Life by Leon Trotsky: First Edition (25 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright. ; yellow, & white titles on dark green & Blue paper covers showing 3 beings joined at the waist. (Cabalistic drawing from work by RABBI JACOB EMDEN.UNITY OF ISLAM, JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 512 clean, unmarked pages/index; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar. B/W Photos (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Reprint of the 1924 edition. Usual library labels and stamps. In very good clean condition throughout. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 249 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, 1924. A Very Worn Copy, Spine Gilt Worn And Almost Unreadable, Spine Cloth Covered With Clear Tape, Hinges Completely Broken With Page Block Completely Loose. Ownership Signature Of Rowena Woodham-Jelliffe (1892- 1992), Who Became A Pioneer In The Field Of Interracial Theater As An Outgrowth Of Her Career As A Social Worker And Co-Founder Of Karamu House. Born And Raised In New Albion, Ill., She Came To Ohio In 1910 To Enter Oberlin College, Where She Served As President Of The Oberlin Women's Suffrage League And Met Her Future Husband, Russell W. Jelliffe. After A Year Spent Jointly As Graduate Students At The University Of Chicago, Rowena And Russell Were Married And Came To Cleveland To Establish The East Side Settlement House That Eventually Became Karamu. To Help Draw Their Largely African American Constituency Into The Settlement's Program, Mrs. Jelliffe Began Producing Children's Plays With Interracial Casting. An Adult Dramatic Group, The Gilpin Players, Was Organized In The Couple's Living Room In 1920. A Permanent Theater Was Opened In 1927, After 2 Summers' Study By Mrs. Jelliffe At The School Of Theater And Dance In New York. Besides Directing 100 Plays At Karamu From 1920-46, She Sometimes Wrote Plays For The Children And Once Completed A Play By Langston Hughes When The Final Act Failed To Arrive In Time. Mrs. Jelliffe Was Also A Campaigner For Civil Rights, Helping To Integrate The Wade Park Manor Dining Room In 1926 And Marching With Martin Luther King, Jr., In The 1960S. Her Papers Are At Case Western University. …

First Edition. With an introduction by N.Minsky. Softcovers, 1st thus . Portrait of Trotsky as frontispiece. Name to front endpaper otherwise near Very Good with just a little fraying to the tip of the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 114pp From the library of Eric Heffer, MP - with his ownership signature.Very small piece chipped from front cover. A very clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition: Good - wear to the covers and spine, frontis is separated, tight binding, no writings.

first edition thus, 1970. new york: pathfinder press, inc. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 602 pages. softcover. bound in pictorial paper wrappers. book condition: notable foxing to wrappers. very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good - wear, some soiling to the covers and spine, some chipping, discoloration to the spine no writings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by the previous owner on the front inner board. Frontispiece. There is gilt on the spine and front cover. The boards are a little shelf and the spine is slightly faded. There is minor foxing within the body of the book. The pages are neat and complete. All pages are accessible. The spine has neatly been repaired. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red Cloth gilt titles. Subtitled 'The Rise and Fall of a Dictator'. Frontispiece portrait of Trotsky. Bookplate of Jerry White blank ffep. 512pp Minor fading on spine.Otherwise very clean and tight copy. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Printing with Scribner's 'A' on copyright page. Previous owner's neat signature on front endpaper; else a clean, solid hardcover bound in publisher's original full cloth with unmarked text. NOT ex-lib. A clean, remarkably well-preserved copy of this important work. Indexed. xiv, 599pp.…

Hardback. Printed pages: 512. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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).…

Condition: Fair. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo Hardcover. 599pp. Poor book and no dust jacket. Reading copy only. Cover and spine detatching. Covers scuffed and edgeworn. Spine faded. Top half of tissue guard torn. Title page and frontispiece foxed. Pages dampstained. Pencil drawing on front free endpaper, scribbling on rear endpage, owner's name on rear pastedown. Rear hinge cracked. (russia, soviet union, politics and government, leon trotsky ) Inquire if you need further information.…

Hardback. Condition: G+/VG-. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback bound in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. Book has light edge wear with 2 small tears at top of spine, the title on the spine is faded and there is a stamped name on first end page and the hinges are cracked but holding firm. This is a true 1st Edition with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Frontis is a photo of Trotsky at 18 with tissue guard in place. 599 pages including the Index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. …

Condition: Good. 1930. First Edition. 512 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth covered boards with gilt to leather spine. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Re-bound. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning. Spine is rubbed and gilt lettering is slightly dulled.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The first American edition, with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. With the 1930 ownership signature of Joseph Barnes. We can offer no direct provenance but a Joseph Barnes (author of Willkie: The Events He Was Part Of, The Ideas He Fought For) was a translator of Russian authors for a number of years and a recipient of the PEN translation award. According to his obituary in the New York Times, in 1928 he made an extensive tour of the Soviet Union, on which he reported for The New York World. On the staff of the Institute of Pacific Relations from 1931 to 1934, he visited Russia, Manchuria, Japan and China; he edited ?Empire in the East? by 12 members of the American Council of the Institute, published in 1934. Barnes joined The Herald Tribune in 1935. He went abroad as Moscow correspondent in 1937, wrote a series on Siberia in 1938, and then went to Berlin as correspondent. He returned to the U.S. at the end of 1939 and in 1940-41 was foreign news editor. From 1941 to 1944 he served as deputy director of the overseas branch of the office of War Information. In 1951 he cited his clearance for that position to counter accusations from McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee. He eventually joined Simon & Schuster as an executive editor. Again, we can not prove that this Barnes is that Barnes. A New Republic review of the book from 1930 is laid in, much acidified and split into pieces at the folds. The book itself shows mild foxing to the prelims, fading to the board edges and spine, and handling to the covers, including a partial cup ring. The binding is sound. A very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.…

First American Edition. First American edition with the Scribner "A" and Seal present on the copyright page. Measuring approximately 9" x 6" with 599 numbered pages. This book is in very good minus condition. Minor surface wear and staining to the red cloth boards. Spine is sun-faded. Front hinge cracked at the title page. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory# (N7-67).…

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.…

Original Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition In English. Small faint stain on rear cover; browning on endpapers from old newspaper clippings. Has the letter "A" on the verso of the title page.

First Edition. [Communist Autobiography] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.512. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore edge untrimmed. Pencil ownership to fly-leaf, with some light toning and spotting to preliminaries. Cloth sunned to spine and extremities, otherwise a crisp, clean, near fine copy. Trotsky recalls the key events of his life, from early childhood, though to his crucial role in the rise of the Bolshevik party in Russia, the 1917 Revolution, the aftermath and Civil War, and finally the death of Lenin, his loss of influence, and eventual exile.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The very scarce first English edition, issued in low numbers by Thornton Butterworth ( then Churchill's publishers ), in the same year as the first Russian language paperback published in Germany. Very good condition overall. Thick red cloth boards, a little faded, with heavy indented gilt titles on spine and front. Content clean: text, endpapers, frontispiece photograph of Leon Trotsky, and title pages are all clean and free of foxing, apart from a small stain on the edge of the first two leaves of chapter one, not on the text. The spine is a bit sunned but the gilt title thereon is still bright. A few very light stains on the top and bottom edge. There is light fraying to the side of the top of the spine. There is a small light stain to the rear board. Corners are slightly bumped. 512 pages including the detailed index. 804 grams. Can be sent via DHL Express in 1 or 2 weeks to most places in the world.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's red cloth with gilt topstain, spine sunned, corners bumped. Light toning and foxing on end pages, but not body of the book. Frontis bright. 1/4" tear in title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Text in Russian. Two volumes. 12mos. Bound in red cloth over boards without the wrappers, gilt spines. The text pages are modestly toned, vol. 1 has a few light marginal check marks in pencil, vol. 2 has one small quarter-inch line of worming at the back upper right corner and is slightly cocked, very good overall. The rare first edition of Trotsky's now classic autobiography [My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography]. Written and published in the first year of Trotsky's exile, it covers both revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Russian Civil War, and the beginning of his epic conflict with Stalin. A plain, attractive set appropriately bound in red cloth boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First English Edition. [6]-512 pp. Index. Black and white photo frontispiece photo of Trotsky [1879-1940]. A sound working copy of this tumultuous and impactful life story published in the year following Trotsky's exile from the Soviet Union and ten years before his murder in Mexico. No dust jacket. Faint prior owner's name upon front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Moderate scattered foxing. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's red cloth which is sunned on spine and lettered in gilt. Binding intact with moderate lean. Chip from top corner of pages 7-16. Smele 273.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; Leon Trotsky - biography, Leon Trotsky - autobiography, Russian Revolution, Soviet Union - history, Communism, Trotskyism, Lev Bronstein, Marxists, Marxism, Marxist Revolutionaries, October Revolution.…