[Item #41796] Socialism. SOCIALISM, Roswell D. HITCHCOCK.

Socialism

New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1879. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's light blue-grey decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, blue floral endpapers; 111pp. Extremities a bit worn with brief loss of cloth at spine ends, corners bumped, light soil, spine a bit cocked, else Good to Very Good overall.

Virulently anti-socialist and -communist piece by the Congregationalist clergyman, arguing that "To-day there is not in our language, nor in any language, a more hateful word than Communism...it meant, and still means, wages without work, arson, assassination, anarchy" (p. 24). An anonymously published response, "A Reply to Roswell D. Hitchcock, D.D., on Socialism," would be published the same year. Neither title appears in Egbert.

Price: $75.00

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