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Lawrence & Wishart

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Formed in 1936 by the merger of Martin Lawrence, the Communist Party's publisher, with Wishart Ltd, the family-owned anti-fascist house founded by Ernest Wishart. Its list includes the English-language Marx/Engels Collected Works and the first major English selection of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. It remains active, publishing books and journals.

Years
1936–present
Location
London, United Kingdom
Affiliation
Historically associated with the Communist Party of Great Britain
Languages
English
Preceded by
Martin Lawrence
Website
https://lwbooks.co.uk/
Authority records
Wikidata · VIAF
Sources
Lawrence & Wishart — History; Wikipedia — Lawrence & Wishart

Backlist

79019301950197019902010Founded 19361936: 79 titles1937: 63 titles1938: 30 titles1939: 28 titles1940: 42 titles1941: 68 titles1942: 57 titles1943: 36 titles1944: 23 titles1945: 29 titles1946: 22 titles1947: 31 titles1948: 15 titles1949: 21 titles1950: 28 titles1951: 25 titles1952: 25 titles1953: 29 titles1954: 40 titles1955: 25 titles1956: 37 titles1957: 28 titles1958: 31 titles1959: 29 titles1960: 29 titles1961: 36 titles1962: 21 titles1963: 27 titles1964: 26 titles1965: 22 titles1966: 32 titles1967: 23 titles1968: 39 titles1969: 40 titles1970: 26 titles1971: 25 titles1972: 36 titles1973: 27 titles1974: 26 titles1975: 31 titles1976: 39 titles1977: 45 titles1978: 37 titles1979: 30 titles1980: 37 titles1981: 16 titles1982: 19 titles1983: 22 titles1984: 20 titles1985: 29 titles1986: 30 titles1987: 54 titles1988: 27 titles1989: 22 titles1990: 20 titles1991: 22 titles1992: 18 titles1993: 23 titles1994: 17 titles1995: 22 titles1996: 25 titles1997: 27 titles1998: 27 titles1999: 24 titles2000: 24 titles2001: 33 titles2002: 28 titles2003: 22 titles2004: 25 titles2005: 27 titles2006: 21 titles2007: 25 titles2008: 20 titles2009: 10 titles2010: 10 titles2011: 14 titles2012: 13 titles2013: 18 titles2014: 10 titles2015: 14 titles2016: 13 titles2017: 18 titles2018: 7 titles2019: 4 titles2020: 5 titles2021: 5 titles2022: 3 titles2023: 4 titles2024: 5 titles2025: 4 titles
Titles of Lawrence & Wishart by year: 2,341 dated titles, 1936–2025, most in 1936 (79); 34 undated. Lines mark founded 1936.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1930s200
1940s344
1950s297
1960s295
1970s322
1980s276
1990s225
2000s235
2010s121
2020s26
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1936After the Seizure of Power✓ — 1917-1918
V.I. Lenin Selected Works -- VII
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936American Writers Look Left✓ — Social Conflict as a Theme, with an Appendix on the Position in Britain—English
1936-01-01Britain Without Capitalists✓ — A Study of What Industry in a Soviet Britain Could Achieve—English
1936Chess for Match Players✓William WinterEnglish
1936China's Red Army Marches✓Agnes SmedleyEnglish
1936Class Struggles in France✓Free — 1848-1850
The Marxist-Leninist Library -- Vol.4
Karl MarxEnglish
1936Class Struggles in France (1848-50)✓Karl MarxEnglish
1936Class Struggles in France-Vol-4-FreeMarx CarlEnglish
1936Constitution (Basic Law) of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (Draft)✓Soviet UnionEnglish
1936Constitution (Basic Law) of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (Draft), Published for the Committee of the Congress of Peace and Friendship with the U.S.S.R.✓FreeRussia. ConstitutionEnglish
1936Correspondence, 1846-1895✓ — A Selection with Commentary and Notes
The Marxist-Leninist Library -- Vol.9
Karl MarxEnglish
1936Country Conditions✓Valentine AcklandEnglish
1936Dawn over Samarkand✓ — The Rebirth of Central AsiaJoshua KunitzEnglish
1936Dialectics✓ — The Logic of Marxism, and Its Critics--an Essay in ExplorationT. A. JacksonEnglish
1936Easter Week✓Brian O'NeillEnglish
1936Easter: 1916✓
Literature Online - Twentieth Century Drama
Montagu SlaterEnglish
1936France Faces the Future✓Ralph FoxEnglish
1936From the Bourgeois Revolution to Proletarian Revolution✓
Selected Works / Nikolaj Lenin; Vol. 6
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1936From the Bourgeois Revolution to the Proletarian Revolution✓ — 1917
V.I. Lenin Selected Works -- VI
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936Gas Attacks✓ — Is There Any Protection?Socialist Medical AssociationEnglish
1936Germany: Revolution and Counter-revolution✓ — With a Pref. And Appendices
The Marxist-Leninist Library; 6
Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1936Good-Bye, Twilight✓ — Songs of the Struggle in IrelandLeslie H. DaikenEnglish
1936Herr Eugen Du Hring's Revolution in Science (Anti-Du Hring)✓
The Marxist-Leninist Library -- Vol.1
Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1936Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science (Anti-Dühring)Free
The Marxist-Leninist Library, v. 1
Friedrich Engels & C. P. (Clemens Palme) DuttEnglish
1936Hitler and the Empire✓James TurnerEnglish
1936I Search for Truth in Citrine✓ — A Reply to Sir WalterPat SloanEnglish
1936Imperialism and Imperialist War✓ — (1914-1917)
Selected Works / Nikolaj Lenin; Vol. 5
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1936Japan at the Crossroads✓Walter SmithEnglish
1936Letters to Dr. Kugelmann✓Free
Marxist-Leninist Library -- 3
Karl MarxEnglish
1936Marx, Engels, Marxism✓Free — A Collection of Articles
Marxist Library
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936Marxism and the National and Colonial Question✓Free — A Collection of Articles and Speeches
The Marxist-Leninist Library; 12
Joseph StalinEnglish
1936May Day✓John SommerfieldEnglish
1936Men, Medicine and Food in the U.S.S.R.✓Frederick Le Gros ClarkEnglish
1936Men, Medicine and Food in the USSR✓Frederick Le Gros Clark & Lucy Noel BrintonEnglish
1936New Writing✓—English
1936Poems✓Ronald Procter HewettEnglish
1936Poems of Strife✓Julius LiptonEnglish
1936Political Economy✓Free — A Beginner's CourseA. LeontievEnglish
1936Proletarian Literature in the United States✓ — An AnthologyGranville Hicks & Joseph FreemanNot recorded
1936Reporter in Spain✓Claud CockburnEnglish
1936Revolt on the Clyde✓Free — An Autobiography
A Worker's Library
William GallacherEnglish
1936Rulers of America✓Free — A Study of Finance CapitalAnna RochesterEnglish
1936Scenes from Soviet Life✓W. P. CoatesEnglish
1936Selected Works✓Free — In Twelve VolumesVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936SELECTED WORKS. FROM THE BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION TO THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 1917. VOL VI by v. I. LENINVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936Social Care of Motherhood✓—English
1936Soviet Union 1936✓ — Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich, Orjonikidze, Mikoyan, Mezhlauk, Tukhachevsky, Grinko, Yakovlev, Kossarev, Chernov, Lyubimov, Sulimov, Lyubchenko, Stakhanov, Busygin, Smetanin, Krivonoss, VinogradovaA. FinebergEnglish
1936Spain✓ — The Visit of the All-Party Group of Members of Parliament to Spain: Report—English
1936State Planning Commission of the U. S. S. R✓ — The Second Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the U. S. S. R. (1933-1937)—Not recorded
1936-01-01The Ascent of Mount Stalin✓ — Romm, Michail [Davidovič]; by Michael Romm. Transl. By Alec BrownMi khai l Davi dovi ch RommEnglish
1936The Ascent of Mount Stalin, by Michael Romm, Translated by Alec Brown✓Michael RommEnglish
1936The Coming World War✓Thomas Henry WintringhamEnglish
1936The Coolie✓Mulk Raj AnandEnglish
1936The Dictatorship of the Proletariat✓
Readings in Leninism -- 3
—English
1936The Enchanted Fishes and Other Stories✓
Little Leopard Books -- No.2
Frederick Le Gros ClarkEnglish
1936The Housing Question✓Free
The Marxist-Leninist Library -- 7
Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1936The Negro Question in the United States✓James S. AllenEnglish
1936The New Democracy✓ — Stalin's Speech on the New ConstitutionJosif Vissarionovič Stalin & FriendsNot recorded
1936-01-01The October Revolution✓Free — A Collection of Articles & Speeches
Marxist-Leninist Library -- Vol.11
Joseph StalinEnglish
1936The Prerequisites of the First Russian Revolution (1894-1899)✓
Selected Works / Nikolaj Lenin; Vol. 1
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1936The Revolution of 1905-1907✓
V.I. Lenin Selected Works -- 3
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936The Second Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the U.S.S.R. (1933-1937)✓ — With a Foreword "Fulfilment of the Second Five-Year Plan During 1933-35" by V.I. MezhlaukSowjetunionEnglish
1936The Second Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the USSR✓ — (1933 - 1937)Valerij I. Mežlauk & SowjetunionEnglish
1936The Soviet Union and the Path of Peace✓ — Lenin--Stalin--Molotov--Voroshilov--Litvinow--Tukhachevsky (a Collection of Statements and Documents, 1917-1936)Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936The Soviet Union and the path to peace✓ — Lenin - Stalin - Molotov - Voroshilov - Litvinov - Tukhachevsky. (A collection of statements and documents 1917 - 1936)—Russian
1936The Soviet Union and the Path to Peace✓ — Lenin, Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Litvinov, Tukhachevsky; (a Collection of Statements and Documents 1917 - 1936)—English
1936The Struggle for the Bolshevik Party✓
V.I. Lenin Selected Works -- II
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936The Struggle for the Bolshevik Party (1900-1904)✓
Selected Works / Nikolaj Lenin; Vol. 2
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1936The Visit of an All-Party Group of Members of Parliament to Spain (November 1936)✓ — Report—English
1936The Years or Reaction and of the New Revival (1908-1914)✓
Selected Works / Nikolaj Lenin; Vol. 4
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1936They Followed the Leader✓ — A Cautionary Tale in PicturesStuart BoyleEnglish
1936Three Ways of Modern Man✓Harry SlochowerEnglish
1936Tom Mann✓Dona TorrEnglish
1936Twenty Drawings by Felicia Browne✓ — Killed in Defence of the Spanish RepublicFelicia Dorothea Browne HemansEnglish
1936Unemployed Struggles, 1919-1936, My Life and Struggles Amongst the Unemployed✓
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
Wal HanningtonEnglish
1936Unemployed Struggles, 1919-1936, My Life and Struggles Amongst the Unemployed Wal. Hannington — With Forty-Two IllustrationsWal HanningtonEnglish
1936V. I. Lenin✓Free — Selected WorksVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1936War Scandals✓FreeCameronian of "Reynolds."English
1936When Japan Goes to War✓O. TaninEnglish
1937... After the Seizure of Power (1917-1918)✓
Lenin Selected Works; V.I
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1937After the Seizure of the Power (1917-1918)✓
Selected Works / Nikolaj Lenin; Vol. 7
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1937Aristocrats✓ — A Comedy in Four ActsNikolaĭ PogodinEnglish
1937Change the World!✓FreeMichael GoldEnglish
1937Charles Dickens✓ — The Progress of a RadicalT. A. JacksonEnglish
1937Crisis and Criticism✓Alick WestEnglish
1937Crisis and Criticism, by Alick West✓Alick WestEnglish
1937Cwmardy✓ — The Story of a Welsh Mining ValleyLewis JonesEnglish
1937Diderot, Interpreter of Nature✓Free — Selected WritingsDenis DiderotEnglish
1937Electric Power Development in the U.S.S.R✓ — A Collective Study Prepared Under the Guidance of Benjamin I. WeitzBenjamin I. WeitzEnglish
1937Electric Power Development in the USSR✓ — A Collective StudyBenjamin I. WeitzEnglish
1937Four Soviet Plays✓—English
1937From Bryan to Stalin✓Free — A First Hand Narrative and a Basic Book for the Understanding of the American Labour MovementWilliam Zebulon FosterNot recorded
1937History of Anarchism in Russia✓E. E. YaroslavskiiEnglish
1937Hitler and the Empire✓ — Turner, James [D.i. Jürgen Kuczynski]; Forew. By L. E. O. CharltonJürgen Kuczynski & L. E. O. CharltonNot recorded
1937Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism✓Free — A Popular OutlineVladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1937Labour Conditions in Western Europe, 1820-1935✓Jürgen KuczynskiEnglish
1937Labour Conditions in Western Europe,1820 to 1935✓Jürgen KuczynskiEnglish
1937Manifesto of the Communist Party✓FreeKarl MarxEnglish
1937Missing from Home, by Geoffrey Trease✓Geoffrey TreaseEnglish
1937Money Behind the Screen✓Free — A Report Prepared on Behalf of the Film CouncilF. D. KlingenderEnglish
1937New Economic Policy✓ — Socialist Construction
V.I. Lenin Selected Works -- IX
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1937New Fashions in Wage Theory✓ — Keynes--Robinson--Hicks--RueffJürgen KuczynskiEnglish
1937New Way Wins✓ — The Play from 'Stay Down Miner'Montagu SlaterEnglish
1937New Way Wins: The Play from Stay Down Miner by Montagu Slater✓
Literature Online - Twentieth Century Drama
Montagu SlaterEnglish
1937New Writing 3✓ — Spring 1937—English
1937Portugal Now✓Ralph FoxEnglish
1937Portugal Now, by Ralph Fox✓Ralph FoxEnglish
1937-01-01Ralph Fox✓ — A Writer in ArmsRalph Winston FoxEnglish
1937Reporter in Spain✓Claud Cockburn & Ralph BatesEnglish
1937Russia - With Open Eyes✓Paul WintertonEnglish
1937Selected Works✓Free — In 12 VolumesVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1937Selected Works in Twelve Volumes✓Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1937Somersaults and Strange Company, by 'Edith'✓Pseud 'Edith'English
1937Soviet Union 1936✓A. FinebergNot recorded
1937Spain✓ — The Visit of an All-Party Group of Members of Parliament to Spain: ReportF. Seymour CocksEnglish
1937Spain Illustrated✓ — A Year's Defence of Democracy: New Pictures, New Articles, New Information—English
1937The "Peoples Front" in the United States✓Earl BrowderEnglish
1937The British Communist Party✓ — A Short HistoryThomas BellEnglish
1937The Civil War in France✓Free
The Marxist-Leninist Library; Vol. 5
Karl Marx & Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1937The First American Revolution✓Jack HardyEnglish
1937The History of Civil War in the U. S. S. R.✓Istoriia graphdanskoĭ voiry v SSR. EnglishEnglish
1937The History of the Civil War in the U. S. S. R.✓FreeMaksim Gorkii (Максим Горький)English
1937The History of the Civil War in the USSR✓M. Gorky & V. MolotovNot recorded
1937The Last Plays of Maxim Gorki✓Maksim Gorky (Максим Горький)English
1937The Novel and the People✓Ralph FoxEnglish
1937The People's Front✓Earl BrowderEnglish
1937The People's Front in the United States✓Earl BrowderEnglish
1937The Period of War Communism✓ — 1918-1920
V.I. Lenin Selected Works -- VIII
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1937The Prelude of the Great Proletarian Revolution — From the Beginning of the War to the Beginning of October 1917
The History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R.
Maksim GorʹkiĭEnglish
1937The Revolution of 1905✓Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1937The Second Five-Year Plan for the National Economy of the U.S.S.R. (1933-1937)✓Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. GosplanEnglish
1937The Tranquil Heart✓ — Portrait of Giovanni BoccaccioCatherine CarswellEnglish
1937The Writer in a Changing World✓Henry HartEnglish
1937Trojan Horse✓Paul Nizan & Charles AshleighEnglish
1937Twenty Years After✓ — Life in the USSR TodayHubert LeeEnglish
1937Two Leaves and a Bud✓FreeMulk Raj AnandEnglish
1937Volunteer in Spain✓John SommerfieldEnglish
1937Volunteer in Spain John SommerfieldJohn SommerfieldEnglish
1937Wage-Labour and Capital✓FreeKarl MarxEnglish
1937Where Is That Bomb?✓ — A Comedy in Two ActsHerbert A. HodgesEnglish
1937Where's That Bomb?✓ — A Comedy in Two ActsRoger GullanEnglish
1937Women Who Work✓Joan BeauchampEnglish
1938A People's History of England✓Arthur Leslie MortonEnglish
1938Biology and Marxism✓Marcel PrenantEnglish
1938Britain's labour movement✓ — A four lesson study syllabus—Not recorded
1938Critique of the Gotha Programme✓Free
The Marxist-Leninist Library; 15
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilʹič Lenin & C. P. DuttEnglish
1938Dolores Ibarruri✓ — Speeches & Articles, 1936-1938Dolores IbárruriEnglish
1938Engels on Capital✓ — Synopsis, Reviews, Letters, and Supplementary MaterialsFriedrich EngelsEnglish
1938History of the South Wales Miners' Federation✓ — Volume I
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
Ness EdwardsEnglish
1938History of the South Wales Miners' Federation, by Ness Edwards✓Ness EdwardsEnglish
1938History of the South Wales Miners' Federation, Volume 1✓
British Trade Union History Collection -- 133
Ness EdwardsEnglish
1938-01-01Hunger and Work✓ — Statistical StudiesJürgen KuczynskiEnglish
1938New Data for v. I. Lenin's "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism," Edited by E. Varga [and] L. Mendelsohn✓Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1938New Data for v. I. Lenin's "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism"✓ — Lenin, [N.]Evgenij S. Varga & Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1938On Capital✓ — Synopsis, Reviews, Letters and Supplementary Material
The Marxist-Leninist Library; Vol. 16
Friedrich Engels & Leonard E. MinsEnglish
1938Questions & Answers on Communism✓J. R. CampbellEnglish
1938Selected Works✓Free — In 12 VolumesVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1938Son of the People✓Maurice ThorezEnglish
1938Son of the People, Translated by Douglas Garman, with an Introduction by Harry Pollitt✓Maurice ThorezEnglish
1938Speeches & Articles, 1936-1938✓Dolores IbárruriEnglish
1938Speeches and Articles 1936-1938✓Dolores IbárruriEnglish
1938The Civil War in the United States✓FreeKarl MarxEnglish
1938The Communist International✓
Selected Works / Nikolaj Lenin; Vol. 10
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1938The German Ideology✓Free — Parts I & IIIKarl MarxEnglish
1938The German Ideology Parts 1 & 3R. PascalEnglish
1938The Modern Quarterly✓Jürgen KuczynskiEnglish
1938The People's Front in the United States✓Earl BrowderEnglish
1938The Plot Against the Soviet Union and World Peace✓ — Facts and DocumentsBoris Nikolaevich PonomarevEnglish
1938The Russian Revolution✓ — Writings and Speeches from the February Revolution to the October Revolution, 1917Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1938The United Front✓ — The Struggle Against Fascism and WarGeorgi DimitrovEnglish
1938Theory of the Agrarian Question✓
V.I. Lenin Selected Works -- XII
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1938Trotskyism in the Service of Franco✓ — Facts and Documents on the Activities of POUMGeorges SoriaEnglish
1939A Handbook of English Democracy✓ — A Record of English Democracy Through Twelve CenturiesJack LindsayEnglish
1939A Handbook of Freedom✓ — A Record of English Democracy Through Twelve CenturiesJack LindsayEnglish
1939A Text Book of Dialectical Materialism✓
The Marxist Textbook Series -- 1
David GuestEnglish
1939A Textbook of Dialectical Materialism✓David GuestEnglish
1939-01-01Against Aggression✓ — SpeechesMaxim Litvinov (Максим Максимович Литвинов)English
1939Britain Without Capitalists✓ — A Study of What Industry in a Soviet Britain Could Achieve—English
1939Britons in Spain✓ — The History of the British Battalion of the XVth International BrigadeWilliam RustEnglish
1939Collected articles✓
Guest, David [sachl. OW]. - David Guest. (S. 207 - 256.)
David GuestNot recorded
1939Culture and the People✓FreeMaksim Gorky (Максим Горький)English
1939David Guest✓ — A Scientist Fights for Freedom (1911 - 1938); a MemoirCarmel Haden GuestEnglish
1939Founding of the First International (September-November 1864)✓ — A Documentary Record
Mark-Engels-Lenin Institute: Moscow
First InternationalEnglish
1939Manifesto of the Communist Party✓FreeKarl Marx & Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1939On the History of the Bolshevik Organizations in Transcaucasia✓ — Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Party Functionaries, July 21-22, 1935Lavrentii Pavlovich BeriyaEnglish
1939-01-01Revolution in Spain✓ — By Karl Marx and Frederick EngelsKarl MarxEnglish
1939Science and Everyday Life✓FreeJohn Burdon Sanderson HaldaneEnglish
1939Selected Works✓Free — In Twelve VolumesVladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1939The German Ideology, Parts 1 & 3✓
The Marxist-Leninist Library; Vol. 17
Karl Marx & Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1939The Modern Quarterly✓Jürgen KuczynskiEnglish
1939-01-01The Real Rulers of Germany✓Albert NordenEnglish
1939The Theoretical Principles of Marxism
V.I. Lenin Selected Works, v. 11
Vladimir Ilʹich LeninEnglish
1939The Theoretical Principles of Marxisme✓
Selected Works; Volume XI
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1939Theory of the Agrarian Question✓
Selected Works; Volume XII
Vladimir Ilʹič LeninEnglish
1939Three Ways of Modern Man✓Harry SlochowerEnglish
1939Two Systems✓Free — Socialist Economy and Capitalist EconomyEugène VargaEnglish
1939We Live✓ — The Story of a Welsh Mining Valley
A Workers' Library
Lewis JonesEnglish
1939What Is Philosophy?✓Free — A Marxist IntroductionHoward SelsamEnglish
1939Why I Am a Democrat✓ — A SymposiumRichard Sir AclandEnglish
1939World Affairs and the U.S.S.R.✓ — By W[illiam] P[eyton] & Zelda [Kahan-] CoatesW. P. CoatesEnglish