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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 -
STUBBS AT FIFTY.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Macmillan, 1937. Hardcover first edition - Mr Stubbs, a schoolteacher at a public school, is forced to resign for his socialist ideas, and in a dramatic change he goes to London, where he finds himself hopelessly out-of-date and makes a fool of himself to begin with. 318 pp.
Condition: Good overall in light tan cloth with dark brown lettering (some soiling to the covers, offsetting to the endpapers), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 77693More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
JOHN STRACHEY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of one of the most influential English socialists in 30's, 40's, 50's. Index. 319 pages.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 15683More details Price: $20.00 -
PLANNED CHAOS.
Edition: Later printing, a trade paperback.
Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: Foundation For Economic Education, (1972, c 1947). An essay by one of the last and most noted representatives of the Austrian School of economics. After teaching in Vienna and Geneva he emigrated 1940 to the USA where he was professor of economics from 1945 to 1969 at the New York University. This focuses on the errors of those who believe in "interventionism," that is, an "easy, bloodless and non-violent" transition to socialism. Foreword by Leonard E. Read. 90 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan wrappers printed in dark brown (remainder line)
Book ID: 83731More details Price: $12.50