Search Results: Anarchist Literature from Books of the World

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, January 1984. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light reading and shelfwear to covers. Dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 336 pages. Mintz's classic study of the lives of Andalusian campesinos who were swept up by one of the 20th century's pivotal social movements provided a new framework for understanding the tragic events that tilted Spain toward civil war.

London: Freedom Press, 1985. Staple-bound pamphlet. Freedom Pamphlet, 2. Reprint of a pamphlet first published in 1971. Fair. Unmarked. Publisher's white card wrap cover shows mild foxing. 48 pages with a few black and white photos. Pages 9-10, 14-15, 34-35, and 38-39 are blank as published. 8vo. 8" x 5½". Contains a collection of articles by Kropotkin (from Words of a Rebel) with an introduction by Élisée Reclus, alongside an essay by Nicholas Walter on The Paris Commune and a short piece from Louise Michel called "The Defence of Louise Michel".

London & New York: Routledge, December 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. Red cloth over boards with gilt title on spine and cover. Near Fine book / no jacket. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Binging square and tight, ends bumped. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 288 pages. The papers in this collection assert that anarchist theory has never been more relevant, that anarchist practice is necessary, and that, therefore, the history of anarchism must be studied seriously.

New York: New American Library / Meridian, October 1977. Trade Paperback. Fifth printing. Good+. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine creased. Rubbing and reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 754 pages, 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous--and notorious--woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, the movement to legalize birth control (she was Margaret Sanger's mentor), and the movement for women's sexual and economic freedom.

New York: New American Library, April 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Mentor Book ME2195. First Edition. Stated First Printing, April 1983 / full number line. Very Good. Appears unmarked. Lightly tanned. Dust stains to top edge. Spine creased. Dog-ears to front cover. Not from a library. 394 pages.

Rare! London: Echanges et Mouvement, April 1979. Staple-Bound Pamphlet.Very Good. Interior unmarked. Binding secure. Some discoloration to covers. 64 pages. Translation of a pamphlet published in 1978 in France.Contents: Foreword; 1. The origin of the debate: the traditional worker's movement and the new movement; 2. A discussion about consciousness, and organisations, on individual and collective behaviour; 3. The critical contest: organised labour versus 'the revolt against work; 4. The 'revolt against work' or Fight for the right to be lazy; 5. Political ideology and social reality; 6. Revolt of work or the end of leftism; 7. Anything new in the 'Revolt against work'? The job, the wage itself are forms of social control both at the workplace and during the red of the day. What's new about the 'revolt against work? A new perspective. The 'Revolt against work' and 'Collective struggle'. Work and wage Labour; 8. A few reflections concerning the refusal of work, sabotage, etc.; 9. Work and capital:… Read More

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, July 1967. Trade Paperback. Third printing, 1972. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Spine faded, but straight, tight and uncreased. Dust stains to edges. Dog-ear, rubbing, and price label ghost to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 578 pages. The history of the Second Republic and the Civil War as seen from within Spain.