Search Results: Titles starting with W from Respublica Books LLC

New York: Random House, 1959. First Random House edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth decorated in black with gilt lettering and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Creasing to board edges with some rubbing to cloth; minor edgewear and scuffing to dust jacket. Near-fine.. Bright first Random House edition of Ayn Rand's (1905-1982) debut novel about life in post-revolutionary Russia. First published by Random House in 1959 following the commercial success of Rand's 1957 best-seller Atlas Shrugged, We the Living tells the story of Kira Argounova, a fierce and independent spirit who struggles against the collectivism of Soviet Russia during the early 1920s. The novel was first completed in 1934 but, despite H. L. Mencken's support, failed to attract a publisher until 1935 when Macmillan agreed to publish the work. Macmillan's agreement to publish Rand's novel purportedly sparked debate within the publisher's editorial ranks, with certain communist-sympathetic editors objecting to its publication. We the… Read More

New York: The John Day Company, 1954. First edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor wear to dust jacket, else fine.. First edition of James Burnham's (1905-1987) classic review of what various investigating committees had discovered regarding the infiltration of the US government by communist espionage networks. Published on the heels of Whittaker Chambers' Witness (1952)-which recounted Chambers' years as a domestic Soviet spy, his subsequent defection from communism, and his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s-Burnham's The Web of Subversion lucidly narrates the surprising facts and conclusions drawn from the many congressional probes into communist espionage cells, methods, and activities in the US. In a manner reminiscent of his journalistic counterpart, the intrepid John T. Flynn, Burnham set himself the task of distilling from the mountains of investigative materials a clear and coherent accounting of communism's… Read More

Claremont, California: Salvatori Center for the Study of Freedom, Claremont McKenna College, 1988. First edition. Octavo. Stapled wraps, 5.25 x 8.25 inches, 49 pp. Stiff paper wraps with black titling to front wrap. Slightly sunned along spine and rear, minor wrinkling to wraps. Near-fine.. Original issue pamphlet by Harry V. Jaffa (1918-2015) on the question "What is Political Science?," which Jaffa composed in connection with a 1988 debate on the subject hosted by the Salvatori Center for the Study of Freedom at Claremont McKenna College. This uncommon pamphlet sets forth Jaffa's views on the nature and direction of political science and, in particular, how competing views of political science pertain to the mission of the Claremont Graduate School at which he taught. Jaffa was an American political philosopher, historian, writer, and professor of political science, and served as professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University as well as a distinguished fellow of… Read More

New York: Random House, 1952. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Inscribed by Whittaker Chambers on the half-title page: "For Randy and Florence Crosby, with best wishes from Whittaker Chambers." Light rubbing, near-fine in a very good dust jacket that is in uncommonly great condition. A scarce and desirable first printing of this landmark work inscribed by Whittaker Chambers.. First printing of Witness inscribed by Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961). Chambers was an American writer, translator, and editor who, after years acting as a Communist Party member and Soviet spy, defected from the Soviet underground in 1938 and testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1948 about the Ware Group, which ultimately became the "trial of the century" when, from 1949 to 1950, Chambers was called as a witness to testify against Alger Hiss in the infamous Hiss perjury case. Chambers first published Witness in 1952 after the Saturday… Read More

Rare books, documents, correspondence, and ephemera, 1964. Chambers, Whittaker: Witness: New York: Random House, 1952. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original black boards and red top-stain and original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Faint toning to endpapers and spotting and dusting to page block; minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, else near-fine. A bright and exceptional first printing of this notoriously brittle classic. Chambers, Whittaker: Cold Friday: New York: Random House, 1964. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original blue cloth with gold titling to spine and green top-stain and original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Small abrasion to front free endpaper and minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket with small closed tear to top hinge, else near-fine, which is uncommon for this increasingly hard to find book. Chambers, Whittaker: Can You Hear Their Voices? A Short Story: New York: International Pamphlets, 1932. First edition. Stapled pamphlet. 5 x 7 inches, 31… Read More