Chicago: Liberator Press, (1976). SIGNED - The "second edition" of a work originally published in 1948 with a new preface by the author commenting on the civil rights movement and the rise of the Black Power movement in the 1960s. The son of slaves, Haywood became a leading member of the Communist Party USA and a pioneering theoretician on the Afro-American struggle, who wrote first-hand accounts of the Chicago race riot of 1919, the Scottsboro Boys' defense, the Spanish Civil War and more. This book has been described as the first comprehensive volume on the Negro question in the US by a leading Negro Marxist, one in which he argued the root of the oppression of Blacks was the unsolved agrarian question in the South - that the betrayal of Reconstruction by Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877 and the rise of white supremacy and Jim Crow laws left Blacks frozen as "landless, semi-slaves in the South." SIGNED by Haywood on the half title page with the words "Best wishes." Map frontispiece Reference notes, appendix, index. ii, 245 pp.

New York: International Publishers, Inc. (1948) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The son of slaves, Haywood became a leading member of the Communist Party USA and a pioneering theoretician on the Afro-American struggle, who wrote first-hand accounts of the Chicago race riot of 1919, the Scottsboro Boys' defense, the Spanish Civil War and more. This book has been described as the first comprehensive volume on the Negro question in the US by a leading Negro Marxist, one in which he argued the root of the oppression of Blacks was the unsolved agrarian question in the South - that the betrayal of Reconstruction by Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877 and the rise of white supremacy and Jim Crow laws left Blacks frozen as "landless, semi-slaves in the South." INSCRIBED by Haywood on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Map frontispiece Reference notes, appendix, index. 245 pp.

Menomonie, WI.: Uzzano, (1979.). SIGNED first edition - Uzzano's third anniversary edition, containing poems by McGrath ranging from short lyrics to the first appearance of a long section of his 'Letter to an Imaginary Friend' (the Christmas section from Part III.) McGrath has been called both the best radical poet of his time, a poet writing in the Whitman tradition, a "master of the long wide line" and one whose work does not get the attention it deserves. Although published more than 30 years ago, some of these poems are as true of America today as then - 'Meanwhile America was slapping its chest in a shower of tax-free Hosannahs / Chasing the raunchy broads of success. . ." Boldly and clearly SIGNED by McGrath on the title page. Large format, measuring 8/12 by 11 inches. ISBN: 0-93060007X.