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1947réf. 182588Shexian: Taihang qunzhing shudian "Taihang People's Bookstore" 1947. Maoism made official First edition thus. Passed at the party's seventh congress in 1945 the constitution for the first time formalized "Mao Zedong Thought" as the guiding ideology of Chinese communism. Following the historic congress the new constitution was disseminated by local printers in the rural base areas under party control. This example was issued in the foothills of the Taihang Mountains near the capital of the strategically important Shanxi-Hobei-Shandong-Henan "liberated zone." In 1948 Mao took up residence in nearby Xibaipo where he lived until his triumphant entry into Beijing in March 1949. This first printing dates to September 1947. Subsequent printings appeared in December 1947 and several times in 1948 but they did not have a frontispiece. Rural printers had access to only the most rudimentary facilities and the vast majority of base-area publications have now perished. Octavo pp. ii 27 1. Half-tone frontispiece portrait of Mao decoration above table of contents. Text in Chinese. Original illustrated wrappers front cover lettered in black. Tidemark at head of volume spine worn split at head of front joint chip to front cover several gatherings uncut: a very good copy typical of publications printed in the Chinese Communist Party's rural base areas. unknown
1949réf. 182587Shanghai: Taipingyang chubanshe 1949. First edition of this large political visualization significant for its publication date only a few weeks before the founding of the People's Republic of China. It reflects an increased demand for material explaining the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party caused by the party's victory in the civil war and the complete collapse of the Kuomintang on the mainland. The table presents some of the core ideas of Marxism tracking economic and cultural evolution from primitive through to capitalist and then socialist societies. The columns address such criteria as modes and means of production vanguard revolutionary forces and class relations. Although the table accommodates a transitional period from capitalism and socialism this differs from the "new democracy" approach favoured by Mao in the PRC's early years. Printed table 530 x 680 mm folding away into 157 x 107 mm card wrappers front cover lettered in red within black frame. Table in Chinese text printed in red and black. Table with 140 mm closed tear sometime repaired on recto with adhesive tape small split at one intersection unknown
1949réf. 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
réf. 88373Philadelphia: Iran Student Association 1983. Two issues in original wrappers. Stapled paper self-wraps covers printed in two colors; 28pp 36pp; illus. Mild foxing at margins else Very Good. Text entirely in English. Organ of the American student arm of the Iranian People's Fedayee Fedai Guerrillas an Iranian guerrilla communist group that opposed both Western capitalism and the 1979 Islamic Revolution the latter chiefly from exile. This group is not to be confused with the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas from which the IPFG split in 1979 citing the former's lack of dedication to the principles of armed struggle. The magazine's contents are a combination of attacks on Iran's "imperialist" Islamic regime and on the foreign policy of the United States which the organization blames for laying the foundation for the Islamic revolution beginning with the CIA coup of 1953. A rare publication from a key period in modern Iranian history before the Islamic Republic had irrevocably consolidated power. This periodical rare; OCLC notes only about five locations for any holdings in the U.S. all for later issues. unknown
1962réf. 84966New york: Doubleday 1962. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's russet cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. 359pp. Light wear to board edges and spine ends; internally clean fore-edge untrimmed; in a clean bright example of the dustjacket with some light marginal wear and fraying to the head of spine. A very good copy. One of two works written about life in the Soviet Union by Kosinski under his Novak pseudonym. Kosinski something of a master of obscuring his own footprints never really accounted for his need to write anti-communist material in the US under an assumed name and it was widely understood that these works were sponsored and commissioned by the CIA although the claim was never substantiated. This copy has one small piece of underlining to the text of the jacket flap where the author's status as "a social scientist" has been emphasised. This title and "The Future is Ours Comrade" both stem from the period when Kosinski was studying at Columbia on a Ford grant. Doubleday unknown
1932réf. 84963New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1932. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in red to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 282pp. A little light wear to extremities minor bumping to spine ends bright and strong; internally clean topstain red fore-edge untrimmed; in a strong example of the dustjacket priceclipped with some soiling to the white portions and some shallow marginal chipping. A very good copy. Signed by the author to the title page. Walter's assessment of the Russian experiment as it stood in the early 1930's after he had just been granted unprecedented access to administration and infrastructure during a six month tour of the country. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown
1980réf. 84959London Boston Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's deep red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 464pp. Clean and bright cloth strong and tight; internally clean and fresh. A near fine copy in dustjacket. An examination of the process by which the Soviets laid the groundwork for post war occupation of Poland providing a step by step analysis. The research is assisted by the data found in a number of contemporary Soviet documents which were smuggled into the West in the early-1970's. Routledge & Kegan Paul unknown
1980réf. 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
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
1929réf. 84083New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. Large Paper Edition. Large Octavo. 26.5cm. Publisher's pale orange cloth titled in black and gilt to front board with red paper title label to spine. xvi; 308pp. Scuffing and bumping to extremities the cloth uniformly faded to a pale diluted pinkish orange with some scuffing and soiling darkening to the spine label and some very light marginal chipping; internally clean black topstain fore-edge untrimmed lavishly illustrated throughout in color and black and white. A strong and handsome copy about very good due to solidity and completeness but with cosmetic external wear. Significantly taller and more bulky than the trade edition likely a deluxe or large paper edition produced from British sheets the pagination differs considerably from the earlier trade edition with several additional color illustrations for example the "Red Angel of Revolution" color plate is here the recto of the photographic frontis and a rather unusual contemporary small format photograph of Leningrad tipped onto one of the plate pages. The paper title label suggests a slipcase although none is present. Unusual rather than scarce with a pretty solid showing in institutions if none in trade. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1929réf. 82982Impression illegible: Bloc Ouvrier-Paysan 1929. Original lithographed poster 40cm x 120cm ca 16" x 47". Minuscule losses at margins not approaching image; closed tears; impression slightly weak; Very Good professionally backed on linen B/B. An ephemeral work produced for the short-lived Bloc Ouvrier-Paysan Workers & Peasants Party a Communist splinter group which existed in France only from 1929-30. The poster invites white-collar workers including artisans civil servants and pensioners to join the Bloc to save themselves from being crushed under the weight of bourgeois capitalism. The image depicts the bourgeoisie personified in the form of high rents food goods taxes and transportation costs being pulled forward by a horde of civil servants under harness. Copies located at Hoover Institution and the archives of the Department of Correze France; none others in institutional collections or commerce. Bloc Ouvrier-Paysan unknown
1955réf. 84362New York: Frederick A. Praeger; For the Mid-European Studies Center of the Free Europe Committee 1955. Revised Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Original black cloth spine over illustrated card wraps. 247pp. Some light wear to the extremities and minor toning to the card wraps; internally clean. A very good strong copy. An analysis of the nature extent and appalling realities of Soviet forced labor camps in Hungary Czechoslovakia Romania Bulgaria and Poland. This revised edition was expanded in order to include data regarding forced labor camps in Communist China. Frederick A. Praeger; For the Mid-European Studies Center of the Free Europe Committee unknown
1932réf. 84363New York: Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh 1932. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Original deep red cloth titled in black to spine with embossed publisher's imprint to front board. Dustjacket. 383pp. Bumped to spine ends with some minor wear to corners some minor darkening to the cloth in places; internally clean fore-edge untrimmed top edge a trifle dusty; in the John Gram dustjacket with some toning to the spine panel shallow chipping and loss to the spine ends intruding upon the author's first name and a short closed tear to the front upper front spine hinge. A good strong copy with some wear. Leonov's novel of Soviet labor centred around the building of an enormous factory; Sotstroy. Gorky provides the preface; the novel was notable at the time as an antidote to the image of the USSR as an enormous generator of plans progress noble artistic and industrial endeavor and a shining beacon of energy. Leonov tends towards a more on the ground depiction of enthusiastic ineptitude paranoia and fanaticism. Bookplate of Alvin Kapusta to front pastedown a Special Assistant for Soviet Nationalities at the US State Department and a notable scholar of the Soviet Bloc whose collections are housed at the Hoover Institution. Dial Press; Lincoln Mac Veagh unknown
1999réf. 84402New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1999. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth spine over black paper covered boards titled and ruled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xxvii; 635pp. Very light wear to spine ends; internally clean illustrated throughout; in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. An academic analysis of the depradations of Stalin's ruling party during the pogroms and cleansings in the few years immediately prior to WW2 compiled from previously secret of inaccessible documents and testimonies. Yale University Press unknown
1962réf. 82699Stanford: Stanford University Press 1962. First Edition. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publisher's pale slate grey cloth covered boards titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. viii; 279pp. Light scuffing and edgewear minor bumping to spine ends in a bright strong example of the dustjacket with some minor rubbing and chipping to extremities. some sunning and fraying to the spine panel and ends a very good handsome copy with some light wear. Internally clean. Bookplate of Phillip G. Fox to front pastedown clearly a home made design and almost certainly that of Professor Phillip G. Fox of the University of Wisconsin who was a professor of business administration with an almost obsessive interest in slot machines and the mathematics of gambling payouts. The bookplate has been composed as a piece of typewriter art centered on a complex mathematical equation; bookdealers aren't necessarily terribly mathematically adept so the solution will have to be found by the next owner of the book. Packer's preoccupation here is centred around which of the regularly used official methods for interrogating communists and building information on their activities is the most efficient and successful; court trials admisnitrative hearins or Congressional investigations. There is an interesting corollary in that he is compelled to analyze whether or not Communism is in fact subversive but the answer to that shouldn't probably shouldn't get in the way of a good system for governments to control their citizens. Stanford University Press unknown
1932réf. 43659Santiago de Chile: Union Social de Chile 1932. First Edition. 12mo 17.5cm.; publisher's blue-grey printed staplebound wrappers; 8pp. Textblock slightly toned else a Fine copy. Issued as "Folleto No. 21. [Union Social de Chile] unknown
1919réf. 43051New York: Libreria Rossa N.d. ca 1919. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 24pp. Slight aging; mild creasing to spine; Very Good. Text entirely in Italian. Communist tract issued shortly after the Russian revolution calling for an immediate proletarian revolution in Italy with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders to prevent the flight of the bourgeoisie; and the "management of the new society through a free arrangement of persons and competent groups" ".persone e di gruppi competenti interessati all soluzione di ogni singolo problema tecnico e sociale". The pseudonym "Emme" is unknown to us; nor is it certain from which "Libreria Rossa" this pamphlet originated - "libreria rossa" "red bookshop" being a common enough appelation among Italian-American radical booksellers of all political stripes during this period. One copy only in OCLC; not seen in commerce; not in Periconi. Libreria Rossa unknown
1937réf. 40520San Francisco: Educational Committee San Francisco Communist Party N.d. ca 1937. First Edition. Corner-stapled mimeographed typescript 36cm x 22cm; 6pp printed recto-only. Toning corner creases and general wear; still a complete Good or better example. Dated from text. Rather remarkable Popular Front document prepared by Manuilsky as Deputy General Secretary of the Comintern and clearly oriented toward American Party members as the majority of the text deals with the resurgent economic crisis in the U.S. Though the title of the paper might suggest a style sheet or compositional outline the document in fact is a list of rather explicit instructions to American Party members on how to interpret contemporary world events in the light of current Soviet doctrine the general upshot being that the American economic crisis the rise of European fascism revolution in China and the increasing militancy of the Japanese are all symptoms of the collapse of capitalism and the ". growing resistance of the working class and the toiling masses against the onslaught of the fascist powers!" Evidence of Moscow's direct influence on the CPUSA during this period is hardly necessary to prove a point but this document provides a neat example of precisely how that influence was directed and executed. Unrecorded in this format though a similar document was published in Los Angeles in 1946 per OCLC; this printing clearly much earlier based on text. Educational Committee, San Francisco Communist Party unknown
1934réf. 26222New York: Workers Library Publishers n.d. but ca.1934. Original poster offset printed in black on white stock measuring 67.5cm x 80.5cm. Light wear to extremities old horizontal and vertical folds with attendant creasing; Very Good. Propaganda poster advertising eight penny pamphlets published by the Workers Library; pricing ensured that even the lowliest worker would be able to afford something to read. The poster pictures titles by Israel Amter Elizabeth Lawson Herbert Benjamin and Sadie Van Veen. Issued by the National Committee Unemployed Councils proceeds presumably went to aid the unemployed and anti-hunger organizations. Not found in OCLC. Workers Library Publishers unknown
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
1958réf. 176151Paris: Boulevard de Sebastopol 1958. New Edition. Paperback. Very good paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 185 pages; Physical desc. : 185 p. 23 cm. Subject: Fascism - History. Series: Recherches internationales a la lumiere du marxisme ; no.1. Language: French. Paris: Boulevard de Sebastopol paperback
réf. 20261Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International 1981. Hard bound first edition 319pp includes selected bibliography. From the library of Canadian sociologist Julia Kwong with her signature and date to front free endpaper. Front cover moderately sunned else a tight unmarked very good or better copy without a dust jacket. Scarce! 760 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1981 unknown
réf. 39London: Victor Gollancz 1935. Hard bound first edition. Very good with some spotting and chips to head of dust jacket spine. Scarce in dust jacket. 355 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. London: Victor Gollancz, 1935 unknown
réf. 4729Berlin: Dietz 1973-1975. Hard bound 3 vols. w/different publication dates yet a complete set. 955pp 559pp & 1007pp respectively. Constitutes vols. 23 24 & 25 of Marx-Engels work. Front hinge nearly gone on vol.3 else a very good or better set without dust jackets. 2.8 kilograms unpacked -- additional postage will be requested for shipment anywhere outside the province of Manitoba! Berlin: Dietz, 1973-1975 unknown
réf. 4177Washington: World Bank 1983. All volumes Paper bound vol.1-The Economy Statistical System and Basic Data; vol.2-Economic sectors agriculture industry energy transport & external trade & finance; vol.3-social sectors popu lation health nutrition & education. Very good-Very good set. A very heavy set -- extra postage will be requested! Washington: World Bank, 1983, unknown
