New York: Pantheon, 2025. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy.
x, 293, [1] pp. An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." This.....
Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, 1889. Hard Cover.
Owner bookplate on front endpaper (Julia Bryant Toohy, daughter of author William Cullen Bryant), faint stain to top and bottom marginal edges, rear board lightly soiled.
317 pp. 8vo. A story relating to the Molly Maguires, with a good.....
Rochester, New York: Ronald G. Pettingill Labor Education Fund, 2005. Large Softcover.
Signed by Jonathan Garlock with inscription ('for Vicki, In solidarity, Thanks for all the songs and spirit - Keep on raging! Jon Garlock, December 2005'). An excellent copy.
iv, 152 pp. "Even before the first national labor federations.....
New York: The Salvation Army Press, 1914. Hard Cover.
Spine faded, boards lightly rubbed with minor loss of gilt from titles/decorations, pencil names on front endpaper, binding beginning to weaken towards center.
146, [6] pp. Red cloth, gilt titles and decorations, black-and-white photographic portraits. A history of the Women's Christian.....
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front free endpaper, first blank and final text page missing. Minor loss from corners, crayon marks on endpapers.
270 pp. Includes discussion of women's suffrage, currency and banking, sex education, labor reform, sovereignty, and marriage. The author, son.....
Philadelphia: American Book & Bible House / Luther Minter, 1907. Krafft, Paul. Hard Cover.
A bit musty, a couple small smudges on boards and a few pages, minor damage to fore edge of two pages (only affects margin), ink names and address on front endpaper.
331 pp. A screed against.....
Philadelphia: The International Bible House / Luther Minter, 1907. Krafft, Paul. Hard Cover.
Boards soiled, corners rubbed and slightly exposed, stains to margins of first few pages, endpapers and a few pages lightly smudged, one plate loose but included.
331 pp. A screed against the dangers of unfettered capitalism, written.....
Alton, New York: Wayne County Historical Society, 1990. Large Softcover.
An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
x, 119 pp. An interesting piece of local history, and a penetrating glimpse into the lives of migrant workers and the camps they form as they travel in.....
Alton, New York: Wayne County Historical Society, 1990. Large Softcover.
Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('Keep writing, Amy. Best from Joyce Lehmann, October 21, 1990'). Spine toned, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
x, 119 pp. An interesting piece of.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state (no Main Street promo page). Lacks scarce jacket. Boards a bit rubbed with minimal loss from spine head, top edge and rear endpapers faintly foxed, rear hinge just beginning to weaken, two tiny spots on fore.....
Philadelphia / Chicago / St. Louis: The National Publishing Company, 1877. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards a bit rubbed, front hinge loosening, edges lightly stained, owner bookplate of Julia Bryant Toohy (daughter of author William Cullen Bryant) on front endpaper.
516, [10] pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles.....
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2025. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Brand new from pubilsher. An exceptional copy.
[lxxxvi], 857 pp. 8vo. Featuring extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy Brown. Entire nations and even a continent have come under the dominance of the ideas.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Former seminary library copy - bookplate only. Minor loss to spine head and spine base, light stain on spine.
xi, 296 pp. Travels in New York City, New England, New Orleans, California, the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, etc., with.....
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
[x], 306 pp. Winner of the 2004 Hendricks Award from the New Netherland Institute, and the 2007 British Association of American Studies Book Prize. From Privileges to Rights connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in.....
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers. 1882. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Rear board rubbed, rear hinge just beginning to weaken, spine slightly faded, edges and endpapers faintly foxed.
273 pp. Dark purple cloth, gilt titles and decorations, blind-stamped borders, tan endpapers. An account of the suppression of the Great Railroad.....
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Small sticker remnant on corner of front endpaper, otherwise an excellent copy.
viii, 136 pp. 8vo. 1968 reissue of 1845 original (Sabin 78168). A work based on two lectures by the author before the Bradford Church Institution, which led to 'a principal.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards a bit rubbed.
ix, [3], 244 pp. Green cloth, black titles. Author was a six-time candidate for president for the Socialist Party of America. Thomas defines the political climate of the United States at the time, explains.....
New York: Harper Perennial, 2014. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Front cover creased, edge wear.
x, 722 pp. Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Hard Cover.
Hinges weakening, front free endpaper of first volume absent, ink name and address on endpapers.
ix, [5], 270, [2]; ix, [1], 378, [2] pp. 8vo. Vignettes of working class life on the East and West coasts of America.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. 6th Printing. Hard Cover.
Sixth printing. Jacket lightly toned.
174 pp. Three renowned historians present stirring tales of labor: Howard Zinn tells the grim tale of the Ludlow Massacre, a drama of beleaguered immigrant workers, Mother Jones, and the politics of corporate power in the age.....