Anarchism & Radical Politics

London: Hutchinson. 1958. The formation of a writer First edition. 220x150mm. pp. [10],342,[4]. Publisher's original Burgandy cloth. Lettered in silver on spine. Slightly shelf worn at extremities and slightly rubbed at head of spine. Original illustrated dust jacket is in very good condition. A small chip at head of front cover towards spine and very minor rubbing at head of spine. Inscribed in blue pen by a previous owner on free end paper "From Val and Mary – with best wishes for a merry Christmas. Dec 1958". Internally fine.

London: John Murray.. 1908.Inscribed by the author to her brother.First edition. 8vo. 185x120mm. [4], 295 [1bl, 4 publisher's adverts]. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in white to upper cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Joints and edges of boards rubbed and head and foot of spine bumped. Some marking to boards. Quite heavily foxed. Front free endpaper is inscribed "Ernest Black from C.B. January 1908". Clementina Black is best known as an activist and propagandist in the socialist, trade union and women's suffrage movements, but she made her living as a writer of political tracts and novels.

A Novel.New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers.. 1895.First American edition published the year after the London first edition. pp. 177, [1bl, 6 publisher's adverts]. Original beige cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in silver and brown. Some soiling and rubbing and internally there is some foxing but overall a nice copy. Front free endpaper is signed Clementina Black so this is either the author's own copy or was signed by her for someone else. Rare in commerce and comparatively uncommon institutionally, OCLC recording sixteen copies. An Agitator is Black's most overtly political work of fiction.