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LIBERALISM AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM

-First English Edition Presentation Copy-

1909

First English Edition [1 of 3,537 copies]

By: Winston S. Churchill

Hodder & Stoughton [London]

Biblio: (Cohen A29.1.a) (Woods A15a)

8vo (438 pages)

Hardcover [Deep red cloth]

Item Number: 206434

Collector's Guide

Liberalism and the Social Problem was Winston Churchill’s first widely-published hardcover collection of political speeches, an expression of “radical” liberal views that were quite advanced for his time, prefiguring the modern social safety net that Churchill and David Lloyd George would soon set in motion. Though the burgundy clothbound English edition was handsomely produced, with Churchill’s signature in gilt across the front board, the American edition, similarly bound but without the gilt signature, is rarer. However, it is increasingly scarce in either edition.