Niu Iork [New York]: Izdatelskoi Komissii pri Rabochem Soiuze "Samoobrazovanie"], 1923. First American Edition. Second edition in Russian, and first American Edition. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; [5], 6-259, [2], iv, + [8]pp publisher's ads. Minimal external wear; internally clean and unmarked; a Near Fine..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in cream decorative price-clipped dust jacket printed in black and fuscia, top edge stained red; xiii,[5],445pp. Jacket spine toned with narrow 2-inch dampstain, spine ends a bit rubbed, else a Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Historical..... More

[Moskva: "Iskusstvo" 1984]. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo and oblong octavo (24.5x17cm and the reverse); publisher's cloth lettered in silver foil and orange, housed in pictorial paper-covered slipcase; 289pp. & unpaginated volume of color plates. In Fine condition, housed in a rather worn slipcase. Text almost entirely in Russian, save..... 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

Seattle: By the author, 1937. Third edition (revised). Quarto (28cm). Pictorial pulp-paper wrappers; 116pp; illus. Text in two columns. Aging to the fragile wrappers, with some creasing at corners, wear but little loss to paper on spine; text toned but not brittle. Very Good overall, and uncommon thus. Title page..... More

New York: Macmillan, 1936. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Gray cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 445pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, stained at upper portion of spine panel with overall light rubbing and wear; just VG. The first full-scale biography of Reed, written by the prominent..... More

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Original embossed deep red cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 368pp. Black publisher's top-stain; pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, A tight, clean copy, with the spine gilt bright and free of oxidation; internally clean; in the original..... More

Springfield, MA: A.A. Johnson & Associates, n.d. [1931]. First American Edition. Oblong Quarto. 33.5cm. Original publisher's deep red cloth, titled and decorated in black and gilt to front board. [6pp]; 52pp. Some light bumping and scuffing to extremities and spine ends, strong and tight, with some superficial splash marks and..... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); russet cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dark brown topstain; dustjacket; xx,[1]-290pp. Three corners gently tapped (though still sharp), faint whitish stain at base of spine; contents clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is edgeworn, lightly dust-soiled, with..... More

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 539pp. Bright and sharp, very light wear to extremities; internally clean, top edge stained red; in a strong, handsome dustjacket with some minor toning ans soiling to the pale sections, and..... More

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1929. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles; 479pp; frontispiece and nine unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Tight, Very Good or better copy with mild external rubbing, bit of dulling to spine gilt, and a 1940 ownership inscription to front..... More

New York: Liberty Publishing Co., 1909. First, Limited Edition. No. 876 of 999 hand-numbered copies. Author's inscription to front endpaper: "To Mr. Alfred Wiehl with compliments," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo. Green cloth, titled in gilt; 231pp; frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of plates. A tight, Near..... More

Cambridge: Moses King, 1881. First Thus. Expanded offprint of the newspaper article "An Interview with a Nihilist," first published in August, 1881. The term "nihilist" refers to the early revolutionary movement in Russia of educating the under-classes. Panin, a member of the Russian upper classes, had been a participant and..... More