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50 years of labour in Algoma : essays on aspects of Algoma's working-class history
Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario: Algoma University College, 1978. Octavo, card covers, pp x, 178. Illustrated. VG copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45467More details Price: USD $11.95 -
A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41845More details Price: USD $125.00 -
A LANTERN FOR JEREMY: a novel
Edition: First printing
New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1952. Green cloth. Endpaper tanning, VG+ otherwise, no owner names. Price-clipped jackdet has mild rubbing, small tears, at spine ends; splits to front flap fold; corner crease and two small snags to front panel; one inch tear to rear panel; generally VG otherwise, still respectable in appearance, colours bright. An autobiographical novel of a Jewish boyhood in Poland by this American Communist author. In Ridout.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43255More details Price: USD $16.95 -
A SYMPOSIUM ON ANDREW FURUSETH.
New Bedford, MA: The Darwin Press, no date [1948]. Green cloth. [2], vi, 7-233, [2] pp + frontispiece portrait and numerous plates. Rubber stamp of American Merchant Marine Library Association to front pastedown; AMMLA presentation label to front free endpaper; rubber stamped to top page edges; foxing to endpapers, page edges, and first three leaves; a good, unworn copy otherwise, tight in the binding. Furuseth was leader of the SUP and the ISU seamen's unions on the west coast of the USA. Contributions by Robert LaFollette, Louis Adamic, John L. Lewis, Fiorella LaGuardia, and many others.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11891More details Price: USD $25.00 -
AN APPEAL TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY. By the Revolutionay Policy Committee, March 1934
Edition: First Edition
New York: Socialist Party, 1934. Octavo, pp (12), stapled in self wrappers. Partial spine split neatly repaired; corner creases; small tear and creases to fore edge of one leaf; VG otherwise. On front cover is affixed a blue postage stamp-like sticker of the Continental Congress for Social Reconstruction. Laid in is a strip of paper advising people to study and discuss socialist principles. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47266More details Price: USD $19.95 -
AN ARMY WITHOUT BANNERS
Edition: First printing
Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. Blue cloth lettered in light green. pp (8), 301, [3]. Yellowing to page edges; Labor Day, 1931, ink owner inscription at front; creased nicks to upper inner corner of pp 281-90; else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy. Peel III 2661. Weinrich , Social Protest, 1302. Beames, born in India in 1889, went out to Canada at age 15 where he worked as a hunter, trapper, freighter, labourer, and lumberjack in the Canadian Northwest. This novel, the first of his three, was reprinted in 1988, and there was a Canadian issue (McClelland & Stewart) also in 1930 (made from US sheets). Based on his experiences of pioneer life in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 42962More details Price: USD $50.00 -
AUGUSTE BLANQUI AND THE ART OF INSURRECTION
Edition: First UK printing
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1971. Black boards, pp 364, index. Ink owner name else fine in VG+ jacket. Louis Auguste Blanqui was a professional French revolutionary who was active in period from the restoration of the Bourbons to the defeat of the Paris Commune. He spent 33 of his 76 years in nearly 30 different prisons.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47963More details Price: USD $24.95 -
Bakunin, the father of anarchism
Edition: First US printing
New York: Saturday Review Press / Dutton, 1974. Cloth & boards. pp 279; notes, index. Ink owner name, else fine in VG jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48370More details Price: USD $14.95 -
BALZAC. Translated from the Russian by Samuel G. Bloomfield. Edited by Angel Flores
Edition: First US edition
New York: Critics Group, 1937. 12mo (93) Stapled, in yellow card covers. Covers a little dusty, yellowing to page edges, else a VG clean, uncreased, and tight copy, no owner names. A Marxist analysis, no. 5 in the Critics Group Series. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 26153More details Price: USD $10.00 -
BEATRICE WEBB'S AMERICAN DIARY 1898
Edition: First printing
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1963. Grey cloth. pp 181; biographical directory, index. Ink owner name, else fine in VG price-clipped jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48684More details Price: USD $17.95 -
BEYOND THE HORIZON. The Story of a Radical Emigrant.
Edition: First Edition
Boston: Group Free Society, 1944. Black cloth. 200 pp. Light foxing to page edges, endpapers, VG otherwise. Author's memoirs of 50 years in the socialist and labour movements, by a Russia-born author. Includes a visit with Peter Kropotkin and a meeting with Trotsky.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 8260More details Price: USD $25.00 -
CANADA AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: The Impact of the world's first socialist revolution on labor and politics in Canada
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Progress Books, 1967. Card covers. pp 98. Ink owner name on title page, else fine. Buck was for many years head of the Communist Party of Canada. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48320More details Price: USD $13.95 -
CANADA'S ROAD TO PEACE
Ottawa: House of Commons, 1939. Tall octavo, green card covers. pp 38, [2], text in double columns. Text paper a bit toned, sunning to margins of covers, soft curl to upper outer corners; VG. Front cover rubber stamped "Compliments of J.S. Woodworth". Verbatim "Official Report" of selected debates in the House of Commons by CCF members, including "Greatest Canadian" Tommy Douglas. These six were the first members of the new social democratic party to be elected in 1935 (along with A.A. Heaps). Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 46996More details Price: USD $30.00 -
CAPITALISM AND THE FAR EAST. With an Introduction by J.C. Wedgwood, M.P., D.S.O.
London: The Independent Labour Party, 1921. 16 pp, stapled, in self wrappers. A little curled at bottom from light damp stain throughout; else fine. I.L.P. Pamphlets. New Series. No. 43. "A war between the Unites States and Japan may not be the end of civilization, but it would certainly mean the ultimate doom of Europe becase of its effect on the development of China." Focuses on China and Japan. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Condition: Binding: Softcover.
Book ID: 22952More details Price: USD $20.00 -
CARLOTA. Prose & Poems from Havana
Edition: First printing.
Vancouver: New Star Books, 1978. The simultaneous paper issue. 95 pp. Copy for review with ink notations on the half-titlte leaf; very nearly fine otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover.
Book ID: 22631More details Price: USD $14.95 -
DEATH HOUSE LETTERS
Edition: First Edition
New York: Jero Publishing Company, 1953. Card covers. pp 168 + photos. Covers rubbed, corner creases, VG clean and unworn copy otherwise. Letters to their attorney and each other published to raise money for the future of their sons.
Condition: Book: Good, Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 44835More details Price: USD $10.00 -
DER KARREN
Edition: First printing
Berlin: Büchergile Gutenberg, 1931. Octavo, light blue cloth lettered in red. Spine and inner margins of covers a bit darkened; damp stain with white tide mark to inner from cover; yellowing to endpapers; yellowing and a bit of foxing to page edges; comic private bookplate at front; else a VG unworn jacketless copy. The sixth novel in the Jungle series, published in English as THE CARRETA. Traven was on the first list of authors banned by the Nazis in 1933.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46829More details Price: USD $50.00 -
DIE BAUMWOLLPFLÜCKER
Berlin: Buchmeisterverlag, 1931. Later German edition. 12mo, orange cloth, dark orange endpapers, yellow top page edges. pp (279(, (1, ads). Spine lightly darkened, else a VG+ jacketless copy, no owner names. A novel first published Berlin, 1926, as DER WOBBLY, it was revised, expanded, and retitled for later editions. Published in English as THE COTTON PICKERS in 1956.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44002More details Price: USD $35.00 -
DIE WEISSE ROSE
Berlin: Büchergile Gutenberg, 1933. Later printing (first was in 1929). Tall octavo, light brown cloth. Nice private bookplate at front (wheels of time, babe, skeleton), VG+ otherwise. Text is in German. Published in English as THE WHITE ROSE
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46825More details Price: USD $24.95 -
Dixon's Address to the Jury in Defence of Freedom of Speech; Considered the Most Powerful Address Ever Delivered in the Courts of Manitoba; And Judge Galt's Charge to the Jury in Rex V. Dixon
Edition: First Edition
Winnipeg: The Defense Committee, no date (1920). Octavo, pp (126), [2]. Beige card covers. Ex library, with small rubber stamp in corner of front cover, title page, and inside rear cover; ink library numbers to upper inner corner of title page; no other library marks. Printed on cheap paper, now yellowed and very fragile. Plain spine has some chips, newly repaired externally the length of the spine with rice paper; front cover has some soiling, old sticker stain; old tape repairs in margins of some leaves with consequent browning, but no text affected; in all just good, but text body clean and unworn. Peel (3) 4579. Weinrich 832 A. Concerns the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Dixon was one of the strike leaders. A scarce book.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 41947More details Price: USD $50.00