Hay John Anonymous (3 results)

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 class 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.…

hardcover. Condition: Very good. first edition. Small octavo (approx. 4 3//4" wide by 7" tall) olivegreen cloth covers with black titles and decorations. 319 pages. BAL #7762. Light wear at cover edges. Hay was the former secretary to Abraham Lincoln and in 1898 became U.S. Secretary of State. This present work has been characterized as an anti-labor novel written in reaction to several strikes that affected Hay's business interests. It was not published under his name until after his death. First serialized in The Century magazine. Studio.…

Hardcover. 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 extremities, 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. …