Capital and Labor
Philadelphia: American Book & Bible House / Luther Minter, 1907. Krafft, Paul. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2351397
A bit musty, a couple small smudges on boards and a few pages, minor damage to fore edge of two pages (only affects margin), ink names and address on front endpaper.
331 pp. A screed against the dangers of unfettered capitalism, written from the perspective of a Christian socialist. William Shuler Harris wrote two other Christian-themed science fiction works (Sermons by the Devil in 1904 and Life in a Thousand Worlds in 1905), the latter of which includes an indictment of Martian civilization for its cruel class structure (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Paul Krafft's steel-plate engravings evoke the style of political cartoons, and are ruthless in their depiction of greed and excess. From the introduction: "The book makes a strong plea to free the millions of our wage earners from the enslavement into which abused liberty has forced them... It digs a path to the sunlight of emancipation and shows the human race a way out of the misery into which the slavelords of competition have whipped the masses."
Price: $150.00