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19302279Moscow: Various Publishers 1930s. <br /><br />Thirty black-and-white postcards each measuring 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches 147 x 98 mm all unused and unmounted. <br /><br />A collection of postcards depicting scenes in Moscow during the tumultuous 1930s when Stalin was expanding his power and killing off his opponents. The scenes include workers' houses hotels department stores and cathedrals that the Bolsheviks closed and turned into museums. Other scenes show Arbat Square Pushkin's monument the race course Dynamo stadium the Izvestia building Moscow University and more. <br /><br />Seventeen of the cards have brief captions in English and sometimes in French and German in addition to Russian. <br /><br />A wonderful series of vibrant images of Moscow in one of the most significant decades in Soviet history. <br /><br />CONDITION: One card lightly trimmed at the edges a few minor stains to the versos of some cards. Overall Very Good or better. Various Publishers
1945206871New York: Rand School of Social Science/Meyer London Memorial Library 1945. Cover leaf and verso of last leaf toned; pencil marks on front; very good. 12 mimeographed pages 8-1/2 x 11 in. stapled with mimeographed cover. Thorough index of contemporary articles compiled by Lena Morrow Lewis the journalist and longtime Socialist leader whose career of activism began in the movement for women's suffrage. The index lists labor-oriented articles on a range of topics from agriculture business and Unions to the atom bomb race discrimination and women's rights as well as labor organizing in the U.S. and around the world. Rand School of Social Science/Meyer London Memorial Library unknown
1932204716New York: Socialist Labor Party of America 1932. Evenly toned; gentle horizontal fold; one short edge tear. Four page leaflet printed on a single bifolium approx. 9 X 10-3/4 inches. Delicate newsprint leaflet outlining the party's program adopted at its national convention in 1932 and advancing the Industrial Unionism advocated by its founder Daniel De Leon. Socialist Labor Party of America unknown
190373140Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Compnay 1903. First edition. Small octavo. 64 pp. Publisher's printed buff wrappers. A very good copy.For socialism Ernest Untermann and others; For single tax Louis F. Post and others. Untermann was a member of the Socialist Labor Party of America SLP in the 1890s before leaving to join the Socialist Party of America SPA.Untermann was a regular contributor to Algie Simons' dissident SLP newspaper The Workers Call published in Chicago. When Simons moved to Chicago to assume the editorship of International Socialist Review in 1900 a monthly published by the pioneer American Marxist publishing house Charles H. Kerr & Co. Untermann became a frequent contributor to that publication as well. Untermann earned his keep as an associate editor for J.A. Wayland's mass circulation socialist weekly The Appeal to Reason in 1903. Untermann was the first American translator of Karl Marx's Das Kapital beginning work on the massive project in the spring of 1905 while living on a chicken farm in Orlando Florida and completing translations of volumes 2 and 3 for Kerr in 1907 and 1909 respectively. He also translated other socialist works for an American audience including the memoirs of Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel as well as The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State by Frederick Engels. In addition to translations from German and Italian Untermann wrote original works on Economics and Natural History. Untermann's books included Science and Revolution 1905 The World's Revolutions 1906 Marxian Economics: A Popular Introduction to the Three Volumes of Marx's Capital 1907. Charles H. Kerr Compnay unknown
4177Washington: World Bank 1983. All volumes Paper bound vol.1-The Economy Statistical System and Basic Data; vol.2-Economic sectors agriculture industry energy transport & external trade & finance; vol.3-social sectors popu lation health nutrition & education. Very good-Very good set. A very heavy set -- extra postage will be requested! Washington: World Bank, 1983, unknown
19572111902160201137Kawaideshobo 1957. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 8 books in total Kawaideshobo paperback
19011202<p>London: Liberty and Property Defence League ca. 1901-05. First Edition. <br /><br />A wonderfully lurid warning against socialism by an organization devoted to laissez-faire economics.</p><p>The anonymous author suggests that socialism would lead to the breakup of families: "There would be no such place as home under socialism. Everyone would live in the State barracks. There would be no breakfasts dinners or teas with one's family at one's own table as in the first place meals in private would not be permitted as it would be against the socialist idea of equality.In other words everybody when hungry would be reduced to the necessity of repairing to the common swine-trough and eating the hogwash the State had placed therein. No roast beef turkey and plum pudding no smiling faces of children and friends around the table on Christmas Day. Indeed there would not be any Christmas Day under socialism."</p><p>This pamphlet carries no publication date but it appears to have been issued sometime between 1901 and 1905. It refers to "the late Mr. Oscar Wilde" who died in late 1900. In 1906 the Liberty and Property Defence League issued a book Socialism: Its Fallacies and Dangers which included the text of this pamphlet.</p><p>OCLC lists 8 institutional holdings under two different accession numbers: Syracuse Stanford Amherst Harvard Texas Wisconsin Historical Society Michigan and the London School of Economics. No other copies in commerce.</p><p>PHYSICAL DETAILS: Single sheet measuring 8 x 5 1/4 inches 205 x 132 mm when folded creating a 4-page unbound pamphlet.</p><p>CONDITION: Paper lightly toned old stab holes along the gutter tiny check mark to front wrapper a couple small closed tears small ink stamp at the end of the text general handling wear. A Very Good copy of an uncommon publication.</p> Liberty and Property Defence League paperback
1936List3310United States 1936. Lithographic illustration measuring 12 x 13 ¾ inches. Unnumbered titled and signed recto in pencil matching handwriting of other known examples. Near Fine. A lithograph by American socialist artist Lydia Gibson 1891–1964. Gibson contributed artworks to radical publications including The Masses The Liberator New Masses and others. This illustration titled Glamour depicts two well-dressed gentlemen labeled “Banks†and “Munitions†courting a bejewelled lady skeleton whose tiara reads “Warâ€. More than a straightforward pacifist sentiment Gibson makes the now-familiar critique that industries that stand to profit off of war will ‘court’ it. A striking piece of twentieth-century socialist art. unknown
1889022278Boston: Progress Publishing Company 1889. Tabloid. Fair. Side folding small tabloid newspaper format. 8 pp. Early issue of this journal devoted to Christian socialism. Founded in part by William Dwight Porter Bliss a reverend who actively promoted the ideas of socialism as those most compatible with the beliefs of Christianity. Bliss believed capitalism could cause idolatry among other ills. This issue looks at the 10 hour work week and potential 8 hour work week as positive steps for workers in mills and other places. FAIR condition. Large and small half moon rodent nibbling along the spine margin slightly affected text on a few pages in the interior. Minor to moderate scattered foxing. Minor soiling. Chipping and tearing along the fore edge with minor chipping tearing and creasing along the other edges. Horizontal fold crease present. Progress Publishing Company unknown
1938ABC_46007Sofia & Cherven Bryag 1938. Alexander & Stoyan P. Darakchiev Original publishers gold-stamped black cloth with the Krone logo on the front board and title and publisher on the front board and spine. With 256 well-preserved wool yarn and fabric samples showing a wide range of colours of aniline dyes solidly mounted on thick cardboard. 26 pp. A well-preserved 1938 collection of fabric swatches and yarn samples dyed in various colours and several varieties: wool shajak a fine Bulgarian wool fabric blended wool sulan a heavier Bulgarian fabric and kunstseide probably rayon published by the Bulgarian subsidiary of the German manufacturer of Krone aniline dyes. A Bulgarian 1 lev postage stamp violet stuck on the title-page in a space apparently provided for that purpose perhaps as a tax stamp is dated 1938. Although the title is in Bulgarian the title-page is headed Anilinfarben Fabrikniederlage with the large Krone logo.Bulgaria and other allies of Nazi Germany played a major role in supporting the German economic expansion during the 1930s and 1940s. The catchword Großraumplanung stood for the German industries aim to expand throughout the Balkans and Turkey as far as Iran. A major sector of National Socialist business interests the chemical industry in particular grew rapidly. Its leading players such as I.G. Farben promoted their aniline dyes by establishing local subsidiaries in the East who would then distribute bilingual swatch-books such as the present specimen.The tipped-in sample pages are captioned in German and Bulgarian throughout. Prefixed is a manual in both languages on how to dye the fabrics several of which such as sulan and shajak are traditional Bulgarian cloths.Covers very slightly worn at extremities; light dust stains on the cards. Some strands of dyed wool slightly loose but generally in good condition.l Cf. Arbeitskreis I.G. Farben der Bundesfachtagung der Chemiefachschaften Hg. von Anilin bis Zwangsarbeit. Der Weg eines Monopols durch die Geschichte. Zur Entstehung und Entwicklung der deutschen chemischen Industrie Aachen 1994 p. 59. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
19501962<p>New York: Self-published ca. 1950. No Edition Stated. Oblong 48mo 3 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 100 x 140 mm 31 1 pages in stapled wrappers.</p><p>American journalist and professional curmudgeon John T. Flynn 1882-1964 responds to critics of his 1949 book "The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution" in which he alleged America was being led down the road to socialism.</p><p>In this pamphlet he attacks Protestant church organizations saying they promote socialism. He also levels attacks at various people he considers socialists communists and fellow travelers. OCLC FirstSearch shows only six institutional holdings. SCARCE. <br /><br />CONDITION: Toning to wrappers rubber stamp of free-market economist Percy L. Greaves Jr. to upper wrapper. Internally clean bright and unmarked. Very Good.</p> Self-published paperback
1931132234London Faber & Faber Limited 1931. First Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 255 pages; Description: 255 p. 20 cm. Subjects: Socialists --Scotland. London, Faber & Faber Limited hardcover
177747694Lausanne: Société Typographique 1777. Second Edition. Two volumes in one; small 12mo 16cm.; slightly later paper-covered boards manuscript private library spine labels all edges speckled red; 2viii248; 2iv250pp. Spine a bit sunned corners bumped light spotting to boards tiny rubberstamps of a Donaueschingen library to both title page versos else a Near Fine internally fresh copy half titles present. First published one year prior in 1776.<br /> <br /> Both a critique and history of European inequality by the French philosopher deeply influenced by the works of John Locke. Described as an "avant-garde thinker of utopian socialism" Sophus Reinert and Steven Kaplan eds. "The Economic Turn" 2019 p. 339 the Abbé de Mably 1709-1785 roundly rejected any institution that could reduce the well-being of one in favor of another among these the concept of private property. Indeed in Chapter IV in the first volume states that it be necessary for legislation to "turn all its forces against avarice and ambition" p. 96 our translation. A life-long friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau the underlining theme of the work consistently circles back to the concept of "Nature" in this case self-preservation at present undermined by the state of society. Société Typographique unknown
189647650Berlin: Expedition der Buchhandlung Vorwärts 1896. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's orange wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; 52pp.; text printed entirely in blackletter. Some shallow chipping to upper cover fore-edge not approaching text some light soil textblock uniformly toned else a Very Good copy internally clean and sound. At head of title: "Berliner Arbeiter-Bibliothek" IX. Heft. One of a series of educational Marxist pamphlets issued under the banner the "Berliner Arbeiter-Bibliothek" this introducing its readers to the theory of surplus value without having to wade through Marx's original text. Other titles in the series covered the benefits of unionism and labor protection legislation; provided a concise history of the Paris Commune; and included an edition of Bellamy's "Looking Backward. Expedition der Buchhandlung Vorwärts unknown
193441205New York: Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party n.d. ca. 1934. First Edition. Quarto broadside flyer 28x21cm. printed mimeograph. Extremities unevenly toned with a few tiny chips along right-hand edge none approaching text else Very Good or better. Flyer promoting a talk by the New York-based socialist politician Benjamin Gitlow 1891-1965 a founding member of the CPUSA who later in life turned conservative and McCarthyist. The present item dates from Gitlow's tenure with the Workers Party on whose ticket he ran for Governor of New York in 1926. The talk held at the radical Rand School addressed such questions as "Will the Socialist Party Go Left or Right" and "Will the Socialist Party split" Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of July 2018. Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party unknown
188447715London: The Fabian Society 1884-1905. Thick octavo. Publisher's brown buckram gilt; variously paginated with individual titles ranging from 2pp to 50pp. Tight and straight with scattered foxing to contents; Very Good. <br /> <br /> The Society issued bound collections of its tracts more or less annually compiling whichever titles were still in-print or on-hand as remainders. Contents of the annual volumes varied as remainders were depleted or titles went out of print or were withdrawn from circulation. As might be expected the earliest tracts were the first to go creating inevitable lacunae especially for the pre-1890 titles. <br /> <br /> This is the compilation for 1905 including nos. 1 to 120 but with the following thirty-three tracts not included: 2-4; 6 8-13; 15-18; 21; 25-26; 30; 33-36; 38-39; 43; 46; 52-53; 55; 60; 65-66; 77; 80; 87 present as a title page in Welsh only; 106. Of the tracts present the majority are the first printings though a few of the more popular early tracts are present in later printings or editions though none obviously later than 1905. The Fabian Society unknown
191943080Detroit: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union 1919. First Edition. Quarto 30cm. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 ; slightly worn with wrappers darkened and stained contents slightly age-toned with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; Just Good. Hand-stamp of the SLP / Detroit to front cover. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union. The WIIU the labor union arm of the Socialist Labor Party was effectively formed in 1908 following the split of the SLP faction from the Industrial Workers of the World; the group identified itself as the 'Detroit IWW' until 1915 at which point the name was changed to Workers International Industrial Union a typically De Leonist mouthful!. The WIIU never throve; its membership probably never numbered above about 2500 workers a number that dropped quickly following the death of Daniel De Leon in 1915. By the 1920s the WIIU was an afterthought and the group was finally disbanded in 1925.<br /> <br /> Contents include articles by Michael Altschuler Herman Richter W.J. Dodge and others; literary contributions by Fred H. Hartmann Richard Le Galienne William Morris and Walt Whitman; portraits and reproductions of artworks by Eugene Higgins Jan Styka and Eugene Chaperon. An attractive and rather uncommon American labor souvenir book; OCLC notes 6 physical locations for any issue 2018. Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union unknown
191943046Detroit / Troy: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union 1919 - 1923. First Edition. Quarto 30cm. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 in clean unmarked condition Very Good or better. Issue for 1923 worn with wrappers darkened and stained contents slightly age-toned with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; complete and just Good. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union. The WIIU the labor union arm of the Socialist Labor Party was effectively formed in 1908 following the split of the SLP faction from the Industrial Workers of the World; the group identified itself as the 'Detroit IWW' until 1915 at which point the name was changed to Workers International Industrial Union a typically De Leonist mouthful!. The WIIU never throve; its membership probably never numbered above about 2500 workers a number that dropped quickly following the death of Daniel De Leon in 1915. By the 1920s the WIIU was an afterthought and the group was finally disbanded in 1925.<br /> <br /> Contents include articles by Michael Altschuler Herman Richter W.J. Dodge Henry Kuhn and others; literary contributions by Samuel French Fred H. Hartmann Richard Le Galienne William Morris and Walt Whitman; portraits and reproductions of artworks by Eugene Higgins Jan Styka and Eugene Chaperon. An attractive and rather uncommon American labor souvenir book; OCLC notes 6 physical locations for any issue 2018; the 1923 issue printed on clearly inferior paper probably a reflection of the Union's impending demise appears to be in the catalogue of only a single OCLC member institution NYPL. Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union unknown
192834089Detroit: Hoffman Photo Studios 1928. Original vintage print sight area ca 27cm x 45cm ca 11-1/2" x 17". Captioned in image. Professionally matted and framed with UV-protective plexiglas glazing. Sight condition fine; not examined out of frame. The portrait studio of Tomasz Hoffman 1892-1978 specialized in serving Detroit's Polish community producing work from the early 1920s through the 1940s. This attractive group portrait of Detroit's Polish Socialist Club is taken in front of the group's headquarters the Dom Ludowy on Detroit's East Side. Hoffman Photo Studios unknown
191683564Chicago: Izdala RadniÄka Knjižara 1916. 12mo 19cm.; publisher's pale red staplebound card wrappers; 20pp. Minor wear and toning to wrappers; mild toning to text; Very Good or better. Slovak translation of an anonymous Russian Marxist theoretical work issued as Narodna Knjižnica Folk Library no. 9. Includes a chapter on the lumpenproletariat and anarchism. The source is possibly Pavel Rosenthal's "Люмпенпролетариат и революциÑ" "Lumpenproletariat & Revolution." St. Petersburg 1906. One copy located in OCLC Michigan as of 2024. Izdala RadniÄka Knjižara unknown
58533Milwaukee: Socialist Party 1933. Single sheet 9" x 24" folded to 9"x6" 10pp. Mild toning to margins; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Transcript of an extemporaneous speech delivered by Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan answering attacks against his administration's decision to issue city-backed bonds here called "scrip" rather than borrowing cash to address its outstanding budget deficit. The bonds were issued in six series between 1933 and 1938 and have been credited with saving the city from bakruptcy during the worst years of the Great Depression. Hoan 1881-1961 served as Milwaukee's mayor from 1916 to 1940 still the longest continuous Socialist administration in American history. This a rather uncommon remnant of Milwaukee's socialist past; not noted in commerce with ten catalogued examples in OCLC member institutions. unknown
185082110Paris: Au Bureau du Nouveau Monde 1850. First impression of the 1850 edition. 12mo 18cm. Original printed wrappers bound into a 20th-century binding of 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards; 240pp. Rear wrapper advertisements for other publications by Nouveau Monde including works by Blanc Ledru-Rollin and Mazzini. Faint dampstain to upper portion of text affecting the final 40 or so leaves; old waste-paper reinforcements to interior wraps; binding a touch rubbed at corners; still a crisp Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> An important edition of Blanc's most celebrated work among the most influential early theoretical works of Socialism described by one historian as ".a sensation - and ground-breaking. It had little in common with prior utopian socialist ideas . Louis Blanc was more clearly observant of the large-scale and deep social and economic changes wrought by the industrial revolution and ferocious in his conclusions.Blanc almost single-handedly converted the republican leaders and the rebellious Parisian masses to the socialist cause" see Gonçalo Fonseca; "Louis Blanc" at History of Economic Thought; on-line resource.<br /> <br /> The essay originally appeared in Blanc's own Revue du Progres in 1840 and was expanded and reprinted regularly over the following decade; the current edition the ninth was the first to appear after the Revolutions of 1848. This version contains further revisions and additions including most importantly the oft-borrowed phrase "Produra selon ses facultés et consommera selon ses besoins" generally translated into English as "From each according to their abilities; to each according to their needs" - an expression popularized by Marx but widely attributed to Blanc in the current edition of this work see "Notes From the Editors" Monthly Review v.66 no.3 July-Aug 2014. KRESS C.7283 the 5th edition; GOLDSMITH 34460 and 36031. Au Bureau du Nouveau Monde unknown
191541991New York: Louis Weitz 1915. First Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; 59pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and toned spine lettering partly effaced else Near Very Good internally near fine. "Peoples Educational Society" - upper cover. Socialist study of unemployment. A copy would be sent to Jack London in Honolulu prompting him to write to Weitz: "I think it is a good clean straight-from-the-shoulder presentation of the situation for the jobless ones. My congratulations" see "The Letters of Jack London 1913-1916" 1988 p. 1543. Quite uncommon with only five physical copies in OCLC as of September 2018 at Cornell Library of Congress U. Kansas Harvard and U. Wisconsin. Not in Egbert. Louis Weitz unknown
1918ZB329138London: Smith & Son 1918. 20 pp. paper wrappers extracted from larger bound volume & restapled library markings else good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. London: Smith & Son unknown
187941796New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company 1879. First Edition. 12mo 19cm.; publisher's light blue-grey decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt blue floral endpapers; 111pp. Extremities a bit worn with brief loss of cloth at spine ends corners bumped light soil spine a bit cocked else Good to Very Good overall. Virulently anti-socialist and -communist piece by the Congregationalist clergyman arguing that "To-day there is not in our language nor in any language a more hateful word than Communism.it meant and still means wages without work arson assassination anarchy" p. 24. An anonymously published response "A Reply to Roswell D. Hitchcock D.D. on Socialism" would be published the same year. Neither title appears in Egbert. Anson D.F. Randolph & Company unknown