Soviet Union from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: British Socialist Party, 1918. Second edition (same year as the first). 12mo; printed buff wrappers; 54pp. Clean, sound and unmarked copy, Near Fine.

New York: The Hour Publishers, 1952. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 16pp. Mild external soil; Very Good or better. Exposé of one of the major intelligence leaks of the early Cold War, which resulted when Major General Robert W. Grow, at this time the Military Attaché to the U.S. Embassy at Moscow, allowed his… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, 1937. Second printing. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers, 64pp. Clean and unmarked copy in the original wrappers; about Fine. Party-line anti-Trotsky tract issued during the period of the Moscow show trials. Includes an extract from Earl Browder's "The Results of the Election and the People's Front" inside front wrapper.

New York: Workers Library, N.d. [c. 1934]. Bound from British sheets, with new title page. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Red paper wrappers printed in black; 63pp; photographic portrait frontispiece (halftone). Near Fine. Perchik was an official of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute in Moscow.

New York: Workers Library, [1929]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Red card wrappers printed in black; 36pp. Moderate overall soil and wear, with tiny chips at corners; brief manuscript annotation at head of text; a complete, about Very Good copy. Probably Lovestone's last publication as CUPSA Party Secretary, written on the eve of the 1929 National Convention,… Read more about this item

New York: Rand School Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 27pp. Minor toning along wrapper extremities, else Very Good.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First American Edition Thus. First U.S. printing of the Bethell-Burg translation (preceded in the U.S. by the Dial Press edition of a translation by Rebecca Frank, 1968). Octavo. (20cm.); black cloth hardcover; red top-stain; dustjacket; 560pp. Two faint smudges to top-stain, else a fine copy, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $10.00… Read more about this item

Moscow: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). Pale brown cloth stamped in brown; 131,[1]pp; publisher's ad to final page; black and white halftones. Ownership stamp of "Pioneer Youth of America" to front free endpaper. Rubbed with mild fading to edges, internally slightly rippled but clean: Very Good. … Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; [8],277,[3]pp. Fine in bright, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $3.00 on front flap). The author's first novel, a cold-war classic set in a genteel suburb of New York following an apocalyptic nuclear attack. Source for the 1954 television drama Atomic Attack which starred Phyllis Baxter and Walter Matthau.… Read more about this item

New York: Covici, Friede, Publishers, 1933. First Edition. First Printing, one of 1,381 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.1,275. Octavo (22.25cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [ii],432,[6]pp. Crown gently nudged, faint foxing to upper spine, upper board edges, and rear joint, with some dust-soil to… Read more about this item

Yerevan: Pallas, 1976. First Edition. Quarto. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 131,(2)pp; chiefly illus. Prospectus laid in. Fine copy in slightly edgeworn jacket, still Very Good or better. Photographic survey of the smallest Soviet republic. Text entirely in Armenian, though the Prospectus includes an introduction in four languages including English.

London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 376pp. Fine in jacket; inscribed "To Roberto," dated 2013.

New York: Communist Political Association, 1944. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Printed card wrappers; 142pp. Mild external wear and soil, but a well-preserved, Very Good or better copy. A key wartime document, containing the proceedings of the founding convention of the Communist Political Association, formed in the wake of the Teheran Conference and the dissolution of the Communist… Read more about this item

London: British-Soviet Society, 1947. First Edition. First impression. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; photo-illustrated glossy paper wrappers; 32pp. Mild cover wear; some toning to margins of text; Very Good.

Bombay: The Modren [sic] India Publications / Navrashtra Press, N.d. [ca 1948]. Edition and printing not stated. 12mo (15cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 36pp. Mild external wear; text paper toned but not brittle; Very Good. Institutional de-accession stamp at base of final leaf (no other institutional markings). Anti-Stalin analysis of the Eastern European political situation post-WW2, issued by… Read more about this item

New York: Russian Soviet Government Bureau, 1920. Third (revised) edition. 12mo. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 93pp. Mild edgewear to wrappers, with inked ownership signature ("Fr Carnes") dated 1920 at upper right corner; internally clean, tight and unmarked, Very Good. Review of early Soviet labor policy; this third edition is expanded to include a supplement, "The Protection of Labor… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, 1941. First English Language Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 40pp. Small pencil notation to front wrapper, else about Fine. On the imperialist origins of the Second World War, by the Austrian Marxist Ernst Fischer (1899-1972), written, presumably in German, during his period of exile in the Soviet Union (1934-1944). The translation is not attributed.… Read more about this item

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 531pp. Near Fine in lightly toned and edgeworn jacket, VG+. Day-by-day account, by an American journalist, of the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Belgrade: Syndicats Yougoslaves, 1962. 12mo. Staple-bound printed card wrappers; 87pp. Near Fine, with a hint of rubbing to wrappers. Yugoslavian Communist Party pamphlet. Text entirely in French.

Moscow: Pravda, 1962. First Edition. Quarto (34cm). Blind-embossed rough red cloth; 376pp; illus. Moderate external rubbing and wear; lacking dustwrapper and slipcase, still Very Good. A history of the Soviet revolutionary newspaper "Pravda," 1912-1962, including hundreds of facsimiles and photographs. Text entirely in Russian.