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The Socialism of Our Times. A Symposium By [34 Listed authors]
by Laidler, Harry W. & Norman Thomas [Editors]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Vanguard Press/League for Industrial Democracy, 1929. Here is an omnibus edition on the state of American socialism in the year following Norman Thomas's run for the Presidency. Edited by Thomas and Harry Laidler, his co-director of the League for Industrial Democracy, with essays by 34 authors. A Fine copy of the First Edition [stated "Copyright, June, 1929, by the Vanguard Press"]. Dark blue cloth binding with rules stamped on the front cover; titling and the image of a worker holding a book and a sledge hammer in red; titling on the spine in red. Clean text; xiv, 377 pages divided into four general categories of discussion.. Lacking the dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005946
- Title
- The Socialism of Our Times. A Symposium By [34 Listed authors]
- Author
- Laidler, Harry W. & Norman Thomas [Editors]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press/League for Industrial Democracy
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Reformers;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- 12mo
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- Fine
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