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Blood & Coal
by Henry George III
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine, trace edge wear to boards, light foxing to end papers, minor abrasion to top of text block, previous owner inscriptio/Very Good pictorial jacket, fading to spine, light edgewear, soiling, rubbing. All material present.
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1950. First Edition. 12mo, red boards with gilt stamped lettering to front and spine, 232 pp. Near Fine, trace edge wear to boards, light foxing to end papers, minor abrasion to top of text block, previous owner inscription to FFEP./Very Good pictorial jacket, fading to spine, light edgewear, soiling, rubbing. All material present.. Grandson of the famed political theorist and economist Henry George, Henry George III set out to write a novel on the dangerous labor condition of coal miners in the Eastern U.S., inspired by the particular plight of labor as it relates to the political ideas of his grandfather, where a single land tax (and that land's natural resources) alone could suffice to subsidize and sustain a just and equal society. Blood & Coal is his attempt to illuminate the injustice of the working conditions of miners as well as their relation to the capital and value being extracted through their exploitation. Scarce as is, especially so in a presentable jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 500
- Title
- Blood & Coal
- Author
- Henry George III
- Format/Binding
- 12mo, red boards with gilt stamped lettering to front and spine, 232 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine, trace edge wear to boards, light foxing to end papers, minor abrasion to top of text block, previous owner inscriptio
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good pictorial jacket, fading to spine, light edgewear, soiling, rubbing. All material present.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dorrance & Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Labor, Proletarian, Georgism, Radical, Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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