Original poster: Free Mooney, Labor's Champion
by [TOM MOONEY MOLDERS' DEFENSE COMMITTEE]
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee, 1934. First Edition. Original photo-illustrated poster (86.5x56cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; illustrated with the well-known photographic portrait of Mooney taken outside his cell shortly after his second trial, in 1933. Previous folds, just a hint of toning to extremities, else Very Good or better. Fund-raising poster for the year 1934 issued by the Committee. Printed across bottom edge of poster: "A class war prisoner for 18 years on July 27, 1934 / The victim of a monstrous capitalistf class frameup / Member of the International Molders' Union for 32 years."
Mooney was framed on a murder charge following the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. Despite the patent mistrial, and decades of advocacy from both moderate and leftist legal activists, Mooney was not pardoned until 1939. NYPL and Yale only in OCLC as of September, 2016.
Mooney was framed on a murder charge following the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. Despite the patent mistrial, and decades of advocacy from both moderate and leftist legal activists, Mooney was not pardoned until 1939. NYPL and Yale only in OCLC as of September, 2016.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31546
- Title
- Original poster: Free Mooney, Labor's Champion
- Author
- [TOM MOONEY MOLDERS' DEFENSE COMMITTEE]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1934
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; Labor History; Posters;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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