The Composer Must LIve!
London: Workers' Music Association Ltd., [1944]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 45, (4)pp. Wrappers worn and soiled; text slightly age-darkened; a Good reading copy only. More
London: Workers' Music Association Ltd., [1944]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 45, (4)pp. Wrappers worn and soiled; text slightly age-darkened; a Good reading copy only. More
London: Workers' Music Association Ltd, (1944). First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; illustrated wrappers; 28pp. Bit of dusting to covers, else a tight, clean, Near Fine copy. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. First Edition. First impression. Slim quarto (28.5cm). Printed paper-covered boards; [2],40pp. Just mild external dusting to boards; typical foxing to endpapers, but plates remain fresh and clean; easily Very Good and better than usually seen. The illustrator and caricaturist's first book, reproducing drawings, including many..... More
Moskva: Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo, [1994]. Second Edition. Slim square quarto (28cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; unpaginated; color illus. throughout. Some minor shelf wear, jacket rather wrinkled, boards slightly bowed, else Very Good and sound. Catalog of artwork of Socialist realist works from World War II. More
Philadelphia: Pacifist Research Bureau, 1944. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original orange and white staplebound wrappers; [8],56pp. Wrappers uniformly dust-soiled, small crease to first few leaves, else Very Good and sound. At head of title page: "Pacifism and Government, Series V: Number 1, July, 1944." More
[Ljubljana]: Odsek za Informacije in Propagando pri SNOS, 1944. Underground newspaper published by the Slovene National Liberation Committee, the anti-fascist organization active during the Nazi occupation of Ljubljana in 1944. Issues located in a handful of institutions in OCLC, none in the United States. Collection of 34 issues of which..... More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1951. First English Language Edition. Small 12mo (16.75cm.); publisher's cloth in white and blue dust jacket; 542pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Jacket quite dust-soiled, shallow loss at bottom edge of rear panel, corners gently bumped, else Very Good. Soviet military novel by the Ukrainian author, awarded..... More
Detroit: Cartwright, Mueller, Benjamin and Robinson, 1944. First Edition. Uncommon novel set in war-time Detroit, with odd excursions to the upper-class quarters of Buenos Aires. An ultra-conservative work, with Christian and libertarian overtones bordering closely on the fascistic. Incompetently written, but still a fascinating and seldom-encountered piece of American war-time..... More
New York: Society for the Prevention of World War III, 1946. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; 41pp.; illus., text in double columns. A bit worn from handling, else About Fine. Articles almost exclusively regarding post-WW2 Germany and the Nuremberg trials. More
London: Friends Peace Committee, 1945. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper self-wrappers; 16pp. Very Good, with mild spotting to wrappers. "A Christian pacifist comment" on the Yalta Conference and the division of eastern Europe after WW2. More
Waverly, NY: Mei Foo, 1940. First Edition. Limited to 5000 copies. Octavo (21cm); yellow paper wrappers w/ red print lettering, green print pattern of Chinese characters reading "Mei Fu"; 104pp. Light offsetting and soil to wrappers, minor handling wear; Very Good or better. W.J. Sosnoski taught himself how to read..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1945]. Third Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow decorative price-clipped dust jacket; xiii,[1],372pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket extremities, elser Very Good to Near Fine. Printing statement taken from front jacket flap. More
New York: Worker's Library Publishers, 1932. First American Edition. Text of Litvinov's speech at the Geneva Conference in 1932, attacking French and German proposals for an International Army, and questioning the extent to which "...the Soviet Union could be expected to confide its security and a part of its own..... More
Madrid: Partido Izquierda Republicana. 1937. First Edition. Broadside, 27.5cm x 21.5cm; printed recto-only in black on purple stock. Paper a bit faded at margins, still a clean, presentable copy, Very Good. Broadside to the citizens of Madrid, calling on all Republican forces to join under the banner of the Izquierda..... More
Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1976. Reprint. 12mo (19cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 362pp. Light external dusting, else Near Fine - text clean, tight and unmarked. Text completely in Italian. More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. First Edition. Small quarto (25cm); off-white cloth, calico grain and stamped in dark brown, in b/w pictorial dustwrapper, with b/w photo-illustrated endpapers; 291pp. Trivial soiling and wear to boards. Dustwrapper toned, especially along spine; creases, chips and minor tears, with some material loss..... More
[New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1941]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (19cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 14pp. Stock uniformly toned else Near Fine. Text of a speech delivered at the session of the Moscow City Soviet of deputies of the working people "dedicated to the twenty-fourth anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution"..... More
New York: Universal Distributors Co., [1938]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; 64pp. Wrappers quite browned with several tears and a few losses to extremities, one touching original rubberstamped price (25ยข) without loss of meaning. Good only. Collection of broadcasts made by Steel after his rise to..... More
New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Cloth hardcover with printed paper title labels to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 259pp. Tight, fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), slightly darkened on spine and with some rubbing at flap-folds; Very Good+..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown marbled paper over boards, quarterbound in mustard yellow cloth with titles stamped in red on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 233pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped but with the price scratched out, subtle fading to spine and a...... More
London: Continuum, 2008. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xiii, 238pp. Publisher's slip laid in. Text block mildly cocked, with trivial foxing to top edge, else tight, clean, near-new copy. Minor toning to top edge of dust jacket. Fine. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First Edition. Though not billed as such in the jacket copy, this work in fact comprises the Report of the Third Writers' Congress, held in the summer of 1939. Seidman: "...the report is a folksy, running commentary on the Congress. Sections deal with..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [1995]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's grey cloth lettered in red foil; [8],215pp.; illus. Corners slightly bumped, previous ownership name and pressure stamp to front pastedown and free endpaper, else Near Fine. More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [1995]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's grey cloth lettered in red foil; [8],215pp.; illus. Corners slightly bumped else Fine. More
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (22cm). Tan cloth (hardcover); 217pp; illus. Tight, unmarked, and fine; no dustjacket (as issued?). Issued as "Contributions in Military History" no. 23. More