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Signed, without inscription, by author upon front free endpaper. 108 pages. Bibliography. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "The real life story of a people filled with idealism and controversy, and with age, so maligned that many who have lived the times have kept silent. Looking back, the events of the 1920s and '30s are finally put into historical context. The entire socialist element of the Finnish population in North America was in the process of a political upheaval. The Russian Revolution and the Civil War in Finland were, like sparks in wind, catalysts to a prairie fire, and the course of political idealism and action was shaped for the next twenty years." - back cover. This copy appears to have originally been a paperback which has been professionally rebound in hardcover with the original covers and backstrip preserved. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this fascinating study. Book
124 pages. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. Prescient thoughts on the threats to freedom and material well-being represented by socialism/communism. Particularly interesting given that it was written just after the tide of WWII had turned. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
19602275Fullerton California: Education Information Inc. 1960. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 271 x 212 mm 21 pages in stapled illustrated wrappers <br /><br />A "second report on modern art" issued by Education Information Inc. an Orange County California anti-communist outfit. The main highlight: the purported minutes of a Communist cell comprising artists and writers: "PROGRAM: Remove all inspiring and beautiful art from all exhibits and substitute degenerate art in its place.Keep rational art out of all public exhibits -- allow only empty or distorted art to be shown in museums dealers' exhibits.Tie junk together and set it up as sculpture." <br /><br />There's plenty more in this vein. The woman who took these notes -- "a friend of truth and decency" -- supposedly mailed them to the right-wing sculptor Wheeler Williams who was active in anticommunist politics. Williams provides a Foreword to the notes saying he believes they're authentic. He says he shared the notes with colleagues and some former FBI undercover agents all of whom apparently believe the notes are genuine. <br /><br />Also in this pamphlet are articles on "subversion in art" lengthy excerpts from Williams's testimony to Congress on the Soviet uses of art and a piece by E. Merrill Root on conservative philosophy. <br /><br />This pamphlet is scarce. OCLC records around a dozen institutional holdings. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical fold throughout original mailing label and partially removed tape to lower wrapper extremities worn from handling staples a bit rusted. Otherwise Very Good. Education Information, Inc. books
19602275Fullerton California: Education Information Inc. 1960. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 271 x 212 mm 21 pages in stapled illustrated wrappers <br /><br />A "second report on modern art" issued by Education Information Inc. an Orange County California anti-communist outfit. The main highlight: the purported minutes of a Communist cell comprising artists and writers: "PROGRAM: Remove all inspiring and beautiful art from all exhibits and substitute degenerate art in its place.Keep rational art out of all public exhibits -- allow only empty or distorted art to be shown in museums dealers' exhibits.Tie junk together and set it up as sculpture." <br /><br />There's plenty more in this vein. The woman who took these notes -- "a friend of truth and decency" -- supposedly mailed them to the right-wing sculptor Wheeler Williams who was active in anticommunist politics. Williams provides a Foreword to the notes saying he believes they're authentic. He says he shared the notes with colleagues and some former FBI undercover agents all of whom apparently believe the notes are genuine. <br /><br />Also in this pamphlet are articles on "subversion in art" lengthy excerpts from Williams's testimony to Congress on the Soviet uses of art and a piece by E. Merrill Root on conservative philosophy. <br /><br />This pamphlet is scarce. OCLC records around a dozen institutional holdings. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical fold throughout original mailing label and partially removed tape to lower wrapper extremities worn from handling staples a bit rusted. Otherwise Very Good. Education Information, Inc.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 153 plates on 80; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1889-1936: Hubris (1998); Vol. II 1936-1945: Nemesis (2000). The definitive biography, widely acclaimed for its detailed research by one of the world's leading authorities on Hitler. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS REMARKABLY SCARCE AS A SET IN THIS CONDITION.
E.O., tranne il vol. 4 che è in Seconde édition. Cinque volumi (13,5x21,5 cm) di X-(2)-508pp; VIII-496pp; VII-504pp; VIII-536pp; VIII-523pp. Bella legatura del tempo in mezza pelle bionda, dorso liscio ornato e dorato. Usure ai dorsi. INVIO autografo di Blanc a M. Duclerc père all'occhiello del primo volume. - Prima edizione per quattro volumi su cinque, solo il quarto volume è in Seconde édition. edizione originale è di fatto difficile da ritrovare perchè la sua pubblicazione si sviluppò su quattro anni: il primo volume porta infatti la data del 1841, il quinto ed ultimo (con la dizione “Première a quatrième édition”) é del 1844. -La dedica autografa di Blanc è al padre di Eugène Duclerc, amico e collaboratore di Blanc. Eugène Duclerc (1812-88) fu giornalista al Bon Sens assieme a B. e collaborò alla Revue du Progrés, diretta dallo stesso B., dove si occupò di economia e finanza, e per qualche tempo ministro delle finanze dopo la Rivoluzione del 1848. Dopo la repressione, si ritirò dalla vita politica, diventando industriale nel sud della Francia. Alla caduta di Napoleone III venne rieletto (1874) deputato nelle file della sinistra.
95293aafLa Chaux-de-Fonds, in-8vo, richement illustré, brochures originales illustrées.
(Codice SO/2181) In 8º (22 cm) 411 pp. Première édition belge. Moindres piqures de rouille. Brochage original, dos réfait. Grandes marges non coupées. Très bon état. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
190615675New York: Macmillan 1906. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Brown gilt-pictorial cloth boards; 337pp; 32 inserted leaves of plates halftones. Light edgewear to boards still a bright clean and unmarked copy Near Fine. A socialist's exposé of child labor in America well-illustrated with photographic plates credited to Marjory Hall G.W. Goler Peter Roberts and the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee the last photographic plates though uncredited almost certainly by Lewis Hine. Spargo 1876-1966 edited the socialist monthly The Comrade and published a number of socialist tracts before moving to the right during the First World War. In his later years Spargo was an outspoken advocate of free-market capitalism. The current work went through numerous reprintings; the first edition is somewhat uncommon in the trade and is notable for the quality of its photographic illustrations. Macmillan unknown
190615675New York: Macmillan 1906. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Brown gilt-pictorial cloth boards; 337pp; 32 inserted leaves of plates halftones. Light edgewear to boards still a bright clean and unmarked copy Near Fine. A socialist's exposé of child labor in America well-illustrated with photographic plates credited to Marjory Hall G.W. Goler Peter Roberts and the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee the last photographic plates though uncredited almost certainly by Lewis Hine. Spargo 1876-1966 edited the socialist monthly The Comrade and published a number of socialist tracts before moving to the right during the First World War. In his later years Spargo was an outspoken advocate of free-market capitalism. The current work went through numerous reprintings; the first edition is somewhat uncommon in the trade and is notable for the quality of its photographic illustrations. Macmillan unknown books
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save those from the library at front. Author was president of Reichsbank, piloting Germany through the financial dangers of 1923 to 1929. It was the historic German financial collapse of 1923 that first brought Dr. Schacht into prominence. In November of that year he was made the Imperial Currency Commissioner with the specific purpose of stemming the nation's hyperinflation. This book is one of the best contributions yet made to an understanding of post-War difficulties in finance and economics. In particular," -- from the intro. Book concerns a long argument against reparations to be paid by Germany post world war one. Contents include: The question of responsibility, Bleeding Germany white, From the Dawes plan to the Young plan, Financial purgatory, The Hague protocol, Currency policy, The contradictions of reparations, etc. 271 pages.
1928219568Hamburg; Berlin, Hoym, 1928-32. Hlwd. (10 H. 14-26 in 1 Bd. u. 12 H. 13-24 in 1 Bd.). OU. eingeb. u. OBr. M. farb. Unterstreich. a. OU. u. im Heft.
1930171976Berlin, Verlag Radikaler Geist, 1930-33. 582, 24 S. Interimsumschläge (1-6) u. OU. Umschl. teils angeschmutzt u. leicht läd. M. mehr. St. Teilw. m. Anstreich. u. Anmerk. Inh.-Verzeichnisse teils lose beiliegend.
183111730Au bureau du Globe et de l'Organisateur | Paris 1831 | 14 x 22 cm | broché
1845130271845 broché in-octavo (paperback in-octavo), dos fendu et couverture jaunes imprimés - légèrement défraîchie (yellow split spine and cover printed - lightly faded cover), tranches non rognées (edges no smooth), sans illustration (no illustration), naissances de rousseurs (beginning of the redness marks), 395 pages, 1845 à Paris à la Librairie Sociétaire,
Reliure de l'?diteur, rodho?ds. 7 volumes. 16x22cm.
184830493Imp. de Pierre Leroux | boussac 1848 | 12 x 17.50 cm | relié
192111318271897 - 1921. Folio (bis 1918) u. 4to. Je Exemplar zwischen 8 (bis 1918) und 16 S., teilw. m. Abb. u. überwiegend m. farbigen Umschlagtiteln (einige von WALTER CRANE). Priv. Hlwdbd (im Bund etwas locker, einige Hefte gering fleckig, vereinzelt vorsichtig geklebt, die meisten ohne die Kunstbeilage, bei 3 Heften fehlt je 1 Blatt).
15361Paris, Libr. G. Jacques et Cie, 1901. (4), 91, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine, original covers preserved. First collective edition in bookform. Contains manifests of the Parti Ouvrier Français, collected and introduced by Bracke: Ni Ferry, ni Boulanger !; La Manifestation internationale du 1er Mai; Le Premier Mai 1891; La journée de huit heures; La Grève de Carmaux; Socialisme et Patriotisme; Les Congrès de Lille et de Londres; L'Affaire Dreyfus, etc. etc. At head of title: Onze ans d'histoire socialiste.
15420Paris, Librairie Jacques & Cie., 1901. (4), 91, (1) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering, original covers preserved. First edition Contains manifests of the Parti Ouvrier Français, collected and introduced by Bracke: Ni Ferry, ni Boulanger !; La Manifestation internationale du 1er Mai; Le Premier Mai 1891; La journée de huit heures; La Grève de Carmaux; Socialisme et Patriotisme; Les Congrès de Lille et de Londres; L'Affaire Dreyfus, etc. etc. At head of title: Onze ans d'histoire socialiste.
1st edition in any language. Original monikered cloth, 12mo, xx, 300 pages. Anarchist historian Paul Avrich described this work as "the clearest exposition of communist anarchism in English or any other language" (Avrich, Anarchist Portraits, p. 206) . Alexander Berkman (born Ovsei Osipovich Berkman, 18701936) was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing. Berkman was born into a Jewish family in Vilna in the Russian Empire and emigrated to the United States in 1888. He lived in New York City, where he became involved in the anarchist movement. He was the one-time lover and lifelong friend of anarchist Emma Goldman. In 1892, undertaking an act of propaganda of the deed, Berkman made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate businessman Henry Clay Frick, for which he served 14 years in prison (Wikipedia, 2016) . Light Wear to crown and foot of spine, Good+ Condition. (AMR-51-10)
Un volume (23 cm) di 417-(3) pagine. Bollo e firma di possesso alla pagina di titolo. Qualche nota e tratti a matita nel testo. Seconda edizione ampliata con l'Enciclica di Leone XIII sulla questione sociale. Occhiello: Studi sul socialismo contemporaneo. Legatura in mezza pelle moderna. Molto buono e non comune.
Nyu york [New York]: Idisher sotsyalistisher federatsye in Amerika, 1914. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 110 pages. Annual. Includes illustrations. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Periodical lasted until 1918 issue; Vols II (1915) and later are titled "Idishe yohrbukh. " "In 1908 a Jewish Agitation Bureau was established [by the Socialist Party of America] in order to spread socialism among Yiddish-speaking Jews. Stimulated by immigrants with experience in the East European Bund, the Bureau developed into the Jewish Socialist Federation (J. S. F. ) from 1912, over strong opposition from Abe Cahan and other Yiddish-speaking stalwarts opposed to such "separatism. " Actually the J. S. F. Disavowed any distinct Jewish purpose and attempted only to spread socialism, while it vigorously combated Zionism. Its membership was drawn mainly from immigrants of Bundist background" (Schneier Levenberg in EJ) . SUBJECT(S) : Socialism -- Periodicals. Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 6 holdings. Edgewear, rear cover detached. Otherwise good condition with good paper. (AMR-56-14X)
Nyu york [New York]: Idisher sotsyalistisher federatsye in Amerika, 1914. CLoth, 8vo, 110 pages. Annual. Includes illustrations. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Periodical lasted until 1918 issue; Vols II (1915) and later are titled "Idishe yohrbukh. " "In 1908 a Jewish Agitation Bureau was established [by the Socialist Party of America] in order to spread socialism among Yiddish-speaking Jews. Stimulated by immigrants with experience in the East European Bund, the Bureau developed into the Jewish Socialist Federation (J. S. F. ) from 1912, over strong opposition from Abe Cahan and other Yiddish-speaking stalwarts opposed to such "separatism. " Actually the J. S. F. Disavowed any distinct Jewish purpose and attempted only to spread socialism, while it vigorously combated Zionism. Its membership was drawn mainly from immigrants of Bundist background" (Schneier Levenberg in EJ) . SUBJECT(S) : Socialism -- Periodicals. Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 6 holdings. Hinges starting, but still good and solid. Good Condition. (AMR-56-14X)
Mm 125x185 Volume cartonato rigido di pagine 306, rilegatura moderna in mezza tela con titolo al dorso. Opera in buone condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.