Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein (4 results)

4to. menor; 154 pp., 1 h. Cubiertas originales.

Hardback. Printed pages: 512. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. *** PLEASE NOTE *** The bookshop is currently closed for holidays. Items can still be ordered, but will not be dispatched until we reopen on Saturday 6th June. Many thanks for your patience. *** Lacking jacket. Red cloth binding with gilt title to front board and spine. Light stain to lower corner of rear board. Light browning to page edges, offsetting to leading blank and final page of text. Ecclesiastical library stamps to title page and final page of text (title page stamp has also offset to the frontis), there are also three inked numbers to front pastedown endpaper (two crossed out). Small stain to outer margin of pages 47-50. Good solid binding. Very clean text throughout. First English language edition of Trotsky's autobiography, following a Russian language paperback edition published in Germany in the same year. Scarce. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches (16.5 x 24 cm).

The First American Edition in original publishers cloth (recased) Large Octavo.(9"X6") xiv. (i) 599pps uncut. Booklabel of "Paul Elders Books San Francisco" to the paste-down. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait. Title page discreetly stamped and partially erased " " Donated by Aaron Berkman " The celebrated American Social Realist Painter. (1900-1991) Signature A to copyright on verso. Written in Constantinople in the first year of his exile in Turkey. In 1929, Trotsky had been declared an enemy of the state and accused of leading a counter-revolutionary movement. A clean sound copy of a rare book with an interesting provenance.

14 (2) pages, incl. paper-cover, with wholepage printedportraits of W. I. Lenin(e) and Leon Trotsky by Russian Painter Jury Annenkov. - Titled papercover (front), rearcover with ''Bulletin d'Abonnement à 'LA COMMUNE', Organe Central du Parti Communiste Internationaliste''; 8vo.(ca. 23 x 16 cm). *** FIRST EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL PRE-FOUNDING MANIFEST OF THE 'FOURTH INTERNATIONAL', issued during the creation of the French section of the 'The Fourth International', a merger of the Bolshevik-Leninists and other groups under the Trotzky's leadership, proclaiming the creation of armed workers' militias, the struggle against the offensive of capital, and revolutionary unity for workers' power, and preceeding the Party's official 'Transitional Program' of 1938. The '4th' was finally established in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and his supporters, having been expelled long before from the Soviet Union and the 'Communist International'(Comintern). - Minimally used, frontwrapper with small offset from a rusty metal-staple of another publication of the poeriod which must have been lying on top of this one for a while; A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE RARE AND FRAGILE PUBLICATION (OPAC lists only 2 copies in public libraries).