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REPORT ON DIRECTIVES OF THE SIXTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE USSR, 1956-1960 TO THE 20TH CONGRESS OF THE 20TH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U. FOR THE SIXTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE U.S.S.R. 1956-1960.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1956. First edition - A booklet of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on their economic progress and plans for the future. Photograph of Bulganin. Faint stamp on title page noting that the material in this had been filed with the Department of Justice. 82 pp.
Condition: Fair condition in cream stapled wrappers with red lettering (tidemarks to edges of covers, prev owners' name inside front cover. Uncommon.
Book ID: 88263More details Price: $15.00 -
INCOGNITO.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1964) dj. Hardcover - An epic novel by this Rumanian author (who escaped from that country in 1960) A book which "begins with a prewar summer's idyll on the Danube, and then moves into all the cruelty and horror of World War II and the vicious statism of postwar Communist Rumania." Translated from the author's French version by Norman Denny. 471 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (2 short closed tears to the upper edge of the dj, some toning, original price of $5.95 still present on dj flap)
Book ID: 80416More details Price: $20.00 -
THE PART PLAYED BY LABOUR IN THE TRANSITION FROM APE TO MAN,
Edition: 2nd printing.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, nd (ca 1960). A translation of an unfinished manuscript originally written by Engels in 1876 and first published posthumously in German in 1896. 30 pp.
Condition: Good condition in stapled wrappers with red and blue lettering.
Book ID: 88266More details Price: $12.50 -
EMMA GOLDMAN IN EXILE; From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the last 20 years in the life of Emma Goldman, who was deported from the United States in 1919 at the height of the Red Scare. Photographs, extensive notes, index. xv, 301 pp. ISBN: 0-807070041.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder mark, rear endpaper improperly glued, edgewer and tears to dj)
Book ID: 85974More details Price: $17.50 -
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring fledgling lawyer and private investigator Sam McCain - it's Middle America (Iowa, to be precise), the 1950s and someone is painting the town murderously Red. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-373-264941.
Condition: Good in a fine dust jacket (upper edge of front endpaper clipped, remainder line)
Book ID: 62892More details Price: $15.00 -
BRIGHT CLOUDS.
Edition: Small trade paperback.
Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1974. Illustrated byTung Chen-Sheng and Chen Yu- Hsien. A collection of 8 short stories depicting life on the communes of Maoist China. An interesting book, with black and white pencil drawings. 139 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers with French folds. ( slight mark left from label on back cover.)
Book ID: 28158More details Price: $10.00 -
SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM: Selected Passages 1956 -1963.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1963. First edition - Excerpts from speeches, reports and public statements. Photograph of Khrushchev on front cover. 176 pages.
Condition: Very good- (some rubbing to covers, a rather fragile publication). Uncommon.
Book ID: 22743More details Price: $25.00 -
ARTHUR KOESTLER: The Homeless Mind.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in printed pale green wrappers.
Book ID: 90568More details Price: $20.00 -
A FEAST IN THE GARDEN.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A major novel, the first in ten years, by Hungary's most distinguished writer -
the "rich, poetic story of a man, a family, and a country. David Kobra's enchanted childhood in a small town in the heart of Central Europe comes to an abrupt end. As the Jews of the town are being put on trains to concentration camps, young Kobra escapes to Budapest. He survives the war years in a protected house, grows up with death and violence, witnesses Soviet liberation, lives under Soviet oppression. David Kobra is a writer; he remembers, and he creates. Sharp images of the past alternate with the confused present." Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-15130548X.Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 88942More details Price: $18.50 -
THE ANGELO HERNDON CASE AND SOUTHERN JUSTICE.
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched study of this important, but neglected, 1930s free speech case: Herndon, a young black communist party organizer, "articulate & politically astute", was charged with violating a 1869 Georgia insurrection statute. In 1937, after a 5 year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the statute unconstitutional. Photographs, bibliography, index. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-01745.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the dj.)
Book ID: 25807More details Price: $30.00 -
THE COLOR OF BLOOD
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in an Eastern European country where a cardinal has maintained an uneasy balance between his religion and the totalitarian government, until one day there is an unsucessful attempt on his life, and he is spirited away against his will. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-525-245391.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 9475More details Price: $18.00 -
JOURNEY INTO THE BLUE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in 1952 and based on the events of the Communist takeover of Hungary four years earlier. His first novel to appear in English, this was written in secret during the seven years he spent in the "puszta," a pilot socialist community on the edge of the great Hungarian desert, dedicated to the raising of pigs. Translated from the French by Peter Green. 381 pp.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket (tears the length of the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 79398More details Price: $16.50 -
PAUL ROBESON: The American Othello.
Edition: First printing.
Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co., (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of this great African American singer, actor and outspoken advocate of racial equality written 9 years before the end of his life, when he was in poor health and living mostly in isolation. It follows his rise to international prominence and his rejection in America, even by prominent civil rights organizations because of his belief that Communism as established in the Soviet Union offered a chance of racial equality. 228 pp.
Condition: Near fine in terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing, price-clipped..
Book ID: 90170More details Price: $25.00 -
A MAN WITHOUT SHOES.
Edition: First edition, second issue.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Originally privately printed for publication by the Plantin Press, Los Angeles in 1951 (after being rejected by many publishers because of the controversy over the topic, and because Sanford was blacklisted by the House for Unamerican Activities Committee for refusing to name names), this was reissued by Black Sparrow with a new tipped-in title page and a new five page introduction by Sanford. A novel concerned with an American attempting to discover the America of his time...The period of 1909-1938." Includes the original SIGNED colophon page showing that this is Copy 1162 of 2000. 452 pp. In the original printed beige dust jacket with the Plantin Press publisher information crossed out and Black Sparrow Press added. ISBN: 0-876855443.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (corners bumped, edgewear and several small tears on dust jacket).
Book ID: 55772More details Price: $50.00 -
APPROXIMATION.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories and brief vignettes about life in Communist East Germany, written between 1969 - 1977. "Some of the stories have the nightmarish quality of Kafka, only they are not nightmares but meticulously noted reality. " Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. 267 pp. Dust jacket art by Gunter Grass. ISBN: 0-151078475.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning to the dj flaps, tiny nick at top of spine, book appears unread)
Book ID: 79117More details Price: $17.50 -
MOMENT OF TRIUMPH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1958) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Hungarian/Austrian writer, a story of "love amid sudden death during Hungary's Battle for Freedom." Sebestyen actively participated in the Revolution, and fled to Austria afterwards. Translated from the Hungarian by Peter White. 246 pp. Dust jacket by Richard Powers.
Condition: Very good in red cloth with some toning to the pages in a good dust jacket with overall light edgewear, beginning to split along fold of front flap. Original price still present.
Book ID: 88404More details Price: $21.50 -
DEATH SOLVES NOTHING.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Nazi Germany where many are being drawn to Communism, but the focus is more on the evils of Communism, and how it entraps idealists, than on the oppression of the Nazi regime. Translated from the German by Barbara Barclay Carter. 272 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some age-toning, minor edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 58741More details Price: $60.00 -
THE AFRICAN COMMUNIST: No. 48 First Quarter 1972.
Edition: Digest magazine, 1st printing.
London: Inkululeko Publications, 1972. First edition - A journal "published quarterly in the interests of African solidarity and as a forum for Marxist-Leninist thought throughout our Continent by the South African Communist Party." The cover article is on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the African National Congress in 1912. Other articles include Sol Dubala on 'Bantustan' Politics, Henry Winston on Marxism and the Black Panthers, a poem by Henri Percikow 'for Angela Davis' and more. Book reviews, documents, illustrated with maps and photographs. 130 pp. We have many other issues of this journal available.
Condition: Good overall - some toning and wear to the covers, contents clean..
Book ID: 90922More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LITTLE KINGDOM.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66878More details Price: $30.00 -
LENIN ON THE PARTY AND THE PEOPLE
Edition: Trade paperback.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, nd (ca 1962). In addition to a discussion of Lenin's role as the founder of the party this includes a brief commentary on friends in other countries - specifically Cuba and Uruguay. 53 pp Uncommon.
Condition: Good condition in green stapled wrappers with red and black lettering (crinkling to lower corner).
Book ID: 88265More details Price: $18.50 -
LABOUR IN THE U.S.S.R.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, nd (ca 1961). First edition - Covers such topics as public ownership and free labor, plans for full employment, working conditions and more. Ends with optimistic comments on future abundance. Illustrated with photographs. 48 pp. Uncommon.
Condition: Good condition in stapled wrappers with red and blue lettering.
Book ID: 88264More details Price: $20.00