New York: Columbia University Press / European Perspectives, 1992. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo; blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xx,350pp. Tight, unmarked copy, Fine. In the original dustwrapper, faintly creased on front panel, else fine. Translation of the second part of Noten Zur Literatur (Frankfurt, 1974). From the library..... More

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. First Edition. Substantial political biography of James (1901-1989), one of the 20th century's foremost radical intellectuals, and author of the groundbreaking work The Black Jacobins. Scarce in this format. Publisher's tape-bound galley. Quarto (28cm); photo-mechanically reproduced galley sheets, bound with teal canvas..... More

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xvi],[1],2-398,[2]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with..... More

Zurich/New York: Verlag Oprecht, 1940. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Card wrappers with printed dustjacket; 134pp. Mild toning to text, else a tight, nicely preserved copy in the original printed dustwrapper. On the genesis of Marx's economic philosophy. Text entirely in German. More

London: Cassell and Company Limited, [1939]. First U.K. Edition. Novel by the Marxist economist and author, set in the south of France, "a tale of pre-Danzig days, of the France of the Popular Front; of young, idyllic love, of passion at white-heat, of democracy menaced by money-lust" (rear jacket panel)..... More

[Paris, France]: Gallimard, [1977, 1982, 1991]. Three volumes, all softcovers. Three Octavos (22.5cm); white paper wrappers; 535pp; 578pp; 563pp. Text in French. All three volumes from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his embossed pictorial bookplate to half-title page of vol. 3. Vol. 1..... More

[Firenze]: La Nuova Italia Editrice, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's decorative card wrappers; viii,[2],305pp. General shelf wear to wrapper extremities, spine quite significantly sunned, faint pressure stamp to title page, else Very Good, internally fine. Study of the Italian Marxist philosopher and politician. Text entirely in Italian. More

New York: International Publishers, [1957]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's blue-grey wrappers printed in maroon; 91pp. General wear from handling as well as some light dust-soil, spine slightly cocked, else Very Good and sound. Basic introduction to Marxist principles. SEIDMAN B749. More

London: N.C.L.C. Publishing Society, N.d. [1927?]. 12mo (16.5cm). Sewn, printed card wrappers; 80,(1)pp. Mild external wear and soil; Near Fine. First in series of "shilling books" issued by the National Council of Labour Colleges. Undated, but the NCLC absorbed the Plebs League in 1926, a fact alluded to in the..... More

[New York]: Critics Group Press, 1939? First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original pale grey decorative staplebound card wrappers printed in orange; 32pp. A bit dust-soiled with minor edge wear, else Very Good. Dialectics was the official organ of Critics Group, an alliance of Marxist literary and art critics headed by Puerto..... More

New Brunswick: Transaction Books, (1981). First printing thus. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket, xxx,188pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else a tight, Fine copy in the original dustwrapper. Includes a substantial new introduction by Michael Curtis. 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

Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, [1975]. First Thus. First printing of the expanded edition (the original printing was in 1972). Octavo; printed card wrappers (softcover, as issued); 494pp; frontispiece. Mild reading crease; bump to bottom corner of text block, else very little evidence of use; Very Good or better, in..... More