Robert Tressall
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Grant Richards
1914
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A first edition, first printing of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell.
- Robert Tressell (Irish).
- United Kingdom: Grant Richards, 1914.
- Gilt titling to the spine and front panel is rich and full of color, in the exceedingly scarce dust wrapper, priced at 6/-.
Published in exceedingly small numbers by Grant Richards – who also published Joyce’s Dubliners the same year (1914) – the book was advertised on the rear panel of the latter. Ragged Trousered is of legendary scarcity in wrapper and was described by Alan Sillitoe as “The first great English novel about the class war”, and Michael Foot praised its “truly Swiftian impact”.
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Very GoodWithout inscriptions, marks or stamps.
Some shallow chipping to the spine tips.
Complete with Grant Richards’ original flyer from 1914, advertising the novel.
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