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Welcome to the News and Special Offers
February / March 2010
Lots more items listed, notably pamphlets on Ireland, Co-operation, Trade Unions, and a collection by the Union for Democratic Control.
There is a new catalogue on Trade Unions UK – Unemployment / Redundancy / NUWM. This now provides a separate listing of material on unemployment rights, disputes, fight backs and the history of the organised unemployed.
BARGAINS
Every two months we will list a new selection of bargains – these have to be ordered direct from us and not via ABE, where they are listed at the full price. The normal price is in brackets, the special offer price follows.
Please note that description of condition of book comes first then condition of dustwrapper if there is one.
[000632] Seale, P & McConville, M. PHILBY: THE LONG ROAD TO MOSCOW. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1973. Hb. Good+ / No Jacket. £8.00 [£2.00]
[001350] Delgado, Alan. THE ANNUAL OUTING AND OTHER EXCURSIONS. London: Allen & Unwin, 1977. Hb. Very Good / Good. 173pp £16.00 [£5.00]
[001687] Lane, Tony & Roberts, Kenneth. STRIKE AT PILKINGTONS. London: Fontana, 1971. Paperback. Good 266pp £6.00 [£2.00]
[001897] Smith, Warren Sylvester. THE LONDON HERETICS, 1870-1914. London: Constable, 1967. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. 319pp £8.00 [£4.00]
[001915] Klugmann, James & Oestreicher, Paul. WHAT KIND OF REVOLUTION? A CHRISTIAN-COMMUNIST DIALOGUE. Panther, 1968. Pb. Good+ 218pp £4.00 [£1.00]
[002151] Allen, Vic. POWER IN TRADE UNIONS. Longman, 1954. HB. Good+ / Fair. 323pp £8.00 [£2.00]
[002765] Arnot, R Page. THE MINERS: ONE UNION, ONE INDUSTRY: A HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS, 1939-46. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 212pp £12.00 [£5.00]
[002993] Parsons, O H. THE MINUTES OF EDINBURGH TRADES COUNCIL, 1859-1873. Scottish History Society, 1968. Hard Cover. Good+ / No Jacket. 450pp £10.00 [£5.00]
[002995] . THE HISTORY OF THE TUC, 1868-1968. London: Trades Union Congress, Paperback. Good 160pp Large format. Profusely illustrated. £8.00 [£2.00]
[003012] . ANNUAL REPORT. Glasgow: Scottish Trades Union Congress, Paperback. Good 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1969 Each £8.50 [£3.00]
[003043] Frow, R & E & Katanka, M. STRIKES - A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. London: Charles Knight, 1971. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0853141142. 227pp £4.00 [£2.00]
[003051] Leeson, R A. STRIKE - A LIVE HISTORY, 1887-1971. London: Allen & Unwin, 1973. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. 246pp £8.00 [£2.00]
[003088] . THE SHEFFIELD OUTRAGES. New York: Kelley, Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. 452pp Large format. Reprint of Report presented to the T.U. Commissioners in 1867. £12.00 [£6.00]
[003307] Mortimer, J E. HISTORY OF THE BOILERMAKERS' SOCIETY Vol.1, 1834-1906. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973. Hard Cover. Good+ / Good. 228pp £10.00 [£4.00]
[003543] Croucher, Richard. ENGINEERS AT WAR, 1939-45. London: Merlin Book Club, 1982. Paperback. Good 400pp £6.00 [£3.00]
[003644] Samuel, Raphael ed. MINERS, QUARRYMEN AND SALTWORKERS. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. Paperback. Good+ 363pp History Workshop Series. £7.00 [£3.50]
[004145] Bidwell, Sidney. RED, WHITE AND BLACK - RACE RELATIONS IN BRITAIN. Gordon and Cremonesi, 1976. Hb. Good+ / Good. 213pp Intro. by Michael Foot. A few ink markings. £14.00 [£6.00]
[005448] Low, David. LOW'S RUSSIAN SKETCHBOOK. London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. Hard Cover. Good /
No Jacket. 141pp Spine bit worn; bookplate removed from inside back cover otherwise Good. £12.00 [£5.00]
[005591] Sommerfield, John. TROUBLE IN PORTER STREET. London: Fore Publications, 1939. Pamphlet. Good 64pp Short story about the struggles of working class tenants by the well known Communist writer; in the Key Books Series. Illustrated by Molly Moss, the author's wife. £7.00 [£3.00]
[005606] Wilson, Harold. THE NEW BRITAIN - LABOUR'S PLAN. Penguin Special, 1964. Paperback. Good 134pp Selected Speeches from 1964. £6.00 [£1.00]
[005832] Haldane, J B S. A.R.P. Left Book Club/Gollancz, 1938. Hard Cover. Good 296pp £9.00 [£3.00]
[006162] King, Beatrice. RUSSIA GOES TO SCHOOL. London: Heinemann, 1948. Hard Cover. Good. 185pp With 9 plates. £8.00 [£2/00]
[007113] Baxandall, Lee ed. MARXISM AND AESTHETICS - A SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. New York: Humanities Press, 1973. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 261pp Ex-university library. Large format. £25.00 [£15.00]
[008584] Witt, Hubert (ed.). BRECHT AS THEY KNEW HIM. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1980. Paperback. Very Good 243pp Almost as new. £8.00 [£2.00]
[008837] Aitken, R G et al. EDUCATION, INEQUALITY AND LIFE CHANCES. OECD, Paris, 1975. Paperback. Fair . 2 volumes. 612/448pp Covers bit fragile, minor tears otherwise a Good copy. 2 chapters in French. £25.00 [£12.00]
[009268] Khrushchov, Nikita (Khrushchev). REPORT OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO THE 20th CONGRESS OF THE CPSU. London: Soviet Booklets, 1956. Pamphlet. Good 95pp £6.00 [£1.00]
[010303] Trotsky, Leon. THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. Gollancz, 1936. Hard Cover. Fair 1295pp Cover worn and slightly soiled. £17.00 [£8.00]
[010929] Rogow, A A. THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT AND BRITISH INDUSTRY, 1945-1951. Blackwell, 1955. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 196pp Cloth faded. £17.00 [£4.00]
[011019] Allen, V L. MILITANT TRADE UNIONISM. Merlin Press, 1972. Paperback. Good 175pp £5.00 [£2.00]
[011252] . HISTORICAL STUDIES IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Keele University. Paperback. Very Good Nos. 1 (1996) - 23/24 (2007) (missing Nos. 8, 16, 21). LOT £150.00 [£75.00]
[011620] SOVIET NEWS. London: Press Department, Soviet Embassy, Hard Cover. Bound volumes 1946 - 1980; missing Jan-March 1971 & May 20-Sept 11 1948. Most Very Good. First few years in large annual volumes, then bound quarterly from 1951 in slim volumes. 125 volumes. 2 vols. are bound in reverse order in different binding. 8pp weekly. £400.00 [£200.00]
[011836] Fox, Ralph. STORMING HEAVEN. Harcourt, Brace, 1928. HB Good / Fair. 319pp The striking dustwrapper is torn with some loss. 1st US edition. Novel set in far east of early Soviet Union. Rare. £30.00 [£10.00]
[012633] Lindsay, Jack. BLAST POWER & BALLISTICS - CONCEPTS OF FORCE & ENERGY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. Frederick Muller, 1974. Hard Cover. Good / Good. 509pp Cover slightly soiled. £16.00 [£6.00]
[014849] Marx & Engels. WERKE Band 2. Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1957. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Some pencil notes. Previous owner's name. In German. £7.00 [£3.00] Many other volumes available – please ask.
[015897] Fishman, Jack. SPANDAU. Grafton, 1989. Paperback. Good 523pp £5.00 [£1.00]
[016541] Gorky, Maxim. THE THREE. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hard Cover. Good+ / Good. No date (mid 1950s). 471pp £9.00 [£3.00]
[016958] Perryman, Mark (ed.). THE BLAIR AGENDA. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1996. Paperback. Good 256pp £8.00 [£3.00]
[018546] Davey, Kevin. ENGLISH IMAGINARIES. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1999. Paperback. Very Good 202pp Imaginative mix of history, politics, cultural theory looking at the debate on Englishness; on David Dabydeen. J B Priestley, Nancy Cunard, Pete Townsend, Vivienne Westwood, Mark Wallinger £8.00 [£3.00]
[018844] Burbridge, John W. HEGEL ON LOGIC AND RELIGION. State University of New York Press, 1992. Hard Cover. Fine / No Jacket. 184pp £10.00 [£3.00]
[019140] Durcan, J W; McCarthy, W E J & Redman, G P. STRIKES IN POST-WAR BRITAIN. London: Allen & Unwin, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. 448pp £15.00 [£6.00]
[019292] Gorky, Maxim. THE LIFE OF MATVEI KOZHEMYAKIN. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hard Cover. Good / Fair. No date (c1960). 602pp £6.00 [£2.00]
[019297] Tolstoy, Alexei (Tolstoi). ORDEAL. Moscow: Progress Publishers, Hard Cover. Good / Fair. 1975/6 3 volumes. 341pp/362pp/447pp £25.00 [£12.00]
[019339] Von Mohrenschildt, Dimitri (ed.). THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917: CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS. Oxford University Press, 1971. Hard Cover. Good / Good. 320pp One small round CP Library stamp - no other library traces. £10.00 [£5.00]
[019373] Gannes, Harry & Repard, Theodore. SPAIN IN REVOLT. Left Book Club, 1936. Soft cloth. Good 287pp £5.00 [£2.00]
[019433] Low, Robert. LA PASIONARIA. Hutchinson, 1992. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0091745721. 243pp Biography of Dolores Ibarruri. £15.00 [£7.00]
[019690] Untermann, Ernest. THE WORLD'S REVOLUTIONS. Chicago: Charles H Kerr, 1906. Hard Cover. Good 176pp Cover worn and dulled otherwise Good. £6.50 [£3.00]
[020553] Wilson, Harold. FINAL TERM: THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT 1974-1976. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. 322pp £6.00 [£3.00]
[023117] Marranci, Gabriele. JIHAD: BEYOND ISLAM. Berg, 2006. Paperback. Fine. 184pp Shows how different cultural concepts have influenced the religious aspects of jihad. Argues that jihad is not synonymous with terrorism. £12.00 [£4.00]
[023935] Lindsay, Jack. THUNDER UNDERGROUND: A NOVEL OF NERO'S ROME. London: Frederick Muller, 1965. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. 446pp £7.00 [£3.00]
[023946] Glasier, J Bruce. ON THE ROAD TO LIBERTY: POEMS AND BALLADS. Manchester & London: National Labour Press, First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+ No date (1920?). 100pp Very nice copy. Scottish socialist, friend of William Morris. £15.00 [£7.00]
[028875] Owen, Jack. WAR IN THE WORKSHOPS. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1942. Paperback. Good 72pp Author was "Daily Worker" journalist; written during the period of the paper's ban. £7.00 [£2.00]
[030236] Genovese, Eugene D. THE WORLD THE SLAVEHOLDERS MADE. Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 1970. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. 274pp Dustwrapper abit sunned and has 2 small closed tears. £10.00 [£5.00]
[031018] Davis, Lennard J & Mirabella, M Bella (ed.). LEFT POLITICS AND THE LITERARY PROFESSION. Columbia University Press, 1990. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good.. 316pp Interesting collection of essays from left, feminist and black perspectives; mainly on American literature but with theoretical contributions as well. £17.00 [£8.00]
[032562] Fried, Albert & Sanders, Ronald (ed.). SOCIALIST THOUGHT: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. Aldine Publishing, 1964. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. 544pp Owner's name inside front cover. £15.00 [£4.00]
[032714] Lenin, Stalin, Sverdlov et al.. PREPARING FOR OCTOBER: THE HISTORIC 6th CONGRESS OF THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY (AUGUST 1917). London: Modern Books, Paperback. Good No date (1932). 71pp Cover a bit worn. £15.00 [£7.00]
[033766] Makepeace R W. MARXIST IDEOLOGY AND SOVIET CRIMINAL LAW. London: Croom Helm, 1980. Hard Cover. Good+ / Good. 319pp £11.00 [£4.00]
[033947] . REPORT OF COURT PROCEEDINGS IN THE CASE OF THE ANTI-SOVIET "BLOC OF RIGHTS AND TROTSKYISTS" - VERBATIM REPORT. Moscow: People's Commissariat of Justice, 1938. Hard Cover. Fair 800pp The trial of Bukharin et al. £12.00 [£6.00]
[034768] Hodges, Frank. NATIONALISATION OF THE MINES. London: Leonard Parsons, 1920. Hard Cover. Good / . 170pp Exterior dulled. £10.00 [£5.00]
[035991] Rice, Christopher. LENIN: PORTRAIT OF A PROFESSIONAL REVOLUTIONARY. London: Cassell, 1990. Hard Cover. Good+ / Good.. 208pp £7.00 [£3.00]
[036325] Parkin, Sara. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETRA KELLY. London: Pandora, 1994. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Very Good / Good+. 230pp £15.00 [£7.00]
[038592] Biagi, Marco (et al.) (ed.). THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LABOUR LAW AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS 16 issues. The Hague: Kluwer, Paperback. Very Good Volume 15 No.2, 1999; Volume 16 No.1, 2000 to Volume 19 No.3, 2003. LOT £90.00 [£45.00]
[039308] McCarthy, Terry. THE GREAT DOCK STRIKE, 1889. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. 254pp Large format, many illustrations. £10.00 [£4.00]
[040145] Serebrennikov, G N. THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN THE USSR. London: Left Book Club / Gollancz, 1937. Soft cloth. Fair 288pp Worn and bit soiled. £5.00 [£2.00]
[040956] DeFronzo, James V (ed.). Revolutionary Movements in World History: From 1750 to the Present - 3 Volumes. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Hard Cover. Fine Over 1,000 pages. Large format. £200.00 [£95.00]
[041424] Chambers, Colin. THE STORY OF UNITY THEATRE. Lawrence and Wishart, 1989. Paperback. Fine 447pp Comprehensive and readable account of Britain's left-wing theatre. As new. £8.00 [£2.00]
[043048] Smith, Herbert. A MORNING TO REMEMBER. Lawrence and Wishart, 1962. Hard Cover. Good / Good. 167pp Working class novel set in London power station, based on author's experience working in one. £10.00 [£5.00]
[043477] Foot, Paul. IMMIGRATION AND RACE IN BRITISH POLITICS. Harmondsworth: Penguin Special, 1965. Paperback. Good+ 254pp £5.00 [£2.00]
[044372] Luxemburg, Rosa. THE MASS STRIKE, THE POLITICAL PARTY & THE TRADE UNIONS. Colombo: Young Socialist Publication, 1970. Paperback. Good 80pp £6.00 [£2.00]
[046026] Macintyre, Stuart. IMPERIALISM AND THE BRITISH LABOUR MOVEMENT IN THE 1920s: OUR HISTORY PAMPHLET 64 . London: History Group of the Communist Party, 1975. Pamphlet. Good+ 26pp £5.00 [£1.00]