The Warners: An American Story of To-Day (Today)

Chicago, IL: Jamieson-Higgins Co.. Offered is a first edition, first printing of "The Warners: An American Story of To-Day" written by Gertrude Potter Daniels and published in 1901 by the Jamieson-Higgins Co. out of Chicago, Illinois. A hardcover lacking dust jacket with splendid front cover art and containing 252 pages (two color schemes were used for the cover - this copy has a light brown background). A engrossing, tragic novel (I have gently read this copy), strongly anti-capitalist with socialist and anarchist themes throughout, involving Cyrus Warner, a man - homeless when young - who believed in the justice of the American system, one that would lift him out of poverty with hard work and perseverance. After obtaining a job at a factory, he meets Kirby and Ida Fisher, both radical socialists and orators, as well as his future wife, Betty Martin, a stenographer. The chance to purchase a small oil well provides the Warners and their daughter with a comfortable, although frugal, middle class income. After several years, Anthony J. Fellows - a ruthless oil magnate, who seeks to purchase all independent oil wells, "by a word" sends down the price of oil rendering the Warners and others like them impoverished. What follows is a chain of tragedies involving the Warners, their daughter, Kirby and Ida Fisher, and their son as their lives unravel due to capitalist greed. Gertrude Potter Daniels (1876-1940), daughter of a steel magnate and wife of a wealthy Chicago businessman, was an ardent socialist who complained that her works were "suppressed through the interference of capital." Stamp of former owner (F.A. Stevenson) to first inside free page; the outer covers show very light corner wear, very light rubbing to the title letters; a few very light smudges to a few internal pages. Overall, a beautiful copy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1901.