A Modern Pilgrim's Progress

Oxford: The Alden Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. "The nom-de-plume 'A Fellow Pilgrim' masks the identity of [Arthur Kitson] one to whose credit stands the authorship of a whole series of authoritative works on economic and financial subjects. He here indulges his fancy by speculating how John Bunyan might have portrayed his hero, Christian, and his friends, and what their encounters would have been had their pilgrimages been conducted during recent [Great Depression-era] years. Herein is much food for thought, and perhaps a moral for the present troubled times." - dust jacket. "Kitson (1859-1937) invented the vaporised oil burner and held many patents. He became convinced Jewish bankers were the cause of his bankruptcy and most of the world's miseries. He formed the Economic Freedom League with Frederick Soddy and was active in this venture through the 1920s. He sent Ezra Pound a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion even before Pound changed from a money radical to a notorious anti-semite. By the time of his death in 1937, Kitson was the second most influential fascist in Britain, the first being Oswald Mosely. In his late years he was brought to Germany to consult with Nazi party economists." - Wikipedia. "[Kitson] was a close friend of Henry Hamilton Beamish of the Britons and Arnold Leese of the Imperial Fascist League and was the chief source for their economic ideas." - British Fascism, p.105. 460 pages. Somewhat above-average wear and toning to complete dust jacket, now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Moderate wear to publisher's green cloth. Foxing to fore-edge and, slightly, to dust jacket and other edges, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. A sound first edition copy of this thought-provoking work which was listed in the 1940 'Honest Money Year Book and Directory'.; Sm 8vo .