Gabler Edwin Ed (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Usual ex-library markings, with no dust jackets. Minimal shelf-wear, with interiors fine or, in some volumes, as new. Each volume has its own glossary and index. Volume 1 (The Making of a Union Leader, 1850-86) has 529 pages. Volume 2 (The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90) has 495 pages. Volume 3 (Unrest and Depression, 1891-94) has 764 pages, with 1/4" ink mark at outer edge of book block. Volume 4 (A National Labor Movement Takes Shape, 1895-98) has 592 pages, with light staining at upper rear cover. Volume 5 (An Expanding Movement at the Turn of the Century, 1898-1902) has 605 pages. Small stains on upper back and lower front covers. Volume 6 (The American Federation of Labor and the Rise of Progressivism, 1902-6) has 629 pages. Volume 7 (The American Federation of Labor under Siege, 1906-9) has 582 pages. Volume 8 (Progress and Reaction in the Age of Reform, 1909-1913) has 589 pages. Volume 9 (The American Federation of Labor and the Height of Progressivism, 1913-1916) has 615 pages. Volume 10 (The American Federation of Labor and the Great War, 1917-1918) has 648 pages. Upper corners of cover bumped, with small pale stain on centre of front cover. Volume 11 (The Post-War Years, 1918-1921) has 658 pages. Lower corners of first 10 pages are rumpled with small tears. "The editors have done a superb job with the first volume, carefully annotating each document with enough appropriate background information so that even a nonspecialist can understand the context and appreciate the significance of allusions to contemporary individuals, organizations, or intellectual currents. The choices of items to be included were similarly based on the desire to produce a volume that might be read by a broader audience than the specialists who will mine the larger collection for research purposes. The editors began, as they explain, with the assumption that these volumes are a form of literature rather than simply a compendium of historical documents. The volume does read, as they had hoped, more like a good monograph than a piece of an archival project. . We will look forward to future volumes in this series ." - Richard Oestreicher in The Journal of American History, December, 1986. Over-sized set may require additional shipping, esp. to international destinations.