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195993495N.pl: Committee for Scientific Socialism 1959. 18p. wraps slightly browned. Promotes a United Socialist Front and running Walter Reuther for president. Committee for Scientific Socialism unknown books
194726204Washington DC: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Near Fine. 1947. First Edition. Stapled wraps. light age-toning to covers minor handling wear. 53-page report with the page numbers in RED just to make it a little scarier issued by the C of C's Committee on Socialism and Communism and "Approved by the Board of Directors" documenting the organization's belief that "every effort must be made to set forth the facts of Communist infiltration and strategy in all fields -- government literary entertainment education and wherever the Communists are at work." . Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America paperback books
19462360New York: New York Labor News Company 1946. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm 48 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />The author Eric Hass maintains that the Soviet brand of socialism is not socialism at all. Instead he says the USSR is an imperialist power bent on domination of other countries. Hass was a Socialist Labor Party stalwart who went on to be the SLP's candidate for president in four elections. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some creasing soiling and toning to wrappers but internally clean and bright. Very Good. <br /><br /><br /> New York Labor News Company books
1975204948San Francisco: League for Proletarian Socialism 1975. Pamphlet. 45p. wraps 6.5x8.5 glue remains on title page from tipped in mimeographed note present but now detached else very good condition. Cover title: League for Proletarian Socialism a proposal. First point of the tipped in note is "to combat dogmatism and sectarianism within the Marxist-Leninist left." The League was also known as the Democratic Workers Party and known for its goon squad tactics. League for Proletarian Socialism unknown books
197850214Chicago: New American Movement 1978. Eighth "printing" revised. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 24pp. Faint crease at upper corner else Near Fine. Revised version of NAM's political position statement originally adopted in 1972. Includes policy positions on Racism Sexism Gay Sexuality and Oppression Internationalism etc; along with theoretical statements on the nature of the working class and capitalism. NAM was one of several splinter groups to emerge from the dissolution of SDS in the early Seventies; in 1983 they merged with other groups to form the Democratic Socialists of America DSA. New American Movement unknown books
191814355Glasgow: The Socialist Labour Press N.d. ca 1918. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 30pp. Text slightly darkened else Fine. A primer for workingment outlining the economic history of Great Britain from the feudal era to the early 20th century. Undated but text makes reference to the recent "European War. The Socialist Labour Press unknown books
19771586New York: Self-Published 1977. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 138 mm 144 pages in stapled white wrappers. <p>Prolific pamphleteer George Spiro argues that both capitalists and Marxists want to enslave the world. He says World War II was a huge capitalist fraud joined enthusiastically by Marxists. He favors "authentic" socialism which he says has nothing to do with the Soviet Union. <br /></p><p>OCLC shows only two institutional holdings at New York University and the University of Wisconsin. <b>SCARCE</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Toning to edges of wrappers internally clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy.<br /></p><p><br /></p> Self-Published paperback books
19302018<p>No Edition Stated. Single sheet folded to create 4-page leaflet measuring 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches 120 x 82 mm when folded.</p><p>Small leaflet in English inviting subscriptions to various Soviet publications including Moscow Daily News USSR in Construction Quarterly Review and Soviet Travel. Also offered are maps postcards and dictionaries. Prices listed in U.S. dollars. <br /></p><p>The leaflet is undated but we place the date at ca. 1930-1932 when American activist Anna Louise Strong was managing editor of the Moscow Daily News she's mentioned here. <br /></p><p>OCLC shows no institutional holdings. None in commerce March 2021. <b>RARE</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Light toning. A Near Fine copy.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> Amkniga Corporation books
19392361New York: New York Labor News Company 1939. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm 62 2 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Attack on Soviet communism by Arnold Petersen who was a leader of the Socialist Labor Party. The SLP was a bitter foe of the Communists claiming they had abandoned Marxism. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical crease throughout soiling to wrappers but internally clean and unmarked. Very Good. <br /><br /><br /> New York Labor News Company paperback books
19311496New York: New York Labor News Company n.d. 1931. First Edition. 8vo 9 inches / 230 mm tall 30 2 pages in stapled wrappers. Vertical fold throughout wrappers soiled a few pages with narrow folds along the outside page edges. Pages unmarked. Good only. <br /> <br />Essays on the class struggle by the prolific Arnold Petersen and Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party. A defense of their radical vision of Marxism with frequent attacks on the more moderate Socialist Party which they consider anti-Marxist. Frontispiece depicts Karl Marx. Three further illustrations. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> New York Labor News Company unknown books
19751585New York: Self-Published 1975. No Edition Stated. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 138 mm 96 pages in stapled wrappers. Small light stain to fore edge light rubbing to wrappers internally clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy.Prolific pamphleteer George Spiro chides both the U.S. and Soviet Union over the SALT arms-control agreement. Spiro is both anti-capitalist and anti-Soviet and basically argues that neither country can be trusted to reduce the possibility of nuclear war. <br /><br /> Self-Published books
19392355New York: New York Labor News Company 1939. First Edition. 12mo 7 5/16 x 5 inches; 186 x 128 mm 110 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />A pamphlet attacking Communists as swindlers frauds capitalist stooges and other crimes. Written by Arnold Petersen leader of the Socialist Labor Party in his usual subtle style. Petersen believed the Communists had abandoned the working class by supporting the New Deal and offering to collaborate with other parties during the Communists' "Popular Front" phase. <br /><br />This pamphlet is quite scarce in commerce. <br /><br />Seidman P117 Joel Seidman editor Communism in the United States--A Bibliography Cornell University Press 1969. <br /><br />CONDITION: Soiling and creasing to wrappers corners bumped a few scattered stains and creasing to page corners. Overall Very Good. <br /> New York Labor News Company paperback books
195818890New York: Monthly Review Press 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 160pp. Mild wear to board edges and spine ends still a tight VG copy in the original dustwrapper which is rubbed and slightly faded with a chip at crown just VG. Monthly Review Press unknown books
1493Chicago: Socialist Party of America n.d. Edition not stated. Single sheet folded to create 4 pages. Very light handling wear. A Near Fine copy. Short pamphlet laying our 12 objections to socialism -- and the response by the Socialist Party of America to each of the objections. SCARCE. <br/><br/> Socialist Party of America unknown books
19491205Washington D.C.: Committee on Un-American Activities U.S. House of Representatives 1949. First Edition. An investigation into the Congress of American Women by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The committee maintained that the CAW was a Communist front organization; its report attacked various members and attempted to tie them to Moscow. There's an especially lurid chapter on Muriel Draper president of the CAW: ".when Muriel Draper had nearly achieved the pinnacle of her consuming desire for importance fame even adulation her husband entered their London residence at teatime to confess that he had lost their last cent on a horse race. From that time on her faith in capitalism suffered a heavy decline." page 68. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. 8vo 9 inches / 23 cm iv 114 pages in stapled wrappers. Near Fine with some creasing to front and rear covers. SCARCE. <br/><br/> Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives unknown books
1965863Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1965. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Walter Schneir on the front end paper: "To John J. Macbride / With best wishes / Walter Schneir." Dated August 1965 the year of publication. A review of the trial and conviction of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for espionage; the authors argue that the Rosenbergs had been framed. 8vo. xii 467 pages. Very Good with top edge a bit soiled and crown of spine tapped in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket that's creased and has a couple small chips and some soiling on the rear panel. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company, Inc. unknown books
19562181Washington D.C.: Department of the Army 1956. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small 4to 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 279 x 215 mm 71 1 pages in stapled card wrappers. <br /><br />U.S. government guide explaining how North Korea interrogates and indoctrinates American prisoners of war. While the focus is mostly on North Korea the guide also discusses Chinese Communist treatment of prisoners. The final chapter asserts that "resistance is possible and profitable." With several black-and-white photographs. Army Pamphlet 30-101. <br /><br />CONDITION: Soiling and age toning to wrappers rusting to staples internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Department of the Army books
199522695Seattle Washington: Mark Manning 1995. 22 pages; with a few black and white illustrations; interesting historical perspective on the 1995 Boeing aircraft machinist's strike - the editor claiming to be one of those laid off; statements concerning the background of the contention on-site subcontracting health insurance premiums and commentary on equal wage pay for international workers; with quotes from various historical sources and editorial of a socialist nature; approx. 5 1/4" x 8 1/2" size; original illustrated paper wrap covers; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Mark Manning Paperback books
19751561Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1975. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches; 215 x 145 mm 538 pages quarter cloth over paper boards. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Some fading to lettering on spine internally clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears nicks and chips especially on the front panel as well as soiling to the rear panel and spine.An insider's account of Mao Tse-tung's drive for power during World War II. The author was a Tass correspondent and Comintern agent assigned to the Chinese Communist area around Yenan. Peter Vladimirov spent many hours speaking with Mao and was struck by his ruthlessness and lack of culture and morality. A valuable insight albeit from a Soviet viewpoint into Mao and the revolutionary movement he led. Numerous black-and-white photos. <br /><br /> Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover books
200432482London: Imperial College Press. Fine. 2004. Hardcover. 1860944345 . First edition. Fine in printed boards. No dust jacket. . Imperial College Press hardcover books
190716763New York: Doubleday Page 1907. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards blocked in gilt and white on spine and front cover; xiv 284pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates halftones. Moderately rubbed and worn; thin split to front hinge at frontispiece; a few pages with sharp slices in margin presumably from opening; complete and Good but best considered as a reading copy. A key early work by Sinclair supplying a sort of non-fiction sequel to his The Jungle which had been published a year earlier. In the current work Sinclair analyzes present economic conditionsconcentrating on wage-slavery and concentration of wealth and predicts an inevitable social and economic revolution. Ahouse calls this the first of Sinclair's "book-length essays.the same sort of popularized economic analysis later found.in Book of Life Letters to Judd The Way Out" etc. Includes a promotional chapter on Helicon Hall Sinclair's ill-fated experiment in cooperative living the Hall burned to the ground shortly before the book went to press. AHOUSE A9. Doubleday, Page unknown books
1957865New York: Frederick A. Praeger Inc. 1957. First Edition. Howard Fast explains his disillusionment and break with the Communist Party. 8vo. 197 pages. Near Fine in an unclipped Very Good dust jacket that has a couple of small creases and tears and sunning. Overall a beautiful copy. <br/><br/> Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. unknown books
19361497New York: New York Labor News Company 1936. First Edition. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 126 mm 40 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /> <br />A spirited -- rollicking even! -- essay with attacks on "fakers" "impostors" "swindlers" and other enemies of the working class. <br /> <br />May Day is the true holiday of the proletariat the author says while Labor Day in the U.S. is fake because it "sticks to the hollow pretense of a brotherhood between capital and labor." <br /> <br />Issued by the radical Socialist Labor Party the pamphlet argues that American labor leaders have eagerly embraced the capitalist class. "The 'labor' leaders travel through the country in the grandest style stop at the 'swellest' hotels--often as not manned with non-union labor. Where they go liquor flows expensively and plentifully--sometimes swinishly." page 30 <br /> <br />The author Olive M. Johnson 1872-1954 was a longtime activist editor and pamphleteer for the Socialist Labor Party. <br /> <br />This pamphlet is peak agit-prop. SCARCE. <br /> <br />CONDITION: Light soling and creasing to wrappers. Pages clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> New York Labor News Company unknown books
19331498Moscow and Leningrad: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R. 1933. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Octavo 7 1/2 inches / 190 mm 84 4 pages in wrappers. <br /><br />A well-written biography of Marx from a Soviet standpoint emphasizing his sympathy for the working class. There's also an historical overview of the exploitation of workers along with an analysis of Marxism in practice. The author says some so-called Marxists are nothing of the sort; he particularly singles out social democrats. Not surprisingly it's the Soviet Union that's carrying out real Marxism. SCARCE. <br /><br />CONDITION: Moderate soiling to wrappers spine a bit ragged general handling wear. Pages toned but clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R. paperback books
19672010Moscow: Moscow News 1967. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Oblong Octavo 5 x 8 inches; 125 x 203 mm 80 pages in stapled pictorial wrappers. <br /><br />Booklet containing 12 popular Soviet songs in English and Russian including Moscow Nights rendered here in English as Moscow Evenings. Lovely cover with the upper wrapper featuring piano keys along the spine and a drawing of a Kremlin tower topped by a red star. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br /> CONDITION: Wrappers a bit soiled light edge wear staple rusted pages very lightly toned and some lightly creased. A Very Good copy. Moscow News paperback books
