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

Battle Creek, MI: Wages, Wealth and Welfare Press, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; viii,760pp. Shows signs of being ex-library, with minor spine label residue and redacted rubberstamp to front free endpaper; spine quite darkened, else Very Good and sound. More

Kansas City: Burton Publishing Co., 1920. First Edition. Publishes a series of letters from the author to Charles Schwab, who at this time was President of Bethlehem Steel, seeking Schwab's support in implementing a sort of "maximum wage" scheme in the United States. Kathrens's letters grow increasingly indignant as Schwab..... 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

Salt Lake City: Tribune Job Printing Company, 1893. First Edition. Novel set during the 1860s silver rush at the Comstock lode in the western Utah territory (modern-day Virginia City, Nevada), written by the publisher of the "Salt Lake City Daily Tribune." WRIGHT III 2206. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's blue decorative cloth..... More

[Yellow Springs, OH]: Antioch Press, [1954]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; 179pp. Some chipping to jacket extremities, 1.5-inch closed tear to spine edge of rear panel; Fine in About Very Good jacket. Case study of a wildcat strike (spontaneous walk-out) which took place while..... More

Terre Haute: J.M. Vickroy, 1900. Elaborate lithographed broadside of the type awarded as a "premium" for union membership throughout the late 19th century. Jugate portrait of W.C. Pearce and John Mitchell, surrounded by captioned vignettes depicting the many trials and triumphs of a union miner's life, beginning with a mass-meeting..... 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