Why You should be a Socialist: A Terse Guide to such Questions as: What causes unemployment? What makes booms and slumps? What causes war? What is capitalism? What is socialism. by STRACHEY. John - 1938

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1944. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped Jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Victor Gollancz, 1944. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1944. 96 pages. Yellow jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Boards are bowed. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Jacket is tanned all over.

Victor Gollancz, 1944-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). First Edition. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. Cloth. G to Vg/Good. bound in blue cloth, with unclipped dw, 96pp. Advertisement on dw claims the book to be a "true guide ti such questions as, "What causes unemployment ?", "What causes war ?", "What makes booms and slumps ?", "What is socialism ?", and, "What is capitalism ?" ".DW has faint marks.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1944, . Hard bound, first edition, 96pp. Covers faded else very good/-- (no dust jacket).. 105 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. Hard bound, a completely revised and up-to-date edition, 96pp. Front hinge starting else very good in slightly edge torn, near very good, scarce dust jacket. 130 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

London, UK: Victor Gollancz, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 96pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; black titles on spine. 12mo. Sun-faded where there is dust jacket loss, lightly rubbed bottom corners and spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Paper dust jacket in two parts, sun-faded, spotting, has loss at spine ends and bottom corner, closed tears, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage

UK: Victor Gollancz, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. H/B 96 pages, condition is very good, no DJ. A presentation label to the reverse of the front board.

London: Victor Gollancz , 1944. Hardcover. Good. Optimistic entreaty for socialism in britain. Some mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Good.

96 pages.
Original printed wrapper. Centre fold of wrapper split at the bottom. Cover a little soiled and with age-toning. Pages age-toned. Text clean and unmarked.
At the height of the pre-war debate about combatting fascism, following the early 1930s slump and growth in mass unemployment and poverty a "terse guide" promoting the cause of socialism.

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