Washington DC: AFL-CIO, (1957). First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 27pp. Fine copy. Attack on the anti-labor policies of the Taft-Hartley Act on the tenth anniversary of its passage. Illustrated throughout with terrific mid-century illustrations. Foreword by Albert Whitehouse, Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department. More
![Dynamite: the Story of Class Violence in America [Inscribed 1st Printing]. ANARCHISM, Louis ADAMIC](/pictures/medium/40300.jpg?v=1554848322)
New York: Viking Press, 1931. First Edition. The very elusive first edition of Adamic's first book, a classic history of militant social movements in America and the equally militant methods used to suppress them, starting with the labor riots of 1877 and including the Haymarket Massacre, the Wobbly trials, the..... More
Washington DC: Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 55pp. Mild external wear; Very Good. Red Scare-era primer on Communists: how to recognize them, how to beat them, around the world and in the woodpile. With laid-in mimeographed cover-letter by..... More
N.p. Anti-Communist Seal Co., 1948. Unused sheet of twenty identical stamps with gummed versos, each with a portrait of Uncle Sam beside the legend: "Stop Communism! Go The American Way of Life!" Copyright 1948 by the "Anti-Communist Seal Company. Slight discoloration to upper margin of sheet, else very Near Fine..... More
New York: Committee for Constitutional Government, 1946. First Edition. Anti-labor propaganda by the Committee for Constitutional Government, a far-right private industry group. Illustrated with a few halftones documenting atrocities committed by union picketers and organizers. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers; 166pp; illus. Clean, tight and unmarked; text paper slightly aged, else Near..... More
Chicago: American Bible House, (1895). First Edition. Small octavo. Publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in black; floral endpapers; [6],364,(3)pp; illus. Small ownership label and a circular blank sticker to front endpapers, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original publisher's cloth. Romance set against the background of a labor..... More
![Socialism or Empire. A Danger [...] the most serious questions presented to the American people...](/pictures/medium/50309.jpg?v=1594781407)
[Omaha: Klopp & Bartlett, ca 1908]. Sole edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; 229pp. Sturdy, clean and unmarked; a Very Good copy. Anti-socialist polemic by a proponent of laissez-faire economics: "...any interference with the management of private business on the part of government..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 227pp; illus. Fine and unmarked in unworn jacket; near-new. More
New York: Provisional Committee to Free Steve Nelson, 1953. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 30pp. Very Good. SEIDMAN F125: 'Denunciation of the trial and 20-year sentence of Steve Nelson, Pittsburgh Communist leader..." More
Boston: Thomas J. Flynn, N.d. (ca 1914). Second Edition. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in white on spine and front cover; 365pp. Spine lettering mostly flaked away; endpapers darkened; else a tight, VG copy. Refutation of Marxism by two Catholic writers, one of them (Goldstein) a briefly prominent convert..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1947]. "Great Western Edition" Novel first published in 1919, "An 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 for the first edition. Octavo (19.5cm.);..... More
![Spine Title] Investigation of Un-American Activities. Volume XXIX: 1958. HOUSE UN-AMERICAN...](/pictures/medium/25699.jpg?v=1555174542)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1958. First Edition. Investigation Of Soviet Espionage (Parts I & II); Investigation of Communist Infiltration and Propaganda Activities in Basic Industry (Gary, Ind., Area); Investigation of Communist Activities in the New England Area (Parts I-III); Communist Propaganda, Part 9: Student Groups, Distributors, and Propagandists; Communism..... More
![To all persons employed upon The Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad [...]. LABOR - RAILWAY...](/pictures/medium/43188.jpg?v=1554848334)
Chicago: By the Company, 1888. A broadside missive by Charles Elliott Perkins, President of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, issued at the conclusion of the momentous 1888 Burlington Strike, one of the bloodiest labor actions up to the time and one which set a pattern for the strike-breaking industry..... More
London: A & C Black, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. Tan buckram (hardcover); 139pp. Clean and solid copy, not far from fine but for a spot of lifting to cloth on front cover and mild darkening to spine; internally fine.Though advertised as a "handbook of social facts," the author in fact..... More
Boston: Richard Badger, 1912. First Edition. Plea for a volunteer militia movement, well-illustrated with 15 leaves of halftone plates. Includes a chapter on Strike Duty, which the author calls "the worst kind of duty that can fall to the lot of the soldier." Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, spine lettered..... More
Boston: Richard Badger, 1912. First Edition. Plea for a volunteer militia movement, well-illustrated with 15 leaves of halftone plates. Includes a chapter on Strike Duty, which the author calls "the worst kind of duty that can fall to the lot of the soldier." Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, spine lettered..... More
![The Grapple: A Story of the Illinois Coal Region [&c...]. RADICAL, PROLETARIAN LITERATURE](/pictures/medium/018331.jpg?v=1554245952)
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1905. First Edition. Strike novel with a strong anti-union message, set in the coal fields of southern Illinois. SMITH C-724. HANNA 788. Not in Blake. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's olive green pictorial cloth boards, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; [iv], [1]-415 + 2pp..... 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
Boston: American Citizen Co., 1896. First Edition. This short-lived nativist news sheet was, if not the official organ, then at least the affiliated mouthpiece of the American Protective Association, an anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant membership society founded in Clinton, Iowa in 1887. The group played a vocal but not particularly influential role..... More
Kenilworth, IL: by the Author, 1934. Sixth (1936) Printing. Oft-reprinted manual for red-baiters. SEIDMAN D200: "...lists 450 organizations and 1,300 individuals under the communist label, applying this term indiscriminately to all types of social reform as well as to radical groups." Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's red cloth in yellow pictorial dust..... More
New York: James A. McCann, 1920. First Edition. Delaware author's scarce second book, an anti-IWW novel with an "America First" theme, set among the Colorado mine wars of 1913-14 and clearly written at the height of the first Red Scare. In his foreword the author states: "...it remains for us...[to..... More
[Boston]: George B. Hugo, 1909. First Edition. Full transcript of the debate, including occasional interjections from the audience. Since the volume was published at Mr. Hugo's expense, we may assume he thought himself the victor; though he notes in his foreword that "...they [the Socialists] submitted [their own] copy for..... More
New York: Madison & Marshall, 1936. Second printing, same year as first. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 236pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in original pictorial dustwrapper by Harry Douglas, slightly worn and darkened on spine. Presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "The very best luck in the world for America first..... More
