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London: E. Lahr. Fair with no dust jacket. 1931. 1. Soft Cover. Publisher's printed card wraps. Stapled pamphlet with flaps on covers. . Cover detached, but present, else very good, unmarked and clean. FAIR.. Blue Moon Booklets Series. Vol. 8. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 14 pp .
A Cure for Unemployment by O'FLAHERTY, Liam - [1931]
by O'FLAHERTY, Liam
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A Cure for Unemployment
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New York: Julian Press, [1931]. First American Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's salmon staple-bound wrappers; 14pp.; illus. Just a hint of wear, else Near Fine. An uncommon O'Flaherty work, originally published in London under the anarchist publisher Charles Lahr's "Blue Moon" imprint. A Swiftian satire on the Conservative Party's economic approach to the Depression, proposing "...to substitute an [unemployed] human being as pet for every dog which is the property of a person with an income of over a thousand pounds a year..." Proceeds from the sale of the pamphlet went to relief for unemployed workers.
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- Date Published [1931]
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A Cure for Unemployment
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A Cure for Unemployment (Blue Moon Booklet No. 8)
by O'FLAHERTY, Liam
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London: E. Lahr, 1931. 12mo; stapled, newsprint wrappers, 12 pp. This edition limited to 2,247,365 copies with each copy signed by the Author with a rubber stamp. O'Flaherty's short, playful attack on capitalism, whereby the unemployed would be substituted for pets of the upper class. The publisher's notice on the front cover promises a free copy to the genuine unemployed while "Millionaires and others" are charged £1. O'Flaherty was a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland, although he quit the Party and returned to Catholicism late in his life. He collaborated on numerous publications with the German-born anarchist, Charles Lahr, who founded the short-lived Ferrer Adult School with fellow anarchist, Guy Aldred, before establishing the Progressive Bookshop and Blue Moon Press. Distributed in the U.S. by the Julian Press. A different variant was published simultaneously by Lahr without the notice on the cover. Foxing and slight wear to wrappers with some…
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22.5 cm x 15 cm, printed card covers with folding flaps, pp. 14. Blue Moon Booklet No. 8. Very slight loss to lower edge of front cover, and a small chip to the rear cover near base of spine, else Fine.
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