The Fellow Travellers A Postscript to the Enlightenment by Caute, David - 1973

MacMillan, New York, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Introduction by author, references, bibliography and index. Pink coloured cloth covered boards with dark blue coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Since the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, many distinguished Western intellectuals have felt a tremendous sympathy for the social systems of the Soviet Union, the "popular democracies" and Communist China. Some became Communist but many did not; more ambivalent in their commitment, they soon came to be known as fellow-travellers. – The fellow travellers included some of the most famous writers, scholars, philosophers, scientists and politicians of the century – the author demonstrates why and how the international communist movement harnessed to its own ends the reputations of these and other celebrated non-communists. While not evading moral… Read More

Quartet Books 1977. Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

New York, The MacMillan Company. 1973. Original publisher's pink cloth hardback, blue title spine, pictorial dustjacket, thick large 8vo: [x], 434pp., references, bibliography, index. Fine copy.

New York: MacMillan Company. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: MacMillan, 1973. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. dust jacket 433pp., bibliog., index , Ôthe authentic fellow-traveller is neither an orthodox Marxist nor a revolutionary, but an heir to the intellectual legacy of the 18th C. enlightenmentÕ