Young India 1919-1922. With A Brief Sketch Of The Non-Co-Operation Movement By Babu Rajendra Prasad, Secretary, Indian National Congress. Gandhi, Mahatma.

First edition in book-form, first impression; 8vo (19 x 13 cm); bookplate to front pastedown, corresponding dated library stamp to title and half-title, old bookseller's label to rear pastedown, otherwise internally clean; publisher's blue cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt above blindstamped menorah (publisher's device), spine lettered in gilt, top-edge stained blue, in rare white dustjacket, title in black within double-fillet border, menorah design to rear panel, spine lettered in black, light shelf wear to extremities of cloth, a few chips and closed tears to jacket; lxiv, 1175, [2], 4-16, [1], 1178-1199, [1]pp. The first edition in book-form of this important collection of articles by the Indian independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). With a preface and history of the 'non-co-operation movement' by Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963), then Secretary of the Indian National Congress, and the future first President of India. The articles first appeared in the weekly journal Young India, which came under Gandhi's control in 1919. This edition marks the first publication of these writings outside of India: 'All endeavour has. been made to give in this one volume the valuable writings of the Mahatmaji and others in Young India from the date of its first publication in Ahmedabad, 1919 to the date of his imprisonment in 1922' (Prefatory Note). With provenance for the American economist Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933), Professor of Political Economy at Yale from 1880 to 1918, and President of the American Economic Association. His library stamp dated Feb. 25th 1924 suggests Farnam acquired the book shortly after its publication by Benjamin W. Heubsch the preceding year. An excellent copy, and rare in the dustjacket.