TLS in German, signed “With best regards, Yours, L. Trotsky,” one page, 8.5 x 11, June 1, 1931. Letter to Comrade Shachtman, in full (translated): "I received a letter from the Fischer publishing house today stating the absolute impossibility of reprinting the first volume, but at the same time suggesting reserving a serial publication of the second volume for the New Yorker Volkszeitung [Peoples' Newspaper]. The publishers are also willing to provide you with the German translation and will I hope be more interesting in workers' circles than the first. The New Yorker Volkszeitung could print a few essays giving a brief resume of the events described in the first volume and then do the serial publication of the second volume. I think this would be a very good solution to the problem. If you agree to this, please write to Dr. Bermann, Fischer Publishers, and express the gratitude he deserves for this cooperation, for I must really say that the Fischer publishing house is really the only decent publisher I know, not excluding the Americans." In fine condition, with light creasing to the upper left corner. Trotsky's three-volume History of the Russian Revolution, translated into English by Max Eastman, was published in 1932.
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