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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

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

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth Lawton | The Inevitability of Matriarchy | 1977 | Stapled pamphlet with ink marginal marking & underlining throughout – a reading copy. | £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

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

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

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

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