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Boss Tom: The Annals of an Anthracite Mining Village
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] [PENNSYLVANIA] KEMP, Matt Stan [Matthew Stanley Kemp] (novel); SHUTE, A.B. (illustrations)
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About This Item
Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1904. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in white, green, and gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],[7],8-412,[4]pp, with frontispiece and three plates of illustrations by A.B. Shute. Spine ends nudged, light wear to extremities, with mild dust-soil to cloth, and a faint forward lean; some offsetting to endpapers, with a touch of dustiness to text edges; Very Good+. In the original pictorial dustjacket, printed in black on thick sage green paper; sunned at spine and extremities, with light wear and a few tiny tears; Very Good+. Labor novel set in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania during the 1890's, depicting "the exact living status of the parties concerned, who the miner is and what his home life is like, the opinions and lives of honest officials, the ruling spirit of operators, the principles put in practice by unscrupulous hirelings, principles that are the generators of strikes which afflict all classes and threaten the social fabric of the state" (p.1). Kemp's writing was informed from his experiences living in Pennsylvania coal country over the course of twenty years. Scarce, particularly in dustjacket. OCLC notes physical holdings at 11 institutions. Not in BLAKE; HANNA 2003; SMITH K-105.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58601
- Title
- Boss Tom: The Annals of an Anthracite Mining Village
- Author
- [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] [PENNSYLVANIA] KEMP, Matt Stan [Matthew Stanley Kemp] (novel); SHUTE, A.B. (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Saalfield Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Akron, OH
- Date Published
- 1904
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Fiction; Mines / Miners / UMWA;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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