first US edition of the first English translation
STALIN, Joseph; PAUL, Eden & Cedar (née Gertrude Mary Davenport).
Leninism. Translated from the Russian by Eden & Cedar Paul.
New York, International Publishers, 1928.
The translators Eden & Cedar Paul (née Gertrude Mary Davenport) were active in the Communist Party of Great Britain, producing English-language editions of works by Stefan Zweig, Karl Marx, Rudolf Hilferding, Georgi Plekhanov and others.
First US edition of the first English-language translation; 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); very slight spotting to fore-edge; publisher's burgundy cloth, stamped in blind to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, unclipped orange typographic dustjacket, spine faded, chipped with slight loss to head of spine and corners, very good; 472pp.
Stock code 122022
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Leninism.
XENOPHON; FIELDING, Sarah (translator).
Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates.
1762.
A handsomely bound first edition of Sarah Fielding's translation of Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates.
$1,696.00
WOTTON, William; BENTLEY, Richard.
Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning...
1697.
The second edition, much expanded of William Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, bound with Richard Bentley's Dissertation for the first time
$1,018.00
TYRTAEUS; MOOR, James (editor).
Spartan Lessons;
1759.
The first Foulis Press edition of Tyrtaeus' panegyric on martial spirit, Spartan Lessons, edited by the classicist James Moor
$2,035.00
CICERO; [DAVID, Henry (translator)].
Thoughts of Cicero,
1750.
The first trilingual edition in English, French, and Latin of this collection of Cicero's thoughts on religion, law and philosophy
$611.00
