Paris: Gallimard, 1947. First French Edition. Wright's fourth book, a moving and shocking autobiography of race relations, growing up in the South, and his eventual move to Chicago at age 19, where he established his writing career and became involved with the Communist Party. He moved to Paris in 1946..... More

New York: International Publishers, 1946. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Pencil date to cover; foxed and sunned along edges; Very Good. "...communist analysis of differences among cartels, trusts, and combines, pointing out that conflicts of interest are continued in cartels, though not in other forms of monopoly" - SEIDMAN A44..... More

Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers; 25pp. Trivial external wear; a Near Fine copy. Chapbook of revolutionary poems by the prominent New Zealand communist author and sinophile. More

[London]: 1963. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's white decorative staplebound card wrappers printed in blue and black; 39pp.; illus. Light wear and a hint of toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Articles include "Voices from Yuan and Ming" by the New Zealand-born member of the Communist Party of China Rewi..... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xi]; 265pp. Minor wear and scuffing to board edges and apine ends, a little residue or soiling to the cloth in places, internally clean with some light staining, in a clean..... More

Bologna: Edizioni di "Volontà" 1922. First Edition. A series of fictional conversations and debates between a student, a "borghese," an anarchist-socialist, a judge, and a merchant. Divided into chapters, the "characters" discuss a socialist constitution, economics, communism, government, laws and communist anarchism. The first ten conversations were written in 1897..... More

San Francisco: Farallon Press, 1931. First, Limited Edition. The author, a hydroelectric engineer, presents the results of his first-hand survey of Soviet electrification projects in 1930. He concludes that Individualism has and will continue to trump Collectivism on the path to progress. Well-illustrated with halftones and three mounted color plates..... More

New York: George Braziller, 1970. First American Edition. Oblong Quarto. 22cm x 26cm. Publisher's cream colored heavy grain coth, titled in black and red to the spine. Dustjacket. 273pp. Very light marginal wear, mostly some faint soiling in places, otherwise the binding is crisp, strong, and clean; internally clean, with..... More

Croton-on-Hudson: 1941. Regarding the recipient's letter to the Reader's Digest, of September 24 (Eastman had been hired as an editor for the conservative publication earlier in the same year). The subject appears to be the institution of the death penalty in the Soviet Union: "...Nobody questions the fact that the..... More

Croton-on-Hudson: 1941. Brief 1-pp TNS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson notepaper, addressed to a "Miss Mendham", dated March 30, 1938. Old folds; holograph additions in Eastman's hand; Very Good. "I shall be delighted to have you use some of my poems in your Verse Speaking Festival...perhaps the poem called "Battle Fields"..... More

[Yaba, Nigeria: Asroi Press, 1965]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers (a bit dustsoiled); 11pp. Light wear from handling, else About Fine. Contents of Malawi Prime Minister Hastings Banda's 1964 lecture on communism, delivered to the Zomba Debating Society. Edited by F.K.C. Nwosu, organizer of the Young..... More

Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's card wrappers in black pictorial dust jacket; 406pp.; maps in text. A hint of wear and dust soil else Fine. History of the Biennio Rosso, the revolutionary post-WW1 period in Tuscany involving both the Fascist blackshirts and the Italian..... More

Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original white and red card wrappers; 149pp. About Fine. Collection of essays on Lenin and Africa. Text entirely in English. More