Johnson Olive, First Edition (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY DURING FOUR DECADES: 1890-1930, Henry Kuhn & Olive M. Johnson. Paper. 128 pages. GOOD+++. NY Labor News, 1931. Interior free of marks. A nice clean copy. 1st Edition.

Paperback. 126p., wraps, front., illus., very good condition, first edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT, Olive Johnson, published by NY Labor News, 1924. Paperback. 40 pages. Interior free of marks. Good++.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. MAY DAY VS. LABOR DAY: A COMPARISON OF THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TWO DAYS OF LABOR CELEBRATION, by Olive Johnson. New York Labor News, NY 1936. 40 pages. Paperback. Very Good Minus.

first edition inscribed by author 62pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (in glossy wrappers,sl.rubbed and soiled,spine sunned,author's inscr.to half-title to nz author una platts).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Large format paperback. ISBN: 0951711539 Pages: 309 Very good solid clean tight copy with only slight wear and slight creasing at spine.

First Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 126 mm), 40 pages in stapled wrappers. A spirited -- rollicking, even! -- essay, with attacks on "fakers," "impostors," "swindlers," and other enemies of the working class.May Day is the true holiday of the proletariat, the author says, while Labor Day in the U.S. is fake because it "sticks to the hollow pretense of a brotherhood between capital and labor."Issued by the radical Socialist Labor Party, the pamphlet argues that American labor leaders have eagerly embraced the capitalist class. "The 'labor' leaders travel through the country in the grandest style, stop at the 'swellest' hotels--often as not, manned with non-union labor. Where they go, liquor flows expensively and plentifully--sometimes swinishly." (page 30)The author, Olive M. Johnson (1872-1954), was a longtime activist, editor, and pamphleteer for the Socialist Labor Party. This pamphlet is peak agit-prop. SCARCE.CONDITION: Light soling and creasing to wrappers. Pages clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy.

Hardback. Printed pages: 176. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. *** PLEASE NOTE *** The bookshop is currently closed for holidays. Items can still be ordered, but will not be dispatched until we reopen on Saturday 6th July 2nd September. Many thanks for your patience. *** Dust jacket: Loss to ends of spine, wear to edges. Browning to spine. Light browning and soiling, a few marks to front cover. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Good. Book: Quarter yellow buckram with illustrated paper covered boards. Page edges untrimmed. Browning and foxing to page edges. Good solid binding. Very clean text with just a few spots of foxing. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 7.75 inches (14.5 x 19.5 cm).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by B. J Lore and T. G. Hamilton (illustrator). First Edition. Children's book about Native Americans in Texas written in 1937 by an elementary school principal in Fort Worth, Texas and the Director of Speech at North Texas State Teachers College. Former school textbook in the state of Texas, but no markings other than the endpaper and one student's name. Both ends of spine bumped. Corners rubbed. Book protected in clear plastic covers. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 256 pages.

Condition: Very Good. First edition, 8vo., pp.176, uncut, pictorial yellow paper-covered boards backed in yellow cloth, design and lettering in black, b/w pictorial title; foxing to edges and margins of boards, occasional foxing within, splash-mark to top-edges, slight splash-marking to spine, a very good copy.

First Edition. Quarto (32cm). Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; 40pp; illus. Partial split to paper at bound edge (but sound); moderate soiling to covers, mostly visible on rear wrapper; internally complete, VG overall. Rather uncommon one-off publication; an expensively-produced commemorative miscellany that would appear to celebrate the revolutionary history of May Day - except that only the opening editorial (unsigned, but likely by Olive Johnson) includes any tangible May Day content. Given the quality of the paper and production, this was probably intended as a recruiting document for the Socialist Labor Party. As with many SLP publications of the period, the handsome exterior belies the dreariness of the writing - the text proffers SLP founder Daniel De Leon as a revolutionary leader on the same plane as Karl Marx, and the SLP as the only American political party with "a definite and clear-cut revolutionary program." Includes contributions by Olive Johnson ("Pre-Revolutionary Building of a New Social Order"); Arnold Petersen ("Revolution"); an anonymous article, signed "M.M.S.", on the 1934 massacre of socialist workers in Vienna; poetry by Varley H. Lang, Joseph Carleton Borden, Jr., and others. The cover design is credited to Walter Steinhilber. One copy only noted in OCLC (NYPL).