New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1937. First Edition. Biography of the Roman Catholic Priest and supporter of Henry George and the Single Tax movement. McGlynn would go so far as to found the Anti-Poverty Society for which he would be excommunicated between 1887 and 1892. EGBERT II, p. 319. Octavo (21cm.);..... More
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1894. First American Edition. Henry Georgist utopian novel first serialized in "Our Commonwealth" (Adelaide, Australia), a newspaper published by Ignatius Singer to promote land nationalization and the single tax. The work describes an anonymous narrator's experiences after being elected dictator of England and his activities..... More
[N.p.; ca 1888]. First separate edition; originally published as an article in Bedford's Magazine for June, 1888. Octavo leaflet (19cm); 8pp, on newsprint. Lightly toned, with wear at margins; two small stab-holes for binding at bulked edge; Very Good. A Henry George rarity, urging workingmen to vote in their own..... More
New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, N.d. (ca 1950s). Reprint. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 17,(1)pp. Mild vertical crease, light external dusting, Very Good. More
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Cincinnati: Publicity Bureau of the Joseph Fels Fund of America, ca. 1910s. First Thus. 12mo (19.5cm.); original red printed card wrappers (upper cover heavily spotted from damp); [2],93pp. Small tear to spine crown, else Very Good and sound. OCLC no. 12324369, describing a similar (the same?) item, gives 5 locations..... More
Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1894. First Edition. The British-born Trumbull began his career in America as a railway section hand; attained the rank of Captain in the Iowa Infantry; and after the war devoted himself to philosophical matters and labor reform, mostly in affiliation with Paul Carus's "The Open Court."..... More
Pasadena: Equitist Publishing House, 1909. First Edition. A fictional romance of the Single Tax movement, set in California, written by the wife of one of the movement's primary spokesmen Warren E. Brokaw. The Soul of the World received predictably favorable reviews within the Single Tax press, but appears never to..... More
New York: Doubleday, McClure, 1898. Two extracts from Shearman's 1898 popularization of Henry George's Single Tax. With brief (2-pp) prefatory note. Uncommon; none others found in commerce (2014); OCLC gives 3 locations. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; [2], 115-135; 199-223. Mild cover soil; small creases; text toned; Very..... More
New York: John W. Lovell Company, (1886). Sympathetic (to George) account of Henry George's 1886 New York mayoral campaign, which he ran on the United Labor Party ticket. Despite almost certainly out-polling his Democratic opponent Abram Stevens Hewitt, George was denied victory through the machinations of Tammany Hall. A Henry..... More
