PROUDHON (Pierre-Joseph). Les Confessions d'un révolutionnaire pour servir à l'histoire de la révolution de février. Paris, Au Bureau du journal La Voix du Peuple, 1849. In-4, green chagrinned half-percaline, front cover preserved (period binding). First edition of one of the anarchist thinker's major works (Nettlau, Bibliographie de l'anarchie, p. 19). Written during his imprisonment at Sainte-Pélagie, the Confessions recount social, political and economic life in France from the revolution of 1789 to the three days of insurrection that toppled the July Monarchy in February 1848. Upper hinge cracked, small loss at bottom of spine.

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