PANKHURST, E. Sylvia

Small 8vo., 11x16 cm., original paper covered boards, paper title labels to spine and upper board. 95pp., plus 16pp. publisher’s list. Red Foyles label to paste-down, neatly in ink to front endpaper. Printed by The Bowering Press, Plymouth. In fair to good condition with some fading to boards, edges rubbed, no tears no scrapes. Internally clean and tight. Not only a political activist and champion of women's rights, Sylvia Pankhurst, indefatigable daughter of Emmeline and sister of Christabel embraced an extensive and varied field of campaigning. “This entertaining book pretends to be a general defense of artificial languages and a particular defense of "Interlingua;' Peano's simplified Latin. ...” Jorge Luis Borges COPAC ’F. S. Brierley, 11 January 1929’