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199984402New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1999. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth spine over black paper covered boards titled and ruled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xxvii; 635pp. Very light wear to spine ends; internally clean illustrated throughout; in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. <br /> <br /> An academic analysis of the depradations of Stalin's ruling party during the pogroms and cleansings in the few years immediately prior to WW2 compiled from previously secret of inaccessible documents and testimonies. Yale University Press unknown
191917439Chicago: Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States 1919. First American Edition. 12mo 18cm. Printed card wrappers; 127pp. Very mild external wear; faint spotting to a few pages of text; Near Fine in the original wrappers. Probable first printing in America of Trotsky's account of the October revolution. English editions appeared the same year in London and Brooklyn but it is likely that this German-language version translated from the Russian by German-American scholar Jacob Wittmer Hartmann precedes any English edition. Interestingly a German translation had already appeared in Berlin in 1918 but the German-language group of the Socialist Party commissioned this new translation from Hartmann for the American edition. Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States unknown
198081760Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures."<br /> <br /> Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown
196912628Havana: Union de Jovenas Comunistas 1969. Seven newspapers each between 6 and 8pp. on newsprint. Illustrated. Modest toning some edge wear and closed tears some bumped or dog-eared corners. Overall very good. A small but instant collection of an informative newspaper from Communist Cuba published daily by the youth wing of the Party. The issues are all dated in January 1969 specifically from January 11 15 22 28 29 30 and 31. The issues contain domestic and international reporting along with topics relevant to revolutionary young people. Interestingly one issue contains a translated interview with Hollywood legend Marlon Brando. The paper also prints a legion of photographs cultural event listings classifieds baseball statistics and updates cartoons and more. Union de Jovenas Comunistas unknown
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
88373Philadelphia: Iran Student Association 1983. Two issues in original wrappers. Stapled paper self-wraps covers printed in two colors; 28pp 36pp; illus. Mild foxing at margins else Very Good. Text entirely in English.<br /> <br /> Organ of the American student arm of the Iranian People's Fedayee Fedai Guerrillas an Iranian guerrilla communist group that opposed both Western capitalism and the 1979 Islamic Revolution the latter chiefly from exile. This group is not to be confused with the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas from which the IPFG split in 1979 citing the former's lack of dedication to the principles of armed struggle. The magazine's contents are a combination of attacks on Iran's "imperialist" Islamic regime and on the foreign policy of the United States which the organization blames for laying the foundation for the Islamic revolution beginning with the CIA coup of 1953. A rare publication from a key period in modern Iranian history before the Islamic Republic had irrevocably consolidated power. This periodical rare; OCLC notes only about five locations for any holdings in the U.S. all for later issues. unknown
193481518New York: International Publishers 1934. First Edition. Oblong quarto 23cm x 27cm. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; 62pp; illus. A remarkably bright unworn copy with minimal rubbing to board corners with the pictorial elements bright and unfaded. Internally clean and unmarked with joints and hinges tight; Near Fine. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. There was also an issue in plain black bookcloth priority uncertain. <br /> <br /> A biographical encomium to Lenin for juvenile readers with illustrations by the New Masses cartoonist William Siegel. A great example of "party-approved" literature for children during the heyday of communism in America an unusually well-preserved copy. International Publishers unknown
77437Small poster 8 1/2" x 14" photomechanically reproduced on white paper. Two-sided with the text in English on one side and Spanish on the other. Creased horizontally with some mild toning; else very good.<br /> <br /> This piece was intended to raise awareness of an April 24 1980 march and memorial meeting in Oakland California organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party in honor of Damian Garcia who was murdered two days earlier while distributing party literature at the Pico Gardens housing project in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> Garcia a U.C. Santa Barbara graduate who served as executive director of La Casa de la Raza during the mid-1970s was a prominent RCP member who led one of the group's most notable actions: raising the red flag over the Alamo in San Antonio on March 20 1980. Throwing down the Texas flag Garcia declared "We've come to set the record straight about the Alamo. This is a symbol of the theft of Mexican land a symbol about the murder of Mexicans and Indians and a symbol of oppression of Chicanos and Mexicanos throughout the whole Southwest." He also called on people together with the proletariat worldwide to come out in struggle on May 1: International Workers Day.<br /> <br /> Following Garcia's death the RCP claimed that his murder was a result of this action and alleged Los Angeles Police Department involvement. The party also refused to cooperate in the investigation and organized demonstrations against both the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles including a May Day march in Los Angeles that was forcibly dispersed by riot clad police officers. As the RCP's first and only martyr Garcia remains an important propaganda symbol for the organization and frequently appears in the RCP newspaper The Revolutionary Worker. unknown
13603Heraklion Crete Greece. 12 January 1947. 4pp. 8vo. 96 lines of text. On paper ruled for accounts. On lightly-aged paper with loss to corners and at central edge affecting a few lines of text. Accompanying the letter is a translation 2pp. 8vo by Colin Jordan with the assistance of Dr Loukas Christodloulos. The letter is of great interest casting light on Leigh Fermor's activities in Crete in the period following the Second World War. The identity of 'Haris' is not immediately apparent: he does not appear to feature in George Psychoundakis's account of the Cretan resistance 'The Cretan Runner' 1955 which was translated by Leigh Fermor. Addressing 'Mr. Leigh Fermor' the author of the letter begins in reproachful terms: 'After my third letter you remain silent. I write now with a big question mark: why this is happening and why you are ignoring my thoughts and my offer in general' He asks Fermor 'for the sake of our friendship and co-operation and for our land of Crete' to guide him in his thoughts and to advise him in his actions 'and to help me in my efforts against the slanderers and the malevolent enemies of our union'. He desires Leigh Fermor's 'co-operation against the transformation of Crete and Greece my country into a Soviet protectorate.' He proceeds to report on 'the situation that exists': 'The Communist newspaper "Free Crete" has begun again a serious campaign against the English generally and in particular against us Major Fielding Major Alexander Wallace 'Xan' Fielding who like Leigh Fermor was in the SOE in Crete during the war and Kyrios Giorgos. They claim that the crimes of killing a villager from Potamiko Nikos Komi of another from Heraklion prior to the referendum others from Apokoronou and from Hania family murders for revenge and political party murders were done by you that you organized them that is and ordered their execution by your people.' A further claim is that 'from the time of the occupation' Leigh Fermor has been 'organizing here the ground for the occupation of Crete by the English and the creation of military bases since Alexandria is hostile towards Egypt and you are using that against her'. In his view it is easy to refute the Apokorona and Hania murder charges 'since it's commonly known that they were done by locals for revenge and due to political hatred and had nothing whatsoever to do with our work. The murder of the police officer from Heraklion happened before your arrival here in September. As for the killing of Komi at Potamiko the same man wrote a letter that he did it because of personal motives and not following orders from yourself.' He proposes to write 'to the newspapers of the Right-wing here that your visit to Crete was entirely a holiday trip to see your friends and that the villager's murder was done before you came. Also that the Hana murder had other purposes and that you and the English generally have never thought of occupying Crete and that you have always acted from friendship. I will also go to the prison and I will oblige Nikos Komis to sign a letter of protest against the writings of the "Free Crete" newspaper.' He will take responsibility for the publication 'as I did a few days ago when I published articles about English/Greek friendship in the <.>IDI and PATRIDA newspapers. Regarding 'the Communist nightmare that threatens all of us with destruction': 'Once again I give my life and for that thought I would gladly sacrifice. The communists know this and consider me their enemy like nobody else.' He ends with an enquiry regarding 'the Anglo-Greek Society at Heraklion that you had promised back in September'. Heraklion [Crete, Greece]. 12 January 1947. unknown
18771Heraklion Crete Greece. 12 January 1947. 4pp. 8vo. 96 lines of text. On paper ruled for accounts. On lightly-aged paper with loss to corners and at central edge affecting a few lines of text. Accompanying the letter is a translation 2pp. 8vo by Colin Jordan with the assistance of Dr Loukas Christodloulos. The letter is of great interest casting light on Leigh Fermor's activities in Crete in the period following the Second World War. The identity of 'Haris' is not immediately apparent: he does not appear to feature in George Psychoundakis's account of the Cretan resistance 'The Cretan Runner' 1955 which was translated by Leigh Fermor. Addressing 'Mr. Leigh Fermor' the author of the letter begins in reproachful terms: 'After my third letter you remain silent. I write now with a big question mark: why this is happening and why you are ignoring my thoughts and my offer in general' He asks Fermor 'for the sake of our friendship and co-operation and for our land of Crete' to guide him in his thoughts and to advise him in his actions 'and to help me in my efforts against the slanderers and the malevolent enemies of our union'. He desires Leigh Fermor's 'co-operation against the transformation of Crete and Greece my country into a Soviet protectorate.' He proceeds to report on 'the situation that exists': 'The Communist newspaper "Free Crete" has begun again a serious campaign against the English generally and in particular against us Major Fielding Major Alexander Wallace 'Xan' Fielding who like Leigh Fermor was in the SOE in Crete during the war and Kyrios Giorgos. They claim that the crimes of killing a villager from Potamiko Nikos Komi of another from Heraklion prior to the referendum others from Apokoronou and from Hania family murders for revenge and political party murders were done by you that you organized them that is and ordered their execution by your people.' A further claim is that 'from the time of the occupation' Leigh Fermor has been 'organizing here the ground for the occupation of Crete by the English and the creation of military bases since Alexandria is hostile towards Egypt and you are using that against her'. In his view it is easy to refute the Apokorona and Hania murder charges 'since it's commonly known that they were done by locals for revenge and due to political hatred and had nothing whatsoever to do with our work. The murder of the police officer from Heraklion happened before your arrival here in September. As for the killing of Komi at Potamiko the same man wrote a letter that he did it because of personal motives and not following orders from yourself.' He proposes to write 'to the newspapers of the Right-wing here that your visit to Crete was entirely a holiday trip to see your friends and that the villager's murder was done before you came. Also that the Hana murder had other purposes and that you and the English generally have never thought of occupying Crete and that you have always acted from friendship. I will also go to the prison and I will oblige Nikos Komis to sign a letter of protest against the writings of the "Free Crete" newspaper.' He will take responsibility for the publication 'as I did a few days ago when I published articles about English/Greek friendship in the <.>IDI and PATRIDA newspapers. Regarding 'the Communist nightmare that threatens all of us with destruction': 'Once again I give my life and for that thought I would gladly sacrifice. The communists know this and consider me their enemy like nobody else.' He ends with an enquiry regarding 'the Anglo-Greek Society at Heraklion that you had promised back in September'. Heraklion [Crete, Greece]. 12 January 1947. unknown
191983563Chicago: Jugosl. Medjunarodnog Soc. Saveza 1919. 12mo 17cm. Staple-bound printed pale blue wrappers; 28pp. Mild toning and soil to wrapper edges; expected tanning to text; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Scarce American Croat translation of Trotsky's Manifesto of the Communist International which had originally appeared in Issue no. 1 of The Communist International the Comintern's theoretical organ. The translator of this edition is unidentified; nor is there any mention of Trotsky as author. Hoover Institution only in OCLC. Jugosl. Medjunarodnog Soc. Saveza unknown
19582004Washington D.C.: Press Office-German Embassy 1958. No Edition Stated. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 19 1 pages in stapled wrappers. With a compliments card laid in. <br /><br />Transcript of a speech by Ernst Lemmer a German government minister about the worsening refugee crisis. He notes that millions have fled the German Democratic Republic -- which he calls the Soviet Zone -- since 1949. <br /><br />He blames increasing "Sovietization" of the GDR and denies GDR assertions that West Germany is enticing people to leave. An interesting insight into West Germany's growing alarm about the tide of refugees from the GDR. The Communist regime of course would build the Wall less than three years later. SCARCE.<br /><br />OCLC shows about a dozen institutional holdings. Scarce in commerce. <br /><br />An interesting insight into West Germany's growing alarm about the tide of refugees from the GDR. The Communist regime of course would build the Wall less than three years later. SCARCE.<br /><br />CONDITION: Toning to edges a few light creases internally clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Press Office-German Embassy
036559427X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19713912<p>Oruro Bolivia: CEDI 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. VG. 8vo 282pp printed wrappers. Rare original edition of this revolutionary memoir published in Bolivia. In Spanish. Unmarked copy a bit of reading wear.</p> Oruro, Bolivia: CEDI paperback
1957833Plain printed and staple bound wraps. 205pp. Crease to front wrap previous owner's initials. Ownership stamp on front wrap reads "Commonwealth of Massachusetts / Dept. of Public Safely / Div. of Subversive Activities / Boston Mass." An investigation and report on the case against Professor Dirk J Struik of MIT a Dutch Marxist and mathematician who was accused of being a Soviet spy. Commonwealth of Massachusetts paperback
193756650Brussels: CILACC 1937. fair. 19 wraps footnotes bibliography text darkened small pieces missing to text and cover edges covers darkened. Cover edges reinforced with tape. Text is in French. Translation of French title: Anti-Communist Documentation: Comintern in "Peaceful" Action. Using data gleaned from Russian periodicals such as Pravda Bolshevik and Izvestia CILACC exposed the contradictions in Soviet propanda and used it to undermine official Stalinist rhetoric and the image of the "beloved leader." CILACC paperback
19572127<p>Paris: Editions Présence africaine 1957. <br /><br />A letter from the Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire to Maurice Thorez secretary general of the French Communist Party. Césaire announces his resignation from the party citing Stalin's crimes and the party's treatment of nonwhite people.</p><p>Césaire's letter is dated October 24 1956 one day after the start of the Hungarian Uprising against the Soviet Union and eight months following Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" documenting Stalin's crimes. <br /><br />"I think I have said enough to make it plain that it's neither Marxism nor Communism I repudiate; that the use certain people have made of Marxism and Communism is what I condemn" Césaire writes. "That what I want is that Marxism and Communism be harnessed into the service of colored peoples and not colored peoples into the service of Marxism and Communism." pages 11-12. Pamphlet entirely in English.<br /><br />While this pamphlet is widely held by institutions it's uncommon in commerce. SCARCE.</p><p>PHYSICAL DETAILS: 12mo 7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 113 mm 15 1 pages in stapled green-gray wrappers with errata slip pasted to recto of lower wrapper soft cover.<br /><br />CONDITION: Light soiling to wrappers some light creasing to pages but clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of a scarce publication.</p> Editions Présence africaine 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
1949183227No stated place: Zhonggong zhongyang huajong ju "Middle China Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party" c.1949. First edition thus number 126 of an unknown internal distribution gathering together documents and speech transcripts issued by central party authorities in the decisive two years of the Chinese civil war. As the communist victory became inevitable the party's focus switched to preparing its burgeoning ranks of cadres for the many challenges of government. This anthology was printed for cadres in the Middle China Bureau which had been founded in 1941 under the leadership of Liu Shaoqi to oversee New Fourth Army operations. In May 1949 the leadership was transferred to Lin Biao Mao's superstar general and future heir apparent. Octavo. Text in Chinese. Original grey wrappers spine and front cover lettered in black. A few reader marks internally. Tidemarks spine worn in places front cover with simple old paper repair on verso foxing and staining internally: very good. unknown
39London: Victor Gollancz 1935. Hard bound first edition. Very good with some spotting and chips to head of dust jacket spine. Scarce in dust jacket. 355 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. London: Victor Gollancz, 1935 unknown
1949182587Shanghai: Taipingyang chubanshe 1949. First edition of this large political visualization significant for its publication date only a few weeks before the founding of the People's Republic of China. It reflects an increased demand for material explaining the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party caused by the party's victory in the civil war and the complete collapse of the Kuomintang on the mainland. The table presents some of the core ideas of Marxism tracking economic and cultural evolution from primitive through to capitalist and then socialist societies. The columns address such criteria as modes and means of production vanguard revolutionary forces and class relations. Although the table accommodates a transitional period from capitalism and socialism this differs from the "new democracy" approach favoured by Mao in the PRC's early years. Printed table 530 x 680 mm folding away into 157 x 107 mm card wrappers front cover lettered in red within black frame. Table in Chinese text printed in red and black. Table with 140 mm closed tear sometime repaired on recto with adhesive tape small split at one intersection unknown
1947182588Shexian: Taihang qunzhing shudian "Taihang People's Bookstore" 1947. Maoism made official First edition thus. Passed at the party's seventh congress in 1945 the constitution for the first time formalized "Mao Zedong Thought" as the guiding ideology of Chinese communism. Following the historic congress the new constitution was disseminated by local printers in the rural base areas under party control. This example was issued in the foothills of the Taihang Mountains near the capital of the strategically important Shanxi-Hobei-Shandong-Henan "liberated zone." In 1948 Mao took up residence in nearby Xibaipo where he lived until his triumphant entry into Beijing in March 1949. This first printing dates to September 1947. Subsequent printings appeared in December 1947 and several times in 1948 but they did not have a frontispiece. Rural printers had access to only the most rudimentary facilities and the vast majority of base-area publications have now perished. Octavo pp. ii 27 1. Half-tone frontispiece portrait of Mao decoration above table of contents. Text in Chinese. Original illustrated wrappers front cover lettered in black. Tidemark at head of volume spine worn split at head of front joint chip to front cover several gatherings uncut: a very good copy typical of publications printed in the Chinese Communist Party's rural base areas. unknown
19411284Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Communist Party n.d. 1941. No edition stated. <br /><br />Single sheet of newsprint folded to create four pages of approximately 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches 211 x 266 mm. <br /><br />Rare announcement of a speech by Communist Party Chairman William Z. Foster in Los Angeles a little more than a month after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The announcement appears at the beginning of a text in which the Party calls for the U.S. to spare no effort in defeating Germany: "There can be no peace for the peoples of the world without the complete destruction of Hitler and Hitlerism. Hitler fascism stands exposed as the greatest and main enemy of the peoples of the world."<br /><br />Prior to Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union the Communist Party strongly opposed U.S. involvement in World War II maintaining that the fight between Germany and Britain was an imperialist war. Obviously that policy changed 180 degrees following the German invasion of the USSR. <br /><br />An interesting look at how the Communist Party's position drastically shifted after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. <br /><br />No institutional copies found in OCLC. None in commerce in February 2022. <b>RARE.</b><br /><br />CONDITION: Evenly toned pencil notation at top left corner of cover page couple small closed tears. Horizontal fold probably due to mailing. A Very Good copy. Los Angeles County Communist Party
196816320Premier issue. 'Only daily Marxist newspaper in the USA'. Clean covers and interior; appears unread but newsprint has age darkened; remains supple enough for careful reading. 12 pp centerfold newspaper with 12 pp centerfold 'magazine' in center - same size; paged separately. Articles on: Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City; Vietnam War; peace activism; French politics; Steelworkers and other union activists; taxes; Democrats; Eugene McCarthy; Olympic boycott; james Earl Ray; CP convention. Magazine insert has: interview with Ho Chi Minh; article by Pete Seeger; article on hear transplants; editorial about Israel; movie book TV and theater reviews; much more. Newspaper that followed demise of The Daily Worker and The Worker. Published until 1986 when it merged with People's World to become People's Daily World then People's World which is now an on-line news site. Cf OCLC #41418856. Large folio 24 total pp; illustrated with photos and drawings. Long View Publishing paperback
19411280<p>Single sheet 8 1/2 x 11 inches 217 x 280 mm printed on one side only. </p><p>A Communist Party USA flyer issued in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. It calls for a united front in the fight against the Axis powers and total mobilization of industry. "The Communist Party pledges its loyalty its devoted labor and last drop of its blood in support of our country in this greatest of all the crises that has ever threatened its existence."<br /></p><p>No institutional holdings found in OCLC. SCARCE.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Heavily toned folded for mailing some pencil notations. About Very Good.<br /></p> Los Angeles County Communist Party
