Pershing george (3 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1919, 1st Edition, Early Printing, Book is VG / GOOD - Condition Dustjacket, Green Cloth with Black Decoration Illustration of 2 on Horseback & Lettered in Red on Front Cvr Light Rub, Wear, Interior nice tight Clean light FOX TONING PGS Thruout, Front DJ Fox Wear & Small Stain & Chip at Bottom Edge Yet the Illustration & Title are INTACT front DJ. Spine DJ Ends small Chips, Scuff but Titles Basically are There. 239 Pgs + ADS end with Ralph Marlowe Tale of Buckeye State, Back DJ light wear, Stain, soil Ads end with Handy book of Plays for Girls.…

Zustand: Very good. - sc The 8 inch high by 6 inch wide photograph depicts the young George Pershing from the chest up. The National Textile Workers Union organizer is handsomely attired in a dark three piece suit over white shirt and tie. This is a vintage photograph, likely reproduced from their newsreel footage, distributed by the International Newsreel Corp. at the time. International Newsreel's credit line with their eagle logo is stamped on the verso. Once attached to the verso of the photograph, a sheet of paper on which is typed the text for a press release, accompanies the photograph. The text of the press release reads as follows:"ALLEGED RELATIVE OF GENERAL PERSHING, LEADER OF STRIKING FACTION.CHARLOTTE, N.C.George Pershing who claims and has papers purporting to prove that he is a cousin of Gen. John J. Pershing commander of the A.E.F., who is leader of the communist party who organized the local of the National Textile Workers' Union, (re-pudiated by the A.F. of L.) which is now engaged in a strike accompanied by serious rioting at the Loray Mills Gastonia, N.C. / B-4.5.29".One of several textile mills to strikes at that time, Loray Mills was the first in the country to be owned by Northern owners who sought to benefit from a poor white Southern labor pool who were paid far less than their Northern counterparts. Exploitation of the workers resulted in a wave of walk-outs and strikes, one of the most famous of which was that at Loray Mills. Not only were striking workers struggling against the mill owners but the Communist led National Textile Workers' Union, organized by Fred Irwin Beal and George Pershing was pitted against the A.F. of L.'s United Textile Workers' Union, which was not against using strong-arm tactics to gain the advantage.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A bound, ex-library copy the July - December 1932 issues of The American Magazine, volume 114. It includes a title and author index bound in the front. Contents include stories and Depression Era articles by Archibald Rutledge (You Can't Put Out the Sun - July), Alexander Woolcott (I'm Glad I'm Absent Minded - July), Dashiell Hammett (2 Sam Spade stories - A Man Called Spade - July, Too Many Have Lived - October), Octavus Roy Cohen (The Knight's Errand - July, Hearts and Clubs - August, Grandstand Stuff - November), Amelia Earhart (Flying the Atlantic - August), Clarence Budington Kelland (Something to Tell the Folks Who Can't See Where Business is Going - August, Scattergood Meets a Gangster - September, The Touchstone: A Scattergood Story - October, Scattergood Tries an Experiment - November, Red Fingernails - December), Beverley Smith (The Man With the Flashlight Mind, The Story of Walter Lippmann - September), Walter Lippmann (Good Men Wanted - September), Tom Gill (Guardians of the Desert parts 1 - 4 - September - December), Kathleen Norris (Walls of Gold, parts 1 - 3, October - December), I A R Wylie (Pilgrimage - November) General John J Pershing (The Thing We Need Today - December), P G Wodehouse (A Cagey Gorilla - December), and others. Light rubbing to the spine. The front covers are present but the back covers have been removed, The top margin has been trimmed slightly, at times affecting the text at the top of the front cover. The library markings are fairly unobtrusive. They include "Mercer University Library - Macon, GA" stamps on the front covers and a Mercer University Library plate on the front paste down. Occasional neat tape repairs to a few pages. Occasional soil spots in the margins. However the interior is very clean and crisp overall. The binding is solid and tight. A very good copy with stories and serial installments by prominent authors, most notably Dashiell Hammett and P G Wodehouse, and a nice selection of Depression Era articles. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage. John E Sheridan, Hatden Hayden, Diana Thorne, Penrhyn Stanlaws (covers), Charles S Chapman, William Auerbach-Levy, Joseph Clement, George Howe, Clayton Knight, C W Massaguer, Floyd M Davis, Ralph Pullen Coleman, Paul Meylan, Pruett Carter and others (illustrator).…