Collected Left Book Club Edition Works: The Problem of the Distressed Areas by Wal Hannington (1937) Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler (1937) The Town that was Murdered: The Life-Story of Jarrow by Ellen Wilkinson (1939) The New Propaganda by Amber Blanco White (1939)

A four-volume set of first Left Book Club Edition political works, all in the publisher's original cloth. A four-volume collection of first Left Book Club Edition political works, all in the publisher's original cloth.This set contains:The Problem of the Distressed Areas by Wal Hannington (1937)Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler (1937)The Town that was Murdered: The Life-Story of Jarrow by Ellen Wilkinson (1939)The New Propaganda by Amber Blanco White (1939) The Left Book Club were a publishing group that exerted a strong left-wing influence in Great Britain during its initial run from 1936 to 1948. It has since been relaunched by Jan Woolf and Neil Faulkner in 2015, in collaboration with Pluto Press. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, sound with the odd mark to the boards. Fading to spines. Marginal age toning to cloth. Joints cracked and fraying to all volumes except New Propaganda. Front joint partially torn to Spanish Testament volume. Loss to ends of spine heads and tails of Distressed Areas and Spanish Testament volumes. Internally, mostly firmly bound. Binding strained at front hinge of Spanish Testament volume. Pages noticeably age toned with the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few. Good.…