Unfrequented Paths: Songs of Nature, Labor and Men
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] MCNEILL, George E
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- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: James H. West Company, 1903. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm); hunter green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 115pp; photographic frontispiece + 25 plates of illustrations. Shallow bump to rear cover, mild wear to spine ends, with biopredation resulting to some scattered loss of color on cloth; binding firm, contents clean - Good. Late collection of poems by the Massachusetts labor leader, social reformer, and early advocate for the eight-hour work day. Broken into six sections - Of Nature, Of Labor, Of Religion, Of Patriotism, Of Men, Miscellaneous - "it is in the verses devoted to "Labor" that the writer shows his intellectual strength as well as his keen sympathies with all oppression and suffering...The patriotism of the writer of these verses is undoubted" (City and State, December 10, 1903, p.388). Uncommon; no copies of the first edition in commerce (July 2015); OCLC finds 20 copies in U.S. institutions.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27082
- Title
- Unfrequented Paths: Songs of Nature, Labor and Men
- Author
- [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] MCNEILL, George E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James H. West Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1903
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry; AFL / CIO; Knights of Labor;
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