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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 -
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 -
THE RELUCTANT AFRICAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1960.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the front cover of dustjackt: 'One of the decade's most impressive and shocking close-ups of crisis: an American Negro journalist's firsthand report on the storm of racism and revolution raging through Africa from Cairo to Capetown.' Map insert and map endpapers. 117 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in very good- dust jacket (some creasing and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 38432More details Price: $20.00 -
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 -
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 -
MAO TSE-TUNG.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. dj. Hardcover - Photographs, index. 351 pgs.
Condition: Good in a tape- repaired and somewhat edgeworn dustjacket. (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 16432More details Price: $10.00 -
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 LITTLE KINGDOM.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66878More details Price: $30.00 -
CHINA IN THE MORNING: Impressions of a journey through China and Indo-China.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Roy Publishers, (c. 1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - As an independent journalist, Wollaston traveled through Communist China, observing both the rapid progress the country was making and the drastic oppression and lack of freedom, and then he traveled through North and South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, down the Mekong, and ending his journey at Angkor Wat. An interesting picture of the contrast between China and Southeast Asia in the years immediately preceding the Vietnam War. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Maps. 208 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, slight spine slant, in a very good unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 68246More details Price: $15.00