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Animal Liberation Front | A.L.F. on Trial: Capitalism under Attack in the 1980’s | n.p. | n.d. | Stapled pamphlet with Housmans’ price label on cover. | £20
E. B. Ashton | The Fascist: his State and his Mind | Putnam | 1937 | First UK edition, no jacket, short split at top of spine, lower corner of front cover bumped. Front cover set slightly forward, outer edge of page-block & endpapers foxed. | £120
Charles Bettelheim | Class Struggles in the USSR. Two volumes: First Period: 1917-1923; Second Period: 1923-1930 | Harvester | – | Both volumes are rather worn, with lightly sunned, moderately creased spines and Dillons’ price stickers on their covers. The cover of vol. 1 is creased at the corners and edge. The outer edges of the page-blocks of both volumes are marked, and there is a small bump at the top of the spine of vol. 1. These are good, solid reading copies with unmarked text pages. | £60
N. I. Bukharin et al; Joseph Needham, P. G. Werskey (intrs) | Science at the Cross Roads | Frank Cass | 1971 | 714628689 VG book in G jacket. Jacket is worn & marked, most noticeably on spine, with a couple of closed tears to upper edge of front panel, & some loss to top of rear panel. Front flap is creased. | £75
Nikolai I. Bukharin; Kenneth J. Tarbuck (ed., intr.) | The Politics and Economics of the Transition Period | Routledge & Kegan Paul | 1979 | 0710001142 Hardback in jacket. Old academic remainder price label on jacket, name on ffep. | £40
Henry Champly | White Women, Coloured Men | John Long | 1936 | No jacket, cover worn & marked. Front pastedown marked, Times Book Club sticker on rear pastedown. No problem with text pages or plates. | £30
G. D. H. Cole | Communism and Social Democracy 1914-1931 Part I: A History of Socialist Thought Volume IV, Part I | Macmillan | 1958 | Hardback in rather tatty jacket. Jacket has split at join of spine/front panel, & been reinforced with tape on reverse. | £25
Margaretta D’Arcy | Tell Them Everything | Pluto | 1981 | 0861043499 Cover is creased & worn, paper darkened with age, lower corner of p.97 has been folded over. | £50
Guy Debord, Gianfranco Sanguinetti, etc. | The Veritable Split in the International | Chronos | 1990 | 0950838020 Revised third edition. | £40
Bernard Edelman | Ownership of the Image | Routledge & Kegan Paul | 1979 | 0710001037 Outer edge of page-block marked, spine of jacket sunned. No problem with text pages. | £20
Frantz Fanon | Black Skin, White Masks | MacGibbon & Kee | 1968 | UK first edition. No jacket, a few light ink marks on ffep, narrow crease at top corner of half title page, pencil underlining & marginal marking. | £200
FOR OURSELVES Council for Generalized Self-Management; Bob Black (pref.) | The Right to be Greedy | Loompanics Unlimited | ND | 0915179350 Reading copy in poor condition. The book has been exposed to damp at some time, & the red tone of its cover has stained the endpapers. The lower corner of the book is bowed. | £50
Charles Fourier; Charles Gide & Frank E. Manuel (intrs) | Design for Utopia | Schocken | 1971 | 0805203036 A reading copy. Cover worn, spine faded & damp-marked, back cover faded at edge & damp-marked. Outer edge of page-block foxed & damp-marked. Line of writing on blank last page. No problem with text pages. | £30
Free | Revolution for the Hell of It | Dial | 1968 | First edition in unclipped jacket. Jacket is grubby & worn at the edges, with some loss at the extremities of the spine. The pictorial cover underneath still looks fresh, but the top & bottom of the spine are bumped. The front hinge is cracked but still firm. There is a previous owner’s signature on the ffep, & a little scorch mark in the outer margin of a couple of pages. The upper tips of pp. 175-180 are creased. | £300
Len Garrison | Black Youth, Rastafarianism and the Identity Crisis in Britain | ACER Project | 1979 | 0906626005 Light wear to cover. | £22
Antonio Gramsci | Selections from Cultural Writings | Lawrence & Wishart | 1985 | 0853155224 hardback in jacket, paper tanned with age, various reviews loosely inserted in book | £24
Peter Handke | A Journey to the Rivers | Viking | 1997 | 9780670873418 First printing of this translation in unclipped jacket. Some foxing to unlaminated jacket & outer edge of page-block. | £500
John Harris | Animal Liberation: the Road to Victory | Red Rat Library | 1987 | Stapled pamphlet with worn, marked cover. The paper was not accurately lined up when the staples were applied, so there is a very noticeable tilt to the publication. Housmans’ price label on cover. | £20
Carol Hermer | The Diary of Maria Tholo | Ravan Press | 1980 | 869751158 Some wear to cover & edge. | £15
Courtney W. Howland [ed] | Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women | Palgrave | 2001 | 9780312293062 At first glance, a very good copy BUT there is ink underlining & marginal marking throughout the introduction & first chapter – an acceptable copy for reading or study. | £20
C. L. R. James | At the Rendezvous of Victory | Allison & Busby | 1984 | 0850314046 Light wear to cover & edge. | £40
Conor Mark Jameson | Silent Spring Revisited | Bloomsbury | 2013 | 9781408194072 First paperback printing, outer tip of p.103 folded over. | £15
Yvonne Kapp | Eleanor Marx Volume II The Crowded Years 1884-1898 | Lawrence & Wishart | 1976 | 0853153701 first printing in unclipped jacket; spine of jacket is a little faded, top edge of pageblock foxed | £25
Yu. A. Kharin | Fundamentals of Dialectics | Progress | 1981 | Hardback in unclipped jacket. Top edge of page-block foxed. Old pencilled price on ffep. | £50
Elizabeth Lawton | The Inevitability of Matriarchy | 1977 | Stapled pamphlet with ink marginal marking & underlining throughout – a reading copy. | £15
Ray Luc Levasseur | Until All are Free | Attack International | n.d. | 0951426125 Stapled pamphlet with minor wear to cover & edge. | £15
Louis E. Lomax | To Kill a Black Man | Holloway House | 1968 | First printing. Some wear to cover, corners worn with a little loss, short closed tear at top of fold of front cover/spine. Upper tip of p.207 folded over, lower tips of a few pages near the end of the book creased. | £100
Georg Lukacs | Reviews and Articles | Merlin | 1983 | 0085362814 A few small pressure marks to cover. Some wear to cover & edge, outer edge of page-block foxed. | £50
Herbert Marcuse | Eros and Civilization | Routledge & Kegan Paul | 1956 | First British edition, inscribed by Marcuse to an unknown recipient on the first page (With sincere regards / Herbert Marcuse / August 19, 1956). A photocopy of the Political Preface to the 2nd edition has been loosely inserted at the front of the book. The book itself is in excellent condition, but the unclipped jacket is worn, with loss to the top of the front cover, and closed tears to its lower edge. | £1,250
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels | Revolution in Spain | International Publishers | 1939 | Dustjacket is price-clipped, worn with some loss to edges & spine. Pencil marking to editor’s introduction. | £100
S. S. Prawer | Karl Marx and World Literature | Oxford | 1976 | 0198157452 In unclipped jacket. Top edge of pageblock foxed, lower edge a little dustmarked. | £25
Vladimir Mshvenieradze | Anti-Communism Today | Progress | 1974 | Rather worn booklet with sunned cover. No problem with text pages. | £30
Trevor Munroe, Don Robotham | Struggles of the Jamaican People | Workers’ Liberation League | 1977 | Some wear to cover & edge, a little foxing, previous owner’s rubber stamp on ffep, with offset to reverse of front cover. Collet’s price label on back cover. | £100
Rudy Narayan | Black England | Doscarla | 1977 | 0950529605 Worn reading copy, with cup ring marks on both front & back cover. Book is gently bowed, its paper tanned with age. No problem with text pages. | £100
M. Petrosyan | Humanism | Progress | 1972 | no jacket, a little wear to edges of cover, most evident at top of spine | £12
E. A. Preobrazhensky | From New Economic Policy to Socialism | New Park | 1973 | Upper tip of last few pages creased, does not affect text area. | £50
Ron Ramdin; C. L. R. James (intr.) | From Chattel Slave to Wage Earner | Martin Brian & O’Keefe | 1982 | 0856162418 Inscribed by author. Minor wear to cover & edge, most evident at lower corner of cover. | £25
Wole Soyinka | The Man Died | Penguin | 1978 | 140038469 Some wear to cover, edge of spine scuffed, lower corner of spine/front panel bumped. | £40
Stalinist Workers Group | Towards Victorious Afro-American National Liberation | Ray O. Light Publication | 1982 | Paperback. Good. ‘A Collection of Pamphlets, Leaflets and Essays Which Dealt in a Timely Way With the Concrete Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation Over the Past Decade and More.’ Cover rather sunned, esp. on spine and lightly bumped at top of spine, v. light creasing at corners. Edges of page block have some foxing marks. Internally vg, no marking. Ready to post in UK | £50
Stop the Strip-Searches Campaign | Stop Strip Searching | n.p. | n.d. | Stapled pamphlet with price label on front cover. Some wear to cover, most evident at corners. At least three pages have been cut with rough edges, which does not affect the text area. | £20
Yanis Varoufakis | Adults in the Room | Bodley Head | 2017 | 9781847924452 First printing, signed by author on title page. Book is in excellent condition apart from a scuffed patch on the front endpaper. | £100
Adolfo Sanchez Vazques | The Philosophy of Praxis | Merlin | 1977 | 0850362032 UK 1st in unclipped jacket. Fingernail nick at inner edge of front panel, small pressure mark on back cover. Date & a brief note on endpapers, some pencil marking in text. Front cover set a little forward. | £75
F. J. P. Veale | The Man from the Volga: a life of Lenin | Constable | 1932 | First Edition. Hardback, with some spotting to cover, in a rather tatty jacket, which has been reinforced with clear tape at a couple of places. The book carries a personal dedication from the author on the ffep, & there is a collection of clippings about Lenin at the back of the book, together with a postcard which appears to have been sent from the author to his young daughter. A later owner has added their name to the front flap, & marked a date on the rear pastedown. The text pages are in very good condition, with foxed outer edge. | £25
Michael Velli; Lorraine & Fredy Perlman [eds.] | Manual for Revolutionary Leaders | Black & Red | 1974 | Second edition, including the sources of Velli’s thought. Spine worn, mark on ffep. Some wear to outer edge of page-block. | £100
M. Velli | The Seizure of State Power | Phoenix Press | 1992 | 0948984236 Spine lightly faded, edges of cover scuffed. | £35
Vitali Solomonovich Vygodski | The Story of a Great Discovery | Abacus | 1974 | 0856260754 Outer edge of page-block foxed. Dust jacket worn, with a pen mark on the front panel. | £50.00
Cellestine Ware | Woman Power | Tower | 1970 | Spine lightly faded, paper tanned with age, name on ffep. | £30
Georg Weerth, Ingrid & Peter Kuczynski [eds] | A Young Revolutionary in Nineteenth Century England – Selected Writings of Georg Weerth | Seven Seas | 1971 | Spine faded, general wear to cover, paper tanned with age. | £50
Carl Williams (pref.), Barry Miles (intr.) | 4973: Berkeley Protest Posters 1970 | Francis Boutle, Maggs Bros | – | 9781903427415 Another bookdealer’s (higher) pencilled price on ffep. Erasure is likely to smear the glossy paper. | £25