Constitution of Our United States; Also the Declaration of Independence and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Rand McNally Company
Corwin, Norman. On a Note of Triumph. Simon and Schuster
Cowley, Malcolm. The Literary Situation. Viking Press
Dunham, Barrows. Man Against Myth. International Publishers
Dutt, R. Palme. The Problem of India. International Publishers
Eckel, Paul E. The Far East Since 1500. Harcourt, Brace and Company
Ferguson, Wallace K. The Renaissance. Henry Holt and Company
Foner, Philip S., ed. Abraham Lincoln: Selections From His Writings. International Publishers
Foster, William Z. The Twilight of World Capitalism. International Publishers
Fox, Ralph. The Novel and the People. International Publishers
Geismar, Maxwell. Rebels and Ancestors: The American Novel, 1890-1915. Houghton Mifflin Company
Golden, Harry. Only in America. The World Publishing Company
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New American Library
Havemeyer, Louis. The Drama of Savage Peoples. Yale University Press
Howells, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Rinehart Co., Inc
Selected by Langston Hughes. An African Treasury: Articles/Essays/Stories/Poems by Black Africans. Crown Publishers, Inc
James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Harper Brothers Publishers
Johnson, The Very Reverend Hewlett, the Dean of Canterbury. The Soviet Power: The Socialist Sixth of the World. International Publishers
Jones, LeRoi. Blues People: Negro Music in White America. William Morrow and Company
Kahn, Albert E. The Game of Death: Effects of the Cold War on Our Children. Cameron Kahn
Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. Doubleday Company, Inc
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. The Viking Press
Lawrence, D. H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Grove Press Inc
Lenin, V. I. The Young Generation. International Publishers
Lenin, V. I., What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement. International Publishers
Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. The World Publishing Company
Lomax, Louis E. The Reluctant African. Harper Brothers
London, Jack. Jack London: American Rebel, a Collection of His Social Writings together with an Extensive Study of the Man and His Times. Edited by Philip S. Foner. The Citadel Press
Malraux, Andre. Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine). The Modern Library
Marion, George. Bases Empire: A Chart of American Expansion. Fairplay Publishers
Masses and Mainstream
Mayer, August L. Velazquez. French Library of Fine Arts
(McCarthy) Studies on the Left: A Journal of Research, Social Theory, and Review, Volume 2, No. 3
Melville, Herman. Selected Tales and Poems. Rinehart Co., Inc
Monopoly in the United States: Facts Revealed by the TNEC Investigation, Prepared by Labor Research Association, International Publishers
Morgan, Claire. The Price of Salt. Bantam Books
O'Casey, Sean. Within the Gates: A Play of Four Scenes in a London Park. The MacMillan Company
Owsley, Frank Lawrence, Chitwood, Oliver Perry, Nixon, H. C. A Short History of the American People, Vol. II (1865-1947). D. Nostrand Company, Inc
Paine, Thomas. The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine. Collected and Edited by Philip S. Foner. The Citadel Press
Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920
Plato. The Republic of Plato. Oxford University Press
Political Affairs
Political Affairs: A Magazine Devoted to the Theory and Practice of Marxism-Leninism
Political Affairs
Political Affairs
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Rideout, Walter B. The Radical Novel in the United States: 1900-1954: Some Interrelations of Literature and Society. Harvard University Press
Sandburg, Carl. Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg. Edited by Rebecca West. Harcourt, Brace and Company
Schwarz, Lew W., ed. A Golden Treasury of Jewish Literature. Rinehart and Company, Inc
Selsam, Howard. What Is Philosophy: A Marxist Introduction. International Publishers
Sillen, Samuel. Walt Whitman: Poet of American Democracy: Selections from His Poetry and Prose. International Publishers
Smith, Bernard. Forces in American Criticism. Harcourt and Brace
Smith, James Harry, and Ed Winfield Parks, eds. The Great Critics: An Anthology of Literary Criticism. W. W. Norton Company, Inc
Sorokin, Pitirim A. The American Sex Revolution. Porter Sargent Publisher
Steuben, John. Labor in Wartime. International Publishers
Studies on the Left, Vol. II, No. 1
Studies on the Left, Vol. II, No. 2
Studies on the Left: The Imperialism of Anti-Imperialism: An Interview with Carlos Fuentes, Vol. III, No. 1
Thackeray, William Makepeace, and Walter J. Black. The History of Henry Esmond
Tolstoy, Leo. Tales of Sevastopol. Foreign Languages Publishing House
Trevelyan, George Macaulay. History of England. Longmans, Green Co
West, Donald J. The Other Man: A Study of the Social, Legal and Clinical Aspects of Homosexuality. Whiteside, Inc. and William Morrow Co
Westwood, Gorton. Society and the Homosexual. E. P. Dutton Co., Inc
Wheelwright, Philip. A Critical Introduction to Ethics. The Odyssey Press
Wilde, Oscar. De Profundis Edited by Robert Ross. The Modern Library, 1909
Woods, George B., Homer A. Watt, and George K Anderson. The Literature of England: An Anthology and a History. Volume One (From the Beginnings to the Romantic Movement), Volume II (From the Dawn of the Romantic Movement to the Present Day). Scott, Foresma
Woodward, Helen Beal. The Bold Women. Farrar, Straus and Young
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Harcourt, Brace Company
Yeats, W. B. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. The MacMillan Company
Yerby, Frank. The Foxes of Harrow
Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Boston: Beacon
Andreyev, Leonid. He Who Gets Slapped. New York: Brentano's
Aristotle's Politics and Poetics. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and Thomas Twining. Viking Press
Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. Penguin
Bentley, Eric, ed. The Modern Theatre. Vol. 2. Doubleday
Brée, Germaine, ed. Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall
Brodie, Fawn M. Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South. New York: Norton
Clurman, Harold. The Fervent Years. Hill Wang
Copeland, Lewis and Lawrence Lamm, eds. The World's Great Speeches. Dover
Cross, Milton and David Ewen, Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music. Vol. 2. Doubleday
Davie, M. R. Negroes in American Society. McGraw
Doren, Mark van, ed. The Voice of America. New York: World Publishers
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Fawcett
Fergusson, Francis, The Idea of a Theater. Doubleday
Flores, Angel, ed. Ibsen: A Marxist Analysis. New York: Critics Group
Foner, Philip. The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. Vol. 1-3. New York: International Publishers
Four Great Elizabethan Plays: Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, The Shoemaker's Holiday by Thomas Dekker, Volpone by Ben Jonson. Intro. John Gassner. Bantam
Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Pocket Books
Frazier, E. Franklin. Black Bourgeoisie. Glencoe, IL: Free Press
Freedomways. Vol. IV, No. 2
Gannett, Lewis, ed. I Saw It Happen: Eye-Witness Accounts of the War. New York: Pocket Books
Geddes, D. P., ed. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Memorial. New York: Pitman
Gelb, Arthur and Barbara Gelb. O'Neill. Harper
Gide, André. Corydon. Farrar
Grene, David and Richmond Lattimore, eds. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Vol. 1-4. U of Chicago Press
Adams, Joseph Quincy. A Life of William Shakespeare. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Publishers
Albee, Edward. The American Dream. New York: Coward-McCann
Alexis, Stephen. Black Liberator: The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture. London: Ernest Benn
Allen, James S. Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy. New York: International Publishers
Aptheker, Herbert, ed. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. New York: Citadel
Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon
Bauer, Marion and Ethel Peyser. How Music Grew. New York: Putnam
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. New York: Grove
Benét, W. R., and Norman Cousins, eds. The Poetry of Freedom. New York: Modern Library
Botkin, B. A., ed. A Treasury of American Folklore. New York: Crown
Braden, Anne. House Un-American Activities Committee: Bulwalk of Segregation. National Committee to Abolish the House of Un-American Activities
Brawley, Benjamin. A Short History of the American Negro. New York: Macmillan
Brecht, Bertolt. Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht. The Good Woman of Setzuan and the Caucasian Chalk Circle. Trans. Eric Bentley and Maja Apelman. New York: Grove
Brooks, Albert N. D. The Negro History Bulletin. Vol. 18
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth. New York: Pocket Books
Burnett, Whit, ed. Great Stories of the Human Spirit. Garden City, NY: Garden City
Cameron, Kenneth N. The Young Shelley: Genesis of a Radical. New York: Macmillan
Cameron, Polly. "I Can't", Said the Ant. New York: Coward-McCann
Caudwell, Christopher. Studies in a Dying Culture. London: John Lane
Cerf, Bennett and Van H. Cartmell. Thirty Famous One-Act Plays. New York: Modern Library
Chayefsky, Paddy. Television Plays. New York: Simon
Chesnutt, Charles W. The Marrow of Tradition. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin
Civil Rights Congress. We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People. A Petition to the United Nations. New York: Civil Rights Congress
Cogley, J. Report on Blacklisting. Vol. 1: Movies. n. p.: The Fund for the Republic
Cogley, J. Report on Blacklisting. Vol. 2: Radio - Television. n. p.: The Fund for the Republic
Cole, Toby, ed. Playwrights on Playwriting. New York: Hill Wang
Copeland, Lewis and Lawrence Lamm, eds. The World's Greatest Speeches. Dover Publications, Inc
Costigan, James. Little Moon of Alban and a Wind from the South. New York: Simon
Crossman, Richard, ed. The God That Failed. New York: Harper
Davidson, Basil. Black Mother: The Years of the African Slave Trade. Little
Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Ed. Edward Mac Curdy. New York: George Braziller
Deutscher, Isaac. The Great Contest. New York: Oxford UP
Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. New York: Dutton
Dietrich, Marlene. Marlene Dietrich's ABC. Garden City, NY: Doubleday
Djilas, Milovan. Conversations with Stalin. New York: Harcourt
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. New York: Modern Library
Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Folk: Then and Now. New York: Holt
Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction. Philadelphia, PA: Albert Saifer
Du Bois, W. E. B. Color and Democracy. New York: Harcourt
Dunham, Barrows. Thinkers and Treasurers. New York: Monthly Review
Durrell, Lawrence. Justine. New York: Dutton
Einstein, Albert. Cosmic Religion. New York: Covici Friede
Einstein, Albert. Why Socialism? Monthly Review Pamphlet Series #1. New York: Monthly Review
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays. New York: Grosset
Fast, Howard. The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti. A New England Legend. New York: Blue Heron
Fisher, Margaret B., and Jeanne L. Noble. College Education as Personal Development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
Finkelstein, Sidney. Jazz: A People's Music. New York: Citadel
Four Famous Greek Plays. Ed. P. Landis. New York: Modern Library
Fox, Ralph. The Novel and the People. New York: International Publishers
Freedomways. Spring
Freedomways. Summer
Frost, Robert. Complete Poems of Robert Frost. New York: Holt
Fuchik, Julius. Notes from the Gallows. New York: New Century
Genet, Jean. "The Maids" and "Deathwatch": Two Plays by Jean Genet. Preface by J. P. Sartre. New York: Grove
Gibran, Kahlil. The Earth Gods. New York: Knopf
Gibson, William. The Seesaw Log. New York: Knopf
Gilkes, Lillian. Short Story Craft. New York: Macmillan
Gillmor, Daniel S., ed. Speaking of Peace. Report of the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, New York
Glicksberg, Charles I., ed. 1950 American Vanguard: A Collection of Short Stories. New York: Cambridge
Goethe, Wolfgang von. Faust. Vol. 1. Baltimore, MD: Penguin
Goethe, Wolfgang von. Faust. Vol. 2. Baltimore, MD: Penguin
Guerney, B. G. The Portable Russian Reader. New York: Viking
Gunther, John. Inside Africa. New York: Harper
Guyer, M. F. Animal Biology. New York: Harper
Hamilton, Edith. The Greek Way. Norton
Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. New York: Macmillan
Hart, Moss. Act One: An Autobiography. New York: New American Library
Haywood, Harry. Negro Liberation. New York: International Publishers
Hegel, G. W. F. Hegel on Tragedy. Eds. Anne and Henry Paolucci. Garden City, NY: Doubleday
Hellman, Lillian. Four Plays. New York: Modern Library
Henry, O. The Best Short Stories of O. Henry. New York: Modern Library
Herman, Lewis. A Practical Manual of Screen Playwriting. New York: World
Herskovits, Melville. The Myth of the Negro Past. New York: Harper
Heyward, DuBose. Porgy. New York: Doubleday
Hilberry, G. B. and G. A Peck. Write: First Principles of Composition. Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman
Hill, Roy L. Rhetoric of Racial Revolt. Denver, CO: Golden Bell
Housman, A. E. A Shropshire Lad. New York: Hartsdale
Hughes, Langston. Montage of a Dream Deferred. New York: Holt
Hunter, Kristin. God Bless the Child. Unpublished, undated bound galleys
Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay. New York: Modern Library
Isaacs, Harold R. Du Bois and Africa. Pamphlet, reprint. from Race, vol. 2
Joan, Ted. All of Ted Joans and No More: Beat Generation Jazz Poems. New York: Excelsior
Johnson, James Weldon. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. New York: Knopf
Joyce, James. The Portable James Joyce. Ed. H. Levin. New York: Viking
Kahn, E. J. The Peculiar War: Impressions of a Reporter in Korea. New York: Random
Kantor, Mac Kinley. Andersonville. New York: World
Kerr, Walter. How Not to Write a Play. New York: Simon
Kinsey, Alfred, et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders
Kitt, Eartha. Thursday's Child. New York: Duell
Klapper, Joseph. The Effects of Mass Communication. Glencoe, IL: Free Press
Klineberg, Otto. Characteristics of the American Negro. New York: Harper
Korngold, Ralph. Citizen Toussaint. London: Victor Gollancz
Krause, David. Sean O'Casey, the Man and His Work. New York: Macmillan
Krim, Seymour. Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer. New York: Excelsior
The Ladies Home Journal Treasury. New York: Simon
Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. Intro. Robert Graves. New York: Prometheus
Lawrence, D. H. England, My England. New York: Albert Charles Boni
Lawson, John H. Theory and Technique of Playwriting. New York: Hill Wang
Lawson, John H. Theory and Technique of Playwriting and Screenwriting. New York: Putnam
Laxness, Halldór. Independent People. New York: Knopf
Lundberg, Ferdinand and M. F. Farnham. Modern Woman: The Lost Sex. New York: Grosset
Manhattan, Avro. The Vatican in World Politics. New York: Horizon
Manisch, Howard. By Their Fruits. New York: Crown
Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishers
McCollom, W. G. Tragedy. New York: Macmillan
McKay, Claude. Gingertown. New York: Harper
Melman, Seymour. The Peace Race. New York: Ballantine
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Collected Poems. New York: Harper
Mills, C. Wright. The Marxists. New York: Dell
Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. New York: Oxford UP
Moholy-Nagy, L. Vision in Motion. Chicago: Paul Theobald
Morgan, Charles. The Voyage. New York: Macmillan
Murray, Florence, ed. The Negro Handbook 1946-7. New York: Current Books
The Negro Problem. New York: James Pott
Noble, Jeanne. The Negro Woman's College Education. New York: Teachers College, Columbia U
Norman, Charles. So Worthy a Friend: William Shakespeare. New York: Collier
O'Casey, Sean. Collected Plays. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan [Inscribed by RN, 1958]
O'Casey, Sean. Juno and the Paycock. New York: Macmillan
Odum, Howard W. and Guy B. Johnson. Negro Workaday Songs. Chapel Hill, NC: U of North Carolina Press
O'Neill, Eugene. The Plays of Eugene O'Neill. 2 vols. New York: Random
Padmore, George. Africa: Britain's Third Empire. London: Dennis Dobson
Pappenheim, Fritz. The Alienation of Modern Man. New York: Monthly Review
Parker, Dorothy. Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker. New York: Viking
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. New York: Scribner's
Perrin, Porter G. Writer's Guide and Index to English. Chicago: Scott, Foresman
Porter, Katherine Anne. The Old Order. New York: Harcourt
Priestley, J. B. Theatre Outlook. London: Nicholson
Quintana, Ricardo, ed. Two Hundred Poems. New York: Longmans
Racine, Jean. Andromache. Trans. Herma Briffault. Great Neck, NY: Educational Series [Dated 4/59]
Richardson, Jack. The Prodigal. New York: Dutton
Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein. Six Plays by Rodgers Hammerstein. New York: Random
Rodman, Selden, ed. A New Anthology of Modern Poetry. New York: Modern Library
Rubinstein, Annette T. The Great Tradition in English Literature from Shakespeare to Shaw. New York: Citadel
Sale, W. and J. Hall. Short Stories: Tradition and Direction. Norfolk, CO: New Directions
Scott, Leader. Correggio. London: Bell
Seghers, Anna. The Seventh Cross. Boston: Little, Brown
Seven Famous Greek Plays. Eds. W. J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York: Modern Library
Shakespeare, William. The Complete Shakespeare. Publication data missing
Shakespeare, William. William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Ed. Peter Alexander. New York: Random
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedies of Shakespeare. Vol 2. New York: Modern Library
Shaw, Arnold. Belafonte. New York: Chilton
Shaw, George Bernard. St Joan. London: Penguin
Shaw, George Bernard. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism Fascism. Vol. 2. London: Penguin
Simmons, Ernest J. Chekhov: A Biography. Boston: Atlantic - Little
Slater, Montagu. The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta. London: Secker and Warburg
Smith, Homer W. Man and His Gods. Foreword by Albert Einstein. New York: Grossett's Universal Library
Smith, William Gardner. South Street. New York: Straus Young
Smythwick Jr., Charles A. False Measure. New York: William-Frederick
Sobel, Bernard, ed. The New Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays. New York: Crown
Stratton, Clarence. Producing in Little Theaters. New York: Holt
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki. Ed. W. Barrett. New York: Doubleday
Tabori, George. The Emperor's Clothes. New York: Samuel French
Thoreau, Henry David. Excursions. New York: Corinth
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. New York: Modern Library
Tolstoy, Leo. The Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy. Ed. Philip Rahv. New York: Dial
Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Transl. Constance Garnett. New York: Modern Library
Tulane Drama Review
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Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. New York: Harper
Undset, Sigrid. Kristin Lavransdatter. Vol 1-3. New York: Knopf
Untermeyer, Louis, ed. Modern American Poetry; Modern British Poetry. New York: Harcourt
Untermeyer, Louis, ed. A Treasury of Great Poems, English and American. New York: Schuster
Veblen, Thorstein. The Portable Veblen. Ed. Max Lerner. Viking
Warlock, Robert. The Paranoid Collection and Other Poems. New York: Exposition
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. New York: Sun Dial
Wasserman, Louis. Modern Political Philosophies. Philadelphia, PA: Blakiston
Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language. New York: World
Wells, Harry K. Ivan P. Pavlov: Toward a Scientific Psychology Psychiatry. New York: International Publishers
Wells, Harry K. Sigmund Freud: A Pavlovian Critique. New York: International Publishers
Whitman, Walt. The Complete Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Garden City, NY: Garden City
Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New York: Laughlin
Wilson, Edmund. The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest. New York: Farrar
Wolfe, Don M., ed. New Voices 2: American Writing Today. New York: Hendricks
Wolfe, Thomas. Only the Dead Know Brooklyn. New York: New American Library
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Rights of Woman. "In The Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft and "The Subjection of Women" by John Stuart Mill. London, New York: Everyman's Library No. 825
Wolseley, R. E. and Laurence R. Campbell. Exploring Journalism. New York: Prentice-Hall
Woodson, Carter G., ed. The Journal of Negro History. Vol. 9. Lancaster, PA and Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
Woodson, Carter G. The Story of the Negro Retold. Washington, D. C.: Associated Publishers
Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York: Oxford UP
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. New York: Harcourt
Wright, Richard. Uncle Tom's Children. New York: New American Library
Wright, Richard. White Man, Listen! Garden City, NY: Doubleday
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