Russian Revolution from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: British Socialist Party, 1918. Second edition (same year as the first). 12mo; printed buff wrappers; 54pp. Clean, sound and unmarked copy, Near Fine.

New York: Workers Library, N.d. [c. 1934]. Bound from British sheets, with new title page. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Red paper wrappers printed in black; 63pp; photographic portrait frontispiece (halftone). Near Fine. Perchik was an official of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute in Moscow.

New York: Rand School Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 27pp. Minor toning along wrapper extremities, else Very Good.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. Deep green textured cloth over boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xxv,476pp; frontispiece and 73 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) and 15 inserted maps (one folding); one text illus. A straight, tight, Very Good or better copy in the original publisher's cloth; a… Read more about this item

N.p. [Evansville, IN?]: Privately Published, N.d. [ca 1920]. Sole edition. Octavo. Blue ribbed cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece and nine inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). A tight, Near Fine copy in the original cloth. Terpenning, a Michigan-trained sociologist, traveled to Russia in 1918 as a representative of the Y.M.C.A. but… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hadcover; dustjacket; xii,385pp. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else about Fine in the original dustwrapper, lightly rubbed, still Near Fine. Edited, partially translated, and with a substantial introductory biographical essay by Koppel S. Pinson.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 299pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper and small private ink stamp inside front cover, else a tight, fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, slightly rubbed at folds, Very Good+.

Berlin: E. Laub, 1923. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Pattered wrappers (softcover, as issued); 235pp; portrait frontispiece; one folding facsimile. Slight wear; spine slightly skewed; Very Good. Text entirely in German.

New York: Russian Soviet Government Bureau, 1920. Third (revised) edition. 12mo. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 93pp. Mild edgewear to wrappers, with inked ownership signature ("Fr Carnes") dated 1920 at upper right corner; internally clean, tight and unmarked, Very Good. Review of early Soviet labor policy; this third edition is expanded to include a supplement, "The Protection of Labor… Read more about this item

Moscow: Pravda, 1962. First Edition. Quarto (34cm). Blind-embossed rough red cloth; 376pp; illus. Moderate external rubbing and wear; lacking dustwrapper and slipcase, still Very Good. A history of the Soviet revolutionary newspaper "Pravda," 1912-1962, including hundreds of facsimiles and photographs. Text entirely in Russian.

Cleveland: Hera Press, 1982. Octavo. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 20pp. Light wear to wrapper edges, small chip at upper corner, Very Good. Introduction by Faith Simon. New printing of an uncredited translation originally published in London in 1918.

Paris: Bibliothèque Forney, 1997. Quarto (27cm). Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 93pp; illus. Mild external wear, with some faint surface scratches to covers, else Near Fine. Catalogue for a 1997 exhibition of graphic masterpieces from the collections of the State Library, Moscow. Text entirely in French.

Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1977. First U.S. Edition. First American printing. Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 144pp. Cloth slightly sun-faded at lower extremity of front and rear boards, else a tight, Near Fine copy in a lightly edgeworn dustwrapper, Very Good. First English-language printing of this somewhat obscure late Roth title, a short novel set in revolutionary Russia and post-WW1… Read more about this item

New York: Press Publishing Co. / New York World, 1920. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound printed gray wrappers; 66pp. Mild creases to corners, still a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. Reprints a series of Eyre's articles on the Russian revolution originally published in the New York World. Eyre (1888-1928) was an acclaimed foreign correspondent whose first-hand accounts of… Read more about this item

Moskau: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1932. First German Language Edition. Octavo (ca. 22cm.); publisher's white staplebound wrappers printed in red and blue; 32pp. Wrappers rather dust-soiled and a bit rubbed at extremities, textblock toned and a bit brittle due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good overall. Text entirely in German. The author, an old guard Bolshevik,… Read more about this item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode for the Anglo-Russian Trust, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; xii,209pp. Tight, straight copy, clean and unmarked. Near Fine. Statistics, political and economic data for the New Russia, published to encourage trade between the Soviet Union and Great Britainb. Includes a timeline of the October Revolution and a directory of commercial contacts.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in orange pictorial price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and black; 141pp. Mild toning to outer jacket panels, a hint of foxing to bottom textblock edge, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Collection of short stories set in the years following the Russian Revolution, based… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1979. First American Edition. First American printing. Quarto (30cm.); blue pictorial paper boards quarterbound in maroon publisher's cloth w/ silver lettering, in maroon/grey pictorial dust jacket; 136pp. Text block is clean and sound; Fine. Dust jacket has some surface scuffing and minor closed tears along edges; small chips adjacent to crown of spine; large crease on… Read more about this item

[Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1984]. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo and oblong octavo (24.5x17cm and the reverse); publisher's cloth lettered in silver foil and orange, housed in pictorial paper-covered slipcase; 289pp. & unpaginated volume of color plates. In Fine condition, housed in a rather worn slipcase. Text almost entirely in Russian, save the English-language summary on pp. 254-5 of the first… Read more about this item

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press / The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1999. First Edition. Quarto (29cm x 22.5cm). Gray cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in red on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 222pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to bottom extremities, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean… Read more about this item