Beschreibung
First edition - Victor Gollancz Left Book Club edition - 'not for sale to the public.' With 21 illustrations within the text. Loosely inserted is an original Left Book Club publicity and membership leaflet [please see scans] ***A very good copy in the standard LBC salmon-pink paper-covered thin boards, with black titles. The covers are quite clean with just some light marks and rubbing commensurate with age and handling. There are no significant creases or tears - just some slight creasing at the head of the spine. Corners and edges slightly worn and rubbed. The fragile paper covering is slightly faded on the spine, but the spine is tight with no tears. Some darkening to the top edge of the page block. Internally the book is very good with no inscriptions, just an original owner's ink stamp 'Cosker' on the front free endpaper. The pages are clean, with none of the usual foxing to the preliminary and last pages. No creases or tears. The paper stock has tanned over the decades due to the cheap paper stock that Victor Gollancz publications were noted for. No dustwrapper as issued. ***384 pages including "Important foreword written on November second, 1939", preface and epilogue. 190mm x 130mm. ***Contents: Important Foreword, Acknowledgments and Thanks, Preface. BOOK I - APOLOGY AND EXCUSE, BOOK II - THE SOVIET BLUE-PRINTS THE NEW SOCIETY, BOOK III - THE SOCIALIST SIXTH OF THE WORLD, BOOK IV - THE GREATEST GOOD OF THE GREATEST NUMBER, BOOK V - THE PLAN AND THE PEOPLES, BOOK VI - MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL HORIZONS. ***'The author was an English clergyman, Dean of Manchester and later Dean of Canterbury, where he acquired his nickname The Red Dean of Canterbury for his unyielding support for the Soviet Union and its allies. Johnson came to public prominence in the 1930s when he contrasted the economic development of the Soviet Union under the First Five Year Plan with Britain during the Great Depression. He toured the Soviet Union in 1934 and again in 1937, claiming on each occasion the health and wealth of the average Soviet citizen and that the Soviet system protected the citizens' liberties. The author collected his articles in this book'. ***'I regret that this book was not written and published six months earlier. Had that been the case I might have hoped that it would perhaps have served some part, however small, in helping our own country to understand Russia, and, by understanding, to have brought nearer the possibility of Anglo-Russian friendship. With Russian friendship, consummated in a pact for collective security, we should now be spared the terrible tragedy that confronts us. It was, however, not to be. Greater forces were fashioning our destiny. And yet the need for Anglo-Soviet co-operation is not less but far greater today. And it is with that aim that I offer this book to the British public now, in the hope that it may help to shorten the bitterness and suffering which the war is bound to bring.' [Taken from the author's special foreword] ***A first edition published by Victor Gollancz in a Left Book Club edition, in very good original condition. These books were mass-produced using quite cheap materials, and few of them have survived in collectable condition. With additional interesting LBC ephemera. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8234
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: THE SOCIALIST SIXTH OF THE WORLD [Left Book ...
Verlag: Victor Gollancz Ltd. / Left Book Club, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1939
Einband: Hardcover
Illustrator: Nowell Mary Hewlett Johnson
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued
Auflage: First UK Edition
