VANDERVELDE, Èmile

Collectivism and Industrial Evolution (Standard Socialist Series)

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1901. First edition. Twelvemo. Publisher's decorative cloth; 199 pp.; photographic frontispiece of the author. With the stamp of 'Wm Bonstein's Library of Science and Socialism' to the endpapers. William Bonstein appears to have been an unimportant Socialist Labor Party candidate in Washington state during the 1904 election. The author was a Belgian statesman and democratic socialist and in this book argues for collectivization as a core attribute of socialist evolution. Cheap paper browning; rear board slightly soiled, but easily a Very Good+ copy. Uncommon in the first edition. Item #02646

Price: $45.00