Shute a b illustrations (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Back hinge repaired. Three letters, a number, and a date written on front endpaper. Spine tips and cover corners are worn. Spine lettering is partly rubbed. 385 pages plus 15 pages of ads and ten illustrations.

First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in white, green, and gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],[7],8-412,[4]pp, with frontispiece and three plates of illustrations by A.B. Shute. Spine ends nudged, light wear to extremities, with mild dust-soil to cloth, and a faint forward lean; some offsetting to endpapers, with a touch of dustiness to text edges; Very Good+. In the original pictorial dustjacket, printed in black on thick sage green paper; sunned at spine and extremities, with light wear and a few tiny tears; Very Good+. Labor novel set in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania during the 1890's, depicting "the exact living status of the parties concerned, who the miner is and what his home life is like, the opinions and lives of honest officials, the ruling spirit of operators, the principles put in practice by unscrupulous hirelings, principles that are the generators of strikes which afflict all classes and threaten the social fabric of the state" (p.1). Kemp's writing was informed from his experiences living in Pennsylvania coal country over the course of twenty years. Scarce, particularly in dustjacket. OCLC notes physical holdings at 11 institutions. Not in BLAKE; HANNA 2003; SMITH K-105.…