The ENV London Story. Reprinted from the Newsletter...
London: Socialist Labour League, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 10pp; illus. Very Good. On the failed ENV West London strike of 1967. More
London: Socialist Labour League, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 10pp; illus. Very Good. On the failed ENV West London strike of 1967. More
Chicago: National Office of the Socialist Party, N.d. [ca 1913]. Edition and printing not stated. 4-pp leaflet (single folded sheet); text on all four pages. Mild age-toning to paper, small chips; still Very Good. Organizational guide for local branches; includes a catalog of "Socialist Party Supplies" including celluloid buttons, lapel..... More
Chicago: National Office of the Socialist Party, N.d. [ca 1913]. Edition and printing not stated. 4-pp leaflet (single folded sheet); text on all four pages. Mild age-toning to paper, still Very Good. Ephemeral recruiting brochure, with invitation and instructions for joining the Socialist Party, likely distributed at Russell's speaking engagements..... More
N.d. Socialist Party of Chile, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); bifolium printed in red, black, and blue on white stock. Fine condition. Handbill issued for the Party's 45th Anniversary, listing the names of Party officials assassinated or who have disappeared in the last five years under Pinochet's regime. Text also..... More
New York: Socialist Educational Society of New York, [1923]. First American Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's grey staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 48pp. Near Fine. At head of title: "S.E.S. Library no. 1". First American edition of this pamphlet originally issued by the Socialist Party of Great Britain in 1911. Includes..... More
Everett, WA: Socialist Party of Washington, [1915]. Edition and printing not stated. 4-pp leaflet; text on all four pages. Slight age-toning to paper, still Very Good. Report of a Commission headed by Frank P. Walsh, surveying industrial and rural labor conditions across the United States, identifying four main causes of..... More
New York: Socialist Party, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. Mimeo sheets, side stapled; 15pp. Very Good. Single issue in original wrappers. Quarterly Socialist Party internal discussion bulletin; contributions by David McReynolds, R.W. Tucker, Bill Allen, Betty Elkin, Norman Thomas, others. More
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1970. First Edition. Broadside flyer (28x22cm.); printed offset in three colors, text mostly printed from typescript. Fine condition. Unused request form. At bottom edge is printed the Socialist Workers Party New York ticket, including Clifton Deberry for Governor. Deberry, notable African-American communist, was twice the..... More
Chicago: Izdala Knjižara Radni ke Straže, 1917. First Croatian-Language Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's blue decorative staplebound wrappers; 23pp. Wrappers separated from textblock, some chipping and a few shallow losses to extremities, light toning, else Good or better. Published as "Narodna Knjižnica" (Folk Library), no. 15. Croatian translation (from the original..... More
Milwaukee: Verlag des "Vorwärts" 1899. First Thus. German translation of Robert Blatchford's socialist treatise Merrie England (1893), first published in a series of articles in The Clarion. This edition has been adapted for a German-American readership. Cloth issue. Octavo (22.25cm.); original red decorative cloth lettered in black; xxiv,188pp. Corners a...... More
Chicago: Izdala Knjižara Radni ke Straže, 1916. First Croatian Language Edition. Croatian-language edition of the British socialist's pamphlet "Imprudent Marriages," first published by Charles Kerr in the 1890s and described in a contemporary review as "a short but spicy little work" ("Progressive Thought" (Olathe, KS), November 1, 1899). This translation..... More
Nyu York [New York]: "Forverts" Asosieyshon, 1926. First Edition. Uncommon signed copy of Cahan's autobiography, this initial volume chronicling his childhood and young adulthood in Lithuania up to his arrival in New York in 1882. Cahan (1860-1951) was unquestionably the most influential Jewish-American intellectual of his time, reaching, through his..... More
Oakland: East Bay International Socialists, [1972]. First Edition. Flyer advertising a lecture delivered by International Socialist and "specialist in American capitalism" Charles Leinenweber, perhaps inspired by the 1970 book of the same title by Seymour Melman. Flyer illustrated with two simple drawings, of a pentagon with a dollar sign in..... More
Chicago: Izdala Knjižara Radni ke Straže, 1917. First Croatian Language Edition. Croatian translation from the original Russian, the title loosely translated as "One of the Kings of the Republic." Published as Nardona Knjižnica (Folk Literature), no. 16. Presumably excerpted from a larger body of work, the text an attack on..... More
Chicago: Izdala Knjižara Radni ke Straže, 1917. First Edition. Uncommon Croatian-language pamphlet by a little-known author, the only other work attributed to Kutuzovi in OCLC being a preface to a translation of Marx published by this same Croatian-American imprint. This title published as Narodna Knjižnica (Folk Library), no. 12. We..... More
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1916. First, Limited Edition. Exposé of the failure of American industrial society to provide decent wages or living conditions for the majority of its working-class citizens. The book grew out of Nearing's lectures on economics at the Rand School of Social Science and was heavily..... More
New York: Humboldt Publishing Co., [1891]. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's cream decorative wrappers printed in red and black; xiv,[2],160,[2],[6](ads)pp.; three folding chart plates. A few small losses to wrapper extremities, spine a bit toned, else a Very Good, lovely but fragile copy. Cheap abridged edition issued as The Social Science Library..... More
n.d. but 1934. Lengthy unpublished ballad of 86 4- and 5-line stanzas recounting the plight of iron molder and IWW leader Tom Mooney from his birth to the present date (1934, based on the penultimate stanza on p. 6 describing Judge Griffin: "all these eighteen years [since the 1916 trial]..... More
Oxted, Surrey: New Clarion Press, 1982. First Edition. Memoir of a working-class Englishman from London's East End, who became active in the Labour movement. At the time of publication, he was 92, and one of only two surviving members of the Labour Representation Committee. Octavo; illustrated card wrappers; 148pp. Faint..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. First Edition. The first English-language study of the Stakhanovite movement - the Soviet campaign intended to increase worker productivity and to demonstrate the general superiority of the socialist economic system. First Printing. Octavo; dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket;..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1918. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth, lettered in black on spine and front cover; 326pp. Early ownership signature (Norman D. Fletcher, Canton, NY), else Very Good, lacking dustwrapper. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1919]. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original maroon cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; [10],389pp. Spine cloth and gilt lettering a bit faded and dulled, light edge wear with corners a bit bumped, else Very Good and sound. More
London: MacMillan Company, 1912. Third printing of the revised (second) edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; no jacket; 257pp. Clean, tight and unmarked in the original publisher's binding. 4-pp Macmillan trade circular ("Best Recent Novels") laid-in. More
[Berkeley: Spartacist League, 1975]. First Edition. Quarto (35cm.); side-stapled typescript leaves; [2],4pp. Previous horizontal fold, else Very Good and sound. First leaf of text a vitriolic attack on the Argentinian politician Juan Carlos Coral following an address delivered at UCLA. Among the questions posed by members of the League's youth..... More
Sydney: Worker Trustees, [1909, but ca. 1960s]. Reprint. Octavo (22cm.); original blue simulated cloth, spine lettered and ruled in white; 412pp. Spine and top edge of rear board faded, else Very Good or better. Memoirs of the co-founder of the Australian Workers' Union and the Australian Labor Party. More