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Price: US$42.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 127 Pp. Original Wrappers Printed In Black. Wrappers Browned But Clean, Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Corners, No Names Or Marks Or Stains Or Chips. Display Quality And Uncommon Such.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
DOS PASSOS, John. FACING THE CHAIR. , 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: DOS PASSOS, John. FACING THE CHAIR. Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen. Boston, Ma.: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1927. First edition. 8vo., olive wrappers lettered in black. Light toning to edges and spine. Upper cover and ffep are stamped from prior bookstore, and also has thin strip of paper attached to ffep. Text is fine. A very good copy.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.5 x 6", wraps, 127pp, covers unevenly toned, rear cover finger soiled, creasing and mild tears near spine on front cover, bottom forecorner edgeworn, spine sunned, internally nice. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Light soiling of covers. Small chip missing bottom1/2" of spine. Text clean. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were immigrant Italian anarchists who were found guilty of first-degree murder of a guard and a paymaster in an armed robbery in Braintree, Mass. in 1920. Evidence was sketchy at best but they were convicted and sentenced to die for the crime. Fierce legal and PR battles raged the next few years in an effort to save their lives. Primary sponsor was the committe that published this book. Turmoil and tension in the country prevailed, and they were executed in 1927. 127pp. Size: Thin Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine. Olive wraps lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, bumped at the bottom-right corner, clean otherwise. A history of the crime and trial as well as a call to action to fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the death penalty.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Printed wrappers. Loss at the foot of the spine with a short tear at the crown, a few faint spots and creases on wraps, very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: G+, covers browning at extremities, minor dampstaining front cover, dampstain top edge pages (barely affecting top margins) , spine darkened, front cover beginning to separate (top) with broken piece of tape across inside cover and ffep, minor chipping head and foot of spine, small piece missing rear cover top corner at spine edge, small tears top and middle front cover at spine. Clean unmarked text. Protected in mylar. ; 8vo, stiff brown wraps, 127pp.
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Paperback. First edition. 8vo. A defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, Italian anarchists found guilty of armed robbery and murder. Olive green paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Minor soiling and fading to wrappers. Very light damp stain to foot of spine. Light yellowing to edges of pages. Text is clean and bright. 127 pages. AMER/101216.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$86.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First (and only) Printing of this official report of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, written by Dos Passos after visiting the two accused in Massachusetts prisons. Demy 8vo (214 x 147mm): 128p. Original stiff olive drab wrappers printed in black. Trivial creasing to lower rear corner, covers very lightly marked, but a fresh copy, tightly bound. Potter 10. Parts of chapters vi-viii appeared originally in New Masses (August, 1926) as "The Pit and the Pendulum." The highly controversial conviction of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for murder became a rallying cry for American radicals in the early twentieth century. The two immigrants were accused in 1920 of killing a paymaster in a holdup. Although the evidence against them was flimsy, and despite international protests, they were executed on August 23, 1927. Dos Passos became deeply involved in the case, concluding that it was "barely possible" that Sacco might have committed murder as part of a class war, but that the softhearted Vanzetti was clearly innocent. "Nobody in his right mind who was planning such a crime would take a man like that along." In the fall of 1920, Dos Passos joined the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee and wrote this official review of the case, which argues that the accused received an unfair, prejudiced trial. Following publication, Dos Passos joined other writers and artists, including Katherine Anne Porter, Lola Ridge, Paxton Hibben, Mike Gold, Helen O'Lochlain Crowe, James Rorty, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Gropper, and Grace Lumpkin, on a picket line in Boston, where he was arrested and briefly jailed. "I had seceded privately the night Sacco and Vanzetti were executed," Dos Passos wrote in The Theme is Freedom, in 1956, "I wasn't joining anybody. I had seceded into my private conscience like Thoreau in Concord jail." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: 127pp. Original light brown wrappers lettered in black. Very mild chipping to spine, some stains to covers. Internally clean. A good+ copy. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Description: Fine condition in brown wraps. First printing. 12mo. Very faint discoloration at edges. Former owner's name inside. 127 pp.
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Description: 127p., paperback, very good; faint bump to lower left corner, a few faint spots to cover; an unusually nice example. A plea on behalf of the imprisoned anarchists, before their execution.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Printed green wrappers. A little sunning on wrappers else near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: [3]-127pp. Stiff printed wrappers. Spine bit chipped, top margin of wrappers bit sunned, else very good. A defense of Sacco and Vanzetti by Dos Passos. "Sacco and Vanzetti are not the only men who have been framed, but they have become symbols. All over the world people are hopefully, heartbrokenly watching the Sacco-Vanzetti Case as a focus in the unending fight for human rights of oppressed individuals and masses against oppressing individuals and masses."
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: ; 127 pp.; Wraps; F-; . The title has been noted in pen on the sunned spine. Potter=10 Sanders=A27-2=(A9.1) [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.