first edition Hard Cover
1877 · Philadelphia
by Dewees, F.P
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1877. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition (Howes D-298). Binding a bit shaken - one gathering loose, corners rubbed and a bit exposed, evidence of repair to front hinge, ink name and date on front flyleaf, spots on margins of a few pages. 1877 Hard Cover. xi, 9-380 pp. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth, gilt titles and rules, blind-stamped borders. Map of anthracite coal fields precedes text. A study of the radical group of Irish and Irish-American coal miners in Pennsylvania, by a member of the Schuylkill County Bar. The organization was infiltrated by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, (truncated)