New York: Vanguard Press, 1936. First Edition. SIGNED by Earl Browder on the front free end paper. Browder was, of course, the longtime leader of the Communist Party USA. Octavo, 254 pages. Cloth boards are quite grubby. Offsetting to end papers. Dust jacket rubbed, with a few small chips to..... More
Paris: Editions Présence africaine, 1957. 12mo (7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 113 mm), 15, [1] pages in stapled green-gray wrappers, with errata slip pasted to recto of lower wrapper. A letter from the Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire to Maurice Thorez, secretary general of..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Small Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 202 x 137 mm), viii, 9-192 pages, in publisher's original gray cloth, with a printed dust jacket. An important compilation of papers and proceedings at the historic first Writers' Congress of 1935. Authors..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1937. 5th Printing. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 127 mm), 69, [3] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Pamphlet attacking labor leader John Lewis as "a servant of plutocratic capitalism." This pamphlet was written by Eric Hass, a...... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1944. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 129 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers. Eric Hass decries the spread of anti-Semitism in the United States and argues that socialism is the answer to defeating it. Hass was a Socialist..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1946. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers. The author, Eric Hass, maintains that the Soviet brand of socialism is not socialism at all. Instead, he says, the USSR is an imperialist power..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1936. First Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 126 mm), 40 pages in stapled wrappers (soft cover). A spirited essay, with attacks on "fakers," "impostors," "swindlers," and other enemies of the working class. May Day..... More
Moscow and Leningrad: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1933. First Edition. A well-written biography of Marx from a Soviet standpoint, emphasizing his sympathy for the working class. There's also an historical overview of the exploitation of workers, along with an analysis of Marxism in practice. The..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1942. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 128 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Questions and answers about socialism from the standpoint of the Socialist Labor Party. CONDITION: Vertical crease throughout, soiling, creasing, sunning..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm), 318 pages, in red boards, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Joseph North, the editor, on the front end paper to artist Raphael Soyer..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1942. 12mo (7 1/8 x 5 inches (185 x 126 mm), 62, [2] pages, in stapled wrappers. A look at the economic basis of education from a Marxist standpoint. Issued by the Socialist Labor Party, this pamphlet argues that reformers can't..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 182 pages. Very Good (a few small ink notations on a few pages and some lightly creased pages) in a dust jacket that has some small closed tears and scuffing along the edges. More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. Second Printing. 12mo (7 1/4 inches / 185 mm), 80 pages in illustrated red and yellow wrappers. A collection of Depression-era essays from the Weekly People, a publication of the Socialist Labor Party. Many of the essays deal with the..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. First Edition. 12mo (7 5/16 x 5 inches; 186 x 128 mm), 110 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). A pamphlet attacking Communists as swindlers, frauds, capitalist stooges, and other crimes. Written by Arnold Petersen, leader of the Socialist..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 187 x 127 mm), 76, [2] pages, in illustrated, stapled wrappers (soft cover). Socialist Labor Party pamphlet celebrating the life and achievements of Daniel De Leon, an important figure in the party and a...... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1943. 2nd Printing. 12mo (7 1/8 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm), 32 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Socialist Labor Party pamphlet arguing that inflation is caused by the law of supply and demand rather than rising wages. The..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1934. First Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 inches / 185 mm tall), 63, [1] pages in bound wrappers. Defense of Marxist principles by a leader of the Socialist Labor Party, published by the party's New York Labor News Company. Black-and-white frontispiece of..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm), 62, [2] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Attack on Soviet communism by Arnold Petersen, who was a leader of the Socialist Labor Party. The SLP was a bitter foe..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. First Edition. 12mo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 128 mm), 30 pages, in stapled wrappers. Socialist Labor Party pamphlet that contends the ruling class uses superstition and religion to enslave the working class. CONDITION: Some soiling..... More
New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945. 4th Printing. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 184 x 126 mm), 39, [9] pages, in stapled wrappers. Ferocious attack on William Z. Foster, a longtime senior official of the Communist Party, who gets tagged as a "war monger,"..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, n.d. [1931]. First Edition. 8vo (9 inches / 230 mm tall), 30, [2] pages in stapled wrappers. Essays on the class struggle by the prolific Arnold Petersen and Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party. A defense of their radical..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. 3rd Printing. 12mo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 126 mm), 32 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). War is capitalism's cure for unemployment yet it's the workers who pay for war with their blood, according to this declaration..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo, 415 pages. Near Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket that shows a couple tears, heavy rubbing and some foxing. Ownership signature of the late Princeton bibliophile Peter Oppenheimer on the front pastedown. Scarce. More
Chicago: Revolutionary Workers League U.S.A., 1939. Quarto-sized document (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), [4], 57, [1] mimeographed pages, stapled three times along left side. Rare document articulating the ideology of the Revolutionary Workers League U.S.A., a Marxist, anti-Stalinist organization based in Chicago. An introductory..... More
