WILSON, A.F. [Anne Florence]; H.C. Ireland (illus)

The Wars of Peace

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's burgundy pictorial cloth; gilt spine titles; 392,[4]pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of plates. Mild external rubbing, with a touch of fraying to cloth at crown; faint old erasure to front free endpaper; text clean, tight and unmarked. A solidly Very Good copy.

A struggle between a ruthless capitalist father and his progressive-minded son in a New England mill town. When the father's trust conspires to blow up the son's competing (and union-led) mill, the millworkers bravely come to the lad's rescue. The old bastard gets it in the end. HANNA 3832. BLAKE p.227: "Mostly drivel."

Price: $75.00

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