Pauperizing the rich: an enquiry into the value and significance of unearned wealth.
London.
Headley Brothers, 1899.
First British edition.
8vo.
xiii, [3], 432pp. With half-title. Original publisher's printed beige cloth. Rubbed and marked, with some loss to text of spine. Spotting to endpapers, very occasional light spotting to text.
The first British edition of New Jersey native Alfred Justice Ferris's (1864-1950) reformist tract, leaning radical at times, seeking to criticise and offer solutions for industrial inequity in contemporary America.
First published the same year in Philadelphia, its aim, laid out in the preface, is to be 'as conservative as the Liberty and Property Defence League and as radical as the Socialists'; an advertisement in the Era Magazine notes the volume's dependence on Henry George's Progress and Poverty (1879), despite its dissimilar conclusions. Nevertheless, Geoffrey A. Schiller, writing for the first issue of The Social Forum magazine, described the study as 'destined...to exert a wide influence over the minds of men'; unfortunately for his conclusions, it appeared the volume had limited reach beyond this single British reissue.
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 34037
First published the same year in Philadelphia, its aim, laid out in the preface, is to be 'as conservative as the Liberty and Property Defence League and as radical as the Socialists'; an advertisement in the Era Magazine notes the volume's dependence on Henry George's Progress and Poverty (1879), despite its dissimilar conclusions. Nevertheless, Geoffrey A. Schiller, writing for the first issue of The Social Forum magazine, described the study as 'destined...to exert a wide influence over the minds of men'; unfortunately for his conclusions, it appeared the volume had limited reach beyond this single British reissue.
