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

Chikago: Izdanie i pechat na Industrialite Rabotnitsi na Sveta, 1924. First Thus. 12mo (19cm.); original blue staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Very mild toning along wrapper extremities, else Fine. Bulgarian edition of the organizing pamphlet What Is the I.W.W.? (See MILES 4669.) This edition unlocated in OCLC as of September, 2015. More

Boise, ID: The Statesman Shop, [1907]. First edition. Full transcription of Borah's closing statement as prosecuting attorney in the case of Idaho vs. William D. Haywood et. al., for the 1905 murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg. Borah lost the case to the brilliant defense of Clarence Darrow (the..... More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1916. First Edition. Comprehensive report of the labor struggles and laws at the turn of the 20th century, subsantially devoted to the Colorado Labor Wars. The Commission was first created in 1912 in the wake of a wave of labor disputes, and was headed by..... More

Buffalo: Henry J. Pfaff, 1983. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original cream staplebound card wrappers; [2],62pp. Fine. Collection of protest poetry by a member of the IWW. Not in MILES. More

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: 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

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

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