Social Credit (1935)
A40
Editions
a. First edition
SOCIAL CREDIT: | AN IMPACT| By | EZRA POUND | STANLEY NOTT | 69 Grafton Street Fitzroy Square | LONDON 31 pp. front. (with blank conjugate leaf). 19.7 X 13-4 cm. Heavy tan paper wrappers printed in red on pages [i-iv]; wire-stitched. (The frontispiece is a reproduction, with printed caption, of paper money issued by the Union Lumbering Co., Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, signed: A. E, Pounp, Secretary.) Published May 1935 at 6d. as “Pamphlets on the New Economics, No. 8”; 4000 copies printed (of which 500 were issued as part of The Social Credit Pamphleteer in October 1935). On verso of title-leaf: This edition first published in 1935 Printed in Great Britain by Western Publishing Services Ltd., Bristol ... Dedication on page [3]: To the Green Shirts of England. 56
b. Re-issue, in The Social Credit Pamphleteer
The | Social | Credit | Pamphleteer | by | Various Hands | being | Numbers 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 17 of the | List noted mae | Stanley Nott Ltd | 69 Grafton Street | Fitzroy Square WI 4 leaves, plus the 10 pamphlets bound together. 19'7 X 14 cm. Brown cloth boards lettered in white on front cover and on spine; end-papers. Tan dustjacket printed in red. Published October 1935 at 3s. 6d.; 500 copies of the first edition of Social Credit: An Impact, bound up, without wrappers and with the conjugate leaf of the fronuspiece excised, with the nine other pamphlets. On verso of title-leaf: ... This collection first published by Messrs. Stanley Nott Ltd. October 1935 “The idea of the pamphlets arose out of a conversation with A. R. Orage and ourselves and the editorial staff of the New English Weekly. The idea was that pamphleteering ought to be revived, but thar it should be based on a need; and the need was the interest of the average man in the present economic situation. The series comprises the opinions of all sorts of thinking men and women. The pamphlets are being bought and read by all sorts and conditions of people in every part of the world. “The Pamphlets first appeared in September 1934 and continued to be published at intervals until August 1935.” (Note on verso of title-leaf) A list of the “Pamphlets on the New Economics” from which this volume was selected appears on the verso of the half-title-leaf; it extends to 17 numbers (numbers 18-19 were published in 1936). Contents: The Use of Money, by C. H. Douglas (No. 1)—Poverty amidst Plenty, by The Earl of Tankerville (No. 4)—The B.B.C. Speech and the Fear of Leisure, by A. R. Orage (No. 5)—Social Credit and the War on Poverty, by the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, D.D. (No. 6)—Social Credit: An Impact, by Ezra Pound (No. 8)—The Sanity of Social Credit, by Maurice Colbourne (No. 11)— Essential Communism, by Herbert Read (No. 12)—The Soul of Man in the Age of Leisure, by Storm Jameson (No. 13)—An Open Letter to a Professional Man, by Bonamy Dobrée (No. 14)—What Is This Social Credit?, by A. L. Gibson, F.C.A. (No. 17). Note: Social Credit: An Impact was reprinted in 1951 as No. 5 of “Money Pamphlets by £” (London, Peter Russell), and, with excisions, as “An Impact,” in Impact (1960)—A78—pp. 142-56.
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