The Conquest of Power: Liberalism, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism (Two Volumes) by [COMMUNISM - FOURTH INTERNATIONAL] WEISBORD, Albert - 1937

New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Weisbord's monumental synthesis of the principal "radical" political movements of the first quarter of the twentieth century, intended chiefly as a defense of his own strand of Trotskyist communism as exemplified by the "Communist League of Struggle," the Trotskyist splinter group founded by Weisbord and his wife in 1931. A major 20th-century theoretical work, seldom found in such nice condition. Two large octavo volumes (24cm). Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spines; dustjackets; [i]-480; [481-1208pp. Bit of dusting to jackets and mild, scattered thumb-soil to contents; Very Good to Near Fine overall - a bright, just lightly worn set, far better than usually seen.