Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth - the Remedy. Author's Edition. - ["UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST REMARKABLE AND IMPO

by GEORGE, HENRY.

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First edition

San Francisco, Wm M.Hinton & Co, 1879. 8vo. In the original full cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and a bit of blindstamping to boeards. A bit of light spotting to front board, spine faded, and capitals worn. Hinges internally a bit weak, and a professional closed tear to cloth at spine, barely noticeable. All in all an excellent copy in this fragile original binding. Internally very nice and clean. With the bookplate of Grove L. Johnson to inside of front board. (4), 512 pp. The exceedingly scarce first edition, printed in merely 200 copies (namely the "Author's edition), of one of the most influential books ever published. Henry George's masterpiece of social reform, "Progress and Poverty", founded the ideology known as "Georgism", from which the worldwide social reform movement arose. The work initiated the Progressive Era and had a larger impact and "a wider distribution than almost all other books on political economy put together", as John Dewey put it (John Dewey's Foreword to Geiger's "The Philosophy of Henry George" (1933)). "The present century has been marked by a prodigious increase in wealth-producing power. The utilization of steam and electricity, the introduction of improved processes and labor-saving machinery, the greater subdivision and grander scale of production, the wonderful facilitation of exchanges, have multiplied enormously the effectiveness of labor.At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that

• Year: 1879
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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