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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [moderate wear to edges and extremities, slight exposure of boards at lower corners, previous owner's stamp and another previous owner's signature on ffep (the two sharing a last name, probably a father and son; see notes)]. (B&W photo frontispiece of the author) Primarily an anthology of writings (articles, essays, letters to the editor) from the publication "Liberty," founded in 1881 by Tucker and published by him until 1908. Per scholar Wendy McElroy, it's "widely considered to be the finest individualist-anarchist periodical ever issued in the English language," and (per Wikipedia) "was instrumental in developing and formalizing the individualist anarchist philosophy through publishing essays and serving as a format for debate." The writings of Tucker (1854-1939), an anarchist and socialist, (again quoting Wikipedia) "contributed to the development of both left-libertarian and right-libertarian political theory in the United States and were often reprinted in early libertarian journals." The book opens with an essay, "State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree and Wherein They Differ"; the remainder of its contents are organized under the following headings: The Individual, Society, and the State; Money and Interest; Land and Rent; Socialism; Communism; Methods; and Miscellaneous. 512 pages, including the Index, plus two pages of advertisements in the back: one for "Liberty" itself ('The Pioneer Organ of Anarchism in America"; subscription two dollars a year), the other a list of a dozen works of "Anarchistic Literature" that could be mail-ordered from Mr. Tucker. The book was published in London in 1895 and Tucker himself issued a second edition in 1897, but this 1893 printing was the first; library holdings are plentiful enough, per OCLC, but quite scarce in commerce. The ownership stamp on the ffep is that of Frank E. Hartung, a long-serving (1942-1978) professor of sociology at Wayne State University; the signature, just beneath it, is of Dr. Urban L. Hartung, Sr., presumably Prof. Hartung's father.

Second Edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; blind-stamped decorative borders to front board; red edge-stain; frontispiece portrait; x,[1]-512,[1]pp. A slightly worn copy; boards evenly rubbed and soiled, with board exposure at upper corner-tips and rubbing to cloth at spine ends; both hinges thinly cracked (but holding); text clean and unmarked. A sound, Good or better copy. Perhaps the clearest exposition ever published of individualist anarchism, written by the movement's foremost exponent in America. The work is comprised of selections from Tucker's voluminous, incisive, often acidic articles in his long-running journal Liberty. These are arranged thematically, in chapters such as "The Individual, Society, and the State;" "Money and Interest;" "Land and Rent;" "Socialism;" "Communism;" etc. Tucker, who had a reputation for not questioning the fallibility of his own ideas, clearly intended the book to be used as a sort of "Bible" of anarchism, a notion alluded to in Paul Avrich's 1973 interview with Tucker's daughter Oriole, who stated, ".the whole family lived an anarchistic life. When I asked a question - like how in the world would we get along without police - Father would say look it up on page so and so of Instead of a Book." (Avrich, Anarchist Portraits. Princeton: 1988 p.151). This second edition is on noticeably inferior paper (the 1893 edition bulks a full quarter inch thicker) and is rather more commonly seen in commerce than the moderately scarce first. Still, a presentable copy of a cornerstone work in the American anarchist canon. NURSEY-BRAY (Anarchist Thinkers & Thought: An Annotated Bibliography) 928.