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
Huntington, WV: Appalachia Press, 1976. A brief statement of the culture and history of Southern Appalachia, broken up into three parts: pre-Civil War, Civil War, and post Civil War. With a poem titled "When the Leaves Come Out" by "A Paint Creek Miner" printed on final leaf. Fourth printing. Octavo... More
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
N.p. by the Author, 1975. First Edition. Photo-essay depicting the daily lives of miners and their families during the 1973 Harlan County Coal Strike. The accompanying booklet contains the transcript of an interview with Houston Elmore, head of the organizing drive for the UMWA during the Brookside and Highsplint strikes... 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
New York: Council of Women for Home Missions, [1918]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown card wrappers printed in dark brown; viii,192pp.; photographic frontispiece, seven leaves of plates. One plate separated but present, else Very Good and sound. Covers urban industries, child labor, mill workers, "Negro Laborers," lumber camps, and... More
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
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
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
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
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1902. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and peach; 389pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of plates. Boards rather scuffed and lightly soiled, front board a bit bent with tear to front pastedown, small bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Very... More
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
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: 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
![Poster] Your Wages Up or Down! COMMUNIST PARTY - LABOR - COAL INDUSTRY, NATIONAL MINERS RELIEF...](/pictures/medium/35117.jpg?v=1554414996)
Pittsburgh: National Miners Relief Committee, n.d. [but 1928]. Strike poster issued by the Communist-backed National Miners Relief Committee, formed in response to a 16 month-long strike which left 150,000 miners in Ohio and Pennsylvania unemployed. The strike began after the workers in the bituminous coal fields experienced signifiant wage cuts... More
[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
![Rings On Her Fingers [Signed]. Rhys DAVIES, George William BISSELL, novel, cover art](/pictures/medium/28632.jpg?v=1529353590)
London: Harold Shaylor, 1930. First U.K. Edition. The author's second novel, a study of marriage, dealing "mainly with the vicious effect which a monotonous existence in a narrow and raw Welsh mining valley has on a young woman of romantic inclinations" (from front flap). In a particularly striking example of... More
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
N.p. Artangel, [2001]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps; 157pp.; illus. and photographs throughout. Fine condition. Together with the accompanying CD mounted inside rear cover. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
