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1930réf. 48515Berlin: S. Fischer 1930. Erste bis fünfzehnte auflage. Octavo 22cm; original tan linen boards lettered in blue and red; portrait frontispiece; xvi1-5693pp. Very Good with slight dust-soiling to covers typical looseness to text block but hinges tight; text complete clean and unmarked - a solid respectable copy lacking dustwrapper. First published edition in any language of Trotsky's autobiography written following his exile from the Soviet Union in 1928; translated from the Russian manuscript by Alexandra Ramm. Text entirely in German. S. Fischer unknown books
1934réf. 340127Paris: Les Humbles 1934. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Text in French. 12mo. 54 2pp. illustrated with one frontispiece plate with photographs of Trotsky and Andre Malraux. Very good in wrappers with light soiling and moderate browning to the text pages. Scarce. Les Humbles unknown books
1935réf. 288954Toronto: Nakladom "Robitnychykh Vistei 1935. Pamphlet. 50p. staplebound booklet toned and edgeworn some edge stains. Ukrainian edition; "Stalin's bureaucracy and Kirov's murder. Nakladom "Robitnychykh Vistei unknown books
1938réf. 001249Paris: Librairie du Travail 1938. Softcover. Single issue - 10th Year March 1938 No. 64; 7 1/4 x 10 3/4; pp. 16; stapled wraps; uniform age-toning; horizontal fold line through middle; last leaf with a thin split along crease; illustrated with photographs; good to very good. A special issue commemorating Lev Sedov and his death a few weeks prior to publication. He was Leon Trotsky's son and editor of the journal from July 1929 to February 1938. Though the official cause of his death was ruled as complications after an appendectomy it is believed he was murdered by agents of Stalin in Paris. Though he was a leader in his own right in the Trotskyist Movement and worked alongside his father on the journal his name was hardly mentioned in print until this current issue as a way of protection. The Bulletin of the Opposition was published alternately in Paris and Berlin from 1929 to 1941 - at irregular intervals and never exceeding 1000 copies - by Leon Trotsky who wrote the majority of the content and with contributions by various exile authors. The journal was intended "to serve the present needs of the oppositional struggle" and would ultimately number 65 issues several of them double for a total of 87 numbers and would be of various page count and size so as to make it easier to be smuggled into the Soviet Union by diplomats sailors etc. The current volume contains history of the life of Lev Sedov as well as letters of condolences received after his passing. Paris: Librairie du Travail paperback books
1918réf. 33679Belp-Bern: Promachos-Verlag 1918. First edition. Softcover. fair. Octavo. 119 1pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers with red and black lettering on front cover. Publisher's logo on title page. This work was written in 1918 at Brest-Litvosk during the negotiations between the new Soviet government lead by Lenin and Trotsky and the Kaiser’s army while the Russian front was falling apart with Russian soldiers evacuating the front in the face of a German onslaught. In order to save the situation and prevent the collapse of the Revolution Leon Trotsky Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs was dispatched to the front to start these negotiations on behalf of the new revolutionary government. The Soviet government was under attack not just by German imperialism but by those on the left who attacked even the very idea of negotiations with imperialists. This left wing opposition was manifested also inside the Communist movement in Germany as well. Confusion reigned on both sides of the front. This booklet was written and addressed in large part to these German workers and soldiers who were confused by the Bolshevik and Soviet negotiations with representatives of their own ruling class. The Comintern later translated and distributed this book throughout the world. Despite this very few copies have survived the Stalinist purges of the Communist Party in the 1930s. This copy is the first Swiss edition published the same year than the German one 1918. Wrappers creased age-toned and partly chipped along edges. Corners bumped thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Tip of upper and lower corners of very first pages creased throughout. Moderate age-toning along paper margin. Text in German. Wrappers in overall fair interior in fair to good condition. Promachos-Verlag unknown books
1920réf. 261250Petrograd: Editions de L'Internationale Communiste 1920. Pamphlet. 16p. wraps previous owners name and date on front wrap paper toned else good condition 4.75x7.5 inches. Text in French. Editions de L'Internationale Communiste unknown books
1937réf. 07805THE CASE OF LEON TROTSKY Harpers 1937 first edition vg in wraps. Advance reading copy. A report of hearings on the charges made against him in the Moscow trials by the Preliminary Commission of Inquiry: John Dewey Carlton Beals Otta Ruehle Benjamin Stolberg & Suzanne Lafollette. Harpers paperback books
1954réf. 63514NY & Oxford: Oxford University Press 1954 1959 1963. Second printing first printing first printing. 540 490 543 pp. Three volumes all near fine in near fine dust jackets with light toning to spines. For the set: NY & Oxford: Oxford University Press, unknown books
1925réf. 503050Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft fur Politik and Geschichte 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine. First German edition of Where is England Going. Large octavo. 143pp. Cream paper-covered boards printed in red. A near fine copy with ink name on front flyleaf and lightly browned spine and extremes. Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft fur Politik and Geschichte hardcover books
1918réf. 87406Granite City IL: Съюзната Соц. Книжарница и Печатница = Union Social Bookstore and Printing House 1918. First Bulgarian Edition in America. 12mo. Brown woven cloth titled in black on spine and front cover; 134pp. Trace of rubbing at spine ends still a tight Very Good or better copy. Translation into Bulgarian of Trotsky's "The Bolsheviki and World Peace" made from the English version published by Boni & Liveright earlier the same year. The Boni edition was in fact a new translation from the German of Trotsky's 1914 pamphlet "The War and the International." Whether this translation was made with Boni & Liveright's permission or even knowledge is questionable though the verso of the title page does credit B&L with the original copyright. Granite City Illinois just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis in the extreme southwestern corner of the state was founded in 1896 as a company town by the Niedringhaus Brothers manufacturers of graniteware kitchen utensils. Between 1906 and 1908 the city became a destination for immigrant laborers from Bulgaria Macedonia and Hungary; by the early 1910s it was known as the Bulgarian Capital of America boasting the country's only general-circulation Bulgarian-language newspaper. The presence of so many working-class Slavic speakers made Granite City a natural target for radical organizing and a number of socialist presses thrived there during the first three decades of the Twentieth Century. Like all Granite City imprints we've encountered the current title is scarce and is of special interest for likely being the earliest Slavic-language printing of Trotsky's text in North America. OCLC notes only three physical holdings NYPL LC UI. Съюзната Соц. Книжарница и Печатница [= Union Social Bookstore and Printing House] unknown books
1919réf. 83563Chicago: Jugosl. Medjunarodnog Soc. Saveza 1919. 12mo 17cm. Staple-bound printed pale blue wrappers; 28pp. Mild toning and soil to wrapper edges; expected tanning to text; Very Good. Scarce American Croat translation of Trotsky's Manifesto of the Communist International which had originally appeared in Issue no. 1 of The Communist International the Comintern's theoretical organ. The translator of this edition is unidentified; nor is there any mention of Trotsky as author. Hoover Institution only in OCLC. Jugosl. Medjunarodnog Soc. Saveza unknown books
1980réf. 562943Follonica Tuscany Italy: Servizio editoriale della giunta regionale" / Officine Grafiche Firenze 1980. Unbound. Very Good. Poster. Designed by Andrea Rauch. Measuring approximately 26½" x 39". Rolled multiple pinholes along the topedge light but pervasive staining and creasing a few tiny edge nicks and tears and one 2" tear at the topedge about very good. A poster advertising a 1980 symposium on Trotsky's life and work held in association with the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and held at the Biblioteca Comunale di Follonica on October 7 through 11 1980. According to a website dedicated to Trotsky with about 100 participants this was the largest symposium of its kind thus far and was notable for being indirectly sponsored by the Italian Communist Party PCI. Servizio editoriale della giunta regionale" / Officine Grafiche Firenze unknown books
1942réf. 545419New York: Pioneer Publishers 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition hardcover issue. Small price stamp on front pastedown else about fine in very good or better dust jacket with moderate shallow chipping and tears. Scarce. Pioneer Publishers hardcover books
1919réf. 17439Chicago: Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States 1919. First American Edition. 12mo 18cm. Printed card wrappers; 127pp. Very mild external wear; faint spotting to a few pages of text; Near Fine in the original wrappers. Probable first printing in America of Trotsky's account of the October revolution. English editions appeared the same year in London and Brooklyn but it is likely that this German-language version translated from the Russian by German-American scholar Jacob Wittmer Hartmann precedes any English edition. Interestingly a German translation had already appeared in Berlin in 1918 but the German-language group of the Socialist Party commissioned this new translation from Hartmann for the American edition. Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States unknown books
1930réf. 035896NY: Scribner's. 1930. The first American edition with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. With the 1930 ownership signature of Joseph Barnes. We can offer no direct provenance but a Joseph Barnes author of Willkie: The Events He Was Part Of The Ideas He Fought For was a translator of Russian authors for a number of years and a recipient of the PEN translation award. According to his obituary in the New York Times in 1928 he made an extensive tour of the Soviet Union on which he reported for The New York World. On the staff of the Institute of Pacific Relations from 1931 to 1934 he visited Russia Manchuria Japan and China; he edited “Empire in the East” by 12 members of the American Council of the Institute published in 1934. Barnes joined The Herald Tribune in 1935. He went abroad as Moscow correspondent in 1937 wrote a series on Siberia in 1938 and then went to Berlin as correspondent. He returned to the U.S. at the end of 1939 and in 1940-41 was foreign news editor. From 1941 to 1944 he served as deputy director of the overseas branch of the office of War Information. In 1951 he cited his clearance for that position to counter accusations from McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee. He eventually joined Simon & Schuster as an executive editor. Again we can not prove that this Barnes is that Barnes. A New Republic review of the book from 1930 is laid in much acidified and split into pieces at the folds. The book itself shows mild foxing to the prelims fading to the board edges and spine and handling to the covers including a partial cup ring. The binding is sound. A very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Scribner's hardcover books
1936réf. 002035Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Ercilla 1936. Softcover. First Chilean edition; 7 x 5 1/4; vol. I pp. 147 vol. II pp. 144 vol. III pp. 129 vol. IV pp. 130 vol. V pp. 144; beige wraps printed in blue green red purple and orange; chipping with some loss of paper to spine cover; small chip to lower corner of volume I; paper label to lower margin of spine; first volume illustrated with a portrait of the author; volume III lacking rear wrap else complete; good to very good condition. An early translation of Trotsky's autobiography it was written in the first year of his exile in Turkey in 1930. The five volumes covered his growing up and youth his life through the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 the period of the Russian Civil War his opposition to the the Stalinist Regime and his eventual expulsion from the Communist Party. This Chilean edition of his work coincided with Trotsky's arrival in Mexico which would be his second exile where he would initially live with artist Diego Rivera and his wife and fellow painter Frida Kahlo at their Blue House and would later be assassinated in 1940 by the alleged agent of Joseph Stalin Ramon Mercader. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Ercilla paperback books
1937réf. 140949336Garden City NJ: Doubleday Doran & Company 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. x 308 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt and black spine lettering blocked on red red topstain. Near Fine with light wear and mottling to cloth light offsetting to free endpapers and ownership signature to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine dust jacket price of $2.50 intact and crossed through with pen with sunned spine panel light wear and vertical crease to front flap. A beautiful copy of this sharply-designed book an important and to some extent prophetic Marxist text. Trotsky wrote his denunciation of the new Soviet regime in exile after losing a power struggle with Stalin. The postscript to his introduction notes that the manuscript had been completed before Stalin's show trials kicked off the Great Purge and so "the proceedings of the trial could not be evaluated in its pages." The translator Max Eastman had personally observed the conflict between Trotsky and Stalin during a stay in the Soviet Union taking Trotsky's side and later becoming a friend. They remained friends until the former commissar was assassinated in Mexico in 1940. Doubleday, Doran & Company unknown books
1930réf. 469117Berlin: Granit 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Text in Russian. Two volumes. 12mos. Bound in red cloth over boards without the wrappers gilt spines. The text pages are modestly toned vol. 1 has a few light marginal check marks in pencil vol. 2 has one small quarter-inch line of worming at the back upper right corner and is slightly cocked very good overall. The rare first edition of Trotsky’s now classic autobiography My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography. Written and published in the first year of Trotsky’s exile it covers both revolutions of 1905 and 1917 the Russian Civil War and the beginning of his epic conflict with Stalin. A plain attractive set appropriately bound in red cloth boards. Granit] hardcover books
