The Thirty-Six Trades of the State
by [ANARCHISM] ALEXANDRE, Arsène; Benj. R. Tucker, trans
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About This Item
New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1897. First Separate Edition. 12mo (17cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 10pp. Shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, the whole a bit toned and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Publisher's advertisements printed on pp. [11] and [14] (rear wrapper). Satirical short essay by a founding editor of "Le Rire," describing the trades of "The State," from art collector to tapestry weaver, from transportation enterprise to colonialism. Though "The State" is everywhere, it is also nothing, and the essay opens with the description of a man being thrown out of the chamber of deputies, taken for a madman trying to make an appointment with "The State." First published in the original French in "Le Figaro" and translated for publication in Tucker's individualist anarchist magazine "Liberty." See Roger E. Stoddard, "Liberty's Library: Benj. R. Tucker's Imprint, 1875-1912," in "Essays in Honor of William B. Todd" (1991), p. 170. OCLC locates four physical copies in North America as of October, 2019, at Columbia, NYU, Harvard, and U. Michigan.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46472
- Title
- The Thirty-Six Trades of the State
- Author
- [ANARCHISM] ALEXANDRE, Arsène; Benj. R. Tucker, trans
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Separate Edition
- Publisher
- Benj. R. Tucker
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anarchism; France;
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- 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...