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[New York: 1958]. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. 4pp (bifolium); on newsprint; Very Good. Marxist critique of capitalism and warfare, reputedly originally written as a letter to the editor of the McKeesport, PA Daily News. More
[New York: 1958]. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. 4pp (bifolium); on newsprint; Very Good. Marxist critique of capitalism and warfare, reputedly originally written as a letter to the editor of the McKeesport, PA Daily News. 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
New Haven: Don't Hold Back, N.d. [1980]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 50pp. Illus. Account of the 1980 Gdansk strike and the birth of Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. More
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1973. First Edition. Square octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; [32pp]; illus. Mild rubbing to wrappers; Near Fine. Graphically sophisticated propaganda pamphlet extolling the development of science under Soviet socialism. Montage wrappers, with photographic illustrations throughout. 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
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); 669pp. Foreword by Robert Conquest. A fine, unread and unmarked copy, Near New. More
New York: Max Maisel, 1921. First Yiddish-language edition, translated by A. Frumkin. Octavo; red pebbled cloth over boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 253pp. A tight, Near Fine copy in scarce dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and edgeworn with small chip at base of spine (not affecting printed..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1955. First Edition. Scholarly study of the role of the Kremlin in the Spanish Civil War. Reissued in a trade edition in 1965; the present edition somewhat uncommon. Octavo. Original printed buff wrappers (softcover); 290pp. Includes bibliography. Scattered foxing to covers; text generally clean and..... More
London: H.R.G. Jefferson [et al], 1934-1939. Beginning in 1918, immediately following the Russian Revolution, International Press Correspondence (usually called by its acronym, INPRECOR) became the Communist International's principal international organ for distributing "official" news of the global spread of Marxist ideology. The paper was issued in four languages (English, French..... 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
Valencia: [CNT], 1937. Substantial run of this Spanish Civil War newspaper, the official organ of the anarcho-syndicalist group Confederación Nacional del Trabajo. Published in Valencia between 1936-1939, the paper provided daily coverage of the Republican struggle, with articles by Jesus Muro, Felix Paredes, Enrique Lopez Alarcon, Gaston Leval, and Juan..... More
[Barcelona? P.S.U. / U.G.T., n.d. but ca. 1937. First Edition. Promotional handbill issued at the height of the Spanish Civil War delineating the platform of the short-lived Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, the Catalan referent of the Communist Party of Spain, and its workers' union. The lovely photo-montaged upper panel..... 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
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1909. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards printed in brown, unadorned spine; [2],85pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece of Marx, 5 plates. Boards rather rubbed at corners, else Very Good and sound. More
[Berkeley: Spartacist League, 1974]. First Edition. Endorsement issued by the Spartacist League and its youth section the Revolutionary Communist Youth for an upcoming demonstration organized by the Committee to Defend the Endangered Chilean Militants, to be held at the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco. Demands made by the Committee and..... More
Belgrade: Publicisti ko-Izdava ki Zavod "Jugoslavija" 1961. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; card wrappers; 45,(3)pp. Text slightly age-toned, else Very Good. Socialist wage policy in Tito-era Yugoslavia. More
[Kawasaki-shi, Tokyo]: Looking Back, 1971. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 50pp; illus. Mild soil to covers, else a tight, VG copy; mimeographed errata and postscript laid in. Translates four contemporary articles on education by North Vietnamese authors: Huynh Phan, "Young People and Education"; Tran Huang Tich, "A Special School";..... 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
New York: International Publishers, [1934]. First English Language Edition. 12mo (19.5cm.); publisher's cream wrappers printed in brown; 95pp. Light shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, else Very Good and sound. Little Lenin Library Vol. 19. 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: 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
Lviv, Ukraine: Kamenyar Publishers, 1983. First Edition. A pro-communist pamphlet exposing members of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations as nationalists and racists who have joined together to dissolve socialist and communist countries. Not much is known about the Soviet author, though he did publish two other pro-Soviet pamphlets (We Accuse..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1966. Octavo (23cm). Tan cloth boards; 820pp. Straight and tight, with text clean and unmarked; Near Fine. First volume of cumulative reports of the SACB; includes reports on the Board's investigations of the CPUSA, the Labor Youth League, the International Workers Order, the National Council..... More
Praha (Prague): Mladá fronta, 1982. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 199pp; illus. Mild external wear, else Near Fine. Account of Czech "Blue Berets," members of the United Nations peacekeeping forces, written by then Czech Ambassador to the U.S. Stankslave Suja. With a lengthy ink inscription (in Czech) on front..... More
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1949. First Edition. Official organ of the Socialist Workers Party, the Trotskyist offshoot of the American Socialist Party. This issue reprints Political Resolutions of the Seventh Plenum of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth International (April 1949). Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Staple-bound, mimeographed sheets;..... More