Havana: Partido Comunista de Cuba, 1976. Two small square quarto volumes (24cm x 23cm). Cloth hardcovers; dustjackets; 420+188pps, 63 unnumbered pages of plates; illustrations (some color), portraits. Boards slightly splayed, else Near Fine in lightly rubbed and soiled dustwrappers. Text entirely in Spanish. The volumes are unnumbered, but OCLC cataloguing..... More
![Ernesto Che Guevara]. CUBA, Iosif Romual'dovich LAVRETSKY, pseud Iosif R. Grigulevich?](/pictures/medium/32549.jpg?v=1641872289)
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
La Habana: Editora Politica, 1984. First Edition. Small, slim octavo (20cm.); publisher's red pictorial wrappers; [14],124pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Biography of the founder of the Cuban Communist Party Julio Antonio Mella, focusing primarily on his years in exile in Mexico. More
New York: International Publishers, 1934. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 46pp. Light soil and a few small tears to wrapper edges, else Near Fine. SEIDMAN D34: "An assertion that the crisis in American education is catastrophic, that high schools and colleges are for the well-to-do, and that..... More
Bronx, NY: The Commentator, 1974. First Edition. Tabloid. 8pp, on newsprint. Single horizontal fold; very mild tanning to paper, else Near Fine. Underground newspaper issued anonymously by "a Marxist-Leninist collective in the New York area" (from publisher's statement). This was in fact the Commentator Collective, centered around former Progressive Labor..... More
Bronx, NY: The Commentator, 1974. First Edition. Tabloid. 8pp, on newsprint. Single horizontal fold; very mild tanning to paper, else Near Fine. Underground newspaper issued anonymously by "a Marxist-Leninist collective in the New York area" (from publisher's statement). This was in fact the Commentator Collective, centered around former Progressive Labor..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Stiff card wrappers; 48pp; 4 leaves of publisher's advertisements. Light age toning; else a tight copy in very good or better condition. More
New York: Workers Library, 1935. Second edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 71pp. Light wear; age-toning; a few pencil marginalia -- Very Good. Dimitroff's report to the 7th World Congress of the COMINTERN, announcing Moscow's United Front policy. SEIDMAN D202. More
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1974. First English Language Edition. Slim oblong octavo (14x20cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [80]pp.; chiefly illus. Wrappers a bit wrinkled and curled at fore-edges, else Very Good, internally fine. Pictorial history of the Soviet Union adorned with illustrations from a myriad of (unattributed) source..... More
![The Roots of American Communism [Octagon Reprint]. Theodore DRAPER](/pictures/medium/32700.jpg?v=1641872291)
New York: Octagon Books, 1977. Reprint. Octavo. Red cloth; 498pp. Ownership label to front endpaper, else a tight, Near Fine, unmarked copy. Facsimile reprint of the 1957 edition. Standard reference on the subject. More
[New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1941]. 12mo (18.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 30pp. Stock uniformly toned and a bit brittle due to inferior paper quality, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good and sound. More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1968. First English Language Edition. 24mo (12.5cm.); original white and red decorative staplebound wrappers; [6],56pp. Very light soil, else Near Fine. More
Madrid: Caballero Audaz, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); original card wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; 299pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, corners bumped, dust jacket rather uniformly foxed, smallish loss to bottom edge of upper flap (affecting price?), textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else Very Good in About..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1946. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Single issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on veterans' rights; the Soviet chemical industry; Soviet..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1946. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Single issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on Soviet film (including that year's Stalin Prize..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1946. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Single issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on welfare for railway workers; the burgeoning Soviet..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1946. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Single issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on Soviet aviation; mechanization of labor; Soviet Moslems;..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1947. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Single issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American propaganda monthly. Includes articles on the Stakhanov Movement, Collective Farming, Lithuanian Folk Singers..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1947. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Single issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American propaganda monthly. Includes articles on the Karaganda coal fields; financing of private home..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1947. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Covers rather rubbed, with small perforation at center of front wrapper; Very Good. Christmas issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American propaganda monthly. Includes articles on Soviet electrification;..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1948. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Single issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on the 1947 Chigorin chess tournament; coal production;..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1948. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; pp 33-66; illus. Covers a bit rubbed; small tear into bottom margin of text block; Very Good. Single issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. This issue..... More
Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1948. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; pp 66-98; illus. Light wear to covers, else Near Fine. Single issue, in original wrappers, of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on the "Matrosov Movement" (written by Matrosov);..... More
Frankfurt/Main: Institut für Marxistische Studien und Forschungen, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's black card wrappers; [2],[483]-647pp.; illus. Wrapper extremities rather worn and dust-soiled, else Good or better, internally fine. Text entirely in German. More
