Reflections Failure Socialism (23 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Poor to Fair. Reprint. 127 pages. Old price sticker stripped off the front cover. Upper right hand corner of front cover clipped off. Pages darkened with age. Size: 4 x 6.75. Failures of Socialism.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Paperback edition. (communism) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair to Good. 127 pages. Small piece of the front cover stripped off and covered with clear tape. Size: 4.25 x 7. Socialism.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Communism, Socialism) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Trade paperback with minor edge wear. Interior has (foxing) yellowed from age, although appears unread. Interior is clean and unmarked.

PAPERBACK. Reprint. 132pp, octavo. cover wear and light soiling, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good-.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Rilegato. Condition: fine. English Text.New York, 1955; bound, pp. 128, cm 14,5x21. Libro.

HC with DJ. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDDUST JACKET HAS VISUAL WEAR, DJ ISTORN ON SOME CORNERS,PAGES ARE CLEAN, HARDCOVER IS CLEAN, PROMPT SHIPPING WITH TRACKING EMAIL FOR MORE INFO.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. 1955. Second printing of the first edition. 127pp. plus a 1-page list of recommended books. Max Forrester Eastman (1883-1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy, and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. While residing in the Soviet Union from the fall of 1922 to the summer of 1924, Eastman was influenced by the power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and the events leading to Stalin's eventual seizure of power. As a result of the Great Purge and the Soviet Union's totalitarianism, he became highly critical first of Stalinism and then of communism and socialism in general, and he became an advocate of free market economics and anti-communism. In this book he puts forward a carefully reasoned case against Marxian and Fabian Socialist ideologies. He shows why Socialist societies have always failed, and explains why political liberty depends upon a democratic competitive market and the price system. The book is bound in the original blue boards with silver titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean and the author has inscribed and signed the front free endpaper thus: "Greetings to Anne Johnson from Max Eastman - February 1956". The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling and the spine is slightly sunned. Pieces of up to about 1" are missing from around the top of the spine and top edge and about 1/4" is missing from the bottom of the spine. The bottom edge is creased and chipped and both fore edges have holes and tears. There are also tears of up to about 1" on the top and bottom edges and most of the tears on the top, bottom and fore edges have been repaired on the reverse with tape. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. dj w/lite wear only, clipped price, in mylar; navy c w/gilt spine titles; 127 clean, unmarked pages, lite toning of end papers.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: good. Name written on the front flyleaf page. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. The pages appear aged but unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shay. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1955 Devin, Adair hard cover - 1st edition 1st printing - some wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some foxing to closed page edge - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Date on title page. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Near fine hardback in very good plus, if not near fine dust jacket ($2.75). Age-toning to leaves, to front and rear paste-downs, and to front and rear free endpapers. Dust jacket has transparent adhesive tape (6.5 inch by 3/4 inch) along interior of top edge at spine that is not externally visible; wear/hairline creases/closed tears to 3/4 inch band along top edge of rear panel; minor, if not trivial wear to bottom edge of front panel; and minor, if not trivial foxing to interior. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket, primarily shelf wear/rubbing to dust jacket and discoloration to top 1/2 inch of rear cover of book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Printing. 127 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Page edges are lightly darkened and smudged. Bound in blue hardcovers with silver titles on the spine. Lightly worn and faded around the edges. Beige dustjacket in fair condition with red and black titles. Heavily worn around the edges with large chips and tears. Jacket is smudged and creased. 2nd printing. NPC. VG/FAIR. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Max Eastman was a Renaissance man, a novelist and poet and orator who also wrote on literature and philosophy, but he was probably best known as a political radical who later became a champion of conservatism with writings such as this one, "Reflections on the Failure of Socialism." He started editing the magazine "The Masses" in 1912. "The Masses" was broadly allied with the cause of socialism and more specifically allied with the International Workers of the World. It was one of likely very few publications ever to be outright banned by the government, in this case because of its opposition to American participation in World War I. Which didn't stop Eastman: he and his sister, Crystal Eastman, soon launched another, similar publication, "The Liberator," which also had an outsized influence due to the artistic and literary talent it drew. That influence is probably why Eastman was invited to travel to the Soviet Union in 1922. Unlike many other leftists who made similar trips, Eastman's visit wasn't a flyby. He stayed for two years, learned Russian, and became friends with Leon Trotsky, whose works he translated. Also unlike many of those other American leftists, he turned against Soviet Communism very quickly and starting writing about its dangers as soon as 1925. Being against Communism as it stood in the U.S.S.R. wasn't the same thing as becoming completely conservative, however. That was a gradual process. "Reflections on the Failure of Socialism" wasn't written until 1955. Even then, Eastman stayed an independent thinker. Though he supported Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities at first, he soon diverged with them, and he publicly opposed America's involvement in the Vietnam war. But "Reflections on the Failure of Socialism" marked a major public turning point in his public position and is still in print, and is still highly regarded by conservative thinkers. Our copy of the book is listed on the copyright page as a second printing in the same year as its first printing, 1955. The book itself is in amazingly good condition; the book jacket less so. The only flaws to be seen in the book itself are the signature of a previous owner on the pastedown of the inside front cover and the original price written in the top right corner of the front flyleaf. Otherwise, there are no markings on any of the pages, nor any tears, folds, or creases. The text block itself is tight and square with no missing or loose pages. The covers are in pristine condition, with the author and publisher's names and the title stamped in a very bright silver on the spine. The slightest of bumping is visible on the bottom of the spine. An original business reply card to the publisher has been inserted. There is a 3/4-inch closed tear at the bottom front of the dust jacket, and a 1/4-inch closed tear at the bottom rear. The top corners of the dust jacket are chipped, as is the bottom of the spine of the dust jacket. There is also considerable rubbing of the back of the dust jacket. The original price has not been clipped. The dust jacket front and back covers and spine are a consistent cream/off-white cover; it is difficult to tell if that is from age tanning or whether it was purposely colored that way, as every other copy we have seen has the same coloration. See our photos for details.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second printing. 127pp. Spine tail sunned, near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with loss of spine tail, short tears on edges. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco from the author. Arguments against Marxian and Fabian Socialist ideologies.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine with very slight sunning to spine edges in very good+ dust jacket with 2 tears, staining and wear around the edges. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 pp.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 127p. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight, with lightly tanned endpapers. The jacket is rubbed along the edges and has a few small closed tears; the bottom of the spine is chipping off. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper.