PRELUDE TO PEACE: The World-Brotherhood Educational Movement.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with fading to the spine titles and minor cracking to the gutter at the centre. The contents with a little scattered foxing to the prelims and the odd spot to page margins are otherwise in good order and clean throughout. Also included is a 1937 newspaper cutting of Eleanor Roosevelt and the suffragist and author Florence Jackson Stoddard, inscribed in ink in Wynne-Tyson's hand "The one who gave 'Prelude to Peace' to the President", with an arrow indicating Stoddard (the work commences with a quote from President Roosevelt), as well as a sheet of press opinions.

Inscribed by the author in black ink to the half-title page: "For my darling Mummie / with her Dodie's / dear love. / Easter 1936". Prior to her life as an author and philosopher, Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) had begun her career as an actress, performing in the West End from childhood and becoming a close friend, confident, and collaborator of Noël Coward. Following the First World War, she became a Christian Scientist, a writer of both non-fiction journalism and fiction, often in collaboration with J.D. Beresford, and a dedicated promoter of pacifism, vegetarianism and other humanitarian causes. In the present work, inscribed to her mother, she outlines her plans for a new educational system based upon an internationalist-pacifist outlook. This, she argues, would foster a spirit of universal sympathy, tolerance and unity, and ultimately "lay the foundations of a world peace". A scarce title.