The Virtual Stoa

(The rest of you won’t be interested.)

The books we bought at Bolerium finally arrived in the M-bag:

* The History of the Haymarket Affair, by Henry David (New York: Russell & Russell, 2d edition)

* The Savage Mind, by Claude Levi-Strauss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966; first American edition; every home should have one.)

* History of Greece, by J. B. Bury (London: Macmillan: 3d ed, revised by Russell Meiggs, 1963)

* Love’s Coming of Age: a series of papers on the relations of the sexes, by Edward Carpenter (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1911; first American edition; first published in England, 1896)

* Harold J. Laski on the Communist Manifesto (New York: Vintage Books, 1967: this is an American edition of the 1948 centenary edition of the Manifesto which the Labour Party published in Britain, with Laski’s hundred-page introduction)

* The Marx-Engels Register, by Hal Draper (New York: Schocken Books, 1985)

* Towards Socialism, eds. Perry Anderson and Robin Blackburn (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966)

* The Sociological Imagination, by C. Wright Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 1959; I suppose this is the first edition, though I may be wrong; every home should have one of these, too)

* The Realization and Suppression of the Situationist International: An Annotated Bibliography, 1972-1992, by Simon Ford (Edinburgh: AK Press, 1995)

* Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, by Edward Carpenter (New York: George Allen, 1912; twelfth edition)

* Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship, ed. Edward Carpenter (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916; you may by now be detecting an Edward Carpenter theme)

* The Intermediate Sex: a study of some transitional types of men and women, by Edward Carpenter (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912; I think this is probably the first US edition)

* Thomas More and his Utopia, by Karl Kautsky (London: ILP Publication Department, 1927: no idea whether this is any good or not, but it looked interesting)

* Russian Thinkers, by Isaiah Berlin (New York: Viking Press, 1978)

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