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FIRST EDITION, a few spots at head of prelims, recurrent to ads at rear, bookplate at head of half-title (that of Edmund B. Barnard, see below), pp. viii, 512, [8, ads], crown 8vo, original maroon cloth, the upper board with border stamped in black, the same to lower stamped in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, rubbed at extremities, the bottom corners pushed with a touch of wear, brown endpapers, the hinges a little strained with webbing visible, but all secure, good. Scarce. A visionary work of widespread influence and continuing relevance - the author, a journalist based in San Francisco, observed, via a visit to New York, that the advance of Capitalism tended to increase the disparity between rich and poor, and here makes proposals to address that gap, primarily relating to land value tax. Edmund Broughton Barnard owned this copy whilst at Downing College, Cambridge; from a land-owning, agricultural family, he became a Liberal politician and was knighted for services to local government in 1928.