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1919ref. 111A Soviet newspaper from the Russian Civil War era "Izvestia of the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs" Russian: ИзвеÑÑ‚Ð¸Ñ народного комиÑÑариата по военным делам with a military order from Leon Trotsky. 1919. Newspapers and books mentioning Leon Trotsky were confiscated from stores and libraries and destroyed. The newspaper was stored folded and will be shipped folded. Yellowing of the newspaper pages and frayed paper small tears and creases from storing the newspaper folded as well as repairing the tears with tape. "Izvestia of the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs" also "Izvestia of the People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs" was the official periodical of the People's Commissariat of War of the RSFSR published during the Civil War specifically in 1918–1919. It published decrees resolutions of the Defense Council and the most important orders. The documents of this commissariat headed by L. D. Trotsky and previously N. I. Podvoisky covered a wide range of topics.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Bill Carlisle, Train Robber - An account of the amazing exploits of a man described as "the last of the train-robbers", who would notify officials when he was about to rob a train!; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part I - A thrilling account of adventures on a remote Dutch East Indies island in pursuit of prehistoric flesh-eating lizards (the Komodo dragon) - with photos; The City of Golden Geese - A lively photo-illustrated account of the foie gras industry in the old city of Strasburg in Alsace; Mungoro Meets His Match - A Rhodesian tale; The End of the Chase - A hunt for a monstrous elephant near Lake Nyasa; Photo of a Kentish stilt-walker in field of hops; The Man in No. 35 - How a British officer discovered, in a Russian prison, Julius Weinberg, a Jewish banker who had actually handed Lenin and his accomplices ten million marks from the German Government in order to finance the Bolshevik revolution that destroyed Russia as a fighting force - the little man knew too much, and paid with his life for his refusal to surrender the incriminating receipts; Cycling Round the World - Part II - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years riding over 20,00 miles! - with photos; The bachelor Homesteaders of British Columbia - A breezy photo-illustrated account of the adventures and hardships of this cheery, happy-go-lucky class of men; The Girl Stowaway of the Cecilie - Part II - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; A Ride in the Night - An officer of the King's African Rifles falls ill on the Abyssinian frontier of Kenya Colony; The Chief's Gift - A tale from a New Zealand sheep farmer; Teddy Murphy's Close Call - A child disappears into a well in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
ref. 9175532Short description: In Russian. Trotsky, Lev Davidovich. The Role and Tasks of Trade Unions. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9175532
ref. 9175532Short description: In Russian. Trotsky Lev Davidovich. The Role and Tasks of Trade Unions. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9175532 unknown
ref. 9175547Short description: In Russian. Trotsky Lev Davidovich. Terrorism and Communism. St. Petersburg: Gosizdat 1920. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9175547 unknown
431 pages. Index. Bibliographical Notes. Enables readers to view world events from a Soviet perspective from the time of the Russian Revolution and moving forward. "The authors, who take the Stalinist treason trials and purges at face value, conclude that illusions about the Soviet Union were not shattered until she proved her strength during World War II". - Joel Seidman. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Front hinge tender but intact. Prior owner's signature and small vintage bookseller tag upon front free endpaper. A worthy reference copy of this fascinating work. Kolarz [2] p.153, Seidman S22. Book
ref. 9175468Short description: In Russian. Trotsky, Lev Davidovich. Literature and Revolution. Moscow: State Publishing House, 1924. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9175468
ref. 9175492Short description: In Russian. Trotsky, Lev Davidovich. About Lenin. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1924. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9175492
ref. 9175468Short description: In Russian. Trotsky Lev Davidovich. Literature and Revolution. Moscow: State Publishing House 1924. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9175468 unknown
ref. 9175492Short description: In Russian. Trotsky Lev Davidovich. About Lenin. Moscow: Gosizdat 1924. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9175492 unknown
ref. 64618London: Thornton Butterworth 1930. Communist Autobiography FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo 24 x 17cm pp.512. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore edge untrimmed. Pencil ownership to fly-leaf with some light toning and spotting to preliminaries. Cloth sunned to spine and extremities otherwise a crisp clean near fine copy. Trotsky recalls the key events of his life from early childhood though to his crucial role in the rise of the Bolshevik party in Russia the 1917 Revolution the aftermath and Civil War and finally the death of Lenin his loss of influence and eventual exile. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930 unknown
1930ref. 009077New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good plus. First American edition with Scribner "A" on copyright page. Very good plus with spine a bit sunned and touch of wear at top. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown and neat repair to paper along rear hinge otherwise clean and unmarked. A very nice copy. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
ref. 0873481801-7-1-13Pathfinder Press NY. Acceptable. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting as well as stains bent corners or any other major defect but the text is not obscured in any way. Pathfinder Press (NY) unknown
1924ref. 109The Soviet newspaper Trud with an interview with Leon Trotsky in the Japanese newspaper Osaka Mainichi about Soviet-Japanese relations. 1924. Stalin era. Newspapers and books mentioning Leon Trotsky were confiscated from stores and libraries and destroyed. The newspaper also published an article by Kamenev later declared an enemy of the people and executed about Lenin. The newspaper was stored folded and will be shipped folded. The yellowing of the pages the deterioration of the paper and minor tears and creases are due to storage folded. Trud Russian: Труд English: Labor is a Russian newspaper. Trud's first issue was on February 19 1921 in Moscow in what would soon become the Soviet Union. Under the Soviet state the paper published the work of famous writers and poets including Vladimir Mayakovsky Nikolai Rubtsov Yuri Nagibin and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union Trud was the press organ of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.
1921ref. 110A Soviet newspaper from the Russian Civil War "Krasnaya Gazeta" Krasnaya Gazeta Russian: КраÑÐ½Ð°Ñ Газета English: Red Newspaper with an military order from Leon Trotsky. 1921. Stalin era. Newspapers and books mentioning Leon Trotsky were confiscated from stores and libraries and destroyed. The newspaper was stored folded and will be shipped folded. The yellowing of the pages the frayed paper and small tears and creases are due to the newspaper being stored folded. Krasnaya Gazeta Russian: КраÑÐ½Ð°Ñ Газета English: Red Newspaper was a daily newspaper of Soviet Russia the USSR founded in Petrograd by V. Volodarsky. The first issue was published on January 25 1918. It was published by the party and state authorities: at various times it served as the organ of the central provincial and city committees of the All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks and the Petrograd Soviet Lensovet. The newspaper described important political events taking place in Petrograd-Leningrad throughout the country and abroad. Considerable attention was devoted to the daily life of the city. In its early years Krasnaya Gazeta without exaggeration can be called one of the main revolutionary newspapers in the country and also characterized as "the second most important propaganda mouthpiece of the St. Petersburg Bolsheviks after Petrogradskaya Pravda."
ref. 9175486Short description: In Russian. Trotsky, Lev Davidovich. The New Deal. Moscow: Red Again, 1924. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9175486
ref. 9175486Short description: In Russian. Trotsky Lev Davidovich. The New Deal. Moscow: Red Again 1924. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9175486 unknown
1930ref. 4718New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. First American Edition. First American edition with the Scribner "A" and Seal present on the copyright page. Measuring approximately 9" x 6" with 599 numbered pages. This book is in very good minus condition. Minor surface wear and staining to the red cloth boards. Spine is sun-faded. Front hinge cracked at the title page. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory# N7-67. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
ref. 9175507"Short description: In Russian. Trotsky, Lev Davidovich. Essays on Political Bulgaria. Moscow; Petrograd: State Publishing House, 1923. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9175507"
ref. 9175507Short description: In Russian. Trotsky Lev Davidovich. Essays on Political Bulgaria. Moscow; Petrograd: State Publishing House 1923. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9175507 unknown
1991ref. 2-0873487303Pathfinder Pr 1991. Paperback. New. 555 pages. 10.50x8.25x7.75 inches. Pathfinder Pr paperback
1936ref. 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
1936ref. 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
1930ref. 6rmrfThornton Butterworth Limited 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Signed by the previous owner on the front inner board. Frontispiece. There is gilt on the spine and front cover. The boards are a little shelf and the spine is slightly faded. There is minor foxing within the body of the book. The pages are neat and complete. All pages are accessible. The spine has neatly been repaired. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Thornton Butterworth Limited hardcover
1940ref. BB2120Mexico: Editorial América 1940. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine-. First Printing of Leon Trotsky's fragile final book published one month after his assassination apparently at the behest of Joseph Stalin. In Spanish with a prologue by Adolfo Zamora. 8vo 194 x 125mm: 1911pp. Original Illustrated wrappers. fore-edge untrimmed. Wrappers lightly soiled with very minor edge wear; cheap wartime paper embrowned but not brittle. A superlative survival especially scarce in this condition. A compilation of writings representing Trotsky's final crusade against Stalinism and the propaganda campaign that Joseph Stalin launched to justify Trotsky's assassination. In January 1929 Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union for criticizing Stalin's suppression of democracy in the Communist Party and for failing to develop adequate economic planning. After four years in Turkey Trotsky lived briefly in France and then Norway and in 1936 was granted asylum in Mexico where he settled with his family in a suburb of Mexico City Three years later during Stalins purges of his political foes Trotsky was found guilty of treason in absentia. He survived a machine-gun attack on his home but on August 20 1940 fell prey to a Spanish Communist Ramon Mercader who fatally wounded him with an ice-pick. Trotsky died from his wounds the next day. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Editorial América unknown