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WALTER CRANE. John Betjeman : Cartoons for the Cause. Designs and Verses for the Socialist and Labour Movement 1986-1996. With a foreword by John Betjeman

The Journeyman Press, London and the Marx Memorial Library, 1976

A new edition of the original 1896 Twentieth Century Press issue, with a new foreword by Betjeman. Two copies preserved in a single folio presentation folder consisting of the ordinary edition which was limited to 500 copies and the deluxe issue of 100 numbered copies printed on mould-made rag paper and signed by Betjeman. Both in fine state. Crane's splendid drawings, poems and stories published over a ten year period for the socialist movement were published for the first time as a collection by the Twentieth Century Press as a souvenir of the International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress in 1896. The Twentieth Century Press was one of the only radical commercial printers in London at the turn of the century, and occupied the same premises as those now occupied by the Marx Memorial Library (for whose members the signed limited issue of this volume was prepared). The building, 37a Clerkenwell Green, was under threat for a number of years and, almost inevitably, Betjeman was one of its champions.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft cover

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