first edition
[1929] · London
by [SOCIALISM] GLASIER, Katharine Bruce
London: I.L.P. Publication Service, [1929]. First Edition. Narrow 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp. Slight creasing and soil to wrappers; binding staples rusty, else Near Fine.
Socialist primer addressed to lay readers (but not, as the cover would suggest, intended for children). Glasier (née Conway, 1867-1950) was a Fabian Socialist, suffragist, and prominent member of the Independent Labour Party. She was married to J. Bruce Glasier, the I.L.P.'s second Chairman. The cover portrait is of the the author's son Glen, who died in 1928, and for whom she penned a memorial volume, The Glen Book, in which she espoused some of her theosophical beliefs concerning the afterlife, the same year. (Inventory #: 58602)
Socialist primer addressed to lay readers (but not, as the cover would suggest, intended for children). Glasier (née Conway, 1867-1950) was a Fabian Socialist, suffragist, and prominent member of the Independent Labour Party. She was married to J. Bruce Glasier, the I.L.P.'s second Chairman. The cover portrait is of the the author's son Glen, who died in 1928, and for whom she penned a memorial volume, The Glen Book, in which she espoused some of her theosophical beliefs concerning the afterlife, the same year. (Inventory #: 58602)