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.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1955. Green cloth. Fine copy. Dust jacket has some nicks and tiny chips, mainly to spine ends, VG otherwise, attactive. A novel about an academic who was a Trotskyist in the 1930s and who finds himself under attack decades later by his cowardly academic colleagues in an American university in the "Land of the Free".

Leeds, England: Goodall & Suddick, 1921. Maroon cloth. pp (xvi), 302, [2] + 22 plates (3 in colour). Index. Page edges yellowed, light damp spotting to covers; VG otherwise. Scarce railway union history.

University of Toronto Press, 1998. Card covers, pp 335, index. Ink owner name at front, near fine otherwise.

New York: Modern Age, 1938. Squarish octavo, softcover. (xiv), 357, [1, blank], [9, ads], [3, blank] pp, sewn. Text paper yellowed, as always; front cover has a corner crease; rubbing to one corner of rear cover; VG+ clean & tight copy otherwise, no owner names. A Seal Book, no. 35. A novel about abolitionist radical John Brown, previously published by Simon & Schuster in 1932.

Bucuresti [Bucharest], Romania: Meridiane, 1963. Folio. Original natural linen stamped in black pp (340). Numerous black & white reproductions and tipped-in colour plates. Biographical sketches of the artists and an index of the reproductions at rear. Small scars from removed tape on front and rear pastedowns; red ink gift inscription on front pastedown, ink owner name on front free endpaper; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Romanian graphic art about the struggle for social justice and independence from 1848-1961. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.

Christchurch, New Zealand: Alex Wildey, 1939. ctavo, green cloth. Pp x, (135) + portrait. + 2 (of 3) called-for plates. No plate at p. 31 (a specimen of his flower photography), and I don’t see any evidence that this copy ever had that plate. Light endpaper yellowing, minor rubbing to spine tips, else fine, no owner names. A memoir of this New Zealand socialist and pacifist (No More War movement) who died young.

New York: Paragon House, 1991. (First US ed. was in 1934). Advance uncorrected proof. Light grey non-pictorial card covers. Near fine copy. "A passionate, dramatic account of Germany in the early 1900s, and one of the harrowing 1918-1919 German Revolution - as experienced by one of the century's great Expressionist writers." - cover. Toller, a Jew, fled the Nazis in 1933 and committed suicide in 1939.

Toronto: Samuel Stevens / Hakkert & Company, 1976. Dark grey boards. (xiv), 400 pp, plus photos. Fine copy. Jacket has sticker scar to spine with loss of a few letters, VG otherwise. "This moving story of the miners and steelworkers of Cape Breton focuses on the issues which generated the most militant unions in Canada. Wage cuts, blacklisting, mine disasters, pit closings, police killings, collusion between management and government, company unions, bayonets and barbed wire, American interference, hostile legislation - all this and more have contributed to a century of labour violence and bitterness almost unparalleled in North America." - jacket flap. At the time, the author was a NDP member of the Nova Scotia legislature. Note: just a bit over 1 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1957. Grey and yellow cloth. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has small rubbed chips at spine ends, VG otherwise, flap price intact. A noted labour / left-wing novel about nine men who work on an automobile assembly line, his second novel.

New York: New Directions, 1973. Red boards. Yellowing to page edges, else fine. Supplied jacket has a one inch tear to front panel, nick at head of spine, mainly fine otherwise. Inscribed by the author in green ink on the title page, signed "Margaret. 8.74". Poetry, prose, translations, and autobiography by this American radical then living in Cuba.

London: Allen & Unwin, 1963. Red boards. pp 232 + plates. Index. Corner bump to rear cover and last few leaves, else VG clean copy in VG spine-sunned jacket. Socialist, suffragist, husband of Emmiline Pankhurst.

New York: Knopf, 1931. Octavo, pale green decorated cloth stamped in maroon and blue, maroon top page edges. Light sunning to spine, yellowing to page edges, 6 July, 1931, ink gift inscription on half-title leaf; faint yellowing to free endpapers; else fine. Dust jacket has nicks, tiny chips, light rubbing, to tips of bit sunned spine; rear panel faintly yellowed; else fine, flap price intact, front panel bright and unsullied. Publised the same year as the UK edition. Ethel Mannin (1900-84) was an prolific Ango-Irish left wing anarchist pacifist author. She was quite close to W.B.Yeats at one time. A nice copy, quite scarce in good jacket. Bloomsbury interest.

Ottawa: Progressive Printers, 1949. 443 pp, stapled, bound into original yellow paper covers. Neat repair to splits at head of spine, covers lightly tanned, yellowing to page edges, corner creases to rear cover; else a VG clean and tight copy.

Toronto: Forward Publications, 1980. Card covers. pp 64. Faint spine sunning, else fine. Dowson was Executive Secretary for The League for Socialist Action (LSA) 1961-1972, when he became chairman. He was targeted by the RCMP in its Operation Checkmate. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.

New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919. Terra cotta cloth. pp 192. Spine a little sunned; dam stains with colour loss to margins of covers; text paper lightly toned; small bookplate; else a good, clean, tight and unworn copy of a scarce book. "With the following documentary account of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Negotiations, hitherto an unwritten chapter in the history of the Russian Revolution, the Department of Labor Research begins the publication of a series of monogrpahs on economic and political questions which it hoped will prove valuable contributions to the literature of the Socialist and Labor movements." - from the introductory note by Alexander Trachtenberg.