ANNALS OF THE GREAT STRIKES; in the United States. A Reliable History and Graphic Description of the Causes and Thrilling Events of the Labor Strikes and Riots of 1877
first edition
1877 · Chicago
by DACUS, Hon. J. A.
Chicago: L. T. Palmer, 1877. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 480, 11 plates. Bound in little rubbed maroon cloth stamped in black. Small library label on the spine, library stamp on the corner of the title page, a very good copy. Howes D5. Howes also lists a St. Louis issue with identical collation, but suggests no priority. The first and still the standard account of the great Railway Strike of 1877, generally considered the first full-scale national strike in the United States. (Inventory #: 57499)