[ANARCHISM - HAYMARKET] PARSONS, Albert, August Spies, et al [AND] Levin Schücking

Die Moderne Gesellschaft [TOGETHER WITH] Prämie

V.p. 1886 and 1869. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one; octavo (21cm.); contemporary brown cloth-backed marbled boards, two contemporary library spine labels. Boards rather rubbed, front hinge cracked, contemporary Wisconsin bookseller's rubberstamp to rear pastedown, textblock of the first title uniformly browned due to poor paperstock, title page neatly separated but present; Near Very Good. Contents as follows:.

1. Albert Parsons, August Spies et al. Die Moderne Gesellschaft, gekennzeichnet durch die Reden der verutheilten Chicagoer Anarchisten A.R. Parsons, August Spies, Sam Fielden, Oscar Neebe, M. Schwab, L. Lingg, A. Fischer, G. Engel, in dem grossen Tendenzprozess vor Richter Gary, am 7., 8. und 9. Oktober 1886. Gründe, warum das Urtheil nicht vollzogen. Chiago: Socialistic Publishing Society, 1886. 100pp.

2. Levin Schücking. Prämie. Schloss Dornegge oder der Web zum Glück. Roman. [Milwaukee, WI?]: Separat-Abdruck aus dem "Herold," 1869. 339pp.

The former title a scarce German-language edition of "The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists" delivered in court, described as one of "the most important sources on the Haymarket affair" (EGBERT II, p. 168). Bound with an unrecorded novel by the Westphalian novelist Levin Schücking, the imprint based on the bookseller rubberstamp and similar German-American titles published by the "Herold" in the same decade. We find no editions of this title in OCLC, COPAC, or KVK (February, 2019).

Price: $1,250.00

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