Seattle: Minnie Parkhurst, [1917]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 64pp. Old clear tape reinforcements along bound edge of wrappers; slight cover soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Olivereau, an American-born daughter of French immigrants, was a stenographer at the I.W.W. Branch headquarters..... More

New York: The Radical Review Publishing Association, 1918. First Separate Edition. 12mo (19.5 cm). Printed thick card wrappers; 122pp. Binding flaw has resulted in an extra frontispiece, half-title and contents page to be inserted prior to the title page. Wrappers slightly stained on front cover; front hinge a bit messy..... More

[Chicago]: Industrial Workers of the World, 1955. Quarto (27.25cm.); original green mimeographed staplebound wrappers; 11,[1],12pp.; text printed from typescript; lacking top staple, remnants of previously removed paper label on upper wrapper not affecting text; faint toning along fold lines of rear wrapper. Appendix (large tear without loss of meaning) printed..... 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

[N.p. Industrial Workers of the World, n.d., ca. 1940s]. First Edition. Small slim oblong 32mo (3.75x11.5cm.); plain staplebound card wrappers; five leaves each comprised for four repeating perforated stamps printed in red, interleaved with blanks. Fine. Complete booklet of IWW GOC (General Organizing Committee) dues stamps. More

New York: Solidaridad [Solidarity], N.d. [ca 1935]. First Edition Thus. Spanish-language edition of MacDonald's Unemployment and the Machine [MILES 4312]. The English-language version first appeared in 1923; the present edition appears to be rather later, probably ca. mid-1930s. Octavo (23cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Original pictorial wrappers; 103pp. Minor chipping to wrapper..... More

Chicago: 1937. Single-page typed letter of 14 lines, signed in pencil with pencil manuscript postscript. Written on Industrial Worker letterhead and dated July 9, 1937. Editor of the Industrial Worker Carl Keller thanks Dwight Swain for "your splendid story," which will be published in the August number of the OBU..... 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: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First Edition. Among the more nuanced Socialist novels of the 'teens and, according to Rideout, one of the first serious portrayals of the I.W.W. in American fiction. The book is also noteworthy for offering a woman protagonist who, in contrast to the formulaic society-girl-turned-socialist..... 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

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

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

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