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Striking for Life (Pre-issue promotional copy): Labor's Side of the Labor Question, A Marvelously Eloquent and Thoroughtly Convincing Presentation of the Right of the Workingman to Claim a Living Wage
by John Swinton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No dust jacket
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Union Publishing Company, New York, 1894. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Pre-publication promotional copy with pink frontispiece cover describing endorsements from Samual Gompers, President, American Federation of Labor and Eugene V. Debs, President, American Railway Union (included). The promotional copy contains 32 full page b/w photographs (mostly by A. R. Keller) or b/w sketch drawings that would appear in the published final book. 56 pp. Text is lightly yellowed typical of the pulp paper used in the printing. Leaves are clean and unmarked. There is evidence that a page 57 may have existed, but it has been torn from this copy and is missing. (When the complete book was published, it contained 491 pp.) Inside front pastedown contains a glued down leather example of the spine for the upcoming book. It is a leather strip embossed with gilt title, subtitle and author's name. Table of contents reflects 12 chapters, but only the first four chapters are included in this promotional copy. No page numbers are shown in the table of contents. Books actually publsihed as a pre-cursor to a larger, more detailed volume are incredibly rare as most were destroyed once the actual book was printed.
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100349
- Title
- Striking for Life (Pre-issue promotional copy)
- Author
- John Swinton
- Illustrator
- A. R. Keller, et. al.
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt, hinges tight.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, promotional copy
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Union Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1894
- Pages
- 56
- Size
- 5 3/4 X 8 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Labor relations
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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- New
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- Spine
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