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  • IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN: The Autobiography of Oscar Ameringer. by Ameringer, Oscar (1870 - 1943)
    Ameringer, Oscar (1870 - 1943)
    IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN: The Autobiography of Oscar Ameringer.

    Edition: 3rd printing (same year as the first)

    New York: Henry Holt, (1940). SIGNED hardcover - Autobiography of this German-American Socialist editor, author, and labor organizer from the late 1890s until his death in 1943. He was a self-taught musician, portrait painter, writer, and political organizer, known for his wit as a speaker and writer. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and photographs. SIGNED by Ameringer on a blank preliminary page. Index. xxvii, 476 pp.

    Condition: Very good in rust-colored cloth with gilt lettering on spine (some fraying to cloth at top of spine, dulling of lettering), no dj.

    Book ID: 87931
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  • Thompson, James Westfall (1869-1941.)
    THE LAST PAGAN: Presidential address before the Chicago Literary Club, Forty-third year, October 9. 1916.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chicago: Chicago Literary Club, 1917. First edition - One of 310 copies which were printed at the Marion Press in Jamaica, New York for the members of the club in 1917. Includes a long "Proem" and extensive notes. An association copy INSCRIBED on the cover "To Ripley Hitchcock with the compliments of James Westfall Thompson." Hitchcock (1857-1918) was an author and an editor, who edited the works of Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Crane, Zane Grey and others. Westfall was a noted historian and author himself, on the faculty of the University of Chicago at the time he gave this address. Decorative vignettes on the title page and as a tail piece. 92 pp plus the colophon.

    Condition: Good only in printed sage green wrappers - wear to both covers, but especially the rear cover which has a large triangular chip at the lower corner. The top edges of the pages are still unopened.

    Book ID: 55770
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