Oakland and Chicago: PM Press / Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company; Merlin, 2011. Paperback. 447 pp. [25.5 cm] Brown, grey and orange wraps with a b&w photograph on cover. New book with no flaws. Paperback. Great illustrations printed throughout. From the publisher: NO group in American labor history has exerted..... More
Studio City, CA: KnoWare, 1990. Debbie Mitchell. First edition. Spiral Bound. SIGNED. Quarto [28 cm] Spiral bound black and white printed wraps. The wraps are lightly soiled. With the publisher's form "Timothy Leary's Cyber Deli Collector's Menu" tucked in. Contents: How I Became An Amphibian; Criminalizing the Natural and Naturalizing..... More
London: Verso, 2020. First edition. Paperback. 374pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Photographic wraps. Black spine with white text. Spanning the 1930s to the present, this chronologically-arranged, primary source reader is made up of antifascist writings by Americans and by exiles in the US, some instantly recognizable, others long-forgotten. It also includes..... More
Torino: Einaudi, 1977. Paperback. 183pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. The extremities are mildly rubbed, foxed and soiled. There is a tiny stain on the bottom edge of the front cover, and there is an old price sticker on the rear wrap. Gli Struzzi 142. Mary Harris Jones..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 2011. First edition. Spiral Bound. 256 pp. [21.5 cm] Octavo. Spiral bound wrappers. This new edition contains considerable additional material. It has about four times as many songs, many new photographs, and new artwork. U. Utah (Bruce) Phillips ran away from home while..... More
Oakland, CA: PM Press and the C.H. Kerr Company, 2015. Second edition. Paperback. 639 pp. Octavo. [23 cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Joe Hill has finally found a chronicler worthy of his revolutionary spirit, sense of humor, and poetic imagination. -Robin D.G. Kelly" -from the front cover. More
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights; National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL), [1976]. First edition. Paperback. Slender octavo [23 cm] Bound in stapled brown illustrated wrappers. Very good condition, with moderate soiling on the rear wrap. A program for a concert featuring Pete Seeger and Studs Terkel, and..... More
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 409pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light blue cloth over boards. With the pictorial dust jacket. Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History. From the dust jacket- " There is little documentation of Mother Jones's life: her medium was, magnificently, the spoken word. The..... More
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, [1995]. First paperback edition. Paperback. 336pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Pictorial wraps. In the publisher's shrink-wrap. Edward M. Steel Jr., professor emeritus of history at West Virginia University, is the editor of The Correspondence of Mother Jones and The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2018. First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. 381pp. Octavo [20.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Wallace Stegner’s remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his..... More
London and Melbourne: Heinemann, 1967. First edition. 254pp. Octavo [22 cm] Navy blue paper over boards. Dinged at the spine ends and corners. The title on the jacket's spine has faded. The jacket is price-clipped, lightly soiled, and has several closed tears in the edges. A first edition of Ian..... More
Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. 161pp. Duodecimo [19cm]. Glossy illustrated paper over boards. "In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal government for conspiracy to incite a riot. First dubbed the 'Conspiracy 8' and later the 'Chicago 7,' the group included firebrands like Abbie..... More