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

[London: Fabian Society, 1968]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original blue staplebound pictorial wrappers; 32pp.; text in double column. Fine. Fabian Research Series no. 266. Includes a chapter on the Union Minière, which President Mobutu converted into the state-owned mining company Gécamines. More

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. First Edition. First state, bulking 13/16". 12mo (18.5cm). Original terra cotta publisher's cloth, blind frame to boards, titled in gilt on spine; chocolate brown coated endpapers; [iv], 283pp. Sturdy and fresh, albeit with minor wear and dirt to cloth, hinges cracked, internally clean..... 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

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1924. First Edition. Small octavo (19.25cm.); original dark green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xiv,316pp. Near Fine. More

Paris: Bibliothèque Internationale d'Édition, E. Sansot & Cie. 1907. First Trade Edition. Bleak collection of stories following in the footsteps of Zola's naturalistic novel Germinal. Mostly set in the mines of northern France; beautifully, albeit lugubriously, illustrated by the Art Nouveau painter and printmaker Théophile Steinlen. CRAUZAT 639. Quarto (24.5cm.);..... More