A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing&nbsp;of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Robert%20Tressell&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Robert Tressell</a>.<ul><li>Robert Tressell (Irish).</li><li>United Kingdom: Grant Richards, 1914.</li><li>Gilt titling to the spine and front panel is rich and full of color, in the exceedingly scarce dust wrapper, priced at 6/-.</li></ul> 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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