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New York: New York Labor News Company, n.d. [1920?]. First Thus. 12mo 17cm.); original tan decorative staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Previous vertical fold, extremities a bit darkened, else About Very Good. Date based on advertisement on rear wrapper for Daniel De Leon's What Means This Strike?

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1935. Reprint. Staple-bound pamphlet; 48pp. Pencil date to cover sunned along edges, else near fine.

New York: National Executive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party, 1900. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed buff wrappers; 22pp. Mild external wear; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Translation ("adapted for America") by Daniel De Leon (1852-1914) of Kautsky's influential Marxist treatise, extracted from the larger work "The Erfurt Programme," first published in German in 1892. De Leon's translation first appeared in 1894 and was reissued in a variety of formats over succeeding decades; this issue is in the People [sic] Library, a monthly periodical series issued by the SLP from 1899-1900.

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1931. 8vo (18.5cm); original peach pictorial staplebound wrappers; 48pp.; 2 leaves of plain plates, some photographic, printed on rectos and versos; full-page facsimiles in text; minor dust soiling to covers, else about Fine. "Address Delivered at the Fortieth Anniversary Dinner, Weekly People, at Aldine Club, New York City, May 2, 1931.

Brooklyn: National Executive Committee, Socialist Labor Party, 1969. Fifth Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); original yellow pictorial wrappers printed in red; [12],136,[4],186,[2],xv,[3](ads)pp.; plain photographic portrait frontispiece. Fine. A collection of memorial tributes and reminiscences written by various socialist luminaries and friends, including Rudolph Schwab, Henry Kuhn, Rudolph Katz, Sam French, others.

New York: New York Labor News, 1933. Reprint. 12m (19cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; 42pp. Mild cover soil; still Very Good to Near Fine. Berry was the former State Treasurer of Pennsylvania.

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Stiff card wrappers; 48pp; 4 leaves of publisher's advertisements. Light age toning; else a tight copy in very good or better condition.

Glasgow: The Socialist Labour Press, N.d. [ca 1918]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 30pp. Text slightly darkened, else Fine. A primer for workingment, outlining the economic history of Great Britain from the feudal era to the early 20th century. Undated, but text makes reference to the recent "European War.

Chicago, 1947. Original packet delivered to leading members of the Socialist Labor Party calling for the removal of Arnold Petersen as National Secretary. All documents printed from typescript and side-staplebound in original mailing envelope addressed from Nada Mijanovich, a Chicago-based member of the SLP, to Bert Baxter, a Portland, Oregon, member, and SLP write-in candidate for Governor. Some wear and light toning to documents, envelope postally used and rather worn and soiled with some tearing, else a Very Good or better collection. Daniel De Leon named the 29-year-old Arnold Petersen his successor as National Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party shortly before his death in 1914. Like his predecessor, during whose tenure the SLP splintered to form the Socialist Party of the United States, Petersen proved to be a polarizing presence in the Party, and while he saved it from bankruptcy, the present collection delineates the slow but steady decline of the SLP during the later years of World War… Read More

New York: Socialistic Labor Party, [ca 1885]. 22nd Thousand." Pamphlet, removed; 8pp. Partial separation along bound edge; mild chipping to marginal extremities; text slightly toned; complete and Good. Uncommon early SLP pamphlet advocating for the eight-hour workday. Undated, but the earliest SLP congress to be held in Cincinnati (referenced in title) appears to have been the 5th National Convention, in 1885.

New York: New York Labor News, 1935. Later Printing. 12mo. Sewn pamphlet; 45pp. Bit of toning to wrapper edges, else Near Fine.

London: New Park Publications, 1957. First Edition. 12mo (20cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 51pp. Issue for America, with stamped "25¢" price at base of front wrapper. Text slightly tanned, else Very Good. Three essays on Marxist historical dialectics, first published as articles in the Labour Review from January to June, 1957. Novack (1905-1992) was co-founder of the Socialist Workers Party (the principal mainstream Trotskyist group in America) in 1938 and held leading positions in the Party through the mid-1980s.

New York: The Radical Review Publishing Association, 1918. First Separate Edition. 12mo (19.5 cm). Printed thick card wrappers; 122pp. Binding flaw has resulted in an extra frontispiece, half-title and contents page to be inserted prior to the title page. Wrappers slightly stained on front cover; front hinge a bit messy over-glued as a result of the binding flaw, resulting in some tears to first leaf at gutter; Good and sound. Dannenberg was a member of the Workers International Industrial Union, a DeLeonist offshoot of the I.W.W., and editor of its short-lived organ First of May. The lectures and essays collected here were first published in The Radical Review in 1917 and 1918.

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 187,[1],[4](ads)pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Minor dust-soiling, light shelf-wear to jacket extremities, else About Fine. History of Daniel De Leon's Socialist Labor Party, its role in the termination of the Second International, and its refusal to join the Third International. SEIDMAN H111; see also BRENNEMAN, p. 120.

[New York: 1958]. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. 4pp (bifolium); on newsprint; Very Good. Marxist critique of capitalism and warfare, reputedly originally written as a letter to the editor of the McKeesport, PA Daily News.

New York: New York Labor News, (1930). First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 29pp. Moderate soil to covers; internally clean and unmarked. Very Good. Analysis of the international labor market and the worldwide great depression, from a revolutionary Socialist perspective. The anonymous author contrasts the failures of Capitalism against the advances of the Soviet Union under the Five Year Plan. Printed in England but with the imprint of Workers Library Publishers, the publishing arm of the SLP.