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Robert Tressell – The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists – First UK Edition 1914 – in the rare dust wrapper

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Robert Tressell – The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists – First UK Edition 1914 – in the rare dust wrapper

£17,500.00

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£17,500.00

A first edition, first printing published by Grant Richards in 1914. A near fine book without inscriptions, marks or stamps. The beautiful gilt titling to the spine and front panel is rich and full of colour. In the exceedingly scarce dust wrapper, priced at 6/-. The only copy in wrapper we have handled. Some shallow chipping to the spine tips. Complete with Grant Richards’ original flyer from 1914, advertising the novel.

Published in exceedingly small numbers by Grant Richards – who also published Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’ the same year (1914) – the book was advertised on the rear panel of the latter. ‘Ragged Trousered’ is of legendary scarcity in wrapper and was described by Alan Sillitoe as “The first great English novel about the class war”, and Michael Foot praised its “truly Swiftian impact”.


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A first edition, first printing published by Grant Richards in 1914. A near fine book without inscriptions, marks or stamps. The beautiful gilt titling to the spine and front panel is rich and full of colour. In the exceedingly scarce dust wrapper, priced at 6/-. The only copy in wrapper we have handled. Some shallow chipping to the spine tips. Complete with Grant Richards’ original flyer from 1914, advertising the novel.

Published in exceedingly small numbers by Grant Richards – who also published Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’ the same year (1914) – the book was advertised on the rear panel of the latter. ‘Ragged Trousered’ is of legendary scarcity in wrapper and was described by Alan Sillitoe as “The first great English novel about the class war”, and Michael Foot praised its “truly Swiftian impact”.