Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist [Inscribed]
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1912. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); grayish-green cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; [xiv],512 + [8]pp ads, with black & white photographic frontispiece portrait of the author, and black & white illustrations and facsimiles. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the frontispiece: "Fraternally / Alexander Berkman / Tombs Prison / N.Y. / Nov. 3 1917." Sympathetically re-backed, re-hinged, wear to board edges and corners, with occasional staining and foxing to margins; Very Good.
Classic account of the author's experience in prison in Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh, from 1892-1906. On July 23, 1892, Berkman, armed with a revolver and a sharpened steel file, entered the office of Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick, whom Berkman plotted to murder in revenge for the nine steelworkers killed in an attack by Pinkerton detectives hired by Frick. Though Berkman shot him twice, and stabbed in the leg four times, Frick survived the attack, and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Written after his release and published by Emma Goldman's Mother Earth Publishing Association, Prison Memoirs is one of the singular works of anarchist literature. 89610.
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