New York: The Leonard Press, 1922. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 48 pp., small 8vo. With an introduction by Scott Nearing. Poems of the well-known Wobbly (the first poem, "Mourn Not the Dead," was set to music and recorded in the 1990s by Steven Taylor, poet and member of the revived Fugs). Front hinge of binding partially cracked, otherwise very good, in a near very good jacket with small edge chips and closed tears. This copy inscribed by Evelyn Preston to Spencer Miller, Jr., in November of 1922, with the question: "Tell me how long we are to keep Christ writhing on the Cross?" Preston was a philanthropist, reformer, and labor activist, friend of the Roosevelts, who married Roger Baldwin, also a Wobbly and the founder of the ACLU. She helped Fannia Cohn and others to establish the Workers' Education Bureau in 1921, of which Spencer Miller was a director. A nice association.

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Bookseller: Passages Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003364
Title: Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
Author: Chaplin, Ralph
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First printing
Publisher: The Leonard Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1922

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Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. Recently settled into our new location in NW Portland, we are open by appointment or chance. Proprietor: David Abel, info@passagesbookshop.com

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