[Manchester? n. p., ca. 1838-1846]. Broadside on card stock, approx. 4.5 x 6 inches. Engraved vignette, "Stephenson & Royston Del. & Sc." An attractive ephemeral relic of the political fight against trade restrictions on grains in England, an important early free trade movement, here decorated with an engraved vignette of... More about Engraved membership card for the National Anti-Corn-Law League, completed in autograph ink for...

[Houghton-le-Spring? n. p., ca. 1880-1900?]. Original black and white gelatin print, 1.5 x 2.25 inch image on a mount measuring 4.13 x 2.5 inches, mount with scalloped edges. 8-line autograph manuscript poem captioning the image. A clear, crisp, striking image of men standing in front of structures (including smokestacks) at... More about Carte de visite (CDV) sized view of the Houghton Pit, the County Durham coal mine that was active...

Detroit: n. p., [1932]. First edition. Broadside, 11 x 8.75 inches. Vignette portrait of Foster. With reference to “the Ford Massacre on Bloody Monday,” and calls for an end to racial discrimination. Foster had escaped arrest in the wake of the violence in Dearborn in March. More about Hear Wm. Z. Foster Communist Candidate for President of U.S.A. Saturday, July 23, 7:30pm. Arena...

St. Louis: n. p., [1900]. Small broadside, 4 x 3.75 inches. Union bug at the foot of the text. An ephemeral pro-labor relic of a violent street car operators’ strike in St. Louis that stretched from May to September, 1900 in the wake of street car company consolidation (the state... More about Small printed form, completed in pencil: July 4th, 1900. Received of bearer the sum of $[25 cts]...

[N. p., but London? n. p., 1709 or 1710?]. First edition. Single leaf, evidently extracted from a nonce volume (with traces of calf along one edge), 12.75 x 8 inches, with a printed docket title on the verso. An early example of industry lobbying, a petition to Parliament on the... More about Reasons Humbly Offer’d for the Bill, for Ascertaining and Limiting the Time of Future Publick...

Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1894. First edition. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. With Trumbull’s pseudonym “Wheelbarrow” at the head of the title. Arguments on questions of national economics from the man who had worked as a railroad laborer before becoming a lawyer and state legislator: “While aspiring..... More about Wheelbarrow. Articles and Discussions on the Labor Question

(New York: Workers Library Publishers Inc., 1937.). First edition. 8vo, original printed self-wrappers, 45, [3] pages. On the success of the Flint Sit-Down Strike against GM and the emergence of the UAW (and incidentally the role of the Communist party in the strike's success) from the Secretary of the Michigan... More about The Great Sit-Down Strike