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: New York Labor News Company, 1936. First Edition. A spirited -- rollicking, even! -- essay, with attacks on "fakers," "impostors," "swindlers," and other enemies of the working class. May Day is the true holiday of the proletariat, the author says, while Labor Day in the U.S. is fake..... More
New Haven: Constitutional Educational League, 1937. First Edition, Second Printing. A virulent attack by a far-right group on American labor leader John L. Lewis, who "works hand-in-glove with the disciples of revolution to help create a movement which he, himself, predicted some twelve years ago, would pave the way for..... 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: 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, 1934. First Edition. 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 Marx plus three plates showing various places in London where Marx worked and lived. 12mo (7..... More
New York: New York Labor News Company, n.d. [1931]. First Edition. Essays on the class struggle by the prolific Arnold Petersen and Daniel De Leon of the Socialist Labor Party. A defense of their radical vision of Marxism, with frequent attacks on the more moderate Socialist Party, which they consider..... 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
Chicago: Socialist Party of America, n.d. Edition not stated. Single sheet folded to create [4] pages. Very light handling wear. A Near Fine copy. Short pamphlet laying our 12 objections to socialism -- and the response by the Socialist Party of America to each of the objections. SCARCE. More
New York: Self-Published, 1977. No Edition Stated. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 138 mm), 144 pages, in stapled white wrappers. Toning to edges of wrappers, internally clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy. *Prolific pamphleteer George Spiro argues that both capitalists and Marxists want to..... More
New York: Onward Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. A plea for Marxists to embrace feminism by a three-time Vice-Presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party. The "Bustelo Incident" refers to a 1954 article in the SWP newspaper, The Militant, attacking the cosmetics industry and making fun of women who..... More