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1886AQ29372London: Swan Sonnenschein Lowrey & Co. 1886. 2 16pp Bound with: Caption title: To-day. No. 26.----february 1886. 33-64pp. And: "The Times" and Mr. Parnell: the press and the patriot. A lecture Being a Criticism of the pRess and a Defence of the Patriot Delivered in the Unitarian Christian Church Aberdeen 7th May 1887. First edition. Aberdeen. George Middleton 1887. 12pp. Ink-stamp of the Aberdeen Branch of the Socialist League to head of title. And: Fabian Tract No. 5. Facts for socialists from the Political Economists and Statisticians. London. The Fabian Society 1892. Fifth edition. 15pp 1. And: Fabian Tracts No. 7. Capital and Land. London. The Fabian Society 1891. Third edition. 15pp 1. And: SHAW G. Bernard. Fabian Tract No. 41. The fabian society: What it has Done; & How it has Done it. London. The Fabian Society 1892. First edition. 30pp. And: HEADLAM Rev. Stewart D. Fabian Tract No. 42. Christian socialism. London. The Fabian Society 1892. First edition. 15pp 1. And: BURNS John. Trafalgar Square. Speech for defence by john burns when tried at the old bailey January 18th 1888. London. Justice Printery 1888. 16pp. And: ONE OF THEMSELVES i.e. RAYMENT A. W. The rights of labour and how to obtain them. To the Working Men of South Australia. Adelaide. W. K. Thomas & Co. 1886. 13pp 1. Printed in double columns. And: KEDDELL F. The nationalisation of our railway system its justice and advantages. London. The Modern Press s.d. 1886 16pp. And: BENNETT Samuel editor. Radical essays - No. 1. The new faith and other essays in radicalism. Reprinted from the radical. London. William Reeves 1884. First offprint edition 70pp. And: THRELFALL T. R. How the classes rules the masses; or Why the Few are Rich and the Many are Poor. Manchester. John Heywood 1887. First edition. 29pp 1. And: SYME David. Landlordism: in its moral social and economic relations. London. Trübner and Co. 1871. First offprint edition. 32pp. And: MILL John Stuart. Programme of the land tenure reform association. London. Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1871. First edition. 16pp. And: INGERSOLL Colonel Robert. Farm life in america as it was - as it is - as it should be. Bristol. W. H. Morrish s.d. 14pp. And: Caption title: MASSEY Gerald. Luniolatry ancient and modern. London. s.n. 1887. 27pp 1. And: MASSEY Gerald. The hebrew and other creations fundamentally explained. London. s.n. 1887. 36pp. And: WATTS Charles et al. Secularism: Is It Founded on Reason and Is It Sufficient to Meet the Needs of Mankind Debate between the editor of the evening mail Halifax N.S. and charles watts editor of secular thought. Toronto. "Secular Thought" Office 1890. x 3-50pp. 8vo. Contemporary burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Worn heavily marked and stained lower joint split spine sunned. Hinges exposed scattered spotting. A sammelband of eighteen pamphlets predominantly concerning trade unionism and socialism in Britain America and Australia. Highlights include: - Four of the pamphlets emanate from the press of the nascent Fabian Society - the socialist association instituted in 1884 with the aim of establishing a democratic socialist state in Britain - a notable inclusion being polemicist and early society member George Bernard Shaw's 1856-1950 roistering and typically voluble account of the achievements of the Fabian movement in its first decade. - The first edition of economist and philosopher John Stuart Mill's 1806-1873 galvanising pamphlet explicating the goals of the Land Tenure Reform Association a body established by Mill personally to oppose antiquated law ownership ownership practices relating to primogenitor and entail and promote cooperative agriculture. - A rare survival of an Adelaide-printed polemic - addressed to the 'working men of South Australia' - advocating for the abolition of landlordship in favour of a state land tax in order to benefit smallholders within the agricultural community. - The first offprint edition of socialist leader Henry Mayers Hyndman's 1842-1921 impassioned analysis of 1886 Haymarket Affair a bloody confrontation between the authorities and anarchist labour protesters in Chicago which would come symbolise the struggle of the working class oppressed by the capitalist system. Provenance: William Diack 1871-1942 journalist associated with the Aberdeen Free Press and Evening Gazette sometime secretary of the Aberdeen Socialist Society and author of History of the Trades Council and the Trade Union Movement in Aberdeen 1939. . First offprint edition. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. hardcover