![1861 [Revolution in Russia from 1861 to the Latest Events]. COMMUNISTS,...](/pictures/medium/28639.jpg?v=1554414990)
New York: [Iskra], 1917. First Edition. Early, extremely uncommon up-to-the-minute account, for Ukrainian-American readers, of events in Russia during the October Revolution of 1917. Unlocated in OCLC or KVK; not held by the State or National Libraries, Moscow; we find a single institutional copy only at the Ukrainian National Library..... More
[San Francisco]: The Communist Party of North Beach, N.d. [1947?]. Broadside advertising a rally in San Francisco's Washington Square Park. The broadside does not list the particular issues being protested, but from the context it would appear to have been against the Supreme Court's 1947 ruling affirming the right of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. The second volume issued by the Dewey Commission, an independent tribunal of left-leaning intellectuals assembled to investigate the Comintern's accusations against Trotsky and his faction, the first volume being "The Case of Leon Trotsky" (1937). Wrapper issue. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's dark red..... More
New York: Various Publishers, Various Dates. 1. N. Lenin (pseud. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov). Zadachi proletariata v nashei revoliutsii : proekt platformy proletarskoi partii (“Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution. A Project of the Party”). N’iu-Iork [i.e. New York]: Russkoi Sotsialisticheskoi Federatsii, 1919. First American printing of a seminal Lenin..... More
New York: Jefferson School of Social Science, n.d. but ca. 1945. First Thus. Compilation of three addresses delivered by Stalin, at the 16th, 17th, and 18th Congresses of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Published by the CPUSA-run Jefferson School of Social Science, successor to the New York Workers..... More
Moscow: Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1932. First English Language Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's buff staplebound card wrappers; 40pp. Wrappers and stock rather toned, contemporary price rubberstamps to upper cover, tiny dents to textblock fore-edge, else Near Very Good. More
New York: International Publishers, [1971]. First American Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in green and brown; 147pp. Wrapper quite worn and dust-soiled, spine ends slightly pulled, very occasional ink marginalia; a Good, internally sound copy. Volume II of the author's three-volume "Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction." Issued as..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1971. First American Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in pale green and black; 207pp. Wrappers rather dust-soiled else Very Good and sound. The third volume of the author's work "Dialectical Materialism: An Introduction." Issued as part of the "Little New World Paperback" series..... More
London: Peoples' Press Printing Society, 1949. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 24pp. Mild edgewear, bumps and creasing; Very Good. Tribute to the prominent British Communist journalist, first editor of the British Daily Worker. More
N.p. [New York]: American League Against War and Fascism, ca 1935. First Edition. Lengthy statement by the American League Against War and Fascism countering accusations that the ALAWF was a Communist-controlled front group. Text unsigned. Concludes with an invitation to attend a Mass Meeting for the defense of Ethiopia (from..... More
![The Village Forum March 1948 Calendar [drop title]. CPUSA -- LOWER WEST SIDE SECTION](/pictures/medium/27152.jpg?v=1529353526)
New York: "Auspices Lower West Side Section CPUSA" 1948. First Edition. 16mo broadside (14cm.); top edge browned, light wear from handling, else Very Good. Among the events listed are a "birthday party" for the magazine Masses and Mainstream; Israel Epstein's lecture "Inside Red China"; Muriel Draper's lecture "Where Is Woman's..... More
N.p., n.d. [New York: CPUSA, ca 1970]. Bifolium (4pp), 22cm x 14cm; verso of second page blank but for printer's bug. Fine, unused copy. Dated from text ("...Join the party with 52 years of experience and accomplishment...). More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1942. First Edition. "A call to Americans to increase production to fight the Axis. Industry is urged to complete its conversion to war production and monopolies are asked to stop raising prices. Labor should be given full representation on government boards, the labor movement..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1948. First Edition. "An address by the general secretary of the Party on September 23, 1948, denouncing the trial of the top communist leaders as an example of ripening American fascism, and calling for mass demonstrations against the trials" (SEIDMAN D138). Slim octavo (18.75cm); original..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1951. First Edition. "A communist author sees gangsterism and corruption as necessary concomitants of the capitalist system. Truman's political career is built on this morass, and the stench of corruption is nowhere greater than on Capitol Hill. The world's biggest racket today is the Korean..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1935. First Edition. "A picture of Utopia for professionals in a Soviet America, with a cultural and professional upsurge, public welfare and housing, and justice in the courts for all. Allaying any professional fears about leadership of the working class in a proletarian dictatorship..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1935. First Edition. "A picture of Utopia for professionals in a Soviet America, with a cultural and professional upsurge, public welfare and housing, and justice in the courts for all. Allaying any professional fears about leadership of the working class in a proletarian dictatorship..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1942. First Edition. "The text of a speech by the acting secretary of the Party, defending the Soviet Union as the most important ally of the U.S. in the war. He denounces as fascist those who question the fighting capacity of the Red army..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1942. First Edition. "The text of a report to the national committee of the Party in April 1942, appraising the military situation. Minor stresses the importance of worker mobilization and a favorable outcome of the 1942 elections to the opening of a second front..... More
[N.p.: Communist Party USA, 1990]. Staple-bound pamphlet, 11" x 8-1/2"; 31pp. Fine. Includes full text of reports by Monteiro ("Update on the Struggle for Equality"); LeBlanc ("The Winston Enrollment Campaign"); Tyner ("Highlights & Lessons of the 1989 Elections"); Webb ("Developments in the Working Class and Trade Union Movements"). More
New York: The Communist Party, 1947. First Edition. "A denunciation of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which refused to hear the author's testimony against the anticommunist bills. Dennis' reply to Chairman J. Parnell Thomas, challenging the legality of the Committee, is included" (SEIDMAN D128). Slim octavo (18.5cm); original stapled wrappers;..... More
[Nottingham]: Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute, 1974. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers; ix,[1],118pp. Bottom fore-edge corner bumped, else Fine. Modern China Series no. 6. More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers printed within single rule; v,[1],8pp. Light wear and a hint of toning to extremities, one instance of underlining, else Very Good and sound. One of a series of reports on church and state under communism, divided by..... More
![Ernesto Che Guevara]. CUBA, Iosif Romual'dovich LAVRETSKY, pseud Iosif R. Grigulevich?](/pictures/medium/32549.jpg?v=1529353703)
Moscow: 1972. First Edition. Apparently the first full-length Soviet biography of the Argentinian revolutionary martyr and hero of the Cuban Revolution, well-illustrated with photographic portraits and plates. According to Costa Rican investigative journalist Marjorie Ross, "Lavretsky" was a pseudonym for Soviet master-spy Iosif Grigulevich, who got his start as a...... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961. An eyewitness report and appraisal of the Cuban revolution by a Chicago Sun-Times journalist. Reprint. Octavo (21.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; xii,196, with 8pp of black and white plates at center. Pinpoint wear to spine ends and..... More
