Allied Intervention in Russia 1917-1920
New York: Basic Books, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 251pp. Fine, unread copy in barely edge-rubbed jacket. A new-appearing copy. More
New York: Basic Books, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 251pp. Fine, unread copy in barely edge-rubbed jacket. A new-appearing copy. More
Moscow: Progress Publishers, ca. 1965. First English Language Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original white and green decorative wrappers; 122pp. Light dust-soiling to rear wrapper, else Fine. Translation edited by F. Glagolyeva. More
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original white and red card wrappers; 149pp. About Fine. Collection of essays on Lenin and Africa. Text entirely in English. More
New York: Macmillan, 1932. First Edition. Essays on the economic future of the United States and the Soviet Union, gathered and unpdated "in this day of world-wide industrial depression...in the hope that the experience of a long life...may contribute something of value to their discussion." Surprisingly uncommon in the trade..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition. Volume in which Eastern and Western scholars "draw on recently opened archives to challenge the commonly held view that the Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and that their early history was simply a march toward inevitable victory. They show instead that during this..... More
Yonkers: Earl Browder, 1950. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 24pp.; printed from typescript. Dust-soiling to wrappers, else Very Good or better. Browder presents an affirmative argument during a debate at Webster Hall, New York City, March 30, 1950, based on what he interprets as Russia's economic success and "peaceful..... More
Providence: Booke Shop, [1938]. First Edition. Collection of essays by the Brown University professor on state-controlled theaters across Europe with special emphasis on those in the Soviet Union. This a superlative copy. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in orange printed dust jacket; [10],105pp. Jacket spine a bit sunned, light spotting to..... More
Moskau: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1932. First German Language Edition. The author, an old guard Bolshevik, served as People's Commissar of Enlightenment, stating during the Great Purge that enemies of the Soviet Union should be "squashed like vile vermin" only to be himself arrested and executed in 1937..... More
[London: Soviet News, 1956]. First Thus. 12mo (18.5cm.); decorative staplebound self-wrappers; 70pp. Light wear and toning, else Very Good and sound. Soviet News Booklet No. 21. More
Leningrad: "Khudozhnik RSFSR" 1985. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 159pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, color illus. throughout. A few surface scatches to rear jacket panel, else Near Fine. Monograph on the work of Soviet painter, text entirely in Russian. More
[New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1940]. First Edition. Small octavo (20.5cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp. Stock quite brittle and rather toned, unobtrusive contemporary rubberstamp to upper cover, small chips and short closed tears to rear cover, else Good or better overall. Address first delivered at the Trotsky Memorial Meeting in New..... More
[Gravenhurst, ONT: Northern Book House], 1973. Octavo (21.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers printed in red and black; 14pp. Near Fine. "Published as a Supplement to January 1973 'Northern Neighbors'" - upper cover. Reissue of an article first published in 1951 by the late Charlotte Carter, founder of Northern Book House and the..... More
New York: Youth Publishers, [1934]. First Thus. 12mo (18cm.); original orange decorative staplebound wrappers; 47pp. A hint of dust-soiling else About Fine. More
Moskva: "Iskusstvo" 1978. First Edition. Quarto (26.5cm.); publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; 207pp. & [40] leaves of plates, many in color. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed with one-inch closed tear at top of upper flap fold, spine crown rather frayed, else Very Good and sound. Monograph..... More
New York: Continuum, [2001]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; x,318pp. Fine condition. More
Toronto: Northern Book House, 1958. First Edition. A remarkable Cold War document, written by the career Soviet apologist (editor of the pro-Soviet journal "Northern Notes") Dyson Carter. Carter contrasts - at considerable length - the realities of the post-Sputnik USSR against the mythically primitive culture caricatured in the mainstream American..... More
New York: Committee for Promotion of Peace, (1948). Soviet anti-Western propaganda, published shortly after WWII; accuses the Allies of conspiring to isolate the Soviet Union and to encourage Nazi aggression as a means of toppling the Bolshevik regime. The essay originally appeared in English in "Soviet Union Today;" this reprint..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 273pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed jacket; appears unread. More
[New York: New Century Publishers, 1957]. Offprint. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's grey decorative staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp. Light toning, else Near Fine. Translations provided by the Hsinhua News Agency in Peking (i.e. Beijing) and first published in the December, 1957, issue of Political Affairs. More
Chicago: Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States, 1919. First American Edition. Probable first printing in America of Trotsky's account of the October revolution. English editions appeared the same year in London and Brooklyn, but it is likely that this German-language version, translated from the Russian by German-American..... More
San Francisco: Educational Committee, San Francisco Communist Party, N.d. [ca 1937]. First Edition. Rather remarkable Popular Front document, prepared by Manuilsky as Deputy General Secretary of the Comintern and clearly oriented toward American Party members, as the majority of the text deals with the resurgent economic crisis in the U.S...... More
New York: Communist Party of the United States of America, 1938. Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's red and white pictorial wrappers; [575]-672pp. White portions of wrappers very faintly foxed, small chip to rear wrapper not approaching text, else Very Good or better. Issue chiefly devoted to the 10th Communist Party Convention, with..... More
New York: Communist Party of the United States of America, 1938. Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's red and white pictorial wrappers; [385]-480pp. Minor wear and dust-soil to wrappers, else Very Good or better. More
New York: Communist Party of the United States of America, 1938. Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's red and white pictorial wrappers; [865]-960pp. Wrappers a bit worn and foxed, else Very Good and sound. The 1938 Election issue. More
New York: Communist Party of the United States of America, 1937. Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's red and white decorative wrappers; [681]-776pp. Light wear and dust-soil, faint vertical crease to upper wrapper, else Very Good and sound. Includes contributions by William Z. Foster and Joseph Stalin, among others. More