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 about Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May-October, 1902

Jackson, MS: The University Press of Mississippi, 1981. First Edition. A compilation of mining poems by Appalachian scholar and writer, James B. Goode. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Laid in is a newspaper clipping of the book review written by William Paulk. Author's 12-line note, dated 7/16/81, thanks Paulk... More about Poets of Darkness

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 about The Miners in Crisis and War: A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (from 1930...

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1931. Staple-bound pamphlet; 18pp. Pencil mark to sunned, foxed and stained cover, bottom of spine torn to lower staple, corners of cover and pages creased, rear cover slightly torn and worn across top, else very good. More about German Miners in the Don Bas: How Unemployed Miners Help to Build Socialism

Beaver, WV: Gem Publications, 2010. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; 102pp.; photographic illus. throughout. As New. Compilation of contemporary newspaper articles regarding the horrific conditions at the New River Coal Field in West Virginia at the turn of the 20th century. More about Coal Mining Mayhem & Murder: The Incredible New River Coal Field, 1900-1912

Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1987. First Edition. A detailed account of the Banner Coal Mine, a proponent of the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company, in Jefferson County, Alabama. In 1911, an explosion killed 128 miners, of which 123 were convicts on lease from state prisons. This tragedy prompted... More about Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, [1897]. [New Edition]. Collection of short stories set among the mining community of Jefferson County, Colorado. Originally published in 1891, this edition includes new stories "His Harvest," "On His Honor," "Finally Recognized," and "'And a Little Child Shall Lead Them.'" WRIGHT III 2004... More about Pine Valley

[San Francisco]: The Communist Party of North Beach, N.d. [1947?]. Broadside advertising a rally in San Francisco's Washington Square Park. The broadside does not list the particular issues being protested, but from the context it would appear to have been against the Supreme Court's 1947 ruling affirming the right of... More about It Is Time For Action! / 'E Tempo Di Essere Attivi Nella Lotta Contra La Reazione!

London: Joiner and Steele, 1931. First U.K. Edition. The author's first collection of short fiction, containing 15 short stories about the private lives of colliers tinged with bitter humor and a portrayal of "life in the raw." A particularly striking example of the dustjacket designed by George William Bissell (1896-1973)... More about A Pig In A Poke

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [10],337pp.; map endpapers. Jacket spine sunned, tiny soil spot to upper panel, upper flap has faint glue residue from previously removed sticker of original price ($4.50), else Very Good and sound. Novel... More about The Hills Stand Watch

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1910. First Edition. Issue primarily devoted to "The Murder of the Miners at Cherry," also known as the Cherry Mine Disaster, in which 259 (rounded up to 400 by the Review) mine workers were burned and suffocated in a fire trap at the Cherry... More about The International Socialist Review. Vol. X, no. 7, January, 1910

State College: Penn State University Press, 1980. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 200pp; illus. Slight sun-fading to jacket spine panel, else a Fine, apparently unread copy. Biography of folklorist and folk song collector George Korson, whose compilations of coal-mining songs remain one of the key contributions to Pennsylvania folk history. More about Folklorist of the Coal Fields: George Korson's Life and Work

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1935]. First Edition. Novel about "the fifth generation of a Virginia family of Scotch Presbyterians," detailing their fortunes in the Shenandoah Valley from 1900 to 1932. COAN, p. 60; HANNA 1426. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [6],462pp.; map endpapers. Jacket... More about Vein of Iron