Brockway (Fenner). Workers' Front, 1st edition, London: Secker and Warburg, 1938, original red cloth, 8vo, together with Shaw (George Bernard). An Unsocial Socialist, 1st edition, 2nd state, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887, 2nd state with title error corrected and appendix at end, a few spots, bookplate of May Crawley, original dark red variant binding, spine rubbed with tears at end, light edgewear, 8vo, plus George Gissing's Demos. A Story of English Socialism, new edition, 1888 (Qty: 3) The first book, Workers' Front by Fenner Brockway signed by the author and 12 members of the Independent Labour Party, including James Maxton, F.W. Jowett, Percy Williams, Sam Leckie, John McGovern, John Aplin, Kate Spurrell (signs twice), John McNair (signs twice), Tom Reed, Campbell Stephen, James Carmichael and M. Winifred Evans. The Independent Labour Party voted to disaffiliate itself from the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1932, also founding the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre, chaired by Fenner Brockway. Other notable members included the Pankhursts (Sylvia, Christabel and Emmeline), George Orwell, Oswald Mosely and A.E. Coppard.
Brockway (Fenner). Workers' Front, 1st edition, London: Secker and Warburg, 1938, original red cloth, 8vo, together with Shaw (George Bernard). An Unsocial Socialist, 1st edition, 2nd state, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887, 2nd state with title error corrected and appendix at end, a few spots, bookplate of May Crawley, original dark red variant binding, spine rubbed with tears at end, light edgewear, 8vo, plus George Gissing's Demos. A Story of English Socialism, new edition, 1888 (Qty: 3) The first book, Workers' Front by Fenner Brockway signed by the author and 12 members of the Independent Labour Party, including James Maxton, F.W. Jowett, Percy Williams, Sam Leckie, John McGovern, John Aplin, Kate Spurrell (signs twice), John McNair (signs twice), Tom Reed, Campbell Stephen, James Carmichael and M. Winifred Evans. The Independent Labour Party voted to disaffiliate itself from the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1932, also founding the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre, chaired by Fenner Brockway. Other notable members included the Pankhursts (Sylvia, Christabel and Emmeline), George Orwell, Oswald Mosely and A.E. Coppard.
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