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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
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
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.
19782090502113717877Not Available 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
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
19322091502135500013Japanese Institute of Socialism 1932. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 77 pages Size: 16 x 23 cm Japanese Institute of Socialism paperback
197017547New York: G. P. Putnam' Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine and top cover. Lacking DJ. Cover is clean and unworn. Corners sharp Binding sound tight and straight. Previous owner's name on ffep. There is a short personal inscription signed by the editor Buckley on the half-title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; Signed by Editor . G. P. Putnam' Sons hardcover
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
19392412n.p.: Intourist Inc. 1939. <br /><br />Red folder measuring 4 x 5 3/4 inches 150 x 113 mm containing 10 post cards. <br /><br />Souvenir folder issued to commemorate the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The folder consists of 10 post cards in black-and-white with descriptions in English French and Russian on the verso of each card. Perhaps not surprisingly two of the cards depict Lenin and Stalin while others show a model of the Soviet Union's pavilion a sailboat Red Square a Caucasian dance festival Theatre Square the fountains at Peterhof holiday makers on the Black Sea and a map showing Intourist offices around the Soviet Union. <br /><br />We find no institutional holdings in OCLC. No others in commerce July 2021. A complete set of this rare portfolio. <br /><br />CONDITION: Fading to lettering of folder along with some creases and edge wear. Toning to the verso of the cards. Overall Very Good or better. Intourist, Inc.
8413734312.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
19502009<p>Oberlin Ohio: Oberlin College 1950. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />16mo 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches; 170 x 115 mm 27 1 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />A lecture on the politicization of science and the controversy over genetics in the Soviet Union. The author Harriet B. Creighton was a professor of botany at Wellesley College. <br /><br />"Only an informed and alert public can defend the freedom of scientific inquiry and the right to base practice on scientifically established facts. In this defense each of us has his responsibility" she writes. SCARCE. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some edge wear and soiling to wrappers staples rusted tear to recto of lower wrapper. Otherwise bright and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy.</p> Oberlin College paperback
19562736<p>Chicago: Ceskoslovenská národní rada v Americe Czechoslovak National Council of America 1956.</p><p>A scarce satirical guidebook to Prague written by a Czech-American author who lived in Czechoslovakia highlighting the poor conditions under Communist rule. <br /><br />Want to know why the hotels are so expensive Translating from the Czech: You didn't realize what was included in the room price: free-of-charge eavesdropping on your phone maybe even a secret camera opening your mail without damaging the envelope and recording it in the police register photographing your more important correspondence. Want to look around Over here is the prison over there is secret police headquarters this is where Jan Masaryk was pushed out of a window to his death. <br /><br />Theres plenty more in this vein text entirely in Czech. The author Vlasta Vrázová 1900-1989 directed American relief work in Czechoslovakia in the years following World War II. In 1949 the Communist government held her for a week on espionage charges. She returned to the U.S. and became president of the staunchly anti-Communist Czechoslovak National Council of America the publisher of this volume. <br /><br />OCLC shows 16 institutional holdings. None in commerce. <strong>SCARCE</strong>. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto 8 ¾ x 5 ½ inches; 222 x 140 mm 32 pages in stapled red wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />CONDITION: Small tear to top corner of upper wrapper staples rusted some pencil erasures creasing and general handling wear. About Very Good. <br /><br /><br /><br /></p> Ceskoslovenská národní rada v Americe [Czechoslovak National Council of America] paperback
19482092902137302311Kaizo-sha 1948. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Kaizo-sha paperback
1980KOS01202901A modified company 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS01202901 A modified company paperback
1968M6279<p>London: Resurgence 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. VG. 4to 28pp including printed wrappers. Subscription form laid in. Scarce early issue of this important political and cultural magazine featuring a cover by Henri Chopin. Unmarked copy creasing to back cover.</p> London: Resurgence paperback
1968M6280<p>London: Resurgence 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. VG. 4to 28pp including printed wrappers. Subscription form laid in. Scarce early issue of this important political and cultural magazine featuring a cover and content related to the Gandhi Centenary. Unmarked copy light wear.</p> London: Resurgence paperback
19662667<p>London: Revolutionary Communist Party 1966. First Edition Thus. <br /><br />A scarce pamphlet published on the 10th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution. It includes material published in a 1956-57 edition plus additional material. The author Gerry Healy strongly denounces the Soviet invasion of Hungary and takes Western leftists to task for not supporting the workers' uprising. <br /><br />This edition was published as a "Newsletter Pamphlet" and includes considerable material on the uprising an article on workers' councils reprinted from the Newsletter of Nov. 12 1966 and a useful chronology of events in Hungary and Eastern Europe. The Newsletter was a publication of Britain's Revolutionary Communist Party. <br /><br />Copies of the original publication are available in the antiquarian book trade but this edition -- with additional material -- is much more scarce. <br /><br />PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches; 241 x 185 mm 20 pages in stapled illustrated wrappers soft cover. <br /><br />CONDITION: Two old price labels pasted to front cover bleeding through to verso some soiling to covers one case of underlining to a page. Overall Very Good or better. <br /><br /></p> [Revolutionary Communist Party] paperback
19742090502128703534socialist association 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: New book Number of copies: 1 socialist association paperback
97688Roma Istituto Grafico Il Vascello. In 8° bross. pp. 32 circa a fascicolo. Con scritti di Saragat Nenni Treves Cantimori Luzzatto Manacorda Perticone Basso . Disponiamo dei seguenti numeri: 1945 Anno primo nn° 1 - 2 - 5/6 - 7 piccole toccature - 1946 completo brunita in testa alla prima pagina del n° 6 - 1947 nn° 1/2 - 3/4. TUTTI Roma, Istituto Grafico Il Vascello 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
194135913Breslau: Gauverlag-Ns-Schlesien. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1941. Presumed 1st. Paperback. Photos; 4124 1 pages; So sa ich moskau so sa ich moskau so sa ich moskau . A notable action in Breslau was Battle of Breslau also known as the Siege of Breslau was a three-month-long siege of the city of Breslau in Lower Silesia Germany now Wroclaw Poland .German language. Includes Ukraine Mongolia Georgia Odessa Kiew etc. . Gauverlag-Ns-Schlesien paperback
1970002392Frankfurt Germany: Posev 1970. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Covers lt edgeworn scuffed & lt soiled reading crease on spine. Owner stamp inside front cover. Contents clean in tight binding. Last volume in the 6-vol Collected Works containing letters appeals essays media reports meeting minutes and relevant documents pertaining to Solzhenitsyn's struggle to have his work published in the Soviet Union following his exile. Also some literary criticism. All Russian text. 609 for Posev paperback
1330872053.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
