Better days: or, a millionaire of to-morrow
by Fitch, Thomas and Anna M. Fitch
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Better Days Publishing Co, 1891. Hardcover. 373p., bound in original blue cloth, damp stain at bottom edge (not penetrating), paper slightly browned, ownership inscription on endpaper, first edition. *Baird & Greenwood no. 825. Blake p. 217 notes: "A terrible utopian novel in which a general strike results in the death of industrialist Lorin French." "Dedicated to millionaires who help workers. Narrates the history of a gold mine owner who uses his money to increase the money supply, to start co-op and urban renewal projects, and to develop powerful weapons to enforce peace. Contains many anti-Semitic and anti-Indian passages." *Roemer p. 191.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155101
- Title
- Better days: or, a millionaire of to-morrow
- Author
- Fitch, Thomas and Anna M. Fitch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Better Days Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1891
- Bookseller catalogs
- Labor - American; Utopian movements and literature; California; 1890S, Gay 90s, Gay Nineties;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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