Anarchism and Other Essays [Signed]

New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1911. Second Revised Edition. Octavo (19cm); light gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [5],6-277,[8]pp ads; tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. Signed by Goldman in pencil on the front endpaper, dated 2/13/16. Hint of sunning and some faint finger-soil to spine, subtle darkening to upper board edges, with some offsetting to verso of front endpaper, and some board exposure to lower corner tips; contents clean; Very Good+, lacking the rare dustjacket.

Stated "revised" edition of this collection of Goldman's essays (though we have not been able to discern any substantial additions or revisions between this and the first edition of 1910). Collects a dozen of Goldman's most important essays, most originally issued as pamphlets, including "Anarchism: what it really stands for;" -- "Minorities versus majorities" -- "The psychology of political violence" -- "Prisons: a social crime and failure" -- "Patriotism: a menace to liberty" -- "Francisco Ferrer and the modern school" -- "The hypocrisy of Puritanism" -- "The traffic in women" -- "Woman suffrage" -- "The tragedy of woman's emancipation" -- "Marriage and love" -- "The drama: a powerful disseminator of radical thought." With a biographical sketch of Goldman by Czech anarchist Hippolyte Havel. 84657.