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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. 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 books
191412090Fitchburg MA: Suomalainen Sosialistinen Kustannusyhtio 1914. First American edition. Octavo 20cm; cloth boards; dustjacket; 437p. Tight clean copy Very Good or better. In original printed dustwrapper chipped at margins and with small clear-tape reinforcements at flap-folds; Good. Ursin 1854-1936 a major figure in early Finnish labor movements has been called the "Father of Finnish Socialism." The present anthology of Ursin's writings on labor subjects was produced by the Finnish-Socialist Publishing Company a publishing cooperative centered around the newspaper "Raivaaja" the Finnish labor weekly which has been in continuous publication since 1905. The present copy bears the ink ex-libris of one John R. Karvonen who was the defendant in a celebrated Massachusetts free speech case in 1914 arrested for parading with a red flag and convicted of inciting riot - qv. Feldman "Free Expression and Democracy in America" 2008 p.223. Very scarce in or out of jacket. Suomalainen Sosialistinen Kustannusyhtio unknown books
192314855Pasadena: by the Author 1923. Second Edition. Four 12mo volumes 18cm in uniform pictorial buff wrappers printed in black ink. Wrappers toned lightly soiled; one with a small 1/4" closed chip near upper spine; Very Good. Lacking wrap-around outer jacket as described in Ahouse never seen by us. The relatively uncommon wrappered issue comprising the entire Second Edition of 8000 copies. A bitter attack on the American university system with frequent reference to Sinclair's own experiences at Columbia University and with Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler whom Sinclair portrays as a puppet of the city's business interests. AHOUSE A30b. by the Author unknown books
19188078Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1918. First Edition. Original printed wrappers; 31pp. Chips to wrapper edges; neat repair to small section at fore edge of front cover; mild tanning to text; Good or better. A Rationalist analysis of the European war with much criticism of its religious and capitalist origins. HUNSBERGER 117. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
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 books
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 books
197029917New York: Socialist Workers Party Young Socialist Campaign Committee 1970. First Edition. Quarto 28.5cm.; single sheet folded twice; photographic illus. About Fine. Only issue of a magazine "written for and by the youth who endorse the Socialist Workers Party 1970 election campaign" supporting African-American activist Clifton DeBerry for governor of New York. Includes the piece "Fight for High School Rights" and a list of demands among them to end the war in Vietnam "mass independent Black and Puerto Rican political parties" "free abortion and birth control" "No cops in schools" "Preferential hiring of Afro-Americans Puerto Ricans and women" "Free the Panther 21" and finally "For a socialist America." 2 holdings in OCLC as of May 2016 at Harvard and Wisconsin Historical Society. Socialist Workers Party, Young Socialist Campaign Committee unknown books
191717340Wilkes-Barre PA: Tlacou "Bratstva 1917. First Edition. 16mo 15cm. Staple-bound pamphlet; 43pp. Text browned and slightly brittle; covers slightly soiled; Good. Anti-socialist tract by a Pennsylvania Slovak priest. The author also penned a American-Slovak language primer 1924 but the present title does not appear in the catalog of any OCLC member institution. Tlacou "Bratstva unknown books
190916299Boston: George B. Hugo 1909. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Publisher's green cloth boards lettered in black on front cover; 60 1pp. Ink presentation inscription from George B. Hugo to front endpaper dated 1913. Mild cover soil and spotting; still a tight well-preserved copy VG or better. Final page reprints the "Declaration of Principles of the Employers' Association of Massachusetts - Organized for Law and Order and Industrial Peace. Full transcript of the debate including occasional interjections from the audience. Since the volume was published at Mr. Hugo's expense we may assume he thought himself the victor; though he notes in his foreword that ".they the Socialists submitted their own copy for publication which being incorrect and slackly handled I refused to countenance.they nevertheless proceeded to publish it ignoring the law in question quite in accordance with established Socialistic tenets." We have never encountered the version published by the Socialist Party Club of Boston but we imagine that a side-by-side comparison of the two would prove instructive. George B. Hugo unknown books
191941717New York: Boni & Liveright 1919. First Edition. Small octavo 19cm. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; frontispiece portrait; ix244pp. Shallow chip to cloth at base of spine else a tight well-preserved copy in the very uncommon pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket with brief losses at head and heel of spine panel not approaching text mild abrasions to front panel and mild overall soil but still a Very Good example. Ownership signature of California historian and author Charles Elmer Upton. Standard biography written during the 1920 Presidential campaign in which Debs ran as a candidate from his jail cell in Atlanta's Woodstock Prison and still polled nearly a million votes. Forbidden by his jailers to write Debs reputedly composed the book's introduction verbally while Karsner transcribed it. Offers a detailed though partisan account of Debs's arrest and imprisonment for opposing U.S. entry in to the First World War with additional chapters on his early career as a trade unionist and co-founder of the American Socialist Party. Rarely seen in dustwrapper. Boni & Liveright unknown books
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
191735140Boston: Hayrenik'" Tparan 1917. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black; 492pp.; photographic frontispiece 29 plates chiefly portraits. Very slightly ex-University of Michigan Library with their rubberstamp to textblock fore-edge light shelf wear brief dampstain to rear cover else Very Good and sound though the interior does have a bit of a smoky odor. History of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation "Dashnaktsutyun" the nationalist and socialist political party founded in 1890 by Christapor Mikaelian Stepan Zorian and Simon Zavarian. This account is published by the Federation's Boston-based newspaper "Hayrenik" Fatherland three years into the Armenian Genocide a period of almost ten years during which the Ottoman Empire systematically killed 1.5 million Armenians including many members of the Federation. Hayrenik'" Tparan unknown books
191043026New York: Arbeiter Ring aka Workmens Circle 1910. First Edition. Small octavo 18.5cm. Printed thick paper wrappers; 256 pp; 16 unnumbered leaves of plates; illus; portraits. Mild external rubbing and wear; text clean tight and unmarked - a Very Good copy. Text in Yiddish but for a few captions in English. Souvenir book and organizational history issued in conjunction with the tenth anniversary convention of Der Arbeiter Ring aka The Workmens Circle a Jewish-American labor association and mutual-aid society that formed following the massive waves of Yiddish immigration following the Russian and European pogroms of the Eighteen-eighties and Nineties. The Workmens Circle is still in existence as a Jewish cultural and liberal political organization but at the time of this publication the Circle's aims were essentially Marxist in line with those of the left wing of the American Socialist Party with which many of its members were closely affiliated. In keeping with the sense of accomplishment that the organization's members would have felt having survived both Russian pogroms and ten years in a New World barely more sympathetic to Jewish culture than the Old this souvenir book is rather elaborately produced with numerous halftone plates reproducing photographs and drawings as well as many illustrations in text. Arbeiter Ring [aka Workmens Circle] unknown books
19091228London: The Fabian Society 1909. First Edition First Printing. Pamphlet criticizing the conservative anti-socialist writer and economist W.H. Mallock. According to Shaw Mallock believes that inventors and other people of exceptional ability have no reason to share their earnings with others. Mallock in letters to newspapers reprinted here says he doesn't make any such contention in his writings giving Shaw the opportunity to attack him further. Fabian Tract No. 146. 8vo 8 1/2 inches / 21 1/2 cm 23 1 pages in stapled red wrappers. Photographic portrait of Shaw by Marie Leon. Wrappers are rather brittle and age-toned front cover loose but still holding. Small split at the head of the spine and several nicks and tears to the covers especially the rear cover. Vertical crease throughout. Although this pamphlet has been reprinted several times and in different formats copies of this first edition are uncommon to the market. SCARCE. <br/><br/> The Fabian Society 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
1972913New York: Capitol Hill Press 1972. Revised Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper: "Many thanks - / to / Tom Moran / Herbert A. Philbrick / 1972." Philbrick's account of his nine years in the Communist Party working as a spy for the FBI. Originally published in 1950 the book was updated and reissued in 1972. It was also the basis of a television series in the mid-1950s called Three Lives. Foreword by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 8vo 306 pages. Red remainder mark on bottom page edges light stain on rear pastedown. Otherwise Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket that has some nicks creases and rubbing as well as ownership signature on the front flap. <br/><br/> Capitol Hill Press unknown 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
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
19392354New York: New York Labor News Company 1939. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 187 x 127 mm 76 2 pages in illustrated stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Socialist Labor Party pamphlet celebrating the life and achievements of Daniel De Leon an important figure in the party and a Marxist theoretician. <br /><br />CONDITION: Soiling to wrappers edge wear corners bumped but otherwise clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. <br /><br /><br /> New York Labor News Company paperback books
19341495New York: New York Labor News Company 1934. First Edition. 12mo 7 1/4 inches / 185 mm tall 63 1 pages in bound wrappers. Light soiling to wrappers general handling wear. Pages clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Defense of Marxist principles by a leader of the Socialist Labor Party published by the party's New York Labor News Company. Black-and-white frontispiece of Marx plus three plates showing various places in London where Marx worked and lived. <br/><br/> New York Labor News Company unknown 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
19452353New York: New York Labor News Co. 1945. 4th Printing. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 184 x 126 mm 39 9 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />Ferocious attack on William Z. Foster a longtime senior official of the Communist Party who gets tagged as a "war monger" "liberty bond salesman" "fraud" "Anarchist microbe" "mediocre personality" and similar terms of endearment. The Socialist Labor Party which the author led was a bitter foe of the Communists. <br /><br />This pamphlet was originally issued in 1932. Our copy is the 4th printing from August 1945 presumably updated because the Communist Party ousted Earl Browder as leader and installed William Z. Foster to succeed him. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical crease probably from mailing ink smudges to lower wrapper but internally clean and unmarked. About Very Good. <br /> New York Labor News Co. books
2005219339San Francisco: The Party for Socialism and Liberation 2005. Pamphlet. 28 26 iip. wraps 5.5x8.5 inches very good condition. Text in English and Spanish back to back format. The Party for Socialism and Liberation unknown books
19522001West Haven Connecticut: Foundation for Promoting Enduring Peace 1952. No Edition Stated.<br /><br />Single sheet folded to create 4 pages each measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches 279 x 216 mm. <br /><br />Rare leaflet on U.S.-Soviet relations from a Christian Left perspective. The author pleads for better understanding of Russian history arguing that the country has made great strides since the October Revolution. He also says the Soviets feel encircled by hostile forces pointing to Western military bases along the country's perimeters. <br /><br />The format of this leaflet is a bit odd: the first three pages are professionally printed while the last page appears to be mimeographed. The publisher the Foundation for Promoting Enduring Peace was established in 1952 to promote world peace and oppose military conflict. <br /><br />OCLC shows no institutional holdings although a separate search turns up a copy in the Kringlock Pamphlet Collection of the University of Iowa. Nor were there any copies in commerce as of January 2021. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some toning along edges general handling wear two horizontal folds perhaps for mailing. A Very Good copy. Foundation for Promoting Enduring Peace books
19422357New York: New York Labor News Company 1942. 12mo 7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 128 mm 48 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />Questions and answers about socialism from the standpoint of the Socialist Labor Party. <br /><br />CONDITION: Vertical crease throughout soiling creasing sunning and rubbing to wrappers corners bumped some page corners creased. About Good. New York Labor News Company paperback books
