Radical, Utopian, Labor And Reform Movements from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934. First edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 376pp; illus. Tight, fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly rubbed on front cover but still quite attractive, Very Good or better. A first-hand account of the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, from the point of view of a member of the CPUSA-led… Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Orange cloth boards, lettered in black; dustjacket; 256pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in a very bright, crisp dustwrapper - minutely chipped along bottom edge, else close to Fine and most uncommon thus. An entirely pro-Communist account of unionization in the ILGWU and the Furrier's Union, with the expected attacks upon… Read more about this item

New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920. First printing. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 32pp. Slight soil & edgewear; Very Good. On monopolies, large-scale capitalism, and concentration of wealth. Nearing writes from a more or less doctrinaire Marxist perspective; he had joined the Socialist Party in 1918. EGBERT II:262.

New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1949. Third edition (first published 1942). Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 111pp. Moderate soil and creasing to covers; a few pages dog-eared, but text clean and unmarked; a sound, Good copy. Verbatim transcript of Cannon's testimony in his 1942 trial under the Smith Act. Cannon was the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, the… Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers, 1935. Original Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 242p. Bit of light soil to extremities; pencil date to front cover, else Fine.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, [1911]. Later Printing. Undated later printing, retaining 1911 copyright statement. 12mo (18.5cm.); original blue staplebound wrappers; 58pp. Slight creasing to upper wrapper fore-edge, extremities a few shades faded, else Very Good and sound.

New York: International Pamphlets, 1932. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; illus.; 31pp. Pencil date to cover sunned along edges, spine and edges worn, else a sound copy. The plight of child labor in the Great Depression, contrasted with enlightened conditions in the Soviet Union. SEIDMAN H400.

New York: Merit Publishers, 1968. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial wrappers; 30pp. Near Fine. Text of two speeches delivered at the Detroit Friday Night Socialist Forum in February and March of 1967.

Chicago: International Song Publishers, 1920. First Edition. Music sheet (35.5cm x 27cm). Original lithographed covers; 4pp. Light soil and wear; small closed tear to cover at upper margin; Very Good. Text in English. Scarce labor song-sheet issued by a short-lived Chicago Socialist music publishing cooperative founded by Douglas Robson, who contributed at least two compositions to the IWW Songbook;… Read more about this item

New York: Herald Publishing Co, 1944. Pictorial staple-bound pamphlet; illus.; 23pp; illus. Small spot of darkening to front cover, else clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Sensational text linking Hitler to a variety of prominent women, including Leni Riefenstahl as well as Unity Freeman, the Viennese dancer "La Jana", and others. Includes a second section titled "Sexual Morality in… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan Company, 1912. Third printing of the revised (second) edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; no jacket; 257pp. Clean, tight and unmarked in the original publisher's binding. 4-pp Macmillan trade circular ("Best Recent Novels") laid-in.

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966. First English Language Edition. 16mo (13cm). Red embossed vinyl covers; 312pp; frontispiece portrait; integral ribbon bookmark. The correct first English-language printing, with Lin Pao facsimile preceding text and printing statement in Mandarin on colophon. Faint spotting to text block edges; bit of soil to vinyl wrappers; Near Fine. First English-language edition of the famed… Read more about this item

New York: John Lane, 1910. First American Edition. 12mo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on front cover; 59pp; frontis. portrait. Sunning to spine; small spot at base of front board; gift inscription; mild foxing to endpapers; Very Good. Shaw's reply to an anti-Socialist letter to the London Times by the British novelist and economist William Hurrell Mallock. … Read more about this item

Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 1989. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 353pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; about fine in lightly edge-rubbed pictorial dustwrapper.

New York: George Braziller, Inc, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 320pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Slight rubbing and wear to jacket; else tight copy in very good jacket with unmarked text.

London: Inkululeko Publications, 1973. Small octavo (20cm). Printed card wrappers; 93pp; illus. Minor external wear; internally fresh; Very Good or better. Organ of the South African Communist Party, published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by Henry Winston, Bonakele Godula, georgi Galperin, Vukani Mawethu, others.

(London): Executive Committee of the Communist International, 1929. First printing. Small quarto (9-1/2" x 7-1/2"); pp 258-451. Double issue of the International's principal theoretical organ. Two lengthy editorials (unsigned, but presumably by Zinoviev and Radek); articles by Lozovsky, Hugo Eberlein, Bela Kun, Klara Zetkin, and others. Corner chips to both wrappers; covers toned; internally fine. Issued with the Workers… Read more about this item

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1947. First edition. Staple-bound printed wrappers; 90pp; illus. H-J B-636. Soil to front cover, with usual mild tanning to text; Very Good.