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The Wars of Peace
190388414Boston: Little Brown & Co 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19.5cm. Publisher's burgundy pictorial cloth; gilt spine titles; 3924pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of plates. Mild external rubbing with a touch of fraying to cloth at crown; faint old erasure to front free endpaper; text clean tight and unmarked. A solidly Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> A struggle between a ruthless capitalist father and his progressive-minded son in a New England mill town. When the father's trust conspires to blow up the son's competing and union-led mill the millworkers bravely come to the lad's rescue. The old bastard gets it in the end. HANNA 3832. BLAKE p.227: "Mostly drivel. Little, Brown & Co unknown
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