Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1903. First Edition. Official report of Theodore Roosevelt's independent Commission, appointed "at the request of both the operators and of the miners" in October 1902 to investigate the causes of the Great Anthracite Strike of that year. The Commission's report marked an important mileston in..... More

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket, grey topstain; 451pp.; color portrait frontispiece, 8 leaves of black and white photographs, one graph in text. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Third volume of..... More

Charleston, WV: Black Lung Association, 1971. Scarce original issue. 4pp bifolium, 11" x 8-1/2". Minor edgewear, still Very Good or better. Monthly newsletter of the Black Lung Association, a worker-led advocacy group that coalesced around the passage of coal mining legislation requiring mine operators to admit liability for pneumoconiosis, a...... More

Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1972. Reprint. A selection of articles reprinted from Labor Age dating from April to December 1931 depicting harsh living conditions and general union activities of the West Virginia mountaineer miner. Heavily illustrated with photographs and political drawings. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial staplebound wrappers, [20pp], illus. Mild..... More

New York: Harold Vinal, 1926. First Edition. Rather uncommon novel set in the coal mines of Pocahontas County, West Virginia. "[T]his novel tells the usual tale of privation in mine camps, 'stilling and shoot-'em-up arguments" (BOGER 119); HANNA 902. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's reddish-brown cloth lettered in orange, orange topstain; [6],300pp..... More

Washington DC: United Mine Workers of America [UMWA], 1975. First Edition. Calendar. Oblong quarto. Pictorial, staple-bound wrappers; [12pp]; illus. Near Fine. Calendar pages with notable dates noted, faced with photographs by noted coal-country photojournalist Earl Dotter. More

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1983. First edition. Posthumously-edited autobiography of the great Kentucky folksinger and activist, with much on his early life as a miner and the coal wars of the twenties and thirties. A scarce title in nice condition; most copies seem to have gone to libraries..... More

New York: Hyperion, 2002. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Grey cloth boards, dustjacket, signed, vi + 176pp, illus. Signed by all nine Quecreek miners on first free endpaper. Near Fine. Uncommon thus, signed by all nine survivors. More

New York: Coward-McCann, [1959]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 256pp.; 8 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities else Very Good or better. Biography of the former Executive Vice President of the CIO who began his career..... More

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1924. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange/gold cloth titled in black on the cover and spine; dustjacket by D. C. Hutchinson; 327pp. Spine ends lightly pushed; faint forward lean, small stamp inside rear cover (August 1972); Near Fine. The dustjacket has nicks and..... More

New York: Carlton & Phillips, 1854. 16mo (15cm). In original green cloth, blindstamped on boards, titled in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; 207pp; wood-engraved frontispiece depicting "Gold Miners at Work." Ink inscription to f.f.e.p., dated 1855. A straight, sound copy, much rubbed, foxed throughout: Good. With a chapter on "The..... More

New York: Sept. 22, 1932. Approx. 150 words addressed to Gomer T. Davies, long-time editor of the newspaper the Concordia "Kansan," thanking him for his telegram and letter. Lewis notes "I had the misfortune about a week ago to have an attack of food poisoning, which laid me up for..... More

New York: Orcutt Co., [1898]. Lithograph in colors, 49cm x 32.5cm (19" x 12-3/4"). Printed on thin coated stock, text in three lines below large central image of a bearded laborer. Small marginal loss at left (away from printed area); a few small marginal tears, small area of ink (?)..... More