Debs: His Authorized Life and Letters From Woodstock Prison to Atlanta
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. Hardcover. ix, [1], 244 p., frontispiece portrait: facsimile; 19 cm. Dark red cloth with gilt spine title and gilt facsimile author's signature on front cover. No dust jacket. Copyright 1919 with no additional printings noted. Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), prominent American labor leader and Socialist, had been convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 for his opposition to American pariticpation in World War One and was serving a 10-year term when this biography was published. President Harding commuted his sentence in 1921 but he died in 1926 of health problems that began during his time in prison. In Very Good- Condition: cover is lightly rubbed and soiled; 1-cm. tear at head of spine; pages are lightly browning but clean and tight. Very Good -. Item #009095
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