George Lansbury — What I Saw in Russia

London, Leonard Parsons, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A first edition account of Soviet Russia by Labour leader George Lansbury, offering a British perspective on the early Bolshevik state, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original brown quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards.An account of Soviet Russia by British Labour politician George Lansbury, based on his visit in 1920. Blending social and political commentary with travelogue observations, Lansbury details meetings with leading figures such as Peter Kropotkin, the hardships caused by the international blockade, and the day-to-day of post-revolutionary Russian society. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, sound. Slight discolouration to spine and extremities. Rubbing to spine resulting in slight loss to text. Chipping and loss to spine, more so to tail. One or two chips to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if slightly age toned to fore edge. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.