The State

New York: The Resistance Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 42pp. Mild external wear and soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked - a solid, Very Good copy. Cover illustration after Henri Rousseau; introductory matter by John Dos Passos and Michael Grieg. Twenty five hundred copies printed. Bourne's major theoretical work, on governmental usurpation of social and economic resources, especially in wartime; it is the first appearance of his oft-quoted phrase "War is the health of the State.. Published by the Resistance Group, an affiliation of Greenwich Village anarchists that included Sam Dolgoff, Paul Goodman, Jackson Mac Low and others. First separate pubilcation of what would become Bourne's most infuential work. OCLC 4 locations only.