New York: Venanzi Memorial Committee, 1921. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Later cloth, titled in gilt on spine; xxiii,304pp. Very Good, with mild wear to board edges and the rear board mildly pulled. Text is entirely in Italian. Ex-libris Alfredo Verrico, Italian-American film producer and exporter, with his engraved bookplate and..... More

Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, ca. 1937. Fifth Revised Edition. Small octavo (19.25cm.); original grey printed wrappers; 124,[1](ad)pp. Pages uniformly toned, contemporary price rubberstamp cancel in red ink, else Fine. One of many later editions not specifically cited in Ebert. See MILES 4082 and 4248. More

New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1930. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Beige linen over boards, titles stamped in brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; charcoal top-stain; decorated endpapers; 295pp; fore- and bottom text block edges untrimmed. Gentle toning to cloth at margins, still a tight, Near Fine copy. In..... More

Chicago: Izdanie na Industralnit' Rabotnitzi na Svieta, 1923. Bulgarian translation of An Economic Interpretation of the Job (see MILES 4084 for the first, 1922, edition). NYU, UC Davis, Michigan, and Balch Institute only in OCLC as of September, 2015. Octavo (22.75cm.); original blue-green pictorial wrappers; [2],61,[1]pp. Wrapper edges a bit..... More

Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World Educational Bureau, 1918. First Edition. An iconic IWW song-sheet. According to Archie Green in his Big Red Songbook (p.191), the poem first appeared in a 1908 IWW publication under the title "The Cry Of Toil." It was set to music by Rudolph von Liebich..... More

Chicago: I.W.W., n.d., ca. 1920. First Hungarian Language Edition. Tipped in note with manuscript correction: "An official book[l]et of the I.W.W. / Translated into Hungarain [sic] by Joseh [sic] Gereb." Later (1944) manuscript note to title page: "Labadie Collection: G[if]t. Joseph H. Gereb. March 10. 1944." OCLC record erroneously gives..... More

New York: 1949. First Edition. Poem dated July 12, 1949, and "Dedicated to the memory of Benjamin H. Fletcher, veteran Negro revolutionary Industrialist Unionist who died July 10, 1949, and to all other valiant ones who died in the fight for Freedom." Fletcher was one of the most prominent leaders..... 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

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

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