Strangled Voices: The Story of the Haymarket Affair.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1970]. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 120pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with couple small edge chips. Item #45060
A tight, nice first edition of this slim account of the May 4, 1886 labor rally bombing and its aftermath -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front pastedown is a heavy stock pale blue Document Signed from Werstein, 1p, 5" X 3¼", New York, NY, 12 January 1965. Near fine. Printed reservation form from the New York Civil War Round Table for their monthly meeting. Werstein checks that he will bring no guests and that he encloses $5.00, signing boldly in blue ink at the close. Werstein (1914-71) penned forty-something books, usually about American and military history and often for young adults. Front flyleaf bears ownership signature (dated 26 December 1991) of Tom Hollatz, Chicago crime reporter and John Dillinger scholar, author of "Gangster Holidays: The Lore and Legends of the Bad Guys" (1987). Discreet ex-library copy, with NO jacket spine marking whatsoever and very few and minor other markings. Uncommon.
Price: $50.00