1945Features: "Europe Won't Go Communist"; Funny Business - The Comic Strip Industry; Built-In Glasses - Contact Lenses; Beverage Room - Alcohol Controversy in Ontario; Ah Nuts! - Meet George Corsan of Islington, Ontario who, at age 88, operates the Echo Valley Nut Farm; London Letter - Farce at Belsen; Washington News; Ottawa Debates Tariffs; Homes To Rent, American Style - An account of how the U.S. has tackled the problem of low-rental housing; Big Iron - The Steep Rock Iron Mine near Atikokan; and more. Short Stories: I'm the Girl; It Helps to Cry; Dream Acres. Ads include: A fascinating one-page ad by the bankers of Canada featuring a U-boat with black flag raised; One-page Imperial Oil ad entitled "The Story of a [oil well] Failure"; Aunt Jemima; Frigidaire; Peposident tooth paste with Irium; Canada Dry (Christmas moif); Longines watches; Eveready batteries ad features photo of Saskatchewan-born soprano Marguerite Gendron; Stanfield's Unshrinkable Underwear; Arrid ad features photo of Hollywood star Jean Parker; Seagram ad encourages investors to hold on to Victory Bonds; Two-page Maclean's subscription ad; Gruen watches (inside back cover); Community Silverplate (back cover). 68 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this historic vintage issue. Book
1911Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original manuscript autograph letter signed by Haydar Rifat Yorulmaz, on a lawsuit related to a non-muslim Greek citizen's lands. Handwritten corrections on letter. Postal stamped. A Greek note. 20,5x13,5 cm. In Ottoman script. 1 p. Foxing on stamps on paper. Otherwise a good and exceedingly rare ALS with Rifat's rare signature. Haydar Rifaat [sic. Rifat] Yorulmaz, (1877-1942), was a Turkish lawyer, author, translator. He translated the most important texts of the western world such as Karl Marx's Das Capital, Tolstoy's Resurrection, Daudet's Sappho, Lenin's works, and books on anarchism firstly in the Turkish literature. In addition he wrote more than 15 books such as "Sovyetizm ve demokrasi", "Bolseviklik alemi" and others between the years of 1922-1939. He's one of the most important figure in the last period of the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey in terms of the modernism and leftist movements.
1965Very Good Uighur Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Uighur with the Latin alphabet. [20], 155, [2] p., b/w ills. Exceedingly rare first and only Uyghur translation of the speeches of the revolutionary leaders and members of the CCP or authors and intellectuals like Hua Guofeng, (1921-2008), Deng Xiaoping, (1904-1997), Fang Yui, (1916-1997), Guo Moruo [Dindang], (1892-1978), Ji Dengkui, (1923-1988). These speeches were made at the National Science Conference held in Beijing on March 18-31,1978. We couldn't find any copy in OCLC.
1949rif. 183227No stated place: Zhonggong zhongyang huajong ju "Middle China Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party" c. 1949. First edition thus number 126 of an unknown internal distribution gathering together documents and speech transcripts issued by central party authorities in the decisive two years of the Chinese civil war. As the communist victory became inevitable the party's focus switched to preparing its burgeoning ranks of cadres for the many challenges of government. This anthology was printed for cadres in the Middle China Bureau which had been founded in 1941 under the leadership of Liu Shaoqi to oversee New Fourth Army operations. In May 1949 the leadership was transferred to Lin Biao Mao's superstar general and future heir apparent. Octavo. Text in Chinese. Original grey wrappers spine and front cover lettered in black. A few reader marks internally. Tidemarks spine worn in places front cover with simple old paper repair on verso foxing and staining internally: very good. unknown
1939rif. 2412n.p.: Intourist Inc. 1939. Red folder measuring 4 x 5 3/4 inches 150 x 113 mm containing 10 post cards. Souvenir folder issued to commemorate the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The folder consists of 10 post cards in black-and-white with descriptions in English French and Russian on the verso of each card. Perhaps not surprisingly two of the cards depict Lenin and Stalin while others show a model of the Soviet Union's pavilion a sailboat Red Square a Caucasian dance festival Theatre Square the fountains at Peterhof holiday makers on the Black Sea and a map showing Intourist offices around the Soviet Union. We find no institutional holdings in OCLC. No others in commerce July 2021. A complete set of this rare portfolio. CONDITION: Fading to lettering of folder along with some creases and edge wear. Toning to the verso of the cards. Overall Very Good or better. Intourist, Inc.
1908Original Cloth. 12mo. 449, [1] pages. 19 cm. First Yiddish edition. With frontispiece portrait of the author, foreword by Rudolf Rocker, and a new introduction to volume two by Roym Frihling. Translated by A. Frumkin. Two volume set of John Henry Mackays The Anarchists, Cultural Portraits At The End Of The 19th Century; the best known and most widely read of Gay individualist anarchist novelist/poet John Henry Mackay. Mackay's works, Die Anarchisten is a semi-fictional account of Mackay's year in London from the spring of 1887 to that of the following year, and chronicles Mackay's conversion to the individualist philosophy of Max Stirner. Subjects: Anarchism - Fiction. Yiddish Anarchism. OCLC lists two copies worldwide (Natl Yiddish Book Center, Biblio Univ Amsterdam) . First volume lightly foxed throughout; volume two has light soiling to title page, last page contains slight tear, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (YID-19-5)
1954Booklet containing pages 9 through 16 of the printed hearings. Printed for use of the committee. Contents include: Capital Values and Growth of Charitable Foundations; Accuracy of Data and Derived Estimates; Estimated Total Values; Financial Classification of Foundations; Growth of Large Foundations; Numerical Growth of 1,097 Foundations. Includes six tables, two graphs, and a data rich list of 68 foundations entitled "Comparative data on cash and income, supplement to capital values and growth of charitable foundations". Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Crease to lower corner. A most important document from the Reece Committee which gained prominence in later years after revelations made by the Research Director of the Committee, Norman Dodd. Book
Putney, Vermont, published at the Office of the Spiritual Magazine, 1847, in-8, tela editoriale con impressioni a secco sui piatti (completamente priva del dorso), pp. VIII, da 9 a 504. Prima edizione. Noyes fu il fondatore della Oneida Community (gruppo chiamato anche Perfectionists o Bible Communists), una comunità religiosa utopistica che sorse a Putnay nel Vermont; questo libro che raccoglie i suoi scritti fu considerato, appunto, come “La Bibbia” della Comunità di Oneida. Fioriture diffuse. Poche note marginali manoscritte a matita.
193364 page booklet with two pages of illustrations. Applies economic science to current problems: how to make money circulate; how to abolish usury; how to start consumer buying; how to extend markets; how to raise prices; how to terminate unemployment; how to increase wages; how to secure cheap money; how to reduce business overhead; how to do business on a spot cash basis; how to slash taxation; how to pay off public debts; how to nationalize natural resources; how to provide for old age. Unmarked with moderate wear. Toning to card covers. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating work aimed at helping Canada escape the depths of the Great Depression. Book
194866 pages. Fourth printing of the 1948 first edition. "An attack on the ADL and the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights" - SINGERMAN 741. Original order form for numerous related publications laid-in (a mini-bibliography in itself). Average wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy of this uncommon Kamp publication. Book
rif. a75830Washington 1952-1964. The first 13 years of this noteworthy journal uniformly bound in 12 volumes. Six issues per year except for 1952 Volume I which has 4 issues. 4tos. most original covers bound in light tan institution buckram. Very light depository library marks - name stamp on each issue cover stamps on top and bottom fore-edges no other markings no spine numbers no bookplates no pockets. Several years are reprint editions. Near Fine. 13 years in 12 volumes. . hardcover
1970(Codice SO/2934) Manifesto originale, splendida serigrafia a 2 colori, cm 85x49,5. Raffigura in primo piano la parola Fiat posta come galera e due mani intente ad allargare le sbarre centrali. Alla base lo slogan "Compagni / liberiamoci!" Ottimo stato. Si spedisce in tubo di cartone. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
1946OTTIME CONDIZIONI
1959Very Good Chinese Original offset lithograph poster showing Mao and Chen Yi on the same table, when they meet with foreign guests in Zhongnanhai in 1957. This poster is printed in 1959 as it's hand-colored. 51x75 cm. Descriptive text on right in Chinese. Folded Chen Yi was a Chinese communist military commander and politician. He served as Mayor of Shanghai from 1949 to 1958 and as Foreign Minister of China from 1958 to 1972. Hou Bo (1924-2017) was a Chinese photographer who, with her husband Xu Xiaobing, was among the best-known photographers of Mao Zedong. Born into a poor peasant family, Hou Bo joined the Communist Party at the age of fourteen and learned photography during the Second Sino-Japanese War in order to present a better image of the Party's work to the world. After 1949, she and Xu Xiaobing lived in the same compound as Mao and took both official photos, some used for posters and publicity, which became the most widely circulated photos of Mao, and some family photos, taken informally behind the scenes. Among her best-known photographs are "The Founding of the PRC" (1949), "Mao Zedong Swimming Across the Yangzi" (1955), "Chairman Mao at Work in an Airplane" (1959), and "Mao Zedong with Students from Latin America" (1959), which won First Prize in the National Photography Exhibition of 1959.
1886rif. 57483London: Reeves & Turner 1886. First Edition in English. 8vo 500pp uncut in original green cloth.some water damage to the rear board little toning to the title-page o/w a very good tight copy. The Paris Comune of 1871 was an insurrection of Paris against the French government from March 18 to May 28 1871. It occurred in the wake of France’s defeat in the Franco-German War and the collapse of Napoleon III’s Second Empire 1852-70. Lissagary was a soldier of the Commune. This translation was originally done in 1876 and was entirely revised and corrected by Karl Marx. As a working class revolutionary movement the experience of the Commune offered Marx an opportunity for contemporary analysis. Scarce. Reeves & Turner unknown
1886rif. 57483London: Reeves & Turner 1886. First Edition in English. 8vo 500pp uncut in original green cloth.some water damage to the rear board little toning to the title-page o/w a very good tight copy. The Paris Comune of 1871 was an insurrection of Paris against the French government from March 18 to May 28 1871. It occurred in the wake of France’s defeat in the Franco-German War and the collapse of Napoleon III’s Second Empire 1852-70. Lissagary was a soldier of the Commune. This translation was originally done in 1876 and was entirely revised and corrected by Karl Marx. As a working class revolutionary movement the experience of the Commune offered Marx an opportunity for contemporary analysis. Scarce. Reeves & Turner unknown books
1948rif. 2875New York: Council of Negro Trade Unionists 1948. Near fine. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Minimal wear. A rare leaflet issued by the Provisional Harlem Committee to Free Ferdinand C. Smith and the Council of Negro Trade Unionists. Ferdinand C. Smith secretary of the National Maritime Union was instrumental in promoting Black membership in the Negro Trade Unionists. Attorney General Tom C. Clark originally from Texas sought to deport Smith back to Jamaica because of his Communist affiliations and work for civil rights. OCLC reports just a single copy of this work at the University of Kansas. Council of Negro Trade Unionists unknown
1948rif. 2875New York: Council of Negro Trade Unionists 1948. Near fine. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Minimal wear. A rare leaflet issued by the Provisional Harlem Committee to Free Ferdinand C. Smith and the Council of Negro Trade Unionists. Ferdinand C. Smith secretary of the National Maritime Union was instrumental in promoting Black membership in the Negro Trade Unionists. Attorney General Tom C. Clark originally from Texas sought to deport Smith back to Jamaica because of his Communist affiliations and work for civil rights. OCLC reports just a single copy of this work at the University of Kansas. Council of Negro Trade Unionists unknown books
1980rif. 81760Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures." Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown
1980rif. 81760Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures." Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown books
1914Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) In modern full leather bdg. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 49 p. First and only Ottoman Turkish translation from German of this rare book on the description of China by Alfred Forke (1867-1944). Forke was a German sinologist. After studying law at the Universities of Geneva and Berlin, the first state examination in law and a doctorate to become a Dr. jur. in 1889 in Rostock and with a previous linguistic training at the Seminar for Oriental Languages, Forke worked as an interpreter for Chinese in the consulate service in Beijing from 1890 to 1903. In 1903 he succeeded his former teacher Carl Arendt as a professor at the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin. As Otto Franke's successor, he moved to the University of Hamburg in 1923. There he headed the chair dedicated to China until 1935. In 1926 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig. Forke's research focus was Chinese philosophy. His three-volume history of Chinese philosophy is considered a "pioneering work". Özege 3356.; TBTK 11000.; Only two institutional copies in OCLC in Turkey: 34010236.
1843In 16, pp. 123 + (1b). Br. rifatta con carta d'epoca. Rarissima opera di Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808-1881), professore di diritto pubblico a Zurigo, seguace della scuola del Savigny, poi uomo politico dalle idee fortemente conservatrici che qui redige un rapporto sullo stato del Comunismo in Svizzera ponendo Weitling e tutto il movimento in una luce sinistra. Per Bluntschli il comunismo minava le fondamenta dell'ordinamento politico nonche' la liberta' privata perche' rovesciava il potere dello Stato a favore della Comune. Le armi del Comunismo erano i tumulti e le manifestazioni popolari, la cospirazione ed uno stato di agitazione continua e generale.
rif. 51891Paris Librairie G. Jacques, sans date (1903) in 12 (18x11,5) 1 volume reliure toilée noire ancienne, dos lisse titré en lettres dorées, avec en queue: Cercle de la Libératrice, XXVI et 265 pages [1]. Traduction et notice biographique de Mme Laran-Tamarkine. Nikolaï Gavrilovitch Tchernychevski, Saratov 1828-1889, philosophe, socialiste utopiste et révolutionnaire russe. Collection '' Etudes socialistes '', XI. Rare. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1981404 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. "... tells what happened and why. Citing internal party documents, contemporary reports, and interviews with participants, ...describes the successes and failures of this first attempt to build a Leninist-type party on Canadian soil. And ...rebuts the various - often conflicting - "official" histories served up by Buck and his supporters. A 43-page appendix reproduces major documents from early CP history." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
193772 pages. Features: Editorial touches on Communism, Unemployment and Social Credit; One-page Parker Vacumatic pen ad; Canada New Heart of Empire; The Timid Soul - Harold Tucker Webster; The Enchanted Chorus Girl (short story); Story Lady (short story); Hot Money (short story); The Electrical Industry - an interesting survey of new electrical technology with we now take for granted; Lonely Lady (short story); The Murder on the Linds (part II); Hockey article with photos of Bill Cook, Murray Armstrong, "Mickey" Blake, Jack Church and Jack Howard; Pond's Extract one-page ad features photos of Mrs. C. Henry Mellon, Jr.; Hollywood news with photos of Charles Boyer, Marie Walewska, Marcia Mae Jones, and many others; Centrefold Christmas gift ad for Packard Lektro Shavers, etc.; One-page Chevrolet features a green car; Business News; Half-page ad for Stanfields Unshrinkable Underwear; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Beauty article; Christmas cooking article; World Sayings; Nice colour Waterman's pen ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Writing to bottom of front cover. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
