Fabian from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: Grant Richards, 1900. First Edition. First impression. Edition of 4000 copies. 12mo (18cm). Printed blue wrappers; 101pp. Mild crease and a small chip to front wrapper; internally quite fresh, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. The Fabian Society's Manifesto for the 1900 elections. Shaw's role as editor is clarified in Laurence, quoting Pease History of… Read more about this item

London: Max Reinhardt, 1970-74. First Thus. Seven small octavo volumes. Uniform red cloth; dustjackets; deep red top-stain; 803,1051,913,1019,807,991,854pp. First printings; uniformly fine, in lightly aged dustwrappers. Neat ownership signature and engraved bookplate of James G. Mead to each volume.

London: The Fabian Society, 1884-1905. Thick octavo. Publisher's brown buckram, gilt; variously paginated, with individual titles ranging from 2pp to 50pp. Tight and straight, with scattered foxing to contents; Very Good. The Society issued bound collections of its tracts more or less annually, compiling whichever titles were still in-print or on-hand as remainders. Contents of the annual… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket; vii,[1],263,[1],4pp. Jacket spine a bit toned, a hint of shelf wear and dust-soil else Very Good or better. A superlative copy. A late but important cumulative sociological survey ranging "from Trade Unions and Co-operative Societies, through Parish Vestries to Municipal Councils up… Read more about this item

London: G. Bell & Sons, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue-grey cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xviii,267pp. Boards a bit scuffed and generally dusty, spine gilt a bit dull, else Near Very Good and sound. By a member of the Fabian Society.

London: Fabian Society, 1969. Revised Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 40pp. Near Fine. Revised edition of a pamphlet first issued in 1967, being the selected proceedings of a 1967 Fabian Society conference titled "Policies For Racial Equality," with contributions by Eric Butterworth, Roger Bell, Jack Jones, Dipak Nandy, Peter Townsend, others.

London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1907. First Edition. 12mo. Cloth-backed boards; xv, 205,[2]pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, lacking dustwrapper. Presumed remainder issue, with the Swann Sonnenschein sheets in a binding which bears the Allen & Unwin slug at base of spine. Fresh copy of this pioneering work on child welfare by the noted Fabian socialist.

[London: Fabian Society, 1966]. Reprint. March 1970 reprint. Octavo (21.5cm.); original magenta pictorial staplebound wrappers; 27pp.; tables throughout, text in double columns. Fabian membership form laid in. Fine. Young Fabian Pamphlet no. 11. Among the members of the study group was the developmenta economist Frances Stewart (described inside rear wrapper verso as "a part time economist.

New York: John Lane, 1910. First American Edition. 12mo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on front cover; 59pp; frontis. portrait. Sunning to spine; small spot at base of front board; gift inscription; mild foxing to endpapers; Very Good. Shaw's reply to an anti-Socialist letter to the London Times by the British novelist and economist William Hurrell Mallock. … Read more about this item

London: The Fabian Society, 1933. Second Printing. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 23pp. Light soil to wrapper edges, bit of staple rust; internally clean and unmarked.

London: Cecil Palmer and Hayward. 12mo. n.d. (1912?). Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 31pp. Fresh, uncirculated copy; about Fine.

London: The Fabian Society, 1928. Original Wraps. Very Good Plus. Second Printing. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Negligible soil to cover edges, else about fine.