Trotskyism from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: New International Publishing Company, 1946. 12mo. Card wrappers; 182pp. Clean, straight and tight - a Near Fine copy. A systematic treatise, directed to a non-theoretical working-class audience, on the principles of Socialism. Essentially issued as a recruiting booklet for Shachtman's third-camp Trotskyist organization, The Workers Party, founded in 1940; but the book turned out to… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, 1937. Second printing. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers, 64pp. Clean and unmarked copy in the original wrappers; about Fine. Party-line anti-Trotsky tract issued during the period of the Moscow show trials. Includes an extract from Earl Browder's "The Results of the Election and the People's Front" inside front wrapper.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Original quarto issue in pictorial coated wrappers; 128pp; illus. Slight external rubbing and wear, with faint creases at corners. Text fresh and unmarked; a Very Good copy. Eastman's somewhat breezy 4-pp article recounts his detention in a Madrid jail for having participated in a meeting of the Left Opposition, at the… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 299pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper and small private ink stamp inside front cover, else a tight, fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, slightly rubbed at folds, Very Good+.

New York: New Century Publishers, 1947. Pictorial staple-bound pamphlet; 64pp. Pencil date impression to cover, light foxing to pages, else near fine. SEIDMAN T13: "...communist attack on Trotskyite [sic] activities, with emphasis on ballot steaing, racketeering, stooling for the bosses...

New York: New International Publishing Company, 1949. Bound volume for 1949. Quarto (27cm), publisher's red cloth-covered boards. Contains 8 issues (no issues were published for May, June, October or November). Occasional splits at gutter, with text moderately tanned throughout; all issues present and complete, in Good or better condition with original wrappers present. Includes index at head of text.… Read more about this item

New York: New International Publishing Company, 1947. Bound volume for 1947. Quarto (32cm), publisher's red cloth-covered boards. Contains nine issues (no issues were published for May, June, or November). Clean and tight, with all issues present and in Very Good or better condition with original wrappers present. Includes index at head of text. Long-running theoretical organ of… Read more about this item

New York: New International Publishing Company, 1948. Bound volume for 1948. Quarto (32cm), publisher's red cloth-covere boards. Contains nine issues (no issues were published for May, June, or December); formats vary, with issues after March 1948 in smaller quarto format (27cm). Binding partially separated from contents, but all issues present, complete, in Good or better condition with original wrappers… Read more about this item

N.p., n.d. [International Socialist Organization ca 1990-92?]. Adhesive bumper sticker, 7.5cm x 28cm (ca 3" x 11"). Printed in black on red-orange stock. Unused, with paper backing still in place. Small nicks to edges, still Near Fine. "ISO" logo of a closed fist at right. A campus-based Trotskyist group, the ISO dissolved in 2019; at its height the group… Read more about this item

London: E. Grant, N.d. (ca 1938). 12mo (18.5cm). Printed card wrappers; 48pp. Minor wear and soil; Very Good. Publisher's imprint (Workers International News) on front cover pasted over with the imprint of the Revolutionary Communist Party, London. With "Printed in England" hand-stamp at lower right, suggesting that this copy was intended for distribution in the U.S.

London: Socialist Labour League, 1967. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 10pp; illus. Very Good. On the failed ENV West London strike of 1967.

Mexico City: Instituto del Derecho de Asilo y Las Libertades Publicas, 1992. First Edition. First printing of 6000 copies. Small oblong quarto; original printed portfolio enclosing folding triptych and 8-pp text booklet. Mild crease at lower foredge, else Fine. Publication to accompany the exhibit of Vlady's monumental three-canvas work, in the collection of the Museo del Arte Moderno in… Read more about this item

Paris: Lutte Ouvriere, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 17pp. Very Good, with mild external wear and a few minor corner-creases to text.

Detroit: Correspondence Publishing Co, 1962. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound printed paper wrappers; 31pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good or better. Uncommon early pamphlet by the British anthropologist; predicts a post-nucler world society free of state controls. Gough was a member of the Johnson-Forrest Tendency and an outspoken Marxist and feminist.

[Mexico City: La Internacional, n.d., ca 1970s]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 23pp. Pages trimmed and bound unevenly (as issued); mild age-toning; Very Good. Spanish-language translations of Mandel's "Revolutionary Marxism and the World Revolution" and Lowy's "Why the IV International?" Issued without date or imprint, but with an advertisement for "La Internacional," the official organ of the Partido… Read more about this item

New York: Red Star Press, 1933. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm). Original tan cloth boards, lettered in red on cover and spine; price-clipped dustjacket; 632pp. A few small losses to jacket extremities with some subsequent creasing, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket just about free of toning. Socialist romance, described by Rideout as the "...only radical novel… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); gray cloth and paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 310, [2]pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with a single small adhesive strip from an old mylar protector at upper spine… Read more about this item

New York: Pioneer Publishers, [1937]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 31pp. A bit dust-soiled, spine slightly rubbed, else Very Good. Translation of an article that first appeared in the March 1937 issue of Nouvelles d'U.R.S.S., an information bulletin published by the "Que Faire?" group of left Communists led by Andre Ferrat.

Chicago: Socialist Party U.S.A., 1937. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 190pp. Light external soil, rubbing and wear; ownership signature; Very Good. Analysis of the Moscow show trials from a Socialist, strongly anti-Stalinist perspective.

New York: Communist Party of the USA, N.d. [ca 1936]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm). Printed self-wraps; 15pp. Margins slightly browned, else Very Good. Issued as a broadside against the Socialist Party of America on the eve of their annual convention. Includes excerpts of speeches and essays by Earl Browder, Israel Amter, M.J. Olgin and others, as well as two… Read more about this item