Radicals, Revolutionaries, And Reformers from Quercus Rare Books

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Close to 3000 Americans volunteered to fight with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. This history takes advantage of new material. Large trade paperback A Fine copy of the First Edition. Clean text; 440 pages. Indexed; illustrated with photographs.Laid in is a clipping regarding a celebration for the 60th anniversary of the Veterans… Read more about this item

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1908. Algie Martin Simons (1870-1950) edited the International Socialist Review. Eventually idealogical issues divided Simons and publisher Charles Kerr, who forced him out of the editorship in 1908 [interestingly, the same year that Kerr published this printing].This is a Very Good copy of the "Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with Notes and References." Green… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1939. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition [stated "First Printing']. An uncommon title. Red cloth binding with the medalion of the International Brigades in gilt on the front cover; titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; 321 pages. Indexed. Decoritive map as endpaper; black topstain. A very solid copy; hints… Read more about this item

New York: International General, 1975. Previously published in Chile, Argentina, Italy, and Portugal. Not common. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition [stated "First Printing: May 1975"]. large format in wraps. Clean text; 112 pages; illustrations. Pages lightly toned; tiny chip to rear, foot of the spine. Else, a Fine copy.. First American Edition.. Soft Cover.… Read more about this item

New York: Fairplay Publishers, 1950. George marion (1905-1955) had joined the Communist Party in the mid-1930s and was a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War. Blacklisted, he self-published his books under the name "Fairplay Publishers." First published in 1949. This is a Near Fine copy of the Second Edition [stated] from a year later. Gray cloth binding with titling in… Read more about this item

New York: The Vanguard Press/League for Industrial Democracy, 1929. Here is an omnibus edition on the state of American socialism in the year following Norman Thomas's run for the Presidency. Edited by Thomas and Harry Laidler, his co-director of the League for Industrial Democracy, with essays by 34 authors. A Fine copy of the First Edition [stated "Copyright, June, 1929,… Read more about this item

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1903. Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach [1804-1872] was a major influence on German philosophy in the mid-19th century. Engels was an admirer, but today certainly is better known. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. A scarce title. Red cloth binding, decoratively stamped (as part of the "Standard Socialist Series"); titling in black… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Tan cloth binding with titling in maroon on the spine and front cover. Clean text; xxiii, 419 pages, with many illustrations. Indexed; also has a Preface and a Chronology of the events. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Robert Meeropol on the FFEP. There is… Read more about this item

New York/London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition (full number line). Rather uncommon today. Green paper-covered boards; black cloth spine with titling in silver. Cl;ean text; 488 pages. Indexed; illustrated with photographs. Forward by Studs Terkel. Laid-in is a newspaper review (LA "Times").This copy has been SIGNED by the author on the… Read more about this item

London: Trubner & Co., 1872. J. Arthur Partridge wrote a number of books on history and political science, which are held in all major research libraries. He has, however, a rather scant representation in the trade. First published in 1866; this is a Good copy of a Later Printing. A well-received book that is quite scarce in the Trade today.… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1932. The third book published under the pseudonym "Essad-Bey" by Lev Nussimbaum (1905-1942). He was a Jew and an anti-Bolshevik who (possibly) converted to Islam. Nussinbaum wrote in German, and became a well-known and successful author. His work now is considered unreliable as history, but the context is rather wonderful. He also (possibly) wrote as… Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers, 1939. First published in 1919, John Reed's description of the Russian Revolution remains the primary source for the events. This is a Fine copy of a reprint by the publishing house of the Communist party; while there is no publication date, the rear flap of the dustjacket is an ad for "Two Systems" by Eugene Varga… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1923. Benito Mussolini first took power in 1922; here is an exposition of his brand of fascism by "a soldier of our cause" (from the Preface by Mussolini). This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition, an uncommon title. Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by M.D. Petre. Green cloth binding. Clean… Read more about this item

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1920. Socialist and atheist E. Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) published a series of softbound pamphlets on radical subjects that appeared under various names, starting in 1915. Eventually (1923) they were titled the "Little Blue Books." This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of one of the earlier iterations, called the "Ten-Cent Pocket Series No.211." Blue stapled paper covers.… Read more about this item

Boston & New York: Lee and Shepard, Publishers & Charles T. Dillingham, 1878. Here is an early work of the now-discredited "science" of eugenics. The author notes on the Title Page that "The sacredness of human life Increases with civilization," which is an idealistic way of stating the proposition of racial superiority. An uncommon to scarce work today. This is… Read more about this item

West Lafayette, Ohio: George R. Kirkpatrick, 1910. The second book written by George Ross Kirkpatrick (1867-1937), an anti-militarist tract that led to him running for Vice-President on the Socialist Party ticket. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition, published by the author to"help instruct and rouse the working class." Although the book was reprinted many times, this… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. Thirteen essays (including "The Yellow Peril") by the adventure novelist/socialist. Originally published in March 1910; this is a Very Good (minus) copy of the Second Printing (April, 1912). Rather an uncommon title in the London canon. Blue cloth binding; the cover is blindstamped with the title and "The Macmillan Standard Library;" gilt lettering on… Read more about this item

New York: Pegasus, 1969. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition. Bright yellow cloth binding with red lettering on the spine. Clean text; 415 pages, indexed. Maps as endpapers. The dustjacket is unclipped, also Fine; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898. Edwin (Lawrence) Godkin (1831-1902) was an Irish-American journalist who founded "The Nation." He was anti-Tammany Hall, anti-Imperialist, and anti-socialist in his attitudes, and was very influential with America's intellectual class. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition, which has a tipped-in Memorial Page for Godkin from 1902. Brown cloth… Read more about this item

Unknown (Chicago?): Unknown (Ball Publishing?), 1911. here is one of those reform books that had currency in America from late in the 19th century through the 1920s. Ostensibly to correct injustice, they seem to be designed to titilate as well. The author is "Secretary of the Illinois Vigilance Association" and there are ten other "do-gooders" who have contributed chapters to… Read more about this item