THE INTELLIGENT WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM.

London : Constable & Co., 1928. First edition. "You can introduce almost any measure of Socialism or Communism into England provided you call it by some other name. Propose Socialistic confiscation of the incomes of the rich, and the whole country will rise to repel such Russian wickedness. Call it income-tax, supertax, and estate duties, and you can lift enough hundreds of millions from the pockets of our propertied class to turn the Soviet of Federated Russian Republics green with envy". Begun as a letter to his sister-in-law, Shaw's mansplaining apologia for socialism eventually ran to eighty-four chapters. He later claimed that although he had taken "the utmost pains to make it intelligible, clear, lucid, unambiguous, simple, and unmistakeable ... only one man in the civilized world has understood it; and that man is Albert Einstein". Medium 8vo (25cm). xxxvi,(496)pp. Original decorative green cloth gilt; top edge gilt; mild discolouration of endpapers; edges a little spotted, but otherwise a very good, bright, sound and unworn copy in the striking dust-jacket - an uncredited design by Eric Kennington (1888-1960) - the jacket a touch spotted, and little worn and torn, with some minor repair, but virtually complete and attractive still.