London: Inkululeko Publications, 1978. Current issue includes contributions by Phineas Malinga, John Ngara, Vukani Mawethu, others. Small octavo (20cm). Printed card wrappers; 107pp; illus. Minor external wear; Very Good. Organ of the South African Communist Party, published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." More
[London: Ellis Bowles], 1966. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; 84pp. Wrappers a bit worn with wrinkling along spine edge, old ink note to upper cover, else Near Very Good and sound. Covers the fall of the Independent Federation and First Republic of Nigeria, which would lead to..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1957. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 44pp. Bit of external soil and wear; text paper mildly age-toned, but still a tight, Very Good copy. Article prepared by the editorial department of the People's Daily, where it originally appeared December, 1956. Presumably this is not the first issue of..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1963. First Thus. Octavo (18.25cm.); original blue and white printed wrappers; [6],393,[1]pp. A touch dust-soiled, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good or better. Collection of seven editorials originally published in Renmin Ribao ("People's Daily") and the Hongqi ("Red Flag") between December, 1962, and March, 1963. More
[Paris]: Central Committee of the French Communist Party, 1963. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 92pp. Covers slightly rubbed; text paper toned; Good to Very Good. Internal statements by the Central Committee of the PCF; contributions by Maurice Thorez, Raymond Guyot, others; much on the development of Chinese Communism. Text..... More
London: Communist Party, N.d. (ca 1944). First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 12pp. Very Good. Reading list, with glosses, to accompany Harry Pollitt's ˆHow to win the Peace (1944). 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: Libreria Rossa, N.d. [ca 1919?]. First Edition. Communist tract, issued shortly after the Russian revolution, calling for an immediate proletarian revolution in Italy, with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders (to prevent the flight of the bourgeoisie); and the "management of the new society through a...... More
Roma: Partito Comunista Italiano / Editoriali Fratelli Spada, 1971. First Edition. A bit of a puzzle: the poster appears to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the formation of the Associazione Bandiera Rossa, an Italian Trotskyist group; but the poster bears the imprint of the PCI, the main-line Marxist-Leninist party in..... More
Antofagasta: [Partido Comunista de Chile], 1933. Lithographed postal card, ca 19.5cm x 9cm (5-1/4" x 3-1/2"). Mild discoloration; corners slightly rounded; Very Good. Recto is a captioned portrait; verso printed for mailing, with text providing a brief biography of Anabalon, a communist-affiliated college professor who was arrested, tortured and killed..... More
Hamtramck, MI: [Michigan Communist Party], 1934. First Edition. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates, which include one woman (Jennie Romaniuk) and one African-American..... More
Hamtramck, MI: [Michigan Communist Party], 1934. First Edition. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates, which include one woman (Jennie Romaniuk) and one African-American..... More
[Hamtramck, MI]: [1934]. Scarce relic from the 1934 Hamtramck, Michigan mayoral campaign, in which George Kristalsky and a slate of seven communist candidates for City Council were defeated. Hamtramck, a working-class suburb of Detroit, was a center of radical labor activity during the Great Depression. Hand-painted banner, 8.5cm x 65cm..... More
Arlington: Historical Documentation Committee, Asia Books Periodicals, 1976. Reprint. Octavo. Yellow card wrappers; 95pp. Slight wear to spine; ownership signature on front page; else clean, tight copy in very good condition. More
New York: Pioneer Publishers, [1960?]. First Edition. Octavo. Stiff card wrappers; 48pp. Crisp, tight copy in about fine condition. More
Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie. [1872-1875]. First French Edition. First appearance in French of Marx's "Das Kapital," the translation the only such to have been executed with the collaboration of the author, whose letter to Lachatre appears in facsimile on p. [7]: "J'applaudis à votre idée de publier la traduction..... 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1961. Detailed history of the Communist Party's attempts - first to undermine, then to exploit - religious institutions in the United States. Issued as Volume 6 in the series "Communism in American Life." Early Printing. Octavo; navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver..... 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
Santiago de Chile: [Union Social de Chile], 1932. First Edition. Short missive on the dangers of communism in Chile, quite possibly the only title issued by the "Union Social de Chile, Asociación contra el Comunismo," despite the series number. Though this title appears uncatalogued in OCLC as of February, 2019..... More
New York: Far East Reporter, 1961. Wraps. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 20pp. Pencil date to front cover, tanning to text pages; else Very Good. 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
Chicago: American Peace Mobilization, [1940]. An interesting example of the Comintern's Hitler-Stalin Pact-era "pacifism" - the authors argue vigorously against American participation in WWII, a position that they would reverse abruptly on June 21, 1941, the day Hitler launched his invasion of the Soviet Union. At this point the organization..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1936. Third Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original pale grey staplebound card wrappers printed in green; 94pp. A hint of dust soil else Very Good or better. Program, constitution, and rules adapted at the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in 1928. See SEIDMAN C347 for..... More
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San Francisco: Communist Election Campaign Committee - 20th District Sam Jaye, [1936]. Broadside, 12" x 9". Printed offset, black ink on newsprint, recto-only. Paper age-toned with some erosion at margins (no loss to text); complete and Good. Depression-era CP broadside supporting Communist candidates for Congress and State Assembly. States the..... More
