(028257) Tressell, Robert. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1987. Reprint. Paperback. Thick 8vo. 633 pages. Very Good with no DJ. A great socialist novel of the working class in England. Tressell died of tuberculosis in 1911 and it was not until three years later that his book found a publisher. Even then, the edition comprised only two-thirds of the manuscript, and was greatly distorted. The first American paperback edition is the full book as it was written and published by Lawrence and Wishart in England in 1955. Leo Huberman People's Library ISBN: 0853454574
