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- First Edition
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Condition: Fair. First Edition. 16mo, 319 pages, olive green cloth, lacks the frontispiece, edgeworn This is the first and only novel by Lincoln's private secretary who later became U. S. Secretary of State. This novel is a reaction to the labor agitation of the 1870s and 1880s. This work reflects the viewpoint of the wealthy cl…ass in opposition to the laboring class. This was published anonymously - which provoked a heightened interest in it. Critic Virgil I. Parrington judged this novel as the "first girding of the loins of polite letters to put down the menace that looked out from the underworld of the proletariat." This book edition is slightly changed from its magazine appearance in Century Magazine. Others wrote novels immediately in reaction to this work, leaving this as "perhaps the best-known anti-labor novel in the American literary tradition." - Scott Dalrymple.
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Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1887
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- First Edition
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.Resource Books, LLC
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. First edition, title page dated 1884, The End on page 319. Considered the first labor novel, a work of fiction highlighting the working class in America. Light olive cloth lettered and decorated in dark red, 7" tall. Light rubbing to the extremiti…es, good hinges, sound text block, some binding glue residue between the front free endpaper and preliminary blank at the far inner margin, name in pencil on preliminary blank, no other markings, pages clean with a few instances of very minor finger soil to the margins. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
