USSR IN CONSTRUCTION A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE [Whole Number 11] by Alexandrov, A - 1932

Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm), 318 pages, in red boards, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket.
INSCRIBED by Joseph North, the editor, on the front end paper to artist Raphael Soyer and his wife Rebecca: "You were inspirers of this book. With love, Joe North." Inscribed and dated in the year of publication. A nice association: Soyer was a socialist realist artist who taught at the John Reed Club, the New School for Social Research, and the Art Students' League.
The book consists of fiction, reportage, and essays from the pages of New Masses, a left-wing literary magazine that was published from 1926-1948. With work by Ernest Hemingway, Muriel Rukeyser, Theodore Dreiser, James Agee, Kenneth Patchen, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Federico Garcia Lorca (translated by Langston Hughes), Mike Gold, and Henri Barbuse, among many others. Numerous drawings and cartoons by Bill Gropper, John Groth, Gardner Rea, Mischa Richter, and others.… Read More

RARE PIECE OF PUBLISHING HISTORY! Five new copies in original shipping envelope with invoice No. 11568 dated November 15, 1968 from Eastern News Distributors, Inc. Located at 155 West 15th Street, New York, New York 10011. Shipped to Old Town Bookstore in Saginaw, Michigan, owner's father's store that closed in 1972. Editorial board: A.J. Muste, Chairman, Dave Dellinger, Editor, Barbara Deming, Paul Goodman, Sidney Lens, Staughton Lynd. Managing Editor: Lamar Hoover. http://everything.explained.today/Independent_News/ I recommend looking at all of my photos.

New York: Produced and Released by Mainstream Magazine, [ca, 1947-8].. Original 12" 78 rpm double-sided phonograph record. Printed labels a trifle foxed, small blemish at extreme edge far from grooves, otherwise visually very good. A quite rare recording of Trumbo's recitation of his long poem, first published in the Winter 1947 (I:1) issue of MAINSTREAM. While OCLC includes a barebones entry for this recording (without citing locations), it refers to "Part 2" only, which is the flip side of the present record, and is somewhat contradictory, asserting there is "no linguistic content" and "unreadable" and that it is a "musical recording." OCLC: 77819968.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co.. Good+. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, mixed state. Bound in original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and covers, brown endpapers. 256pp. Publishers name spelled correctly on spine (Sonnenschein) , previous work shown correctly, no six page appendix. Text tight, clean & intact. Spine slightly darkened, spine ends & corners lightly rubbed and faded area on rear cover. Interior 1/2" of front free endpaper has been glued to the fixed endpaper. Literature. ; Thin 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 256 pages .

London: Workers' Music Association, Ltd., 1955. Founded in 1936 by composer and radical Alan Bush, and still in operation, the Workers' Music Association has long been a beacon for the rights and music of workers. This collection consists of 49 issues of the WMA Bulletin from the years 1955 -1959; May-Dec, 1955 + Annual Report (9 issues); 1956, 11 issues including Annual Report; 1957, 12 issues; 1958, 8 issues; and 1959, 9 issues. Additionally, 14 related separate pieces of ephemera, from both the WMA and Topic Records, assorted brochures, flyers, and price lists. RARE collection, individual copies of the Bulletin unfound in online market searches. Overall Very Good or better, mailing stampings, small corner creases. . First Printing. Stapled. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm), 318 pages, in red boards, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket.
INSCRIBED by Joseph North, the editor, on the front end paper to artist Raphael Soyer and his wife Rebecca: "You were inspirers of this book. With love, Joe North." Inscribed and dated in the year of publication. A nice association: Soyer was a socialist realist artist who taught at the John Reed Club, the New School for Social Research, and the Art Students' League.
The book consists of fiction, reportage, and essays from the pages of New Masses, a left-wing literary magazine that was published from 1926-1948. With work by Ernest Hemingway, Muriel Rukeyser, Theodore Dreiser, James Agee, Kenneth Patchen, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Federico Garcia Lorca (translated by Langston Hughes), Mike Gold, and Henri Barbuse, among many others. Numerous drawings and cartoons by Bill Gropper, John Groth, Gardner Rea, Mischa Richter, and others.… Read More

RARE PIECE OF PUBLISHING HISTORY! Five new copies in original shipping envelope with invoice No. 11568 dated November 15, 1968 from Eastern News Distributors, Inc. Located at 155 West 15th Street, New York, New York 10011. Shipped to Old Town Bookstore in Saginaw, Michigan, owner's father's store that closed in 1972. Editorial board: A.J. Muste, Chairman, Dave Dellinger, Editor, Barbara Deming, Paul Goodman, Sidney Lens, Staughton Lynd. Managing Editor: Lamar Hoover. http://everything.explained.today/Independent_News/ I recommend looking at all of my photos.

New York: Produced and Released by Mainstream Magazine, [ca, 1947-8].. Original 12" 78 rpm double-sided phonograph record. Printed labels a trifle foxed, small blemish at extreme edge far from grooves, otherwise visually very good. A quite rare recording of Trumbo's recitation of his long poem, first published in the Winter 1947 (I:1) issue of MAINSTREAM. While OCLC includes a barebones entry for this recording (without citing locations), it refers to "Part 2" only, which is the flip side of the present record, and is somewhat contradictory, asserting there is "no linguistic content" and "unreadable" and that it is a "musical recording." OCLC: 77819968.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co.. Good+. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, mixed state. Bound in original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and covers, brown endpapers. 256pp. Publishers name spelled correctly on spine (Sonnenschein) , previous work shown correctly, no six page appendix. Text tight, clean & intact. Spine slightly darkened, spine ends & corners lightly rubbed and faded area on rear cover. Interior 1/2" of front free endpaper has been glued to the fixed endpaper. Literature. ; Thin 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 256 pages .

London: Workers' Music Association, Ltd., 1955. Founded in 1936 by composer and radical Alan Bush, and still in operation, the Workers' Music Association has long been a beacon for the rights and music of workers. This collection consists of 49 issues of the WMA Bulletin from the years 1955 -1959; May-Dec, 1955 + Annual Report (9 issues); 1956, 11 issues including Annual Report; 1957, 12 issues; 1958, 8 issues; and 1959, 9 issues. Additionally, 14 related separate pieces of ephemera, from both the WMA and Topic Records, assorted brochures, flyers, and price lists. RARE collection, individual copies of the Bulletin unfound in online market searches. Overall Very Good or better, mailing stampings, small corner creases. . First Printing. Stapled. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.