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1976Best.-Nr. 45463London & Aberdeen: Social Revolution 1976. Quarto. Staplebound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 12pp; illus. Clean tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Introduction to the goals and principles of this British libertarian communist group centered in London and Aberdeen. Social Revolution unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 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 books
1919Best.-Nr. 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 books
1928Best.-Nr. 42186London: National Minority Movement 1928. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 66pp. Pencil marginalia throughout; minor aging to wrappers; stamp of the Labor Research Ass'n New York to front cover. Very Good. National Minority Movement unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 40265London: Communist Party N.d. ca 1944. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 12pp. Very Good. Reading list with glosses to accompany Harry Pollitt's ˆHow to win the Peace 1944. Communist Party unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 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 books
1957Best.-Nr. 40656New York: New Century Publishers 1957. Offprint. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's grey decorative staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp. Light toning else Near Fine. Translations provided by the Hsinhua News Agency in Peking i.e. Beijing and first published in the December 1957 issue of Political Affairs. New Century Publishers unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 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 books
1919Best.-Nr. 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
1960Best.-Nr. 15547New York: Pioneer Publishers 1960. First Edition. Octavo. Stiff card wrappers; 48pp. Crisp tight copy toning to edges bump to upper corners else Near Fine. Pioneer Publishers unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 15536Arlington: Historical Documentation Committee Asia Books Periodicals 1976. Reprint. Octavo. Yellow card wrappers; 95pp. Slight wear to spine; ownership signature on front page; else clean tight copy in very good condition. Historical Documentation Committee, Asia Books Periodicals unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 15907New York: International Publishers 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Illustrated card wrappers; 332pp; illus. Last few leaves wrinkled else a tight clean unmarked copy. Yoneda was a San Francisco organizer for the CPUSA and active in the ILD. International Publishers unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 15951Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 273pp; illus. Tight Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed jacket; appears unread. University of Nebraska Press unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 14954London: Inkululeko Publications 1973. Small octavo 20cm. Printed card wrappers; 93pp; illus. Minor external wear; internally fresh; Very Good or better. Organ of the South African Communist Party published in exile "as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent." Current issue includes contributions by Henry Winston Bonakele Godula georgi Galperin Vukani Mawethu others. Inkululeko Publications unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 12118Moscow: Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R. 1933. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. 12mo pictorial wrappers; 48pp. Minor edge-soil and foxing; Near Fine. Workers' safety industrial hygiene and working hours in Soviet production plants. Striking graphic cover in Social Realist style. Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R. unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 6146New York: Revolutionary Workers League 1937. About very good. Two issues each 13pp. Folio. Mimeographed front wrapper stapled. One cover loosening. Moderate toning and dust soiling. Two issues of the scarce New York Spanish-language periodical Claridad Proletaria "El Organo en Castellano de la Liga Obrera Revolucionaria de los Estados Unidos." The Revolutionary Workers League was formed by American Trotskyist and Communist Party leader Hugo Oehler in 1935. The first issue present here dated September 1936 contains articles describing the revolutions in Spain and Latin America as well as pieces on the various internecine fights between the Trotskyist Stalinsist and other Communist factions during the 1930s. The second dated February 1937 is dedicated entirely to events in Spain and the role of Partido Obrero de Marxista Unificacion Workers' Party of Marxist Unification. OCLC locates a small smattering of individual issues. Revolutionary Workers League unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 12628Havana: Union de Jovenas Comunistas 1969. Seven newspapers each between 6 and 8pp. on newsprint. Illustrated. Modest toning some edge wear and closed tears some bumped or dog-eared corners. Overall very good. A small but instant collection of an informative newspaper from Communist Cuba published daily by the youth wing of the Party. The issues are all dated in January 1969 specifically from January 11 15 22 28 29 30 and 31. The issues contain domestic and international reporting along with topics relevant to revolutionary young people. Interestingly one issue contains a translated interview with Hollywood legend Marlon Brando. The paper also prints a legion of photographs cultural event listings classifieds baseball statistics and updates cartoons and more. Union de Jovenas Comunistas unknown books
1886Best.-Nr. 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
1921Best.-Nr. 1436Paris: Biblioteque Communiste 1921. First French edition. Original wraps. 8vo Pp. 124. Spine darkened. A very good copy. Biblioteque Communiste unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 8949NY: International Pub 1942. reprint. VG. Rowbotham: ".an attempt to analyze the oppression of women in terms of the relationship between the mode of production and procreation.saw the monogamous family as the result of the private ownership of property. International Pub unknown books
1874Best.-Nr. 5439New Haven Ct: Richmond 1874. First Edition. Intro. by Henry Red clothworn at the top of the spine A good tight copy. An attack on Socialism. Villetard was editor of Journal des Debats. Richmond unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 8617NY: Monthly Review 1971. First edn. 8vo Pp. 441. VG in price clipped dj. Active in the German Polish and Russian Communist movements in the pre-WWII time period Luxemburg was murdered by the German government. Monthly Review unknown books
1948Best.-Nr. 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
1872Best.-Nr. 47305Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie 1872-1875. First French Edition. Large octavo 28.5cm.; original parts bound in early 20th century blue cloth gilt-lettered spine; 351pp.; pictorial half title and title pages full-paged steel-engraved portrait and facsimile additional vignettes throughout; text printed in double column. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped foxing and toning to preliminaries as well as minor dampstaining to last few leaves of text light foxing to rear cover; overall Very Good and sound. First appearance in French of Marx's "Das Kapital" the translation the only such to have been executed with the collaboration of the author whose letter to Lachatre appears in facsimile on p. 7: "J'applaudis à votre idée de publier la traduction de 'Das Kapital' en livraisons périodiques. Sous cette forme l'ouvrage sera plus accessible à la classe ouvrière et pour moi cette considération l'emporte sur toute autre" "I congratulate you on your idea to publish the translation of 'Das Kapital' as a periodical. In this format the work should be more accessible to the working class and to me this is more important than all else" our translation. Maurice Lachatre 1814-1900 was a Parisian radical bookseller publisher and collaborator of Félix Pyat's with whom Marx butted heads over the growth of the International Working Men's Association in France. Lachatre's projected publication of the anarchist newspaper "La Commune" nearly cost him his life after the fall of the Paris Commune when his bookshop was attacked with murderous intent by the Versaillaise army see "The Publisher's Weekly" Vol. 19 1881 pp. 50-1. It was while exiled first in Belgium and then Switzerland that Lachatre began work on publishing the present edition though he was not free to return to Paris until 1879. Maurice Lachatre et Cie unknown books
1954Best.-Nr. 275458Washington DC: Catholic War Veterans 1954. Pamphlet. 2 13 1p. wraps. 6.25 x 3.5 in. Very Good. A CWV series for Americans. Catholic War Veterans unknown books
