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A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
Book ID: 41845More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50
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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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 43255More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
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.
Book ID: 11891More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
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.
Book ID: 47266More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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. ; Octavo 0841502951
Book ID: 48370More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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.
Book ID: 26153More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48684More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
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.; Octavo
Book ID: 48320More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
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.
Book ID: 46996More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 22952More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
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.; Octavo. 0919888879
Book ID: 22631More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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. ; Octavo
Condition: Good
Book ID: 44835More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
DEMOS: a story of English socialism. With an introduction by Morley Roberts
New York: Dutton, 1929. Blue cloth, spine lettered in black. Nov., 1932, ink name at front, spine very lightly sunned, else fine. Black and orange jacket has tiny chips to outer corners, minute rubbing at foot of spine, else fine, flap price intact. Quite a nice copy of Gissing's fourth novel. Made from UK (Eveleigh, Nash, and Grayson, 1928) sheets, undated. The ad on the rear panel for new fiction is for 1929. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55951More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
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.
Book ID: 46829More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
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.
Book ID: 44002More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
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
Book ID: 46825More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
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.
Book ID: 41947More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
DOWN THE LONG TABLE
Edition: First printing
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".; Octavo
Book ID: 50378More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
EIN GENERAL KOMMT AUS DEM DSCHUNGEL
Edition: First edition in German
Book ID: 18391More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
ENGINES AND MEN: the history of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Fireman : a survey of organisation of railways and railyway locomotive men
Edition: First Edition
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.
Book ID: 43600More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50