KROPOTKINE, Pierre.

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KROPOTKINE, Pierre.
Modern Science and Anarchy. Paris, P.-V. Stock & Cie, 1913. In-18 [189 x 120] of XI, 391 pp. half red morocco with corners, spine gilt, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Creuzevault). Partly original edition. The first version of the work appeared in 1901; the 1913 edition is expanded. One of 10 copies on Hollande paper, the only deluxe edition (n° 6). Binding damaged at the spines and the covers. A leading figure of anarchy, greatly admired by Pierre Bergé, Pierre Kropotkin (1842-1921) was its leading theoretician. His philosophical and scientific work gave the movement its first doctrinal basis. A nice copy despite small cracks and restorations to the hinges. An autograph letter signed by Kropotkin addressed from the prison of Lyon on December 30, 1882 to Henri Rochefort. My dear Rochefort, I thank you very much for your kind remembrance and your friendship and I beg you to thank the friends who remember me. What does it matter what the governments do if they win us the sympathy of those we esteem. Please thank Mr. Laguerre for his kind offer. I don't take a lawyer and I will defend myself. Most of my comrades in this trial do the same. And, what good is it, indeed, to defend oneself on the legal ground, since the material facts, on which one has built the trial are null, and the trial thus becomes a trial of tendency, a trial of class [...] (Autograph letter signed, 1 ½ page in-8.) Released in 1886, Kropotkin will settle in England. In 1917, he will return to Russia.
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