Socialism from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: New International Publishing Company, 1946. 12mo. Card wrappers; 182pp. Clean, straight and tight - a Near Fine copy. A systematic treatise, directed to a non-theoretical working-class audience, on the principles of Socialism. Essentially issued as a recruiting booklet for Shachtman's third-camp Trotskyist organization, The Workers Party, founded in 1940; but the book turned out to… Read more about this item

London: Grant Richards, 1900. First Edition. First impression. Edition of 4000 copies. 12mo (18cm). Printed blue wrappers; 101pp. Mild crease and a small chip to front wrapper; internally quite fresh, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. The Fabian Society's Manifesto for the 1900 elections. Shaw's role as editor is clarified in Laurence, quoting Pease History of… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan Company, 1912. Third printing of the revised (second) edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; no jacket; 257pp. Clean, tight and unmarked in the original publisher's binding. 4-pp Macmillan trade circular ("Best Recent Novels") laid-in.

New York: Pathfinder Press, 1979. Fifth Pathfinder printing. Slim octavo (21.5 cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 30pp. Near Fine. Includes: "Malcolm X Talks to Young People, December 31, 1964"; "Interview with Malcolm X, January 18, 1965"; and "In Tribute to Malcolm X" (by Jack Barnes). Much reproduced in various formats by various publishers.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Edition of 6000 copies. Octavo; printed card wrappers; 110pp. Slight external rubbing and wear; ownership signature to front endpaper of Roberto Márquez, noted American scholar, editor, and author. Very Good or better in the original wrappers. Text entirely in Spanish. The fourth of eight posthumous collections to appear in… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1901. First U.K. Edition. First printing. 16mo (20cm). In original red cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with elephant badge on front, top edge gilt; plain endpapers; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear; [vi], 413, [3]pp; 10 illustrations by J. L. Kipling. With 1901 ownership inscription of George D. Herron and later bookplate of Dartmouth College Library… Read more about this item

New York: American Labor World, (1919). First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 48pp. Mild cover wear; Very Good or better. Distribution stamp of the Social Democratic League of America on title page. Virulently anti-Bolshevik pamphlet, written in response to Albert Rhys Williams' 76 Questions on the Bolsheviks and the Soviets (1919). Slobodin, a Debsian Socialist and a… Read more about this item

New York: National Executive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party, 1900. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed buff wrappers; 22pp. Mild external wear; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Translation ("adapted for America") by Daniel De Leon (1852-1914) of Kautsky's influential Marxist treatise, extracted from the larger work "The Erfurt Programme," first published in… Read more about this item

Chicago: by the Author, (1915). First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed pink paper wrappers; 48pp. Mild toning and wear to wrappers; internally clean, sound, and unmarked; Very Good. A somewhat scarce and early work by the Chicago medical doctor and Socialist Party organizer. Advocates the abolition of currency to be replaced with a system of social credit and labor… Read more about this item

Berlin: Verlagsgenossenschaft "Freiheit, 1919. 41-50 Tausend. Octavo pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 48pp. Light wear and toning to text; Very Good. Stenographic transcript of Ledebour's address to the court following his indictment in the failed 1919 overthrow of the Ebert-Scheidemann government. The coup attempt is noteworthy for having resulted in the murders of two of the uprising's leaders, Karl Liebknecht… Read more about this item

Kansas City: Simplified Economics, N.d. [c. 1954?]. 24mo. Bifolium (4pp). Mild toning; Near Fine. Unrecorded prospectus for "Depression Omega," a socialist economics tract by Joseph William Parker published in 1954. Argues for revolution as the only effective means to economic justice: "Workers are confronted with a problem that, in spite of its having accomplished a great deal,… Read more about this item

Chicago: Nakladem Narodne Socialni Besedy J.V. Fri [National Socialist Educational Club J. V. Fric] / Jaroslav T. Tittelbaum, N.d. (ca 1916). 16mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 32pp. Slight toning and wear; Very Good. Jaroslave V. Tittelbaum listed as agent on rear wrapper. Collection of patriotic songs honoring the Czechoslovak Legion in the First World War.Text entirely… Read more about this item

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, N.d. [c.1910]. Reissue (first published 1903). 16mo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; 32pp. Pencil catalog number to front wrapper, else unmarked and Near Fine. Issued in uniform format with the publisher's "Pocket Library of Socialism" series, but without series title and without the red glassine wrappers, which were phased out c. 1907. Richardson (1858-1931) was a California socialist… Read more about this item

New York: Socialist Educational Society of New York, [1923]. First American Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's grey staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 48pp. Near Fine. At head of title: "S.E.S. Library no. 1". First American edition of this pamphlet originally issued by the Socialist Party of Great Britain in 1911. Includes a new Foreword (authorship not attributed) for… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, [1929]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Red card wrappers printed in black; 36pp. Moderate overall soil and wear, with tiny chips at corners; brief manuscript annotation at head of text; a complete, about Very Good copy. Probably Lovestone's last publication as CUPSA Party Secretary, written on the eve of the 1929 National Convention,… Read more about this item

New York: Rand School Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 27pp. Minor toning along wrapper extremities, else Very Good.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1906. Second edition, "Revised & Enlarged." 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 64pp. Text toned (but not brittle); general light cover soil; Very Good. Simons (1870-1950) was the long-time editor of The International Socialist Review.

London: Archibald Constable, 1908. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt; [viii],355,[5pp; 4pp publisher's ads at rear. Tight and firm, but rubbed, spine faded, staining to upper corners of both boards, endleaves foxed: Good or better. Essays on socialism, often reprinted. AHEARN APG 036a. [63900].

New York: National Mooney-Billings Committee, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers (a bit dust soiled); 22pp. Some wear from handling, but overall a clean, fresh copy, easily Very Good. A relatively early fundraising appeal for the defense of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, two labor leaders framed for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing of 1916.… Read more about this item

Vancouver, WA: Rose Wind Press, (1991). Second printing (first published 1978). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 174pp; illus. Fine copy in jacket. Biography of the Indian fighter turned socialist attorney and radical author, written by his son.