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New York: The John Day Company, 1932. First Edition. Pamphlet advocating an American revolution by the left-wing literary critic V.F. Calverton (1900-1940), who founded the Modern Quarterly, a Marxist journal. He says that the U.S. has a revolutionary tradition and that the working class can build upon that tradition. No. 15 in the John Day series of pamphlets. SCARCE. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 187 x 130 mm), [28] unnumbered pages, in a blue dust jacket over stapled wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Edge wear and some soiling, creasing, and sunning to wrappers. Internally, light toning and creasing to some pages. Very Good.

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1936. First Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 126 mm), 40 pages in stapled wrappers. A spirited -- rollicking, even! -- essay, with attacks on "fakers," "impostors," "swindlers," and other enemies of the working class. May Day is the true holiday of the proletariat, the author says, while Labor Day in the U.S. is fake because it "sticks to the hollow pretense of a brotherhood between capital and labor..." Issued by the radical Socialist Labor Party, the pamphlet argues that American labor leaders have eagerly embraced the capitalist class. "The 'labor' leaders travel through the country in the grandest style, stop at the 'swellest' hotels--often as not, manned with non-union labor. Where they go, liquor flows expensively and plentifully--sometimes swinishly." (page 30) The author, Olive M. Johnson (1872-1954), was a longtime activist, editor, and pamphleteer for the Socialist Labor Party. This pamphlet is peak agit-prop. SCARCE. CONDITION: Light… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 182 pages. Very Good (a few small ink notations on a few pages and some lightly creased pages) in a dust jacket that has some small closed tears and scuffing along the edges.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. First American Edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), xii, 258 pages, in black boards, titles in silver to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket (hard cover)Terry Eagleton takes on objections to Marxism and explains why they're wrong (and why Marx was right). Eagleton is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University in the U.K. CONDITION: Fine in a Fine dust jacket.