intro william peck (2 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Paperback, 237 pp, foreword Michael Kan, index of names; color plates of individual works with text opposite; square 4to, color illustrated wraps, near fine.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Salmon wraps, lettered in black. 24 pp. Bottom corner crease through text and to back cover, library call number inked on main title, otherwise unmarked. Binding neatly reinforced with tan cloth tape, possibly not original to issue. Morris was of course most notably a poet, essayist, fantasist, and founder of the Arts & Crafts Movement; perhaps less well-known were his political activities, which contributed to the gradual acceptance of socialism in Great Britain in the late 19th century. This pamphlet appears to be the first American publication of his "Chants for Socialists," usually said to have been first issued in 1885 though actually dating in a variant form to two years earlier. As such, exceedingly scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.