Tokyo: The Japan Times, Ltd, 1967. Paperback. Sixth edition; 100p., scattered b&w illustrations, lyrics and notes in different fonts, transcriptions are also in Japanese characters and transliteration. Large softbound, 11.5x8 inch decorated wraps, in glossy dust jacket with ditto'd design. Book has small tears at head and tail of spine panel, otherwise general mild edgewear, while dj is in similar state but wear is a little more severe. A good to very good copy. "38 melodies of representative Japanese Folk-songs with Western musical notation .. time-honored songs sung before 1900 - still sung today.
Morgantown, WV: Peoples Appalachian Research Collective, 1971. 31p., pictorial wraps, 8.5x11 inches, staple-bound, very good. Cover story, "Last stand to save the land," is about strip mining.
San Francisco: Proletarian Publishers, 1974. Paperback. 68p., wraps slightly stained, minor staining in outer margin of title page else good condition, 5.25x8 inches. Dougher joined the CP in 1930, was active in the UMWA, and a member of the Lincoln Brigade.
Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1936. Pamphlet. 29, 4, 4, 12, 2, 3, 16p., wraps faded and worn, mimeographed, due to mimeograph mishap two pages are blank in the middle of a report but no text is missing (collated with another copy), 8.5x11 inches. First section is minutes, other sections are various reports (Fred Thompson's report, finances, etc) and much on the Herbert Mahler and a dispute over the defense of four Kentucky coal miners.
New York: March of Labor Inv, 1954. Magazine. 23, [i]p., wraps slightly worn, musty, small tear on bottom of rear wrap, else good condition, 8x10.5 inches. Includes Anne Braden's article "Kentucky miners prepare for battle," and more. Noted in Walter Goldwater's "Radical periodicals in American, 1890-1950" no. 144 "Monthly edited by John Steuben, spokesman for the Communist line in union matters during this period
New York: March of Labor Inv, 1954. Magazine. 23, [i]p., wraps slightly worn, minor wrinkling else good condition, 8x10.5 inches. Includes Anne Braden's article "Kentucky miners prepare for battle," and more. Noted in Walter Goldwater's "Radical periodicals in American, 1890-1950" no. 144 "Monthly edited by John Steuben, spokesman for the Communist line in union matters during this period
Springfield, IL: Sub-district Committee, Southern Illinois, 1935. Leaflet, printed on one side only, 8.5x11.5 inches, paper browned slightly chipped with a few closed tears, fragile but intact. All text.
London: Pluto Press, 1985. Paperback. [112p.], wraps slightly soiled, spine sloped else good condition, 8.25x5.75 inches.
[Washington, DC]: Nationalization Research Committee, United Mine Workers of America, 1922. Pamphlet. 28p., wraps chipped, worn and fragile, text block paper still white overall in good condition, stamp of the League for Industrial Democracy on the front wrap. Corporate author: United Mine Workers of America. Nationalization Research Committee. Done as part of the UMWA's campaign to nationalize coal mines.
Philadelphia: printed for private distribution, 1913. xiv, 512p., hardcover, minor scuffing and handsoil, wear to bottom of spine with an eighth-inch loss to cloth rim; inscribed by the author to Ralston B. Hoopes. Bookseller's penciled annotation to front endpaper. The Quaker author discusses his work with African Americans, workers (including coal miners), the Doukhobors, Native Americans, etc.
Cleveland, OH: Toiler Publishing Association, 1920. 16p., single issue of the newspaper, in magazine format, 8.75x10.75 inches. Minor edgewear and soil, generally very good. Includes coverage of the Great Minneapolis Demonstration, Emil Lyons on Danzig workers marching, the Brooklyn carmen's strike, and more. Cover cartoon shows a coal miner being buttonholed by a cigar-smoking fat cat who says "Say, you ought to be satisfied with 17 per cent. Why, I only make from 1000 to 3000 per cent myself.
London: Socialist Worker, 1985. Paperback. 256p., wraps, fore edges slightly stained else very good condition.
Oakland: PM Press, 2017. Paperback. 252p., wraps, illus. Like new.
Washington, D.C.: Labor's Non-Partisan League, 1947. 128p., slender paperback, very good. Cover quote from Lewis - "Coal is already saturated with the blood of too many men and drenched with the tears of too many surviving widows and orphans.
New York: Persea Books, 1977. Paperback. 245p., wraps worn else good condition. On coal miners in the Cumberland mountains.
Washington DC: National Coal Policy Conference, Inc, 1961. Pamphlet. [13p.], wraps, library stamps and sticker on front wrap else clean, 8x5.5 inches. Collaboration between the bosses and UMWA.
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee. [24p.], staplebound booklet, 9x12 inches, lower corners worn, otherwise very good. Black and white photos. Introduction to the planned cooperative homestead community that was established in 1937 to provide stability to families that could no longer rely on the dwindling local coal industry.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1931. Hardcover. 513p., tables, diagrams, bookplate of the Foundation, remainder mark on bottom fore edge else very good condition in like dj. Industrial relations series.
Minneapolis, MN: New American Movement, 1974. [24p.], staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, some rust adjacent to staples.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Hardcover. vi, [iv], 409p., map, illus., first printing, previous owner's name else very good condition in a shelf worn and chipped dj.
