Recent Arrivals from May Day Books

Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2009. Paperback. Near Fine in wrappers; slight curl to front wrap; previous owner name on half-title page. 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches. First Printing The famous account of the California Gold Rush with classic observations of San Francisco and other California areas; this is the 2009 reprint done under the auspices of the University… Read more about this item

Mineola NY: Dover Publications, 2009. Paperback. Fine in wrappers. 5.5 x 0.38 x 8.5 inches. Originally published in 1908, this is a Dover reprint of an expose of the Wall Street panic of 1907 by the famous muckraker and Pulitzer Prize winner

New York: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1972. Paperback. Good in wrappers; pretty beat up; spine broken at pages 70-71; previous owner name on very dirty half-title page; wraps heavily wrinkled and stained; edges of text block dirty; text itself is unmarked. 8.25 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches. First Edition Stated Forty years of American Labor history as related… Read more about this item

London: Head of Zeus Ltd., 2022. Hardcover. Very Good in dirty and stained dust jacket; fore edge printed words, /The Most Radical Rupture/. 9.29 x 1.34 x 6.26 inches. First Edition, First Printing The famed science-fiction writer expounds on the Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels; includes as Appendix A the Manifesto itself and as Appendices B,C,D and… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good in dust jacket; remainder mark on bottom edge. 6.24 x 1.26 x 9.22 inches. First Edition, First Printing A very interesting account of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts; includes endnotes, bibliography and an index in 357 pages

New York: Random House, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket; water damage to rear board with cloth color bleeding onto dust jacket; additional one inch stain on front of jacket with stray pencil mark; dust jacket rather dirty; text is clean and unmarked. 8.25 x6 x 1.25 inches. Second Printing Jacobs along with Lewis Mumford … Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers, 1982. Paperback. Very Good in wrappers; text clean and unmarked. 5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches. Reprint From the back wrap blurb: No work published since then sets forth so clearly the role of the railroad company which owned the mines, whose president hired the Pinkerton spies and provocateurs and acted as state prosecutor… Read more about this item

Nevele, Belgium: Thinkers Publishing, 2020. Paperback. Fine in wrappers. 6.7 x 9.25 x .6 inches. First Edition Ukranian Fide Master Krykun gives a black repertoire in response to 1.e4; includes exercises in its 276 pages

Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2009. Paperback. Near Fine in wrappers; some shelfwear; top corner of front wrap bent. 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches. First Edition, First Printing Very interesting survey of the fight for legal rights and civil liberties in California; includes sources, bibliography, credits, and an index in its 498 pages

Alkmaar, Netherlands: New In Chess, 2019. Paperback. Near Fine in wrappers; first 36 pages have bottom corner bent. 6.7 x 9.1 x 1.1 inches. A biography of AlphaZero, the chess program

London: Everyman Chess, [2022]. Paperback. Fine in wrappers. 6.6 x 9.3 x 0.7 inches.

Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2017. Paperback. Near Fine in wrappers; bottom corner of front wrap bent. 6.6 x 9.4 x 0.6 inches. First Edition Swedish GM Smith proposes a system for white based on a set-up with the moves d4, Nf3, c4 and e3; includes many exercises and an index of main games in its 392 pages

London: Everyman Chess, [2020]. Paperback. Fine in wrappers. 6.6 x 9.3 x 0.7 inches.

New York: Liveright Publishing, 1920. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket; remainder dot on bottom edge; dj a bit dirty; gift inscription in ball point pen on first free endpaper. 6.4 x 1 x 9.6 inches. First Printing of this edition Translated from the Portuguese and introduced by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson; include a… Read more about this item

New York: Modern Age Books, [1940]. Paperback. Better than Good in worn and lightly-stained wrappers; lots of edgewear; top right corner badly bumped; edges of text block dirty; text unmarked. 7.25 x 5.5 x .8 inches. The exciting story of the dynamic West-Coast CIO leader, whose trial laid bare the conflict of powerful forces; signed by the author… Read more about this item

New York: Pathfinder, 2000. Paperback. Better than Very Good in rubbed and edgeworn wrappers; some spotting on front edge of text block . 5.25 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches. Fourth Printing How a class-struggle union leadership in the 1930s fought for independent working-class political action; includes an appendix on how the Teamsters organized independent truckers in the 1930s… Read more about this item

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine in wrappers. 8.5 x 5.5 x .3 inches. The autobiography of the well-known socialist, Wobbly, organizer, prisoner, editor, publisher etc.; 92 pages

Champaign IL: Libertarian Labor Review, 1990. Paperback. Very Good in stapled wraps; stain (coffee?) on rear wrap; bottom right corner bent. 8.5 x 5.5 x .2 inches. Second Revised Edtion An anarchist look at the terrible state of the American labor movement in 1990 and a plea for a new beginning;

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1946. Hardcover. Very Good in gray cloth boards; previous owner name stamped on top of edge block and on first and last free endpapers; page 100 dog-eared. 8.5 x 6 x .9 inches. Eighth Printing Interesting portraits from a left view of the lords of the press, their servants, and their battles; including… Read more about this item

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1994. Paperback. Near Fine in wrappers. 8.5 x 5.5 x .2 inches. New and completely revised edition A do-it-yourself book on labor law and worker rights with a chapter on being your own lawyer by the famous labor lawyer and social justice warrior