New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1919]. First Edition. Anti-IWW and "anti-labor account of the ruin of a loyal German-American farmer in Washington state by striking I.W.W. farm workers" - HANNA 1504; see also BLAKE, pp. 239-40, and MILES 4995. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],376pp.; frontispiece..... More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Attractive copy of Saxton's second book, which "has as its background the city of Chicago and the yards of one of the midcontinent railroads from the year 1912 to the outbreak of World War II. The rather complex web of lives and events..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Frank's sequel to Dark Mother, a strike novel in which a tobocco company executive searches for social order among farmers and workers. A much better example than usually seen of this wear-prone title. HANNA 1299, BLAKE p.252, RIDEOUT p.296. First Printing. Octavo..... More
Chicago: Chicago Branch I.W.W., 1965. First Edition. Third issue of Franklin and Penelope Rosemont's anarcho-surrealist journal. The Rosemont's were members of the IWW and founded the Chicago Surrealist Group, which hosted a number of surrealist exhibits from their Gallery Bugs Bunny. Franklin Rosemont produced the first issues of The Rebel..... More
Riverside, CT: Published for the Free Speech League / Hillacre Bookhouse, 1916. Enlarged Edition. Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's grey cloth; viii,206pp. Boards rather rubbed and worn at extremities, corners bumped, spine darkened, three-inch crack at top of rear hinge, else About Very Good. Prospectus flyer tipped to front pastedown. MILES 197..... More
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Detroit: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union, 1919. First Edition. The WIIU, the labor union arm of the Socialist Labor Party, was effectively formed in 1908 following the split of the SLP faction from the Industrial Workers of the World; the group identified itself as the 'Detroit IWW'..... More
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Detroit / Troy: Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union, 1919 - 1923. First Edition. The WIIU, the labor union arm of the Socialist Labor Party, was effectively formed in 1908 following the split of the SLP faction from the Industrial Workers of the World; the group identified itself..... More
Brooklyn: Libreria Editrice dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, n.d., but 1913 or later. See MILES 4484 for the first (1913) edition. NYU, Michigan, Minnesota, and the Oregon Historical Society only in OCLC as of October, 2014. 12mo (18.75cm.); original grey printed staplebound wrappers; 39pp. Top third of spine split, small..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1969. Reissue; first edition under this title. Octavo (21.5cm). Cloth-backed, cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 381pp. Tight, fine copy in original dustwrapper, corner-clipped on front flap but with $6.95 price still present; spine sunned but legible, and a few..... More
San Francisco: Bay Area A.F. of L. Committee for the Freedom of Mooney and Billings. Original single-sided handbill, printed in brown on cream cardstock, 14cm x 9cm (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Brief note in ink to verso. In fine condition but for a small ink stamp at upper right corner: "Mooney..... More
San Francisco: Bay Area A.F. of L. Committee for the Freedom of Mooney and Billings, [1937]. Original single-sided handbill, printed in black on blue cardstock, 14cm x 9cm (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). In fine condition but for a small ink stamp at upper right corner: "Mooney Papers / Bancroft Library" (duplicate..... More
Oklahoma City: The American Guardian, N.d. [ca 1936?]. Original double-sided brochure, printed in black on coated newsprint, 14cm x 9cm (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Verso is an order form, with an endorsement from Carl Sandburg. In fine condition. Small brochure advertising the July 4th issue of Ameringer's socialist newspaper The American..... More
[San Francisco: Molders' Committee, 1933]. Original double-sided handbill on salmon cardstock, 14cm x 9cm (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). In fine condition but for some original ink offsetting. Announces a rally to free the communist labor organizer and Tom Mooney, who had been in prison since 1917 after being framed for the..... More
Berlin: Buchmeister-Verlag, 1926. First Edition. Labor novel first serialized in a Berlin newspaper as "Die Baumwollpflücker" ("The Cotton-Pickers"). The first half of the novel is set on a cotton farm among its workers who organize a successful, but ultimately fruitless, strike. The second half of the tale moves to the..... More
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Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1945. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's orange decorative wrappers; x,457pp. Minor wear and dust-soil, faint manuscript spine titling, some underlining and marginalia to early leaves, else Very Good and sound. Includes chapters on the IWW in California and the IWW in the wheat..... More
