John Reed — Ten Days That Shook the World

New York, Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this significant historical volume on the October Revolution by prominent communist journalist John Reed. First edition.In publisher's original green cloth binding.Illustrated with colour-illustrated endpapers and sixteen monochrome plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Lenine drawn by Clive Weed. Collated, complete.Significant historical volume on the Russian October Revolution of 1917 by prominent American journalist John Reed. For most of his life Reed was an open supporter of Communism. Following his death one year after the publication of this work, he became one of only five Americans to be buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. In publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing and a few marks. Internally, generally firmly bound with a few moments of tension, namely between pages 72 and 73, 168 and 169 and 312 and 313. Bright and clean with the exception of light spotting concentrated towards the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Clive Weed. Very Good .