Communism 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… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Chicago: SDS - Students for a Democratic Society, 1969]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Folded pamphlet consisting of a single sheet accordion-folded to make eight panels; photo-illustrated cover and three photographic text illustrations. Printed in black on thin white stock; Fine, apparently unread copy. On the history of U.S. imperial interests in Cuba, the history of class conflict,… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p. [Managua?]: Direccion General de divulgacion y Prensa de la J.G.R.N., [1983]. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers, 55pp, illus. Mild evidence of use, stil tight, clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Text entirely in Spanish. Ortega's speech before the United Nations General Assembly in September 1983. Ortega used the occasion to strongly denounce the… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: British Socialist Party, 1918. Second edition (same year as the first). 12mo; printed buff wrappers; 54pp. Clean, sound and unmarked copy, Near Fine.

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: Workers Library, N.d. [c. 1934]. Bound from British sheets, with new title page. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Red paper wrappers printed in black; 63pp; photographic portrait frontispiece (halftone). Near Fine. Perchik was an official of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute in Moscow.

New York: Workers Library, [1929]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Red card wrappers printed in black; 36pp. Moderate overall soil and wear, with tiny chips at corners; brief manuscript annotation at head of text; a complete, about Very Good copy. Probably Lovestone's last publication as CUPSA Party Secretary, written on the eve of the 1929 National Convention,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Workers Library, 1934. First revised edition (originally published 1933). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 96pp. Trivial external soiling; hint of aging to text, still Near Fine. One of several printings of Olgin's strident "Third Period" polemic, first published in 1933.This version presumably issued to coincide with the 1934 midterm elections. Olgin, editor of the Yiddish communist daily… Saber más sobre este artículo

[New York: National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case, 1951]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed newsprint wrappers, 32pp; illus. Slight toning, tiny chips to corners; Very Good. Post-trial pamphlet, issued after the Rosenbergs had been sentenced to death. Presents the evidence in the case and demands acquittal. Includes portraits of the principal figures.

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 127pp; folding chart tipped in between pp 64-65. Mild external soil and creasing; still a tight, complete, Near Fine copy of the uncommon first edition. SEIDMAN P113: "The definitive Party handbook, written by a Comintern representative in the U.S. Sections deal with fundamentals of the Party… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Civil Rights Congress, [1946]. First printing. Octavo; original tape-backed printed paper wrappers; 56pp. Mild soil and toning to wrappers, else a Near Fine copy. The defendants had been indicted for violation of the Smith Act, accused, by dint of their association with the Communist Party, of advocating the violent overthrow of the United States. They were convicted,… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p. [New York?]: Carl C. Burns, 1961. Offset broadside, 11" x 8-1/2"; text printed in black on thin wove paper. Heavy stains verso, bleeding through to recto, conspicuous but not affecting legibility of text. Just Good. Dated at end of text, August 1961. A resounding evangelical response to the threat of nuclear war, published a few months after… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The Daily Worker, 1935. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue; no. 50 of 100 clothbound copies signed by Burck. Quarto; tan buckram with titles and decorations stamped in brown on front and rear covers; 247pp. A lovely, fine copy, free of soiling or wear. There was a simultaneous trade issue in pictorial wrappers. The very scarce… Saber más sobre este artículo

Bari: De Donato, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. Printed still card wrappers (softcover); 395pp. Mild toning to text margins, still a tight, Near Fine copy. Text entirely in Italian.

New York: Curbstone Press, 1987. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xviii,19-503pp. Inscribed on front flyleaf: "Para la camarada Kendra Alexander y adelante con la lucha solidaria con el pueblo Salvadoreño y Centroamerica," signed by Miguel Mármol, dated 1988. Mild bumps to board corners, a bit of rippling to cloth on spine, still Near… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Kawasaki-shi, Tokyo]: Looking Back, 1971. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 50pp; illus. Mild soil to covers, else a tight, VG copy; mimeographed errata and postscript laid in. Translates four contemporary articles on education by North Vietnamese authors: Huynh Phan, "Young People and Education"; Tran Huang Tich, "A Special School"; Pham Ké, "Half Study - Half Work… Saber más sobre este artículo

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+.

San Salvador: Editorial Universitaria de El Salvador, 1968. First Edition. First printing (1968 publication date; 1967 copyright date; printing was completed in late December 1967). 12mo (18cm). Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 181,(7)pp. Mild external rubbing and wear; slight discoloration to spine; still tight, clean, Very Good or better and quite scarce. Text entirely in Spanish. Selections from Dalton's… Saber más sobre este artículo

Berlin: E. Laub, 1923. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Pattered wrappers (softcover, as issued); 235pp; portrait frontispiece; one folding facsimile. Slight wear; spine slightly skewed; Very Good. Text entirely in German.

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...