First American edition in English of Fidel Castro's celebrated defense speech following the Moncada Barracks trial, published by Lyle Stuart in 1961 at the height of the Cuban Revolution and only months before the Bay of Pigs invasion. 8vo (6” x 9”), printed wrappers, 79 pages. Ownership signature of Joseph Peroni on the title page. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities.
Laid in is an original Fair Play for Cuba Committee broadside, "STOP THE ATTACK—DON'T LET CUBA BECOME AMERICA'S ALGERIA," measuring 8.5" x 11". Issued during the escalating tensions preceding the Bay of Pigs invasion, the flyer denounces CIA-backed intervention in Cuba and urges support for the Cuban Revolution, documenting one of the principal American organizations advocating on Castro's behalf in 1961. Folded once horizontally for insertion into the pamphlet, otherwise remarkably well preserved, retaining clean paper, sharp impressions, and excellent overall condition.
From the library of Joseph Peroni, whose surviving collection documents the intersection of Beat literature, avant-garde publishing, experimental theater, and radical political culture in New York during the early 1960s.
First American edition in English of Fidel Castro's celebrated defense speech following the Moncada Barracks trial, published by Lyle Stuart in 1961 at the height of the Cuban Revolution and only months before the Bay of Pigs invasion. 8vo (6” x 9”), printed wrappers, 79 pages. Ownership signature of Joseph Peroni on the title page. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities.
Laid in is an original Fair Play for Cuba Committee broadside, "STOP THE ATTACK—DON'T LET CUBA BECOME AMERICA'S ALGERIA," measuring 8.5" x 11". Issued during the escalating tensions preceding the Bay of Pigs invasion, the flyer denounces CIA-backed intervention in Cuba and urges support for the Cuban Revolution, documenting one of the principal American organizations advocating on Castro's behalf in 1961. Folded once horizontally for insertion into the pamphlet, otherwise remarkably well preserved, retaining clean paper, sharp impressions, and excellent overall condition.
From the library of Joseph Peroni, whose surviving collection documents the intersection of Beat literature, avant-garde publishing, experimental theater, and radical political culture in New York during the early 1960s.
