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réf. 90190N.p. n.d. ca. 1970s. Original carbon typescript with hand corrections throughout. Corner-stapled sheets 7pp; signed in ink by Zeidler at conclusion. Text toned with small chips at corners and a few brief closed tears in margins; Very Good. Undated but likely mid-1970s from context see note below. A timely document foreshadowing the ascension of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani by half a century. Zeidler presents a detailed plan for the transformation of New York City's Mayor-Council governmental structure into "a more democratic and representative body so that it acts like a legislature on matters of city wide concern in which issues and policies can be debated and ventilated.in which people in the boroughs have a real voice in the affairs that affect boroughs." This is followed by a detailed 20-point plan calling for a wide variety of reforms including height limits on new construction; the reduction of motor vehicle traffic; city beautification; and the rebuilding of Harlem. Given the document's multiple references to New York's financial financial difficulties we assume it to have been written during the mayoralty of Abraham Beame 1974-1977 when the city nearly declared bankruptcy in the face of a $600 million dollar debt-service shortfall. Frank Zeidler 1912-2006 was perhaps America's most successful socialist politician in the post-WW2 era serving three terms as Mayor of Milwaukee from 1948-1960. In what were arguably the worst years in American history to be a professed Socialist Zeidler remained highly popular among his constituents and under his tenure Milwaukee was consistently rated among the best-governed cities in the U.S. After retiring from office he remained active as a left-wing policy maker. He became Chairman of the Socialist Party USA in 1973 and was the party's candidate for President in 1976. It is not clear in what context the current document was drafted but if our dating is correct we would surmise it was meant to be a SPUSA public policy statement perhaps intended to draw attention to Zeidler at the time of his Presidential run. We find no evidence that the manuscript was ever separately published; only one other physical copy appears to exist in the Milwaukee Public Library's collection of Zeidler's papers. unknown books
1850réf. 82110Paris: Au Bureau du Nouveau Monde 1850. First impression of the 1850 edition. 12mo 18cm. Original printed wrappers bound into a 20th-century binding of 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards; 240pp. Rear wrapper advertisements for other publications by Nouveau Monde including works by Blanc Ledru-Rollin and Mazzini. Faint dampstain to upper portion of text affecting the final 40 or so leaves; old waste-paper reinforcements to interior wraps; binding a touch rubbed at corners; still a crisp Very Good copy. An important edition of Blanc's most celebrated work among the most influential early theoretical works of Socialism described by one historian as ".a sensation - and ground-breaking. It had little in common with prior utopian socialist ideas . Louis Blanc was more clearly observant of the large-scale and deep social and economic changes wrought by the industrial revolution and ferocious in his conclusions.Blanc almost single-handedly converted the republican leaders and the rebellious Parisian masses to the socialist cause" see Gonçalo Fonseca; "Louis Blanc" at History of Economic Thought; on-line resource. The essay originally appeared in Blanc's own Revue du Progres in 1840 and was expanded and reprinted regularly over the following decade; the current edition the ninth was the first to appear after the Revolutions of 1848. This version contains further revisions and additions including most importantly the oft-borrowed phrase "Produra selon ses facultés et consommera selon ses besoins" generally translated into English as "From each according to their abilities; to each according to their needs" - an expression popularized by Marx but widely attributed to Blanc in the current edition of this work see "Notes From the Editors" Monthly Review v.66 no.3 July-Aug 2014. KRESS C.7283 the 5th edition; GOLDSMITH 34460 and 36031. Au Bureau du Nouveau Monde unknown books
1916réf. 83564Chicago: Izdala RadniÄka Knjižara 1916. 12mo 19cm.; publisher's pale red staplebound card wrappers; 20pp. Minor wear and toning to wrappers; mild toning to text; Very Good or better. Slovak translation of an anonymous Russian Marxist theoretical work issued as Narodna Knjižnica Folk Library no. 9. Includes a chapter on the lumpenproletariat and anarchism. The source is possibly Pavel Rosenthal's "Люмпенпролетариат и революциÑ" "Lumpenproletariat & Revolution." St. Petersburg 1906. One copy located in OCLC Michigan as of 2024. Izdala RadniÄka Knjižara unknown books
réf. 58533Milwaukee: Socialist Party 1933. Single sheet 9" x 24" folded to 9"x6" 10pp. Mild toning to margins; Very Good. Transcript of an extemporaneous speech delivered by Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan answering attacks against his administration's decision to issue city-backed bonds here called "scrip" rather than borrowing cash to address its outstanding budget deficit. The bonds were issued in six series between 1933 and 1938 and have been credited with saving the city from bakruptcy during the worst years of the Great Depression. Hoan 1881-1961 served as Milwaukee's mayor from 1916 to 1940 still the longest continuous Socialist administration in American history. This a rather uncommon remnant of Milwaukee's socialist past; not noted in commerce with ten catalogued examples in OCLC member institutions. unknown books
1929réf. 58602London: I.L.P. Publication Service 1929. First Edition. Narrow 12mo 18cm. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp. Slight creasing and soil to wrappers; binding staples rusty else Near Fine. Socialist primer addressed to lay readers but not as the cover would suggest intended for children. Glasier née Conway 1867-1950 was a Fabian Socialist suffragist and prominent member of the Independent Labour Party. She was married to J. Bruce Glasier the I.L.P.'s second Chairman. The cover portrait is of the the author's son Glen who died in 1928 and for whom she penned a memorial volume The Glen Book in which she espoused some of her theosophical beliefs concerning the afterlife the same year. I.L.P. Publication Service unknown books
1884réf. 47715London: The Fabian Society 1884-1905. Thick octavo. Publisher's brown buckram gilt; variously paginated with individual titles ranging from 2pp to 50pp. Tight and straight with scattered foxing to contents; Very Good. The Society issued bound collections of its tracts more or less annually compiling whichever titles were still in-print or on-hand as remainders. Contents of the annual volumes varied as remainders were depleted or titles went out of print or were withdrawn from circulation. As might be expected the earliest tracts were the first to go creating inevitable lacunae especially for the pre-1890 titles. This is the compilation for 1905 including nos. 1 to 120 but with the following thirty-three tracts not included: 2-4; 6 8-13; 15-18; 21; 25-26; 30; 33-36; 38-39; 43; 46; 52-53; 55; 60; 65-66; 77; 80; 87 present as a title page in Welsh only; 106. Of the tracts present the majority are the first printings though a few of the more popular early tracts are present in later printings or editions though none obviously later than 1905. The Fabian Society unknown books
1896réf. 47650Berlin: Expedition der Buchhandlung Vorwärts 1896. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's orange wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; 52pp.; text printed entirely in blackletter. Some shallow chipping to upper cover fore-edge not approaching text some light soil textblock uniformly toned else a Very Good copy internally clean and sound. At head of title: "Berliner Arbeiter-Bibliothek" IX. Heft. One of a series of educational Marxist pamphlets issued under the banner the "Berliner Arbeiter-Bibliothek" this introducing its readers to the theory of surplus value without having to wade through Marx's original text. Other titles in the series covered the benefits of unionism and labor protection legislation; provided a concise history of the Paris Commune; and included an edition of Bellamy's "Looking Backward. Expedition der Buchhandlung Vorwärts unknown books
1777réf. 47694Lausanne: Société Typographique 1777. Second Edition. Two volumes in one; small 12mo 16cm.; slightly later paper-covered boards manuscript private library spine labels all edges speckled red; 2viii248; 2iv250pp. Spine a bit sunned corners bumped light spotting to boards tiny rubberstamps of a Donaueschingen library to both title page versos else a Near Fine internally fresh copy half titles present. First published one year prior in 1776. Both a critique and history of European inequality by the French philosopher deeply influenced by the works of John Locke. Described as an "avant-garde thinker of utopian socialism" Sophus Reinert and Steven Kaplan eds. "The Economic Turn" 2019 p. 339 the Abbé de Mably 1709-1785 roundly rejected any institution that could reduce the well-being of one in favor of another among these the concept of private property. Indeed in Chapter IV in the first volume states that it be necessary for legislation to "turn all its forces against avarice and ambition" p. 96 our translation. A life-long friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau the underlining theme of the work consistently circles back to the concept of "Nature" in this case self-preservation at present undermined by the state of society. Société Typographique unknown books
1879réf. 41796New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company 1879. First Edition. 12mo 19cm.; publisher's light blue-grey decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt blue floral endpapers; 111pp. Extremities a bit worn with brief loss of cloth at spine ends corners bumped light soil spine a bit cocked else Good to Very Good overall. Virulently anti-socialist and -communist piece by the Congregationalist clergyman arguing that "To-day there is not in our language nor in any language a more hateful word than Communism.it meant and still means wages without work arson assassination anarchy" p. 24. An anonymously published response "A Reply to Roswell D. Hitchcock D.D. on Socialism" would be published the same year. Neither title appears in Egbert. Anson D.F. Randolph & Company unknown books
1919réf. 43046Detroit / Troy: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union 1919 - 1923. First Edition. Quarto 30cm. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 in clean unmarked condition Very Good or better. Issue for 1923 worn with wrappers darkened and stained contents slightly age-toned with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; complete and just Good. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union. The WIIU the labor union arm of the Socialist Labor Party was effectively formed in 1908 following the split of the SLP faction from the Industrial Workers of the World; the group identified itself as the 'Detroit IWW' until 1915 at which point the name was changed to Workers International Industrial Union a typically De Leonist mouthful!. The WIIU never throve; its membership probably never numbered above about 2500 workers a number that dropped quickly following the death of Daniel De Leon in 1915. By the 1920s the WIIU was an afterthought and the group was finally disbanded in 1925. Contents include articles by Michael Altschuler Herman Richter W.J. Dodge Henry Kuhn and others; literary contributions by Samuel French Fred H. Hartmann Richard Le Galienne William Morris and Walt Whitman; portraits and reproductions of artworks by Eugene Higgins Jan Styka and Eugene Chaperon. An attractive and rather uncommon American labor souvenir book; OCLC notes 6 physical locations for any issue 2018; the 1923 issue printed on clearly inferior paper probably a reflection of the Union's impending demise appears to be in the catalogue of only a single OCLC member institution NYPL. Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union unknown books
1919réf. 43080Detroit: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union 1919. First Edition. Quarto 30cm. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp; illus. Issue for 1919 ; slightly worn with wrappers darkened and stained contents slightly age-toned with corner-creases and occasional thumb-soil; Just Good. Hand-stamp of the SLP / Detroit to front cover. Annual souvenir of the Workers' International Industrial Union. The WIIU the labor union arm of the Socialist Labor Party was effectively formed in 1908 following the split of the SLP faction from the Industrial Workers of the World; the group identified itself as the 'Detroit IWW' until 1915 at which point the name was changed to Workers International Industrial Union a typically De Leonist mouthful!. The WIIU never throve; its membership probably never numbered above about 2500 workers a number that dropped quickly following the death of Daniel De Leon in 1915. By the 1920s the WIIU was an afterthought and the group was finally disbanded in 1925. Contents include articles by Michael Altschuler Herman Richter W.J. Dodge and others; literary contributions by Fred H. Hartmann Richard Le Galienne William Morris and Walt Whitman; portraits and reproductions of artworks by Eugene Higgins Jan Styka and Eugene Chaperon. An attractive and rather uncommon American labor souvenir book; OCLC notes 6 physical locations for any issue 2018. Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union unknown books
1934réf. 41205New York: Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party n.d. ca. 1934. First Edition. Quarto broadside flyer 28x21cm. printed mimeograph. Extremities unevenly toned with a few tiny chips along right-hand edge none approaching text else Very Good or better. Flyer promoting a talk by the New York-based socialist politician Benjamin Gitlow 1891-1965 a founding member of the CPUSA who later in life turned conservative and McCarthyist. The present item dates from Gitlow's tenure with the Workers Party on whose ticket he ran for Governor of New York in 1926. The talk held at the radical Rand School addressed such questions as "Will the Socialist Party Go Left or Right" and "Will the Socialist Party split" Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of July 2018. Organization Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party unknown books
1915réf. 41991New York: Louis Weitz 1915. First Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; 59pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and toned spine lettering partly effaced else Near Very Good internally near fine. "Peoples Educational Society" - upper cover. Socialist study of unemployment. A copy would be sent to Jack London in Honolulu prompting him to write to Weitz: "I think it is a good clean straight-from-the-shoulder presentation of the situation for the jobless ones. My congratulations" see "The Letters of Jack London 1913-1916" 1988 p. 1543. Quite uncommon with only five physical copies in OCLC as of September 2018 at Cornell Library of Congress U. Kansas Harvard and U. Wisconsin. Not in Egbert. Louis Weitz unknown books
1907réf. 39808Chicago: Brotherhood Publishing Inc 1907. Third Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; printed brown card wrappers; 128pp. Light wear else Very Good to Near Fine. Early edition of this popular Socialist song-book which went into at least seven editions between 1905 and 1913. COHEN 120; EGBERT II p. 494. Brotherhood Publishing, Inc unknown books
1917réf. 35140Boston: Hayrenik'" Tparan 1917. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black; 492pp.; photographic frontispiece 29 plates chiefly portraits. Very slightly ex-University of Michigan Library with their rubberstamp to textblock fore-edge light shelf wear brief dampstain to rear cover else Very Good and sound though the interior does have a bit of a smoky odor. History of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation "Dashnaktsutyun" the nationalist and socialist political party founded in 1890 by Christapor Mikaelian Stepan Zorian and Simon Zavarian. This account is published by the Federation's Boston-based newspaper "Hayrenik" Fatherland three years into the Armenian Genocide a period of almost ten years during which the Ottoman Empire systematically killed 1.5 million Armenians including many members of the Federation. Hayrenik'" Tparan unknown books
1970réf. 29917New York: Socialist Workers Party Young Socialist Campaign Committee 1970. First Edition. Quarto 28.5cm.; single sheet folded twice; photographic illus. About Fine. Only issue of a magazine "written for and by the youth who endorse the Socialist Workers Party 1970 election campaign" supporting African-American activist Clifton DeBerry for governor of New York. Includes the piece "Fight for High School Rights" and a list of demands among them to end the war in Vietnam "mass independent Black and Puerto Rican political parties" "free abortion and birth control" "No cops in schools" "Preferential hiring of Afro-Americans Puerto Ricans and women" "Free the Panther 21" and finally "For a socialist America." 2 holdings in OCLC as of May 2016 at Harvard and Wisconsin Historical Society. Socialist Workers Party, Young Socialist Campaign Committee unknown books
1906réf. 15675New York: Macmillan 1906. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Brown gilt-pictorial cloth boards; 337pp; 32 inserted leaves of plates halftones. Light edgewear to boards still a bright clean and unmarked copy Near Fine. A socialist's exposé of child labor in America well-illustrated with photographic plates credited to Marjory Hall G.W. Goler Peter Roberts and the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee the last photographic plates though uncredited almost certainly by Lewis Hine. Spargo 1876-1966 edited the socialist monthly The Comrade and published a number of socialist tracts before moving to the right during the First World War. In his later years Spargo was an outspoken advocate of free-market capitalism. The current work went through numerous reprintings; the first edition is somewhat uncommon in the trade and is notable for the quality of its photographic illustrations. Macmillan unknown books
2018réf. 301600New York: Committees of Correspondence Education Fund 2018. Paperback. 276p. wraps very good condition. Contributions by Carl Davidson Rebekah Barber Steve Early Bill Fletcher Jr. Bob Win David Bacon and others. Committees of Correspondence Education Fund paperback books
1977réf. 121264San Francisco: League for Proletarian Socialism 1977. Pamphlet. 29p. staplebound pamphlet format 5.25x8 inches very good condition. Marlene Dixon's group which dissolved when the membership found out that not only was she a drunkard but she also wanted to become a professor of philosophy in Bulgaria. League for Proletarian Socialism unknown books
1967réf. List3827New York City: Black Liberation Commission of the Progressive Labor Party 1967. 24 pp booklet measuring 4 x 6 ⅛ inches in paper wraps. Wraps slightly worn; excellent. Contents with pencil manuscript on final page else Near Fine. A booklet published by the Black Liberation Commission of the Progressive Labor Party an American Marxist-Leninist party founded in the early 1960s. The booklet warns that: "the United States Government and its State county and city administrators in the large northern industrial areas are preparing a reign of terror against the Afro-American people this summer. They are deliberately planning to start a so-called 'race war'." 1 It states that because the "government has expanded its wars of aggression against the people of Asia Africa and Latin America and especially in Vietnam" there was a need to "invent an internal enemy in this country that the white majority can turn against" as a distraction from these unpopular campaigns. 13 The booklet ends with a list of demands which include an end to the draft and withdrawal from Vietnam protection of African Americans' right to demonstrate community control of schools housing reform full employment and so on. OCLC locates eleven copies of the 1967 booklet. . Black Liberation Commission of the Progressive Labor Party unknown books
1914réf. List38116Chicago Illinois: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1914. Printed postcard measuring 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Worn especially at corners with a few very small stains and unrelated manuscript on the verso. Excellent. A printed postcard with a photograph of and quote from Fred Warren b. 1872 dated to between 1910 and 1914 based on the address given for Charles H. Kerr & Co. Warren was a publisher and newspaperman who became managing editor of Julius Wayland's Appeal to Reason in 1898. The quote on the postcard was taken from a speech given by Warren during his trial in which he was convicted of using the postal service to send "scurrilous defamatory and incendiary language" after offering a $1000 reward for the kidnapping and extradition of William Taylor former Governor of Kentucky.1 Taylor was suspected of involvement in the assassination of his rival William Goebel and had fled to Indiana; the Appeal article states that Taylor was pardoned despite never being convicted "so that he might venture out of Indiana and testify against Warren".1 Warren had published the call to kidnap Taylor in response to the events of the infamous Bill Haywood trial. Three leaders from the Western Federation of Miners including Haywood who were wanted for the murder of Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg had been purposely extradited to Idaho from Colorado too quickly for them to obtain lawyers who could challenge the move. Warren was pardoned by President Taft in 1911. Charles H. Kerr & Co. the company that published this postcard was opened in the 1880s to publish Unitarian religious tracts. However Kerr became politically radicalized around the turn of the century and began publishing works related to socialism and labor topics on which the company continues to publish today. The postcard's message area contains the printed greeting "DEAR COMRADE" and signoff "YOURS FOR THE REVOLUTION". We find the postcard at Pittsburg State University though there are none listed on OCLC at the time of writing. 1 "The Warren Case" Appeal to Reason April 27 1912 4. . Charles H. Kerr & Company unknown books
1917réf. List38117New York City: The Masses Publishing Co 1917. 42 pp magazine measuring appx. 8 ½ x 11 inches in paper wraps. Wraps worn and previously folded vertically with wrinkling and discoloration and I.W.W.'s Detroit headquarters stamp recto; good. Contents also with vertical fold toned excellent. With broadside "President Wilson's Letter To The Pope" by Max Eastman. 8 x 10 ¼ inches. With small stains to top and left margins; some wrinkling; small tears at margins including one intersecting with text; very good. Overall very good. The October 1917 edition of socialist political and literary magazine The Masses. The issue includes the broadside supplement by Max Eastman "President Wilson's Letter to the Pope." Articles include "News from France" by Louise Bryant and John Reed discussing both the progress of the World War in France and the brewing revolution in Russia the "gentle giant hope of the world" 5; "Revolutionary Progress" by Max Eastman mainly discussing unions and suppression of The Masses; and "A Step Towards Democracy" by John Reed about relations between the US and Germany. World War I and the magazine's suppression were the news of the day-it was then in conflict with the USPS which refused to distribute the magazine alleging that it violated the Espionage Act. The Masses was soon to be in further legal trouble for allegedly attempting to obstruct US military recruiting; Henry Glintenkamp's illustration "Physically Fit" which appears in this volume was included in this case. The illustration shows a skeleton measuring the height of a young man. Though the case successfully shut down The Masses in 1918 editors Max and Crystal Eastman quickly established its successor The Liberator. The Masses Publishing Co unknown books
1936réf. List3310United States 1936. Lithographic illustration measuring 12 x 13 ¾ inches. Unnumbered titled and signed recto in pencil matching handwriting of other known examples. Near Fine. A lithograph by American socialist artist Lydia Gibson 1891–1964. Gibson contributed artworks to radical publications including The Masses The Liberator New Masses and others. This illustration titled Glamour depicts two well-dressed gentlemen labeled “Banks” and “Munitions” courting a bejewelled lady skeleton whose tiara reads “War”. More than a straightforward pacifist sentiment Gibson makes the now-familiar critique that industries that stand to profit off of war will ‘court’ it. A striking piece of twentieth-century socialist art. unknown books
1976réf. 339357Washington DC: Committee for Scientific Socialism M-L 1976. 34p. 8.5x11 inch staplebound pamphlet; hint of rust on staples else very good. Committee for Scientific Socialism (M-L) unknown books
1959réf. 68568New York: Bookman Associates 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 72pp. Octavo 22 cm Red cloth over boards with silver stamped title on the backstrip and front board. With moderate rubbing to the extremities. In the dust jacket with prominent scuffing to the front panel fading to the spine title still bold and a small thin tear along the top edge of the rear panel. The author's only book. Ida Rauh 1877-1970 born into a wealthy family was a trailblazer who rebelled against her upper-class upbringing and who had a great impact on American theater and the struggle for women's rights. After graduating from New York University in 1902 with a law degree she settled in Greenwich Village and began advocating for causes such as women's voting rights the promotion of birth control and the espousal of socialist doctrine. She married Max Eastman and together they heavily influenced the birth of modern theater and the early twentieth-century underground press through the Provincetown Players and the publication The Masses. During this time Rauh also made major contributions to the organization of women’s trade unions and related strike activities. Information from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation website. Bookman Associates hardcover books
