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Hardcover. Etat : VG/G. First Edition. Essays by Herbert Morrison, T W Agar, Barbara Wooton, C E M Joad, Joan Robinson and G D H Cole. Several institutional stamps. Light wear to book, jacket worn with losses on rear panel. Shippine will be reduced for overseas and Canadian orders. 118 pp.

Etat : Good. 1944. First Published. 118 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.…

FIRST EDITION, pp. 190, crown 8vo; pp. 192, crown 8vo, original turquoise and navy blue cloth, the first voluem lettered in gilt to backstrip, the second volume lettered in pink to upper board and backstrip, the latter with fading at ends, the second volume with small breach to cloth of lower board, corresponding to pierce-mark on dustjacket, this volume with flyleaf and initial blank an little spotted, the dustjackets gently soiled overall with a few light marks, the backstrip panels browned and a little chipped at ends, very good. Two volumes based on the Fabian Lectures in successive years during a critical moment in modern history, as Europe accelerated towards War - the spectre of which dominates the second volume. The contributors to the first volume 'predict the future of Capitalism [G.D.H. Cole], of Soviet Communism [Sidney Webb], of Dictatorships [Wickham Steed], and of Economic Nationalism [Sir Arthur Salter]' (blurb) - whilst in its penultimate talk, P.M.S. Blackett considers 'The Next War: Can it be Avoided?' The second volume's update to the title of its predecessor reflects the hesitancy caused by the growing threat of War, which informs the discourse to varying degrees throughout, beginning with Bertrand Russell's assertion regarding the 'lowering of the intellectual level' in Nazi Germany and the negative effect on its scientific prowess, and proceeding to Vernon Bartlett's assessment of 'The War Horizon' and G.D.H. Cole and Sir Stafford Cripps on, respectively, the economic and political implications of a new conflict. …