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Vintage Books, 1969 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Edge wear, small stains and initals inside the rear wrap..

UsedAcceptable. Has heavy ex owner notes on blank pages. Good solid paperback with moderate reading/age wear, may have some light markings, pages may have some mild tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

Vintage Books, 1969. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Vintage, 1989. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x0. 1st printing. Inner wrapper toned, faint rubbing. 1989 Trade Paperback. First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

Vintage, 1969. Paperback. Good. . Shows minor wear, tanning, creasing, underlining and annotation throughout.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Pages have some light toning, as well as a few pages which are affected by both underlining and dampstaining, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Light shelf-wear. Cover design by Bob Korn. A classic of radical lit, with a powerful protest sign–inspired cover design. 'The radical is that unique person who actually believes what he says,' writes Alinsky in this later edition of his first book. 235 pp. Politics & Philosophy.

New York: Random House, 1969. 1st Vintage Books printing. Paperback. Good. 235p. A softcover book in good condition. Book as a whole is slightly bent due to improper storage. Small scratch at top of front cover. Crinkle at top of page 15 where a paper clip was used as a bookmark. Pages tanned with age; otherwise clean and tight.

New york: Vintage Book, 1969. pocket book in fine condition . New york: pocket book in fine condition 1969

New York: Vintage, 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. xvii, 235pp. Trade paperback. Edges of interior panels lightly toned, top corner of cover slightly splitting, near fine.

"This book trumpets the call to action to every American as we face the great democratic crisis of today The heart of this crisis is the people--the very substance of democracy. there the die will be cast: democracy or dictator."

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1946. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Parts of torn DJ present. Cover has wear and soiling.. 228 p. 22 cm. From a posting on-line: "Legendary community organizer Saul Alinsky inspired a generation of activists and politicians with Reveille for Radicals, the original handbook for social change. Alinsky writes both practically and philosophically, never wavering from his belief that the American dream can only be achieved by an active democratic citizenship. First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new introduction and afterword, this classic volume is a bold call to action that still resonates today." From Wikipedia: "Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer, and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals. In the course of nearly four decades of political… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good- Dust Jacket. 8x6x1. University of Chicago Press, 1946. Stated second impression. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. DJ has a tiny hole where the price was (all that's visible now is the start of the $ sign), sunning to spine, light edgewear. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1946. Second Printing (1946.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 228 pages. The book is in good condition with browning to front free end paper and front paste down otherwise interior is clean and tight. The dust jacket is in fair condition with fading to spine, front flap is separated for jacket, one 1" tear to bottom of front panel, one 1"tear to top of front panel, one 1" by 3/16" piece missing from top panel, one triangular piece 1/2" by 1/4" piece missing from bottom of front panel, 3/16" missing from top of spine and 4 minute tear to back panel. In an epitaph for Alinsky by his biographer Sanford Horwitt, "Alinsky was a true believer in the possibilities of American democracy as a means to social justice. He saw it as a great political game among competing interests, a game in which there are few fixed boundaries and where the rules could be changed to help make losers into winners and vice versa. He loved to play the… Read More

Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. 1946. second impression. VG+/VG-, book is clean and solid, DJ has some chips and some dampstains to rear panel. ; 8vo, cloth, DJ, 228pp. "Alinsky turned his back on a brilliant, secure, professional criminological career and went to work with, organize, and fight for the workers in ChicagoÕs notorious Back of the Yards - the Jungle. This marked the beginning oa a dramatic rebirth of democracy now spreading amongst the people jammed in AmericaÕs industrial areas. As Executive Director of the Industrial Areas Foundation and technical advisor to various peopleÕs movements, Mr. Alinsky has done the job he set out to do - to help the common people, through their own democratic organizations, to stake out a definite claim in the future of America. " .

Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press; Cambridge University Press, 1946. Hardcover. 10mo; G/G-; pp 228; ivory/orange spine with black text; dust jacket shows cracking to front joint; small chips to edges; sunned exterior, mostly to spine; light pencil to rear; mylar wrap; cloth has slight smudges to exterior; strong boards; text block exterior edges have slight tone; previous owner's name to ffep; previous owner's name stamped to front pastedown; pencil to front pastedown; light pencil to interior pages; good binding. 1334667. FP New Rockville Stock.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. 228 pages in very good condition. Edges yellowed. Yellow stain on pages 62 & 63. One sentence underlined in ink on page 13. Previous owners' names on front endpapers. Black cloth, gilt titles on the spine. Fading at head/tail of spine. Illustrated DJ with black titles. Jacket is in poor condition; most of the upper jacket is intact. Large chip at tail of spine and 1/4 of the lower jacket is missing. Small tears and chips on all corners and edges. Price still shows. VG-/POOR. Hard Cover. VG-/Poor.

Chicago. Very Good/No Dust Wrappper. 1946. Clean & Tight Contents. Hard Cover. (M436) .

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Hardcover. VG-, clean and tight contents. General shelf wear to covers; back end papers beginning to split at hinge.. Black cloth/boards. Faded gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. 228 pp. with no illustrations. Alinsky's book on radicalism, social problems, and community organization in the US. Still pertinent today. Contents include: Part I. Call me rebel. What is a radical? -- Where is the radical today? -- The crisis -- Part II. The building of people's organizations. The program -- Native leadership -- Community traditions and organizations -- Organizational tactics -- Conflict tactics -- Popular education -- Psychological observations on mass organization -- Reveille for radicals -- By-laws of the people's organization.

Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 228 pages. Signed by Alinksy on front free endpaper. Inscribed by previous owner underneath the author signature. Light wear to cover. Small nick in leading page edges. Dust jacket has several chips missing out of edges -- 3/4" at spine bottom, 1/2" at spine top, 1" from each bottom corner, 3/4" inch from one of top corners, and smaller chips from other areas of edges. Some light scuffing to dust jacket as well. Dust jacket in mylar protector.; 5 5/8 x 8 1/4"; Signed by Author.

University of Chicago Press, 1946. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1Dust jacket a little soiled.