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[004884] Ward, Colin (Ed) Anarchy – First Series (Complete). ill. Segar, Rufus. London: Freedom Press, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. Card Covers. Pamphlets. Good. Anarchy – First Series complete, issues 1-118, 1961-1970. Original card covers, each 32pp (except numbers 29 and 117 which are 40pp, and numbers 78 and 118 which have 36pp)

Generally, the staples are often rusted, minor rubbing to extremities, spines sometimes lightly faded, a few with minor browning to covers, one or two with previous owner’s names in, occasional light foxing to edges of text block, but generally quite bright and clean

Specific faults – numbers 31, 74, and 102 have a 10mm band of browning to top edge; numbers 33, 34, 38, 40, 42, 43, 94, 101, 105, 106, and 108 are browned to top edge; number 60 is browned to top corner of first few pages; the covers of number 80 are browned; the spine and 5mm of the top edge of number 98 are faded; number 104 has some underlining and marginalia in pen, with stains from a paper clip to four pages; number 112 is effectively disbound, with a paper flaw to fore edge of page 167; upper cover of number 118 lightly soiled

Number 105 has the standard typographic cover as usual (not the suppressed graphic cover – see Anarchy 107 for Segar’s explanation and Poyner, page 272)

A complete set of the first series of Anarchy, in original wrappers. Most issues are on a specific theme examined from an anarchist perspective, ie. Crime and Punishment, India, Automation, Poverty, Spain, Education, The Land, Provo, The Maydays in France etc. etc. Comfortably the best English language anarchist periodical ever produced, it includes work by Ward, Bookchin, Walter, Chomsky, and Goodman amongst many others. The cover designs, mainly by Segar, but also by others, were replicated recently in a book, edited by Poyner, called Autonomy, which also has a very useful index to Anarchy

Complete sets are becoming harder and more expensive to put together

Noyce 35; Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals 78