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  • HOWELLS, William D.
    A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES

    New York: Harper, 1890. Second edition, first in the two volume format (first ed. was in 1889 in a one volume format). Two volumes, original terra cotta cloth gilt lettered. pp (4), 332; (4), 332. Interesting bookplate on front pastedowns of Daniel Baugh (monkey with glasses, reading & writing, between two candles). Ink name on fly leaves and on rear pastedown of volume I; light rubbing and light age darkening to spines; s VG unworn pair otherwise. One of Howells' more important novel and his first set in New York. it reflects his growing interest in socialism and the problems of the machine age. The story involves a magazine financed by a millionaire farmer, the editor who hires a…

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    New York: Harper, 1890. Second edition, first in the two volume format (first ed. was in 1889 in a one volume format). Two volumes, original terra cotta cloth gilt lettered. pp (4), 332; (4), 332. Interesting bookplate on front pastedowns of Daniel Baugh (monkey with glasses, reading & writing, between two candles). Ink name on fly leaves and on rear pastedown of volume I; light rubbing and light age darkening to spines; s VG unworn pair otherwise. One of Howells' more important novel and his first set in New York. it reflects his growing interest in socialism and the problems of the machine age. The story involves a magazine financed by a millionaire farmer, the editor who hires a socialist, and a streetcar employees' strike, inspired by the Haymarket Riot. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

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    Book ID: 41845
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  • JEROME, V.J.
    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: 43255
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  • 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: 11891
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  • 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: 47266
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  • Masters, Anthony
    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: 48370
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  • GRIB, V. [Honoré de Balzac]
    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: 26153
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  • SHANNON, David A., editor (Beatrice Webb)
    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: 48684
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  • BUCK, Tim
    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: 48320
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  • WOODSWORTH, J.S., M.J. Coldwell, Angus MacInnis, T.C. Douglas, G.C. MacNeil, P.J. Rowe, A.A. Heaps
    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: 46996
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  • HORWILL, George
    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: 22952
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  • RANDALL, Margaret
    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: 22631
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  • ROSENBERG, Ethel and Julius
    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: 44835
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  • DEMOS: a story of English socialism. With an introduction by Morley Roberts by GISSING, George
    GISSING, George
    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: 55951
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  • DER KARREN by TRAVEN, B.
    TRAVEN, B.
    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: 46829
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  • TRAVEN, B.
    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: 44002
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  • DIE WEISSE ROSE by TRAVEN, B.
    TRAVEN, B.
    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: 46825
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  • Dixon, Fredrick John (1881-1931)
    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: 41947
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  • BIRNEY, Earle
    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: 50378
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  • EIN GENERAL KOMMT AUS DEM DSCHUNGEL by TRAVEN, B.
    TRAVEN, B.
    EIN GENERAL KOMMT AUS DEM DSCHUNGEL

    Edition: First edition in German

    Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1940. Octavo, natural linen cloth lettered in brown. (416) pp. Printed by the Hungaria Buchdruckerei in Budapest. Some tanning and light foxing to covers; red topstain sunned; yellowing to fore edges; else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy. The sixth and last of the "Jungle" novels about the Mexican Revolution, and probably the scarcest in the original German first edition. Traven published all the rest of them in Berlin and Zurich, but he didn't want this one to be published under the Nazis, who had in any event had banned his books (Traven was a socialist). His usual Zurich publisher had moved to the centre and declined to publish it, so he found…

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    Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1940. Octavo, natural linen cloth lettered in brown. (416) pp. Printed by the Hungaria Buchdruckerei in Budapest. Some tanning and light foxing to covers; red topstain sunned; yellowing to fore edges; else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy. The sixth and last of the "Jungle" novels about the Mexican Revolution, and probably the scarcest in the original German first edition. Traven published all the rest of them in Berlin and Zurich, but he didn't want this one to be published under the Nazis, who had in any event had banned his books (Traven was a socialist). His usual Zurich publisher had moved to the centre and declined to publish it, so he found a publisher in Amsterdam; the book was published only months before the Nazi invasion of 10 May, 1940, and copies of this edition are said to have been mostly destroyed. The actual first edition was a Swedish translation from the German typescript, published Stockholm, 1939. First edition in English was London, 1954, as THE GENERAL FROM THE JUNGLE. Treverton 877.

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    Book ID: 18391
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  • RAYNES, J.R.
    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: 43600
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