New York: 1982. A gathering of 50 items collected by an attendee at the anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City, which remains the largest political demonstration in the history of the United States. On that date approximately 1 million people gathered in the city and converged upon Central Park. The... More
![Demasquez Les Physiciens. Videz Les Laboratoires [with Papillon]. Anti-Nuclear Proliferation, Surrealism.](/pictures/thumb/26195.jpg?v=1544578939)
Paris: Comite de Lutte Anti-Nucleaire, 1958. Square 8vo, single sheet folded once. With papillon [3 1/8 x 5 1/4", offset printed on cream gummer paper] laid in. A powerful manifesto by the Surrealist Group against nuclear science and proliferation at the close of the 1950's. The text was written by... More
Shandon, Dumbartonshire: Faslane Peace Camp, 1997. 4to, 20 pp., saddle-stapled wraps. With two leaflets laid in. Booklet issued to draw attention to the plight of the long-lived peace camp in the face of evictions. The camp was formed to protest the development of nuclear weapons alongside the Faslane naval base... More
New York: The Artist, 1982. 18 x 24”, offset lithograph on glazed paper. An early and significant poster work by Haring, made to celebrate the anti-nuclear movement. Haring created and published the poster himself, and distributed it at the June 12, 1982 demonstrations, passing out 20,000 of them in Central... More
Los Angeles: Independent Project Press, 1992. First edition. Four letterpress stampsheets, each featuring ten stamps, interleaved with letterpress explanatory sheets, side-stapled into a letterpress printed card stock folder. One of an edition of 500 copies. The stampsheets feature, respectively, the Greenpeace vessel The Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace inflatable raft, a.... More
np: Livermore Liberation League, nd [c. early 1980's]. 8 1/2 x 11" poster, xerox in black and white on both recto and verso. Poster advertising a march to the Livermore Lab, and calling to convert the lab, and Los Alamos, to peaceful purposes. The march was a joint effort by... More
San Francisco: UC Nuclear Weapons Labs Conversion Project, 1982-? 8vo, 8pp, unbound, folded sheets. A proposal to repurpose the Livermore Weapons Laboratory to peaceful purposes. OCLC locates no holdings. Fine. More
Mountain View, CA: PHASE (Project on Health and Safety in Electronics), c. 1979. Three 8 1/2 x 11" flyers, the first two offset printed on rectos only, and the last offset printed on both recto and verso, all with union printing slugs. Three handbills by PHASE drawing attention to health... More
San Francisco: Solidarity- Gay/Lesbian Liberation, 1982. 8vo, single sheet folded once to make a four panel booklet. An anti-nuclear manifesto that urges Gay and Lesbian support for Proposition 12, the Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative, and makes the observation that the same politicians escalating the arms races also tend to... More
New York: The Wall Street Action & Manhattan Project, 1979. 4to, 32 pp, offset printed on newsprint. Saddle-stapled. A pamphlet produced to be used by participants in The Manhattan Project's Wall Street Action in October, 1979, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Crash of 1929, drawing parallels with that... More
Helsinki: Information Centre of the World Peace Council, 1978. 8vo, 55 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. Unbelievably good and compact work that is both a manifesto and survey of anti-nuclear action worldwide at the close of the 1970's. Profusely illustrated not only with photographs... More