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190688451Chicago Ill: Charles H. Kerr & Co. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1906 1907 1909. First Editions First Printings. Three Volumes. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publisher's deep maroon ribbed cloth titled in gilt to spines and ruled in blind to boards. 869pp.; 618pp.; 1048pp. Generally strong and tight; mild scuffing and to spine ends and corners and a few minor exterior stains. Spine gilt is significantly oxidized to Vol II as is usually seen on the first printing; internally clean and fresh some very light spotting in places mainly confined to the page edges. A very good handsome set of first printings. <br /> <br /> A full set of first printings of this bibliographically complex edition issued over the course of three years. Marx published the first volume of his epic analysis of capitalism in German in 1867. The first translation into English was of Volume 1 only and was accomplished by Edward Aveling and Samuel Moore in 1887 based on the revised 4th German edition as edited by Engels. The 1906 first American printing under the Charles Kerr impint as here largely follows this translation with the subsequent translation work for Volumes II and III being performed by Ernest Untermann. Thus the earliest printings of the Kerr edition comprise the first complete edition of Capital in the English language. The printing was done in Chicago by James Higgins Kerr's printer of choice making this also the first complete edition of Capital to be printed entirely by a union-run print shop. Untermann did most of his translation work from remote Florida beginning the effort in 1905 discovering in the process a number of indices footnotes and at least ten pages of text that Aveling and Moore had not included in their London edition - making the Kerr edition the most complete up to its time. <br /> <br /> Kerr burned through the first two-thousand copy print run of Volume I almost immediately and rushed to get Volume II out by July 1907. It's very possible that financial constraints were already making themselves known by Volume II as Kerr was selling the books at a loss to encourage sales; the almost ubiquitous oxidation of the gilt on Vol II is likely a result of experimental economy that swiftly failed. Vol III returns to the higher standards of the first volume. The bindings on the first printings also feature a triple blind rule to the ribbed cloth boards with subsequent printings having double rules. Kerr's reprint system seems to have incorporated dates on the title pages for some length of time with the dates on the copyright pages remaining unchanged; after a certain point around the early 1920's reprints were issued without dates to the title pages and any volume without a date can safely be deemed a post-1920s reprint. Issues of Kerr's International Socialist Review from the period of printing recount in detail some of his problems and concerns publishing and selling the work with detailed data on dates numbers of copies and the firm's hopes for the completed book. <br /> <br /> Genuine first printing sets of this important edition are tremendously scarce in commerce. The lack of any real bibliographical authority for the American edition combined with Kerr's generally lax approach to differentiating printings has over the years led to frequent errors and misjudgments on the part of cataloguers including in full disclosure ourselves. After a good deal of research most in the advertising pages of the International Socialist Review we're confident we've finally got it right. Charles H. Kerr & Co. [London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.] unknown
Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper to General R.E. Wood [1879-1969], under whose leadership Sears Roebuck was transformed from a mail-order to a retail sales behemoth. pp. [6], 7-90. "Communist plotters, in the United States as elsewhere, are preparing for the conquest of political power. The discerning student, however, should consider how interventionism, under various enticing labels, is setting the stage for the final overthrow of the voluntary society, the market economy and constitutional government. [This work], by a world-famous expert, will prove a valuable aid to understanding in this field. It will help to explain the errors of those who believe a system based on individual freedom can be 'mixed' with socialism." - Foreword. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Greaves & McGee B-14. Book
A document which should have rocked the USA to its core but was squelched by the very powers it exposed. In the course of her duties as legal analyst for the Committee, Kathryn Casey was granted access to the archived minutes of the board of directors of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. According to the Committee's Research Director Norman Dodd, it was here that Ms. Casey discovered the board's conclusion that the best way to create world government, and permanent peace, was to involve the United States in a terrible war. The Reece Committee and its findings came to prominence decades later when Norman Dodd, Research Director for the Committee, came forward with stunning revelations of the Committee's findings. Printed for the use of the committee, this booklet contains pages 627-665b from the printed hearings. Includes 20 tables, 12 charts and 10 data sheets. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Crease to lower corner. A sound copy of this powerful document. Book
187247305Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie 1872-1875. First French Edition. Large octavo 28.5cm.; original parts bound in early 20th century blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; 351pp.; pictorial half title and title pages full-paged steel-engraved portrait and facsimile additional vignettes throughout; text printed in double column. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped foxing and toning to preliminaries as well as minor dampstaining to last few leaves of text light foxing to rear cover; overall Very Good and sound. First appearance in French of Marx's "Das Kapital" the translation the only such to have been executed with the collaboration of the author whose letter to Lachatre appears in facsimile on p. 7: "J'applaudis à votre idée de publier la traduction de 'Das Kapital' en livraisons périodiques. Sous cette forme l'ouvrage sera plus accessible à la classe ouvrière et pour moi cette considération l'emporte sur toute autre" "I congratulate you on your idea to publish the translation of 'Das Kapital' as a periodical. In this format the work should be more accessible to the working class and to me this is more important than all else" our translation. Maurice Lachatre 1814-1900 was a Parisian radical bookseller publisher and collaborator of Félix Pyat's with whom Marx butted heads over the growth of the International Working Men's Association in France. Lachatre's projected publication of the anarchist newspaper "La Commune" nearly cost him his life after the fall of the Paris Commune when his bookshop was attacked with murderous intent by the Versaillaise army see "The Publisher's Weekly" Vol. 19 1881 pp. 50-1. It was while exiled first in Belgium and then Switzerland that Lachatre began work on publishing the present edition though he was not free to return to Paris until 1879. Maurice Lachatre et Cie unknown books
Inscribed and initialed by Polanyi to "Sir Ernest and Lady Simon", Sir Ernest Simon, The Lord Simon of Wythenshawe, and his wife, upon front free endpaper. Simon, a British industrialist, politician and public servant, had a long association with the University of Manchester where Polanyi was a professor at the time of publication. Ink stamp reading "University of Manchester Broomcroft Hall" atop front free endpaper and inside back board solidifies this provenance as it was then the residence of the Simons. ix, [1], 116 pages. Includes these essays: The Rights and Duties of Science (1939), Collectivist Planning (1940), Soviet Economics - Fact and Theory (1935), and Truth and Propaganda (1936). "In those years the ideas of liberty... were left almost uncultivated." - from Preface. Minimal faint pencil markings to contents. Average wear and some fading to publisher's pale green cloth which is sunned at spine. Binding intact. Heavy wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Today, the thoughts of the author, a scientist and philosopher who lived from 1891 to 1976, are faithfully upheld by a society named in his honour. Book
pp. [6], 7-181. Index. Maps and diagrams. "This book may help the reader to understand what secret forces are at the back of the many civil wars, strikes and acts of sabotage, that are so typical of our epoch, and how these are organized and conducted. The People's War destroys the soul of a nation, systematically leading it into disobedience and disrespect of law and order. As in all revolutions, the People's War means complete chaos, a savage struggle in which the end justifies the means, and vengeance, trickery, and even treachery, play a great part." - Introduction. Chapters include: Marxism and Modern Warfare; Strategy of Secret Warfare; Technique of Underground War; Defence (Against Underground Warfare). F.O. Miksche [1905-1992] wrote several books on military topics relating to WWII. Dust jacket not included. Moderate wear to publisher's black cloth. Binding intact. Former library copy with usual markings. A book for our times? Enser p.371. Book
187247305Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie 1872-1875. First French Edition. Large octavo 28.5cm.; original parts bound in early 20th century blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; 351pp.; pictorial half title and title pages full-paged steel-engraved portrait and facsimile additional vignettes throughout; text printed in double column. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped foxing and toning to preliminaries as well as minor dampstaining to last few leaves of text light foxing to rear cover; overall Very Good and sound. First appearance in French of Marx's "Das Kapital" the translation the only such to have been executed with the collaboration of the author whose letter to Lachatre appears in facsimile on p. 7: "J'applaudis à votre idée de publier la traduction de 'Das Kapital' en livraisons périodiques. Sous cette forme l'ouvrage sera plus accessible à la classe ouvrière et pour moi cette considération l'emporte sur toute autre" "I congratulate you on your idea to publish the translation of 'Das Kapital' as a periodical. In this format the work should be more accessible to the working class and to me this is more important than all else" our translation. Maurice Lachatre 1814-1900 was a Parisian radical bookseller publisher and collaborator of Félix Pyat's with whom Marx butted heads over the growth of the International Working Men's Association in France. Lachatre's projected publication of the anarchist newspaper "La Commune" nearly cost him his life after the fall of the Paris Commune when his bookshop was attacked with murderous intent by the Versaillaise army see "The Publisher's Weekly" Vol. 19 1881 pp. 50-1. It was while exiled first in Belgium and then Switzerland that Lachatre began work on publishing the present edition though he was not free to return to Paris until 1879. Maurice Lachatre et Cie 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
FT) Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 24; 56; 24; 15; 40; 12; 2; 6; 20; 47; 24; 32; 52; 16; 38 pages. In Russian. Title translates to English as, Diary of a Social Democrat. Menshevik journal edited by Plekhanov published sporadically from 1905-1911 containing open letters and polemics on various subjects. Issue no. 4 includes a letter directed To Comrade X, likely directed at Lenin, with whom he famously split a few years prior, and a direct response to Aleksandr Martinov. CONTENTS: Patriotizm I Sotsializm [Patriotism and Socialism] --- Nashe Polozhenie [Our Position] ---Esche o Nashem Polozhenii: Pismo k Tovarischu X [More on Our Position: A Letter to Comrade X] --- K Agrarnomu Voprosu v Rossii [On the Agrarian Issue in Russia] --- O Chrezvyshaynom Partiynom Sezde (Otkritoe Pismo k Tovarischam) [On the Emergency Party Congress (An Open Letter to the Comrades) ] --- O Vozobnovlenii Moego Dnevnik [On Resuming my Diary] --- Samoubiystvo ili Borba [Suicide or Struggle] --- Poslednee Plenarnoe Sobranie Nashego Tsentralnago Komiteta [The Last Plenary Meeting of our Central Committee] --- Legalnyya Rabochiya Organizatsii I Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya [Legal Labor Organizations and the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party] --- Polemicheskaya Bezpomoshnost (Otvet t. Martynovu) [Polemical Helplessness (A Response to c. Martinov) ] --- K Voprosu o Vozrozhdenii Nashey Partii [On the Issue of the Rebirth of our Party] --- Chrezvychaynyy Sezd Mezhdunarodnago Sotsialisticheskago Byuro [Emergency Congress of the International Socialist Bureau]. French title across top-margin: Le Journal dun Socialdemocrate. OCLC lists one copy (National Library of Israel) . Nos. 1 & 9 covers detached and worn at edges, but present. Supplement to No. 7 chipping at edges with minor loss of text. Remaining issues are nice and clean. Very Good Condition. (RUS-11-26A)
223, 16 (ads) pp. Index. "The problem of the Jews in Britain, and the power they wield in public affairs, is a matter of the most absorbing interest in these days when propaganda has clouded the issue and made it almost impossible for the ordinary man to see the subject in its true perspective. This book is a critical but strictly impartial analysis written by a well-known Fleet Street journalist who has studied the whole problem for a number of years in the light of events since the Great War." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's orange cloth. Binding intact. Small contemporary Buenos Aires bookseller's sticker inside front board. Above-average wear to dust jacket, now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Singerman 494. Book
Very Good Turkish Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 305, [1] p., errata. Extremely rare in this condition and in original wrappers. Fading on spine, slight stains on cover. Untrimmed. Otherwise a very good copy. Repaired by tape on the front cover's bottom corner. Yorulmaz's rare first Turkish translation of 'Das Kapital' has been the subject of many 'translation studies'. The most important work in the entrepreneurship of Yorulmaz's left thought repertoire that was published within his cultural series was 'Sermaye [= Das Kapital]'. Published as the 7th book of 'the Capital Culture Series', an abridged translation of Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Yorulmaz wrote about his translation: "I had an experience on these empty days and I am translating and publishing a loyal story of 14 volumes, "Das Kapital", collected by Gabriel Dövil. If this abridged edition is requested, I will finally begin with these 14 volumes, starting in June 1937, and translating four every year." Yorulmaz had translated 'Das Kapital' to Turkish from Gabrielle Deville's French translation which was an abridged edition. According to his comments, the purpose of Yorulmaz was, if this abridged edition is requested or demanded he would translate full text of 'Das Kapital'. However, he couldn't realize this dream. Nevertheless, the effect of the 'Sermaye' in the Turkish leftist thought had been considerable. As "Capital" was the first translation of "Das Kapital" into Turkish, it functioned at that time to fill the gap that existed in terms of socialist thought. He was concerned with knowing Karl Marx's thoughts, and therefore in his preface to 'Sermaye', he described his intellectual approach as "[one] sect which is one of the deepest thoughts and has made the biggest earthquake in the world in social and political life". In his preface, he wrote: "We have nothing but a small realized interference about Karl Marx's study in the law school in Ankara by Cavit Bey and the Turkish attorney Sükrü Kaya Bey, five to ten pages of translations." (Source: Haydar Rifat Yorulmaz'in çevirileri, (1908-1940): Bir sol düsünce 'repertuvari'nin kurulusu, Bilal Çelik). In the preface of the 1888 English Edition of 'Das Kapital', Engels says "I was told that the Armenian translation, which was expected to be published in Istanbul a few months ago, did not see the light of day because the publisher was afraid to release a book bearing the name of Marx, while the translator refused to show it as his own work.". (Das Kapital in Turkey, Savran & Tonak). Haydar Rifat was a Turkish lawyer, intellectual, translator and author. He brought the works of world-famous writers such as Emil Ludwig, Lenin, Gustav, Balzac, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Karl Marx into Turkish; he published his translations under the series titled 'Dün ve Yarin Tercüme Külliyati' [i.e. Yesterday and Tomorrow as Translation]. In addition, many articles he wrote in the fields of law and literature appeared in various newspapers and magazines. Not in OCLC.
226 pages including index. Rare surviving first edition copy of this classic conspiracy work. "Because knowledge is necessary to inspire action we make facts known which we hope will activate citizens, and cause them to take strong, determined, measures in accordance with our Constitution and Laws, which will put an end to all phases of the international conspiracy, and bring all conspirators before the bar of justice." - from inside front cover. "Published because we are convinced that an international conspiracy is in operation for the purpose of destroying our national and religious institutions in America. Presents evidence obtained by Commander Carr, as the result of thirty five years of investigations" - from Foreward. Average wear. Binding intact. Few markings to contents. Two ink stamps to title page. Singerman 922, Weems p.59. Book
186 pages. "Published to expose the ramifications of the International Conspiracy which was originated by a small group of wealthy and influential men in 1773 for the purpose of ultimately obtaining undisputed control of the wealth, natural resources, and manpower of the entire world... Explains how the continuity of their Long Range Plan was assured by appointing their successors from their own entourage while still alive." - Foreword. William Guy Carr [1895-1959] was a man's man, an English-born Canadian naval officer who described his adventurous early life in seven preceeding books. Sombre cover illustration depicts Soviet chess pieces moving in for the kill. Above-average but not excessive external wear. Binding intact. "American Nationalist" sticker on title page may refer to the book's American distributor. Ink underlining and markings throughout. Errata list not included. A sound first edition copy of this conspiracy classic. Singerman 921, Weems p.58. Book
364 pages. Index. Three maps. Black and white photographic plates. "For the first time, a historian - Soviet defector Viktor Suvorov - shows that the USSR's part in starting WWII was much greater, and much more sinister, than has hitherto been assumed. A direct and often harrowing challenge to accepted history. Its achievement is to force us all to revise radically our ideas of - and the reasons for - the most destructive war mankind has ever experienced." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
"Here is PRAIRIE FIRE, our political ideology - a strategy for anti-imperialism and revolution inside the imperial US. This paper has been collectively adopted as the political statement of the Weather Underground. PRAIRIE FIRE is written to communist-minded revolutionaries, independent organizers and anti-imperialists. It is written as an argument against those who oppose action and hold back the struggle." - Opening statement by Bernadine Dohrn, Billy (Bill) Ayers, Jeff Jones and Celia Sojourn. pp. [6], 7- 186, [6]. Frequently illustrated with grainy black and white reproductions of photos. Includes list of books studied in the preparation of this work. Chapters include: Impressions of U.S. History; Imperialism in Crisis - The Third World; Imperialism in Crisis - The Home Front; Against the Common Enemy; and more. "We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years... Our intention is to disrupt the empire... to incapacitate it... to forge an underground, a clandestine political organization engaged in every form of struggle, protected from the eyes and weapons of the state, a base against repression, to accumulate lessons, experience and constant practice, a base from which to attack." - page 1 of an earlier edition. Prior to publication the Weather Underground had already bombed multiple government buildings. Twenty-one years after publication, Ayers and Dohrn hosted a meeting at which Illinois state Sen. Alice Palmer introduced Barack Obama as her chosen successor. The rest is history. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Sunning to spine. A sound vintage copy of this work, the influence of which dominates headlines almost fifty years after publication . 8.5" x 5.5". Book
Original Paper Wrappers. 4to. issues are 16-20 pages each. 28cm. In Russian. Title translates to English as, "The Banner of Struggle." Published sporadically, and eventually annually, from 1924-1930. CONTENTS: Budet Burya! [A Storm is Coming!] --- V Zaschitu Russkikh Revolyutsionerov [In Defense of Russian Revolutionaries] --- Sotsial-Bessarabtsy [The Social Bessarabians] --- Mezhdunarodnoe Revolyutsionnoe Dvizhenie [International Revolutionary Movement] --- Kultura i Revolyutsiya [Culture and Revolution] --- K Godovschine Iyul'skikh Dney [The Anniversary of the July Days] --- K Desyatiletniyu "Velikoy Voyny" [On the Decade of the "Great War"] --- Krovavyye Maski [Bloody Mask] --- V Godovschinu Dekabr'skoy Boyni 1923 goda [On the Anniversary of the December 1923 Massacre] --- O Veilkom Krizise v Marksizme, Sotsializme, Demokratizme i Rabochem Dvizhenii [The Great Criss in Marxism, Socialism, Democracy and the Labor Movement] --- Vashi Voprosy i Nashi Otvety [Your Questions and Our Answers] --- Golos Revolyutsionerov iz Rossiyskikh Tyurem [The Voice of Revolutionaries from Russian Prisons] --- O Natsional'nykh Men'shinstvakh na Ukraine [On the National Mensheviks in Ukraine] --- Manifest k Trudyaschimsya Goroda I Derevni [Manifest to the Workers of Cities and Villages] --- S'ezd Mezhdunarodnago Byuro Rev.-Sots. Partiy [Congress of the International Bureau of the Rev.-Soc. Party] --- Stalin, Trotskiy ili Revolyutsiya [Stalin, Trotsky or Revolution] --- Nelegal'nye Dokumenty RKP [Illegal Documents of the RCP (Russian Communist Party)] --- Desyat' Let Oktryabr'skoy Revolyutsii [Ten Years From the October Revolution] --- Na Poroge Dvenadtsatogo Goda [On the Eve of the Twelfth Year] --- Osnovnye Prichiny Krizisa Sotsializma [The Main Causes of the Crisis of Socialism] --- Na Poroge Trinadtsatogo Goda [On the Eve of the Thirteenth Year]. The "Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists was a political party in the Russian Empire, a radical wing expelled from the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1906. The Union united agrarian terrorists, the 'Moscow Opposition' and other radical dissidents from the PSR in an independent party. The Maximalists officially split off from the PSR at its Second Congress in Imatra in 1906. Maximalists played a role in both the Revolution of 1905 and the Revolution of 1917. Many former SR Maximalists eventually joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) .Maximalists were so called because they demanded the full implementation of the 'maximum programme' in the expected revolution: full socialisation of the land, factories and all other means of production. The orthodox Socialist-Revolutionaries wanted to start with land reform but defer socialisation of other means of production. The Maximalists also rejected the PSR's version of a 'two-stage' revolution, a theory associated with V.M. Chernov. According to Chernov, the coming revolution in Russia would not be purely 'bourgeois-democratic' as the Social-Democrats claimed, but would include social and economic as well as political reforms. It would be a 'popular-democratic' revolution, and would transition into a full-blown 'labour-socialist' revolution later on. The Maximalists rejected this as Social-Democratic 'attentism' and argued that the coming Russian revolution would not be able to stop half-way; it was the two-stage theory, not Maximalism, that was unrealistic if it thought the toiling masses, once liberated, would content themselves with a bourgeois republic and gradual reforms." (Wikipedia, 2012) OCLC lists 9 copies. Publisher's typo on final page of No. 20/21: issue listed as "No. 20-25". Pages darkened but not fragile; some edgewear. Issue no. 24-26 worn with minor closed tears along gutter margin. Issue no. 8 outer wrappers detached but present. No 12/13 with small loss of paper and a few words. Overall, in Very Good Condition, a scarce complete run of this important journal. (RUS-11-37)
19471474<p>Robeson Paul W.E.B. Du Bois and Roscoe Dungee.</p><p>To the President and Congress of the United States of America Petition and Typed Letter Bearing Signatures of Robeson Du Bois and Dungee. New York: Communist Party USA 1947.</p><p><br />Single-page typed letter and two-page petition printed on rectos only. Each page 8 1/2 x 11 inches 215 x 280 mm.</p><p>A rare typed letter bearing signatures of Paul Robeson W.E.B. Du Bois and Roscoe Dungee asking recipients to sign a petition against banning the Communist Party USA. <strong>We believe the signatures were printed as does an autograph expert we consulted.</strong></p><p>In any case the three African-American leaders sprang into action after President Truman's Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach told Congress that the Communist Party should be outlawed. Schwellenbach was concerned about Communist control and infiltration of labor unions and thought no Communist should be allowed to lead a union.</p><p>The letter is dated March 22 1947 and carries the address of 23 West 26th Street New York the Communist Party's headquarters at the time. The letter is aimed at African-American recipients: "This invitation to sign the petition is also being sent to several hundred other Negro leaders throughout the country."</p><p>According to the letter "It is clear that Labor Secretary Schwellenbach's proposal to suppress the Communist Party involves a flagrant negation of our constitutional Bill of Rights. It represents therefore a serious threat to the civil liberties of all minority groups." The authors urge recipients to mail back a postal reply card confirming they would sign the petition. The card is not present probably because it was mailed back to the Communist Party.</p><p>The petition which is also rare is addressed to the President and Congress urging them to reject Schwellenbach's "fascist-like proposal" to ban the Communist Party. The Party was not banned but the government regularly harassed and imprisoned its leaders in the 1940s and '50s.</p><p>Even though we believe the signatures on the letter were printed these materials are nonetheless rare. We have not found any institutional holdings of the letter or petition. None in commerce.</p><p>CONDITION: Pages lightly creased for mailing staple on petition badly rusted. A Very Good set. <strong>RARE</strong>.</p> [Communist Party USA]
90 pages. "Communist plotters, in the United States as elsewhere, are preparing for the conquest of political power. The discerning student, however, should consider how interventionism, under various enticing labels, is setting the stage for the final overthrow of the voluntary society, the market economy and constitutional government. [This work], by a world-famous expert, will prove a valuable aid to understanding in this field. It will help to explain the errors of those who believe a system based on individual freedom can be 'mixed' with socialism." - Foreword. Prior owner's details upon toned front free endpaper. Another person's name inside front board, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Average wear to publisher's green cloth. Dust jacket not included. Greaves & McGee B-14. Book
18 voll. in 8 grande tutti ben rilegati in mz. tl. coeva con titoli e annate stampigliati in oro al dorso. Diciotto annate consecutive complete dal giugno 1944 al 1961 della rivista, fondata da Palmiro Togliatti, che fu l'espressione ideologica del PCI. La rivista inauguro' il corso delle sue pubblicazioni con il no 1 del giugno del 1944, dopo la liberazione di Roma, con il nome "La Rinascita" che poi divenne nel gennaio del '45 "Rinascita" con l'aggiunta del sottotitolo "Rassegna di politica e di cultura italiana". Il nome rimane invariato fino alla cessazione delle pubblicazioni nel 1989. La periodicita' fu mensile fino all'aprile del 1962 per divenire poi settimanale quando si affianco' alla rivista anche il supplemento "Il Contemporaneo". Rinascita conservo' l'originaria struttura editoriale sino ai primi anni Sessanta, quando vennero introdotti alcuni cambiamenti per renderla piu' aderente alle trasformazioni che investivano l'Italia in quel decennio. Dopo la morte di Togliatti, nel 1964, alla direzione si alternarono molti dirigenti del Partito: Gian Carlo Pajetta, Luca Pavolini, Alessandro Natta, Gerardo Chiaromonte, Alfredo Reichlin... Sospese la pubblicazione dall'agosto 1989 sino al gennaio 1990, quando usci' con un nuovo formato e una nuova numerazione, sotto la direzione di Alberto Asor Rosa. Togliatti, in due interventi nel primo numero, firmandosi nel primo Ercoli e nel secondo Togliatti, spiega che i comunisti rappresentavano l'avanguardia di tutte le forze nazionali, che il vecchio partito di sovversivi si era trasformato nel partito dell'unita' "della classe operaia, delle forze antifasciste, unita' di tutta la nazione...". Togliatti affida dunque a Rinascita il compito di costruire l'ideologia del "partito nuovo" pubblicando fin da subito articoli destinati a definire i caratteri del rinnovato Partito comunista. Oltre ad essere formalmente il direttore, Togliatti era anche personalmente coinvolto nella scelta degli articoli e nel controllo dei loro contenuto. I ledear del partito scrivevano su Rinascita cosi' come un nutrito gruppo di intellettuali, storici, filosofi, giuristi, critici letterari di estrazione non comunista. Tra i collaboratori politici: Pajetta, Pavolini, Natta, Chiaromonte, Coppola, Ferrara, Reichlin, Ledda, Pietro Ingrao, Armando Cossutta, Luciano Lama, Giorgio Amendola, Franco Calamandrei, Luigi Longo, Giorgio Napolitano. La rivista era principalmente caratterizzata da contributi di argomento socio politico ed economico, tuttavia un certo spazio era riservato anche alle arti e alla rassegna letteraria. Fra gli altri si segnalano interventi sul cinema di Carlo Lizzani, Vittorio De Sica, Virgilio Tosi, interventi sul teatro di Luchino Visconti, sulle biennali di Guttuso... Fra i critici letterari le principali firme erano Manacorda, Sapegno, Chiarini, Ferretti...
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
1st edition. Period boards. 8vo. 161 pages. 26 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to Jewish Law: Science Quarterly. A fascinating Zionist Hebrew journal from the early Soviet period providing insight into the rarely discussed topic of the Jewish legal revival movement that occurred in Palestine during the British Mandate. It deals with practical, modern applications of Jewish law that were, no doubt, highly influential on the development of law in modern Israel. Dikshtein was a leading advocate of creating a legal system based on Jewish law, but fit for statehood. (Likhovski, 2006) . He was a practicing lawyer in Europe before emigrating to Palestine. He was also awarded the Israel Prize for jurisprudence in 1957. (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jewish law -- Periodicals. OCLC lists three copies worldwide (HUC, Brandeis, Harvard) , none in New York. Ex-library with usual, minimal markings. Pages are browning, but clean. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-30-39)
1st edition. Bound in period boards cloth. Folio. Each issue is about 6 pages. In Russian. Vpered and Proletariy bound together. Vpered was the first Bolshevik weekly newspaper, published in Geneva from Dec. 22, 1904 (Jan. 4, 1905) to May 5 (18) , 1905, founded after the Mensheviks seized control of the central organ of the RSDLP, Iskra. The first issue alone contained The Autocracy and the Proletariat (an editorial) , On Good Demonstrations of Proletarians and Poor Arguments of Certain Intellectuals, Time to Call a Halt, and other articles by Lenin. The significance of Vpered in the history of the CPSU is defined by the fact that the paper was an ideological-political organ abroad that cooperated with the practical organ in Russiathe Bureau of Committees of the Majorityto give political and organizational shape to Bolshevism (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. 1979) . Vpered articles include: Somneniya Dvuglavago Orla [Doubts About the Double-Headed Eagle] -- Politika Ustupok [Policy Concessions] -- Nachalo Revolyutsii v Rossii [The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia] -- Dolzhni-li My Organizovat Revolyutsiyu [Should We Organize a Revolution] -- Bankrotstvo Politseyskago Rezhima [Bankruptcy of a Police Regime] -- Bakinskiy Pogrom [Baku Pogrom] -- Marks ob Amerikanskom Chernom Peredele [Marx on American Black Redistribution] -- Vozrozhdenie Pravoslavnoy Tserkvi [The Rebirth of the Orthodox Church] -- Rol Organizatsiy v Narodnykh Dvizhenyakh [The Role of Organizations in the Peoples Movement]. Proletariy was published in Geneva from May 14 (27) until November 12 (25) , 1905, with a total of twenty-six issues during the heights of political and social unrest of the Revolution of 1905. Active in the work of the editorial board were V. Vorovsky A. Lunacharsky, and M. Olminsky. Proletariy continued the policy of the old, Leninist Iskra, and maintained full continuity with the Bolshevik newspaper Vpered. Proletariy articles include: Mezhdunarodnoe Znachenie Russkoy Revolyutsii [International Significance of the Russian Revolution] -- Demokraticheskiya Zadachi Revolyutsionnago Proletariata [Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat] -- Noviy Revolyutsionnyy Rabochiy Soyuz [New Revolutionary Workers Union] -- Rabochiy Klass I ego Vragi [The Working Class and Its Enemies] -- Russkiy Tsar Ischet Zaschity Svoego Naroda Y Turetskago Sultana [Russian Tsar Seeks Protection From His Own People With Turkish Sultan] -- Ocherki iz Revolyutsionnoy Borby Zapadno-Evropeyskago Proletariata [Sketched from the Revolutionary Fight of the Western European Proletariat] -- Edinenie Tsarya s Narodom I Naroda s Tsarem [Union of the Tsar and with the People and of the People with the Tsar] -- Pervaya Pobeda Revolyutsii [The First Victory of the Revolution]. Some pages are darkened, particularly at edges, but not fragile. Very Good condition. (RUS-11-10)
256 pages. "Author returned to America in 1934 after a year of studies in Italy, haunted by the possibility of a Fascist regime rising in her homeland. Befriended by a communist, she became one herself. Later, her horrified realisation of the true nature of her Russian masters led her to contact the F.B.I. and spy for them, while still working for the Soviets." - dust jacket. Bentley's story was serialized in McCall's magazine in 1951. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper, otherwise book unmarked with moderate external wear and soiling. Binding tight. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. SEIDMAN B170, HAZLITT p.43, CONSTANTINIDES p.79. Book
[6]-512 pp. Index. Black and white photo frontispiece photo of Trotsky [1879-1940]. A sound working copy of this tumultuous and impactful life story published in the year following Trotsky's exile from the Soviet Union and ten years before his murder in Mexico. No dust jacket. Faint prior owner's name upon front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Moderate scattered foxing. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's red cloth which is sunned on spine and lettered in gilt. Binding intact with moderate lean. Chip from top corner of pages 7-16. Book
1951902Praha Prague: Nakladatelstvi Mir Drustevnà Práce 1951. First Edition. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 275 x 235 mm 124 pages in illustrated boards. <br /><br />A collection of anti-Hitler and anti-U.S. cartoons by the great Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov 1900-2008 whose name is rendered in Czech as Boris Jefimova. The anthology starts in the 1930s with the rise of Hitler and carries forward to the late 1940s attacking the Marshall Plan Wall Street fat cats the Western alliance and the U.S. position in Korea.<br /><br />By contrast and not surprisingly the Soviet Union is portrayed heroically having single-handedly defeated Hitler. Given the preponderance of Wall Street financiers in the cartoons Wall Street appears to be behind Western imperialism and belligerence and even abetted the rise of Hitler. The book opens with a quote from "J. Stalin" and contains 60 cartoons mostly in black-and-white but some containing deep red representing of course the supposed nobility of the Soviet Union and its allies. <br /><br />Copies of this Czech-language book are uncommon. OCLC lists just three institutional holdings: the College of William and Mary the National Library of the Czech Republic and the University of Leipzig. <br /><br />A very good striking example of Czech-Russian agitprop during the dark days of the Cold War. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light soiling and wear to the boards but the pages are clean and bright. Very Good or better. Nakladatelstvi Mir – Družzstevnà Práce hardcover books
