Pritt (D.N.)
Federal Illusion?
An Examination of the Proposals for Federal Union.
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FIRST EDITION,
pp. 152, foolscap 8vo,
original black cloth, red lettering to backstrip, a touch of rubbing to extremities, light browning to edges, free endpapers browned, very good
Publication Details:
Frederick Muller, 1940
Notes: Inscribed by the author to 'a very good publisher', Edmund Penning-Rowsell, who worked for Muller's and after leaving publishing became a noted wine critic and writer for the Financial Times and Marxism Today. Two letters to the same are laid in, one typed and one autograph: the first, in the year of publication, concerns the book and its promotion; the second, from a few years later, bemoans Penning-Rowsell's conscription ('One ought to be glad, but I still have so little faith in their putting men to really useful work'). Pritt was a notable socialist of the day and Labour MP for Hammersmith...moreInscribed by the author to 'a very good publisher', Edmund Penning-Rowsell, who worked for Muller's and after leaving publishing became a noted wine critic and writer for the Financial Times and Marxism Today. Two letters to the same are laid in, one typed and one autograph: the first, in the year of publication, concerns the book and its promotion; the second, from a few years later, bemoans Penning-Rowsell's conscription ('One ought to be glad, but I still have so little faith in their putting men to really useful work'). Pritt was a notable socialist of the day and Labour MP for Hammersmith North between 1935 and 1940; in the latter year, wherein the present work was published, he was expelled from the party for his pro-Soviet views; he was never re-admitted, but continued as an independent MP until 1950. The discursive mood of 'Federal Illusion?' is that of a critical moment; it begins by declaring that 'There is in Britain, except among the most thoughtless, a feeling of catastrophe', and proceeds to a discussion of the Federal Union as a means of achieving 'permanent peace' - finding in the work of W.B. Curry, which has prompted Pritt's response, problematic in part for its exclusion of the U.S.S.R., and citing the work of the Webbs in his claim that it represents a 'better democracy'. HIDE
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Price: £100
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1940
Stock Number: 71736
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